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BART officer arrested on murder warrant in NY Day shooting
Demian Bulwa, Leslie Fulbright, Henry K. Lee
SF Chronicle
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
The BART police officer who fatally shot an unarmed man on an Oakland train platform and then refused to explain his actions to investigators was arrested Tuesday in Nevada on suspicion of murder, authorities said.
Johannes Mehserle, 27, of Lafayette was taken into custody in Douglas County, Nev., said Deputy Steve Velez of the Douglas County sheriff’s office. The arrest was also confirmed by David Chai, chief of staff to Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums.
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Mehserle was arrested in the New Year’s Day shooting of Oscar Grant, a 22-year-old supermarket worker from Hayward who was lying facedown after being pulled off a BART train by police investigating a fight. An Alameda County judge signed an arrest warrant alleging murder, and Mehserle surrendered without incident, authorities said.
The shooting, which was recorded by passengers in videos widely circulated on the Internet and television, prompted public outrage, and some viewers said that the shooting appeared to be an execution.
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January 14th, 2009 at 10:34 am
What do you think the chances are that this guy walks, scott free. When the perverbial dookey hits the fan, they will open the door and let this guy back in uniform to kill more cattle.
mrwickey Reply:
January 14th, 2009 at 2:23 pm
agreed…look what happened in NY almost 9 years ago: from Wikipedia
In the early morning of February 4 Diallo was standing near his building after returning from a meal. Police officers Edward McMellon, Sean Carroll, Kenneth Boss and Richard Murphy passed by in a Ford Taurus when they thought Diallo matched the description of a (since-captured) serial rapist and approached him. The officers were in plain clothes. The officers claimed that they loudly identified themselves as NYPD officers and that Diallo ran up the outside steps toward his apartment house doorway at their approach, ignoring their orders to stop and “show his hands.” As the suspect reached into his jacket, Carroll believed Diallo was drawing a firearm and yelled “Gun!” to alert his colleagues. The officers opened fire on Diallo and during the burst McMellon fell down the steps, appearing to be shot. The four officers fired forty-one shots, hitting Diallo nineteen times. Investigation found no weapons on Diallo’s body; the item he had pulled out of his jacket was not a gun, but a wallet.
On March 25 a Bronx grand jury indicted the officers on charges of second-degree murder and reckless endangerment. On December 16 a New York appellate court ordered a change of venue to Albany, New York, stating that pretrial publicity had made a fair trial in New York City impossible. On February 25, 2000, after two days of deliberations, a jury unanimously voted to acquit the officers of all charges.
Bobbyd41784 Reply:
January 14th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
I have to say if he does walk I highly doubt he will be put back on the job, but to site the Diallo case is kind of absurd compared to this. When was the last time you put your life on the line and pursued someone suspected of being a violent serial rapist? You people watch too many robocop movies to think that out of the thousands of confrontations that occur every year between police and possibly violent suspects, that mistakes arent going to happen. Every time a cop chases someone there is a certain level of fear thats involved and fear clouds any mans judgment. Unfortunate?… yes. Criminal?… no. As for this particular incident I think this officer is going to have a very hard time explaining his actions. And I dont think an AD (accidental discharge) is going to cut it. Most departments require atleast a 12lb trigger pull on their duty pistols to avoid AD’s.
Charles Reply:
January 14th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
Honestly, the chances he will walk are really good…
They are just pressing charges, to allow things to cool off, and the rioters to go back to their homes, wives, families, and children. Our of sight, out of mind… they will let him cool off in a holding cell, protected from other prisoners, and then…they will find that it was in self defense, or perhaps the harshest punishment being involuntary manslaughter… aka Ooops! Then they will push the trial quietly out of the lime light… and give him back his badge.
Bad cop, NO DONUT!
That’s about as harsh of a punishment as they will give him.
Gadsden Reply:
January 15th, 2009 at 4:54 am
No way. Rodney lived and you saw what happened. Dude’s going down (unless they want an excuse to deploy the marines against the bay area folks, you never know…).
