If you don't hold people accountable for removing the liberty of others without just cause, those who abuse their power will continue to run rampant.

Where does this idea come from that we somehow can't take power away from people without criminal punishment after the fact?

Nobody should have this power, and then abuse of power wouldn't be an issue.

If you want to reform the justice system, more power to you, but while it exists the last people who should be exempt from its reach are those who wield its power in criminal ways.

Trump is the sort of old school racist whose entire model of the world couldn't tolerate Obama as POTUS.

...and then of course, this didn't help:

https://youtu.be/HHckZCxdRkA?si=axixDO1Cm1i3Su0k

Looks like they found the one cop on the force who doesn't obscure the license plate of their private vehicle.

As Gibson himself said, the Matrix owed a lot more to Phillip K. Dick than to his sprawl trilogy.

...and as indicated by the presence of the comic on set while shooting the Matrix, and as said by Grant Morisson, the Matrix was largely derrivative of The Invisibles.