I agree. But there have been cases of mitigating circumstances and the police in those cases have prevailed.
The point of my comment was one of making the police department own up QUICKLY and OPENLY with haste and not cower behind lawyers and ‘procedure’.
IMO, that so-called female officer should be tried for manslaughter minimum with real jail/prison time as a consequence.
She should but she won’t.
Internal Affairs will say that she “followed procedure” and the DA will decline to prosecute.