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The report says Pirone, who punched and kneed Grant after detaining him, \"started a cascade of events that ultimately led to the shooting.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report, completed by independent investigators hired by BART in July 2009, was released by the agency Tuesday under terms of SB 1421, California's new police transparency law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11717416' hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/JusticeforOscarGrant-1020x726.jpg' target='_blank']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sections of the report relating to Mehserle were redacted, and investigators noted they had been unable to interview the officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they wrote that videos of the Fruitvale Station incident showed Mehserle may have known he was drawing his firearm, not his Taser, before shooting Grant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Despite the inability to interview Officer Mehserle, the conclusion can be made from a close viewing of the enhanced video that he was intending to pull his firearm and not his Taser,\" the report says, noting that Mehserle repeatedly reached for his gun \"and on the final occasion can be seen looking back at his hand on the gun/holster to watch the gun come out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mehserle fired a single round into Grant's back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just prior to the shooting, the 22-year-old Grant, face down on the station platform with Officer Pirone kneeling on his neck and head, had put both hands behind him \"in a handcuffing position,\" the report says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Deadly force was not justified under the circumstances,\" the investigation found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Los Angeles jury convicted Mehserle of involuntary manslaughter in 2010, and he was sentenced to a two-year prison term, of which he served 11 months. He was released in June 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>Role of 'Crazy Cop'\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>The report is unsparing in its criticism of Pirone's conduct in the chaotic 13 minutes before the shooting, saying the officer lied repeatedly to investigators about his actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The document says Pirone was the first BART officer on the southbound Fruitvale platform, responding to reports of a fight on a Dublin/Pleasanton train crowded with passengers returning from New Year's Eve festivities in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Witnesses would later describe Pirone to investigators as the \"crazy cop,\" “very agitated,\" \"harsh and unprofessional,\" and \"not calm, not once.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"police-records\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/Police-Art_1-1.gif\" heroLink=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/police-records\" target=\"_blank\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pirone left his partner, Officer Marysol Domenici, who was handling a separate issue at a station agent's booth, and climbed the stairs to the station platform about 2:04 a.m. He stopped three black men who'd just walked off the train, telling them either to \"sit the fuck down\" or \"get on the fucking wall,\" according to what they told investigators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Domenici joined him, he told her to \"watch these guys,\" while he ordered Grant over to the wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pirone then got on the train to detain a passenger named Michael Greer. Witnesses described Pirone as loud, aggressive and profane, with one saying the officer yelled, \"Get the fuck out of my car\" before dragging Greer off the train and handcuffing him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grant, meanwhile, was telling his friends against the wall to \"just be cool\" and \"be quiet — we’re going to go home tonight\" as they argued with Domenici, according to Jack Bryson Jr., one of the detained men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pirone told investigators he saw Grant fighting with Domenici and that he rushed to help her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The video, however, shows a completely different story, one of Grant pushing his friends back from Domenici and no touching of her ever taking place,\" the report says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he reached Grant, Pirone told investigators they scuffled. But the report notes that video of the incident shows Pirone shoved Grant against the wall and punched him in the head and that Grant did not fight back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Pirone accomplished his apparent intended goal to have Grant sit down. Once down, Pirone kneed Grant in the face,\" the report says, calling the strike \"punitive\" and unjustified.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>Officer Used Racial Epithet\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Pirone told investigators that Grant called him a \"bitch-ass n-----\" and that he responded by saying, \"bitch-ass n-----, huh?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For a white law enforcement officer to utter the word 'n-----' to an African American male while detaining him in the tense racial atmosphere at the Fruitvale station undoubtedly contributed to the escalation of tensions,\" the report says. \"The use of such a word diminished Officer Pirone and the BART PD.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At that point, the report says, Pirone and Mehserle began struggling to handcuff Grant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mehserle shoved Grant down, and Pirone put his knee on Grant's neck and head. The internal investigation found that Pirone's weight likely prevented Grant from getting his hands out from under his stomach to put them behind his back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When Pirone takes his weight off Grant, Grant immediately puts both hands behind his back for cuffing,\" the report says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's when Mehserle drew his gun and fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nigel Bryson, one of the men detained along the wall, told investigators he heard the gunshot, then looked over to see Grant raise his head slightly and say, \"You shot me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report found Pirone’s conduct played a major part in setting the stage for the shooting and recommended he be fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Pirone’s repeated, unreasonable and unnecessary use of force; his willful and reckless conduct that endangered the safety of the public and his fellow officers; his failure to be forthcoming about the true events; his changing and shifting stories; his manifest lack of veracity; his professionally inappropriate demeanor; his use of a racially offensive word; and his excessive use of expletives, warrant a recommendation that Officer Pirone be terminated from his employment with BART,” investigators concluded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART subsequently fired Pirone, who was not criminally charged in connection with the Grant shooting. 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"content": "\u003cp>BART officials on Thursday voted overwhelmingly in favor of naming a street next to Oakland's Fruitvale Station in honor of Oscar Grant, a young black man killed by a police officer a decade ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All eight BART directors attending the board meeting approved the request from Grant’s family to name the side street \"Oscar Grant Way.” The currently unnamed roadway, located on BART property, between 33rd and 35th streets, sits in the shadow of the station where Grant was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can't continue to move forward until you atone,\" BART board Director Lateefah Simon told Grant's family members and other supporters who attended the meeting. \"I believe we want to and we are going to do that. Government is absolutely responsible for the safety and security of all folk, and it's difficult, and it's complicated, but the very least we can do is name this street 'Oscar Grant Way.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grant, a 22-year-old from Hayward, was unarmed when he was fatally shot in the back by a BART police officer as he lay face down on the station's platform in the early hours of New Year's Day 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shooting was caught on video from multiple angles and shared widely through social media and news outlets, fueling angry protests against police violence and racial profiling. The incident heightened demands for greater police accountability and became a precursor to the Black Lives Matter movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As we go forward, we have to come together to end police brutality in our city and our society,\" Wanda Johnson, Grant's mother, said at the meeting. \"My family and my life will never be the same again\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Debora Allen, the only BART Director who did not attend Thursday’s meeting, stirred up controversy several months ago when she questioned, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11710770/honoring-oscar-grant-gets-political-at-bart-meeting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in a post on Facebook\u003c/a>, if BART should memorialize individuals. The post drew strong backlash and was subsequently removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART's decision follows a unanimous vote by the Oakland City Council last month in support of the name change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_140765\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/842911761-e1433179787952.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-140765\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/842911761-e1433179787952.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1308\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators march in Oakland in January 2009 to protest the BART police killing of Oscar Grant. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Grant's shooting highlighted major shortcomings in BART’s Police Department, including insufficient training and lax oversight, and led to institutional reform efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johannes Mehserle, the officer who shot Grant, claimed he intended to use his taser but instead drew his gun accidentally. Grant was rushed to Highland Hospital in Oakland and pronounced dead later that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mehserle, who was charged with murder and convicted of involuntary manslaughter, was sentenced to prison for two years and released in 2011 -- a punishment that protesters decried as far too lenient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thursday's BART meeting was also attended by local youth advocates who are pushing to create a \"youth empowerment zone\" near the station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Naming the street 'Oscar Grant Way' is going to help us teach future generations that this can never happen again,\" said José Luis Pavón, an organizer with Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Kate Wolffe contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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What you have incited is absolutely unacceptable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minister Keith Muhammad, who has supported the family since Grant’s death, said that while the social media post may appear innocuous, “quite frankly it was a dog whistle.” Especially, he added, “if you just consider the community that director represents.” Allen represents East Bay suburbs, including Walnut Creek and Danville, where many residents are wealthier and less diverse than in some of the other territory BART covers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the meeting, Allen responded directly to the family. “My intent was to talk about policy with this post,” she said. “There was no other hidden motive to divide people, to attack people, or to get people to attack people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Over a few days’ time, the comments on that post became really a very unhealthy debate with people attacking each and calling each other racist,” Allen said, adding that is why she deleted the post.