Nothing to substantiate this, but my theory of this case is that the DA looked at all of the evidence gathered and determined that a charge wasn't warranted - that there was no reasonable possibility that a jury, properly instructed, would return a guilty verdict.
However, the DA simply choosing not to charge Officer Wilson would have resulted in a firestorm many magnitudes bigger than even the current one, so he put the evidence he'd seen before a panel of citizens and allowed them to come to that conclusion.
If that is the case, it was the most just way this could have played out.
Frankly, say what you want about what is supposed to be the approach of a DA in a grand jury hearing, a DA who doesn't believe that charges are warranted but nonetheless uses the one sided nature of the grand jury to put a skewed version forward in order to get an indictment would sicken me and would be a massive affront to justice.
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