What happens when a white man isn't sentanced to 4000 years for shooting a black person? A million or two in riot damage & looting.
What happnes when a black man isn't sentanced to 4 years for killing a white person? The prosecutors file for a mis-trial.
IMO any time he spends in prison will feel like a life sentance. First he's a cop. Second, he's white. Thrird, half the prison population is mostly-ignorant, racist black people.
"In 2000 there were 791,600 black men in prison and 603,032 enrolled in college", courtesy of Infoplease.
Two people, including a friend of Grant's, testified that they heard the officer say he intended to use his Taser shortly before the shooting. In at least six other instances, officers have said they made the same mistake of firing a handgun when they intended to use a Taser.
Numerous witnesses said Mehserle looked shocked after the gunshot. Defense attorney Michael L. Rains said video footage shows his client holding his head in his hands in despair.
I love it when "anti-racism" makes people blind to the facts.