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BART Cop Charged With Murder of Unarmed Oakland Man

By Jeralyn, Section Misconduct
Posted on Thu Jan 15, 2009 at 10:55:35 AM EST
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Former Oakland Transit Officer Johannes Mehserle was charged with the murder of Oscar Grant yesterday. (Background here.)

If you missed the video of the killing, you can watch it here:

A news version is here. More at Alternet and here's an Action Alert at the Nation.

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Oscar Grant III, Adolph Grimes III and the Outmoded Outrage Debate

By Ethan Brown, Section Crime Policy
Posted on Mon Jan 12, 2009 at 02:21:00 PM EST
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There's a heated--yet very unenlightening--debate happening in the blogosphere about the shooting of an unarmed black man named Oscar Grant III by transit police in Oakland, California.

At The Daily Beast, Stanley Crouch writes that "the left" isn't outraged by black on black crime but police brutality instead. Over at The Atlantic, Ta-Nehisi Coates is outraged at the outrage from those who think that blacks aren't sufficiently outraged by black on black crime. Writes Coates:

"I spent most of last year following Bill Cosby around to standing room only rallies in Detroit, Birmingham and Baltimore, talking to people who were pissed off by a variety of social maladies. Number one amongst them all -- the murder rate among black men."
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