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Officer  Arrested In Grant Murder

Days after urging you to join ColorOfChange in demanding justice for Oscar Grant III, I am pleased to announce that Ex-BART officer Johannes Mehserle has been arrested on homicide charges in the death of 22 year old Oscar Grant III. The death of Grant III has outraged the nation. Mehserle allegedly (I use that word very lightly) shot and killed an unarmed Grant at a Bay Area transit station. Graphic videos of Grant's death have been posted all over the net, it is quite clear that Grant was unarmed, and on the ground. Within a matter of seconds, an officer draws his gun and shots Grant in the back.  The suspect was arrested in Nevada and will be transported to Oakland today. Alameda County Dist. Atty. Tom Orloff has not determined if Mehserle will be charged with first or second degree murder but he did say this at a press conference, "At this point, what I feel the evidence indicates that is an unlawful killing done by an intentional act and as for the evidence, we have nothing that would mitigate that to something lower than a murder," Orloff said at the news conference in Oakland. "That doesn't mean that evidence could not develop in the future." So far so good, let's see how this plays out. I'll keep you posted.

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Demand Justice For Oscar Grant
It's been 12 days since the shocking murder of Oscar Grant. The young black male was was shot execution-style by a transit police officer in Oakland, California. He was shot in the back while face-down on a subway platform, unarmed and posing no threat. The officer who fired the deadly shot has yet to be arrested, charged, or questioned. In the past 17 years BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) police have killed 3 unarmed black males.

In 1992, 19-year-old Jerrold Hall was shot in the back by a BART officer as he tried to leave a station parkign lot. The officer was responding to reports of an armed robbery and said he suspected that Hall and a friend were involved. The officer tried to detain the two, Hall ran and then the officer shot him in the back and killed him. Hall was unarmed, but the officer said he thought Hall was on his way to get a gun and return for a showdown.

In 2001, a mentally ill man named Bruce Seward was the next victim of the rogue force. Seward, 42, was naked and had been sleeping on a bench outside the BART station when an officer approached him. Seward did grab the officer's nightstick at one point, but there were several options for subduing him. Instead, the officer shot and killed him.
Join ColorOfChange, an orgainization dedicated to making government for responsive to the concerns of black America, in demanding justice for Oscar Grant.

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Murder, Outrage & Riots
Let me start off my first post of 2009 by apologizing for the lack of postings. Blame it on a ton of stress. My 24th birthday is days away and life isn't what I would like it to be. I won't bore you with my life issues. Moving right along, the murder of 22 year old Oscar Grant III has motivated me to start blogging. Below are array of photos surrounding the protest of Grant's murder at the hands of Bay Area law enforcement.