Two videos showing a Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer fatally shooting an unarmed, cooperating 22-year-old man have surfaced, thanks to a vigilant teen and an anonymous cameraman.
According to officials, five officers arrived at a subway station around 2 a.m. in response to reports of fighting on a train. Officers handcuffed a group of suspects, and detained the soon-to-be victim, Oscar Grant III.
What the hell is wrong with the cops nowadays? How about "the police is your friend"?
A person close to the investigation told the San Francisco Chronicle that BART officials are looking into the possibility that the officer thought he was firing a Taser and pulled out his gun by mistake.
Okay, if it was a mistake, what kind of moron would make this mistake? And doesn't this also say something about the dangers of these Tasers? Not only directly (people were killed already by this), but also indirectly (supposedly being too similar to a real gun?)
And anyway.. why would you need to either tase or shoot a person that is lying on the ground completely immobilized? By looking at the movie I can only say that those cops were all fat pigs (even the female one) who should lose some weight and grow a brain. Better yet, just shoot them "by accident".
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It's another new year. Happy 2009 to all my Posterous friends and other readers.
Today is also the last day of the (too short) holiday period. Let's try to make the best of the first monday in the new year. Shaking hands, wishing happy newyear.. sigh. I'm looking forward to the Macworld Expo which starts tomorrow. The keynote (by Phil Schiller, not Jobs, as you already know) will be tuesday 19.00 CET. Predictions abound. Mostly a new iMac (new CPUs, same look) and possibly a Mac Mini refresh (about time). And an iPhone nano/mini is rumored to be announced to.. available Q2 or Q3 2009. I'm sceptical.
It's time to upgrade my old-ish iMac Core Duo to a new version, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed for new iMacs.
Software wise, iLife and iWork need an update as well. I haven't bought iWork08 (I do have 07 though), and am hoping for a new version of either package. Will 2009 be a bad year because of the recession going own even further? Will the Obama administration change anything? Or was it all fluff? We'll see, I guess. It'll be an interesting year... 2009.
Today is also the last day of the (too short) holiday period. Let's try to make the best of the first monday in the new year. Shaking hands, wishing happy newyear.. sigh. I'm looking forward to the Macworld Expo which starts tomorrow. The keynote (by Phil Schiller, not Jobs, as you already know) will be tuesday 19.00 CET. Predictions abound. Mostly a new iMac (new CPUs, same look) and possibly a Mac Mini refresh (about time). And an iPhone nano/mini is rumored to be announced to.. available Q2 or Q3 2009. I'm sceptical.
It's time to upgrade my old-ish iMac Core Duo to a new version, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed for new iMacs.
Software wise, iLife and iWork need an update as well. I haven't bought iWork08 (I do have 07 though), and am hoping for a new version of either package. Will 2009 be a bad year because of the recession going own even further? Will the Obama administration change anything? Or was it all fluff? We'll see, I guess. It'll be an interesting year... 2009.
Hilarious!
Source: Dvorak Uncensored