No, I think the MSM would purposely suppress any mitigating evidence.
Several stopped frames of the independent phone video show what appears to be a knife in the perp's right hand.
Either a knife or a strip of aluminum foil from his lunch box...
When Michael Brown was shot in Ferguson, dozens of witness gave false accounts, which led the Grand Jury to know that the whole "Hands Up, Don't Shoot" narrative was a lie.