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DESCRIPTION:OAKLAND REMEMBERS OSCAR\nCommunity Gathers in Response to Sentencing of 
 Johannes Mehserle\n\nWHO: The ONYX Organizing Committee, the General 
 Assembly for Justice for Oscar Grant and the New Years Movement\n\nWHAT: 
 Rally and Gathering to honor Oscar Grant and Respond to the sentencing of 
 Johannes Mehserle. Live Art, Spoken Word, Speakers, Music and an altar 
 erected to honor the memory of Oscar.\n\nWHEN: Friday, November 5, 2010.  
 Live Art from 2:00-4:00. Program from 4:00-6:00PM 6:30 – 10:00 PM 
 (Defermery Park on Adeline & 18th Street)\n\nWHERE: Oakland City Hall, 1 
 Frank Ogawa Plaza, Oakland, CA 94612 1/Deferemery Park on 18th & 
 Adeline\n\nWHY:  On Friday, November 5th, former BART police officer 
 Johannes Mehserle will be sentenced for the shooting death of Oscar Grant, 
 III.  Hundreds of concerned community members will gather together to 
 respond to the sentencing and to honor Oscar.\n\n“While many of us will 
 undoubtedly be angry on that day, we will also take time out to honor the 
 memory of Oscar Grant,” said Anne Weills, Attorney at Law. “Oscar 
 ignited a movement across the entire nation and this movement will not stop 
 with the sentencing of Johannes Mehserle.  We will continue to build and to 
 organize until the State understands that we will not lie down silently as 
 they murder the people in cold blood.”\n\nOscar was not the first young 
 man of color to be killed unjustly by police and sadly he hasn’t been the 
 last.  In the two years since Oscar was murdered, literally hundreds of 
 young people of color have been murdered by law enforcement across the 
 country.  Most recently, James Leonard Davis, an unarmed, eighteen year old 
 child was shot in the back by police in Los Angeles.\n\n“Where is the 
 accountability?” asked Cat Brooks, Co-Chair of the ONYX Organizing 
 Committee.  “The verdict was unjust so the sentence will be unjust. And 
 we are angry about it.  We are tired of burying our children and we are 
 tired of the open season on black men in this country by police who are 
 then returned to their families with a slap on the wrist.”\n\nFrom the 
 start of this case Michael Raines has portrayed Johannes Mehserle as an 
 innocent victim of circumstance and not a murderer.  Paying no attention to 
 the racial slurs uttered before his death or the fact that Mehserle first 
 held a Taser before putting it away and reaching for his gun.  What is 
 more, Judge Perry refused to allow Mehserle’s record into evidence so his 
 pattern of violently assaulting men of color that culminated into Oscar’s 
 murder was never revealed to the jury. Adding insult to injury, KTVU of 
 Oakland recently aired a special profiling Mehserle in efforts to gain 
 sympathy for him before his sentencing.  These are signs of what many are 
 anticipating: a lenient sentence for a murderer.\n\n“Given the likely 
 scenario that Mehserle will receive a light sentence, people are going to 
 need a place to come together and be supported in their process,” said 
 Rachel Jackson of the New Years Movement. “We hope people come and share 
 their rage, frustration and pain and also their hope, ideas and passion for 
 building a world where young men and women of color are no longer 
 terrorized and assassinated by those who are claim to be here to protect 
 and serve.”\n###\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/11/04/18663121.php
SUMMARY:A Day to Honor Oscar Grant - Response to the Sentencing of Johannes Mehserle
LOCATION:We will assemble in the plaza at Oakland City Hall (1 Frank Ogowa Plaza) 
 from 2pm - 6pm.  We will then head to Defermery Park on 18th and Adeline 
 from 6:30-10 PM
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/11/04/18663121.php
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