Wait.....Immunity for all the other officers involved??? I get it now......

[Logical]

The other officers could have told the jury "I put a lot of excess pressure on his chest and think I might of stopped him from breathing!" and the jury would then have reasonable doubt enough not to indite.

Why grant immunity to these other officers?

Seems weird to me.

[Kalidurga]

1. it's not a glitch

It's not the DA's first rodeo the result could have been foreseen and avoided. Since it wasn't avoided I am inclined to believe it was done to keep the murdering cop from being indicted.

[Laurian]

2. I think you're right. After seeing the film of the NYPD union leader berating

the Mayor on Chris Hayes, I think the DA gave the police union the result they wanted. I believe that union probably wields a lot of political power.

I'm a huge supporter of unions in general and live in a union household, but I think these police unions are a problem.

[Kalidurga]

3. It's worse than that

the police give DA's what they want all day long ie evidence against people they want to prosecute. So they have a very tight relationship. Yet, the DA is in charge of getting them indicted if they commit a crime or if a situation happens that looks hinky or a situation happens that doesn't really look hinky until details start coming out that arnt quite right. I think this practice needs to stop ASAP. They need a different office altogether to go to the grand jury. I think a State DA that has no ties to any law enforcement agency would make the system more impartial.

[Logical]

4. Police unions are not normal unions. They are there to protect bad cops. nt

[msongs]

5. the important phrase is "NYPD union" nt