{"id":13972,"date":"2010-06-08T10:03:49","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T17:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=13972"},"modified":"2010-06-08T10:03:49","modified_gmt":"2010-06-08T17:03:49","slug":"activists-gear-up-for-oscar-grant-murder-trial-in-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2010\/06\/08\/activists-gear-up-for-oscar-grant-murder-trial-in-los-angeles\/","title":{"rendered":"Activists Gear Up For Oscar Grant Murder Trial in Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-060810\/2010_06_08_chimurenga.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-060810\/2010_06_08_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=45% src=\"http:\/\/profile.ak.fbcdn.net\/object2\/450\/69\/n259072433034_6684.jpg\" alt=\"oscar grant\" \/>Attorneys are set to question potential jurors in a Los Angeles courtroom today in the long-delayed fatal shooting trial of Johannes Mehserle. The white former Bay Area Transit police officer stands accused in the shooting death of a young black man named Oscar Grant. The incident, caught on multiple cell phones and other recording devices, sparked outrage and protests in Oakland and a controversial decision has since moved the trial from Alameda County to Los Angeles. In videos captured by numerous bystanders, Grant was lying down on the platform of the Fruitvale BART station when the fatal gun shot went off striking him in the back. Mehserle\u2019s defense attorney Michael Rains will attempt to argue that his client reached and pulled out his handgun accidentally instead of his Taser. Ahead of opening statements scheduled for this Thursday, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert Perry has made two pretrial rulings that favor the defense. Mehserle\u2019s attorney will be allowed to bring a video expert to testify that Grant and his friend swung at officers before the shooting. Rains will also be able to bring up the victim\u2019s prior criminal record during the trial. A protest by activists seeking justice for Oscar Grant is scheduled for Monday evening outside the Los Angeles Superior Court. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Thandisizwe Chimurenga, assistant editor of the LA Watts Times, KPFK Programmer, and an embedded journalist with the LA Coalition for Justice for Oscar Grant <\/em><\/p>\n<p>There will be a demonstration on Monday June 14th at 7 am in front of the LA Superior Court, 210 W Temple Street in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Find out more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/justice4oscargrant\">www.myspace.com\/justice4oscargrant<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/#!\/group.php?gid=259072433034&#038;ref=search\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/#!\/group.php?gid=259072433034&#038;ref=search<\/a>, by phone at 213-663-6316, and by email at <a href=\"mailto:la4og-owner@yahoogroups.com\">la4og-owner@yahoogroups.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attorneys are set to question potential jurors in a Los Angeles courtroom today in the long-delayed fatal shooting trial of Johannes Mehserle. The white former Bay Area Transit police officer stands accused in the shooting death of a young black man named Oscar Grant. The incident, caught on multiple cell phones and other recording devices, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}