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Can anyone give a plausible legal explanation for how on earth the officer was found not-guilty on all charges? For the life of me I cannot see how 8 jurors can watch this video and possibly think anything less than manslaughter, at the very least.

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Part of the problem begins with jury selection. Prosecutors tend to select jurors who are deferential to authority, since they almost always side with the prosecutor. This plan doesn't work very well when the defendant is the image of authority.

It could be the jury saw, as I did, that the blame isn't on the one police officer standing trial. The officer giving instructions should also be on trial, as should the entire system that trains their police officers so horribly, a system that hasn't figured out how to handle drunk people[1]. So I'd agree with the jurries conclusion

1. "stand up, take cloths off, turn around" or how about just sending in bomb diffusing robots, or how about using rubber bullets...

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