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The verdict was the first conviction of an officer or deputy on any murder charge in Los Angeles County in almost three decades.
Read More →Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert Perry said evidence proves that the former BART police officer did not plan to kill the 22-year-old Oscar Grant on Oakland's Fruitvale BART station platform.
Read More →Mehserle told a jury in a Los Angeles courtroom that he remembered hearing "a pop" that "wasn't very loud," thinking his TASER had malfunctioned, and then looking down to see his gun in his right hand.
Read More →Lehman also testified that a right-handed officer such as Mehserle was not allowed to position the Taser next to the pistol on the right hip unless he aimed the weapon's handle in the opposite direction, making only a left-handed draw possible.
Read More →During the hour of testimony, Mehserle described his childhood dream of becoming a police officer, discussed Taser training and said he thought Officer Anthony Pirone has an aggressive style to his police work.
Read More →Testifying Friday in the second-degree murder trial of Mehserle, Pirone said he was surprised when Mehserle asked him to get back, because he had a knee on the back of the face-down Grant who was "wiggling."
Read More →The department hopes to avert a replay of rioting that occurred in January 2009, after Mehserle was arrested, then released on bail.
Read More →During her testimony on the witness stand, Domenici was shown snippets of video showing her role in the confrontation, and testified that she didn't remember Grant touching her.
Read More →If former BART police Officer Johannes Mehserle intended to shoot and kill Oscar Grant during an arrest on an Oakland train platform, the way he went about it violated much of what he learned in training.
Read More →A young man who was sitting inches from Oscar Grant when he was fatally shot by a former BART police officer said Monday that the officer, Johannes Mehserle, had blurted out a common term of shock.
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