It's an independent autopsy and only a partial forensic picture but still, pretty fucking terrible. This just kind of gets worse with every passing day - I think it's pretty clear at this point why the cops are doing what they're doing, there's literally nothing that will make them look better. Doubling down is their only play.

What a clusterfuck. The question is whether it sucks more from a racism standpoint, a militarization of the police standpoint, a government coverup standpoint or a bureaucratic ineptitude standpoint. So many things have to go so very wrong to end up where we are.

I haven't shared this, I don't think - not on here anyway. I did a ride-along with the LAPD a day or two after Fruitvale. At the time, the going theory was that Mehserle shot Oscar Grant by accident having intended to only tase him. I asked my driver what he thought of that theory.

"No," he said. "No way." He went on to describe how the taser is always on one hip and the service weapon the other, how they're weighted completely differently, how you practice shooting with one hand and tasing with the other, how your body acts completely differently...

"Still," he said. "Everybody has a bad day."

And there it was. Here's a job where you carry a taser, a pistol and a baton. Your car has an M4 assault rifle and an assault shotgun. You're wearing body armor and operating with close air support - I mean, GI Joe didn't have toys like this. And on the one hand, killing a kid is the same level of muscular fuckup as glitching a move on Dance Dance Revolution. And on the other hand, glitching a move on Dance Dance Revolution feels similar to killing a kid.

I was just setting up to run interference for youngluck back then. Mehserle went in eight months after Youngluck did. He came out four months before. Youngluck muled 5 kilos of coke for an informant in a DEA reverse sting. Mehserle shot a black kid in the back.

It's gotta stop. Or at least get better. Jesus. Six times.