January 14th, 2009 at 10:41 am
Hopefully they will add the charge of interstate flight to avoid prosecution. This cop knows he
committed murder, thats why he ran. We should all hope that he gets to bunk up with Bubba.
Give him a fair trial and then HANG THE SOB. We have to stop this police state SS BS now.
mrwickey Reply:
January 14th, 2009 at 7:51 pm
he wasn’t fleeing…he was on ‘vacation’ cause he was IN FEAR OF HIS LIFE
January 14th, 2009 at 10:43 am
Well another warrant is needed, and quick! 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Washignton DC! Get him before he skips out after the innaugaration in a few days!
But on a serious note, I agree with the previous poster, not likely this guy will do any time. Maybe if we’re lucky, some prisoners will have a little fun with him before he leaves. Hopefully, he won’t get out on bail before his trial. Sounds all too good to be true.
January 14th, 2009 at 10:45 am
I HOPE HE GETS RAPED.
stopper Reply:
January 14th, 2009 at 1:03 pm
The guy is a frickin’ pig, there is no doubt
about it. I hope he gets what he deserves.
That being said, never wish anything like
rape to anybody, even to the worst people
on this planet.
If this guy gets locked up, most likely,
he will never come out of there anyway…
T>GOIN Reply:
January 15th, 2009 at 11:31 am
Thats right stopper to rape a person even if he is a monster creats a sick monster that sooner or later will find his way back on the streets and back alleys to where he might meet up with your kid.Take it from an x correctional offcer with ten years with the Texas Department of the corrupted.People dont go along with its funny or good to rape anyone.
January 14th, 2009 at 10:48 am
It is about EF’N time! This should of been done the second after by his co-workers!
January 14th, 2009 at 10:48 am
Good question Forced Freedom.
If he walks they will spin it to be like some unfortunate family not getting justice, but no big deal, like some distant event that doesn’t affect you and doesn’t matter.
Now if he killed some politician’s son then they would demonize the killer endlessly.
January 14th, 2009 at 10:52 am
Can’t shoot the slaves cold-bloodedly just yet. Give it a few months…
January 14th, 2009 at 11:23 am
They arrested him so news of the “arrest” will calm people down.. that’s all. I highly doubt it would ever lead to any form of jail time.
January 14th, 2009 at 11:30 am
GIVE HIM A RAPE IN HIS AN*S
January 14th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
I am happy to see that he was arrested; but, I am skeptical that justice will be served. Why have they not arrested his accomplices????
January 14th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
They never put police in the prison population, he may get charged and even do time but he will never be in with others who would serve real justice.
January 14th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
He wont do any time. He’ll say he thought he was pulling his stun gun and they’ll give him a fine, probation and he’ll lose his “official” badge. What he did to this kid (who it sounds like was turning his life around somewhat, not that they even knew his name).. is exactly what they are going to do to us in a few months. Shoot 1st and pretend to resign later. I’m sure this cop will end up working for “border” CONTROL later this year.. he’s great at HIS JOB!! He is a “well trained ass-as-sin for the elitist pigs!
January 14th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
Awesome, a small form of justice…
January 14th, 2009 at 3:05 pm
(1) There will be a phony trial, for all the “Sheeple” to see.
(2) After he is convicted, he will be seen walking away in shakles.
(3) The “Sheeple” will be satisfied that justice has been served.
(4) In time, when this fades from the “Sheeples” memory,in the
undisclosed location they have him in, somewhere in the wee
hour in the morning, they will lead him out, change his identity,
and relocate him in a remote place to live, PERIOD!
January 14th, 2009 at 3:09 pm
Lets hope this pig goes down hard. he will get whats coming to him in prison.
January 14th, 2009 at 3:11 pm
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=9DjTFXj_ZZw
January 14th, 2009 at 3:30 pm
They need to lock this little piggy up with cel mate Bubba and a jar of lube!
