It's exactly what Goerge Bush Sr. did to the cops in the Rodney King case, after the black community didn't like the outcome and started rioting. They don't re-try them on the same charge, they try them on a civil rights charge
“They don’t re-try them on the same charge, they try them on a civil rights charge.”
What you say is true.
However, there’s one major difference between the Rodney King beating and the Oakland case: one was intentional, the other clearly accidental. Both on video.