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"An unarmed drug dealer. What a crock of shit"

Why do you say that? What leads you to believe all drug dealers are armed? I've handled literally thousands of pounds with of drug cases as a public defender, lots and lots of them involving hundreds of pounds of marijuana found in vehicles. Occasionally weapons will be found in these vehicles, but the vast majority of the time these people are unarmed.

I'm surprised at how so many here are just absolutely certain that these two officers were innocent. The trial transcripts aren't even finished yet and all these people who know nothing about the case are jumping up and down screaming for a pardon. Personally, my bet is that in the end we'll see that there was a lot more to this case than a lot of you folks think there was. Law enforcement are rarely ever criminally charged for things they do in the line of duty. Normally fellow law enforcement and prosecutors protect their own. Officers really have to do something bad before they are turned over for prosecution in the first place, and prosecutors are going to have to see some fairly egregious facts before they'll elect to prosecute. My guess is that law enforcement and prosecutors looked at this case really hard before any charges were ever brought. Then twelve people on the jury also had to look at this case really hard before they unanimously voted to convict. These weren't crazy California jurors. This was in Texas. Most jurors tend to pull for the guys with badges and I would think they'd give these officers the benefit of the doubt more than they would the average person charged with a crime. These officers were in trouble for something they did in the line of duty. I would think the jury would need some pretty strong evidence to convict in this type of case. I would wait and take a good long look at all the evidence presented in this case as it comes out before I start jumping up and down screaming for a pardon, demanding the president be impeached, and the prosecutor lose his job, and for everyone to be sued, and all that.