Bomb Scare at Home of Ex-Transit Cop in Calif.

by NYT repost

Wed, Jan 14, 2009 10:40PM

NAPA, Calif. (AP) -- About 50 people were evacuated from their homes after the parents of a former transit police officer charged with shooting an unarmed man found two suspicious packages on their porch.

The Napa County Sheriff's department says the parents of Johannes Mehserle found two packages on their porch Wednesday evening.

Bomb squad officers evacuated the neighborhood while trying to determine the contents of the packages. When authorities could not determine what was inside, they destroyed them.

The residents were then allowed to return home.

Mehserle and his family have received death threats since the New Year's Day shooting of Oscar Grant. Mehserle is a former Bay Area Rapid Transit officer. He arrested on the murder charge Tuesday in Nevada.

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§what is the source of all of these death threats?

by curious

Wed, Jan 14, 2009 10:44PM

the corporate media never reports on who said there were death threats. they just report that there were, as if it's just a fact. they should say, "police reported death threats," or something like that. they always take the word of cops as God's truth

I mean, how would someone figure out who to issue the death threat to, and who goes around making death threats to cops? you think that'd be pretty dangerous and hard to get away with, but we'll never see an arrest for them, I think

and these "packages"? are they real? or part of a pattern to establish sympathy for BART cop?

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