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In 2014, playwright Chinaka Hodge premiered Chasing Mehserle, a play about Watts, a young man from Oakland who becomes obsessed with chasing down and killing officer Johannes Mehserle. [191] In 2017, Angie Thomas published her debut novel, The Hate U Give, which was expanded from a short story she wrote in college in reaction to the shooting of ...
Fruitvale Station is a 2013 American biographical drama film written and directed by Ryan Coogler.It is Coogler's feature directorial debut, and is based on the events leading to the death of Oscar Grant, a young man killed in 2009 by Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) police officer Johannes Mehserle at the Fruitvale district BART station in Oakland, California.
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Johannes Mehserle testified in federal court in San Francisco that he meant to use his Taser rather than his gun to subdue an already handcuffed Oscar Grant on New Year's Day in 2009.
Bay Area Rapid Transit officer Johannes Mehserle fatally shot Grant on Jan. 1, 2009 at Fruitvale Station in Oakland.
The inquiry, conducted at the request of Grant's family, concluded that former Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) officer Johannes Mehserle alone was criminally responsible for fatally shooting Grant ...
Mehserle shot and killed 22-year-old Oscar Grant after an altercation on a train platform. Grant was on the ground and restrained when Mehserle drew his service weapon and fired one round into Grant's back, fatally injuring him. Mehserle claimed that he believed Grant was reaching for a weapon in his waistband. [122] 3 March 2008: James Council
Oscar Grant III was a 22-year-old African-American man who was killed in the early morning hours of New Year's Day 2009 by BART Police Officer Johannes Mehserle in Oakland, California. Responding to reports of a fight on a crowded Bay Area Rapid Transit train returning from San Francisco , BART Police officers detained Grant and several other ...