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe my original question was, and still is, a valid public policy question,” she said, acknowledging that the context was mistaken. “I offer you my sincerest apology for the outcome of that post, and for any harm or grief that I’ve caused any of you to feel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Cephus Johnson, Grant’s uncle, known to many as Uncle Bobby, said that an apology with an excuse did not feel like a true apology. “Mehserle offered excuses for why he murdered Oscar, too,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another BART director, \u003ca href=\"https://www.bart.gov/about/bod/bodMembersDetail_09\">Bevan Dufty\u003c/a> spoke strongly against Allen’s post, calling it a “terrible mistake.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of us who run for office, we know the hate that exists in this country, and to open up a poll and blanket people about a subject like this?” Dufty asked. “If you want to ask people if they want more straphangers in a rail car, I think that’s dandy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But to ask this question, really begged a terrible thing,” Dufty added.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Next Steps for the Project\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While the design of the mural is not yet finalized, a contract has been signed with Oakland native and artist Senay Dennis, also known as Refa One.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dufty said it was part of the responsibility of BART officials to acknowledge what happened 10 years ago. He said he feels the need to “recognize how important it is to have a station named for somebody, somebody who will be recognized 100 years from now, as Rosa Parks was remembered,” he said. “Someone whose life was taken from them unjustly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART Director \u003ca href=\"https://www.kalw.org/post/she-ran-bart-director-because-oscar-grant-now-lateefah-simon-must-confront-another-killing\">Lateefah Simon\u003c/a> has also supported the Grant family’s wishes to remember Oscar. Simon ran for the BART board, in part, because of Grant’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The full board has not publicly discussed or signed off on the mural or other possible memorials. That is in part because the full board does not need to sign off on projects under $150,000. The mural project is expected to cost $30,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal to rename the station and to place a commemorative plaque are not yet on any BART board agenda.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It’s almost been 10 years since Oscar Grant was shot and killed on the BART platform at Oakland’s Fruitvale Station in the early hours of New Year’s Day in 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grant’s shooting was caught on cellphone videos and shared on social media. The footage of the 22-year-old — lying on his stomach restrained when a BART police officer raised his gun and shot him in the back while another officer pinned him down — ricocheted across the country and the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was one of the first times\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2LDw5l_yMI\"> video of an officer-involved shooting of a young black man was shared on the internet\u003c/a>, and it sparked protests, some of them violent. The officer, Johannes Mehserle, claimed he mistook his gun for his taser. He was later convicted of \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Mehserle-convicted-of-involuntary-manslaughter-3181861.php\">involuntary manslaughter.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, as the decade anniversary of Grant’s death approaches, his family has been working with BART to honor his life and mark his death. A mural is being planned near Fruitvale Station, and in early December his family officially filed paperwork requesting that the station where he died be renamed in his honor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They want the station to be called Fruitvale-Grant Station, and they are requesting a plaque near the place where he died. There is still a knick in the concrete platform, from the bullet that killed Grant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It will give us a sense of peace and closure to really know that BART is working not only with the community, but with the family, to say that they do not want this to ever happen again,” said Wanda Johnson, Oscar Grant’s mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Social Media Comments Generate Anger\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Recently, Grant’s family accused a BART director of stoking racial tensions around their work to honor Grant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same powerful tool of social media that amplified the story of his death, they said, was now being used to vilify the plans to memorialize his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Oscar-Grant-mural-at-BART-s-Fruitvale-Station-13435806.php\">San Francisco Chronicle article\u003c/a> reported on the family’s work with BART to create a memorial, BART Director Debora Allen posed a question on Facebook last week. “BART is placing a permanent art mural at the Fruitvale station honoring Oscar Grant,” she wrote in the now-deleted post. Allen’s Facebook post continued, “It did not appear on a Board agenda. The family also wants the station and a street named after him. Should BART ever memorialize or name stations after individuals? Your thoughts?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The responses that came in included racist remarks about Grant. At a BART board meeting on Dec. 6, Johnson spoke to Allen directly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You knew, without a shadow of a doubt,” that the post “would cause racial comments to be put there,” Johnson said pointedly. “You have hurt my family tremendously,” she said, her voice shaking. “For my 13-year-old granddaughter to see all the rude posts. What you have incited is absolutely unacceptable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minister Keith Muhammad, who has supported the family since Grant’s death, said that while the social media post may appear innocuous, “quite frankly it was a dog whistle.” Especially, he added, “if you just consider the community that director represents.” Allen represents East Bay suburbs, including Walnut Creek and Danville, where many residents are wealthier and less diverse than in some of the other territory BART covers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the meeting, Allen responded directly to the family. “My intent was to talk about policy with this post,” she said. “There was no other hidden motive to divide people, to attack people, or to get people to attack people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Over a few days’ time, the comments on that post became really a very unhealthy debate with people attacking each and calling each other racist,” Allen said, adding that is why she deleted the post.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe my original question was, and still is, a valid public policy question,” she said, acknowledging that the context was mistaken. “I offer you my sincerest apology for the outcome of that post, and for any harm or grief that I’ve caused any of you to feel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Cephus Johnson, Grant’s uncle, known to many as Uncle Bobby, said that an apology with an excuse did not feel like a true apology. “Mehserle offered excuses for why he murdered Oscar, too,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another BART director, \u003ca href=\"https://www.bart.gov/about/bod/bodMembersDetail_09\">Bevan Dufty\u003c/a> spoke strongly against Allen’s post, calling it a “terrible mistake.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of us who run for office, we know the hate that exists in this country, and to open up a poll and blanket people about a subject like this?” Dufty asked. “If you want to ask people if they want more straphangers in a rail car, I think that’s dandy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But to ask this question, really begged a terrible thing,” Dufty added.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Next Steps for the Project\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While the design of the mural is not yet finalized, a contract has been signed with Oakland native and artist Senay Dennis, also known as Refa One.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dufty said it was part of the responsibility of BART officials to acknowledge what happened 10 years ago. 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"content": "\u003cp>The mourners wore white from head to toe as they filed into church for Nia Wilson’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/01/black-funeral-homes-mourning/426807/\">homegoing\u003c/a>, the funeral tradition for many in the African-American community. The backs of immaculate white jackets, white dresses and even jeans became a perfect canvas on which were painted pictures of Nia Wilson’s beautiful 18-year-old face, surrounded by angel wings and words like “Black Queens Matter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, Aug. 3, the young woman who was brutally stabbed, allegedly by a white man less than two weeks earlier at MacArthur BART Station in Oakland, was being sent home by family and friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nia, people said again and again, means “purpose” in Swahili. That her young life was full of possibility and purpose seemed clear. She wanted to be a paramedic, her family said, even getting CPR-certified after she saved one of her aunts from choking to death.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\u003cstrong>'Nia’s love, that one kind of love that you will never have to question.\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nNia’s love, the love she gives without no expression.'\u003ccite>A poem written by Nia Wilson’s sister, Malika Harris\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In a slideshow of photos of Nia Wilson that streamed while Mariah Carey’s “Always Be My Baby” played from loudspeakers, you could see the purpose in her face, beautiful and young, looking at the camera, her eyes full of life, pouting her lips a little bit, capturing her best angle. A familiar pose repeats itself in these pictures, her hip cocked to one side, confident, proud, a girl on the cusp of being a woman, a daughter of Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What was evident, sitting in the vast room of Acts Full Gospel Church in East Oakland, was how deeply this young woman was loved by her large and close-knit family and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As members of her family came up to the pulpit, they read poems and told stories about Nia through a curtain of grief. She was everyone's favorite cousin, everyone's favorite aunt, just everyone's favorite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I always think about your big smile and your loving ways,” said Aji Lewis, Nia’s oldest niece, still a little girl. “Titi Nia, I was told not to question God, but since you’ve been gone, I’ve been so confused,” the girl said between tears. “Can you promise to come visit me in my dreams?” she asked, before breaking down sobbing.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13837740/sayhername-10-illustrated-tributes-to-nia-wilson-lighting-up-social-media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#SayHerName: 10 Illustrated Tributes to Nia Wilson Lighting Up Social Media\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Nia Wilson’s cousin, Lauren Williams, described Nia as more like an older sister. The last time Williams was at a funeral, Nia was by her side comforting her. Now she was having to confront the loss of the person she wanted to turn to most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ebony Monroe, Nia’s older cousin, also said they were more like sisters. The two “had a special bond.” Both women loved to do makeup, and she had made Nia up for her birthday and for prom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was just waiting for her to turn 21,” Monroe said. “And we was gonna go out.” Her voice broke while the crowd found a moment of bittersweet laughter. “We had plans,” she said. They had their whole lives ahead of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nia Wilson’s sister, Malika Harris, read a poem she had written called \"Nia’s Love,\" while trying to hold back from crying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nia’s love, that one kind of love that you will never have to question, Nia’s love, the love she gives without no expression, Nia’s love, the love she gives when you need that feeling of protection,” Harris read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11685025\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11685025\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nias-Love-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nias-Love-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nias-Love-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nias-Love-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nias-Love-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nias-Love-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nias-Love-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nias-Love-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nias-Love-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nias-Love-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nias-Love-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A copy of a poem, written and read by Malika Harris, at the funeral of her sister, Nia Wilson. \u003ccite>(Sandhya Dirks )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Nia’s love, my Nia’s love, so honest and true, baby girl shine bright, and I promise we will get justice for you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Nia was named \"Purpose\" at birth, her homegoing made it clear that for family and loved ones, there was purpose in her death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Blessed are those of us that find their purpose in life. All of us have now found our purpose,” said Ansar El Muhammad in his eulogy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The service was interfaith. Nia’s father is Muslim, and in addition to family and local and national politicians such as Oakland City Council members and congresswoman Barbara Lee, ministers from both the Nation of Islam and Christian clergy spoke. They were united in their love for Nia and for her family, and in their anger over her savage killing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Lee Cowell, a 27-year-old parolee and transient, whose family has said he was \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/Police-arrest-suspect-in-Oakland-train-station-13099383.php\">mentally ill and estranged from them\u003c/a>, is accused of the murder of Nia Wilson and the attempted murder of her sister, Lahtifa Wilson. BART police have said that there is little doubt as to his guilt, as surveillance footage captured the July 22 attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART police described the murder as a prison-style attack, with Lee allegedly coming up from behind Nia Wilson and slitting her throat, then stabbing her sister.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took around 24 hours for BART police to arrest Cowell, and when they did, the arrest was nonviolent, something many in the community feel might not have happened had he not been white.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\u003cstrong>'The vengeance that comes from God,\u003c/strong> if government does not do its job, is a righteous indignation.'\u003ccite>Minister Keith Muhammad\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Pastor and minister alike aired their gut-wrenching anger over Nia’s murder. No one said John Lee Cowell’s name, but he was there in the room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was mad, and I wanted them to find him, but I was hoping the homies find him first,” Bishop Keith Clark told the cheering crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That anger was echoed by Minister Keith Muhammad: “Pastor said he felt that if law enforcement did not find this man, that he wouldn’t have felt badly if the hood caught up to him. I approve this message.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The vengeance that comes from God, if government does not do its job, is a righteous indignation,” he added, calling on the community to hold politicians' and law enforcement's feet to the fire to get justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many present, there were ghosts in the room, too. Ghosts that haunt Oakland’s black community, reminding them that they’ve felt too often that justice has been denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The memory of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oscar-grant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oscar Grant\u003c/a>, killed by a BART police officer on New Year's Day 2009, hung in the room. The unarmed Grant was \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo0d6Q4RVno\">shot in the back\u003c/a> while restrained and lying face-down at Fruitvale Station. The BART police officer said he mistook his gun for his taser. He was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter, but not guilty on charges of voluntary manslaughter and second-degree murder. He served 11 months in a private jail cell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t just the death of Oscar Grant or the slaying of Nia Wilson, connected to each other in the same way the BART tracks link station to station, that tinged the emotional service. It was also the echo of too many young black people, especially women, gone too soon. The Say Her Name hashtag and movement has become associated with Nia Wilson. Signs posted on the front windows of the entry to the church read: “Say her name” and “She is not a hashtag.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11685026\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11685026 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0565-e1533576572817-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0565-e1533576572817-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0565-e1533576572817-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0565-e1533576572817-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0565-e1533576572817-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0565-e1533576572817-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0565-e1533576572817-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0565-e1533576572817-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0565-e1533576572817-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0565-e1533576572817-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0565-e1533576572817-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign at the front of Acts Full Gospel Church in East Oakland for the funeral of Nia Wilson. \u003ccite>(Sandhya Dirks )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the service, speakers called out for the room to \"say her name!\" The room roared back “Nia Wilson,” the sound filling the worship hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.aapf.org/sayhername/\">Say Her Name\u003c/a> began as a response to a disproportionate lack of media attention given to the deaths of black women, especially in interactions with law enforcement. It blew up after Black Lives Matter became a national rallying cry that often focused on the killings of black men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Media have been criticized for their response to Nia Wilson’s death. Local Fox affiliate KTVU showed a picture of her the day after her death holding a cellphone case that looked like a gun. “As if she was a gang member,” said Nina Knox, who grew up with Nia’s mother. “As if it should be swept under the carpet, as if you know, other people that’s not in the urban areas see such a picture, and say, 'Oh, that was just an old black gangbanger from Oakland and we don’t want to send our support there.' ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics point out that choosing images like that reframe the story, making it seem like she was responsible for her own murder, painting an innocent victim as a villain because of the color of her skin, making it easier for people not to care. \u003ca href=\"http://www.ktvu.com/news/protest-at-ktvu-over-use-of-inappropriate-nia-wilson-photo\">KTVU has apologized for its editorial choice\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13837639/nia-wilson-and-the-war-on-black-women\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nia Wilson and the War on Black Women\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>A headline from \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/BART-killing-Divergent-paths-met-tragically-on-13113688.php\">a San Francisco Chronicle story\u003c/a> about Nia Wilson’s murder said: “Divergent paths met tragically on Oakland platform.” That framing of the narrative threatens to erase Nia's death as the focal point, critics say, and puts her killer on the same level as her, as part of a tragic story rather than the prime mover of that tragedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Nia’s name means purpose, Bishop Keith Clark said again, at the crescendo of his sermon. “That scoundrel of a human being, who snatched our sister’s life, what you meant for evil, God’s gonna work it for our good. 