Wednesday, January 7, 2009

i thought we had come a long way?

here is the story of a young man who didn't live to see obama enter the white house. i guess progress isn't for everyone.

Oakland Police Shooting Victim to Be Buried

In Hayward, California, a funeral will be held today for twenty-two-year-old Oscar Grant, who was shot dead on New Year’s Day by a BART police officer on an Oakland train platform. Three cell phone videos of the shooting have emerged. They show an officer pulling out a gun and shooting Grant in the back while he was lying face down on the ground. Grant worked as a butcher at an Oakland grocery store and was the father of a four-year-old daughter. Investigators have yet to interview the officer involved in the shooting.

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