OAKLAND

he fact that mehserle is gonna do any kind of time for this is some kind of accomplishment. i was under the impression that historically, a guy like mehserle wouldn't have gotten any time at all.

^this.. not that it is much comfort

Spinspin: i read earlier today in an SF Chron article that it was some kind of common misnomer that he was cuffed/restrained

"After careful analysis of the video, it is clear that both Grant's hands were behind his back, a position hands are commonly placed in by police officers in order to handcuff individuals," the Oakland police filing said. It concluded that Grant had been "restrained and unarmed" when he was shot.

Whoa, Jean Quan is in the lead in the Oakland mayoral race! Ranked balloting, I KISS YOU.

I saw that race as Corrupt vs. Clueless vs. Kaplan

this fucking guy

it's cool; he "did his best"!

One man's life was needlessly taken, a second man's life and career were devastated. Nothing this court can do or say can remedy the harm that came from that tragic incident.

way to man up, bro

I saw that race as Corrupt vs. Clueless vs. Kaplan

Yeah, I voted for Kaplan too, but Perata as mayor would've been so gross.

ahhhh i see how the math works now: one black life is worth one devestated white career + a year in the can.

Cowardly_Racist

1:17 PM on November 17, 2010

If I had made such a deadly mistake, I know I'd be beside myself.
Mehserle has shown all the emotion of Barry Bonds in court.

"the court finds that no reasonable trier of fact could have concluded that Mehserle intended to fire his gun"

because it's not reasonable to think that a man who stepped back, drew his gun (while having trouble getting it out of the holster) and then fired it at an unarmed restrained man ever intended to do so? pretty sure that when you pull a trigger on a gun you are intending to fire said gun. wmlynch finds the court to be a complete fucking idiot.

no you don't understand, he thought the gun was a banana! "oops! my bad"

it's all so clear now

wouldn't be surprised if bart cops were equipped with food to patrol food-free bart.

Mehserle = 2 years

lame

― the Whiney G. Weingarten Memorial 77 Clique (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, November 5, 2010 1:42 PM (6 months ago)

He'll be out in 2 weeks:
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2011/05/31/mehserle-to-be-released-after-11-monts-in-prison/

amazing.

oh well, it's not like, if Oakland riots, anyone will be able to tell the difference.

oh well, it's not like, if Oakland riots, anyone will be able to tell the difference.

― akm, Tuesday, May 31, 2011 8:39 PM (40 minutes ago)

Dude, the previous riots were in my neighborhood. The difference was quite noticeable. It's been almost a year, and I'm still kinda pissed off.

http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/255702_2035024630723_1097417438_2415145_7975363_n.jpg

just an innocent dead black guy, no big deal

oh well, it's not like, if Oakland riots, anyone will be able to tell the difference.

fuck you?

Doesn't AKM live in our fair Oakland?

Apologies if that's the case

buying a house in Berkeley for the good school district last i recall

dead black man = http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/06/28/MN281K3NTO.DTL&tsp=1.3 million

what a deal!

The settlement with Wanda Johnson, which includes no admission of fault by BART or any of the officers she sued

he fell on the bullet iirc

OPD so corrupt and fucked up, the feds threaten to take over

Police Chief resigns...

His announcement comes a week after U.S. District Court Judge Thelton Henderson warned Oakland officials that the city has failed to meet the terms of a consent decree to reform the department in the wake the "Riders" scandal, in which several officers were charged with beating or framing drug suspects in West Oakland in 2000. As a result, the judge said the city faces court intervention that could amount to a finding of contempt or a takeover by federal receivership.

