As for your definition of protocol--I heard people in Ferguson complain because the police left a body in the street for 4 hours and they called that a violation of protocol so I guess that you yourself want to be treated properly but you don't care how you treat others, Zaac Liberal/Progressive?
I've seen the bodies of accident victims left in the road for hours, waiting for the crime scene and accident team and coroner to finish their work.
Everone on the FPD knew the Brown case would be a fight for who was right and wrong, and they needed to spend the time to get it right, as far as info, photos and everything else that went into the reports surrounding the death by shooting!
The body should have been covered, and like many forces do, put up the temporary tent around and over the body of Brown, but other than that, the time the body laid there did not seem unusually long considering the circumstances!
In fact, in light of what's happend, with a GJ investigation and all that's transpired since the findings were released, I'd say the cops did a bang up job with their inital collection of information and photos!