"Legally responsible for his death" is too vague for me here. Are you saying you believe they shouldn't be charged with manslaughter, or just with the hate crime penalty?
And, as a resident of Oakland, I have Oscar Grant on the brain. Just because we have an institutional problem with police violence doesn't mean that his killer should be (have been) let off the hook even an inch. I feel similarly here.
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Date: 2010-10-03 05:46 am (UTC)And, as a resident of Oakland, I have Oscar Grant on the brain. Just because we have an institutional problem with police violence doesn't mean that his killer should be (have been) let off the hook even an inch. I feel similarly here.