>>So I guess tonight they will announce if the cop is going to be charged or not. My guess is that they won't and the whole town will erupt. Hopefully I'm wrong on both counts.
>I don't see why the cop should have been charged based on the evidence provided.

Many Caucasians I know said the opposite when OJ was acquitted based on the evidence provided.
Some felt vindicated when a civil court found him guilty with different rules of evidence.
Things like evidence and the rule of law become suspect when they run counter to what seems to be just and fair to a large group of people.
All the laws passed by the British parliament were "the rule of law" in the colonies but a lot of colonists didn't think much of them, so they found a way to write their own laws.