Well it should come as no surprise but it makes you mad. I haven't heard the full story yet but the 15 second soundbite telling me to watch the nine O'clock news says that BART, the San Francisco Bay Area transit system, is telling its side of the story regarding the shooting of an unarmed black man, Oscar Grant, by a white transit cop. "Oscar Grant" says the news anchor, "contributed" to the shooting.
So an unarmed man, flat on his stomach on a subway platform with hands behind his back and surrounded by armed transit police and shot in the back "contributed" to his own death. I guess breathing is a contributing factor in these cases.
I was closely involved in the case of Jerrold Hall who was also shot by a BART cop. He was shot in the back of the head by a shotgun blast while walking away from the cop. The cop later committed suicide. Rumor has it that he died during a sexual act called auto-asphyxiation.
I am waiting to hear their excuse for defending this cop this time.
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