Interestingly all these videos went to the media first rather than to police or prosecutors.
Big money for the trial lawyers here.
Still very little info on how bad an actor Oscar Grant was (if at all), both before and during incident.
I really wish we had more info out there. This whole thing doesn’t make sense (unless the Bart officers really are just a totally out of control group who kill at will—and I can’t buy that yet).
“Interestingly all these videos went to the media first rather than to police or prosecutors.”
Why would they trust the police or prosecutors? If it was my video I might or might not go to my lawyer. That probably didn’t even occur to these people plus they probably couldn’t afford a lawyer.
In the long run, this is good. The people are being captured on video everywhere. If law enforcement is as well, it will level the playing field.
It is good that cops understand that whatever they are doing, it could be caught on video and used against them later.
Just like the rest of us.
“Still very little info on how bad an actor Oscar Grant was (if at all), both before and during incident.”
I’ve a hunch he couldn’t have been THAT good an actor if the police had him face down on the platform. Not that I think it excuses the police’s actions in this case.
I don’t care how bad of an actor he was. Unless he killed someone else, he didn’t deserve to be killed, and unless he was an immediate danger to the police, he shouldn’t have been shot like that.
Making no judgments here ... but what led to these guys being lined up in the first place? Were they selected at random, or were they misbehaving?
You are implying the beaten upon should turn the evidence over to the mob that's administering the beating. Unbelievable. What kind of idiot are you?
Has anybody seen this new video? The video at the link doesn’t seem to be it.
“Interestingly all these videos went to the media first rather than to police or prosecutors.”
According to an earlier thread
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2171950/posts
the police confiscated as many cell phones as they could, which is, per the thread, an illegal warrantless search and seizure. That IMO implies there is something they don’t want the rest of us to see, which therefore ironically supports one’s decision to take the video to the media.
I wonder what would have happened to the evidence at the police station?
It was about two in the morning on New Years Day...there was some reports of fighting between passengers on the train...nothing to warrant what the officer did.
They're just making sure that the videos weren't "lost" or "inadvertently erased."