“We all saw the video, so the usual pro-police do-no-wrong spin aint going to cut it with this one.”
There is a lot of that.
Mostly by people who desire a police state.
Murder is the unlawful killing of a human being with malice aforethought. http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/18/I/51/1111
Manslaughter is the unlawful killing of a human being without malice. http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/18/I/51/1112
The murder charge was not supported by the evidence. A manslaughter charge would be plausible.
So if I point out some facts from the trial you are going to imply that I want a police state. Got it.