Police Shot And Kills Unarmed Man - Oscar Grant

CNN) -- Protests erupted shortly after a young man killed by a subway police officer was laid to rest in Oakland on Wednesday night, according to local media and iReporters.


Oscar Grant, 22, was killed January 1 in a shooting at a subway station in California's Bay Area.

The Oakland Police Department made 105 arrests, including a mass arrest of about 80 people at 11 p.m., said Officer Jeff Thomason. The charges include inciting a riot, vandalism, assault on a police officer and unlawful assembly, he said.

One officer was injured, but not seriously, Thomason said.

Footage from CNN affiliate KTVU-TV showed demonstrators rampaging through the streets of Oakland, California, protesting the death of Oscar Grant, a 22-year-old father who was killed on New Year's Day in a crowded train station.

Some protesters lay on their stomachs, saying they were showing solidarity with Grant, who was shot in the back as he was face-down on the floor at a train station.

Several witnesses caught the incident on camera, and there have been numerous demonstrations this week. The protests turned violent Wednesday night after Grant's funeral and following an announcement by authorities that Officer Johannes Mehserle, who is implicated in the shooting, had turned in his resignation.

Videos from witnesses show Mehserle shoot Grant in the back as another Bay Area Rapid Transit officer kneels on Grant. A BART spokesman has said there is more to the story than what can be seen on the grainy images. Watch the events preceding the shooting »

Oakland police tried to keep protesters at bay Wednesday night as they smashed car windshields and storefront windows. KTVU footage shows one protester jumping up and down on a police car hood, while another demonstrator pushes a flaming Dumpster up against it.

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[warwhore2]

someone should shoot that cop.

[jdm9700]

@khalid93o Fuck all cops that support him and crooked cops like him! Fuck every Cracker that supports him and cops like him! Fuck all Jiggaboo, slave minded punk ass negroes that support him and cops like him!

[Arabhacks]

Fact of the matter, cops cover for cops, they call it the "Thin blue Line".

In 1947 the National Security Act was passed.

In 1961 John F. Kennedy passed an executive act that today is highly classified.

It makes the CIA unable to have police powers yet may carry firearms anywhere in the USA.

Both houses of congress and the supreme court agree with this, why?

NSA 1947, et, al.

[arrowofG0d]

@BBswoll166 Most cops are jaded ass holes. and I said "when it comes down to it" meaning when the shit hits the fan whether said cop provoked it or not their sentence won`t be nearly as severe as say mine would be. even a "good cop" would be above the law. and no I`m a college student ass hole. who`s ignorant now. and I hate politics, so I am of no party.

[BBswoll166]

@arrowofG0d do you still live with your mommy you ignorant fuck

[BBswoll166]

@arrowofG0d you need to get the stick out of your ass you fucking democrat. I made a comment that not all of us are like that. Why the fuck would you say that all of us are the same? That is like me saying all you white people are the same

[angryman1007]

I'm sure he raped a fair amount of white women in the past... no great loss

[arrowofG0d]

@BBswoll166 you`re all the same when it comes down to it. all above the law. soon as you get that badge it`s like the fuckin immunetoalllaws ferry comes down and blesses you. fuck all you pigs. you`re citizens just like us and should answer to the laws our fore fathers made for us. my mom is a nurse and she sees all the horrible shit you guys do in hospitals to the people you`re questioning or be what it may

[arrowofG0d]

@rushandprophet you`re fuckin stupid.

[hardyboy830]

Well hiss stupid pigass shulda doubled chec.. Dats likr me slappin da shyyt outta u den sayn I ddnt mean to.. Wtf

[rushandprophet]

Hey you fucking liberal idiots he shot the man by accident, the cop was thinking he had his taser. Liberals willdestroy this country and smile so for all you people who LOVE AMERICA "STOCK UP "

[aityadeen123]

god bless what's left of the american justice / freedom  and liberties