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

Dead suspect's brother is sought in slaying

OK, I had actually promised myself that I wouldn't post anything more about this case until they found the gun, cell phone, and the kid in the grey and white striped hoodie who allegedly picked them up.  Yesterday, we found out that the mother of Kenneth Harding, the 19 year old man who died in the Bayview July 16 after a gun battle with SFPD, has hired John Burris as her attorney.  Read into that what you will.  Today, we find out that Kenneth's older brother Ondrell is now wanted in a beating death back up in Seattle last week.  The mom's assertions that Kenneth was simply a musician and that he was loving, caring, and giving and that he loved his family and his mother get an even bigger eye roll and a "whatever" from me than usual at this point.  Look lady, I'm never happy when a mom loses a son, but you've got to check in to reality here that you've raised two bad people, and the life they've been taught to live, whether by your example or lack thereof, is ultimately your responsibility as a mother.

Two kids wanted for murder: one still on the lam and the other dead after 'allegedly' (I put that in there simply because all the facts aren't in, no matter how much I believe it to be the case) trying to kill police officers.  I just can't believe there's a community who would want to put this family in the spotlight, rally behind them as examples of police brutality gone amok, and not feel the embarrassment of doing so.  Where are the community leaders calling this family on their bad behavior and standing up and using them as an example of the kind of people we DON'T want to see ourselves become? Don't glorify this family or their behavior, vilify it!