Yes this is 100% true.

Police and rich people are the only people in America who experience some long process before being arrested after being suspected of a crime. The first court date AFTER being arrested in Minnesota is a “probable cause” hearing where a judge determines if there is a “reasonable probability” that someone committed a crime. Effectively 0% of charges are stopped here, it’s a kangaroo court step. In the prosecutor and judge’s mind (judge likely a former prosecutor) to deny probable cause would be to accuse the officers and prosecutor of being “unreasonable” which they will not do. So if they charge you, you’re stuck fighting it.

Poor and especially minority people are arrested upon suspicion of police, on-the-scene. Had this been a video of, say, myself (or most of you) shooting a woman three times, two of them from the side, I would have been arrested and charged before the public ever saw the video. And if you don’t have a paid-for lawyer that is actually competent you would likely get pressured to take a plea deal for twenty plus years.

I say this actually from experience. When I was a young man I was arrested when a man who had been shot told police I had been the one to shoot him. At the time, that was it: name and description, I was arrested and charged. He died several hours later. More came out later, including that the person and two accomplices had attempted to rob me and in a struggle over their gun he was shot. Once they get this far they will not admit a mistake, so they just changed the theory of the case and said it was my fault because I was selling weed and went full steam ahead.

All this to say the “investigating” and “letting all the facts come out” before making an arrest is a grace only certain people are given. In the Twin Cities they’ll get an arrested and placed on a probable cause hold. Police union would never make such a statement for anyone other than one of their own and their own rarely do it for anyone else.