NPR's Ailsa Chang talks to KQED's Sukey Lewis about the final episode of the podcast On Our Watch, which examines recently-released internal police records of the killing of Oscar Grant in 2009. NPR ...

The fat lady has not yet sung on the outcome of the Oscar Grant murder trial. Ex-BART cop Johanes Mehserle is being investigated by the Department of Justice (DOJ) for the murder of Oscar Grant, 22.

Fresh from our better-late-than-never file, ex-BART cop Johannes Mehserle, who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the killing of Oscar Grant III, has apologized. “I have and will continue to ...

More than a decade after the BART police killing of Oscar Grant, the transit agency has released a long-sealed report on a shooting that shocked the Bay Area, led to a rare criminal conviction for an ...

It's been exactly a year and a half since Oscar Grant was shot in the back while he lay face down on a train platform by former BART cop Johannes Mehserle. Today, Mehserle faces his last pre-trial ...

Today on Hard Knock Radio, guest host Thandisizwe Chimurenga leads a critical conversation marking 17 years since the police killing of Oscar Grant III on the Fruitvale BART platform. Oscar Grant’s ...

February 27, 2026 will mark Oscar Grant’s 40th birthday. Grant was killed at the age of 22 on New Year’s Day 2009, when he was shot on a platform at Oakland’s Fruitvale BART station by then-transit ...

The name Oscar Grant reverberates in the Bay Area. Murals like this one at Oakland's Fruitvale Station remember him. It's been 17 years since Grant was shot and killed by then BART police officer ...

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