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Johannes Mehserle Denied Bail

(Dec. 3) -- Put the riots on hold. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert Perry denied bail to former BART police officer Johannes Mehserle today, the Oakland Tribune reported. As a result, Mehserle must remain behind bars as his appeal for his involuntary manslaughter conviction goes forward. Mehserle was sentenced...

Ex-Transit Cop's Sentence Sparks Oakland Protests

(Nov. 6) -- Police arrested more than 150 protesters who took to the streets in Oakland, Calif., after a Los Angeles judge sentenced Johannes Mehserle, a former Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer, to two years in prison for his role in the shooting death of passenger Oscar Grant on New Year's Day 2009. Some of the...

Mehserle Sentence: Oakland Workers Flee as Protesters Gather

(Nov. 5) -- Will a two-year sentence mean a second wave of rioting in Oakland, Calif.? Fearing a reprise of the violent protests that followed the verdict in the trial of Johannes Mehserle, workers in downtown Oakland fled the area this afternoon as protesters flooded in to stage a response to news that a Los Angeles...

Watch Mehserle Sentencing [LIVE STREAM]

(Nov. 5) -- After being found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of unarmed African-American commuter Oscar Grant, Johannes Mehserle, a white police officer for the BART commuter railway in the San Francisco Bay Area, appeared in an Oakland courtroom today to learn his sentencing. Grant had been riding BART...

Johannes Mehserle's Apology Letter [Full Text]

(July 9)--Four days before he was convicted of involuntary manslaughter by a Los Angeles jury, former BART police officer Johannes Mehserle wrote a handwritten letter in which he described his feelings toward Oscar Grant, the man he shot and killed on a train platform. On Friday, Mehserle's lawyer, Michael Rains,...

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Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) is a rapid transit system serving the San Francisco Bay Area. The heavy-rail public transit and subway system connects San Francisco with cities in the East Bay and suburbs in northern San Mateo County.

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