A jury in Los Angeles found Johannes Mehserle, a former Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer, guilty of involuntary manslaughter yesterday. Mehserle fatally shot an unarmed BART passenger, Oscar Grant, in Oakland on New Year's Day of 2009. The victim's family and many others in Oakland had hoped for a murder verdict, and there was some vandalism and looting last night. But the vast majority of the protests were peaceful.
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