youtube.com - 1/15/2009
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Oscar Grant shooting. Read what happened: http://observers.france24.com/en/content/20090106-shocking-p olice-blunder-caught-phone-camera-oakland-bart-oscar-g...
hotair.com - 1/9/2009
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hotair.com —
Three clips, the first a TV news report
so you’ll have an idea of what happened and...
then two different close-ups via cell phone. [...] Read the rest »
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Video: The Oscar Grant shooting
pajamasmedia.com - 1/14/2009
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Oscar Grant
Matthew Yglesias —
Like Kevin Drum, I haven’t yet posted on the Oscar Grant case. In part that’s because this seems so open-and-shut that there’s not much to say. As you can see on live video, officer Johannes Mehserle pulls out his gun and shoots an unarmed, subdued man in the back for what looks to be no reason:
What can you say about something like that? ...
Thursday's Mini-Report
Political Animal —
THURSDAY'S MINI-REPORT.... Today's edition of quick hits: * Fortunately, there do not appear to have been any fatalities: "A US Airways plane was down in the Hudson River on Thursday after attempting to take off from LaGuardia Airport, officials said. US Airways Flight 1549, an Airbus A320, was headed to Charlotte, North Carolina, the Federal Aviation Administration said. A passenger said he was 'pretty sure' everybody on the plane got out." * A terrible mistake : "Israeli forces shelled the United Nations headquarters in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, setting fire to the compound filled with hundreds of refugees as U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon ...
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