Grant was shot and killed on New Year's Day 2009 on the Fruitvale BART station platform by BART police officer Johannes Mehserle, who said he mistook his gun for a Taser. Grant was unarmed at the time of the shooting. Mehserle was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and senten...
Ex-BART cop Mehserle sentenced to two years in Oscar Grant III shootingPaul T Rosynsky
groundbreaking TV cop shocked viewers in his very first episode by shooting an undercover officer in the face, killing him. The act re-emerges, along with an avalanche of other illegal activities committed over the years by Mackey's team, in the series' 90-minute finale (FX, 10 ET/PT)....
Is it warm in here or are Cringesters heatedly debating BART, Anonymous, and hacktivism? Cringely takes the temperature Sparks have been flying here in Cringeville of late. It must be all those inflammatory topics I’ve been tackling. But judging by the flames shooting out of my inbox, ...
Bobby was shooting his mouth off, saying he could beat "any woman" at tennis, and many if not most people believed him but Billie Jean King wasn't having any of it. She decided to teach him a lesson and PROVE that women can often beat a man at something so she went out and kicked...
I don't want to see him shooting hoops or taking pictures with some kid's hockey team. We don't need any Easter Egg Rolls or cutesy anything while that oil is gushing. Yes, he needs his time to relax but if he's seen clowning around with anybody during this months-long disaster,...
they didn't dress up in blackface and mock re-enact the shooting - no, not at all. They were acting like decent human beings and that was very confusing to me. Are they expecting Obama to win again? Are they expecting the GOP's war on women and war on Blacks to backfire?
Toby Hoover has worked against gun violence since the shooting death of her husband "It is beyond my comprehension how someone could have listened to my story and expressed desire to help prevent others from having to experience the agony I went through, all the time collecting money as a ...
One of Africa's oldest national parks is under attack "from all fronts," said its director Friday after 68 elephants were slaughtered over the past two months by poachers wielding chain saws and grenades and shooting them from helicopters. ...
In other words - they're used to shooting anything they don't understand. Now they're training for the same mission - with a twist - at home. Beginning Oct. 1 for 12 months, the 1st BCT will be under the day-to-day control of U.S. Army North, ...