Former BART Cop Johannes Mehserle to be Sentenced for Oscar Grant Killing - uprisingradio.org

Former BART Cop Johannes Mehserle to be Sentenced for Oscar Grant Killing - uprisingradio.org: "four months ago, Johannes Mehserle, the former BART police officer who killed an unarmed black man named Oscar Grant, was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter. It was the first time in state history that a law enforcement officer has been charged with murder in the line of duty. The defense’s argument relied on Mehserle’s claim that he intended to reach for his taser but accidentally shot his gun, even though in the immediate aftermath of the killing, Mehserle justified his actions to his fellow officers saying he thought Grant was armed."