BART Officer Arrested On Murder Warrant

Former BART police officer Johannes Mehserle fled to Nevada “for his own safety” after he fatally shot Oscar J. Grant III at a BART transit station while the man was unarmed and already subdued by another police officer who had him down on the ground with his knee in Oscar’s back.  Though Oscar was unable to move, officer Johannes Mehserle drew his firearm from his holster, aimed it to the man’s back and shot him dead while others were able to capture amateur cell phone video clips of the incident.  Johannes has been arrested on murder charges while his lawyer feels “very confident” that Mehserle will be “off the hook” when the “full investigation is complete”.  (As covered in a story by the Los Angeles Times article here.)

Police Shoot To Death New Orleans Man

According to reporters from CNN, yet another questionable police execution-style shooting occurred on New Years Eve.  22 year-old Adolf Grimes III moved to Texas after Hurricane Katrina and had traveled to New Orleans to be with family for a New Year’s Eve celebration to usher in 2009.  A squad of plain-clothes policemen who were scouting neighborhoods for drugs and his body was found only a half block away from his grandmother’s front door laying on the sidewalk.