The utter mention of the name Oscar Grant still exposes an unhealed wound in the minds of many who witnessed his fatal and tragic demise in person and online. Now it seems like history has repeated itself–with a more sinister twist. A Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) police officer has accidentally shot and killed his […]
Oscar Grant’s uncle has rejected the apology of Johannes Mehserle, the man convicted of killing his unarmed nephew in cold blood. “He can write the letter after he spends 14 years in prison.” As previously reported, former Bay Area Rapid Transit officer Johannes Mehserle was convicted Thursday July 8 of involuntary manslaughter in the death […]
Johannes Mehserle, the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) cop convicted on Thursday of involuntary manslaughter for killing Oscar Grant, an unarmed transit rider on New Years Day 2009, has released a statement apologizing for the crime. His statement reads: I don’t know what the jury in this case is going to decide, but I hope […]
Federal prosecutors have decided to step in to investigate the shooting death of Oscar Grant by a white police officer on an Oakland transit train platform. Federal officials say that the case will be reviewed by the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice to determine whether the case warrants federal prosecution for […]
Attorneys defending the officer on trial for fatally shooting an unarmed Black man in California claim that their client had “little stun gun training” before he “accidentally” shot and killed the victim. Johannes Mehserle is still on trial for the New Year’s Day 2009 death of 22-year-old Oscar Grant at an Oakland train platform. Mehserle, […]
With the trial of former transit police officer Johannes Mehserle set to begin on June 8, potential jurors will be faced with a questionnaire that poses more than 120 questions. The questions, which were posted on the Los Angeles Superior Court website, asks whether jurors could put aside race to see the truth of the […]
The Bay Area Rapid Transit system has found itself in the midst of another incident after video surfaced showing a BART officer slamming a man into a glass barrier at a transit station, shattering the glass. Though the man was acting unruly, this latest incident of police aggression by a BART officer brings into question […]
