Mobile Phone Footage Shows Police Shoot and Kill Unarmed Man in California
By: Priscila Néri
Posted: Jan 9 09
Witnessed: 6988 times
Regions: United States
Issues: Justice, Police brutality
Tags: cell phone videos, mobile phone, oakland, oscar grant, police abuse, raw footage, shooting
At approximately 2:15 AM on New Year's Day, Oscar Grant, a young, unarmed black man was shot by police officers while laying face-down on a BART subway platform in Oakland, California. This is one of the many videos that are circulating online about the incident. The videos document Grant being restrained, laying face-down on the platform and with two officers restraining him - one with his knee on the back of Grant's neck. Within seconds, the second officer restraining Grant rises to his feet, unholsters his gun and fires one shot into Grant's back. Grant died seven hours later in a nearby hospital.
[Originally uploaded to YouTube here by user mediarogue]
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