How Cheap Is Black Life?

OAKLAND, Calif. — About 300 protesters gathered in downtown Oakland on Sunday to show their anger over a former San Francisco Bay Area transit police officer’s pending release from jail after serving 11 months of a two-year sentence for killing an unarmed passenger.

Under a heavy police presence, the protesters held a peaceful demonstration near City Hall as they vented their continued frustration before Johannes Mehserle’s scheduled release Monday from a Los Angeles County jail. He was ordered to serve time there after his high-profile trial was moved to Southern California last year.
“The people know it was wrong,” Jabari Shaw, 32, a protester who also attended Mehserle’s trial, said Sunday. “As much as we want justice, we’re still not getting it.”
Mehserle, 29, was convicted last July of involuntary manslaughter in the shooting death of Grant, 22, on a Bay Area Rapid Transit train station platform on New Year’s Day 2009.
The shooting of Oscar Grant, who was black, continues in Oakland to spark debate, racial tension and occasional protests that have turned violent. Last fall, more than 150 people were arrested in Oakland hours after Mehserle’s sentencing.
On Sunday, the protesters first gathered at that Oakland train station where Grant was killed chanting, “We are all Oscar Grant!” Some protesters carried a mock casket symbolizing Grant’s death as they marched downtown.

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Pick an angle, from any angle dude was on the floor with his hands behind his back.
I don't know how you confuse a taser with a gun.  I didn't even much see the need for a taser.  Either way that was his story, and I wasn't buying it.  I remember at the time people defending the shooter saying "he was resisting." Umm, I guess so. 

At the time I was upset when the shooter was convicted of manslaughter but wasn't given the maximum sentence possible.  For him to be released early on "good behavior" is another slap in the face.  When I think about what happened in the Amadu Diallo case and the Sean Bell case,  I suppose that he was even convicted is a victory.