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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