Great job on the flyer! I love how the community is coming together around this issue. Activists will arrive at the courthouse at 9am, just in case Johannes Mehserle's Bail Hearing is moved up. You've already seen how the date was pushed back, don't be surprised if the bail hearing itself is pushed up to an earlier time on the 30th!

The East Bay is a stronghold of support for civil liberties. Let's demonstrate that by ensuring that the officer also is treated justly. There is little risk that Mehserle will flee or try to harm anyone if he receives his constitutional right to bail. Just because he is accused of a crime does not mean he should lose his civil liberties.

If Oscar Grant was alive and accused of killing Mehserle or some other cop there is no way he would be granted bail . In contrast on the rare occasions that cops are charged they are ALWAYS granted bail . Look at the '' Riders '' case . They were all granted bail . One later on jumped bail and fled to Mexico . But strangely no serious attempt by the US govt. to get the Mexican Govt. to extradite him !
Obviously progressives usually support low or personal recoginance bail . Think of all the people spending a year or more in a county jail awaiting trial on often petty charges .
But this is very different. Mehserle will probably be granted bail . But we shouldn't be appaulding that alongside the dozens of Cop supporters that will fill the courtroom backing this stone cold killer .

simple as that. if they let him bail out it shows they only arrested him to prevent another uprising on the 14th. lets show that we aren't that easily placated. the riot was what got mehserle arrested in the first place, lets keep it up until they file charges against the pig who punched Oscar Grant before he was shot.

re: "I Hope he Gets Bail," he's already been free without bail! Even the SF Chronicle, in today's article on the BART investigation, admits that the time Mehserle and other BART police spent free after they killed Oscar Grant has damaged the chances of even bourgeois justice being done. The BART cops should have the same bail abilities as the black and working-class communities they murder: NONE!

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2009/01/30/MNOP15JI6F.DTL

I guess that means they moved the hearing up to nine or ten?

Does anyone have more info?