Supervisors Charged?

There has to be more to this story out of California:

• The arraignment of a former Eureka police chief and a current lieutenant indicted by a criminal grand jury for involuntary manslaughter in the April 2006 shooting death of Cheri Lyn Moore was postponed Monday at the defense's request.

• Police have said they believed Moore had put down the flare gun when the decision was made to storm her apartment. Upon entering, officers said they came face to face with Moore, who was pointing a flare gun at them. Officers shot Moore multiple times.

  While former EPD officer Rocky Harpham and Sgt. Michael Johnson fired the fatal shots, Zanotti and Douglas were the commanding officers at the scene. Legal experts said what makes this case highly unusual is that Zanotti and Douglas are facing charges, while those who fired the fatal shots are not.

Something either went terribly wrong on the command side or this is a complete miscarriage of justice. Who's to say there weren't multiple guns in the apartment? And why are police expected to take fire before returning fire? And how the heck does a grand jury get empaneled in such a manner as to indict the supervisors and not the shooters? If it's a conspiracy, it's a top to bottom conspiracy, right? That "I was just following orders" thing went out of style in the 1940s if we recall.