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CELL PHONE FOOTAGE OF COP SHOOTING
OAKLAND, Calif. (KCBS) -- BART says the police officer that shot and killed 22-year-old Oscar Grant on New Year's Day still hasn't given a statement to criminal investigators.
The Chronicle identifies the officer as 27-year-old Johannes Mehserle, who had served two years on the BART force and had become a father within a day or two of the shooting.
"The officer may or may not give an interview during the criminal investigation, and that's discretionary with the officer," said Attorney Mike Raines of Pleasant Hill, who often defends police officers. "Officers like any other citizen have a right not to give an interview under the Fifth Amendment."
But Raines says BART can compel a statement about the shooting during an administrative investigation, under the threat of firing him, although that information cannot be used in any criminal case.
Meantime more graphic videotapes of the shooting are surfacing.
New Cell Phone Footage of BART Shooting on CBS5 (Graphic)
A small group of people protested outside BART headquarters in Oakland Monday to demand answers into the police shooting of a young Hayward man on New Year's Day.
Oscar Grant, 22, a father of a four-year-old daughter, was reportedly shot in the back after police responded to reports of a fight at the Fruitvale station.
Shouting passionately through a bullhorn, protest organizer Evan Shamar of Oakland said, "A 22-year-old unarmed father was executed and assassinated and BART expects us to swallow that the shooting may have been an accident."
Alleging that Grant "was murdered in cold blood," Shamar said the BART police officer who shot Grant should be prosecuted for first-degree murder.
Oakland attorney John Burris has been hired by Grant's family. He said Sunday that he plans to file a $25 million lawsuit against BART because witnesses say that Grant wasn't posing a threat to anyone and was lying on his stomach on the station's platform with his back to officers when he was shot.
BART spokesman Linton Johnson asked the public Monday not to rush to judgement.
"We urge the public to be patient with us," Johnson said. "It's frustrating to us because people are getting upset about what happened, but we owe it the public, the family (of Grant) and the police officer to get all the facts."
He said that in addition to videos that witnesses have given to local television stations, BART has received from a citizen at least one additional video that he said has "a different perspective" on the incident.
Johnson called for people who have additional videos to give them to BART instead of the news media, saying that videos shown on television have the potential to "taint" witnesses to the incident.
You're right, fuck the police. Police are complete uneducated racist and homophobic scum (at least 90%). They are just professional bullies. This spawn of satan will not get punished at all, he's saying he "thought it was a taser" give me a fucking break!!!!! its so fucking frustrating that these thugs in uniform continue to do this. Can you believe there's idiots who believe racism doesn't exist anymore? with shit like this and brown folks getting harassed at the airports, i'm ready to go off just like you. i hope all cops go straight to hell, they don't deserve to live and they serve absolutely no purpose in our society.
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He thought it was a taser? SMMFH just like the officers that killed Sean Bell thought someone in the car had a gun and the officers that thought Amadou Diallo's wallet was a gun and the bastards that beat Rodney King thought he posed a threat because he kept getting up... There is no justice when dealing with the police. You would think, if I'm getting arrested and I'm hancuffed and on the ground I'm out of harm's way because they can't possible see me as a threat but no, sadly mistaken. Now because of this officer's "accident" another young life is lost.
This is 2009 right?
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The cop, Johannes Mehserle, is being protected by the police. They're saying it was just an honest mistake. The police is saying Mehserle thought it was a taser. A TASER!!!! I know the fucking difference between a taser and a gun.
If you watch the video and read the reports of witnesses, Oscar Grant was clearly cooperating and was already down when the officer shot him! There were already THREE cops on the guy who wasn't struggling. He pleaded with the cop to NOT SHOOT him because he had a 4 year old daughter. For god's sake he had his hands up in peace. All the men (all latino and black, I wonder why these white cops picked these "suspects") were cooperating!
This was cold blooded murder based on racial hatred, no other fucking reason.
The cops actually confiscated many of the cell phone/cameras that filmed the murder. Yup, its 2009 and they just get better at abusing their power.
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So in Ending...FUCK the POLICE!!!
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