Posted on 06/25/2010 12:05:17 PM PDT by SmithL
Former BART police Officer Johannes Mehserle broke down and sobbed today as he described to a jury the moment he realized he had shot Oscar Grant in the back.
"I didn't think I had my gun," Mehserle said. "I heard the pop. It wasn't very loud. It wasn't like a gun shot. And then I remember thinking, 'What went wrong with my Taser?' I remember looking at my gun in my right hand."
Mehserle continued, "I didn't know what to think. It just shouldn't have been there."
Mehserle then broke down in tears, as did his mother, who was watching from the gallery.
Grant's mother left the courtroom and an unidentified black male screamed out, "You save those (expletive) tears dude."
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert Perry immediately shut down proceedings and ordered the man arrested for contempt of court.
Mehserle's breakdown came during the second day of his testimony in the murder case against him. He said on the witness stand that he never intended to shoot Grant and thought he was reaching for his Taser, when instead he was reaching for his gun.
Mehserle said he decided to use his Taser on Grant after he struggled to grab Grant's right arm while he tried to handcuff him. Mehserle said he thought Grant might have been reaching for a gun.
The proceedings broke for a brief recess with Mehserle still on the stand. Deputy district attorney David Stein is expected to begin cross-examining him later today.
“Because I don’t need some commisar to tell me what I saw, and you obviously, do.”
Paper, it only took you five days to come up with that surly, truculent “zinger”?
Made my day. Thanks for the belly laugh! I hope your day gets better.
How can you confuse commissars with the rule of law?
Or is just strictly unconscious?
Being called “asshole” by someone of your caliber is a distinct honor.
Yeah, I’ve been stewing for the better part of a week, trying to think up a good one.
For the record, I’m ALWAYS surly and truculent to Sharpton-esque apologists.
The "rule of law" doesn't take two weeks to arrest a guy that shot a prone, restrained, man...nor does it try to collect the cell phones of all the witnesses.
Don’t you have anything useful to do?
“...I’m ALWAYS surly and truculent to Sharpton-esque apologists.”
Sharpton-esque?!
That’s even funnier!
You funny guy. Let me know when you’re appearing at a comedy club, and I’ll gladly pay the two drink minimum. You remind me a lot of Don Rickles.
(And just for the record, “commissar” has TWO s’s.)
Seriously? Based on what? Please cite the statutes that prohibit what you just wrote. You're the expert here, I guess, so that shouldn't take long.
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