On New Year’s Day last year, Oscar Grant was killed on a BART platform by BART cop Johannes Mehserle. Almost two years later, Mehserle received a two-year sentence. The sympathetic sentencing displays a double standard that the justice department affords cops and deeply ingrained racism within the justice process.

A peaceful protest was replaced by a chaotic crowd of looters around eight o’clock this evening in downtown Oakland, where a group of 1,000 people converged at the corner of 14th and Broadway to voice their displeasure over the BART murder verdict.

A peaceful protest was replaced by a chaotic crowd of looters around eight o’clock this evening in downtown Oakland, where a group of 1,000 people converged at the corner of 14th and Broadway to voice their displeasure over the BART murder verdict.