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January 7, 2009

Oakland Police Shooting Victim to Be Buried
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In Hayward, California, a funeral will be held today for
twenty-two-year-old Oscar Grant, who was shot dead on New Year’s Day by
a BART police officer on an Oakland train platform. Three cell phone
videos of the shooting have emerged. They show an officer pulling out a
gun and shooting Grant in the back while he was lying face down on the
ground. Grant worked as a butcher at an Oakland grocery store and was
the father of a four-year-old daughter. Investigators have yet to
interview the officer involved in the shooting.



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