Police Shoot Unarmed Man in the Back at Oakland BART Station

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Tuesday January 06, 2009 · 4:16 PM PST

2009/01/06 · 16:16

On New Year’s Eve about three blocks from my apartment at a the Fruitvale BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) station, the transit police shot and killed 22 year-old Oscar Grant. Grant was lying on his stomach with his hands behind him on the train platform when a single shot was fired by a BART officer. The police claim that it was an accident, and the gun that killed young father of a four year-old girl, went off by mistake. Witnesses say Grant was not resisting when the gunshot was fired.

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