I agree w/Kevin and J. Although I sympathize with all of Mr. Wynn’s outrage, it’s hard to see how the authorities could have reacted differently, given the aircrew’s good faith concern that Mr. W. was in league w/the kook.
An apology afterwards would have gone far towards soothing Mr. W.’s outrage, but unfortunately we have developed an culture of law enforcement non-accountability, where apologies are never forthcoming (perhaps out of a fear that an apology would be taken as an admission of culpability, and lead to litigation).
Think of all the wrong house SWAT raids, and how apologies are never made. I have a friend who was a sworn probation officer, required to make home visits to his charges, who was proned out, beaten, and sweated by a drug “task force” from his own jurisdiction, when he was seen leaving the home of somebody under surveillance by the “task force” ninjas. No apologies.
