Answer:
Yes, I do feel like he abused his power.
He felt like doing these things it "required" ,as of doing his job.
Hitler and General Erich Ludendorff tried to take advantage of the prevailing confusion and opposition to the Weimar Republic to force the leaders of the Bavarian government and the local army commander to proclaim a national revolution.
In the melee that resulted, the police and the army fired at the advancing marchers, killing a few of them. Hitler was injured, and four policemen were killed. Then after placed on trial for treason He characteristically took advantage of the immense publicity afforded to him. - November 1923
He most likely did it because of, the power he withheld and his followers watching his every move and counting on him. Maybe more or less that he felt like it, just having that much more power can change you.