'Cause racism, we come to tell you something,” he called out, the crowd on their feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11685028\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11685028 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0569-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0569-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0569-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0569-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0569-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0569-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0569-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0569-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0569-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0569-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0569-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mourners stand at Nia Wilson's funeral. \u003ccite>(Sandhya Dirks)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>John Lee Cowell has not been charged with a hate crime, but for Nia Wilson's family and the black community in Oakland, there is no doubt that her death is about race. The district attorney's office and investigating officers say they have found no direct links to white supremacist organizations in Cowell’s past, but for many that does not mean it did not happen in the context of white supremacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the district attorney, the mayor, and all of those in government, can I be very clear about a piece of history that you and I are very clear about?” Minister Keith Muhammad asked the room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we waited for the slave master to say why he enslaved us, he would never admit to hatred. But we’ve got hundreds of years of slavery, suffering, and death,\" said Minister Muhammad. \"Look at how high the bar has been set before a hate crime can be convicted in America, and in the state of California. They have made convicting a hate crime an impossible dream,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bishop Keith Clark spoke directly to the current administration, while not calling out the president by name, hinting at the fact that President Trump has been uniformly silent about Nia Wilson’s murder. This in contrast to how a similar case played out: that of a young woman, Kathryn Steinle, also killed in a seemingly random attack in a public place in a violent and tragic way. When Steinle was fatally shot on a San Francisco pier in July 2015, then-\u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-kate-steinle-analysis-20171202-story.html\">candidate Trump used her death as a political rallying cry\u003c/a>. Kathryn Steinle was a white woman, killed by a gun fired by a homeless undocumented immigrant who had been incarcerated for low-level crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\u003cstrong>'Purpose, purpose \u003c/strong>has brought us together today.'\u003ccite>Bishop Bob Jackson\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Nia Wilson was a black woman, and the suspect in her killing is a homeless white man who was on parole and had been incarcerated for violent crimes in the past. A jury found that Steinle’s death had been an accident, but there is little doubt that the murder of Nia Wilson was an accident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the family and the community, the difference between these cases is not just that the killing of Nia Wilson was far more brutal and deliberate. It was that she was black, and her attacker white.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The administration done messed up now,” Bishop Clark said. “Because you let us get together, Muslims and Christians, you done messed up now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of the over three-hour service, Bishop Bob Jackson, who leads Acts Full Gospel Church, came forward to speak the final words.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t know her but I love her,” Bishop Jackson said. “I didn’t know her, but I feel she’s a part of me. And I’m praying she became a part of all of us. Because if anybody is going to unite us, it’s going to be Nia.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Purpose, purpose has brought us together today,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was an open casket, as is traditional at African-American homegoing celebrations, and a viewing of Nia Wilson's body. The family sat in the front row, resplendent in all white, as over 100 people lined up to pay their respects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coffin was covered in a translucent veil, a shroud. The body of Nia Wilson lay there, her makeup perfectly done, as it often was in life, her hair regal, her face silent and composed. Her eyes were closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To those who came to say goodbye, she looked like a queen.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The mourners wore white from head to toe as they filed into church for Nia Wilson’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/01/black-funeral-homes-mourning/426807/\">homegoing\u003c/a>, the funeral tradition for many in the African-American community. The backs of immaculate white jackets, white dresses and even jeans became a perfect canvas on which were painted pictures of Nia Wilson’s beautiful 18-year-old face, surrounded by angel wings and words like “Black Queens Matter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, Aug. 3, the young woman who was brutally stabbed, allegedly by a white man less than two weeks earlier at MacArthur BART Station in Oakland, was being sent home by family and friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nia, people said again and again, means “purpose” in Swahili. That her young life was full of possibility and purpose seemed clear. She wanted to be a paramedic, her family said, even getting CPR-certified after she saved one of her aunts from choking to death.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\u003cstrong>'Nia’s love, that one kind of love that you will never have to question.\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nNia’s love, the love she gives without no expression.'\u003ccite>A poem written by Nia Wilson’s sister, Malika Harris\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In a slideshow of photos of Nia Wilson that streamed while Mariah Carey’s “Always Be My Baby” played from loudspeakers, you could see the purpose in her face, beautiful and young, looking at the camera, her eyes full of life, pouting her lips a little bit, capturing her best angle. A familiar pose repeats itself in these pictures, her hip cocked to one side, confident, proud, a girl on the cusp of being a woman, a daughter of Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What was evident, sitting in the vast room of Acts Full Gospel Church in East Oakland, was how deeply this young woman was loved by her large and close-knit family and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As members of her family came up to the pulpit, they read poems and told stories about Nia through a curtain of grief. She was everyone's favorite cousin, everyone's favorite aunt, just everyone's favorite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I always think about your big smile and your loving ways,” said Aji Lewis, Nia’s oldest niece, still a little girl. “Titi Nia, I was told not to question God, but since you’ve been gone, I’ve been so confused,” the girl said between tears. “Can you promise to come visit me in my dreams?” she asked, before breaking down sobbing.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13837740/sayhername-10-illustrated-tributes-to-nia-wilson-lighting-up-social-media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#SayHerName: 10 Illustrated Tributes to Nia Wilson Lighting Up Social Media\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Nia Wilson’s cousin, Lauren Williams, described Nia as more like an older sister. The last time Williams was at a funeral, Nia was by her side comforting her. Now she was having to confront the loss of the person she wanted to turn to most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ebony Monroe, Nia’s older cousin, also said they were more like sisters. The two “had a special bond.” Both women loved to do makeup, and she had made Nia up for her birthday and for prom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was just waiting for her to turn 21,” Monroe said. “And we was gonna go out.” Her voice broke while the crowd found a moment of bittersweet laughter. “We had plans,” she said. They had their whole lives ahead of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nia Wilson’s sister, Malika Harris, read a poem she had written called \"Nia’s Love,\" while trying to hold back from crying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nia’s love, that one kind of love that you will never have to question, Nia’s love, the love she gives without no expression, Nia’s love, the love she gives when you need that feeling of protection,” Harris read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11685025\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11685025\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nias-Love-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nias-Love-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nias-Love-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nias-Love-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nias-Love-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nias-Love-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nias-Love-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nias-Love-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nias-Love-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nias-Love-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/Nias-Love-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A copy of a poem, written and read by Malika Harris, at the funeral of her sister, Nia Wilson. \u003ccite>(Sandhya Dirks )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Nia’s love, my Nia’s love, so honest and true, baby girl shine bright, and I promise we will get justice for you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Nia was named \"Purpose\" at birth, her homegoing made it clear that for family and loved ones, there was purpose in her death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Blessed are those of us that find their purpose in life. All of us have now found our purpose,” said Ansar El Muhammad in his eulogy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The service was interfaith. Nia’s father is Muslim, and in addition to family and local and national politicians such as Oakland City Council members and congresswoman Barbara Lee, ministers from both the Nation of Islam and Christian clergy spoke. They were united in their love for Nia and for her family, and in their anger over her savage killing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Lee Cowell, a 27-year-old parolee and transient, whose family has said he was \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/Police-arrest-suspect-in-Oakland-train-station-13099383.php\">mentally ill and estranged from them\u003c/a>, is accused of the murder of Nia Wilson and the attempted murder of her sister, Lahtifa Wilson. BART police have said that there is little doubt as to his guilt, as surveillance footage captured the July 22 attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART police described the murder as a prison-style attack, with Lee allegedly coming up from behind Nia Wilson and slitting her throat, then stabbing her sister.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took around 24 hours for BART police to arrest Cowell, and when they did, the arrest was nonviolent, something many in the community feel might not have happened had he not been white.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\u003cstrong>'The vengeance that comes from God,\u003c/strong> if government does not do its job, is a righteous indignation.'