Youth Radio documented the 19 months following the Grant's shooting, from the reactions of witnesses who recorded it on their cell phones, to the outrage and mass actions in the community, to Mehserle's trial. But he was acquitted of both second-degree murder and. During protests related to his death, Youth Radio reported from the heart of downtown Oakland, capturing images of the outrage on the streets. On July 8, 2010, the jury returned its verdict: Mehserle was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter. If it continues to do well, after racking up respectable sales in the 1,064 theaters it hit last. Grant was shot on the Fruitvale BART station platform, in view of other train passengers. Fruitvale Station sold out in all seven cities where it premiered on the weekend of the verdict. The rest of the film dramatizes what Oscar was up to the day before he was killed, New Years Eve 2009. Camera phone footage of Bay Area Rapid Transit cops beating Oscar and his friends on a subway platform ends with a gunshot. On the same weekend that George Zimmerman, the man who killed Trayvon Martin, was acquitted in a Florida courtroom, Fruitvale Station-a feature film about the Oscar Grant shooting-sold out four times at an Oakland theater. The first thing we see in 'Fruitvale' is the fatal moment that will lead to Oscars death. Writer and director, Ryan Coogler, a 26-year-old filmmaker from Alameda, Ca, is motivated by making films that matter.
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In both cases, protests followed the trial outcomes.
As the nation debates the verdict in the Trayvon Martin killing, young people in Oakland, California are reminded of the case of Oscar Grant, the 22-year-old who was shot by a Bay Area Rapid Transit officer on New Year's Day 2009.īoth were unarmed, both African American young males.
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