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DESCRIPTION: Alameda County District Attorney O'Malley's office *has not even opposed* 
 the motion to move the Oscar Grant trial out of Oakland. It is clear that 
 the fix is in, and that the D.A.'s office, after a summer of little 
 activity, thinks it can get away with allowing Mehserle's attorney to move 
 the trial out of Oakland. We must stop this - if the trial is moved, 
 Mehserle will almost certainly go free.\n\nJoin us at the D.A.'s office 
 Wednesday!\n\nHere's the press 
 release:\n\n========================================\nPROTESTERS DEMAND 
 D.A. OPPOSE EFFORT TO MOVE OSCAR GRANT TRIAL OUT OF OAKLAND\n\nProtesters 
 Say "NO to Jim Crow Justice"\n\nPRESS CONFERENCE AT D.A.'s 
 OFFICE\nWednesday, September 23, 2009, 4:30PM\nFront of Alameda County 
 District Attorney's Office\n12th St. + Oak, Oakland\n\nCONTACT: Coalition 
 to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration, and Immigrant Rights and Fight 
 for Equality By Any Means Necessary (BAMN) - Yvette Felarca, BAMN Organizer 
 (510) 502-9072\n========================================\n\nStudents and 
 community members will hold signs and have a press conference at the 
 Alameda County District Attorney's office Wednesday to demand that District 
 Attorney Nancy O'Malley make a vigorous effort to fight the effort of 
 Michael Rains, the attorney for Ex-BART Officer Johannes Mehserle, to move 
 Mehserle's trial out of Alameda County. O'Malley's office has not made 
 clear their intentions to oppose Rains' motion.\n\n"Rains' brief baldly 
 states: 'The black community has prejudged Mehserle guilty of a crime.' It 
 is clear what Rains wants: no black people on the jury. He wants a 
 mostly-white jury from the suburbs to decide how and under what 
 circumstances young black people can be shot in Oakland," said Yvette 
 Felarca, Northern California coordinator of the Coalition to Defend 
 Affirmative Action, Integration, and Immigrant Rights and Fight for 
 Equality By Any Means Necessary (BAMN). "This is undemocratic and racist: 
 the people of Oakland have the right to set the standards of decency and 
 civility for our own community. We have the right to establish safety for 
 our families and loved ones. This community, comprised of people of many 
 different races, is just as intelligent and reasonable as the people of 
 another community."\n\n"The D.A.'s office seems completely prepared to let 
 Jim Crow justice continue," said Ronald Cruz, a BAMN organizer. "The D.A.'s 
 office did not say a word in opposition to Rains' brief when it was filed, 
 and has not indicated it will make any serious opposition. Throughout this 
 process, community pressure has been necessary to get the D.A.'s office 
 conduct any serious kind of prosecution. The only reason why the D.A.'s 
 office ever charged Mehserle in the first place was because people stood up 
 and fought. The D.A. must not participate in the cover-up of this 
 murder."\n\nCommunity members plan a rally at the October 2, 2009 hearing, 
 at which Rains will argue for change of venue, to demand that the trial 
 stay in Oakland.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/09/23/18622849.php
SUMMARY:Demand DA Oppose Effort to Move Mehserle's Trial Out of Alameda County
LOCATION:Front of Alameda County District Attorney's Office\n12th St. + Oak, Oakland 
 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/09/23/18622849.php
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