Normally I consider my FR friends to be a cut above in all regards, but the blood-lust shown in this thread really has me scratching my head.
My late father-in-law was a career Oakland cop, retiring as a Captain. His run-ins included the Hells Angels under Sonny Barger, the Black Panthers, and even the SLA. He was no stranger to ghetto violence in Oakland, and the thugs who preyed on the innocent. A proud father of four kids, he was one of the kindest gentlemen I ever knew.
I remember another high profile case involving a gentleman named Rodney King, where a tightly edited news clip was looped repeatedly on TV, until Los Angeles was in flames. This is somewhat of an oversimplification, the PC verdict of of police brutality was finally reached after TWO trials (double jeopardy?) and South Central was in cinders.
Of course, the clip the MSM presented left out a combative Mr. King, refusing to submit, high on PCP most likely, and not slowing his attack on the police in spite of pepper spray and tasers. They finally got pissed off and clubbed the guy until he yielded. But this bit of vital info was left out, just the clubbing of a black man by white cops was shown. Repeatedly. Again and again. Until the MSM got what they wanted.
Having been held up at gunpoint three times by young East Bay black thugs, who felt they were entitled to all they could get by force, I can certainly understand how the Grant shooting could go down when confronting an out of control gang of thugs.
I’m appalled by those here who want to lynch Mehserle BEFORE the facts are presented and the verdict is in. I thought we were above these kinds of reactionary posts on insufficient evidence. Guess I was wrong.
Bravo.
And yes, there are rotten members of each group: police officers, military, clergy, teachers... even this one.
Oh, Filo and telebob, the brutal execution of the four Oakland police officers last year (one of whom was a close friend of a friend of mine) was semi-official retaliation for the Oscar Grant shooting... by hyperracist East Oakland Marxist radicals. There were even a couple of lightly attended vigils for the dead murderer who stole the lives of two motorcycle officers, and then put his sister’s (?) family in danger by fleeing into their house. Two more officers were killed.
I drove by the Oakland Coliseum the afternoon of the memorial services for those four officers. The drivers on the normally congested and circus-like freeways and roads were polite. Police officers from all over the COUNTRY attended, citizens with flags stood guard on our bridges and intersections to welcome them.
It’s clear to me that some posters have issues. If you insist on your blind prejudice against police officers, go take a look at the Oathkeepers website, and take a look at who’s willing to stand between the innocent and evil.
I’m appalled that you seem to think your series of unrelated anecdotes has any bearing on the specifics of the Grant case, and that you seem to think we need a procedural blessing before we can believe what we saw from numerous angles.
Good post but I don’t think it will persuade the slobbering cop haters.
In fact, I believe they are gonna be sorely put out when the jury finds Mehserle guilty only of manslaughter and not the universe ending, special double premediatated first degree murder with really bad intentions they’ve already convicted him of.