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Officer Guilty in Killing That Inflamed Oakland – New York Times
The officer, Johannes Mehserle, 28, had been accused of a more serious charge, second-degree murder, in the death of Oscar Grant III, 22, a butcher’s apprentice who was shot while lying face down on a platform after being removed from a Bay Area Rapid Transit train during a fight. City officials were worried about a [...]
BART Verdict: Mehserle Guilty of Involuntary Manslaughter – CBS News
A Family Walks by Posters of Oscar Grant (AP) LOS ANGELES (KPIX) A jury has convicted a former Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer of involuntary manslaughter in the shooting death of an unarmed man on an Oakland train platform. Johannes Mehserle was found guilty on Thursday afternoon in the New Year’s Day 2009 killing [...]
Editorial: We must learn from Oscar Grant’s death – San Jose Mercury News
Los Angeles Times (blog) Editorial: We must learn from Oscar Grant's deathSan Jose Mercury News1, 2009, when he fired that fatal shot into the back of Oscar Grant III. It required them to try to figure out what Mehserle was thinking with all the chaos …Oakland Reacts to Verdict in Oscar Grant Murder TrialHuffington Post [...]