By: George @ 11:37 AM - EST
Six days after the filmed execution of a prisoner by a Bay Area Rabid Transit enforcement officer there has not been any statement from the shooter and veteran officer Johannes Mehserle. BART officer Johannes Mehserle took the life of 22 year old Oscar Grant of Hayward California around 2AM January 1st after a scuffle between passengers was broken up.
In the camera phone video you can see officer Johannes Mehserle subdue and restrain the victim placing his boot on his neck, removing his weapon from his holster prompting fellow officers step back. Officer Johannes Mehserle then summarily executes his captive in the BART tunnel.
Sources inside the BART police agency says they are looking at a possible explanation that the officer intended to use his taser but reached for his service pistol by accident. If this is indeed the defense being considered it could mean open season on the lives of every citizen of the country. If all an agent of the state must say when they execute someone is, “I only meant to taser them”; the public in at great danger.
Video: Cell phone video from passenger in passing train
Prior to the release of a camera phone video taken by a passenger in a passing train police claim no one really knows when, why or how an officers gun “discharged” killing Oscar Grant. Yet the cell phone video shows police clearly saw an knew what happened yet they immediately begin covering up the crime with the help of local media.
Video: ABC Channel 7 report of Fruitdale BART Station killing
In the video below notice how the anchor man narrating says the victim was “fatally wounded” not killed or shot dead but “fatally wounded.”
Video: Oakland KTVU Channel 2 reports on BART killing
Updated @ 8:38 PM - EST
From MSNBC:
A friend of Grant’s who was with him on the crowded Oakland train station platform at the time of the shooting said Grant pleaded with officers not to harm him.
“Oscar yelled, ‘You shot me! I got a four-year-old daughter,”‘ said Fernando Anicete. “Oscar was telling us to calm down and we did. We weren’t looking for any trouble.”
Burris claims the shooting was intentional, and that he planned to ask Alameda County prosecutors to seek criminal charges against the officer. Burris said Grant, of Hayward, Calif., posed no threat to officers when a bullet entered his back and ricocheted to his lung area, killing him almost instantly.
“The officer leaned (in), was straddling over him and pointed his gun directly into the backside and shot (Grant),” said Burris, adding that Grant was handcuffed — after he was shot. “This was not a deadly force situation.”
Mario Pangelina, Mesa’s brother who was riding on the same train, two cars behind Grant on Thursday morning, said Sunday he saw Grant beg police not to Taser him because of his child.
“He kept saying, ‘Please, please don’t Tase me,”‘ Pangelina said. “He was not acting hostile.”
Other witnesses said Grant was lying on his stomach on the station’s platform when he was shot.
Recordings of the shooting by witnesses have surfaced and Burris said BART had confiscated numerous cell phone images from others he believes contain additional footage.
BART spokesman Jim Allison has said the officer’s gun went off while police were trying to restrain Grant and that Grant was not cuffed. The unidentified officer is on paid leave as BART investigates the shooting.
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this is absoloutley fucking disgusting,some time soon the pigs must be dealt with
I fear this will be a powder keg for riots in the Bay Area
Can’t imagine why anyone would do that. Either training has gone to hell in police departments nation wide - wouldn’t surprise me seeing how much the Feds have their hands in on it now … or the guy was a complete psychopath.
That he might have been going for his taser and picked the “wrong” gun - is yet another reason on the long list of reasons as to why tasers need to be dropped from law enforcement.
Don’t just grill this cop - get his commanders, get the politicians approving policy. Follow this all the way up the ladder.
I think this is absolute BS! I went to High School with this guy and to see this video is very disturbing. The cop was only 27, meaning he was still thinking he was better then he really was. All I know is that, there is going to be so much more racism and hate crimes that are going to come out of this then America has ever needed. It so sad, Oscar was getting his life together, providing for his child and then a young ass cop is going to come screw it all up.
The cop should have known better between the taser and the real gun. Give me a break. How long have you been on the force???? Not long enough obviously.