“Sqweeel like a pig boy he, he, he”
Anon. of Ibid. Reply:
January 14th, 2009 at 4:08 pm
They will somehow, conveniently run out of lube in jail.
INFERNO Reply:
January 14th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
Ouch!
That might be uncomfortable for officer Mehserle,better hang on to that bacon grease,LOL
INFERNO
January 14th, 2009 at 3:30 pm
Hey, why so angry? He was goin’ after the bad guys, just like on that show cops: they’re just happy to be one of the Good guys that gets to round up the bad guys. Trust them, they know what they’re doing.
To make the place safer.
Of course if this world happens to be a little muddled up, say, a little off it’s axis and something a little dark parading as something a little light has wound up running the show that would make things a little more complex. Everything would be a lot more complex.
January 14th, 2009 at 3:34 pm
I don’t think they recruit ANY cops these days that have so much as an average IQ, they are looking for the ones whose IQ is at the approximate level of room temperature.
I work with two people who have, at a minimum an average IQ and they were dismissed from the training for less than valid justification and to me it seems that this is the trend taking place in America because they cannot have the ones that have the ability to rationalize in ANY situation and I equate this to the “Stress Cards” being issued in the Army during training which produces pathetic, non-trained soldiers that will be crushed in a firefight.
January 14th, 2009 at 3:34 pm
If people would kill off the cops the problems would stop. Make them fear the public. Take out a cop today.
January 14th, 2009 at 3:57 pm
Keep your eyes peeled people. This is going to turn into another media circus side-show. Something else major will be going on elsewhere. While we’re engrossed with our prim time news/entertainment, we’ll be getting the big one rammed up our dry corn holes…
Anon. of Ibid. Reply:
January 14th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
He’ll get arraigned next Tuesday. After that a little war. Then the Rapture.
January 14th, 2009 at 3:58 pm
If there had not been violent protests, this arrest would not have occurred. It is fortunate that so many people were taping this incident. Withouth the tapes, there would not have been such outrage. I hate to say it, but we need more of this until there is a cleansing of this filth. These pigs need to be charged as traitors, too – they take an oath to uphold the Law.
January 14th, 2009 at 5:02 pm
Interesting how the desire of many of those in government, is to disarm everyone. Yet those prone to extreme violence, within the justification of law enforcement, are provided firearms. They take out their perverted responses on those unable to defend themselves. The psychological screening, ( if any was done at all in this instance ), failed to weed out a sociopath of the worst order. The day when mankind no longer feels the need for violence, is the day that we may be safe in giving up all reasonable means for self defense. I doubt that I will live that long. I regret that so much time and money will be spent now on the actions of the attacker, and so little on the survivors.
January 14th, 2009 at 5:02 pm
You know,
If they started actually prosecuting these cops that murder,I guarantee the amount of police involved shootings would drop to an all time low…
INFERNO
January 14th, 2009 at 5:09 pm
hopefully Oakland can handle it better than L.A. did during the Rodney King civil rights trials,If they do decide this guy is innocent of cold blooded murder,”YOU IN OAKLAND AND THE WHOLE BAY AREA BURN CITY HALL TO THE GROUND,BURN THE BART STATIONS,POLICE STATIONS,DISABLE FIRE TRUCKS SO THEY ARE INEFFECTIVE,”
AND FOR GOD SAKE,WHEN YOU ARE A GROUP OF 2000 FACING A POLICE LINE OF A FEW DOZEN,”SURROUND THEM”,TAKE THEIR WEAPONS AND ZIP TIE THEIR ASSES TO POLES,MAKE THEM REALIZE THAT WE’VE HAD ENOUGH,THEY ARE NOT OUR OPPRESSORS THEY ARE OUR EMPLOYEES …
sorry for yelling
INFERNO
Gadsden Reply:
January 15th, 2009 at 5:01 am
Just watched red dawn again last night. Best advise ever: “let it turn into something else”.
A little of our outrage goes a long way. To arms!
