Cop shoots & Kill unarmed Man(Oscar Grant)

Video: Calif. cop shoots apparently helpless man in the back
David Edwards and Muriel Kane
Published: Monday January 5, 2009




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Two videos showing a Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer fatally shooting an unarmed, cooperating 22-year-old man have surfaced, thanks to a vigilant teen and an anonymous cameraman.

According to officials, five officers arrived at a subway station around 2 a.m. in response to reports of fighting on a train. Officers handcuffed a group of suspects, and detained the soon-to-be victim, Oscar Grant III.

In both videos, though detained, Grant had clearly not been cuffed.

Mario Pangelina Jr., aunt to Grant's four-year-old daughter, witnessed the events leading up to the shooting.

"First, an officer grabbed Oscar by the neck and pushed him against the wall," the Oakland Tribune quoted her as saying. "Oscar didn't fight him, but he didn't go down either. He was like, 'What did I do?' Then another officer came up with his Taser and held it right in his face. Oscar said, 'Please don't shoot me, please don't Taser me, I have a daughter,' over and over again, real fast, and he sat down."

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[AlexXFresh]

There is never a need for deadly force in concern with an unarmed individual.

[thomas woods]

This video pissed me off. I couldn't tell what the fuck was going on.

[Yamazon3]

Well it's difficult to understand you because of your atrocious grammar. It sure sounds like you're at the very least trying to infer that I'm excusing white crime or bigotry, but w/e, I'll let you have that if it makes you happy.

Anyway, on a change of topic, can you read? If yes, then have you ever read about the Minnesota Transracial Adoption Study?

[raidernationnfl]

Look at ur page u ugly hoe u look like a tranny

[Natadze]

The dude's a cop. Either that or a blindly zealous supporter of fucking tyranny and oppression. Look at his page- seems to be a fan of innocent people getting shot

[frankvonfrauner]

Stupid, scared cops that couldn't understand why someone would not be able to stay still with a knee digging their face into the ground.

[frankvonfrauner]

Yes there is. You can kill someone with your barehands. If a cop is alone, and he is being overpowered in a physical confrontation, he has every right to draw a weapon.

[Yamazon3]

I never said that whites being racist is excusable, you seem to be putting words in my mouth. The only point that I have made is that per capita, black people are more racist. The math doesn't lie. Please cite the point in my speech where I said that racism from whites is excusable.

Take my words as they are, not as what you want them to be.

[Scoring57]

You complain of isolated and long ago crimes, while the hate crimes your race commits against black people are quite recent, far more numerous and horrific.

[Scoring57]

You've already said your statistical crap 3 times. I told you it's bullshit so stop repeating it. Because you dont know shit about real life, all you can do is look on the internet for isolated incidents of information of black people being hateful. Just so you can say blacks can be racist too and excuse the mistreatment delt by whites to blacks.

Any hate crimes black people have commited towards whites, whites have done a 100 fold to black people.

[Yamazon3]

lol, but then why are black people more than twice as likely to commit a hate crime. Why do black people commit significantly higher percentage of hate crimes per capita?

On May 1st in Cleveland Ohio black people have a special day called "Beat up a white kid day" where black people specifically target white people because of the color of their. They beat a 13 year old white girl up so bad that she had brain damage. That kind of racism just makes me sick.