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A mural honoring Oscar Grant III, the 22-year-old man fatally shot by BART police in 2009, was unveiled Saturday at the Fruitvale BART Station.  A local artist, Senay “Refa One” Alkebulan was commissioned to create the mural on a west exterior wall by the bus area of the station.  According …

Documents released May 1st under a new California police transparency law state that former BART police officer Anthony Pirone claimed he was “fighting for his life” during the fatal incident that killed 22-year-old father, Oscar Grant in 2009. However, an internal investigation completed by Meyers Nave law firm revealed Pirone …

On January 1, 2009, 22-year-old Oscar Grant was shot in the back and killed while handcuffed, face down on a train platform by BART officer, Johannes Mehserle, who only served two years for involuntary manslaughter. Almost ten years later, Grant’s family requests to rename Fruitvale Station in Oakland, Calif.,  where his …