Gadsden Reply:
January 15th, 2009 at 5:02 am
That’s advice…..
January 14th, 2009 at 5:22 pm
He’ll get 5-10 years so they can “prove” that they are fairly handling the case. They had to do something or suffer more losses of police cars.
January 14th, 2009 at 5:51 pm
I see this as bitter irony.
Big brother wishes to record everything we do. but can’t help but to record itself in the process!
BACKFIRE!!!
REVOLUTION!!!!
January 14th, 2009 at 6:01 pm
You would think the fact that police don’t typically survive prison would be enough motivation for them to not break the law they’ve sworn to up hold. I don’t feel the least bit sorry for this officer and i hope that he will relies that the hell he is about to pass through was completely manifested from his own dis-concern for his oath to serve and protect. Police should be here to help and protect us, not intimidate and suppress us.
January 14th, 2009 at 6:46 pm
This so called Cop was born a criminal.
He just ended up in the wrong line of work!!!
If he wanted to kill innocent people he should have signed up for the Marines or just stayed there if he already was.
January 14th, 2009 at 7:22 pm
IF he gets convicted (big IF) and IF he is not kept seperate from the general prison population, he will probably be killed in prison, much like Jeffrey Dahlmer was. Someone with nothing to lose will kill him. I’m glad he has been arrested and charged. His only defense is going to be “taser confusion”, which of course begs the question: “Why were you planning to taser a guy who was down, cuffed and on his belly? He was CLEARLY not a threat to you (cop) or anyone else.” I hope in goes to trial and I hope the jury is all homeboys and disinfranchised folks. My guess is that the “authorities” (BART police force, mayor’s office, city council) will now abandon him, claim he was a rascist, bad seed, etc. and let him hang out to dry.
January 14th, 2009 at 7:53 pm
If you think about it, the ” I confused my gun with my tazer” defence would demonstrate that tazers should be outlawed. If the cops didn’t have tazers, then there couldn’t be any confusion between their gun and their tazer.
How do “We the people” petition our government for redress of grievances regarding the use of tazers? Does anyone know how to get this started? Tazers should be made illegal, period.
What do you think?
Anon. of Ibid. Reply:
January 14th, 2009 at 9:28 pm
Someone on another article regarding Tazers recently, said if the people organized enough to initiate a massive countrywide tort action, then that might work.
January 14th, 2009 at 9:24 pm
I’m sure if he does “walk” His nam is all Over everywhere and he won’t walk very far, but with the Video tape evidence and the Murder victim being already restrained, He’lll Be walking alright. Walking while Holding his Sore ass from getting Big Black D**** Pumped into him daily. Or he’ll get to sit in Seg. Loads of fun. No Human Contact.
January 14th, 2009 at 9:27 pm
“I though the Gun was My Tazer defense cannot work”. Tazers are Yellow and worn on the weak side in a drop leg holster. If he’s that retarded then I don’t know why he was even a Pig. Instead he should be wearing a Helmet in an institution.
January 14th, 2009 at 9:45 pm
he’s a great american!
January 15th, 2009 at 1:11 am
You people should check out this guys video. I think he may have a answer to all these problems. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....annel_page
January 15th, 2009 at 5:53 am
mrwickey Reply:
January 14th, 2009 at 7:51 pm
he wasn’t fleeing…he was on ‘vacation’ cause he was IN FEAR OF HIS LIFE
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The S.O.B. should fear for his life.
This Police violence crap is getting WAY OUT OF HAND in this country.
I am damn tired of seeing this crap happen over and over, and nothing is done
to these SICK people.
Let one of the “cattle” stand up for their rights and see how fast they are tazered, beat half to death, or worse.
Welcome to 1939 Germany.
PAPERS PLEASE.
January 15th, 2009 at 6:30 am
captain..right on!
my uncle, retired NYPD once told me if i ever join , he would kick the crap out of me..
he is suffering now from ground zero cough…
911 truth now!