Tl;dr he’s a cop and well coached on how to walk that fine line of reasonable doubt.

Didn’t follow closely but the one clip I saw on the news was his testimony on the stand. Which.. in and of itself not being at all familiar with legal proceedings but from the movies they say putting the defendant in the stand is a CRAZY move. But anyways the little bit of his testimony I saw was typical PD training “I felt in fear for my safety and life” statements that cops always pull.. big bad tough guys (and gals) until they’re on the stand and they can express just how “scared” they were to justify the subsequent violence.