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Vocapedia > USA > Gun violence
1 January 2009
Oscar Grant
A street-side memorial to the shooting victim Oscar Grant in Oakland, Calif., in 2010.
Photograph: Paul Sakuma Associated Press
Oscar Grant’s Killing Will Be Investigated Again, D.A. Says In 2009, a transit officer fatally shot Oscar Grant III in the back in Oakland, setting off protests over the police treatment of Black people. A district attorney said she would reopen the investigation. NYT Oct. 6, 2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/06/
Oscar Grant shooting - 1 January 2009
Black man who was killed by a Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer (...) Grant was fatally shot while lying face down on a train platform at Fruitvale Station on New Year's Day 2009.
His death was captured on cell phone video, which went viral and sparked protests in Oakland calling for officers to be brought to justice.
https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/10/06/
https://www.npr.org/2021/06/23/
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/12/
https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/10/06/
https://www.npr.org/2013/07/16/
https://www.npr.org/2013/07/12/
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2010/11/05/
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/
2010
A Los Angeles judge sentenced a former transit officer convicted of shooting an unarmed man on an Oakland train platform to two years in prison.
Two years was the minimum sentence that Johannes Mehserle, who worked for the Bay Area Rapid Transit, could have received.
NPR's Richard Gonzalez says Mehserle spoke to the court for about ten minutes before the sentencing.
He also apologized to the victim's family.
Right after the shooting, videos recorded by several witnesses showed Mehserle shooting a round into the back of Oscar Grant.
Mehserle is white and Grant is black, so the incident quickly became racially charged and led to rioting in Oakland and again when a jury found Mehserle guilty of involuntary manslaughter, but not of murder.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2010/11/05/
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