People, Places & Things

Yesterday (Thursday, July 9th 2010), the guilty of lesser charges verdict was handed down to the cop, who killed Oscar Grant, an unarmed black man that was shot while laying face -down, restrained and handcuffed on an train platform in Oakland and the country cries for Lebron James. Go Figure.  

Just days after the videos of the shooting, caught on over a dozen camera phones, was plastered on Youtube as well as the mischaracterization of the riots in Oakland, I decided to take pen to pad to appease both my anger and helplessness.  Short of getting on a plane to Oakland, the only other option I felt I could assist from hundreds of miles away was to make an appeal for justice.  Here is my letter and the subsequential responses I received back.