Oh, the Oakland thing. Ok. Mehserle was in the wrong. Whether it was accident (he claimed to have meant to use a taser) or intentional, thats up for the courts. What do you expect from a BART security dude though?
Now the problem is, even though this case would have gone the way it has ANYWAY considering the large amounts of witnesses and video, the blacks in good ol' Oakland decided that it was time to rise up, destroy shit, and scream at the top of their lungs... for... nothing.
All of this was going to be handled properly by the city but, because of their constant insistence that they're being held back (not by themselves, of course, but by the white man that forces all of the youths to fuck off at school and then strive to sell drugs and rap) they decided created a cluster fuck of a protest that ended up just wasting tax dollars (that may have gone to helping them (welfare checks, city beautification, and other various city services) into repairing shit that they fucked up and paying the overtime salaries of the cops whom time was wasted.
Good going, Oakland.