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[holzman]

Some days there's too much to give each its own post.

• One can argue whether the jury that convicted Johannes Mehserle for manslaughter with a gun enhancement should have convicted him of murder instead, but that's kind of moot at this point. When the judge elected to overturn the gun enhancement and sentence Mehserle to a paltry 2 years, with

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[jonathankorman]

What I find particularly baffling about the whole Mehserle / Grant misadventure is that it teaches not only that PoCs are valuless in the eyes of the law - which is evil, but at least a comprehensible lesson to send in the name of White supremacist society - but that for PoCs, there is no percentage in complying with a cop's directives. You'd think that with whatever kind of racist blinders you have, you'd see why that's a very bad message to send.