On Monday there will be the local premiere of writer-director Ryan Coogler's "Fruitvale Station," which won prizes at the Cannes and Sundance film festivals for its retelling of the story of Oscar Grant, a young Oakland man fatally shot by transit police in the early hours of New Year's Day 2009. .
The elder, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, was killed in a confrontation with authorities, but not before participating in the fatal shooting of an M.I.T. police officer, the carjacking of an S.U.V. and the shooting of a transit police officer, who was critically injured.
Two people were critically injured during a shooting at Holgate Transit Station in Portland, Ore., late Friday.
"Fruitvale Station," the story of Oscar Grant, a 22-year-old Oakland man who was fatally shot by a transit agency police officer in the early morning hours of New Year's Day 2009, opened in theaters on Friday, prompting heart-wrenching parallels to the Trayvon Martin case.
And two months earlier, several riots broke out downtown after an officer from another force, the Bay Area Rapid Transit police, shot and killed an unarmed man.
While In Transit is shot on video, and mostly through windows, there's no way not to snag a few breathtaking views.
Almena's ten-thousand-square-foot warehouse was in Oakland's Fruitvale neighborhood, previously infamous as the place where Johannes Mehserle, a white transit officer, shot Oscar Grant, a young black man, on New Year's Day in 2009.
"Murder City," which refers to rioting in Oakland in January after a transit policeman shot a captured suspect in the back, sums up the album's tone: "Desperate/But not hopeless".
The demonstration was the latest since transit officers shot a 45-year-old man to death on July 3. Demonstrations involving more than 100 protesters began around 5 p.m., closing two stations during peak commuter hours and snarling traffic downtown for more than three hours.
Yet no record in either file – homicides by police officers and those by civilians – could be found that matched other major cases, including that of Oscar Grant, the 22-year-old black man shot dead at a transit station in Oakland, California, in January 2009.
