Oscar Grant Update: Johannes Mehserle Trial To Move to Another ...

Simi Valley, anyone? If this trial doesn’t go to a city like Los Angeles or Sacramento, and if it goes to some predominantly-white, gated, Rush/Hannity/Beck, cop-loving town, no matter how far it is from Oakland, there will be unrest. If it doesn’t turn out as a guilty verdict for Johannes Mehserle, parts of Oaktown are going to go up in flames. Sure as I am sitting here. No doubt. People, especially black and Latino youth, have had it with cop harassment and killings, whether from BART or Oakland’s own, or Alameda’s sheriff’s deputies. I am as nonviolent as anyone, and perhaps even [more...]

Date: 2009-10-25 22:33:42

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Calling Brandon "obsessed with Nazis" seems restrained now | The ...

"The evidence strongly indicates he had been indoctrinated to some level," said Dan Swanson, a Simi Valley police detective and specialist in neo-Nazi gangs. On the second day of McInerney's preliminary hearing in Ventura County Superior Court, Swanson discounted earlier testimony that McInerney had black and Latino friends at school, contending that white supremacists are accustomed to hiding their true beliefs. Lots more after. A search of McInerney's bedroom and backpack yielded the notebook, seven of Hitler's speeches translated into English and a book about SS troopers who had been [more...]

Date: 2009-07-22 18:30:00

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