A Murderer in Justice’s Garb
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A response to the Oscar Grant shooting, New Years Eve 2008. Written immediately after the event.
I just watched something so utterly horrible I cant sleep. I watched a man, unarmed and subdued, be killed in cold blood. One man held him to the ground face down while another shot him in the back with a pistol. This atrocity happened in a train station, next to a train full of outraged but helpless onlookers who videotaped it. The men who commited this murder were police officers.
That’s right, “to protect and serve.” These cops did no less than perform an execution. Some people will say it was because he was black, some say it happened because it was late at night, the officers were stressed or high strung, many have said the officer mistook his firearm for his taser but regardless, a man was killed. He was not fighting, his hands were cuffed behind his back, he was pinned to the ground and not a threat. The killer simply drew his weapon and fired; the bullet went through the victim’s heart, ricocheted off the cement underneath his chest and bounced back up to punch through his heart again and settle in his lung. He died a few seconds later.
This police officer should be treated like any murderer, we should subject him to the full extent of the law. I lobby for second degree murder, though a case could be made that it was premeditated, precipitating a charge of first degree. I would pursue criminal charges against this man myself had I the money and resources. One cannot argue that murder committed in uniform is somehow less of a murder, this is why we prosecute for war crimes. This act is akin to me walking to a bus stop, standing behind an unsuspecting man, and shooting him in the back of the head. There is absolutely no threat to myself and no possibility for me to mistake my wallet or key for my pistol. The truth of the matter is the officer intentionally and maliciously took another man’s life and deserves to lose his own in return.
I can only hope that in due time justice will be done and this man will be made to pay for his actions or so help me I will pursue justice of my own.
The Killer:
Johannes Mehserle
The Victim:
Oscar Grant
Justice:
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24915243-12377,00.html
1 Comment
These acts of brutality and murder are being done every day by police officers. They are never punished in the same way as the average citizen is, for a much less crime. We are living in a Police State, and the cops are becoming the NAZI’s of our generation. How are we going to change this before it gets completely out of control ?????????. We have to make cops accountable for their actions, instead of giving them time off with pay, until the anger of citizens calms down.