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*The Weinstein Company has acquired distribution rights for the Forest Whitaker-produced “Fruitvale,” which follows the true story of 22-year-old Bay Area resident Oscar Grant who was unarmed when he was shot dead by police officers at the Fruitvale BART station. The feature directorial debut of Ryan Coogler, who also wrote the screenplay, premiered to wide [...]
*“90210” star Tristan Wilds and Melonie Diaz have joined the cast off “Fruitvale,” the indie drama about the true-life police shooting of Oscar Grant by the Bay Area Rapid Transit police. Grant, a young black man, was detained on New Year’s Day 2009 at the Fruitvale BART station when he was shot in the back [...]
*Oscar winner Octavia Spencer and “Friday Night Lights” vet Michael B. Jordan are in negotiations to star in “Fruitvale,” a timely indie drama based on the young black man who was shot in the back and killed by Bay Area Transit Authority police on New Year’s Day 2009. Produced by Forest Whitaker and his Significant [...]
*I called a friend the other day to wish him a Happy Birthday when we got on the subject of the same issue that has millions of people talking and protesting in the streets: Why has George Zimmerman not been locked up for killing Trayvon Martin? Zimmerman is the neighborhood watch wannabe cop who shot [...]
Ex-NFL standout Plaxico Burress spent almost twenty (20) months behind bars for carrying a handgun without a permit. It was his first criminal offense, he accidently shot himself and nobody else was harmed. Still he was sentenced to two years in prison and served all but three months of his jail time before being released [...]
*In Oakland (CA), over 150 people were arrested when protests over the sentencing of a former police officer for the shooting death of an unarmed black man turned confrontational. The rally, which came after a Los Angeles judge sentenced Johannes Mehserle to two years in prison for involuntary manslaughter, ended with police taking unruly demonstrators [...]
*A judge sentenced former BART police Officer Johannes Mehserle today to the minimum term of two years in state prison for fatally shooting unarmed train rider Oscar Grant during a video-recorded arrest in Oakland on Jan. 1, 2009. A jury in Los Angeles County, where the trial was moved, found Mehserle guilty of involuntary manslaughter [...]
*Tavis Smiley’s nationally-syndicated The Tavis Smiley Show from Public Radio International (PRI) obtained an exclusive interview with newly appointed Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) police chief Kenton Rainey since former officer Johannes Mehserle was convicted of involuntary manslaughter July 8. Chief Rainey’s appearance was preceded by Smiley’s conversation with John Burris, attorney for the [...]
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has – Margaret Mead *Oscar Grant is dead. Johannes Mehserle killed him. Oscar’s family will never be the same. How could they? The City of Oakland won’t be the same either. How can it? [...]
*On Thursday a jury in Los Angeles convicted a former San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) police officer of involuntary manslaughter in the shooting death of an unarmed man on an Oakland train platform. [Scroll down for reaction from Oscar Grant's mother after the verdict.] Johannes Mehserle was found guilty in the New Year’s [...]
*The instant defense attorneys got an Oakland judge to move the trial of former BART officer Johannes Mehserle charged with gunning down Oscar Grant to Los Angeles, Grant family members and supporters demanded that the Justice Department prosecute the case. The selection of a jury with no blacks, the alleged pro police bias of the [...]
*The trial of ex-Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Authority Officer, Johannes Mehserle, started last week after the use of the controversial venue change tactic that shifted the case from Alameda County 300 miles down to Los Angeles County. Mehserle is on trial for murder after alleging shooting BART passenger, Oscar Grant, in the back on [...]
*A former transit police officer deliberately shot and killed an unarmed passenger on an Oakland subway platform while helping another officer who was mistreating a group of men suspected of fighting on a train, a prosecutor told jurors Thursday. Johannes Mehserle, 28, is charged with murder in the New Year’s Day 2009 shooting of Oscar [...]
*Mainstream media coverage has a tendency to jump from one big story to the next. And that’s why most people have forgetton about Oscar Grant, the San Francisco Bay area man who was shot in his back by a transit officer as he lay face down on a BART train platform on New Years Day [...]
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