“That amount of time is symbolic of the four-and-a-half hours that 18-year-old Michael Brown’s body was left in the street after he was shot and killed by police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, last August. “
And if they’d carted the body off immediately, the whine would have been that they didn’t do a thorough investigation and were covering it up.
Besides, it’s the coroner, not any cop, who determines when the body gets moved.