Some people are getting this confused with their distaste for law enforcement. Its about the way you treat people that are doing their job. The automatic picture appears to be some guy with an authority complex that wants to tell people what to do gets in Bafferts way. A wannabe cop... That is not necessarily an accurate picture.

DTS.
When you are teaching and you get a code word to close the door to your room, you close the door to your room. You have been told that it might be an emergency, could be some idiot with a gun walking around, and your priority is the kids. So the fact that you follow this very sound simple rule does not make you an, "I just did what I was told Nazi". Thats silly.

So it is possible some guy is told Do Not let people in without the proper credentials. He does not know who they are, and he knows his job is to let only certain people in to avoid who knows what. People are making this into an out of control security guard thing... and it does not read that way.

Hell, my wife could make my house off limit to strangers by hiring a security guard and forget to give me "credentials" and I could be told do not enter. If I knew the guy was payed by my wife, and did not know me from Adam, I would not automatically accost him.

Blame the track or whoever else responsible for organizing credentials. Why blame the guy doing his job? I do not get the reasoning.
My take: Baffert did not show grace under pressure and he understands this.

Maybe I should stop now and follow Jonathan Swift's very accurate words:

Do not attempt to reason a man out of something he did not reason himself into.