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RandySF

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Tue Jul 1, 2014, 04:25 PM Jul 2014

Jury finds in favor of BART officer in lawsuit filed by Oscar Grant's father.

A jury today found in favor of former BART police Officer Johannes Mehserle in a federal civil trial filed by the father of a 22-year-old man fatally shot by Mehserle at an Oakland BART station in 2009.

The jury, in a verdict announced this afternoon, awarded no damages to Oscar Grant II, the father of Oscar Grant III who was fatally shot by Mehserle at the Fruitvale BART station in the early morning hours of Jan. 1, 2009.

Mehserle has said he meant to pull out his Taser stun gun to subdue the younger Grant, but accidentally pulled out his service pistol and shot him as he was lying face-down on the train platform.

Oscar Grant II, who has been serving a life sentence since before his son was born for a 1985 slaying in Oakland, sued Mehserle over the loss of the familial relationship between father and son.

http://abc7news.com/news/jury-finds-in-favor-of-mehserle-in-lawsuit-filed-by-oscar-grants-father/150242/

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Jury finds in favor of BART officer in lawsuit filed by Oscar Grant's father. (Original Post) RandySF Jul 2014 OP
Sad, just sad. nt Erich Bloodaxe BSN Jul 2014 #1
I'm glad the mom and the daughter got something, but this guy? XemaSab Jul 2014 #2
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