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Oscar Grant’s family on the Chauvin conviction: ‘This is huge. We’ve been let down so many times’ Sam Levin © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Nick Ut/AP For the family of Oscar Grant, who was killed by police in 2009, the guilty verdict for Derek Chauvin was a rare moment of accountability – and a potential turning point in their fight against police brutality. “This is a huge moment in the last 12 years of our struggle,” Grant’s uncle, Cephus Johnson, told the Guardian on Tuesday, an hour after a Minneapolis jury convicted the former officer of second-...

The guilty verdict in the murder of George Floyd offered the kind of court win that is denied to nearly all families of victims lost to police killings. To some in the US, where police fatally shoot nearly 1,000 people each year and are almost never charged with a crime, the conviction offered a sense of comfort and hope. For the Grant family, there were mixed emotions. Oscar Grant was 22 years old and unarmed when he was killed on a train platform on New Year’s Day, 2009 in Oakland, California. It was the first high-profile killing by police that was caught on a cellphone video that wen...

Family of 27-year-old man sues San Jose police for 'agonizing and tortuous death' By Lisa Fernandez Civil rights suit filed after the San Jose police shooting death of David Tovar Jr. Civil rights attorneys filed a wrongful death suit against San Jose police for the January 2021 shooting death of David Tovar Jr. SAN JOSE, Calif. - Civil rights attorneys on Wednesday filed a wrongful death suit against San Jose police after they shot and killed an unarmed 27-year-old man who authorities said was a person of interest in a string of violent crimes including homicide.  But attorneys representing...

Three Black men are accusing the San Francisco Police Department of racial profiling after they were detained at a high-end department store for several hours before being cleared of wrongdoing. The three friends and Oakland natives were detained at the Saks Fifth Avenue store on Union Square on March 3. Police said one of the men detained matched the description provided by a caller of a man the caller said had been brandishing a firearm inside the store. The men said they had been shopping inside the store for 30 minutes or less when police approached them with guns drawn. “‘Hey you t...

Three men who say they had come to shop Wednesday, as they often do, at the Saks Fifth Avenue store on Post Street in Union Square, say they were the victims of racial profiling and were detained for hours by San Francisco police after doing nothing wrong.