they would have swept this under the rug, offered a low-ball settlement to the family and gone on their way. All of those cops would have been rehired quietly over the course of the next few months and that would be it.

NO ONE CARES about peaceful protests anymore, well, unless it is a handful of idiot right wing white dudes with guns, then they are the most important thing on the planet.

POC? Women? No one who has power cares.