Writings By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor On The Death And Aftermath Of The Young Hayward Father Shot And Killed On New Years Day, 2009 By An Officer Of The Bay Area Rapid Transit District
Writings By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor On The Death And Aftermath Of The Young Hayward Father Shot And Killed On New Years Day, 2009 By An Officer Of The Bay Area Rapid Transit District |
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Berkeley Daily Planet Berkeley Daily Planet With The Controversy Continuing, BART Board Selects A Committee To Review Its Police Berkeley Daily Planet In The Middle Of The Aftermath Of The Oscar Grant Death, Some Thoughts On Where We Stand Demonstrators Jam Oakland Streets In Second Round Of Oscar Grant Protests Berkeley Daily Planet Though Oakland Had Nothing To Do With The Oscar Grant Death, It Is Oakland Where The Political, Legal, And Street Battles Are Being Fought As A New Video Surfaces, Cracks In The Grant Coalition A Second Officer Is Identified, And Grant Protesters Split On The Issue Of The Use Of Vandalism And Violence While Granting $3 Million Bail, Judge Blasts Former BART Officer As A Danger To The Community Berkeley Daily Planet What Some Activists Are Elevating To A Strategy Is Merely Catering To The Whims Of The Mob While Many Grant Protest Charges Dropped, Some Felony Charges Go Forward Berkeley Daily Planet Chaotic BART Board Meeting Ends With Little Movement On Oscar Grant Issues Berkeley Daily Planet Farrakhan Tells Oakland Crowd That Oscar Grant Killing "Stirred Something Up" Berkeley Daily Planet A "Broader Scope Of Work" In Grant Investigations Why The Current Investigations Do Not Go Far Enough Analyzing The Strategic Differences Emerging In The Oscar Grant Movement Friends And Family Rally In Hayward Celebrating Oscar Grant's Birthday Oakland Post Oscar Grant Protesters Rally But Decide Not To Close Down Fruitvale BART Berkeley Daily Planet
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AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY
Early in the morning hours of New Years Day, 2009, BART police reportedly responded to reports of a fight on a southbound BART train somewhere near the West Oakland BART Station. Officers stopped the train at the Fruitvale BART Station and pulled several individuals off, including 22 year old Oscar Grant of Hayward and at least two friends he was riding with. It has still not been independently determined if Grant and his friends were involved in the fighting. Widely distributed cellphone videos have shown an unresisting Grant being punched in his face on the platform by BART officer Tony Pirone, knocking him down, Pirone putting his knee on Grant's neck or head while Grant was lying face-down on the platform surrounded by several other patrol officers, and then BART officer Johannes Mehserle pulling out his revolver and shooting the defenseless Grant once in the back, killing him. The Grant shooting set off numerous protests in Oakland, eventually resulting in the arrest of Mehserle by the Oakland Police Department and charges of murder by the Alameda County District Attorney's office. The name for this page—"I Am Oscar Grant"—comes from the chant taken up by demonstrators during many of the protests and meetings held since Oscar Grant's death. This is a continuing story, captured as it's happening by journalist J. Douglas Allen-Taylor.
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