"Although the Court hopes that Defendants are able to turn this tide in the next several months without further judicial intervention, it remains prepared to take appropriate further corrective action if necessary," Henderson said in the proceeding last week.

actually Batts was pretty competent. A lot of that court-mandated stuff is bureaucratic, and has hamstrung OPD by requiring a larger number of officers to work desk jobs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bytMNoKNeRA

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-october-26-2011/parks-and-demonstration---oakland-riot

Andrew commented | 52 minutes ago

**** you, Stewart! - A's fans

http://sfist.com/2012/01/31/aquapy_lake_merritt_returns_with_ti.php

i am very possibly moving to oakland for a few months. would def appreciate any decent quotes on rent prices. i'm looking for a shared house on the cheap in a neighborhood that's at least like a 2.5/10 on the safety scale, and i'm trying to avoid any gentrificationy situations. i am pretty broke all the time. friend of a friend who lives there says he works one day a week as a waiter and has no trouble paying for rent/groceries but we don't believe him.

Check out Crimespotting for a general idea of what you're getting yourself into:

http://oakland.crimespotting.org

I think the only way you can move to a poor part of oakland without being a gentrifier is if you make sure to commit crimes once in a while

uh yeah spring for an extra $100 and move somewhere you're less likely to to be mugged. stay away from fruitvale area; I have gentrification-averse friends there too and they are leaving after people got murdered outside their house.

but even moving to fruitvale isn't being gentrification-averse, it's just being a first-wave gentrifier

just stay out of these areas:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2012/02/20/MNKS1N848N.DTL&object=%2Fc%2Fpictures%2F2012%2F02%2F19%2Fba-100blocks20_g_SFCG1329516950.jpg

there are plenty of nice educated white people who live in fruitvale - you'd hardly be first-wave.

At this point, East Oakland (the general area) has the cheapest rents. Like in SF, you could luck into a shared house/apartment in a pricier area due to rent control.

I actually find the whole proposal slightly offensive. If you're going to move into any area, you will still be you regardless. You can't control peoples' perceptions of you and your intentions for living in that place. When my wife and I left our Adams Pt apartment to own in North Oakland, a white neighbor came by not long after moving in and in the course of our conversation called us "pioneers". I took offense, thinking that made our neighbors (many of whom have roots in this neighborhood going back at least a couple of generations) something else. Saying you don't want to gentrify a place just by you being there seems like the same type of thinking, coming from the opposite side. Live where you want to live, live where you can afford to live, live where you feel safe living, but accept your own presence in your community.

Sorry if this isn't clear, and if I've got the whole notion wrong, maybe we can hash that out too.

i mean, when i said that i really just meant that i don't wanna move to a neighborhood that is clearly in the middle of it. i'm still just going to take what i can get.

def look at the crimespotting map, and the map on akm's link. Fruitvale by and large will be fine, even much of west oakland will probably suit your needs. The deep east has alot of problems, crimewise, mostly due to gang turf wars.

Fruitvale by and large will be fine, even much of west oakland will probably suit your needs.

Probably transportation (what form you will have and what form you will need) should be a major factor in deciding where to live. Also, having your bike stolen or car stolen/broken into is a rite of passage as far as Oakland residency goes.

true

i'm planning on busing there and then buying cheap bikes as often as i need to

zachlyon, i don't know where you're coming from... but if you can afford anything up to $600/month, you'll be fine. i've never paid more than 430$ in oakland. i currently pay $330, i'm very close to BART, and my neighborhood is safe enough. (i also most work odd-jobs and shit, haven't had a 'real' job in more than a year, partly by choice and partly because the economy blows).

$330 sounds great. i'm paying $467 right now and would probably require something lower. what kind of living situation is it (house, apartment, etc)?

no offense, T, but didn't some dude get gunned down right around the corner from your place, like, a couple months ago? And the little kid that got shot in the parking lot, that was right by where you live too, right?

he did say safe enough.

safe enough if you don't mind seeing dead bodies around the corner from your home!

yeah, but in his defense (or in oakland's defense?) most people would consider where i used to live (around the corner from the parkway) "safe enough," and a dude got gunned down in the grocery store parking lot a block or so away, police once cordoned off an entire street because a gunman had taken hostages in a nearby apartment building, my apartment got broken into and robbed, and the video store on the corner got held up multiple times.