BART shooting (of Oscar Grant) 'an intentional act'?

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Source: San Francisco Chronicle

(04-29) 18:15 PDT OAKLAND -- A few hours after former BART police Officer Johannes Mehserle fatally shot unarmed train rider Oscar Grant on Jan. 1, 2009, he signed a form that contradicted his later assertions that he mistook his pistol for his Taser, prosecutors said.

Mehserle's attorney at the time, David Mastagni, objected to the words "post-accident" on a form accompanying breath testing intended to detect any presence of alcohol, prosecutors said. They said Mastagni had told BART police officials, "This was not an accident. It was an intentional act."

A technician amended the form, writing in the words "discharge of firearm," and Mehserle signed it.

Alameda County prosecutor David Stein made the assertion in a legal motion that was made public this week. The form is an "implied admission" that the shooting was intentional, Stein wrote. Jurors, he said, are "entitled to conclude that defendant's subsequent claim of accident is a fabrication."

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Now comes the smoking gun (or sizzling Taser depending on how you see it)...Mr. Mehserle blatantly distanced himself from his claim that he accidentally used his pistol in lieu of his Taser.

[Yeahyeah]

1. Cops that murder usually only murder people when they're sure they can get away with it.

This murderer just had poor impulse control.