3 city officers charged in beating of teen and cover-up

My article is about a Balimore police officer and two retired officers who have been indicted on federal civil rights and obstruction of justice charges in the beating of a 17-year-old boy five years ago and its cover-up. In 2005 officer Gregory M. Mussmacher 34, was found guilty by a Baltimore Circuit Court judge of misdemeanor assault and misconduct in office for striking the teen in an incident in late April 2004. Benjamin Ruben Rowland, now 22, was arguing with his sister at their former home on Glengyle Avenue in Baltimore. She called police, and among the officers responding was Mussmacher, who arrived late to the scene and took charge, questioning Rowland. When the teenager complained about his handcuffs, Mussmacher is alleged to have handed his service weapon and badge to another officer, uncufffed the teen and challenged him to a fight, which the youth declined. Mussmacher then sprayed him with pepper spray and hit him in the face with a baton before transferring him to the Northwest District station. There, Officer Guy Gerstel, now retired, hit the teenager in the back with a pool stick from a recreation room and then lied about it to the FBI and on the witness stand, court papers allege. Sgt. Wayne Thompson, also now retired, is charged with obstructing justice, accused of writing a false statement and persuading other officers not to fill out required reports.

My reaction to this is that I believe that most police officers don't know how to talk to people. They think that just because them being the "POLICE" they can do what ever they want and say whatever they want to anybody; but thats not true. The boy in this situation was smart about it because if it was me, I would've been fighting him back.

This would impact thhe society because people would look at the police different and they would probably try to do smart stuff to piss them off.