On Our Watch: Under Color of Law

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🗓️ 9 July 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

One of the first police shootings to be captured on cell phone, millions saw Bay Area Rapid Transit police Officer Johannes Mehserle fire a single, fatal gunshot into Oscar Grant's back as the 22-year-old lay face down on the train station platform. Now, a lawsuit filed by NPR member station KQED has forced BART to comply with California's 2019 police transparency law, and release never-before-heard tapes from inside that investigation.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, as you've probably heard over the last few weeks,
0:04.2	we are airing this other series here in our feed.
0:08.6	It's called On Our Watch and it's from NPR and KQED.
0:13.0	And it's all about what happens when police do something wrong.
0:17.7	A couple years ago, this law was passed in California that allowed
0:21.2	reporters to get a bunch of information about how police
0:25.7	investigate each other after an officer is accused of doing something wrong.
0:30.6	So today is the final episode in the series.
0:33.4	And this one is about a case you might have heard of.
0:37.3	It's the killing of Oscar Grant by police in 2009.
0:42.4	It happened at the Fruitvale Barth Station in Oakland, California.
0:47.5	It was basically the first cell phone video of a police shooting to go viral.
0:52.1	The reporters on this series fought the police department in court and
0:56.6	eventually got a lot of information, including footage about the internal
1:02.3	investigation that police did after that shooting.
1:06.9	Here's the episode.
1:08.9	This podcast deals with policing and people affected by it.
1:12.3	It contains explicit content and descriptions of violence.
1:17.1	And Suke is on the line.
1:18.1	We got Suke.
1:18.9	So if you want to say hi,
1:19.7	hello, how are you?
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