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To: Starman417

Photos at link...

http://www.foxnews.com/photoessay/0,4644,6837,00.html#2_0

Mo Wiley, 32, of Oakland, said emotions still are raw from the Grant shooting.

“Oakland is a beautiful place,” Wiley said. “But I just hate when it gets ugly like this.”

Tension between police and the community has risen steadily since the fatal shooting of unarmed 22-year-old Oscar Grant by a transit police officer at an Oakland train station on Jan. 1.

That former Bay Area Rapid Transit officer, Johannes Mehserle, has pleaded not guilty to a murder charge. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Monday. Violent protests erupted on the streets of Oakland in the weeks after Grant’s death, further inflaming tensions.

On Saturday afternoon, about 20 people taunted police near the scene of the first shooting.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,510037,00.html


264 posted on 03/21/2009 10:18:07 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: kcvl

I don’t think this had anything to do with the BART shooting, it’s irresponsible journalism to try and link the two incidents to make excuses for this scumbag.


273 posted on 03/21/2009 10:22:02 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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