Tag Oscar Grant

If you or I shot someone in the back, would we not get more than two years?

I’m assuming counter-protesters greatly outnumber those attending.

SFist has the PDF and full letter. Mehserle wrote it four days before the verdict. Excerpts. For now, and forever I will live, breathe, sleep, and not sleep with the memory of Mr. Grant screaming “You shot me” and putting…

A primary reason Mehserle was convicted was the multiple cell phone videos of the shooting taken by BART passengers. They showed conclusively that Oscar Grant was lying prone on his stomach and that Mehserle shot him in the back. Thus…

From the excellent SF Weekly live blog Veteran Oakland civil rights attorney Jim Chanin — who has sued Bay Area police departments countless times — told SF Weekly he had mixed feelings about the verdict. In 40 years as a…