Public outrage over shooting death in San Francisco's Bayview is misplaced

My only question is, with all the video surveillance in the vicinity (on the Muni platform, at the Opera House, on all the traffic signals in the Bayview at Palou and Third St), why aren't the police releasing these recordings to show that they are indeed telling the truth in the matter and putting all this furor to rest once and for all?

However, I must concur with the San Francisco Examiner on this one,

...it is past time to end the furor over Kenneth Wade Harding, the man who allegedly shot himself while running from San Francisco police, and for that matter, to reassess the entire Harding family.

There will always be a few who will use any incident involving police to raise hell and rail about past misconduct. Residents of the Bayview have a deep-seated mistrust of police that spilled over at a public gathering last week in which about 15 people out of more than 200 shouted down the gathered speakers and all but ended a chance for city officials to discuss the incident with concerned neighbors.

But as sad as it is that Harding died apparently from a self-inflicted wound from a gun that police said was removed by onlookers at the scene, the tale relayed by his mother and a family attorney of a hopeful rap star trying to turn his life around rings as hollow as an empty tin can.

Read more at the San Francisco Examiner