Articles tagged with: Fruitvale
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Fruitvale District, Oakland
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On Friday morning, one of the final chapters of a tragic high-profile Bay Area story will be written.
A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge is set to sentence former BART Police Officer Johannes Mehserle on Friday for the shooting death of passenger Oscar Grant at the Fruitvale BART station platform on January 1, 2009.
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Johannes Mehserle, the former BART Police officer who was convicted in July of involuntary manslaughter in the 2008 shooting death of Oscar Grant, sat down for his first interview with a reporter since the New Year’s Day incident.
Mehserle spoke with KTVU Television from the Los Angeles County Men’s Jail where he has been held since the verdict announcement. The interview will air on Channel 2′s 10 p.m. news Thursday evening.
Cops & Courts, Cover Stories, Oakland »
OAKLAND — The departure of 80 police officers in Oakland after failed negotiations between the city council and the police union has residents and business owners in the city wondering: what if I’m ever in need of a police officer’s help?
Will an officer come to help me if I’m to become a crime victim?
Cops & Courts, Oakland »
(7/18) — UPDATED 19:36 PDT — A knife-wielding man, who threatened police Saturday morning and shouted “shoot me”, was shot and killed by five police officers — three from Oakland Police and two from BART Police — in East Oakland, authorities said.
The shooting happened at 8:24 a.m. near the intersection of 33st Street and E. 18th Street in the city’s Fruitvale District — just blocks away from the Fruitvale BART station. Oakland Police identified the man Sunday afternoon as Fred Collins, 48, of Oakland.
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Hundreds of thousands of New Year’s revelers flocked to celebration sites around the Bay Area on New Year’s Eve to bid adieu to a dismal 2008 and welcome what everyone hopes will be a much better 2009. At the region’s largest celebration along the Embarcadero in San Francisco, celebrants were treated to a fireworks show that, at times, was subdued because of a low-lying fog ceiling that threatened to obscure the pyrotechnics.
But — fog or no fog — a mostly orderly crowd kept the energy level high. The event was proclaimed as the city’s official New Year’s celebration. Organizers said that there would be no alcohol and public drunkeness would not be tolerated. San Francisco Police were out in force Wednesday evening with full patrols along the Embarcadero and clusters of cops positioned all along Justin Herman Plaza.
