He doesn't deserve a break today

An off-duty Denver cop has been suspended and is facing possible "felony menacing" charges after a confirmed incident in which he allegedly flashed his badge and then pointed his pistol at a McDonald's drive-thru employee in Aurora, Colorado. This shining example of the kind of highly-trained "special people" that organizations such as the Brady Campaign and the Violence Policy Center constantly screech to us are the "only ones professional enough to carry firearms in public" apparently decided that the restaurant was taking too long in processing his order, and instead of going inside to complain to the manager like regular people do he subsequently started to throw his highly unprofessional (and unforgivably dangerous) little hissy fit.

Of course, this mental midget has not been arrested to date, and his identity has conveniently not been divulged. Compare this sort of treatment with what would have happened had the irate customer been one of us common peasants. If we had done something anywhere similar to what this man has been accused of, we would have been promptly placed into custody at gunpoint, and our name and booking photo would have (rightly) been plastered all over the media. How come Officer McTemper doesn't get the same treatment?

It's situations such as these, which tend to give the appearance that there are two kinds of justice in society depending on what one does for a living, that make ordinary people so cynical and untrusting of all people in law enforcement, even though the vast majority of cops are good, service-oriented professionals. The odious official coddling and protection of a bad apple by their colleagues only serves to ruin the reputations of everyone else in a police department by association, and the sooner the senior brass understand that fact, the better.