Sounds like it's getting tense in Oakland.

[Webster Green]

It's just past dark now and protesters are gathering in Oakland. They are pissed.

I'm listening to KPFA radio live reports from the streets.

Could get interesting.

KPFA Stream: http://www.kpfa.org/listen/

Edit to add link to Oscar Grant murder by pig verdict:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/11/05/state/n174207D87.DTL

[hlthe2b]

1. what is this all about?

[rurallib]

8. Verdict on the cop who shot the unarmed black guy on the subway

platform last year. Cop got a light sentence.

[Subdivisions]

11. The cop that murdered Oscar Grant on the BART got two years. n/t

[Jamastiene]

28. The tap on the wrist that the BART cop received for killing an unarmed black man. n/t

[hlthe2b]

31. Oh, my...just got home and hadn't heard. This is horrendous.

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[ClassWarrior]

9. Oh, the guy who was brutalized on the subway. Okay, didn't know his name.

I doubt that DUers "don't care." In fact, I can name a half-dozen off the top of my head who I'm confident DO care.

This just hasn't received much attention from the Corporate Media.

So save your snark for your buddies on other sites.

NGU.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

18. Of course, everybody has an obligation to be aware of everything happening in the world

AND keep in all sorted in decreasing order of importance, AND manifest themselves only in accordance to such order.

:eyes:

[hlthe2b]

32. Not true... I have followed this case intently since it happened.

I just got home late and hadn't heard. This is a debacle. I am appalled at that judge.

[Brickbat]

3. About...what?

[leftstreet]

4. About what?

[virtualobserver]

5. what is going on there? n/t

[ClassWarrior]

6. Why?

NGU.

[greenmutha]

10. CW!

I *love* your sig line. NGU! :hug:

[ClassWarrior]

20. green! Another DUer gets credit for it, tho...

...I don't remember who. ~blush~ I just got permission to use it.

But I'll take that hug anyway. :hug:

NGU.

[Webster Green]

16. Sorry for the lack of info...here's a link...

The pig who shot and killed Oscar Grant got 2 years.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/11/05/state/n174207D87.DTL

[ClassWarrior]

19. Thanks. Last I heard about this was when Rachel covered it about a month ago.

NGU.

[blondeatlast]

7. Keep it civil, people--but they have every right to be angry.

This was a miscarriage of justice and as I understand it, the jury instrux weren't proper.

[TBF]

21. How "civil" would you be if it were your son? nt

[blondeatlast]

23. I didn't say don't protest; I just don't want to see any more mothers

lose their children.

The OP is suggesting the scene is more than a little tense accordin to the reports. There's reason for the anger, I just don't want things to escalate to where there are more grieving moms.

[awoke_in_2003]

24. Keep it civil...

so you can keep getting kicked in the face by a jackboot. One day we are going to have to put a stranglehold on law enforcement and get them back under control.

[TBF]

25. +1 nt

[readmoreoften]

35. +1

Power to the people. Their rage is justified. If the judges don't like angry mobs they can stop letting cops kill people for no reason. I'm joining THE SENTENCE IS TOO DAMN SHORT party.

[apocalypsehow]

12. Could we have a little background on the causes for the tension, please? n/t.

[Parker CA]

13. Kick and Rec. Lots of angry people, justifiably so. Grant's killer was given just two years time.

[EFerrari]

14. I hope no one else gets hurt.

:(

[blondeatlast]

15. For those who don't know...

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=oscaar+grant

[BumRushDaShow]

17. Ironically I was just talking to my sister about this case today

because here in Philly, there is currently a deadlocked jury deliberating the death penalty for a young black man who killed a white cop. And my take was that when it is the reverse, death penalties always come off the table - citing the acquittals on the murder charge from the Oakland case. I didn't even realize that the verdict for this was even coming down until I saw it this afternoon.

[tblue37]

36. Not the verdict--the sentencing. I think the verdict actually came

out this summer.

[NutmegYankee]

22. MSNBC Story LINK

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40031882/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/

[awoke_in_2003]

26. Ice Cube said it best when with NWA...

"They have the authority to kill a minority". Funny thing, though- "accidently" kill a cop and expect the death penalty.

[pa28]

27. A two year sentence. How much sooner will he be out?

If there are no overturned cars and fires over this particular bit of jurisprudence the Nobel prize committee should probably be alerted.

[Starry Messenger]

29. What a crap verdict.

I've read that included time served as well. x( This is a miscarriage of justice.

[blondeatlast]

37. Time served? Ridiculous.

:mad:

[Starry Messenger]

38. I'm reading that he will be in for seven months, tops.

I doubt he will be in the general population either. He'd better change his name and move far away when he gets out.

[AsahinaKimi]

30. KGO radio is covering it also

http://www.kgoam810.com/

[BurtWorm]

33. Probably not about Keith Olbermann.

[CountAllVotes]

34. Oakland update: Police arresting demonstrators; 1 protester rips gun and holster from officer

via twitter LBN ... :scared:

>> LOS ANGELES (KRON) -- Former BART Police Officer Johannes Mehserle is sentenced to two years in state prison for the involuntary manslaughter of unarmed passenger Oscar Grant.

The judge said he won't grant a new trial on the gun enhancement part of the case.

Mehserle has already served 146 days of the sentence. That means he might serve only another 219 days or a little more than seven months.

Earlier Oscar Grant's mother told the judge deciding the sentence for former BART Police Officer Johannes Mehserle that she lives every day of her life in pain because she doesn't have her son.

:kick: