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An unarmed civilian, Oscar Grant was fatally shot by BART officer Johannes Mehserle in Oakland, California, United States, in the early morning hours of New Year’s Day 2009.  Responding to reports of a fight on a crowded Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) train returning from San Francisco,  BART Police officers detained Oscar Grant and several [...]

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Friday, July 9th 2010, 8:06 AM Angry mobs smashed windows and set small fires in downtown Oakland Thursday night, their rage sparked by a white transit cop’s conviction of a lesser charge in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man in a subway station New Year’s Day 2009. The rioting and looting started hours [...]

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