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From The Los Angeles Times

More than 100 protesters demanding justice for a Bay Area man shot to death by a BART police officer on New Year’s Day last year converged on a downtown Los Angeles courthouse today for the first proceedings since the racially charged case was moved here from Alameda County.

Johannes Mehserle, who resigned from the Bay Area Rapid Transit police force a week after the shooting he admits to but contends was unintentional, will stand trial for murder before Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Robert J. Perry in May, the judge said at his pretrial hearing.

Perry prolonged a gag order issued by an Alameda County judge prohibiting either side in the case from discussing it in public. He also rejected a request from Bay Area broadcasters to allow televised coverage of the trial in light of the intense public interest in the shooting death that provoked three days of rioting that damaged dozens of Oakland businesses.

Perry said his experience of high-profile trials is that allowing cameras in the courtroom “is detrimental to the search for truth and justice.” The judge said he would prohibit cellphones, texting, the use of laptop computers and all other means of recording or transmitting the proceedings when the trial begins in mid-May.
Mehserle, 28, has received death threats, as have his family and attorneys, posing a risk to the safety of witnesses who might testify on his behalf, Perry said in denying broadcast coverage of the proceedings for the benefit of Bay Area residents unable to travel to Los Angeles for the trial.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/blkmail2000/ blkmail2000

    THAT BASTARD SHOULD ROT ON THE SIDE OF THE STREET, AND THEN YOU WONDER WHY PEOPLE DON’T TRUST THE POLICE LIARS AND MURDERER THEY ARE.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/lakerdude19/ lakerdude19

    Blkmail, you’re forgetting the part where the officer admitted to shooting the victim. How is that lying?

    Oh man it feels good to be back from an ever so brief hiatus!

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/MR_NANASTROKER/ MR_NANASTROKER

    It would have been better if those marchers were armed also

    “an eye 4 an eye, A tooth 4 A tooth, A limb 4 A limb & GODDAMMIT A BODY 4 A BODY”
    -Dr. Khalid Muhammed-

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/blkman6ft6_inla/ blkman6ft6_inla

    its funny how blacks arent that upset about the 1000s of blacks killed each year by black on black crime they only seem to come out when a cop kills a blackman who they never cared about anyway its just the fact that its a cop i wonder what would happen if cops stop patroling black areas do you think crime would go away in the hood are would blacks kill up each other even more.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/deshawn121/ deshawn121

    blkman6ft6
    you are 100 % right. those same black people have no answer toward all the black on black crime in cali for YEARS, but they wait and wait til there is a cop issue and they go into action.

    its like these pro idiot blacks love to blame the police when they try to do their job but then blame the police when they want additional police when the crime gets to out of hand.
    its like that in every major city, have you noticed that sharpton and jackson have stepped a little back from those issues since the jenna 6 case.

    because many of the jenna 6 are taking pics now on the net throwing gang signs.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/lakerdude19/ lakerdude19

    Normally there would be pages and pages of cop-bashing, racially charged, nonsensical comments on an article such as this, yet so far no one seems to be jumping on board and I have a feeling that it has to do with the two inarguable comments below me.

    Well said, deshawn and blkman.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/_A_/ _A_

    Well what those two below you fail to realize is, most blacks are very concerned and troubled by the amount of black people killed by black people, but they never swore to uphold and enforce the law, and neither did they receive (publicly funded) training to do so. And certainly weren’t paid with taxpayer money either. Isn’t it natural for us to be a little more upset at the hypocrisy displayed by a people and/or system? Those brothers in the streets are lost and acting other than self. Are people suggesting that police officers are no different than the thugs and hoodlums in the streets? If they are, then I think we would all be in agreement with that.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/_A_/ _A_

    MR_nanastroker, I wish someone would carry out that old time form of justice. And if that does happen, I will use a quote I saw on a recent blog (forgive me, I usually don’t like quoting fools) “CRY ME A RIVER”

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/lakerdude19/ lakerdude19

    Hehe, I see some of us have been reduced to name calling. Guess that means I win!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/babyraga/ babyraga

    I think its more the people swooping on hypocricy and as far as the blacks in America dismissing the black on black crime. Those are the people who eximplify the exact type of conditioning set up for us when we got to these shores.Its exscused as being in our nature.

    Color is whatever, the people who protest out here touch every bow on the rainbow. The police especially the BART police show a great bias.

