It's a terrible situation, since it appears on the surface that the BART cop over-reacted.
That still is no excuse, or a license, for idiots to start smashing in windows of stores and cars of people in their own neighborhood whom had nothing to do with the situation.
News is coming out that Oscar Grant (the 22 year old guy killed) was no angel either, even though some people are already trying to paint him as some kind of martyr:
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Grant, who had a 4-year-old daughter, lived in Hayward. He was remembered by family members at a news conference on Sunday as a loving father, a hard worker and a sports enthusiast.
Grant also had a criminal record; according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Grant served several months in state prison in 2007 and 2008. The Department of Corrections didn't disclose the offenses for which Grant was sentenced.
Records at the main Alameda County Courthouse in Oakland indicate that Grant had 12 separate cases between April 12, 2004, and May 8, 2008. But the records for all of those cases are at the Hayward Hall of Justice and weren't immediately available.
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It's terrible for anyone to be killed wrongfully, or by accident, but something tells me that if it wasn't the BART cop that OG would have possibly come to a similar fate based upon his past...
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