All We Can Do Is Remember Oscar Grant (PHOTOS)

Monday June 13th started out as a good day for me. I was back in Phoenix after spending the weekend in California visiting family. The sun was shining. LeBron James had failed in his latest attempt to win a championship and I was all over that story. And then Chuck D decided to follow me on Twitter. Yes, THAT Chuck D. I was riding high. If I played basketball I would have messed around and got a triple double.

Then I received the news that Johannes Mehserle was released from L.A. County Jail. And all of a sudden my day came crashing down.

For those of you who don’t know, Mehserle is the former BART officer who murdered Oscar Grant on New Year’s Day 2009 in Oakland, California. I say murder because that’s exactly what it was. Cold blooded murder. There was absolutely no reason for it to happen.

Mehserle was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and served 11 months of a two year sentence for killing Oscar Grant.

Just for comparison, Mike Vick served 23 months for being associated with people who were involved with dog fighting. Plaxico Burress served 20 months for shooting himself. They both served nearly twice as long as the man who killed Oscar Grant in cold blood.