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Oakland Mother Gets $1.3 Million From Bart for Oscar Grant’s Murder

Oakland Mother Gets $1.3 Million From Bart for Oscar Grant’s Murder

In Oakland, Ca., a San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit agency has agreed with to pay $1.3 million dollars to the mother of a 22-year-old unarmed black man who was fatally shot by a white transit officer in 2009.

Newsone.com reported, this settlement resolves a $50 million wrongful death and civil rights suit filed in federal court by Oscar Grant’s family between Bay Area Rapid Transit and mother Wanda Johnson.