Oakland residents react to the fatal police shooting of Oscar Grant

On New Year's Day, 2009, Oakland BART police fatally shot Oscar Grant, an unarmed Black 22-year-old man. A week later, Oakland residents express their dissatisfaction, both at the failure of the BART police authority to reprimand the officer in any way, and at the media's one-sided coverage of the following protests. As posted to http://www.racewire.org
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[mikecorbeil]

Good video.

[tdb94tim]

Some of these comments r a joke, the real problem is ignorance!! What would i say if the cop and the kid were both black?? Gimme a break!! No one cries out then

[SledgeHammer15]

Are you people fucking serious? You seriously believe that he meant to pull out his gun and throw away his entire career and whole life, and shoot someone in front of hundreds of people just because he was black?

[xTC1x]

You would think i wouldn't be but im still amazed at the amount of bigot on youtube lmao

[JReddSTL]

@sexysanny69 so how many mistakes can people take

[hyphiegirl12]

@SCONIERS2007 Most officer out here is blond hair blue eyes no lie coming from livemore and Napa

[keithdcobbin1]

@slazzer145

Thank you my brother peace to all my black people that will be here in this sick country! called! America!

Keith

[slazzer145]

@keithdcobbin1 good luck brother..

[keithdcobbin1]

This will all ways happen to you if your black in America, the only part of europe I would move to is Scandinave I'm talking about Copenhagen Denmark Stockholm Sweden Oslo Norway and Helsinki Finland. That's the only part of Europe I would move to outside of Ghana peace!

Brother Cobbin

[keithdcobbin1]

@slazzer145

You are so right my brother the best place to stay is over in Africa because it's much, much more safe, next year 2011! I'm moving over to Ghana to stay I'm not coming back to this sick country called America! I'm 42 years old a black man never been married and no kids I'll wait til I get over to Ghana! peace!

Keith