Very interesting comment from today's article at RJ that made me go hmm...
He/she thinks the new charges were added so EN will be forced to take a plea deal and the original case won't have to see a courtroom.
THEORETICALLY SPEAKING ONLY:
Both arrests, plus taking him in for questioning earlier, may have been to keep him in protective custody until/when they arrest the REAL perp/s. If some people had decided he was guilty (or was going to take the fall, anyway,) he wouldn't survive long on the outside without somebody killing him. They appeared to have every intention of meting out their own justice, based on withholding accurate and complete description and identity, attempting to confront him themselves, etc.
OR
Someone is unhappy with how much public sympathy EN is getting and how many people doubt whether he was the aggressor, so they got their friend's legally blind kid/brother/whatever to file charges long after the alleged incident occurred.
How long has it been now, 7 weeks? You can get a murder indictment a lot faster than that!
They have been trying to paint EN as AN ANIMAL. They had friends jump in front of every reporter who showed up to tell a story about their observations about EN's violent, criminal, gun-thugging, drug addicted history. (
Just ignore the real neighbors. Oh, and your own eyes as to his size, build, hair & eye color, age, hairstyle.) One buddy went so far as to say EN held a knife to his own daughter's throat (but he didn't call police), stole his son's bike (again, no police report, apparently)
AND that
EN was selling drugs to TM! I guess that was supposed to make EN look bad, but like so many of other attempts to control or shape the narrative, didn't have the intended effect.
AGAIN, THESE ARE ONLY THEORETICAL & JMO.
