Please spread the word - we need numbers tomorrow to show our outrage and demand accountability! Show people the horrific video of his execution here - they need to see what happened and be enraged!


Read this article that tells you how fucked up it all is even more!!!!

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/01/05/MN0R153LGU.DTL

BART rider belly-down when shot, lawyer says
Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer

(01-03) 15:34 PST -- The 22-year-old man killed by a BART police officer early New Year's Day was lying face-down on the train platform, his hands behind him waiting to be cuffed, when he was shot in the back, a lawyer newly hired by the man's family said Saturday.

Attorney John Burris said in an interview that a number of witnesses to the shooting at the Fruitvale Station in Oakland have told him Oscar Grant was posing no threat to the officer or anyone else when he was fatally wounded. The shooting occurred around 2:15 a.m. after police responded to a report of a fight on a train bound for Dublin/Pleasanton.

"If it happened the way the (witnesses) said it happened, he's on his stomach, his hands pulled up behind his back, he's compliant, the officer is standing over him and all of a sudden he shoots," Burris said. "The bullet went through his lower back, hit the ground and ricocheted through the upper part of his body."

The witnesses told him police handcuffed Grant after he was shot, but removed the cuffs just before news reporters arrived, Burris said. No weapons were found on Grant or anyone else involved in the altercation on the train.

Grant, of Hayward, died at Highland Hospital in Oakland several hours later. BART officials say the officer who shot him, a BART police officer for almost two years, has been placed on administrative leave during an investigation. He has not been publicly identified.

...Burris said BART police stopped the fight and took Grant and several others into custody. Officers were armed with stun guns as well as pistols, Burris said, and a witness said Grant cried out, as he lay on the platform, "Please don't Tase me, I have a 4-year-old daughter."

WE DEMAND:

1) All officers involved be taken off duty without pay, and fully prosecuted;
2) That the U.S. Justice Department investigate the incident as a violation of civil rights;
3) That BART establish an independent citizens’ review board for its officers; and
4) That the BART police officers be disarmed!