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I don’t know it for a fact but the prosecutors apparently had video evidence and sales receipts. I was definitely projecting my own feelings on the grand jury response.

> just as likely

If you look at the success rate of prosecutors getting grand juries to indict, it's certainly not "just as likely".

The stat is very high, but that doesn’t tell you anything about why grand juries don’t indict in the small percentage where they don’t, nor why they elected not to here.

that sounds exactly like "a jury of peers is standing up for individuals against corporate/government overreach"

Real life events are rarely monocausal; it's not one "rather than" the other, instead it's almost certainly a combination of both (and other factors besides). Especially with (as several other commenters who pointed out) how rare a lack of indictment is.