We differ. Thank you for your civility. Rare these days.
Taking witness statements takes a long time, and lawyers are involved as well.
All facts need to be collected and presented, too include factors that might impact on the decision to shoot or not.
Sequence of events, recreation step-by-step of the incident (with timing cues), collating everyone’s videos, recreating each officers point of view (what they can and can not see), and then the question about the thug. . .was he high? Was he tased before the shot or just after? Was he actually reaching for something?
The most confused time when trying to get a factual analysis of a situation is immediately or just after the incident occurs.
Facts and information are just too jumbled within days of the event and with conflicting statements.
These have to be assessed to help determine facts, flow and information, review different/alternate sequences of events and other possible factors that were at play.
These all have to be collected, collated, organized, analyzed and evaluated before taking someone to be indicted.
Do we have all the facts? Most likely not.
As we know there are conflicting reports about when (or if) a taser was fired, timing of the entire event, from first call to final actions, and everything that happened in-between, these are important to know so you may be able to decide honestly if an indictment is warranted, and if so, to what level for the charges. The prosecutor must be able to credibly place a Grand Juror in the officers shoes to accurately assess if the action taken passes the reasonable person test.
Just a couple of days is not nearly enough to time to sort the mountain of evidence related to a shoot.
Unless the unreleased audio contains admissions not yet known to the public. Which is why it perhaps remains unreleased, because it is evidence.