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The Impaired Judgement of Johannes Mehserle

Posted on May 12, 2012May 12, 2012 by gar

I opened the Oakland Tribune the other day and found a most shocking headline:  “Mehserle asks appeals court for new trial.”  I swear I thought it was a typo. Mr. Mehserle, as you may recall, is the former BART officer who feared Oscar Grant as a big scary black man and shot him at point blank range.  Mr. Grant…

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20 years ago: A Remembrance of the Rodney King Uprising

Posted on April 28, 2012April 28, 2012 by gar

April 29, 1991.  I was at work in Berkeley.  There was no World Wide Web in those days.  I checked.  The Mosaic browser wouldn’t come out until the following January, over a half-year later.  No, I got the news on the telephone when a friend and former roommate from LA called me while I was…

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The Big Scary Black Man Narrative

Posted on March 29, 2012March 30, 2012 by gar

March 3, 1991.  Rodney King led officers on a high speed chase that ended in Simi Valley, California.  When he finally surrendered, police took him out of the car, tasered him, and, as the now infamous video shows, kicked and beat him repeatedly as he laid on the ground.  The officers claimed he resisted arrest…

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