Here’s some heavy weather ahead for which you all should prepare.
Paul Huebl:
Los Angeles, CA—The trial of Bay Area Rapid Transit cop, Johannes Mehserle has been removed from Oakland to be tried here.
Mehserle is the young cop who shot and killed Oscar Grant on a transit platform on New Year’s Day in 2009. Grant was being subdued and handcuffed by several officers when Mehserle removed his service weapon from its holster and shot Grant in the back. It sounds so simple but it’s not.
The shooting of Oscar Grant was a YouTube Sensation because several people in the hostile crowd pulled out cell-phone video cameras and captured the incident. They quickly posted the videos on YouTube with their own misleading and incendiary commentary.
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Next we have to talk about Oakland, California. Oakland is the Hate Epicenter of the United States for African-American extremists. The Black Panther Party was spawned here and cops, especially White cops are targets of hate and deadly race based assault.
Oakland’s African-American community wants the blood of this young cop. The threats against this lad are such that anyone killing him in a on the street, jail or prison would be considered a Black Hero.
Mehserle’s lawyers were right to get the trial out Oakland, but then they agree to L.A.? Rodney King? Hello? About the only chance he has for a fair hearing is that L.A. is full of Hispanics, and if there are enough Hispanics on the jury who happen to have grudges against blacks, they might actually listen to the evidence and be immune to pressure from the blacks that will surely be on the jury. (UPDATE: The jury is comprised of seven Hispanics and five whites.)
If he’s found not guilty or if there is a hung jury, (UPDATE: And a not guilty verdict is all the more possible since there are no blacks on the jury) two big cities will have riots. I don’t know how long this trial will take, but I can easily see a verdict being turned in before the end of summer. A not guilty verdict in late October resulting in black riots in L.A. and Oakland would suit me just fine. Hope and change? More like dope and flames.
