Police shooting of Oscar Grant

Mike · #1 01-09-2009, 12:56 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OJTa9F2O14

Their rioting over this in Oakland, California despite the pleas from the young man's mother and close friends to stop the violence

Graphic, grainy video.

I see no just cause at all

Mike · #2 01-09-2009, 01:02 AM

Cop that shot the victim, Johannes Mehserle, has resigned already.

Mike · #3 01-09-2009, 01:10 AM

Watch this video, it helps focus in on the Officer's reactions after he shoots the young man:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltqpP...eature=related

This was an accident. The Officer meant to Tazer him, lost in the emotion of the moment he pulled the wrong police tool. Seriously

The Indomitable DrugS · #4 01-09-2009, 07:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Mike

This was an accident. The Officer meant to Tazer him

This was no accident. The cop had a rough season betting college football (IC was his tout) - and the dude on the ground was his bookie - and he wanted to just wipe the slate clean with a bullet instead of pay him the couple K he was down.

I can see using a tazer if the dude on the ground was resisting .. or if there wasn't 3 cops on top of a defenseless guy. It looked like a public execution to me...and I swear I could hear the guy on the ground saying "Don't shoot! IC loves OU in the big one.., I got a daughter.., Bradford can bail you out."

SCUDSBROTHER · #5 01-09-2009, 07:57 AM

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Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

This was no accident. The cop had a rough season betting college football (IC was his tout) - and the dude on the ground was his bookie - and he wanted to just wipe the slate clean with a bullet instead of pay him the couple K he was down.

I can see using a tazer if the dude on the ground was resisting .. or if there wasn't 3 cops on top of a defenseless guy. It looked like a public execution to me...and I swear I could hear the guy on the ground saying "Don't shoot! IC loves OU in the big one.., I got a daughter.., Bradford can bail you out."

Public Execution? LISTEN TO ALL THOSE PEOPLE,MAN!! Ain't like it was a secluded alley. Eyeballs everywhere. He couldn't hear anything but them idiots. Got scared. He looks fat. So fkn tired and scared that he decided to taze the guy. Who knows what he thought next. People try to back out of closed garages all the time. **** happens. What ever he did originally(to get the cops attention) .....don't do that. Don't act up. Then, this won't happen to you.

Mike · #6 01-09-2009, 08:27 AM

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Originally Posted by SCUDSBROTHER

Public Execution? LISTEN TO ALL THOSE PEOPLE,MAN!! Ain't like it was a secluded alley. Eyeballs everywhere. He couldn't hear anything but them idiots. Got scared. He looks fat. So fkn tired and scared that he decided to taze the guy. Who knows what he thought next. People try to back out of closed garages all the time. **** happens. What ever he did originally(to get the cops attention) .....don't do that. Don't act up. Then, this won't happen to you.

Extremely poor reasoning

And, I have to backtrack on my thinking it was an accidental shooting. If he was on the ground, handcuffed, why Tazer him? Because he was dissin' the cop's mama?

SCUDSBROTHER · #7 01-09-2009, 07:45 AM

Probably wouldn't of taken place at all if they weren't so loud harassing the cops like that. Of course it's a tragedy, but they didn't help the situation at all. Not an excuse of any kind, but there are a lot of reasons mistakes happen. I think all they could hear were idiots acting up, and that didn't help.

herkhorse · #8 01-09-2009, 07:54 AM

I wouldn't want to be a cop in Oakland.