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To Serve and Protect... Really?
To Serve and Protect... Really?
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Originally Posted by LazyJ10
The talk is they believe he thought he was using his taser instead of a pistol.
Originally Posted by AntonLaVey
Originally Posted by LazyJ10
The talk is they believe he thought he was using his taser instead of a pistol.
Originally Posted by georgehimself
Whats up with the lawyer wearing a hoody?
Oh, he got the chair alright. He got the chair and desk duty for this. Can you believe that? If it were a civilian he's be slapped withmultiple charges including murder of a cop, meanwhile this POS gets desk duty. No justiceOriginally Posted by islandfeeling
man...%# the cops... dude should get the chair no questions
Some police use-of-force experts who have looked at footage of the incident have said that Mehserle may have meant to fire a Taser at Grant but instead mistakenly shot him with a gun.
But Burris said, "I'm not sure if that's true" and pointed out that BART hasn't yet said one way or the other if Mehserle had a Taser during the incident.
Burris said he doesn't think Mehserle had any justification to use even a Taser on Grant.
He said that if Mehserle deliberately shot Grant with a gun, the officer should be prosecuted for second-degree murder.
Burris said if Mehserle had intended to use a Taser and mistakenly fired his gun, the officer should be prosecuted for involuntary manslaughter.
"It's negligence if you pick the wrong weapon," Burris said.
leave while the incident is investigated by BART and the Alameda County District Attorney's office.
This isRIDICULOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
they ACCIDENTALLY shot him with a pistol!?!? Woops I thought that was my tazer???? I know theres no swearing on this forum but theres no way around it thatsjust **%#+! UP!
Burris said Tuesday that the young men had been celebrating the new year at a popular waterfront tourist spot, The Embarcadero. They were heading home when police pulled them from the train car.
Some of the young men were handcuffed, but not 22-year-old Oscar Grant. The video from the anonymous passenger shows Grant seated on the floor with his back against the wall.
Grant holds up his hands, appearing to plead with police. Burris said Tuesday that Grant was asking police not to use a Taser.
"He said to them, 'Don't Tase me; I have a 4-year-old daughter,' " Burris said.
The interaction on the video is not audible.
Seconds later, police put Grant face-down on the ground. Grant appears to struggle.
One of the officers kneels on Grant as another officer stands up, tugs at his gun, unholsters it and fires a shot into Grant's back.
Burris said the bullet went through Grant's back and then ricocheted off the floor and through his lungs.
Grant, who has a 4-year-old daughter, died seven hours later, KTVU reported.
"I couldn't believe it. We was already following directions and everything, and they shot him," Fernando Anicete, one of the young men with Grant, told KTVU.
Burris has spoken to witnesses who claim that Grant was trying to resolve the situation.
"He had been telling people to calm down. 'Be cool. Just do what they tell you to do,' " the attorney said.
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