Say What?

Evidently, the Kasota police deputy who shot and killed an unarmed man after pursuing him in an unmarked vehicle and fighting with him in plain clothes has been cleared by a grand jury.

Call me puzzled; you have 19 witnesses who say unequivocally that the officer did not identify himself and shot a man who was retreating from him, and the testimony of the officer involved and a person driving past the situation in his car exonerates him? Keep in mind here that the person in the car is not likely to have even been able to hear the man identify himself as an officer because of road noise.

I hope that there are some exonerating circumstances for the grand jury--say like incredible conflicts between the testimony of the 19--but this sure looks like a classic coverup for police crime here. I also hope that the police get the hint and remind officers that people can't guess they're an officer if they're not in uniform.