Video of the killing (Warning: it is disturbing)

JUSTICE FOR OSCAR GRANT ACTION PAGE

On New Year’s Day, Oscar Grant, a 22 year-old black man, was murdered by a white BART officer at the Fruitvale BART station. Grant and several other men were removed from a BART train by BART police following a fight. Video footage from passengers on the train shows Grant and the other men sitting against the wall, surrounded by three BART cops. Grant was unarmed and not resisting, but he was forced to lie face-down on the ground by the BART police. With one cop holding him down, the other cop shot him in the back at pointblank range, execution-style, in front of scores of witnesses. As Grant lay on the ground, dying, the cops handcuffed him!

Oakland will never forgive nor forget this racist atrocity, and we must fight for justice for Oscar Grant to make sure that this never happens in Oakland or any other city again.

Johannes Mehserle, the BART cop who shot Grant in cold blood, was arrested in Nevada almost two weeks after executing Grant. He has been charged with murder. The other officers have neither been charged nor arrested.

BART is a publicly-funded, privately run commission whose police have no accountability to any democratically body. BART police have a history of constantly harassing and targeting minority youth. BART has been covering up the murder and protecting the killer cops.

Demonstrations held throughout Oakland make unequivocally clear that people want, demand and deserve justice. It is a travesty of justice that protesters demanding justice have charges pending against them while some of Grant's killers are still walking free.

Therefore, We the Undersigned Demand:

1. Jail BART police officer Johannes Mehserle and the other BART cops who assisted in the killing.

2. End the BART cover-up—open an independent public investigation of the murder.

3. Disarm the BART Police.

4. BART police out of Oakland.

5. Lock up and charge the killer cops, not the protesters. Drop all charges against the protesters now.