Oscar Grant Verdict

Please editors take down this man's phone number. He is asking for police harassment.

Why don't you stop with the threats!

The man who organized Wednesday's BART police protest said he broke down in tears when he saw his peaceful march turn violent as some participants began throwing bottles, spitting on police cars and setting small fires.

Evan Shamar said he left the demonstration and watched on television as the situation got worse.

"I was devastated by it," said Shamar, 24, a photographer who lives in Oakland. "I worked diligently for the past 72 hours, and for it to be destroyed by a group of anarchists was extremely upsetting. I felt like my integrity had been compromised."
http://articles.sfgate.com/2009-01-09/news/17197337_1_bart-police-police-protest-organized

They better convict this pig of at least something! If some young people go off, I'm afraid of how the cops will react.

The best way to help prevent a police riot is to have a lot of witnesses. I urge folks to not shy away from protests, but to join in them and observe the police. The pigs are a bit less likely to riot if there are a lot of people there watching them. If the police start to riot, move to safety, but don't go home, stay within eyesight, if possible. Take notes, take down names of cops if you can.

The National Lawyers Guild is holding a legal observer training in S. F. tonight. You don't need to be an attorney to be a legal observer. Below is info.:

From the NLG

I wanted to remind everyone that the National Lawyers Guild is offering legal observation training this Wednesday in SF from 6-7:30 pm. The announcement is on the bottom of this email message if you didn't see it earlier. This training comes at a critical time, as the Bay Area police are gearing up for the demonstrations that will almost certainly follow the verdict in the Oscar Grant case and there is little doubt that the NLG will be totally swamped.

With the training this Wednesday night, and a possible verdict very soon after, I don't know if anyone will be prepared to observe, but it seems possible. If you've ever been tempted to do this training, now's the time.

Legal Observer Training
Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Become a certified, NLG legal observer! Come to a training at the NLGSF office in San Francisco from 6 - 7:30 PM, Wednesday, June 30. The office is at 558 Capp Street, upstairs.

Legal observers monitor law enforcement at protests, demonstrations, and other political actions involving free speech and/or civil disobedience. Legal observers have collected evidence that has ultimately been helpful to activists facing false charges in criminal court or to activists suing police departments.

NLG legal observers must be trained and have signed a confidentiality agreement. Contact Carlos at carlos [at] nlgsf.org to RSVP or with any questions.

Hey, I will not be able to make it to the legal observer training tonight but am still very interested! Is there anyway the points and tips of this meeting could be video-taped and shared with the larger community?

Look at this. Despite the argument that Mehserle thought he was going for his taser (which would be believable in the sense that it made no sense at all to draw a gun in such a low violence situation), he didn't say this at all to his friends at the time, and instead was arguing that he thought Grant was reaching for a gun, thus deadly force was required

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/06/29/BA5J1E6N7G.DTL&tsp=1

Yes, I think so. Email Carlos at the NLG office: carlos [at] nlgsf.org

I just want to know how many of you that are gunna protest even knew oscar. I knew oscar and he would want drastic measures fuck that cop weather or not he ment to kill him he did, now he should pay and the riots shouldn't be in oscars name cuz he was a good man they should be i that bitch cops family name make it there fault.

Slight process point with regards to organizing protests.

Prior to inciting public attacks on law enforcement, a person should be required to at least be able to type one intelligible sentence in their native language. They should also have command of at least 1 common punctuation mark. By this standard, Gary's recommendations should be tentatively stricken from the record until such time as they can either be restated in some known language, or decrypted.

We appreciate your willingness to "fuck tha man" but it becomes difficult to tell if you know who the man is, and by what means you would actually deliver this fucking, to whom you would bring harm, and for what reason.

Good Point...all we need is violence fomented by ignorant fools who want to imitate media glorified chaos to feel real......fuck that in plain, proper, English

No one is surprised at the verdict. Many of us just wonder how long will we continue to allow anyone who is part of what historically, to current day, in this country, has been the greatest oppressive force to individuals of color, (not just the police, the entire American justice system. From law schools to the court room, and pretty much everyone in it,) to be any determining factor on life. Politicians are the lowest scum of all, not one spoke up.

We know if this were their child, the entire event would be different, that’s a maybe, especially if that child happened to be considered of color. More so than not, the American justice system is happy being so antiquated that in 2010, it is still going on 1892, the year of the most recorded lynchings of black people in America. With no consideration of, and for a change in sight, site, or cite.

Do not expect any major outcry from our churches or the NAACP for the reasons listed on this web site. http://hushmoney.org/501c3-facts.htm