The cop seemed to be acting alright, and then he comes out of nowhere with a 'you have to leave now'.
I wasn't aware that a citizen could be thrown out of a police station when that citizen was seeking police assistance.
Also, I can understand why the police officer would ask for the circumstances of the situation, even if it's just out of curiosity.
Where he messed up was not helping the guy and getting him the correct form and answering his question. It was basically a refusal to do his job.
To be fair, the guy asking for the form of complaint escalated the situation. The intelligent thing to say would have been, "i'm not comfortable talking about it without my lawyer present, please just give me the form." He was baiting the cop from the beginning and the cop bit.
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