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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...

Opinion: The Mehserle Jury Got It Right

(July 9) -- The death of Oscar Grant seems clear cut. Lying face-down on a BART train platform in Oakland, he was shot in the back by a uniformed security officer and killed. Thursday, the trial of the shooter, Johannes Mehserle, concluded. The verdict: guilty -- of involuntary manslaughter. The result: protests in the...

Oakland Rioters Protest Verdict in Fatal BART Shooting

(July 9) -- Protesters looted and trashed about a dozen stores in Oakland, Calif., after a jury rejected a murder charge and convicted a white police officer of involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man. More than 80 arrests were made, police said. The prosecution had asked for a second-degree...

Johannes Mehserle Verdict: What Makes a Killing an Involuntary Manslaughter?

(July 9)--The manslaughter verdict in the Johannes Mehserle trial yesterday sparked violent riots in in Oakland, Calif. as people protested what they saw as a light conviction in the shooting death of Oscar Grant. Mehserle, a white BART police officer, shot Johnson, an unarmed black man, at a BART station in Oakland on New...