    Bottomline that man was wrong, the video doesn’t lie

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/slit_lcka005/ slit_lcka005

    Thank you nanastroker for offering us further proof that your parents are indeed siblings! Now if this killer cop gets off, with the video evidence available and his own admission that Oscar Grant posed no threat I see some serious issues arising, not the least of which is civil unrest, and rioting! Let’s loc this idiot cop away and have some closure!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/MR_NANASTROKER/ MR_NANASTROKER

    AMAZING

    I thought you gave up and soffocated yourself by know

    dlck_lika005 aka laker_dude aka blkman5ft4 aka deshawn121…yea, I know

    funny how faker_dud tries 2 give his alter ego’s appreciation

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/lakerdude19/ lakerdude19

    Lol Nanas you seriously think that I have 4 profiles on here?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/fitnessman05/ fitnessman05

    I live in the Bay Area and i have been reading about this since it happen,i agree with alot of comments made here about 1 person gets killed by a Cop then the black community wants to riot,Oakland had 100+ Homicides last year and been consistent for the last 20yrs wheres the riots for them,Oakland is in the top 5 Most Dangerous Cities in America,The crazy thing is the top 50 Dangerous Cities in America all have a large population of African American and Latin People that’s alot of people killed man,we seem to be our own worst enemy separated by Ideology and Morals,So when has it been Cool to kill someone,i hear it all the time in the raps songs on television on youtube theres no limits on what they would do,if people want Crime and Violents to stop they have to speak up,i know it’s not cool to Snitch but Snitching came from prison and out to the hood,i would rather live in a community free of crime,drugs,homicides than a community with it,with the technology we have now Snitching is the thing of the past send a Video Mail,Email,Text trust me i wouldn’t give up information if i knew my life was in danger,Now to the Oscar Grant incident the officer said he was reaching for his taser and shot Mr Grant in the back of his head with his gun instead,i’m not buying it man when has it been known for someone taser someone in the head it’s usually the torso or leg that gets taser never the head,there was alot of trash talking between Oscar Grant and Officer Johannes Mehserle remember this is new years day and Oscar Grant was likely out drinking returning home on BART,Oscar Grant and his friends was causing a disturbance on BART at Fruitvale Bart Station the train was stopped to remove Oscar Grant and friends off train where all this happen,Let’s get something clear Oscar Grant isn’t from Oakland he’s from Hayward 20 mile south of Oakland.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/PharaohPep/ PharaohPep

    Wow! The comments of a few posters is a direct reflect of ignorance. Blacks and Latino’s have high crime rates because we have not been added to the “social contract” of the United States Corp. Your lack of knowledge has you asking “what is a social contract?” The “social contract” is the contract between the Government and it’s citizens who are only white English speaking peoples. “Look it up”. The contract states that all citizens will have equal protection under the law. Before the “social contract” this country was known as the Wild Wild West where life was short and brutish the way it is in our communities today. Crime is allowed to fester in our communities on purpose!!!! The social contract is a contract that says we the Government will protect your home, your possesions, your person and your community from all threats inside and outside of your community. In return for your tax dollars we will provide you the protections and services of the Federal Gov’t that includes policing, education etc. We have never been granted these services. These services would put an end to the sale of any illegal substances in our community by the Federal Gov’t. Up until the 1970′s (30years ago and I am 40) cops, the military (Black males deaths in WWI&II, Korean War& Vietnam War) and the KKK where the biggest killers of Black people and the court system was there to allow them to terrorize our community. In the early 1980′s crack coccaine was delivered to the inner cities of the United States and Indian reservations as a form of chemical warfare. Lawlessness was promoted as a National Campaign by the American Governors and Mayors. It was a two prong attack to 1.make money and 2. decimate the enemy black and brown populations. This was done during an economy that saw our communities drowning in poverty and unemployment. Hardcor drugs were introduced to our soldiers during the Korean and Vietnam Wars and many of them returned home hooked and or aware of their efects. Instead of dying off as has almost every indiginous people in the face of it’s colonizers we have survived despite our situation. So to my young posters before you comment on your people get to know them. We are the strongest people on the face of the planet for we still fight against the invaders of our land. We have strategically been renamed black and African American in an effort to keep us from our indigenous rights to this land. The majority of us were not brought to this country in slave ships rather we were enslaved when they got to our shores. West Africans were the ones brought here on slave ships. From New Orleans to Main was our territories; those of us known as the Seminoles, Was**taw, Shashonee, Creek, Black foot and Cherokee Nations. See this murder you see in our streets is nothing new it’s just plain old survival when you are “Living in a State of Nature”. Look up that phrase, it’s on the books and it seperates lawless communities from stable and economical self sufficient communities. So youngsters when you see a police officer kill a member of your community it is a direct afront to yuor citizenship. It is a terrorist statement that says we can kill any of you whenever we want and there is nothing you can do about it. Think about this. How many times have there been a killing or lynching of a white person by a black officer or any officer. It won’t happend because they have equal protection under the law. Look at Katrina. The leveies were the responsibility of the core of engineers so they should have to pay for all the damages but they are not being held liable. However the oil spill by BP effected white fisherman and business owners and only now is somebody being held “liable”. Why? It’s the social contrat stupid. I hope you never come in contact with an police officer who has the right to kill you, your mother, your wife, your husband or child and have him excercise that right. At least if it’s a thug you can shoot him yourself or he will be caught and sent to prison.

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