{"id":1611,"date":"2009-01-08T19:33:57","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T09:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1611"},"modified":"2009-01-09T00:43:40","modified_gmt":"2009-01-08T14:43:40","slug":"oscar-grant-murdered-in-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1611","title":{"rendered":"Oscar Grant murdered in San Francisco&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul><em>See also<\/em> : <a href=\"http:\/\/documentingfailure.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/oakland-erupts.html\">OAKLAND ERUPTS<\/a>, Now We Can Document Failure!, January 8, 2008.<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1534\">Athens<\/a>&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1539\">Melbourne<\/a>&#8230; San Francisco&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;A Directory of Wonderful Things&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2009\/01\/06\/citizen-videos-sprea.html\">&#8220;Citizen videos&#8221; spread online showing BART police officer shooting unarmed man to death<\/a><br \/>\nPosted by Xeni Jardin, January 6, 2009 11:05 PM | permalink<br \/>\n(Warning, explicit content: the video below shows a man being shot to death).<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/8Tmh9B8LVxM&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the early hours of New Year&#8217;s Day, 27-year-old BART police officer Johannes Mehserle shot and killed 22-year old Oscar Grant. A number of people who were riding the BART train that night witnessed the shooting, and shot video or photos on handheld cameras or phones. The victim&#8217;s family today filed a lawsuit for $25 million. Five days after the shooting, the accused officer still has not given a statement. He is said to be have received death threats and authorities are apparently moving him from place to place to protect him from harm&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amnestyusa.org\/document.php?id=ENGUSA20090107002&#038;lang=e\">Amnesty International USA Press Release<\/a><br \/>\nFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:<br \/>\nWednesday, Jan. 7, 2009<br \/>\nAmnesty International Calls Oscar Grant Shooting a &#8220;Clear Cut Abuse of Power&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Contact: Wende Gozan at 212-633-4247 or Dalia Hashad at 202-675-8571<\/p>\n<p>(Washington)&#8211;Oscar Grant, a 22-year old unarmed black man, was shot in the back by a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) police officer on New Year\u2019s Day. On the day of his funeral, Dalia Hashad, director of Amnesty International USA\u2019s identity-based discrimination program, released the following statement:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen an unarmed man is shot in the back after police put him face down on the ground, it is the time for authorities to demand action, not patience. Days after the incident, the officer still has not been interviewed. The delay in this critical part of the investigation hints at the callousness to the worth of human life to a public that is all too familiar with racial profiling, police brutality and cover-ups. Whatever the final investigation reveals, the bottom line is that there is never justification to shoot an unarmed person, especially one who is restrained. It is an obvious violation of the most basic human rights standards, and a clear cut abuse of power.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3gas9COCJC4&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See also : OAKLAND ERUPTS, Now We Can Document Failure!, January 8, 2008. Athens&#8230; Melbourne&#8230; San Francisco&#8230; &#8216;A Directory of Wonderful Things&#8217;. &#8220;Citizen videos&#8221; spread online showing BART police officer shooting unarmed man to death Posted by Xeni Jardin, January &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1611\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natas","category-state"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6AyE-pZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}