Right, and keep in mind what they got for their trouble.
Like I said, I find it hard to blame people for not repeating the experiment.
jrlcat,
Hopefully something at least partially resembling the right thing will happen for once.
I’m not holding my breath. But we’ll see. It is likely that the street riots have put an unusual amount of pressure on the local government, so a lot will probably turn — as the prosecutions for the Rodney King beating, for example, did — on whether or not the cop gets a change of venue.
]]>OAKLAND – Johannes Mehserle, the former BART police officer who shot and killed an unarmed man early New Year’s Day, was arrested on a murder charge in Nevada today, officials confirmed.
Mehserle was being held in Douglas County, Nev., on a no-bail warrant, a law-enforcement official said.
Hopefully something at least partially resembling the right thing will happen for once. I wonder if the outcome would have been any different if he hadn’t quit his job first.
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