Maybe she’s deliberately destroying the case. One FReeper pointed out that the CNN video of the arrest starts after the point when the victim’s head flopped straight backwards. Then one of the cops holds his head up straight, and that’s where the CNN video starts. Now the original video has been taken down by YouTube.
So if there’s actual evidence the cops broke his neck in the takedown, how do you get them off? How about brazenly playing to the street and in doing so, compromising the case. That would enable the charges being thrown out later, or as an appeal.
Because yeah, if this prosecutor is trying to actually win the case - a case she knows damn well will be fought tooth and nail by the FOP defense attorneys, why screw-up on procedure right out of the gate?
Unless it’s not a screw-up at all.
I suspect that there will be plea bargaining resulting in no homicide or manslaughter components of the punishment.