Another Innocent young man
Another young man killed for absolutely no reason. If you haven’t heard a young man Oscar Grant in Oakland, California was killed (executed) on New Years Day by an officer.
Grant and some friends got into a fight on the train which obviously led the BART officer to handcuff them. What doesn’t make sense is the fact that minutes later he was shot execution style. He was handcuffed and on the platform while getting shot by this officer.
Thanks to a girl on a passing train who recorded the whole act on her cell phone, we can all see what exactly happened on YouTube and even news networks.
The excuse used by the officer and the department is that the Bart officer mistaken his gun for his tazer. Sometimes I think that the public is so dumbed down that we star to just assume right in every single person even if it is right in front of us. As much as I hate violence I am glad they are protests and riots going on in Oakland because things like that cannot go on anymore.
This isn’t based on race, this is based on rights. There was no reason to pull out the tazer from my eyes because the young man had three officers on him, what more can he possibly do?. I have heard of too many people being killed by Tazer guns this whole summer so I don’t think that’s even a save way to calm someone down. How in the world are you going to explain to his parents and his family that your son has died due to mistaken weapon identity?
In this day and age Officers have way too many rights and reasons to fire a gun and in this event there was absolutely no cause for it. Sometimes important news like this gets lost and for simple reasons like news on the other coast didnt report it and etc. I hope all of you take this problem seriously as we did Sean Bell and many more in the future. I haven’t heard a peep from any politicians on this and not even Barack, but thats another story. What do you guys think fo all this?
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Wow! I know I’m late, but never late to question this hate crime. He could not have mistaken his gun for a tazer, because both are fired differently. Omg, I can not believe that instead of being afraid of catching cancer, infection or dying from old age, now I must worry if those certified and armed to catch criminals and protect me will probably take my life instead.
Nature as is so peaceful, still and beautiful. Human beings are so unpredictable, nervous and corrupt…this too is a part of nature
How can a human being train another to respond appropiately when all we do as humans is use our senses. If we are thinking many of time we get distracted or as some put it, “I’m in deep thought!” So I ask if we trained ourselves to think, isn’t impossible to determine what is a good response or a bad one without creating a system. The police department’s standard procedures and training can not train one but infact it emphasizes confusion, deep thought and in this case death because situations are never predictable.