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Mehserle's Release

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Former BART police officer Johannes Mehserle was released from a Los Angeles jail this week after serving 11 months of a two-year sentence for shooting unarmed passenger Oscar Grant. Meanwhile, demonstrators arrested in last year’s protests of the verdict filed a lawsuit on Monday saying that Oakland police violated their rights. Do you think justice was done?

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Rachel Lederman, attorney at the National Lawyers Guild, represents the demonstrators arrested during the Mehserle verdict protest last year.

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