I send my strongest sympathy and regards to the whole Grant family. Keep that little girl of his strong! She will need it. I hope you all get the justice you deserve.
“I fear this will be a powder keg for riots in the Bay Area”
AS IT SHOULD BE!!!!!!!! This is revolting and that anybody could believe such utter BS as ‘Duh, I thought it was my tazer” is a babbling idiot! This was an execution, plain and simple! Wait til it’s your turn, the time is coming. If this is allowed to go unpunished then we all deserve to be executed as well.
The Fruitvale Station is actually an elevated platform in the San Francisco East Bay. There is a tunnel under the Bay to SF and through the City but most of the East Bay system is elevated or at ground level. The concrete wall they’re up against is a good 40 feet above the ground.
When the only tool you have is a hammer all your problems look like nails. When a cop spends hundreds of hours training with offensive weapons (pistols, tasers, pepperspray, etc) it only seems natural to pull out a weapon to “defend” himself from someone who is restrained, facedown, at his feet.
Cops only see two types – cops and perps.
Guess which one you are.
Why is it when a cop shoots someone dead they get administrative leave? If a non-cop shot somebody they’d be locked up before the gun barrel was cool.
This is totally abhorrable and disgusting, for an officer of the law to behave like an executioner is reprehensible. To claim that he thought he had drawn his taser instead of his firearm is total hogwash and outright lies and shows malicious intent to execute the innocent man. The BART police department MUST be forced to charge this sorry excuse for a human being with 1st degree murder and charge his fellow police officers with conspiracy since they claimed they did not know how the firearm discharged. They must all be made an example of to prevent this heinous and abhorrable crime from ever occurring again. This monster should have been arrested right away and locked up as he is a danger to society. If any one of us had taken the life of another in this fashion we would be sitting in a jail cell right now, he is no different, in fact worse because he this psychopath is hiding behind the authority of the police. Who is policing the police? TAKE ACTION NOW. ARREST THIS MAN and take him OFF the street.
filthy PIG !!!!!!!!!!
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All the police should be fired from top to bottom, leave them homeless like everyone else that loses their job when they make a mistake. Were talking about murder here. I bet that guy is on steroids or just came home from Iraq and is all pumped up and ready to kill more inocent people.
The problem is that we have officers of the law and justices of the law, when we used to have Officers of the Peace and Justices of the Peace. It’s up to you the American people to get it back that way.
This is why the Sheriff, who is elected, should be accountable for all police.
That could be anyone of us!
It was a blatent execution mob style and not only should the officer responsible be occupying a cell for a very long period of time, his commanding officer should be looking for a new job. Start at the top if you want to clean up the force.
I do not fear the police. I am glad they are out there protecting my family’s freedom to move about freely as good citizens. This was a tragic incident that is still under investigation. I am confident that the Alameda County D.A. investigation will be thorough and accurate. I might ad that I celebrated safely at home with my family and friends on New Years Eve to avoid thugs like BART Police had to deal with on that platform. Has anyone considered that Mr. Grant’s actions might have contributed to his own fate?
So the cop murders the innocent unarmed civilian by shooting him in the back, and then in his defense the cop says “I’m sorry, I meant to Taser him.”
Does that mean that civilians can murder cops and then say in their defense, “I’m sorry, I meant to taser him.”?
They had better ban tasers before we end up with public riots. We had an “excited delirium episode” in Vancouver, a concocted pathology - ostensibly an attempt to justify the RCMP taser murder of a Polish immigrant in Vancouver Canada, and now another murder caused by so-called “taser confusion.” New pathologies are being spun fast and easy by today’s “experts.” The only ones confused here, are those who continue to justify the sale, purchase and deployment of tasers, among what have become little more than “inventory” control clerks with guns - no longer peace officers, but psychological clones and enforcement agents for the CORPORATE COLLECTIVE. There is a dark spirit stalking the land.
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