Johannes Mehserle Becomes A Free Man On Monday
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i dont doubt that there was more to it then what was filmed.....but the fatal blow was...he reached for the wrong weapon...he was a rookie, personally i think cops should be given tazers and pistols with rubber bullets...not sure if anyone here has had the opportunity of being hit by some...but they arent nice and will ball you up or incapacitate you to a level where you are more than cooperative...cops have too much say in random peoples lives...seriously all it takes is one cop to flip out and just start buckin at random people because he has ammo in hand..i have met very few cops that are out to help people in general where as i have met far more cops out for the power trip aspect of it and those are the cops that scare me
i do believe the bart cop was in the wrong but it was also a mistake, yet grant was laready on the ground cuffed so there should have been no need to pull any weapon on him..or maybe he was trying to pull it on grant but reached for it for the out of control crowd and his finger slipped...hair triggers are a bitch...i dont think what was done was intentional but it was done and it must be punished accordingly and not on some bullshit because he has the law on his side...thats weak shit
i do believe the bart cop was in the wrong but it was also a mistake, yet grant was laready on the ground cuffed so there should have been no need to pull any weapon on him..or maybe he was trying to pull it on grant but reached for it for the out of control crowd and his finger slipped...hair triggers are a bitch...i dont think what was done was intentional but it was done and it must be punished accordingly and not on some bullshit because he has the law on his side...thats weak shit
i dont doubt that there was more to it then what was filmed.....but the fatal blow was...he reached for the wrong weapon...he was a rookie, personally i think cops should be given tazers and pistols with rubber bullets...not sure if anyone here has had the opportunity of being hit by some...but they arent nice and will ball you up or incapacitate you to a level where you are more than cooperative...cops have too much say in random peoples lives...seriously all it takes is one cop to flip out and just start buckin at random people because he has ammo in hand..i have met very few cops that are out to help people in general where as i have met far more cops out for the power trip aspect of it and those are the cops that scare me
i do believe the bart cop was in the wrong but it was also a mistake, yet grant was laready on the ground cuffed so there should have been no need to pull any weapon on him..or maybe he was trying to pull it on grant but reached for it for the out of control crowd and his finger slipped...hair triggers are a bitch...i dont think what was done was intentional but it was done and it must be punished accordingly and not on some bullshit because he has the law on his side...thats weak shit
i do believe the bart cop was in the wrong but it was also a mistake, yet grant was laready on the ground cuffed so there should have been no need to pull any weapon on him..or maybe he was trying to pull it on grant but reached for it for the out of control crowd and his finger slipped...hair triggers are a bitch...i dont think what was done was intentional but it was done and it must be punished accordingly and not on some bullshit because he has the law on his side...thats weak shit
OAKLAND (KTLA) -- Hundreds of protesters marched from the Fruitvale BART station toward downtown Oakland this afternoon, the day before the court ordered release of former BART police Officer Johannes Mehserle, who shot and killed an unarmed train passenger on New Year's Day 2009.
Protesters spent an hour at the Fruitvale BART station, where they carried signs and chanted. The group also carried a coffin in a mock funeral procession and busted open a piñata in the shape of a police cruiser.
The group did not disrupt normal train service.
Wanda Johnson, the mother of 22-year-old Oscar Grant, who was killed by Mehserle, was among the group along with with Grant's 6-year-old daughter, Tatiana, who received a $1.5 million settlement from BART.
Mehserle was convicted in July 2010 and sentenced in November 2010 to two years in prison for involuntary manslaughter in the death of Grant.
When the former San Francisco Bay area police officer convicted of killing Grant in an Oakland train station scuffle is released from prison Monday, he will have served 365 days in jail, including time before his conviction.
With 366 days worth of good-conduct credits earned, Mehserle's total custody amounts to 731 days served, equaling the sentence imposed.
The jury found that Mehserle didn't mean to kill Grant, but that his behavior was still so negligent that it was criminal.
The case was prosecuted in Los Angeles due to public reaction in the Bay Area.
Protesters spent an hour at the Fruitvale BART station, where they carried signs and chanted. The group also carried a coffin in a mock funeral procession and busted open a piñata in the shape of a police cruiser.
The group did not disrupt normal train service.
Wanda Johnson, the mother of 22-year-old Oscar Grant, who was killed by Mehserle, was among the group along with with Grant's 6-year-old daughter, Tatiana, who received a $1.5 million settlement from BART.
Mehserle was convicted in July 2010 and sentenced in November 2010 to two years in prison for involuntary manslaughter in the death of Grant.
When the former San Francisco Bay area police officer convicted of killing Grant in an Oakland train station scuffle is released from prison Monday, he will have served 365 days in jail, including time before his conviction.
With 366 days worth of good-conduct credits earned, Mehserle's total custody amounts to 731 days served, equaling the sentence imposed.
The jury found that Mehserle didn't mean to kill Grant, but that his behavior was still so negligent that it was criminal.
The case was prosecuted in Los Angeles due to public reaction in the Bay Area.
