Typically, cops go all out to stand by one of their own. Even when a fellow officer does a despicable act of injustice to an innocent and helpless civilian before their very eyes, they can still look the other way.
You can imagine how strange it was for a cop to get a beating from his colleagues in public. This was during the ongoing labor law protests in Indonesia.
His crime was not that he was breaking any laws. The officer’s error was that he was in plain clothes. That made it hard for anyone to see he was a cop.