OAKLAND: Police arresting people at 7th Ave., E. 17th St.

Oakland Tribune ^ | 11/5/10 | Kristin Bender

[InABunkerUnderSF]

...I guess the people in Oakland(that wonderful law abiding town)don’t like the sentence, huh?

Nothing short of a public hanging would have satisfied the mob.

There are no real good guys in this one.

[calex59]

I know he was a Bart cop, not a real one. However, I have come to believe he was just monumentally stupid and didn't shoot the guy on purpose. That is why there should be no mall cops or rent a cops unless they undergo the same training as real cops and even real cops are getting terrible about shooting the wrong people on no knock raids and killing family pets right and left.

The point is any number of young black males get killed by other blacks but no one riots if they are not sentenced harshly. As for the guy who was killed, Oakland if full of idiots who think it is fun to terrorize Bart riders, I used to have to ride Bart into SF and that was bad enough, I would never ride into Oakland unless I was armed to the teeth.

[InABunkerUnderSF]

Officer Mehserle violated one of the fundamental rules of firearm safetly - Never put your finger on the trigger unless you intend to shoot something. I would think this would be kind of fundamental in ANY law enforcement training.

Two years is probably a fair sentence (I wasn't in his shoes, I don't know what really happened.)

You are correct, African American men die all the time and nobody riots. There is a racist component to this but it doesn't emanate from the white people involved. Like you, I've ridden BART for many years. General rules are stay out of the East Bay and the Mission after 8 PM. Say what you may about the man but this place could use a Mayor Giuliani. What we have instead are under-trained BART cops with Glocks and M4s.

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

Silly me,,,

How could I have forgotten the lootin’ part!?!???!,,,

The last riot we had here was the”Lakeside Riot”,,,

The cops ran away and let the blacks loot~n~burn the place.

The “Cedar Grove” riot was the same thing,,,

The last bank in that area was robbed so many times they

just shut it down and moved,,,

After 6/7 people killed nobody would work there,,,

Now,,,The black preachers all whine because nobody has a

place to shop or bank,,,

The last gas station in that area has a bullet-proof

glass cage,,,

At least it will stop AK-47 rounds because the robbers

tried it out...

[Disambiguator]

YEEEEEHAAAW!!!DRINK~N~DANCE~N~STAB~N~SHOOT!!!...

I think it's "shoot, loot, and scoot," or "loot, scoot, and shoot." Okay, maybe it's "loot, shoot, and scoot."

I can't keep this stuff straight.

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

I think that DRINK~N~DANCE is in there ,,,somewhere...;0)

[smokingfrog]

Did anyone get their head stomped by a tea partier?

[mamelukesabre]

I think I might argue your ranking just a little. I would switch BATFE and armed security guards around. And you left out armored car drivers/guards. I would also separate law enforcement into 3...state troopers, county sheriff deputy, and city cops. County sheriff deputy at the top, state troopers at the bottom of those three.