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Protests and talk of federal follow-up after two-year state sentence give to BART officer for homicide

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in this local article, which is headlined "Scores arrested in Oakland protests over BART officer Mehserle," the relatively short sentence given to an officer convicted in a high-profile homicide case in California has once again stirred up community consternation: As many as 150 demonstrators were arrested in Oakland during protests over the two-year prison sentence handed down to a former police officer who fatally shot an unarmed man on an Oakland train station platform.... Police in riot gear allowed several hundred marchers to move through the streets for about an hour before encircling a smaller number of people near 6th Avenue and East 17th Street.  Demonstrators left a trail of broken windshields as they moved down 17th Street, angering some residents...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on November 07, 2010 (boomark / email).