Oscar Grant

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July 2, 2010
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - Officials in Oakland are frantically preparing for any repeat of the violence that occurred after an…
July 1, 2010
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Two and half minutes. That's the time Johannes Mehserle spent on an Oakland train platform before…
June 23, 2010
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A former San Francisco Bay Area transit police officer who shot and killed an unarmed black…
June 15, 2010
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Carlos Reyes fought back tears as he watched a video of himself sitting several feet away…
June 14, 2010
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The fiancee of an unarmed black man fatally shot by a Bay Area transit police officer…
June 11, 2010
OPINION - A jury with no blacks, composed of mostly older middle class whites, and non-black ethnics, is much more…
June 11, 2010
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The star witness in a trial of a former transit officer accused of killing an unarmed…
June 10, 2010
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Attorney's say the white officer accidentally used a handgun instead of a stun gun on an…
June 10, 2010
OPINION - It wasn't a scripted movie. It wasn't a prank. It was police brutality; and the black community is…
June 9, 2010
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The upcoming trial of a white ex-transit officer charged with killing an unarmed black man in…
December 30, 2009
OPINION - As we bring in the New Year and look forward to a new decade, I thought it might…
June 3, 2009
TERRY COLLINS Associated Press Writer OAKLAND, California (AP) — A transit police officer said right after fatally shooting a man