“Oakland evacuating because of Johannes Mehserle verdict”
Thursday, July 8th, 2010That’s the actual headline of this corporate media news blog. Frankly, this verdict makes me feel like “evacuating”…all over Oakland. I’ll use my biggest outputs to adorn the roofs of police stations.
Just imagine if a young black man had shot a cop and then claimed he’d intended to use some other weapon he had on him. How likely is it that the jury would have bought into that?
As far as I can tell, Mehserle is a cold-blooded killer. So are many other cops–he just had the bad luck to be caught on video. And he’s still only going to pay the price for involuntary manslaughter, assuming this verdict even survives appeals. That’s what you get for negligently killing someone in a car crash, for example.
It makes me sick. I’ve got to go now…and evacuate.