\u003ccite>Minister Keith Muhammad\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Pastor and minister alike aired their gut-wrenching anger over Nia’s murder. No one said John Lee Cowell’s name, but he was there in the room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was mad, and I wanted them to find him, but I was hoping the homies find him first,” Bishop Keith Clark told the cheering crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That anger was echoed by Minister Keith Muhammad: “Pastor said he felt that if law enforcement did not find this man, that he wouldn’t have felt badly if the hood caught up to him. I approve this message.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The vengeance that comes from God, if government does not do its job, is a righteous indignation,” he added, calling on the community to hold politicians' and law enforcement's feet to the fire to get justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many present, there were ghosts in the room, too. Ghosts that haunt Oakland’s black community, reminding them that they’ve felt too often that justice has been denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The memory of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oscar-grant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oscar Grant\u003c/a>, killed by a BART police officer on New Year's Day 2009, hung in the room. The unarmed Grant was \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo0d6Q4RVno\">shot in the back\u003c/a> while restrained and lying face-down at Fruitvale Station. The BART police officer said he mistook his gun for his taser. He was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter, but not guilty on charges of voluntary manslaughter and second-degree murder. He served 11 months in a private jail cell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t just the death of Oscar Grant or the slaying of Nia Wilson, connected to each other in the same way the BART tracks link station to station, that tinged the emotional service. It was also the echo of too many young black people, especially women, gone too soon. The Say Her Name hashtag and movement has become associated with Nia Wilson. Signs posted on the front windows of the entry to the church read: “Say her name” and “She is not a hashtag.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11685026\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11685026 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0565-e1533576572817-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0565-e1533576572817-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0565-e1533576572817-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0565-e1533576572817-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0565-e1533576572817-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0565-e1533576572817-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0565-e1533576572817-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0565-e1533576572817-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0565-e1533576572817-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0565-e1533576572817-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0565-e1533576572817-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign at the front of Acts Full Gospel Church in East Oakland for the funeral of Nia Wilson. \u003ccite>(Sandhya Dirks )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the service, speakers called out for the room to \"say her name!\" The room roared back “Nia Wilson,” the sound filling the worship hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.aapf.org/sayhername/\">Say Her Name\u003c/a> began as a response to a disproportionate lack of media attention given to the deaths of black women, especially in interactions with law enforcement. It blew up after Black Lives Matter became a national rallying cry that often focused on the killings of black men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Media have been criticized for their response to Nia Wilson’s death. Local Fox affiliate KTVU showed a picture of her the day after her death holding a cellphone case that looked like a gun. “As if she was a gang member,” said Nina Knox, who grew up with Nia’s mother. “As if it should be swept under the carpet, as if you know, other people that’s not in the urban areas see such a picture, and say, 'Oh, that was just an old black gangbanger from Oakland and we don’t want to send our support there.' ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics point out that choosing images like that reframe the story, making it seem like she was responsible for her own murder, painting an innocent victim as a villain because of the color of her skin, making it easier for people not to care. \u003ca href=\"http://www.ktvu.com/news/protest-at-ktvu-over-use-of-inappropriate-nia-wilson-photo\">KTVU has apologized for its editorial choice\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13837639/nia-wilson-and-the-war-on-black-women\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nia Wilson and the War on Black Women\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>A headline from \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/BART-killing-Divergent-paths-met-tragically-on-13113688.php\">a San Francisco Chronicle story\u003c/a> about Nia Wilson’s murder said: “Divergent paths met tragically on Oakland platform.” That framing of the narrative threatens to erase Nia's death as the focal point, critics say, and puts her killer on the same level as her, as part of a tragic story rather than the prime mover of that tragedy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Nia’s name means purpose, Bishop Keith Clark said again, at the crescendo of his sermon. “That scoundrel of a human being, who snatched our sister’s life, what you meant for evil, God’s gonna work it for our good. 'Cause racism, we come to tell you something,” he called out, the crowd on their feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11685028\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11685028 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0569-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0569-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0569-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0569-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0569-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0569-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0569-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0569-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0569-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0569-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/IMG_0569-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mourners stand at Nia Wilson's funeral. \u003ccite>(Sandhya Dirks)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>John Lee Cowell has not been charged with a hate crime, but for Nia Wilson's family and the black community in Oakland, there is no doubt that her death is about race. The district attorney's office and investigating officers say they have found no direct links to white supremacist organizations in Cowell’s past, but for many that does not mean it did not happen in the context of white supremacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the district attorney, the mayor, and all of those in government, can I be very clear about a piece of history that you and I are very clear about?” Minister Keith Muhammad asked the room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we waited for the slave master to say why he enslaved us, he would never admit to hatred. But we’ve got hundreds of years of slavery, suffering, and death,\" said Minister Muhammad. \"Look at how high the bar has been set before a hate crime can be convicted in America, and in the state of California. They have made convicting a hate crime an impossible dream,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bishop Keith Clark spoke directly to the current administration, while not calling out the president by name, hinting at the fact that President Trump has been uniformly silent about Nia Wilson’s murder. This in contrast to how a similar case played out: that of a young woman, Kathryn Steinle, also killed in a seemingly random attack in a public place in a violent and tragic way. When Steinle was fatally shot on a San Francisco pier in July 2015, then-\u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-kate-steinle-analysis-20171202-story.html\">candidate Trump used her death as a political rallying cry\u003c/a>. Kathryn Steinle was a white woman, killed by a gun fired by a homeless undocumented immigrant who had been incarcerated for low-level crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\u003cstrong>'Purpose, purpose \u003c/strong>has brought us together today.'\u003ccite>Bishop Bob Jackson\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Nia Wilson was a black woman, and the suspect in her killing is a homeless white man who was on parole and had been incarcerated for violent crimes in the past. A jury found that Steinle’s death had been an accident, but there is little doubt that the murder of Nia Wilson was an accident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the family and the community, the difference between these cases is not just that the killing of Nia Wilson was far more brutal and deliberate. It was that she was black, and her attacker white.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The administration done messed up now,” Bishop Clark said. “Because you let us get together, Muslims and Christians, you done messed up now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of the over three-hour service, Bishop Bob Jackson, who leads Acts Full Gospel Church, came forward to speak the final words.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t know her but I love her,” Bishop Jackson said. “I didn’t know her, but I feel she’s a part of me. And I’m praying she became a part of all of us. Because if anybody is going to unite us, it’s going to be Nia.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Purpose, purpose has brought us together today,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was an open casket, as is traditional at African-American homegoing celebrations, and a viewing of Nia Wilson's body. 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"content": "\u003cp>Wanda Johnson smiles as she passes out fliers to BART passengers with a picture of her dead son, Oscar Grant, and the words, “Gone But Not Forgotten.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re at the Fruitvale BART Station, where her 22-year-old son was shot and killed nine years ago in the early morning hours of New Year’s Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART police officers, including one named Johannes Mehserle, detained Grant and his friends after reports of a fight on a train from San Francisco. \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2LDw5l_yMI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cellphone footage\u003c/a> from the night showed Mehserle shooting Grant in the back as he lay on his stomach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson asks if I want to go upstairs to the train platform. It’s Saturday morning, two days before the new year. We walk through the turnstiles without paying, and the transit worker nearby doesn’t stop us. It was as if they already knew who she was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2018/01/PerryOscarGrant.