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Oscar Grant

Before Trayvon Martin, There Was Oscar Grant

July 9, 2013 Daily Kos Staff www.dailykos.com ,
While many people across the nation are paying close attention to the trial of George Zimmerman, who's accused of the murder of unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, filmgoers across the country are about to be introduced to another young black man, 22-year-old Oscar Grant III, shot in the back by Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer Johannes Mehserle on New Years Day in 2009. Grant was unarmed. He was being restrained. He died in the hospital later that morning.

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