Johannes Mehserle (BART cop/Oscar Grant case) Verdict: *********** Manslaughter

[pete rose]

Such horseshit, unbridled horseshit.

LOS ANGELES — A jury found a former San Francisco Bay area transit officer guilty of *********** manslaughter in the shooting death of an unarmed black man on an Oakland train platform.

The eight-woman, four-man panel read the verdict at 4 p.m. PDT Thursday after deliberating for more than six hours over two days.

Johannes Mehserle was found guilty on Thursday in the New Year's Day 2009 ******* of 22-year-old Oscar Grant. *********** manslaughter carries a sentence of two to four years.

At least five bystanders videotaped the incident -- one of the most racially polarizing cases in California since four Los Angeles officers were acquitted in 1992 in the beating of Rodney King.

Prosecutors said the 28-year-old Mehserle became angry at Grant for resisting arrest. Mehserle claims he mistakenly drew his *** instead of his Taser.

The trial was moved to Los Angeles after racial tensions boiled over into ******** in Oakland.

Police in Oakland expected protests after the verdict and prepared by getting crowd-control training and working 12-hour shifts. A group of activists planned a rally outside City Hall.

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Let's give it up for being above the law and getting a slap on the wrist for ******* a man in handcuffs! *spit*

 

[knowone]

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[pete rose]

The *********** part bugs me the most. This guy will get 3 years, tops.

 

[D-rock]

Don't you just love how *************** officers are always given the benefit of the doubt in these kind of cases to a ********* unreasonable mind-boggling level?

Pretty much anybody normal person would have the book thrown at them were officers of the law end up getting a practical slap on the wrist by comparison.

 

[pete rose]

Everything from this to ticketing people selling fruit on the corner just further fuels the ****-fire I have for police.

 

[CurtJa]

"Mehserle claims he mistakenly drew his *** instead of his Taser."

XD

 

[pete rose]

i swear i meant to pull the lighter, vividly yellow taser!!!!

Eat ****, Johannes. I'm looking forward the the riots.

 

[shayd]

Good Lord I could hear them in SF this morning.

 

[Ulysses31]

Former police officer who ****** unarmed black train passenger is released from jail after serving just 11 months

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