Oscar Grant Trial

January 1, 2009 a fight broke out on a crowded train in the Bay area of California in which police were called out to diffuse the situation. BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) police quickly detained Oscar Grant and other gentlemen who they thought were involved in the altercation. I will save the intricate details for you to read on your own but to sum the story up, an unarmed Oscar Grant was shot in the back and killed by police officer Johannes Mehserle.
There are various accounts as to what happened in this case and most of them (coming from the crowd at the station), imply that Grant was not resisting arrest and therefore Mehserle should be charged with murder. The trial begun June 1, 2010 and even has it's own twitter page...follow @OscarGrantTrial

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