From Color Lines
Johannes Mehserle, the man who killed Oscar Grant when he shot the 22-year-old unarmed black man in the back while he lay face down on a BART train platform in 2009, is due back in court on June 1.
And Oakland community organizers who pressed Alameda County prosecutors to bring charges against him immediately after the killing are mobilizing again for Mehserle’s potential release from jail.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert Perry gave Mehserle the minimum sentence of two years in November, with double credit for his time already served after a jury found Mehserle guilty of involuntary manslaughter last summer.
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