ColorOfChange.org is urging that people all over the country get involved in the fight for justice for Oscar Grant. With the strong possibility that the officer who murdered Grant not getting charged for this crime, no time is better than now to be heard, but be heard effectively. Ozone has been informed that last Wednesday’s rally was turned into a riot by BAM (By Any Means Necessary), a white leftist group of anarchists based out of Michigan and that 69% of the arrests made were NOT Oakland
residents, yet CNN and all the national and local coverage painted Oakland’s young people of color as beyond help in their rage and violence.
Read and sign the petition after the jump.
Dear Attorney General Brown:
Despite damning video evidence, the officer who killed Oscar Grant walks free, and the Alameda County District Attorney has said it will take weeks before he can decide whether to prosecute.
This is outrageous and unacceptable. Multiple videos of the shooting clearly show that it was unprovoked and unnecessary. Johannes Mehserle should be treated like any other murder suspect. I urge you to take him into custody immediately and determine what charges are appropriate.
Grant’s murder marks the third time in less than 20 years that the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) police have shot and killed a black man in Alameda County who posed them no threat. In both previous cases, the officer who pulled the trigger was not disciplined or charged with a crime. Alameda County’s District Attorney accepted BART’s unconvincing justifications for the use of deadly force. When asked, the DA’s office could not recall a single case in at least twenty years in which the county has prosecuted a police officer for a fatal shooting.
Oscar Grant deserves justice, but it’s clear that victims of police brutality and their families have the deck stacked against them. That’s why you need to step in, and go beyond simply placing an observer in the DA’s office. Without an aggressive, independent investigation into Grant’s death, public confidence in the police and the rule of law will be seriously undermined.
I’m urging the California Department of Justice to arrest Mehserle today. This should be your first step in an independent investigation into Grant’s murder and into the conduct of BART police and the Alameda County DA in cases of officer-involved shootings.
Sincerely,
[Your name]
CLICK HERE TO SIGN AND SEND PETITION
http://www.colorofchange.org/oscar/?id=2021-165032
residents, yet CNN and all the national and local coverage painted Oakland’s young people of color as beyond help in their rage and violence.
Read and sign the petition after the jump.
Dear Attorney General Brown:
Despite damning video evidence, the officer who killed Oscar Grant walks free, and the Alameda County District Attorney has said it will take weeks before he can decide whether to prosecute.
This is outrageous and unacceptable. Multiple videos of the shooting clearly show that it was unprovoked and unnecessary. Johannes Mehserle should be treated like any other murder suspect. I urge you to take him into custody immediately and determine what charges are appropriate.
Grant’s murder marks the third time in less than 20 years that the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) police have shot and killed a black man in Alameda County who posed them no threat. In both previous cases, the officer who pulled the trigger was not disciplined or charged with a crime. Alameda County’s District Attorney accepted BART’s unconvincing justifications for the use of deadly force. When asked, the DA’s office could not recall a single case in at least twenty years in which the county has prosecuted a police officer for a fatal shooting.
Oscar Grant deserves justice, but it’s clear that victims of police brutality and their families have the deck stacked against them. That’s why you need to step in, and go beyond simply placing an observer in the DA’s office. Without an aggressive, independent investigation into Grant’s death, public confidence in the police and the rule of law will be seriously undermined.
I’m urging the California Department of Justice to arrest Mehserle today. This should be your first step in an independent investigation into Grant’s murder and into the conduct of BART police and the Alameda County DA in cases of officer-involved shootings.
Sincerely,
[Your name]
CLICK HERE TO SIGN AND SEND PETITION
http://www.colorofchange.org/oscar/?id=2021-165032
