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<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=1999wildcat@gmail.com href="mailto:1999wildcat@gmail.com">John Reimann</A>
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [socialistdiscussion] Oscar Grant/Mehserle</DIV></DIV>
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<P>Johannes Mehserle, the cop who shot and killed a young black man (Oscar
Grant) while he (Grant) was lying face down on a train platform was sentenced
yesterday. He got two years, meaning that with time served and time off for
"good behavior" he'll be out in a few months. There was a protest in downtown
Oakland yesterday. Afterwards, a small group of about 150 marched through
downtown and into a residential neighborhood about a mile away. I went with them
for part of the way and then headed home. What happened next was that the cops -
hundreds of them from Oakland and many surrounding cities, all dressed in riot
gear - surrounded the protesters and hemmed them in on one block. The
newscasters caught it all. The crowd - mostly young people - were just trapped
on this one block for over an hour. Sonja and I walked down towards there, but
about a block or so away the cops had the area surrounded. They wouldn't let
anybody in or out. In fact, Sonja and I were separated and she made the mistake
of trying to walk along one street to find me and almost got stopped and
arrested. After a couple of hours the cops arrested the whole group.<BR><BR>The
newscaster on tv then went on about how the previous Oscar Grant protest had
ended in the protesters smashing store windows downtown and then he asked why
would they possibly want to attack people's homes - something that never
happened. He called them a "violent mob" which was an outright lie.<BR><BR>So
here's the scorecard: First a cop murders a young black man in cold blood. Then
he gets a two year sentence, meaning he'll serve about a year. Then the
protesters are arrested. Then the news lies about the whole
thing.<BR><BR>Justice and democracy, American style.<BR><BR>John<BR
clear=all><BR>-- <BR>"Poems don't belong to those who write them; they belong to
those who need them" - from movie "Il Postino"<BR>Check out:<BR><A
href="http://www.iww.org/en/blog/1411">http://www.iww.org/en/blog/1411</A><BR><A
href="http://worldwidesocialist.net/blog/">http://worldwidesocialist.net/blog/</A><BR>
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