Oakland Riot Postponed Until Next Week

I guess the pops and bangs in Oakland this weekend will just be the usual shootings and some fireworks and nothing inspired by a controversial court case:

Jurors wrapped up deliberations Friday and will continue next week in the racially charged murder trial of a white former police officer in Oakland, California, accused of killing an unarmed black man.

Jurors deliberated for nearly three hours Friday afternoon without reaching a verdict in the case against Johannes Mehserle.

Mehserle, a former Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer, is accused of shooting 22- year-old Oscar Grant dead on a California train platform on January 1, 2009.

The jurors will resume their deliberations Tuesday morning; court is closed Monday due to the extended holiday weekend. Closing arguments concluded earlier in the day Friday.

Mehserle could be found not guilty, guilty of murder, or guilty of a lesser offense like manslaughter.

I can't imagine they'll get a murder conviction out of this case. I can see manslaughter, but there clearly wasn't the intent to qualify for murder. I don't expect a not guilty verdict at all, but anything less than murder will be an excuse by the usual knuckleheads to destroy and steal what they can.