Officer Gahiji Tshamba was found guilty of manslaughter. From the Sun:
“He drew his gun when it was not at all necessary,” [Circuit Judge Edward R.K.] Hargadon said in court, finding that Tshamba lied about the incident and never identified himself as an officer. “The defendant grossly overreacted and in fact exacerbated this whole tragic set of events.”
Yet Hargadon also found that Tshamba was not the legal aggressor and that the officer was indeed afraid of Brown, a much bigger man, who set off the fateful chain of events by inappropriately groping a woman’s buttocks after a night of drinking.
“The defendant was acting honestly, but unreasonably, in defense of himself,” Hargadon said, rejecting harsher verdicts of first-degree and second-degree murder.