OAKLAND, CA - In grainy cell-phone videos played over and over on the Internet, police officers force an unarmed black man to the ground and hold him face down on a crowded train platform. Suddenly one of the officers draws his gun and fatally shoots the man in the back - then looks up.
The New Years Day murder death of 22-year-old Oscar Grant has led to violent street protests amid allegations from the familys attorney that some of the officers used racial slurs.
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