Oscar Grant Protests: A Retrospective
In anticipation of the January 1, 2013 publication of the photobook Bay Area Underground , I'll be running excerpts of news coverage to complement the photos in the book. The book covers the major cultural events and social movements in the Bay Area over the past five years, and no single issue was as polarizing in Oakland as the shooting of unarmed Oscar Grant III by a BART police officer on New Year's Day 2009. Below is a transcript of a news dispatch by Joe Sciarrillo about the January 30 and February 28, 2009 marches in honor of Oscar Grant. This report originally aired on the DJ Matt Werner show on Fresh Air: The Alternative on March 3, 2009 ( right click to download the podcast and skip to 44:15 to hear this report). January 30, 2009 Oscar Grant protest. Photo by Joe Sciarrillo On New Year’s Day 2009, a 22-year-old African American man named Oscar Grant was fatally shot by a police officer of the San Francisco Bay Area train service...
