Most likely the only reason it happened, of course, is that in this case officer Paul Morgado's behavior happened to be clearly captured on a video recording which totally contradicted the version of events that he wrote in his police report of the incident, and the video was aired by a local TV station:
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/media?id=6381056
The above is a link to the raw video footage of the incident; the transcript of Channel 7's report is here - http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/iteam&id=6381095 .
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