DA to reopen Oscar Grant case in response to family's demands
Source: East Bay Times (formerly Oakland Tribune)
OAKLAND — In a stunning development Monday, Alameda County’s district attorney announced she will reopen the Oscar Grant case, 11 years after the Black man was shot to death by a BART police officer, setting off nationwide demonstrations and calls for racial justice.
Grant’s family was holding a press conference demanding that new charges be filed — specifically, felony murder against a police officer who punched and at one point kneed Grant in the head — when the announcement was made.
“We have listened closely to the requests of the family of Oscar Grant,” District Attorney Nancy O’Malley said in a written statement. “The murder of Oscar Grant greatly impacted the county and the state.”
O’Malley said she has assigned a team of lawyers “to look back into the circumstances that caused the death of Oscar Grant. We will evaluate the evidence and the law, including the applicable law at the time, and make a determination.”
Read more: https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2020/10/05/oscar-grants-family-calls-on-prosecutors-to-reopen-case-charge-other-officer/
