(CNN) — A former police officer who is white was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter Thursday in the killing of an unarmed black man in Oakland, California. The verdict was announced in Los Angeles, where the trial was held, shortly after 4 pm PT (7 pm ET). Johannes Mehserle, who was a Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer at the time of the incident, was accused of shooting 22-year-old Oscar Grant on an Oakland train platform on January 1, 2009. Mehserle could have been found not guilty, guilty of murder or guilty of a lesser offense including manslaughter. The trial was moved from Alameda County to Los Angeles due to pre-trial publicity. Mehserle, wearing a gray suit, blue shirt and red tie, showed no emotion during the reading of the verdict. The former officer did not saying anything to Superior Court Judge Robert Perry or attorneys. About a dozen Los Angeles County deputies escorted the handcuffed defendant out of the courtroom after the verdict was announced. Outside the courtroom after the verdict, Grant family members expressed outrage at the verdict. “My son was murdered. He was murdered. He was murdered. My son was murdered,” said Grant’s mother, Wanda Johnson. “The system has let us down but God will never ever let us down,” she said. Johnson and other speakers said African-Americans have too long been the victims of police abuse and a biased judicial system. She said Mehserle wasn’t found accountable. “We couldn’t get even six hours of deliberations …
it was an all white jury…and they dont care about us…michael made a video about that….EVERY DAY those monkey beasts remind us that they can do whatever the hell they want to do with us..and it is not going to stop until we ALL wake up….and thats a lot of folk that have to wake up….
The top reason if not the only reason why our nation in California stayed in their place is because the National Guard runs things over there now and i think this ”RACIST” cop will really do maybe 1 year in jail at best my brother.
@Amunet369 It was NOT an all white jury. Only 7 of the jurors were white. Anyone who has watched the video of the shooting knows that it was clearly an accident. Gangbangers are far more trigger-happy and dangerous than cops. Most violent crime is black on black. A black man is FAR more likely to be killed by another black man than a white man.
Remember the Dredd Scott decision? It said that blacks were 3/4 of a human. SO is slavery really in the past? I wonder why aren’t any LAtinos marching with blacks, I thought they were our brothers. Where are the illegals?
@kizzmac ….things that make you go Hmmmmmm. Peace & RespectU
@kizzmac..brother the jury was 6 whites 4 latinos and I think 3 asians……That goes to show you where the brown& Black unity is..they are considered americans now…and in the true white tradition..no justice for blacks….is the main course of the day! I agree with talik on this one,we don’t know who this dude was…so ,we can’t just jump up and go to jail and sacrifice ourselves for someone we don’t know..besides…he was dating a latina and had a half-latino baby…
@Amunet369 Strange..he should have latinos behind him…his GF was mexican..he had a half-mexican baby….Obviously we see where getting with mexicans can get you..no where…
@Blkpryde not strange at all if you living in a world where almost EVERYONE is infected with the beasts sociopath, psychotic, pathological disease…it is what is to be expected just like the brother here is talking about…
@XxHarmonicNightsxX even if that is hypothetically correct, the fact STILL REMAINS that the beast can do what ever he wants to do with a Black Man, Black Women, AND a Black Seed….
@4LOSTSOULSONLY they not only running thangs in Cali either….
@kizzmac the illegals dont want to risk being deported…they are trying to be with the white monkey beast as well as the majority of Black folk just as this brother is stating in his vid….
@Blkpryde most reports said an all white jury, however, the latinos and asians you speak of on the jury are also infected by the white monkey beast sociopath, psychotic, pathological disease…latinos deliberately practice micengenation, and the asian have a big industry of skin bleach which they use…these people are just as sick as most Black folk are and do not either care, realize it or both….
@Amunet369 Most violent crime is black on black. You have to worry more about being killed by another black man than a white man. The jury made the right decision….the shooting was an ACCIDENT.