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Officer convicted in Calif. train station killing
Associated Press ^ | July 8, 2010 | GREG RISLING

Posted on 07/08/2010 4:26:35 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A white former transit officer was convicted of involuntary manslaughter Thursday in the shooting death of an unarmed black man on an Oakland train platform in a 2009 encounter that set off days of rioting in the city.

The jury deliberated more than six hours over two days to convict Johannes Mehserle in the killing of 22-year-old Oscar Grant, who was shot to death as he lay face-down.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: badgelickers; california; keywordtroll; mehserle; mesherle; oakland; oscargrant; police; rioting
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1 posted on 07/08/2010 4:26:38 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Sounds like a reasonable decision. How do you mistake a gun for a taser?


2 posted on 07/08/2010 4:30:45 PM PDT by Lou Budvis
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Good, I am tired of crackers getting away with murder. Seriously though, he did murder the unamred, handcuffed, helpless guy.


3 posted on 07/08/2010 4:30:45 PM PDT by 999replies (Thune/Rubio 2012)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

And the riots begin.


4 posted on 07/08/2010 4:30:49 PM PDT by McGavin999 (I'm sorry, your race card is overdrawn and no further charges can be accepted)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Sadly, the race profiteers insist on making this incident a racial one — thought nothing in the either participants actions showed race as a motivation.


5 posted on 07/08/2010 4:31:40 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I’m going to go burn some vehicles and riot!

/sarc


6 posted on 07/08/2010 4:32:20 PM PDT by Tzimisce (No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Given the facts, that’s probably the appropriate verdict. Now we’ll see how the post-sunset reaction goes.


7 posted on 07/08/2010 4:32:58 PM PDT by ArmstedFragg (hoaxy dopey changey)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I think most city police departments are little more than uniformed street gangs, and should be disbanded.

The cop in this case blew away a kid in cold blood, then he and his buddies tried to use muscle to cover it up. If the riots begin and there is blood running in the streets, the Blue Gang will have no one but themselves to blame.


8 posted on 07/08/2010 4:33:14 PM PDT by B-Chan
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To: Lou Budvis

At the time, they were sharing tasers. He’d been given one configured “same side”.


9 posted on 07/08/2010 4:34:57 PM PDT by ArmstedFragg (hoaxy dopey changey)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Film at 11 on Rioting < / sarc


10 posted on 07/08/2010 4:35:05 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

How does a police officer mistake a gun for a taser???????????????????????????????????????


11 posted on 07/08/2010 4:35:39 PM PDT by ColdOne
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To: Lou Budvis
Voluntary manslaughter was way too light. He didn't deserve 1st degree murder, but this was something that merited at least a decade or two behind bars.

It is also fair in this case to ask if he would have gotten similar leniency if he was not a cop. Consider: last year a Virginia man named Ryan Frederick got convicted of a higher charge of voluntary manslaughter with 10 years for killing a cop. Frederick shot the cop as he was busting into his house during a no-knock raid after mistaking him for a burglar.

What Mehserle did was a lot worse and a lot more blatant and wrong than what Frederick did. Yet he gets a lower charge with only 2-4 years?

12 posted on 07/08/2010 4:39:07 PM PDT by conimbricenses
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To: McGavin999

If someone killed this particular cop, I’d be inclined to vote for a soimilar conviction.

The fact is the cop murdered the victim and the DA put on a case that guaranteed this verdict when he could have gotten murder 1 or 2.


13 posted on 07/08/2010 4:39:59 PM PDT by SeaHawkFan
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To: BenLurkin

Hell, nothing short of Murder 1 would have been good enough for these race whores.

As for Oakland: “Burn, Baby, Burn”


14 posted on 07/08/2010 4:40:55 PM PDT by ssaftler (Arizonans: Doing the job that Americans won't do.)
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To: ArmstedFragg
Ryan Frederick of Virginia got 10 years and voluntary manslaughter last year for mistakenly shooting a cop that he thought was a burglar during a no-knock raid.

What Mehserle did was significantly worse than Frederick. Yet Mehserle gets a lesser charge with only 2-4 years. That in itself is illustrative that he got off comparatively easy because he's a cop.

15 posted on 07/08/2010 4:41:34 PM PDT by conimbricenses
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To: ArmstedFragg
At the time, they were sharing tasers. He’d been given one configured “same side”.

Actually, his taser was on his left side while his gun was on his right.

The taser was configured to be drawable with his right hand, so maybe that's what you meant.
16 posted on 07/08/2010 4:41:43 PM PDT by aNYCguy
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To: ssaftler

http://www.johnspeedie.com/healy/justice.wav


17 posted on 07/08/2010 4:43:02 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: ssaftler
Hell, nothing short of Murder 1 would have been good enough for these race whores. As for Oakland: “Burn, Baby, Burn”

I think you're letting some past indignity you've suffered eclipse all rational thought. Calm down.
18 posted on 07/08/2010 4:43:38 PM PDT by aNYCguy
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To: B-Chan

If the cop were to somehow become the victim of a killing, I think involuntary manslaughter would be an appropriate charge.


19 posted on 07/08/2010 4:45:07 PM PDT by SeaHawkFan
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To: aNYCguy
I think you're letting some past indignity you've suffered eclipse all rational thought. Calm down.

No, I live 10 miles from the incident, and was just listening to the news conference. Trust me, this ain't gonna be pretty!

20 posted on 07/08/2010 4:45:44 PM PDT by ssaftler (Arizonans: Doing the job that Americans won't do.)
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