news.yahoo.com - 1/14/2009
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SAN FRANCISCO A white former transit police officer accused of killing an unarmed black man on an Oakland train platform has been arrested in Nevada on a warrant charging homicide, 12 days after the shooting that sparked violent street protests . Johannes Mehserle, 27, was being held without ...
reason.com - 1/9/2009
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There is no other conclusion to draw from
the video embedded below, filmed by a San Francisco...
subway passenger, other than the blindingly obvious one: Oscar Grant, the 22-year-old butcher's apprentice shot by Bay Area Rapid Transit Police (BART) on ...
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Oakland BART Officer Who Shot Pinned, Unarmed Man Is Arrested On The Lam
Hit & Run —
... on the aftermath of the New Year's day shooting in Oakland of the pinned, unarmed Oscar Grant by a BART police officer, the D.A. didn't even know when he might decide whether to press charges. Now, the officer in question, Johannes Mehserle, is apprehended in Nevada, arrested on a fugitive warrant on suspicion of murder. ...
Ex-Oakland transit officer is arrested in Nevada
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... on a train platform at a station in Oakland. Grant and others had been pulled off a train after reports of fighting, as New Year's Eve revelers were shuttling home after midnight. The shooting, captured on cell phone cameras and widely viewed on the Internet, has inflamed long-running tensions between law enforcement authorities and many African-American residents and black community leaders, who have berated BART officials at several public meetings since the incident. Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090114/ap_on_re_us/train_s... ;_ylt=Ag8tvBhXmUW1hqg0Q6v3xIlvzwcF ...
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