Actually, it took them several days to charge the cops.
Neither the eight months or the several days is acceptable, the latter especially due to the video evidence widely available.
In both cases, they should be treated the same as non-police - immediately arrested, charged and let the jury sort them out. There is no reason they should get any special treatment over anyone else.
“””””In both cases, they should be treated the same as non-police - immediately arrested, charged and let the jury sort them out. “””””””””
In most cases they would wait for the autopsy and tox report to come back before deciding that.
They just immediately decided it was murder and didn’t bother with anything else.