oscar grant murder update, and other news

the former cop, Johannes Mehserle, who killed a defenseless man, Oscar Grant, in oakland, has been caught in nevada and charged with murder. his lawyer claims “he wasn’t running”, but that he just wanted to get out of the area (apparently a lot of people are mad at him). i’m still a little [...]

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This post was written by soz on January 14, 2009 Comments (1)

why are we, as a nation, not outraged by this?

now - and i’m really serious here - please tell me why we are not beside our collective selves with anger that a public servant, sworn to protect us, can kill a defenseless citizen (by shooting him in the back) and be walking free, more than one week later?
i am not willing to accept that [...]

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This post was written by soz on January 11, 2009 Comments (3)