Following last week's verdict - when a jury in Los Angeles found former BART Policeman Johannes Mehserle guilty of Involuntary Manslaughter in the murder of 22-year old Oscar Grant - the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights recognized the importance of holding Mehserle, as a representative of police systems and police

As I lay suffering in the intense discomfort created by the countdown to the verdict that will inevitably change my city - maybe even the whole country - forever, I have come to realize what most saddens me about the murder of Oscar Grant and subsequent trial of Johannes Mehserle.