Is the famous, veteran mayor violent and cruel, or does he behave fairly?

More of the exploits of the Valley immediately after the liberation.

One day, the young and honest soldier from the Special Operations Command was given a mission.
A commandcar loaded with waffles, chocolates, and other sycamore products must pass through the forward posts and sell the products to the soldiers stationed there.
secure.

Joined the tour from some point, there were 2 people sitting there from a certain group whose moral values ​​of the IDF are not so accepted by that group.
The soldier from the village did not know about the crime they had committed a few minutes earlier and joined the patrol.

They are traveling next to the river and suddenly some sheep cross the river from Jordan to Israel, alone, without an owner and with nothing.

They stopped, took 1 sheep, put it on the commander’s cart so that there would be something to eat at the end of the day… and continued on their journey.

Suddenly a light plane circled above them. Chasing. Rapol chasing them.
Why?

It turned out that before that, the two soldiers from the uncivilized community were standing next to the Allenby Bridge and, to make matters worse, wearing IDF uniforms, they simply robbed with IDF weapons…

They stopped a luxury car belonging to a lawyer from Gaza who had decided to leave the country for Jordan with his family and robbed him of 15,000 Jordanian dinars in cash (a huge sum in those days). The lawyer arrived at the crossing and demanded to see the commander…
Thus the complaint rose step by step until it reached the ears of Raful (then a lieutenant colonel?), who was in every sector of the valley.
Raful asked,
Are you sure?
How will I identify the robbers?
The lawyer replied that later they also put a sheep on the commander, asking him to locate them and return the stolen goods.

Raful boarded a light plane and surveyed the entire area and indeed saw a commander with a sheep on him.
An air and ground pursuit followed and the robbers were captured.
They were brought to headquarters and robbed there.

How they arrived before…
The commander approached one of the robbers and slapped him with a slap that had not been given since the 6 days of Genesis and apparently had no teeth left.
Turn to the second robber and again…

Just broke their teeth…
The honest soldier, who was not involved and did not know, of course got away with nothing.
But he defines that mayor (the former commander), one of the most famous and powerful veterans in the country, as a violent and cruel man.

I asked:
Is that mayor really violent and cruel based on the act he committed before he even heard the parties?
Before trial?
Before he realized that their religion was… an accepted morality of plunder?
Or did he do it as a priest, and will he do it this way to robbers, certainly with army uniforms and weapons, and so that they will hear and see, even if it is appropriate to act this way in the first place?