Mehserle Verdict: Jury Deliberating In California Train Shooting Trial

Here’s a good post from The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com

LOS ANGELES — Police in Oakland underwent crowd-control training and were put on 12-hour shifts as they awaited a verdict Friday in the shooting death of an unarmed black man by a white transit police officer who claimed he mistakenly drew his gun instead of his Taser. A jury in Los Angeles began deliberating the case against Johannes Mehserle after hearing closing arguments and instructions. Mehserle, 28, has pleaded not guilty to murder in the shooting of 22-year-old Oscar Grant after a fight drew officers to the Fruitvale train station on New Year’s Day 2009

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Mehserle Verdict: Jury Deliberating In California Train Shooting Trial

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