Oscar Grant Was Shot by Police 10 Years Ago. Now His Family Is Helping Others to Heal
His life was cut short on a train platform. Now his family is building bridges between police and the community, and connecting families affected by such violence.
Oscar Grant III was an unarmed Black man killed by a police officer in Oakland, Calif., years before Black Lives Matter drew national attention to the growing number of unarmed Black men, women and children who die at the hands of law enforcement officers—what some scholars are calling an epidemic.
Jan. 1 marked 10 years since the 22-year-old father was fatally shot by the Bay Area Regional Transit officer in the early morning hours of New Year’s Day.
In the decade since his tragic death, Grant’s family has helped to create a police citizen review board of BART, established a foundation, and launched a camp...