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.

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

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.

If there was any questions about similarities between the community organizing efforts against the Oakland gang injunctions and the social protest movements of the '60s and '70s, they were convincingly answered for once and for all by activist, professor and revolutionary feminist icon Angela Davis.