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. During protests related to his death, Youth Radio reported from the heart of downtown Oakland, capturing images of the outrage on the streets. Perhaps it's serendipity, then, that gives 'Fruitvale Station' so much power: The film started trickling into theaters as the verdict was delivered in the Trayvon Martin case. He knows that Saturday’s verdict of not guilty for George Zimmerman makes the already well-reviewed and well-attended Fruitvale Station all the more relevant. 03:26 - Source: CNN CNN Northern California prosecutors are reopening the investigation into the 2009 death of Oscar Grant at the hands of Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) officers, according to.
Grant was shot on the Fruitvale BART station platform, in view of other train passengers. 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.
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In both cases, protests followed the trial outcomes. With continuing conversations about race in light of Trayvon Martin’s death, the George Zimmerman verdict, and Riley Cooper’s outburst, Fruitvale Station is the kind of measured, intelligent. 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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