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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.
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]
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 ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 27 January 2025. American filmmaker (born 1986) Ryan Coogler Coogler at the 2017 San Diego Comic-Con Born Ryan Kyle Coogler (1986-05-23) May 23, 1986 (age 38) Oakland, California, U.S. Education St. Mary's College of California California State University, Sacramento (BA) University of Southern ...
The investigation into the 2009 shooting death of Oscar Grant will be reopened nearly 11 years after he was shot by a Bay Area Rapid Transit cop. Grant’s killing, on New Year’s Day at ...
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 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 ...