Don’t forget the District Attorney. Charging the officer with murder would chill any police department. How can you do the job if you cannot use force to make an arrest or protect yourself?
One cannot predict the future, but.......
The officer will be cleared. The city will burn to the ground in the ensuing riots. The cops will walk off the job and there will be no one there to do anything.
The DA violated numerous laws and protocols in getting the warrants signed.
No Grand Jury, which in Georgia, an officer is allowed to present at.
He obtained the warrants without an investigation being completed, no police report, no homicide investigation as the GBI is handling it.
No personnel or investigators from the DAs office have played any part in any part of the investigation.
He went to a willing, or possibly unwilling, family court judge to get the warrants signed, completely bypassing/avoiding the presiding judge, who would normally handle such matters. And it’s being debated if the family court judge even had the authority to sign the warrants.
Lots of bad things happened, are happening and will happen because of that incompetent moron.
Folks should remember that this is the man that screwed up the Ray Lewis trial, when Lewis and two of his fellow gang members killed two guys in Buckhead. The DA, nor APD leadership, allow investigators to properly do their jobs. Ray Lewis sobbed while being interviewed by Homicide detectives, who caught up to him as he was trying to get out of his hotel room and get to a plane. The DA, who is a moron, tried the case himself and failed miserably. The two gang members were acquitted. He begged Lewis to plead to a misdemeanor, obstruction charge, IIRC.