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Oscar Grant had been celebrating with his friends at The Embarcadero in San Francisco on New Year's Eve. He and about eight friends returned to East Bay in the lead car of a BART train bound for Fruitvale, a station in Oakland. [12] [13] [14] BART offered extended service and a special "Flash Pass" for the New Year's Eve holiday. [15] [16]
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 1, 2009, a BART police officer fatally shot an unarmed man, Oscar Grant III, at Fruitvale station while responding to reports of a fight on a train. [11] [12] Grant's death sparked several protests in Oakland, and was one of several police killings that contributed to the nationwide Black Lives Matter movement.
Fifteen years ago on Jan. 1, 2009, Oscar Grant was killed at the Fruitvale BART station by a former BART police officer. It was a killing that sent shockwaves not just through Oakland, but the ...
Bay Area Rapid Transit officer Johannes Mehserle fatally shot Grant on Jan. 1, 2009 at Fruitvale Station in Oakland. California Attorney General to review 2009 police killing of Oscar Grant Skip ...
Variety is set to honor “Fruitvale Station” producer and Significant Productions co-founder Nina Yang Bongiovi with its Creative Impact in Producing Award at the Sun Valley Film Festival in ...
In 2013, she appeared alongside Michael B. Jordan in Fruitvale Station, a film chronicling the last day of Oscar Grant, who was killed at a Bay Area Rapid Transit station in 2009. [23] In September 2013, it was announced that she would reunite with The Help director Taylor in the biopic on singer James Brown Get On Up , opposite her The Help co ...
A months-long renewed investigation of officer Anthony Pirone's role in events leading to the 2009 killing of Oscar Grant found that Pirone cannot be charged with murder or any other criminal ...