Jordan, Octavia Spencer, Kevin Durand, Melonie Diaz, in this Sundance® award-winning drama, that follows the true story of Oscar Grant III. Sophina: You threw a whole zip of weed out and you don't got a job? I could slap you right now. Official Movie Film Site, Available now on Blu-rayTM, DVD and Digital.Oscar Grant: I dumped that shit, Phina.What'd you do today, huh? I bet you sold that fucking zip. Sophina: Not after you lie for two weeks, get cornered, and don't have a choice.Oscar Grant: You're not even trying to hear me.Oscar Grant: You say you want the truth, right? Well, you ain't even tryin' to hear me.Sophina: Oh, so you would have just kept faking? And been out there bustin' knocks, and doing whatever else, or whoever else.I could've kept getting it, and you wouldn't have known shit. Oscar Grant: I ain't had to tell your ass nothing.Sophina: What game you running now, Osc? You ain't shit, you know that? You lie to me, you lie to your fucking daughter.You could read 2-3 articles on the case and pretty much get the exact same information, and probably more. (I'm still wavering on whether or not to see the movie.) Bottom line: this isn't exactly exceptionally written.

But since I decided to expand my reading interests beyond romance and serial killers, I've been adding all kinds of things to my library. At the time of the movie release, I wasn't interested in seeing the movie because I knew that it would show a clear cut case of murder and would only make me angry and sad. The film won both jury and audience awards at. This book was published in 2013, the same year the movie about this case came out. Friends of Oscar Grant, who was shot by a Bart police officer in 2009, will split 175,000 from San Francisco transit agency. So, when it comes to this incident, he WAS an innocent victim victim blaming has no place here whatsoever. This was proven by multiple witness statements and multiple videos taken at the time. Nächster Halt: Fruitvale Station erzählt die letzten 24 Stunden von Oscar Grant III., der in der Silvesternacht 2008/09 von einem Polizisten an der Fruitvale Station erschossen wurde. That's aside from the fact that he did not have a weapon at the time of the shooting, was not aggressive in any way, and did not resist at all. But even the author himself acknowledged that he seemed to be trying to turn his life around. Oscar Grant had had some trouble with the law when he was younger and had even had a previous gun charge. I think he wanted to also come off as impartial one way or the other, but wasn't completely successful based on the statement '.it's no use pretending he was an innocent victim in all of this.' Actually, he was. I think that the the author did a fairly good job in giving a lot of pertinent details, showing that he did a good amount of research. I also take issue with the fact that there was an entire chapter dedicated just to talking about the type of gun and the type of taser that the officers carried.

If you're going to tell the life story of the 2 MC's, I'd rather you start with that. Jordan), a 22-year-old man whose death in a police shooting caused massive outrage in the San Francisco Bay Area. I'm not really a fan of telling the climax/heart of the story in the prologue or first chapter, and then the next chapter starts the life story of the protagonist. Directed by Ryan Coogler, ‘Fruitvale Station’ depicts the last 24 hours of the life of Oscar Grant III (Michael B.

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