I agree that police should be held to a higher standard.  Yes, drunks are obnoxious, and police have a terribly tough job.  But if we go around knocking around people that are horribly obnoxious we would all be in jail.  You just can't let stupid get to you.  

I know school teachers who deal with worse than this, DAILY.   

You have to be smarter than that, especially if you are a police officer.  The officer needs help. He clearly had issues when this happened, but lying about it tells me he probably had issues that went far beyond that evening.  

The really sad part is that there were no immediate consequences.  If you or I had done that, we would have severe consequences.  THAT IS JUST WRONG.  Police should be held to a higher standard.  They carry guns, they have power over us.  Abuse of power is a dangerous thing.  We pay them to know better, to do better and MOST DO.