Flutterby™! : G8 violence

A Monkeyfist article recounts the death of Carlo Giuliani, the "protester" killed at the Genoa G8 summit, with:

"Then, in a fit of excessive cruelty, the kind of excess that capitalism is best known by, the Carabinieri ran over his dead body with a heavy police vehicle."

Oh, please. If you've any doubts as to his intent, look at this sequence of photos: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 (which are also, albeit with a different slant, mirrored at Nausea Manifesto) and tell me that if you were an occupant of that vehicle, with busted out windows and people attempting to use a 2x8 as a battering ram against your head, and despite your brandished weapon, someone wearing a ski-mask came at you with a fire extinquisher, apparently hoping to throw it in the vehicle (and perhaps break the valve off in the process?), you'd have reacted with any more restraint. Only one policeman fired, and only two shots? Give those guys freakin' medals.

There are certainly enough injured policeman from those clashes that there was precedent about his intent, but his father assures us that "...he was a peaceful boy, never violent".

Yes, Joseph Stiglitz has fairly compelling and damning criticism of the World Bank and the IMF, but take a look at the results of the Genoa G8 summit. Looks like they'd be more likely to piss off economic conservatives than self-proclaimed socialists. So what's the fuss about, aside from a chance to blow off some adolescent steam in a way that will, at best, get a wrist slapping, rather than the full-on charges that participation in vandalism and assault would normally warrant?