American police officers are cowards and criminals, part 14

A couple of workers are on their way to do a roofing job in some American suburb, and some neighbor sees them retrieve some tools from the house in question and calls a non-emergency police line telling them that there are a couple of people she doesn't recognize.

The police precinct, apparently because they are bored and have nothing better to do, send a whopping 8 police cruisers on the case, lights and sirens at full blast, driving at extreme speeds, dangerously waving through traffic, like they were on their way to a bank robbery or mass shooting or something. This merely because of a report of a couple of younger men being in some neighborhood.

When they arrive, one of the cops spots one of those men and starts running towards him at full speed, screaming like an absolute psychopathic lunatic, and not like angry screaming but a joyous "wooo!" yell, like he were a frat boy at pool party jumping into the pool or something.

When he catches up with the guy, who is in no way resisting or doing anything threatening, the cop doesn't say anything, doesn't order him to do anything, doesn't ask him anything. Instead, he just proceeds to punch him in the face with his fist at full force. So strongly, in fact, that the guy's left eye pops, gets permanently injured, and the guy permanently blinded on that eye.

A judge later ruled that this was textbook excessive force and abuse of authority: The man had committed no crime, the officer had no reason to believe otherwise, he did not say anything or behave in any threatening manner, did not refuse to comply with any orders (because no orders were given at all), and thus the judge ruled that this was the perfect example of excessive force and abuse of power.

A jury agreed, and awarded the victim 4 million dollars in compensation.

So, what happened to the cop who acted like a complete lunatic, punched the guy with no reason whatsoever causing permanent injury and blindness in one eye?

Nothing, of course. What did you think?

No charges, no convictions, no fines, no jailtime, still employed at the same police precinct (as of writing this). On the contrary, he actually got promoted. And mind you, he got promoted after this incident. And promotion means a raise in salary.

That's the American policing system for you.

A video about the incident.