On January 1st of this year 22 year old Oscar Grant was shot...by a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Officer. His killing is being compared to a public execution as it was done in apparent cold blood (he was lying face down) in front of a large audience pleading the officers to leave the young man alone.
According to CNN:The young men had been celebrating the new year at a popular waterfront tourist spot, The Embarcadero. They were heading home when police pulled them from the train car about 2 a.m.
Some of the young men were handcuffed, but not 22-year-old Oscar Grant. The video from the anonymous passenger shows Grant seated on the floor with his back against the wall.
Grant holds up his hands, appearing to plead with police. Burris said Tuesday that Grant was asking police not to use a Taser.
"He said to them, 'Don't Tase me; I have a 4-year-old daughter,' " Burris said.
The interaction on the video is not audible.
Seconds later, police put Grant face-down on the ground. Grant appears to struggle. One of the officers kneels on Grant as another officer stands, tugs at his gun, unholsters it and fires a shot into Grant's back.
Burris said the bullet went through Grant's back and then ricocheted off the floor and through his lungs.
Click here to see the video - taped by a passenger on a passing train. Warning it's pretty disturbing.
My question is why does no one seem to know about this horrible wrong doing? I guess the more important question is why are none of the major network's covering this story? The killing of a white college student would surely receive 12 straight hours of coverage followed by weeks of follow up --- since this was a 22 year old black man with a young child it is swept under the rug?
Most of the press I've seen is concerning how black people are rioting (its called a protest when white hippies do it) and how the officer is getting death threats (damn right he should be getting death threats!)
Damn.
We got a black president but this proves - as the crazy Kanye once said - "Racism still alive they just be concealing it".
Now that we have Obama as president, America feels all high and mighty with a general feeling "how can there be racism if we have a black president?"
OBAMA SAY SOMETHING PLEASE!!!
Here is another article by the SF Gate.
Yesterday was Oscar Grants Funeral.
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My colleague Andrew Blau is on the board of executive directors at WITNESS.org, an organization that uses video and online technologies to expose human rights violations throughout the world.
In his words, "a good if grim example of the premise [of their organization]"
See their coverage here:
http://hub.witness.org/en/Oscar-Grant
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