Originally Posted by Rochard

I don't believe it's fair to call him a rat either. In this case, you would have to at the circumstance - was the suspect handcuffed and subdued when a cop ran up to him and kicked him, or was the suspect resisting arrest and needed to be subdued further after handcuffs were on him.

Either way the case was dismissed. Maybe he did see something that was wrong, and he tried to do the right thing.... But at some point in time you need to let it go. As a police office, you have to have a thick skin - and all police officers know that the good guys do not always win.