text: TNT - TRUTH ... not TASERS: Officer in BART shooting quits force, avoids internal affairs quizzing
  This is a tragic story. Officials are investigating the possibility that the involved police officer may have intended to use his newly-acquired taser, but instead ended up grabbing his revolver and shooting a young, unarmed and already restrained man, Oscar Grant, to death. Today, as Oscar Grant's family gathered together for his funeral, the officer sent a resignation letter instead of showing up to answer investigators' questions. According to the following report, "Mehserle's resignation means he does not have to talk to BART investigators."
  Demian Bulwa, Henry K. Lee, San Francisco Chronicle
  "I'm not surprised," Burris said of Mehserle's departure. "It should have happened long ago."
  Anger over Grant's death was evident this afternoon at Fruitvale Station, where about 200 protesters gathered just after 3 p.m. outside the entrance to the station. The demonstrators were not obstructing passengers.
  BART, Mehserle and the officer's lawyer have all been silent about why Mehserle opened fire, but BART has said one possibility it is investigating is that Mehserle mistook his revolver for a Taser stun gun.
  Grant's death has attracted attention well beyond the Bay Area. An official of the human rights group Amnesty International USA, Dalia Hashad, said today before Mehserle resigned that BART's delay in interviewing the officer "hints at the callousness to the worth of human life to a public that is all too familiar with racial profiling, police brutality and cover-ups."