In Hayward, California, a funeral will be held today for twenty-two-year-old Oscar Grant, who was shot dead on New Year’s Day by a BART police officer on an Oakland train platform. Three cell phone videos of the shooting have emerged. They show an officer pulling out a gun and shooting Grant in the back while he was lying face down on the ground. Grant worked as a butcher at an Oakland grocery store and was the father of a four-year-old daughter. Investigators have yet to interview the officer involved in the shooting.
--from Democracy Now, 1-7-09
I guess there isn't much difference between the physical structure of a handgun and a taser, and I guess they are in the same location on a police officers belt. Huh. You learn something new everyday. SOS, however, will be that this officer will have gotten away with senselessly murdering another black man. Huh, not so unusual.
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