Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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.
On January 2, KTVU aired a video by an anonymous passenger who submitted a cell phone video of the shooting. On January 23, KTVU aired a cell-phone video which appeared to show a second officer punching Grant in the face prior to the shooting. [22] In late February, KRON 4 aired a clip of a video showing a different angle of this altercation.
Michael Bakari Jordan [1] (/ b ɑː ˈ k ɑːr i / bah-KAR-ee; born February 9, 1987) [2] is an American actor, producer and director. He is best known for his film roles as shooting victim Oscar Grant in the drama Fruitvale Station (2013), boxer Adonis Creed in Creed (2015), and Erik Killmonger in Black Panther (2018), all of which were written and directed by Ryan Coogler.
A fact from Fruitvale Station (film) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 9 February 2013 (check views).The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that the film Fruitvale, which won two major awards at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, is based on a real-life police shooting?
2013 YouTube videos (19 P) 2014 YouTube videos (20 P) 2015 YouTube videos (15 P) 2016 YouTube videos (18 P) 2017 YouTube videos (14 P) 2018 YouTube videos (8 P)
In 2009, officer Johannes Mehserle fatally shot Oscar Grant III on the Fruitvale station. [4] [5] Eyewitnesses gathered direct evidence of the shooting with cellular video cameras which were later submitted to social networks such as YouTube in addition to media outlets. The videos were watched hundreds of thousands of times online. [6]
Caroline Lesley is an American-Canadian actor and singer.. She had a role in the movie Fruitvale Station which won the Grand Jury and Audience Awards at Sundance Film Festival, and the Future Award at Cannes Film Festival.
Forest Whitaker in 2014. Forest Whitaker is an American actor, producer and director.. Whitaker started his career in early roles in films such as Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), Vision Quest (1985), The Color of Money (1986), Platoon (1986), Good Morning, Vietnam (1987) before his leading role in Clint Eastwood's Bird (1988).