Where am I differing with you? I want to know what happened in the struggle and if the cop is indeed liable for excessive force he should prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Multiple eyewitnesses testify to events that describe an assault and murder of the victim.
Only the police - who took most of a week to come up with their version of events - say otherwise.
We have a dead body that is very likely to have bullet holes in his back (and how many will be an interesting number) and the PD is deliberately withholding that information pending an additional report that has no actual relevance to the crime.
Take another read of the Washington Post article for additional character references for this PD. We even got the classic "stop resisting! stop resisting!" in there. And take a look at the video of the cops deliberately tear gassing a film crew (which constitutes a major felony, by the way).
So let's shift a moment. We have video evidence of a completely unprovoked tear gassing of a news crew. There were no rioters or any other people anywhere near this film crew and the tear gas was clearly deliberately shot right at them. This is
more criminal behavior and information censorship from the very folks whose word you are relying on.
If I shot a tear gas cannister at a bunch of innocent people, I'd be up on terrorism charges. And yet no one even breathes a word about criminal charges against those who physically assaulted and kidnapped journalists.
Stop buying into that there can be one law for cops and another law for everyone else. That situation is not compatible with the Rule of Law - that situation is a military occupation. And if there's no Rule of Law, from where does a cop get his authority?