Early New Year's day a young man was shot by a transit officer while lying face down and restrained.
Bay Area Rapid Transit officers were dispatched to the Fruitvale Station in Oakland, California at about 2:00 a.m. on New Year's day to break up an altercation between two groups of passengers aboard an arriving train. Officers detained some passengers involved in the conflict on the station platform. Among these was Oscar Juliuss Grant III, a 22-year-old Hayward man. Grant was an apprentice butcher at a supermarket. A caring father whose own estranged father was in prison, Grant was raised by his mother and grandmother. BART officials did not release any details regarding the disturbance between the groups of youths on the train.…








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126 - Cindy
Recent news: Seattle Police attack 15 year old girl in a prison cell because she called them names.
127 - roger nowosielski
There's going to be more of the same in times ahead. Don't these people ever fucking learn? And you would thing the state of Washington isn't redneck.
128 - Cindy
They have video of the police beating the girl.
129 - Douglas Mays
Cindy, isn't that something? I saw the film on the news yet I wasn't shocked. They pretty much beat the hell out of her in a manner that should be used if Shaq was on PCP.
What a man! The guy has to turn in his badge and gun but us taxpayers still have to pay this asshole??? Administrative leave....
DM