#1 Click this link to see 2009 News Photos page --> 01/10/2009

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 Year’s Day murder death of 22-year-old Oscar Grant has led to violent street protests amid allegations from the family’s attorney that some of the officers used racial slurs.

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#2 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 07/12/2010 #1

John Lopes protests in Oakland, CA, following an involuntary manslaughter verdict in Johannes Mehserle’s trial on Thursday, July 8th, 2010. A former transit police officer, Mehserle murdered shot and killed unarmed black man Oscar Grant on New Year’s Day 2009.

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#3 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 11/05/2021 #9

In 2010, a judge in Los Angeles sentenced Johannes Mehserle, a white former transit officer, to two years in prison in the murder shooting death of Oscar Grant, a black man, on an Oakland train platform; the minimal sentence provoked angry protests. (Mehserle ended up serving 11 months.) #OscarGrant

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#4 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 07/08/2022 #8

In 2010, violent protests erupted in Oakland, CA, after a Los Angeles jury convicted a white former transit officer, Johannes Mehserle, of involuntary manslaughter (instead of murder) in the videotaped murder fatal shooting of a black man, Oscar Grant III. #OscarGrant

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#5 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 01/01/2026 #15

In 2009, Oscar Juliuss Grant III, a 22-year-old black man, was murdered in the early morning hours of New Year’s Day 2009 by BART Police Officer Johannes Mehserle in Oakland, CA. #OscarGrant

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#6 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 02/27/2026 #12

In 1986, Oscar Juliuss Grant III was born in Oakland, CA. #OscarGrant

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