Oscar Grant, Trayvon Martin, and the protection of ‘police murder’ in America (Opinion)
Article by Thandisizwe Chimu....
Last updated at Fri, 30 Mar at 7:32am.

Once again another young Black man has been shot and killed, under highly questionable circumstances, by a representative of law enforcement.  Also once again, African Americans and our allies fear that justice will not be served on the perpetrator.  Unfortunately, this fear is neither imagined nor an overreaction; it is grounded in concrete reality.

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Mehserle 2011: Will city of Oakland treat protests differently now that Quan is mayor? (Op-Ed)
Article by Susan Mernit.
Last updated at Fri, 10 Jun at 5:46am.

This Monday, June 12, Johannes Mehserle is going to be released from jail after serving 11 months of his 18 month sentence for the murder of Oscar Grant.

For many people in Oakland, Mehserle's release is unconscionable and his going free while Grant lies dead is an unpardonable occurrence. Others feel Mehserle has served the time the court decreed and it's time to move on.

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California considers Mehserle shooting of Oscar Grant to be non-violent offense - hearing June 1
Article by Thandisizwe Chimu....
Last updated at Thu, 19 May at 1:11am.

Due to the classification of being a non-violent felon, Johannese Mehserle could walk free in the next few weeks after serving less than one calendar year of his prison sentence.  Because California penal code does not classify involuntary manslaughter as a “violent” or “serious” offense, Johannes Mehserle, the convicted killer of Oscar Grant, could be released as early as mid-Ju

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Will Johannes Mehserle be out of jail in June?
Article by Thandisizwe Chimu....
Last updated at Thu, 12 May at 2:33pm.

Rumors have swirled recently over whether Johannes Mehserle, the former Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) police officer convicted last summer of involuntary manslaughter in the death of an unarmed Oscar Grant, had already been released from prison. Those rumors have turned out to be false. Mehserle, however, may walk out of prison some time in June.

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Emotional Opening to Mehserle Murder Trial
Article by Thandisizwe Chimu....
Last updated at Mon, 27 Dec at 1:00am.

Former Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer Johannes Mehserle shot an unarmed Oscar Grant III on New Year’s Day 2009 on an Oakland subway platform.  Grant died hours later at a local hospital.  Amid extensive pre-trial publicity and accusations that African-Americans were prejudiced, the trial was moved to Los Angeles last fall.  The jury in the Los Angeles is made

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Johannes Mehserle, Ex-BART cop, got big break at sentencing, records show
Article by California Watch.
Last updated at Wed, 15 Dec at 9:11am.

by Lance Williams

 Johannes Mehserle, the former transit police officer who shot an unarmed* man on an Oakland BART platform, wants the judge to set him free pending appeal.

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Mehserle gets jail, no bail
Article by Thandisizwe Chimu....
Last updated at Mon, 6 Dec at 8:18am.

Johannes Mehserle, the former Bay Area Rapid Transit officer convicted of killing unarmed Oscar Grant in July of this year, was denied bail yesterday [Dec. 3],  by Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Robert Perry.

Michael Rains, attorney for Mehserle, had asked the court allow his client to go free pending an appeal of the involuntary manslaughter conviction handed down by a Los Angeles jury on July 8.

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Southern CA perspectives on Mehserle sentencing and 'the struggle' in general
Article by Thandisizwe Chimu....
Last updated at Wed, 1 Dec at 8:25am.

The shooting of Oscar Grant by former Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer Johannes Mehserle Jan. 1, 2009, was captured on video and shown widely throughout the United States and abroad. Tensions surrounding the case have not abated to this today; indeed, they may have been worsened by the subsequent trial, verdict and sentencing.

Headquartered in the Oakland/San Francisco Bay Area, the movement for justice for Oscar Grant has spread virally and through good old-fashioned community organizing. In Los Angeles, however, where the trial was moved due to pre-trial publicity, many of the activists involved in the justice for Oscar Grant movement feel that a “media whiteout” severely hampered their efforts to generate the same amount of knowledge and concern about the case as the Bay Area had.

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