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/Image-uploaded-from-iOS-1180x885.jpg\" Title=\"Nine Years After Oscar Grant’s Death, His Mother Continues to Speak Out\" program=\"KQED News\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I follow her up the escalator and we sit down on a bench, just a few yards from where Grant was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point while Johnson and I talk, a BART conductor leans out the front window and shouts to Johnson, “Hey, you look familiar!” She replies, “I’m Oscar’s mom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the last day of 2008, just hours before Grant died, he, Johnson and the rest of her family spent the day together. It was Johnson’s birthday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was the last time I was able to see Oscar. We had my birthday dinner together. We had gumbo,” Johnson says quietly as she remembers Grant filling his bowl multiple times with her homemade gumbo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after dinner, Grant headed into San Francisco with his friends. Johnson remembers him wanting to drive, but she pleaded with him to take BART because it would be safer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson looks at a corner toward the end of the platform, not more than 10 feet from where we are sitting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And here on this very platform right over there, in this very space, he ended up losing his life,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11639715\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS3302_granttrial051111-e1514764868889.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11639715 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS3302_granttrial051111-800x562.jpg\" alt=\"Wanda Johnson, center, is comforted by her supporters outside the Los Angeles Superior Court on July 8, 2010, after the involuntary manslaughter verdict against former BART police officer Johannes Mehserle, who was charged in the death of her son, Oscar Grant. The trial was moved to Los Angeles because of a racially charged atmosphere in Oakland, where the shooting took place.\" width=\"800\" height=\"562\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wanda Johnson, center, is comforted by her supporters outside Los Angeles Superior Court on July 8, 2010, after the involuntary manslaughter verdict against former BART police officer Johannes Mehserle, who was charged in the death of her son, Oscar Grant. The trial was moved to Los Angeles because of a racially charged atmosphere in Oakland, where the shooting took place. \u003ccite>(MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For people who have lost a loved one to violence, going to the spot where they died can often hit too close to home. But for Johnson, it’s different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a healing and a hurting at the same time,” she says. “I know that Oscar is here with me, and he encourages me to keep on going because that is what Oscar would have wanted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Johnson spends her time in the community, where she advocates for at-risk youth and promotes justice for people like her son who have been killed by law enforcement. She heads the \u003ca href=\"https://oscargrantfoundation.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oscar Grant Foundation\u003c/a>, a nonprofit that supports young teens to reduce high school attrition, teen crime and teen pregnancy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson says she meets annually with other mothers who have lost families to police violence: Gwen Carr, mother of Eric Garner and grandmother of Erica Garner; Sybrina Fulton, mother of Trayvon Martin; and Lesley McSpadden, mother of Michael Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11639714\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28734_GettyImages-583550860-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11639714 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28734_GettyImages-583550860-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Left to right: Cleopatra Pendleton-Cowley, mother of Hadiya Pendleton; Wanda Johnson, mother of Oscar Grant; and Lezley McSpadden, mother of Mike Brown stand on stage prior to delivering remarks on the second day of the Democratic National Convention at the Wells Fargo Center, July 26, 2016, in Philadelphia. Johnson says she meets annually with other mothers who have lost loved ones to police violence.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28734_GettyImages-583550860-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28734_GettyImages-583550860-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28734_GettyImages-583550860-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28734_GettyImages-583550860-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28734_GettyImages-583550860-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28734_GettyImages-583550860-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28734_GettyImages-583550860-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28734_GettyImages-583550860-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28734_GettyImages-583550860-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left to right: Cleopatra Pendleton-Cowley, mother of Hadiya Pendleton; Wanda Johnson, mother of Oscar Grant; and Lesley McSpadden, mother of Mike Brown, stand on stage prior to delivering remarks on the second day of the Democratic National Convention at the Wells Fargo Center, July 26, 2016, in Philadelphia. \u003ccite>(Jessica Kourkounis/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“His legacy will always be here with us. I will always encourage others to love their family because we don’t know what tomorrow will hold for us,” she says as her eyes well up with tears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fliers that she was handing out earlier are invitations to the ninth annual vigil for Grant at the Fruitvale BART Station on New Year’s Day. Johnson will be there along, with Grant’s 13-year-old daughter, Tatiana Grant. Johnson says community leaders, faith leaders and activists will be in attendance to promote the theme “Speak Up and Judge Fairly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want you to speak up about the injustices within our community,” Johnson says. “We are asking our government and our police officers and our judges and courthouses to judge fairly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2010, Johannes Mehserle was \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/08/local/la-me-bart-verdict-20100709\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">convicted of involuntary manslaughter\u003c/a> by a jury that also considered the more serious charges of voluntary manslaughter and second-degree murder. He was given credit for good conduct in jail and released after serving about half of his two-year sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson says carrying on her son’s legacy is what keeps her hopeful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oscar was an encourager,” she says. “If you were feeling down, he would try to say the very thing to make you laugh, to make you not dwell on the hurt or pain you would feel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says that’s the kind of person she wants to be to those who have lost family members to police violence.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Johnson remembers him wanting to drive, but she pleaded with him to take BART because it would be safer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson looks at a corner toward the end of the platform, not more than 10 feet from where we are sitting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And here on this very platform right over there, in this very space, he ended up losing his life,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11639715\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS3302_granttrial051111-e1514764868889.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11639715 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS3302_granttrial051111-800x562.jpg\" alt=\"Wanda Johnson, center, is comforted by her supporters outside the Los Angeles Superior Court on July 8, 2010, after the involuntary manslaughter verdict against former BART police officer Johannes Mehserle, who was charged in the death of her son, Oscar Grant. The trial was moved to Los Angeles because of a racially charged atmosphere in Oakland, where the shooting took place.\" width=\"800\" height=\"562\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wanda Johnson, center, is comforted by her supporters outside Los Angeles Superior Court on July 8, 2010, after the involuntary manslaughter verdict against former BART police officer Johannes Mehserle, who was charged in the death of her son, Oscar Grant. The trial was moved to Los Angeles because of a racially charged atmosphere in Oakland, where the shooting took place. \u003ccite>(MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For people who have lost a loved one to violence, going to the spot where they died can often hit too close to home. But for Johnson, it’s different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a healing and a hurting at the same time,” she says. “I know that Oscar is here with me, and he encourages me to keep on going because that is what Oscar would have wanted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Johnson spends her time in the community, where she advocates for at-risk youth and promotes justice for people like her son who have been killed by law enforcement. She heads the \u003ca href=\"https://oscargrantfoundation.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oscar Grant Foundation\u003c/a>, a nonprofit that supports young teens to reduce high school attrition, teen crime and teen pregnancy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson says she meets annually with other mothers who have lost families to police violence: Gwen Carr, mother of Eric Garner and grandmother of Erica Garner; Sybrina Fulton, mother of Trayvon Martin; and Lesley McSpadden, mother of Michael Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11639714\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28734_GettyImages-583550860-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11639714 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28734_GettyImages-583550860-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Left to right: Cleopatra Pendleton-Cowley, mother of Hadiya Pendleton; Wanda Johnson, mother of Oscar Grant; and Lezley McSpadden, mother of Mike Brown stand on stage prior to delivering remarks on the second day of the Democratic National Convention at the Wells Fargo Center, July 26, 2016, in Philadelphia. Johnson says she meets annually with other mothers who have lost loved ones to police violence.