SF News Newly Released BART Police Documents Shine Newly Damning Light On Officers In Oscar Grant Case The BART Police officers involved in the beating and ultimate fatal shooting of Oscar Grant just over 10 years ago engaged in escalation and excessive force, according to BART's own internal investigation.
SF News The Legal Costs Of The Oscar Grant Shooting, By The Numbers As noted a few weeks ago, Johannes Mehserle, the BART cop who shot and killed Oscar Grant III on New Year's Day 2009, was back in court for yet another civil case related
SF News Mehserle Back In Court: "I Felt Sick" As we mentioned last week, the Bay Area's most headline-grabbing BART cop of 2009 and 2010, is back in court and once again showing remorse over the killing of Oscar Grant III on
SF News 5th Anniversary Of Oscar Grant Shooting Marked By Occupy March, Vigil in Oakland It was early on New Year's Day in 2009 that Oscar Grant was shot and killed by BART police officer Johannes Mehserle at the Fruitvale Station, and on Wednesday the fifth anniversary of
Arts & Entertainment Fatal BART Shooting To Big Screen: Octavia Spencer To Star In Indie Movie About Oscar Grant Killing Academy Award winner Octavia Spencer and former Friday Night Lights actor Michael B. Jordan are in talks to star in Fruitvale, an independent flick about the 2009 New Year's Eve killing of Oscar
SF News Family Of Charles Hill Sues BART, And They've Got Oscar Grant's Attorney The family of Charles Hill, the "wobbly drunk" homeless man shot and killed by BART police last July has filed a civil suit against BART seeking monetary damages for the incident. According to
SF News Another Thing Johannes Mehserle Is Not Guilty Of Doing Excessive force, according to a federal jury in San Francisco today. Mehserle and four other BART police officers were deemed not guilty of using excessive force in a civil trial over a 2008
SF News Todd Mehserle Banned From Court Room For Cell Phone Photos, Being A Jerk Johannes Mehserle, the former BART cop convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the Oscar Grant case, is currently back in court standing trial along with four other BART PD officers for alleged police misconduct
SF News Johannes Mehserle Released from Jail Early this morning, former BART cop Johannes Mehserle was released from the Los Angeles County Men's Jail. He served just over 11 months of a two-year sentence for the death of Oscar Grant,
SF News Johannes Mehserle to Leave Jail Soon Controversial killer Johannes Mehserle, the BART cop who fatally shot and killed unarmed passenger Oscar Grant on New Year's Day 2009, will be released from jail in a couple of weeks, reports the
SF News Johannes Mehserle Could Be Out of Jail With Less Than Half His Sentence Served Johannes Mehserle, the former BART cop sentenced to two years in prison for the involuntary manslaughter of Oscar Grant, is scheduled to be back in court for a hearing on June 1st where
SF News Unruly Protesters Arrested In Oakland After Mehserle Sentencing After Johannes Mehserle received the minimum sentence of 2 years jail time, as many as 500 people gathered outside Oakland City Hall to sing songs and present speeches in protest. However, according to
SF News Grant Family Attorney Gives a Statement on Mehserle Sentence John Burris, the Grant family's civil attorney, gave a lengthy statement for the press following the sentencing of Johannes Mehserle. Burris, who has been present at the trial along with the Grant family,
SF News (UPDATED) Oakland Prepares After Mehserle Sentencing After today's (light?) two-year-sentencing of former BART cop Johannes Mehserle, Oakland is preparing itself for any possible melee. The scene outside Oakland City hall is growing in numbers, but, as of this afternoon,
SF News Scenes After Johannes Mehserle Sentencing As many of you know by now, Johannes Mehserle received the minimum sentence of 2 years jail time, with time-served credit attached. In all, the former BART cop, convicted of killing Oscar Grant
SF News Mehserle Sentencing On Friday BART cop Johannes Mehserle, convicted of killing Oscar Grant on a Fruitvale platform on New Year's Day2009, will finally hear his sentence on Friday. "The sentence could range from 14 years in prison
SF News Two Gold Teeth Thieves, Two Graffiti Artists Sued by City of Oakland Relating to Mehserle Verdict Night Remember how we all thought Oakland was going to burn the night Johannes Mehserle got convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Oscar Grant? And the press got super excited and all
SF News McCovey Cove 'Oscar Grant' v. 'Johannes Mehserle' Battle Continues At last night's victorious playoff game, a mini brouhaha went down in McCovey Cove, drama that started in September after a pro-Johannes Mersherle hoisted up during a Giants game. SFist commenter hillarys_quivering_
misc 'Free Mehserle' Sentiment Displayed at Last Night's Giants Game At last night's victorious Giants game, someone displays their (misguided) affection for Johannes Mehserle, the BART cop convicted of killing Oscar Grant on a Fruitvale platform on New Year's Day 2009. Photo by
SF News Johannes "Doing Okay" Behind Bars, Says Mehserle's Father During a tearful interview with KTVU at San Jose City Hall, Todd Mehserle, father of convicted BART cop Johannes, said that his son "is in the wrong place" and that "it's a very,
SF News Calm Scene at Pro-Mehserle Rally in Walnut Creek While we can't be in Walnut Creek to report live from today's pro-Johannes Mehserle rally (because, well, let's face it, it's in Walnut Creek), Mercury News has a continuing "live chat" from the
SF News Walnut Creek Police Preparing for Pro-Mehserle Rally In what may be the first controversial/incendiary political protest to hit the streets of Walnut Creek, like, ever, organizers are gearing up for a rally in support of Johannes Mehserle and other
SF News Did Police Use Excessive Force at Merhserle Verdict Protest? Some members of the National Lawyers Guild and a smattering of community activists claim the Oakland Police Department "used excessive force in responding to a large protest after the verdict in the trial
SF News Mehserle Sentencing Date Changed According to the LA Superior Court, the sentencing date for convicted BART police officer Johannes Mehserle has been changed to November 5th, 8:30 a.m. Mehserle's sentencing was originally scheduled for August
SF News Two Oakland Councilwomen Under Investigation for Mehserle Protest Night Despite the teenage-titter-worthy quality of the Matier and Ross headline ("Oakland cops probing two councilwomen at protest"), this isn't actually a story about sexual assault. The OPD is going after council members Jean
