SF News Humpday Headlines: Oakland City Council Approves Oscar Grant Day The Oakland City Council just made Feb. 27 Oscar Grant Day, PG&E just paid $1 billion more into its fire victim fund, and Stanford University says COVID infections are coming down on campus.
SF News Alameda County DA Won't Be Charging BART Cop in Oscar Grant Shooting Three months after Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley announced that her office was reopening an investigation into former BART police officer Anthony Pirone and his role in the shooting of Oscar Grant, O'Malley announced there would be no new charges.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Alameda County to Reopen Oscar Grant Shooting Investigation The Wednesday debate between Sen. Kamala Harris and Mike Pence will feature a plexiglass shield, the remains of a missing 75-year-old Berkeley woman may have been found in Humboldt County, and the Alameda County DA's office is reopening the Oscar Grant case.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Family Of Oscar Grant Wants Second BART Officer Charged A UCSF doctor has called Trump's motorcade stunt outside the hospital on Sunday "massively irresponsible," White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany has now tested positive for COVID-19, and California just crossed the 4 million mark for acres burned this year.
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 Photo Du Jour: Fruitvale Station Renamed? Since about 2011, Oakland's Frank H. Ogawa Plaza has been identified by activists and protesters from the Occupy and Black Lives Matter movements as Oscar Grant Plaza to commemorate the 22-year-old from Hayward
SF News Video: Excessive Force Allegations After BART Police Punch Handcuffed Man In Face An arrest by BART police has sparked claims of excessive force after video depicting an officer punching a handcuffed and prone African American man in the face went viral. CBS 5 reports that
SF News Man Claims BART Police Shot Him At West Oakland Station Tuesday Night, But Cops Say He Shot Himself He was also tazed. I heard a pop then saw man on ground with 2 cops on him. Man yelled "they shot me.. They shot me" pic.twitter.com/TqLaDMeW4M— Akshay Dodeja (@dodeja)
SF News [UPDATES] Protests In Oakland, SF For Third Straight Night, More This Afternoon The Bay Area, and Oakland in particular, continues to protest the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. Last night's rally in West Oakland, which shut down the West Oakland BART Station and
SF News Expert In Andy Lopez Shooting Also Sided With Police In Oscar Grant Case The independent consultant chosen to investigate the fatal shooting of 13-year-old Andy Lopez by a Sonoma County Deputy is the same expert who testified that BART police officer Johannes Mehserle accidentally shot Oscar
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
SF News 'Fruitvale Station' Trailer Released -- Watch It Fruitvale Station released the first trailer today. The indie movie, which picked up the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance this year, is based on the moments leading up to the murder of Oscar
Arts & Entertainment 'Fruitvale' Wins Sundance Grand Jury Prize At Sundance, the momentum behind Ryan Coogler's debut feature about the last days in the life of Oscar Grant proved strong enough to propel the film to the festival's top Grand Jury Prize
SF News Filmmakers Ryan Coogler and Forest Whitaker Talk Oscar Grant, 'Fruitvale' In the wake of a huge buzzwave at Sundance and a $2.5 million distribution deal with the Weinstein Co., Ryan Coogler's Fruitvale has already sparked debate about the what it means to
Arts & Entertainment Oscar Grant Movie 'Fruitvale' Buzzes At Sundance, Sells For $2.5 Million [Updated] Fruitvale, the feature film starring Michael B. Jordan as Oscar Grant has been a big hit with the Hollywood bigshots in Park City for this year's Sundance Film Festival. After a successful premiere
Arts & Entertainment 'Fruitvale': Michael B. Jordan as Oscar Grant For some of us, Michael B. Jordan will forever be known as Lions' quarterback Vince Howard on the greatest TV show of all time. But for many, he will soon be known as
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 Oakland Cop Shoots Oscar Grant's Cousin The OPD has yet more blood on their hands and another potentially disastrous PR problem to contend with as news arrives today that the victim in an officer-involved shooting in East Oakland on
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 Police Sweep Out Nascent Occupy Oakland Encampment Just as soon as it came—on Tuesday, to be exact—last night police evicted residents of the new Occupy Oakland encampment on the 2000 block of Peralta Street near Mandela Parkway. Set
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 BART Police to Get Officer-Mounted Cameras The transit agency's police force has finally made a move towards more officer accountability in the wake of the high-profile, fatal shootings of Charles Hill and Oscar Grant by BART Police officers. According
SF News Monday: Rally Planned for BART Civic Center Shooting A group called No Justice, No Bart will hold a rally to protest Sunday's officer-involved shooting of Charles Hill, 45, a man with no fixed address. If you recall, two BART cops responded
