I’ve been racking my old prosecutor’s brain and the only possible way that this acquittal happened was either if the prosecution willfully “threw the case” - which I don’t believe - or, most likely, if the jury was sending a political “message” via de facto jury nullification.
Firing a gun in the direction of a crowd (if done without intent to kill or wound someone), and killing someone, is basically a de facto AND a de jure textbook example of criminally negligent manslaughter.
I mean a jury with the IQ of a potato would understand that. So there had to be a political angle to the verdict.
Outrageous and disgusting.
I wonder how the jury was instructed. Its possible that the instructions given would have precluded the manslaughter charge.