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Rest assured that the majority of DPD officers are extremely offended and embarrassed by this officer's behavior and attitude. As a Dallas Police Officer I join with our Chief of Police in apologizing for this incident. There are over 4,000 employees of the DPD and the old saying that we all have grown up with of, "it only takes one bad apple to ruin the whole barrel" is unfortunately apropos in this situation. Again, I can assure you that 99% of our officers would have not acted this way, but as others have related on this thread, all LEOs are now being thought of in a negative manner because of this - and not just Dallas officers. Because of that I want to also apologize to my brother and sister LEOs along with their departments and agencies.

We know that the news media never shows the thousands of good things that LEOs do everyday and we accept that as how the game is played. Our home phone has been ringing off the hook for the last 24 hours with calls from friends and family wanting to know what the heck was wrong with our department and how could we employ an officer such as this. I had a friend who worked with LAPD during the Rodney King situation and he told me then that I couldn't imagine the turmoil that they were going through as a department when that happened. Every officer was looked upon as a racist thug who beat down people just for the heck of it. While this situation doesn't rise anywhere to the level of the Rodney King situation I can now understand what he was trying to convey to me back then.

Our department has had so many complaints coming in from all around the world because of this incident that we've had to reassign officers to special duty just to field all of these calls. Now that it has gone viral (You Tube, ESPN, CNN, and the internet) it will probably get worse before it gets better. The media trucks constantly parked outside of our headquarters building resembles the Super Bowl. Again, my (our) apologies to everyone, and I hope that if you do ever have the opportunity to come into contact with an officer from DPD it will be in a much more professional manner.