It’s Messed Monday so We’re Showing You the Sources of the Stank.. lets start out with Mugs Eating Cake WHY ? 85 year old Robert Mugabe, the dictator of Zimbabwe, eats cake during his birthday celebrations in Chinoyi earlier today, where he insisted that his Presidential powers are still...

POCC + Troy Davis' Sister Speaks 2/11 + More! As protests over the brutal police murder of Oscar Grant III continue in Oakland--and as Oakland imposes a week-day youth curfew which will be directed mainly against young people of color--two events in the San Francisco Bay Area this week will shine a ...

More police violence caught on tape in Oscar Grant case Why won't the DA prosecute? Join us in demanding answers. Dear Essie, It wasn't just one cop attacking Oscar Grant on New Year's Eve. A new video shows that before Grant was killed, officer Tony Pirone punched him in the face without cause, hit...

RTFA: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/… (01-14) 00:13 PST Oakland — The BART police officer who fatally shot an unarmed man on an Oakland train platform and then refused to explain his actions to investigators was arrested Tuesday in Nevada on suspicion of murder, autho...

The Oscar Grant saga continues. The piece that follows comes from DissidentVoice.org. I know little to nothing about the source, and I’m not sure that everything that follows is factually accurate. Some of the language races further than the evidence leads. Yet I think there’s sufficient...

by Guest Contributor M. Dot, originally published at Model Minority Oakland haunts me. Last week, I started trying to convert my essays on the crack epidemic into a memoir and the above sentence came to mind. As many of you know, on early New Year’s day , the BART police killed an unarmed man,...

The Oscar Grant story again… Did Officer Mehserle mean to grab his Taser and pull his .40 caliber handgun instead? And if so, what does that mean? The Toronto Star provides this helpful graphic (below the fold). Amateur video posted on Reddit.com shows officer holding his head after a shot was...

"A hug is the perfect gift; one size fits all, and nobody minds if it is exchanged" -Unknown It's a busy day around my house today. Alan is at a class, and I am not sure what time he will be home, so I have a million things to do before he gets here. Like make the pie for dessert tonight, and get th...

The killing of Oscar Grant at the hands of a BART Transit Police Officer last week is consuming the Country. Grant appeared to be subdued when he was shot to death by BART Transit officer Johannes Mehserle. Mehserle has now resigned, but anger continues to build around the Country (and in some cases...

(Warning, explicit content: the videos below shows a man being shot to death). New video tape of the Bart subway shooting An Oakland Bart Police officer kicked off the New Year with the murder of Oscar Grant. The unarmed 22 year-old Black man was shot in the back while being restrained on the ground...