"The rationale behind the [academy] video is to instill in officers the unrealistic fear that every time they put on their badge, they could be going to a grisly death," the suit states. "Police officers are trained  either explicitly or implicitly  to view all citizens as potential enemy combatants, and to approach all encounters with them from the perspective that each and every one could lead to the officer's death. Those officers come to accept as fact an extreme and irrationally aggrandized view of the risks inherent in their job as a police officer ... and that any hesitation or judicious use of restraint will result in their death."