Attorney John Burris said outside a Los Angeles court Thursday that the verdict "is not a true representation of what happened" to Oscar Grant.
The panel convicted Johannes Mehserle of involuntary manslaughter in the shooting death of Grant on an Oakland train platform on New Year's Day 2009.
Burris said Mehserle should have been convicted of murder. He said it was like Mehserle "ran a light instead of killing someone."
Involuntary manslaughter carries a sentence of two to four years.
Mehserle pleaded not guilty to the charges he was facing and stated that during the incident he was trying to pull out his taser gun, not his gun. In the end he killed Grant in the early hours of January 1 2009. Grant, who was unarmed, died the next day at a local hospital.
The crime was filmed via cell phones, as you can see in the video below, which brought the murder even closer to Oakland residents who were disgusted by the actions of the BART officer. Many are in dismay of the verdict of Oscar Grant's Case.
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