So, I looked up Mass’s criminal code, and I think I found why they’re doing this. They have a separate section for voluntary manslaughter without a murder charge, and it doesn’t seem to require them to show the defendant intended to murder, only that they intended to cause the injury. Which like I think he very clearly did intend to murder, but a regular person might get tripped up on that.
So, I looked up Mass’s criminal code, and I think I found why they’re doing this. They have a separate section for voluntary manslaughter without a murder charge, and it doesn’t seem to require them to show the defendant intended to murder, only that they intended to cause the injury. Which like I think he very clearly did intend to murder, but a regular person might get tripped up on that.
Cop’s actions fit the colloquial definition of murder, but maybe the laws are strange in MA.
Either way, the cop’s life should be over.