I have no idea, but it hit me that if he were a firm in the faith TBM, there would be a tendency to want to protect him. Maybe he isn't mormon and so throwing him out was no big deal.
And the other view mentioned, that either way, the brotherhood of cop-dom would see to it that he gets hired somewhere else in a couple of months.
I’d be more interested in his supervisor, the one who got demoted. It’s a sad fact of life, confirmed by the Milgram experiment, that 2/3 of us will do really awful things when ordered by authority. I’ll bet that number is a lot smaller in RfM readers.
I’m sure the a Mormon presence contributes to the “authority above all” attitude.