Mayor Dellums Responds to New Years Day Bart Shooting

Mayor Ron Dellums speaks about the death of 22 year-old Oscar Grant at a press conference at Oakland City Hall on January 7, 2009.

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[raventakayama]

@shigg for their own lives. Its as if officers are taking stereotyping to heart when handling cases in the black community. To say that this doesn't happen with any validity would mean that you, yourself live in a black community and you've NEVER witnessed it. Which I totally doubt. Profiling is a common police tactic employed in every state in the US. Minorities view profiling as an act of prejudice and rightfully so. You know as well as I do that this situation could have been better handled. 

[raventakayama]

@shiggashane1 Its clear that they are protesting violence against civilians by those of authority. Accident or not, police officers need to be held to the strictest letter of the law. The notion that police officers don't break the law in general is pure ignorance. The claims of racism comes with the black stereotype. Too often are blacks treated in accordance to the stereotype, which means that cops seemingly handle blacks or minorities with what could be described as EXTREME caution... cont

[AmxKiller]

lmao lmao lol

[SETH33dxdx]

Fuck this white devil

[AlanMolstad]

If there is anyone who should speak to the press every day it would be the DA's office.

That office should try to keep the city updated as to how things stand with this case.

People have a right to be kept up to date as this goes to trial.

[AlanMolstad]

What I see going on is that there is anger.

The cause of the anger is the shooting.

But the mayor is being swept up in the anger of the mob, and every once in a while the mob turns on the mayor and seems to think he is somehow at fault for the shooting too.

So the mayor has to make a speech just so that the mob will not try to blame him for the shooting .

But all of this anger, all of this speech making and riots and meetings and yelling things across the room is pointless.

[AlanMolstad]

See thats the thing.

I could understand people saying that the Mayor has to do "something" if there was something that the Mayor should do.

But is there?

Is there something real that the mayor has left undone?

Then I hear people saying that "Now the mayor get it"...Just because the mayor stood up and made a speech.

But I listened to that speech and it was just a pile of empty words, that people yelled, "Amen Brother!" to.

Didn't change anything.

Didnt help or harm the case.

[AlanMolstad]

("lets take your point. the police (under authority of the mayor) ")

Are they?

I have some doubt as to the BART cops being under the authority of this one Mayor....

Im not 100% sure, but I think BART is set up with it's own cops and leadership not connected or under the Mayor's office.

[AlanMolstad]

jayare,

I know nothing about BART or about what life is like in the Bay Area.

All I know is what I see going on in connection to this shooting.

So far I see in connection to this shooting, the cops doing an Excellent job!

On the other hand, I have been watching people at BART meetings stand up and make fools of themselves with their lack of common sense.

I also see many within the Bay area black leadership running around like Chicken Little.

[AlanMolstad]

("with no statement from THEIR officer who did the shooting....REALLY?????")

Yes Jay, really.

Clearly the there were enough witnesses to provide enough information so that the DA felt the case worthy of fileing charges against the cop.