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The Anger and the Struggle Continues…Justice for Oscar Grant!
IT’S BEEN MORE THAN TWO WEEKS SINCE THE murder of Oscar Grant, and the struggle is still raging: people’s anger is still intense—and there have been further eruptions of protest and much speaking out. Meanwhile, the system responsible for Oscar’s murder is doing everything it can—from trying to steal and suppress videos of the murder, targeting and brutalzing the protestors, to calling meeting after meeting to control peoples’ rage, to behind-the-scenes legal maneuvering to contain and misdirect peoples’ rage and protect the legitimacy of their armed enforcers. On January 13, after repeated eruptions of defiant protest and rebellion, killer cop Johannes Mehserle, who had not been detained since the killing, was suddenly arrested in Nevada, brought back to Oakland and charged with murder. Although cops are responsible for 100 homicides (1/17 Oakland Murder Mystery by Tim Rutten, LA Times) per year in California, this is the first time anyone can remember a cop being charged with murder for a killing committed while on duty.
IT’S BEEN MORE THAN TWO WEEKS SINCE THE murder of Oscar Grant, and the struggle is still raging: people’s anger is still intense—and there have been further eruptions of protest and much speaking out. Meanwhile, the system responsible for Oscar’s murder is doing everything it can—from trying to steal and suppress videos of the murder, targeting and brutalzing the protestors, to calling meeting after meeting to control peoples’ rage, to behind-the-scenes legal maneuvering to contain and misdirect peoples’ rage and protect the legitimacy of their armed enforcers. On January 13, after repeated eruptions of defiant protest and rebellion, killer cop Johannes Mehserle, who had not been detained since the killing, was suddenly arrested in Nevada, brought back to Oakland and charged with murder. Although cops are responsible for 100 homicides (1/17 Oakland Murder Mystery by Tim Rutten, LA Times) per year in California, this is the first time anyone can remember a cop being charged with murder for a killing committed while on duty.
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