I don’t know the other case you’re citing, so I can’t comment. On the CB case I’m going strictly by what is known. It is known this is not his first run in with the law, it is known another act by him where he is at fault could result in losing millions. Nothing personal about the cop has surfaced AFAIK- if it turns out this is the fifih accusation against him, that changes things. I don’t know about the people who came forth, except one is a drunk privileged white girl apparently, who I assume knows nothing about police procedure. People see the portion of the Rodney King tape for example and just about everyone thinks its excessive, but not being a cop and not knowing what went on beforehand, that may or may not be true.
All his friends said Benson did nothing wrong, and a third person who we also know nothing about said same. ALl of which know nothing I assuming of textbook police procedure and maybe did not see the entire thing, I don’t know. I’m no cop lover, but absent any reason to suspect otherwise, when dealing with a cop and a person with priors in a situation like his, I tend to go with the cop until there is reason to do otherwise.
And I’d guess for every valid claim of police abuse, there is a false one against police. I just read about a recent case in Arkansas of a cop who shot a young teen black, as the cop said he pointed a toy gun at him and he thought it was real, told the kid to drop it and he didn’t. The family attacks the cop, who has no prior instances IIRC, saying the son didn’t own this toy. But kids friend said he did. Then family says ok, he owned it but didn’t have it on him. Then kids friend said he did. Then OK he owned it, had it on him but wouldn’t point it a cop, and on and on. So while I am with you on the side of true victims of cops, I also sympathize with cops who are slandered by faux victims when they did their job correctly.