It's a fucking sad day in America, when you serve more time for killing a dog than you do a Human being. R.I.P Oscar Grant:m:
Two totally different stories that don't come close to being seen as the same. The cop who shot the guy who was being arrested stated that his gun accidental discharged when the person he was arresting moved and squirmed which then hit his arm causing the gun to go off. He didn't go over to the man and just look at him and then shoot him with premeditation. While Vick was hanging dogs, forcing them to fight until death and torturing dogs knowingly and laughing all the time while he did so with his friends watching as well.
Why did the cop get any time in jail at all then? Your description of the event makes it sound like it was a complete accident, regretable for sure, but you don't go to jail for accidents. Sounds like there might be something missing from your version of the shooting. Arthur
I heard differently about the cop...supposedly, he thought he was pulling out his tazer gun, rather than his service pistol. From wiki:
Apparently the jurors found that Mehserle didn't mean to kill Grant, thus rejecting voluntary manslaughter conviction, but still found his behavior, of drawing his weapon in this situation with the victim shackled and face down on the pavement, was still so negligent that it rose to the degree of a criminal act. So while the gun might have accidentally discharged, the accident excuse is negated by the fact that the jurors felt he shouldn't have been pointing a gun at him in the first place. Arthur
Kill 30,000,000 innocent, unborn babies, and make Democrats happy. "Choice" is the Democrats' litmus test for all Supreme Court nominees.
Drawing your gun when you meant to draw your Taser is probably the kind of "mistake" that any of us civilians could make if, by some strange quirk of fate, we found ourselves in that position. We haven't taken the aptitude tests that police have to take just to be recruited in the first place; we haven't had the training they've had so they do everything by reflex instead of thinking about it; we don't strap ourselves into a uniform every morning and look in the mirror saying, "Yeah, got it right again. Taser on THIS side, gun on THAT side." For a police officer to draw his gun when he should have drawn his Taser is simply not an accident. Or if it was, he must have had a really bad hangover or something like that, which means he knew he was not fit for duty that day and should have called in sick. Any way it went down, it was the result of his own decisions and actions, not just fate on a bad day.
Too bad, that's 30 million potential people you don't get to deny health insurance to. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Sad fascist is sad.
