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The Crying Game: The Mehserle Trial Starts in LA

By Jonathan Simor

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The opening of the murder trial of Johannes Mehserle today in Los Angeles once again brings the issues of race, criminality, and police violence back to the foreground where they have so often been in Los Angeles, and Oakland the city where Mehserle admittedly shot Oscar Grant on the platform adjoining a BART station on January 1, 2009. Such trials, like the one nearly twenty years ago of LAPD officers for beating Rodney King, provide multiple opportunities to work and rework all the themes of America's racial nightmare. But while these trials often reinvest meaning in this emotional race narrative, they often ignore the more salient background for interpreting the behavior of both defendant and victim, that is the war on crime. Every major motion decided in the case to date has raised fundamental question of quality...continue to full post

Full post as published by Governing Through Crime on June 10, 2010 (boomark / email).

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