Johannes Mehserle Jury Reaches Verdict, Announcement Pending

• This shooting was a mistake, plain and simple. Any rational person would understand that the witness testimony, expert witnesses, video evidence, Mehserle�s reaction to the shooting, Grant�s friends testimony shortly after the shooting, etc. all point to involuntary manslaughter. The prosecution won a victory by being able to put the involuntary manslaughter charge on the table. The reason a lot of Bay Area folks are outraged by the verdict is because they live in a very ignorant and race obsessed bubble. Most rational Americans would think of this as a fair sentence. I feel horrible for the Grant family and the fact that a man lost his life. But there is a victimization, anti-white, anti-cop mentality in a lot of Black (and liberal)communities in this country, that really has no rational basis behind it, especially in 2010. Some people (most notably white and black liberals) assume that because Mehserle is a white cop he is by default a racist and prone to police brutality. Therefore to them it is murder before the facts even come out. What if someone said because Grant is black he was obviously prone to criminal behavior and therefore the shooting was justified? The arguments are both racist and unjustified in principle, but only one would be looked at with outrage (the latter), while the former is a common and widespread view held by the majority of blacks and liberals in this country. Again, I am not excusing Mesherle�es actions. He should have been convicted of involuntary manslaughter. He made a horrible stake that he is going to have to live with for the rest of his life, and the Grant family lost a loved one. But to make this case about murder, race, or police brutality is to be so race obsessed and neive to the facts and proceedings of the criminal justice system, you have already lost the argument with most level headed people. The problem is what I am saying is not politically correct, so it is seldom spoken in this county. I truly hope one day the concept of race is abolished. It is a primitave and crude form of collectivism. And as we see in horrible accidents such as the Mehserle case, there are those who use race as a weapon and as a means to divide, judge, and threaten, rather than look as people as individuals and judge this case on the facts alone.

• I really hope it's Meryl Streep. Sandra Bullock is totally overrated.

• Here we go....

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