Fine and dandy, but kindly don't express moral outrage when a perp in Washington State in pre-trail confinement gets to look at kiddie porn, or when a mother beats a murder charge in Fl. That's the system too.
I hear a lot of rumblings on the forum about all the bad ass punks that get away with s**t and what should be done to them. Now I don't have the particulars of this case, but one plausible scenario was that the gmmo was dealing with an a**hat, knew that the charges couldn't stick but wanted to make sure the person got the message. That's old fashioned community policing IMO, not too different from when the beat cop used to kick some little punks ass and then turn them over to their parents. I've heard many people on this forum express a desire that we return to that kind of policing.
There have been several threads posted recently about how people want to "get even" with asshats and plenty of suggestions to do it. qmmo had the resources.
So, the bottom line is that you can't have your coffee both ways (I am not saying that you have ever articulated a viewpoint that advocates 'street justice" or payback BTW) and I see where you are coming from, and I fully understand intellectually your position...still a part of me is saying some little jerk-off got what he deserved for being a jerk-off. I fully realize the dangers inherent in a police state and deplore many of the actions by the police today. Police officers are human too, and no one carrying a badge has never made a mistake. A statement such as "You're unfit for the job"...is a sweeping generalization IMO, we do not know qmmo's police service record, for instance. Nobody is 100 percent perfect on any job.
I was told once that I was unfit to collect my military pension and a disgrace to the Army because I did not advocate the invasion of Iraq by G.W. Bush. Those words hurt me today, as much as they did when they were first uttered to me, maybe I am hypersensitive, but when anyone gets in public service gets a searing indictment of why they are unfit or a disgrace, or whatever, I tend to react a bit emotionally. Maybe qmmo was out of line, but I wouldn't condemn his whole career or his ability to be a police officer based on one incident. If he was bounced from the Job for being a jerk-off, then it is a different story.