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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...

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...

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...