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February 23, 2012

Oscar Grant’s Cousin Shot, Wounded by Oakland Police 
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In California, Oakland police have seriously wounded an unarmed 24-year
old man after shooting him in the back. The victim — Tony Jones
— is a cousin of Oscar Grant, who was shot dead by a Bay Area
Transit Police officer on a train platform on New Year’s Day 2009.
Grant was also shot in the back. Jones' mother, Betrina Works-Grant,
described her son's shooting.

Betrina Works-Grant: "I talked to my son. My son said ‘Momma, the
officers are lying. They watched me get out of the car. They watched me
walk. Then they started speeding up and I took off running across the
street and when I took off running and I heard the gun go pow, pow,
pow.’ He said he was running with his hands like this (at his sides).
The police shot at him and shot him in his back. They never said they
were the police."



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