There is, however, a back story that has never been revealed about the case.
The event: O'Carroll verbally attacks a police officer for double-parking his cop cruiser.
O'Carroll pesters the cop loudly and relentlessly until the officer loses his temper and holds O'Carroll down against the counter and proceeds to arrest him.
The store's surveillance tape was played on the TV news around the world, showing what appears to be police brutality.
O'Carroll won a $30k+ settlement and died a few years later.
What's less known about the case is that O'Carroll was already known to police for his habit of walking around naked in public.
Streaking, as it was known, was more common back then.
It's not clear why O'Carroll had this habit, whether it was sexual or some other impulse which brought him to walk around with his epidermis fully exposed for all to see.
Cops had cited him for doing this in St. Laurent prior to the conflict.
He died by leaping from a high rise building. I'm told that he might have been naked at the time but I cannot confirm his final clothing situation with any certainty.
None of this changes what happened at the depanneur, a video which hopefully advanced police awareness of how to stay calm in the presence of an excited individual.