Studying The Taser's Role In The Bart Shooting

Did the officer intend to use the taser? Why was Oscar Grant cuffed, then uncuffed before he was shot? Check out the video

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News & Politics

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• Bart
• Shooting
• Oscar
• Grant

[SandCmpbll]

I am so sick of these corporate media whores like the one in this video trying to link absurd conclusions to justify a another innocent man's murder all in order to drive the inane myth that the police can never do anything criminal. Jesus. Maybe...just maybe...he was reaching for his taser. WTF??!Corporate media fake news whores.

[minosgal21]

Right. So basically the lawyer said, who are you going to believe, the cops or your own eyes?

[ssn708]

@cookiehoarder Mehserle had a couple of hours of training, they had just been issued the tasers. It was not intentional, it was proven to be accidental. He intended to tase, not shoot, Grant.

[ssn708]

The "STILL FRAME" at 1:16, which they say shows that his taser was on his left hip is actually the taser of Dominici (you can see her legs in between Mehserle and the cop facing the camera). Dominici is a very short woman, so you do not see her head but you can see her legs. Her taser had a yellow handle, his a black rubberized one.

[donaldredmond1]

hes fucked hang him

[ssn708]

The reporter is incorrect. She states that the video shows that Grant was cuffed. The person in the handcuffs is the person to Grant's left (to our right) who was cuffed and kneeling at the time of the shooting. Grant was not handcuffed.

[ShotDouble]

@cookiehoarder That has been my point all along! Whether he meant to pull the gun out or if he meant to grab the taser...The man was face on the concert, why should any kind of weapon been pulled at this point??

Because of the extensive training, the officer should have known which weapon was which weapon...Look what it came to: A DEADY "ACCIDENT" which could have been avoided...

[walty79]

The other officers at the scene should have drawn there weapons and arrested that "cop" right then and there on charges of murder, period. He could then plead his case like any other "commoner".

[DetectiveCrockett77]

@cookiehoarder

I just read your comment, and it isn't appropriate. Though there is no EXCUSE for a cop to confuse his Taser with his gun, there still remains a logical explanation for it. It's not unprecedented--it's happened before. Muscle memory has a lot to do with it.