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After Mehserle's Sentence: What is the Value of Black Life?
What is the value of a black man’s life? To Judge Robert Perry, the answer is two years. That’s the amount of jail time that Judge Perry sentenced former BART cop Johannes Mehserle for the murder of Oscar Grant. Granted double credit for time served, Mehserle will end up serving…
After Mehserle’s Sentence: What is the Value of Black Life?
What is the value of a black man’s life? To Judge Robert Perry, the answer is two years. That’s the amount of jail time that Judge Perry sentenced former BART cop Johannes Mehserle for the murder of Oscar Grant. Granted double credit for time served, Mehserle will end up serving…