invite their friends: Fruitvale Station will be opening in a city near you soon. 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. Saturday's verdict ignited a national conversation on race, humanity. During protests related to his death, Youth Radio reported from the heart of downtown Oakland, capturing images of the outrage on the streets. Several hundred people protested the verdict in the George Zimmerman trial, chanting slogans while walking from Frank Ogawa Plaza to the Fruitvale BART station in Oakland, where. 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. 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. Fruitvale Station, directed by Ryan Coogler, portrays the last day in the life of Oscar Grant, a 22-year-old who was shot and killed by a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) police.
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