Exactly Milo.
Indeed why bother at all with the issue? Why in hell does this particular euphemism mean so much that it needs intervention at the editorial level at all? Never before has the editorial team needed to pass such an injunction, except to ban swearing in thread titles, but here, in this one case somehow where one FN's person comes along and starts calling the police pigs for doing things such as gunning down a 7 year old black girl, and making her father lie in her blood while they book him, it somehow becomes ultra-important to defend the police from insult.
That is precisely the point.
You can use any euphemism you like aimed at individuals and groups that you like, but for some reason Rabble feels the police need protection. LOL.