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(New American Media) — Within 24 hours of the shooting of Oscar Grant – an unarmed, 22-year-old African American killed by a white BART police officer on New Year’s Day 2009 – Oakland rap artist Mistah F.A.B. recorded a poignant, heartfelt tribute titled, “My Life.” F.A.B. recorded the song to “enlighten people to what’s going […]
Anger boils over as Oscar Grant's killer gets off with two years.
(Color Lines) — Oscar Grant’s family has rejected a letter from their son’s killer, ex-BART cop Johannes Mehserle, that was released to the public last Friday. In the three-page letter, which opened with a note to his attorney, Michael Rains, asking that he “make sure this get to the public,” Mehserle said that he did not expect […]
(NY Post) — The Department of Justice’s civil-rights division will investigate a white Oakland police officer who killed an unarmed black man on a crowded train platform, a case reminiscent of the racially charged 1992 police beating of Rodney King. The feds will step in after Officer Johannes Mehserle, 28, was convicted Thursday of a […]
(Jack & Jill Politics) — Local news ABC7 is saying that 75% of those arrested for stirring up trouble were from outside the Oakland area. The police are calling them “anarchists”. The people of Oakland are peaceful and it only takes a few people to agitate and inflame tensions. Businesses were attacked despite the Grant family’s […]