'They Ruined His Life': Cops Who Held Lt. Nazario at Gunpoint Must Face Independent Probe, Ex-Police

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I do nonprofit legal work and have a case where a policeman flew into a rage and behaved in a similar fashion. In checking the law in that particular state, it is required that an officer behave in a reasonable manner. In the case I am talking about, the officer lost his temper so acutely that he was sweating profusely and saying things that made no sense to onlookers.

In this case, the behavior was so extreme that no one would blame Nazario for wondering if they were on steroids.

Personally, I would be terrified to get out in front of officers behaving in such an extreme manner, and aiming guns, too. As pointed out upthread, he was asked to do two contradictory actions: get out of the car while holding his hands out the window. That alone would make one question what frame of mind these officers were holding at the time of the incident.

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on edit: since I wrote this post, I had a chance to ask an experienced criminal lawyer about the requirement that officers comport themselves in a reasonable manner and the response was that the systm blows that off as unimportant.