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28734_GettyImages-583550860-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28734_GettyImages-583550860-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28734_GettyImages-583550860-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28734_GettyImages-583550860-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28734_GettyImages-583550860-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28734_GettyImages-583550860-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28734_GettyImages-583550860-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28734_GettyImages-583550860-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS28734_GettyImages-583550860-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left to right: Cleopatra Pendleton-Cowley, mother of Hadiya Pendleton; Wanda Johnson, mother of Oscar Grant; and Lesley McSpadden, mother of Mike Brown, stand on stage prior to delivering remarks on the second day of the Democratic National Convention at the Wells Fargo Center, July 26, 2016, in Philadelphia. \u003ccite>(Jessica Kourkounis/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“His legacy will always be here with us. I will always encourage others to love their family because we don’t know what tomorrow will hold for us,” she says as her eyes well up with tears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fliers that she was handing out earlier are invitations to the ninth annual vigil for Grant at the Fruitvale BART Station on New Year’s Day. Johnson will be there along, with Grant’s 13-year-old daughter, Tatiana Grant. Johnson says community leaders, faith leaders and activists will be in attendance to promote the theme “Speak Up and Judge Fairly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want you to speak up about the injustices within our community,” Johnson says. “We are asking our government and our police officers and our judges and courthouses to judge fairly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2010, Johannes Mehserle was \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/08/local/la-me-bart-verdict-20100709\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">convicted of involuntary manslaughter\u003c/a> by a jury that also considered the more serious charges of voluntary manslaughter and second-degree murder. He was given credit for good conduct in jail and released after serving about half of his two-year sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson says carrying on her son’s legacy is what keeps her hopeful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oscar was an encourager,” she says. “If you were feeling down, he would try to say the very thing to make you laugh, to make you not dwell on the hurt or pain you would feel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says that’s the kind of person she wants to be to those who have lost family members to police violence.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Leandro residents sounded off Thursday night about the potential purchase of an armored transport known as a \u003ca href=\"http://www.lencoarmor.com/law-enforcement/bearcat-variants/medevac/\" target=\"_blank\">BearCat\u003c/a>, objecting to what they say is the militarization of local law enforcement\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 100 people came out to the San Leandro Senior Center to get a look at the vehicle, called a MedEvac, which is advertised as \"an armored Response & Rescue SWAT truck\" and which police say will be used primarily for rescue operations throughout the region. Protesters chanted \"No Thanks, No Tanks,\" while police officials showed off two stretchers from the vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Leandro police Lt. Randy Brandt called the MedEvac a \"regional asset\" and said it is unique in the region. He added that San Leandro used a similar vehicle for nine operations in 2013 and 2014, but had to borrow it from nearby law enforcement agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10401873\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Lt-Randy-Brandt.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10401873 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Lt-Randy-Brandt-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"San Leandro PD Lt. Randy Brandt addressing the special city council meeting\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Lt-Randy-Brandt-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Lt-Randy-Brandt-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Lt-Randy-Brandt.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Leandro PD Lt. Randy Brandt addressing the special City Council meeting (Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fremont police Capt. Kimberly Peterson said her agency would also benefit from the purchase of the vehicle, which would be used throughout the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"EMS doesn’t go into those hot zones. They don’t go into the danger area until its cleared, and that could be hour, \" said Peterson, a former SWAT team member. “So if you want the ability to get people in there safely, meaning your first responders, whether it's police, fire, EMS or all three at once, then you need something like this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But most of those who spoke opposed the acquisition. They pointed out the numerous gun ports as an indication that the vehicle would not be used just for medical emergencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Seeing that vehicle outside, it didn’t make me feel safe. It made me feel like, 'Why am I being put in the middle of a war zone?' \" said San Leandro High School student Elise Jones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several others referenced Ferguson, Missouri, where similar armored law enforcement vehicles were brought out to quell protests, but some say inflamed an already tense situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That thing rolling into the front yard of someone’s house — that’s an escalation,\" said Tracy Rosenberg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Oscar Grant died at Fruitvale Station not far from here because something escalated. Eric Garner died because something escalated. The things that we don’t want to see happen, the unjust extrajudicial murders that are tearing this country apart, happen because of the escalation of situations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10401874\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/kids-protesting.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10401874\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/kids-protesting-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Local High School students said they don't want San Leandro to turn out like Ferguson, MO.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/kids-protesting-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/kids-protesting-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/kids-protesting.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Local high school students said they don't want San Leandro to turn out like Ferguson. 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"content": "\u003cp>A crowd of several hundred people blocked traffic on Interstate 880 and descended on West Oakland BART Station, resulting in a brief closure, in another night of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/11/24/oakland-prepares-for-michael-brown-grand-jury-announcement\" target=\"_blank\">sustained\u003c/a> protests Friday over high-profile police killings of unarmed black men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protests initially over a Missouri grand jury decision not to indict former Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson for the fatal shooting of Michael Brown gained new fuel this week when a New York grand jury did not indict NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo for the chokehold death of Eric Garner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few hundred people began gathering in solemn quiet at Telegraph Avenue and 27th Street before 7 p.m. last night. A man stood on the tailgate of a parked truck and told the crowd, \"We're not going to stand for the f-ing police killing us every day,\" but added that breaking windows \"don't do nothing -- it just breaks you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protest grew as it moved south and met a second march heading north at West Grand and Telegraph avenues, swelling to more than 500 people. Protesters shouted, \"Eric Garner, Michael Brown! Shut it down, shut it down!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marchers met a line of Oakland police at Broadway and Seventh street, initially blocking the route to the city's police department and downtown jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10369535\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/AEdit3.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10369535 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/AEdit3-800x582.jpg\" alt=\"AEdit3\" width=\"800\" height=\"582\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/AEdit3-800x582.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/AEdit3-400x291.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/AEdit3.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man in a mask squares off with police in riot gear at Broadway and Seventh Street in Oakland on Dec. 5. 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Black lives fall below the windows of Smart and Final.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three men were \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/3-men-charged-in-Oakland-protest-looting-5928604.php#next\" target=\"_blank\">charged with burglary\u003c/a> for allegedly looting a Smart and Final market in Oakland during Nov. 25 protests over the Michael Brown killing and grand jury decision not to indict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crowd circled around the barricade of police officers and rallied briefly at the jail before marching west and climbing an off-ramp to I-880 near Market and Sixth streets just before 9 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10369490\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/IMG_0755.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10369490 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/IMG_0755-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"A woman holding a sign in reference to Eric Garner is about to be shoved off a dividing wall on Interstate 880 in Oakland on Dec. 5. 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BART Police locked the station down before the march arrived. It had been a week since about two dozen people stopped BART service between San Francisco and the East Bay by \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/11/28/bart-no-transbay-service-due-to-civil-unrest\" target=\"_blank\">chaining themselves to trains\u003c/a> on Black Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protesters shook and banged on the gates blocking station entrances and shouted, \"Oscar Grant! Oscar Grant!\" at onlooking BART police officers. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/oscar-grant\" target=\"_blank\">Grant\u003c/a> was shot and killed by then-BART police Officer Johannes Mehserle while he was unarmed and being handcuffed on Jan. 1, 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10369539\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/AEdit4.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10369539\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/AEdit4-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters shake gates blocking the entrance to the West Oakland BART Station as police watch. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/AEdit4-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/AEdit4-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/AEdit4.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters shake gates blocking the entrance to the West Oakland BART Station as police watch. