Yeah, Mr. Green covered himself in glory that day.
In my opinion, the best book on the original incident is Lou Cannon's "Official Neglegence". Lou managed to avoid falling in all the P.C. traps and took a pretty clear-eyed view of the case.
One little-known piece of trivia is that, in convicting Koons and Powell, the Federal jury studied the video repeatedly. They came to the conclusion that at the beginning it portrayed a permissible use of force against a resisting suspect. They also came to the conclusion that at a later point, the force became excessive. The point they picked where excessive force began was AFTER the segment of the tape shown repeatedly on TV.
I will try to obtain a copy of Mr Cannon's book.