A well-placed source reported to me that BART Shooting victim Oscar Grant was found to have Crack Cocaine in his body, and planted through his buttocks. My source also accuses KTVU TV (Oakland, CA) News of delaying video release.
My source is a long-time law enforcement official who has seen cases like this more often than not -- but this case given the video evidence, is different. My source originally tipped me off to the extense of a third KTVU video of the Oscar Grant shooting by BART Police Officer Johannes Mesherle. He said that the video showed that another BART officer was clearly on Grant and beating him. The source said that KTVU was withholding the video because they did not want to start a race-riot.
The second tip regards the Crack Cocaine matter. He claims that the autopsy, which is to be completed by March according, shows that the drugs were stuffed in his body via his buttocks. My source holds that this is why -- he contends -- Grant's behavior was agressive.
He continues "Initially, Grant approached a female police officer agressively but was blocked by a male officer." My source also says that Grant did not have a gun on him, but that the person in the fight on the train actually got off at West Oakland station and was never found.
According to my source, this is what happened:
A fight on a Dublin-bound BART line train started at Embarcadero Station, and continued through the BART tube. When the train reached West Oakland station, the person who had the gun got out of the train, which then went to Lake Merritt station, but was not stopped by police. Then it went to Fruitvale Station, where it was stopped. Grant was pulled from the train with a number of other suspects who were in that car and said to have been involved in the fight.
KTVU Controls Video Evidence
My source has stated that KTVU has been "controlling video evidence" and using it to generate ratings. His assertion is backed by video evidence where KTVU news reporters claim that the video are "only on Channel Two" and in the case I show, demonstrates that KTVU made decisions to show videos because they would effect the case itself.
Source Believes Mesherle Will Walk
Finally, my source believes that a trial will not result in a conviction of (former) Officer Mesherle, even with the video evidence. His reasons are how the case is being set up as a murder conviction, when it was clear to my source that it was not intentional or premeditated and what he's hearing from other colleagues both in the "Law" and the "Order" side of this matter in Alameda County.
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