What I question is how pressured they were to indict him on charges simply because of the fear factor of a backlash. Is there a genuine reason to take him to court or are they crumbling under the violence and the pressure?
The point is that there are a lot of white people (or people in general) who are more sympathetic to dogs than they are to other people -- in particular black people.
It's making me catch on to what seems like a strategy of sets of responses to police arrests that some people follow. The "I can't breathe" thing might be good for cameras? Or the "injure myself in the police van to make it look like I was abused" approach has also come up multiple times now. Cops have their dirty tricks. Perps have theirs too apparently. Both play the game.