Articles tagged with: Fruitvale BART

An estimated crowd of 200 people chanted, marched and vociferously objected to the pending release of former BART Police Officer Johannes Mehserle in Oakland Sunday afternoon.

The crowd gathered at Fruitvale BART Station for a 3 p.m. rally and then marched to 14th and Broadway Sts. in Downtown Oakland — the site of many previous gatherings — for a second protest.

Oakland Mayor Jean Quan said Thursday that her city was prepared to handle possible protests organized in response to the Monday release of former BART Police Officer Johannes Mehserle from a Los Angeles County Jail.

In a written statement, Quan said, “Although we expect peaceful gatherings, we do not anticipate nor will we tolerate vandalism or violence. The Oakland Police Department is prepared to respond if personal safety or property are at risk.”

A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge has ordered that former BART Police Officer Johannes Mehserle, convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the shooting of Oscar Grant New Year’s Day 2009, be released Monday, after serving just over 11 months of his two-year sentence.

“As of June 13, 2011, the defendant’s mandated custody credits will be equal to or exceed the sentence imposed,” Judge Robert Perry wrote in his order, posted to the court’s website Friday. “It is hereby ordered that defendant Johannes Mehserle be released from custody on Monday, June 13, 2011.”

How narrow of a seat would you be willing to sit in?

That’s just one of several questions that BART is asking the public as it takes its “mobile seat lab” to Bay Area residents over the next few months as part of a $3.4 billion project to replace its aging fleet.

OAKLAND — A protest organized in response to the fatal officer-involved shooting of an Oakland barber shop owner by two city police officers forced the temporary closure of the Fruitvale BART station. The station reopened shortly after 6 p.m. when the rally ended.

The protest originated this afternoon at Derrick Jones’s barber shop on the 5800 block of Bancroft Ave. and ended at the BART station — the site of where another unarmed man, Oscar Grant, was shot and killed by former BART Police Officer Johannes Mehserle in 2009.

OAKLAND — A raucous public demonstration against the minimum sentence delivered to Johannes Mehserle turned into a nighttime march through the streets of Oakland Friday night, resulting in more than one hundred arrests and leaving two people injured, including a police officer.

Police estimate approximately 500 people gathered in front of Oakland City Hall at Frank Ogawa Plaza to decry Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Robert Perry’s decision to assign the former BART Police officer a two-year sentence with a 292 day credit for good behavior for the shooting death of Oscar Grant at the Fruitvale BART station on January 1, 2009.