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The march then returned to downtown Oakland, arriving at 14th and Broadway at about 10:30 a.m. A few masked protesters smashed large windows of the new Downtown Wine Merchants shop at the edge of Oakland's city center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employee Edwin Cabrillo was bleeding from his right arm after the brief assault. He said two people beat him up when he tried to stop them from vandalizing the shop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We worked all our life to open this business,\" he said, adding he agreed with the fury over the killings of Brown and Garner, but not the vandalism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>See Cabrillo's reaction below:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://vine.co/v/OvljZ7wgXIQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right after the glass shattered, other members of the march shouted at the vandals and stood between the larger group and the storefront, but the damage had been done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police charged, moving quickly up Broadway while ordering protesters to disperse. They caught some of the dwindling crowd on 27th Street near Telegraph, but most escaped through an alley before the full police perimeter, or \"kettle,\" could trap them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were unconfirmed reports of a few more arrests by Oakland police.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A crowd of several hundred people blocked traffic on Interstate 880 and descended on West Oakland BART Station, resulting in a brief closure, in another night of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/11/24/oakland-prepares-for-michael-brown-grand-jury-announcement\" target=\"_blank\">sustained\u003c/a> protests Friday over high-profile police killings of unarmed black men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protests initially over a Missouri grand jury decision not to indict former Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson for the fatal shooting of Michael Brown gained new fuel this week when a New York grand jury did not indict NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo for the chokehold death of Eric Garner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few hundred people began gathering in solemn quiet at Telegraph Avenue and 27th Street before 7 p.m. last night. A man stood on the tailgate of a parked truck and told the crowd, \"We're not going to stand for the f-ing police killing us every day,\" but added that breaking windows \"don't do nothing -- it just breaks you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protest grew as it moved south and met a second march heading north at West Grand and Telegraph avenues, swelling to more than 500 people. Protesters shouted, \"Eric Garner, Michael Brown! Shut it down, shut it down!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marchers met a line of Oakland police at Broadway and Seventh street, initially blocking the route to the city's police department and downtown jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10369535\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/AEdit3.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10369535 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/AEdit3-800x582.jpg\" alt=\"AEdit3\" width=\"800\" height=\"582\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/AEdit3-800x582.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/AEdit3-400x291.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/AEdit3.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man in a mask squares off with police in riot gear at Broadway and Seventh Street in Oakland on Dec. 5. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Yes, all lives matter,\" a woman standing in front of the police line said over a loudspeaker, \"but we are here because this system does not give value to black lives. Black lives fall below the windows of Smart and Final.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three men were \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/3-men-charged-in-Oakland-protest-looting-5928604.php#next\" target=\"_blank\">charged with burglary\u003c/a> for allegedly looting a Smart and Final market in Oakland during Nov. 25 protests over the Michael Brown killing and grand jury decision not to indict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crowd circled around the barricade of police officers and rallied briefly at the jail before marching west and climbing an off-ramp to I-880 near Market and Sixth streets just before 9 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10369490\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/IMG_0755.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10369490 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/IMG_0755-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"A woman holding a sign in reference to Eric Garner is about to be shoved off a dividing wall on Interstate 880 in Oakland on Dec. 5. 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BART Police locked the station down before the march arrived. It had been a week since about two dozen people stopped BART service between San Francisco and the East Bay by \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/11/28/bart-no-transbay-service-due-to-civil-unrest\" target=\"_blank\">chaining themselves to trains\u003c/a> on Black Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protesters shook and banged on the gates blocking station entrances and shouted, \"Oscar Grant! Oscar Grant!\" at onlooking BART police officers. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/oscar-grant\" target=\"_blank\">Grant\u003c/a> was shot and killed by then-BART police Officer Johannes Mehserle while he was unarmed and being handcuffed on Jan. 1, 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10369539\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/AEdit4.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10369539\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/AEdit4-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters shake gates blocking the entrance to the West Oakland BART Station as police watch. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_146078\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/IMG_1255-BLM.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-146078\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/08/IMG_1255-BLM-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"People gather at Oakland City Hall Aug. 14 and hold a moment of silence for people killed by police five days after the fatal shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People gather at Oakland City Hall Aug. 14 and hold a moment of silence for people killed by police five days after the fatal shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>About two dozen people from the Bay Area are leaving by convoy today for Ferguson, Missouri, joining hundreds from around the country who plan to descend on the St. Louis suburb this weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The national gathering comes as Ferguson continues to reel from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/08/14/michael-brown-ferguson-missouri-timeline/14051827/\" target=\"_blank\">Aug. 9 killing\u003c/a> of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown by white police Officer Darren Wilson, and from weeks of sustained clashes between police and angry crowds protesting the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This weekend is organized under the Net-based group \u003ca href=\"http://blacklivesmatter.tumblr.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Black Lives Matter\u003c/a>, which seeks to bring people together \"as part of a national call to end state violence against black people,\" according to a media release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What does a police \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/15/missouri-shooting-anger-in-sf-bay-area/\" target=\"_blank\">shooting in Missouri have to do with the Bay Area\u003c/a>? Plenty, according to organizer Alicia Garza. She lives in Oakland but is already in Ferguson prepping for this weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This can't happen anymore,\" she said. \"There’s no way that we can continue to have unarmed black children be shot and killed in the streets in their communities.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garza said fury over Brown's killing resonates with anger over recent officer-involved shootings in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In Oakland in particular, many people are still outraged about the murder of Oscar Grant,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/oscar-grant/\" target=\"_blank\">fatal shooting of Grant\u003c/a> by BART police Officer \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/06/11/bart-cop-johannes-mehserle-to-testify-in-oscar-grant-lawsuit/\" target=\"_blank\">Johannes Mehserle\u003c/a> in 2009 sparked heated protests in Oakland and skirmishes with police that flared again when Mehserle was convicted of a lesser involuntary manslaughter charge, and again at his sentencing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grant's mother, Wanda Johnson, said she plans to go to Ferguson soon to support Michael Brown's family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I look at Oscar’s case and I look at Michael Brown’s case and see similarities,\" she said. \"First it’s taken this long to bring up any charge against the officer. Second, every day there’s something new developing with why he shot this young man, same thing with Oscar. Then you go through a phase of demonizing the young man who was shot, same thing with Oscar.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black Lives Matter is seeking to change what the group says is a \"systemic pattern of anti-black law enforcement violence in the U.S.\" Other demands include disarming police of weapons handed down from the military, releasing the names of officers involved in killings, and redirecting law enforcement spending to impoverished African-American communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garza said the next steps for the group will likely be determined this weekend, but she hopes the message will spread out across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So that we make sure that places like Ferguson, Missouri, are not isolated from places like Oakland, California, or places like Chicago, Illinois,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman for St. Louis County Police said law enforcement agencies in Ferguson are aware of the gathering planned for Labor Day weekend, but they're not commenting on what the police response may be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>St. Louis County arrest records list 218 bookings related to Ferguson protests between Brown's shooting on Aug. 9 and Aug. 23. The majority are misdemeanor refusal to disperse charges, with other arrests for burglary and possession of possible burglary tools, receiving stolen property, unlawful use of a weapon, trespassing, assault, disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and outstanding warrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED has been able to confirm that four of those arrested listed a California city of residence, and all four were for refusal to disperse. One is from San Francisco, one from Pasadena, one from Valencia and one from San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson said despite the difficulty posed by looters and people seeking to commit other crimes, protesting killings by police is necessary, in the Bay Area and Ferguson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Because of that, it was able to be brought to the public, and the public, seeing what happened, knew it was wrong and took action,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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