Ray Chavez/MediaNews Group via Getty Images Wanda Johnson speaks before family and community members during the mural and street name rededication in honor of Oscar Grant outside the Fruitvale BART station in Oakland, Calif. Jordan plays Grant on what would be the last day of his life.
#Oscar grant movie
The event would later be depicted in the movie "Fruitvale Station," in which Michael B. One of the first police shootings to be captured on cell phone, millions saw BART police Officer Johannes Mehserle fire a single, fatal gunshot into Oscar Grant's back as the 22-year-old lay face down on the train station platform. On those tapes is a story that's never been fully heard before: the story of what happened after a transit cop shot her son on a Bay Area Rapid Transit platform on New Year's Day 2009. She's getting ready to listen to excerpts of nearly 60 hours of newly released tapes - recordings of a police investigation that have been secret for over a decade. There's no air conditioning inside, so she's fashioned an outside office, and pulls her chair up to a small table where a computer is perched.
Wanda Johnson sits down on a folding chair in her driveway on a hot afternoon in June. The recordings of the internal investigation were not released until this year, when NPR member station KQED forced BART to comply with California's "The Right to Know Act," a 2019 police transparency law. Wanda Johnson's son, Oscar Grant, was shot and killed by a Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer on January 1, 2009.
0 kommentar(er)
