Legal Opinion
Johnson v. Bay Area Rapid Transit District
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided July 30, 2013No. 11-16456, 11-16480, 11-16481PublishedCited by 76 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MURGUIA, Circuit Judge:
In the early morning hours of January 1, 2009, on a train platform in Oakland, an encounter between a group of young men and several officers of the Bay Area Rapid Transit (“BART”) police ended with the shooting and death of Oscar Grant III and the allegedly unconstitutional detentions of Grant’s friends, Nigel Bryson, Jack Bryson, Jr., Carlos Reyes, Michael Greer, and Fernando Anicete, Jr. A train full of witnesses observed the encounter; several made video recordings that were replayed widely in the news media and made available on the Internet. Johannes…
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