A Law Firm That Bart Hired Says Much Went Wrong Before & After Oscar Grant's Murder!

Remember the murder of an innocent black man named Oscar Grant on New Year's Eve? It took place during a melee at the Fruitvale Bart Station in Oakland,CA.The person who killed Oscar Grant was a Bart police officer & most people were outraged when they found out the circumstances of his death.It simply did not have to happen!

For the naysayers out there who immediately took the cop's side in this unwarranted tragedy,a law firm that Bart officials hired to look into what went wrong has issued a report stating that the cops bungled the whole incident.It is not even clear whether or not Oscar Grant was ever involved in the fight that the police were responding to.The cold truth is that this bright young man's life was snuffed out for no reason.

Here's more from The Mercury News:

"The BART-commissioned report that found grave errors in how the agency's Police Department reacted before and after Oscar Grant III was killed will have little to no impact on the murder case against former Officer Johannes Mehserle, legal experts and his attorney said.

The report, released Tuesday, details numerous mistakes made by officers and department brass before and after Mehserle shot Grant in the back while the Hayward resident lay facedown Jan. 1 on the platform of BART's Fruitvale station in Oakland.

The report's findings mirror arguments made by Mehserle's attorney, Michael Rains, during a preliminary hearing at which Rains argued his client made a mistake shooting his gun at Grant instead of his Taser.

Rains has attempted to prove that BART officers responding to a call about a fight on a train were overwhelmed by rowdy passengers and that the officers had not been properly trained in the use of Tasers.

David Sklansky, a UC Berkeley law professor, said the report could help Mehserle with his central argument that he was, in part, a victim of organizational mismanagement and made a mistake during a chaotic situation.

"On the one hand, it makes what happened look even more horrible," Sklansky said. "On the other hand, it strengthens the argument by the officer that it was not entirely his fault."

Sklansky said the report could bolster testimony from defense experts who will be brought to the trial to describe the lack of training BART officers receive in using Tasers and dealing with large crowds. The report's findings, however, cannot be used as evidence in Mehserle's murder case, legal experts and Rains said.

The criminal justice system prohibits such reports from being introduced during criminal trials in an effort to encourage the corrections of mistakes that lead to tragic outcomes, said Michael Cardoza, a criminal attorney who has followed the Mehserle case. If such reports were allowed as evidence, Cardoza said, many agencies never would conduct investigations for fear the outcomes later could be used against them during criminal trials."(END OF EXCERPT)Read the rest here.

A South African Track Star Took A Gender Test To Prove That She Was A Female!

Caster Semenya is the South African track star that clocked the fastest women's 800m time in the world this year at the Africa Junior Championships.She easily obtained a gold medal at the World Athletics Championships in Berlin.But,Caster Semenya's great accomplishments have been eclipsed by a debate over her true gender.Is she really a woman or a man? Some believe that it's a case of gender variance.I think that it is just an extreme case of jealousy.
Here's more on that from The Daily Mail UK :

"Controversial runner Caster Semenya's mother has hit out at claims that her daughter's 800m at the World Athletics Championships was invalid - because she is actually a man.

Caster Semenya, 18, stunned a crowd of thousands in Berlin last night by storming to success in the 800 metres final in which Britain's Jennifer Meadows won a bronze.

It was the South African's first major international sporting competition. She won in one minute and 55.45 seconds - beating defending champion Janeth Jepkosgei, a Kenyan, by a massive 2.45 seconds.

But the athlete's triumph has been overshadowed by growing accusations that she is in fact a man.

Yesterday the world athletics body, the IAAF, confirmed it asked South Africa to test their star 18-year-old's gender three weeks ago.

The complex series of tests were prompted after her muscular physique and extraordinary performances sparked speculation over whether she really was female.

If the tests prove she is in fact male, she will lose her medal.

But her mother Dorcus Semenya today defended her athlete daughter.

'I am not even worried about that because I know who and what my child is,' she said defiantly.

'Mokgadi Caster is a girl and no one can change that.'


Read more here.

Octomom Asks Herself A Question That The World Has Pondered!

Nadya Suleman asked herself this question tonight during a televison interview:

"What was I thinking?"

That is the question that has been asked repetitively since Nadya Suleman was pegged with the moniker "octomom." What the hell was she thinking?!! Well,at least she is finally owning up to the fact that she sure as hell wasn't thinking about tomorrow when she had 8 kids.

Here's more from The Telegraph:

""I screwed myself, I screwed up my life, I screwed up my kids' lives...What was I thinking?" Miss Suleman said in an interview in "Octomom: The Incredible Unseen Footage", which will be aired on the Fox network on Wednesday.

Miss Suleman, who gave birth to the octuplets in a Los Angeles hospital in January, is shown in the documentary sitting on her bed, surrounded by the eight screaming babies, as she attempts to feed them.

A British production company has also filmed a fly-on-the-wall documentary that could earn $250,000 (£150,000) for her children over the next three years and the same amount for her, prompting allegations that she is cashing in on her offspring.

The divorced 33-year-old Californian's life was turned upside-down when she gave birth to the world's longest-surviving octuplets. She already had six other children, aged two to seven.

Miss Suleman was also revealed to be an unemployed single mother, living on food stamps, who conceived all her 14 children through in vitro fertilisation."(END OF EXCERPT)Read the rest here.