If that's him on the video, expect the controversy to go away quickly.
It still leaves a lot (if not all) questions about the shooting itself unanswered, though.
Agreed, but no one is going to care anymore. Most people will support the policeman now.
It doesn't excuse more-heavily-armed-than-Iraq SWAT teams and tear gas and media blackouts and such. Such military response to the protests is still a scandal and a horror, no matter what bad things Michael may have done. (And, of course, gunning him down like that isn't justified or proportionate even if he did commit a crime
anyway.)
