But they didn’t even charge him. People have absolutely been charged for verbally abusing a cop. It’s legal to verbally abuse a cop under the first amendment. That doesn’t stop cops from arresting the person anyway. But oddly, rarely a white person. Unless they’re also dirt poor, of course.
The charges often get overturned, but that’s after someone’s life is already ruined.
Another example of such a case was the subject of a June 2015 decision by the Washington state Supreme Court. The teenage brother of a girl being arrested screamed at the officer for being abusive to his sister and continued to yell at the officer (including calling him a “mother----r”) even after he asked him to stop. The teen never physically got in the way of the officer conducting the arrest but was nevertheless charged and convicted for his words to the officer.