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SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- Jury selection began in San Francisco in a federal civil rights trial of a former transit officer that may reveal past use-of-force abuses, prosecutors said.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 29 (UPI) -- California's Bay Area Rapid Transit system agreed to pay $1.3 million to settle a federal civil rights suit over a fatal police shooting, attorneys said.
LOS ANGELES, June 13 (UPI) -- A former California transit officer was released from jail Monday after serving 11 months of a 2-year prison sentence for involuntary manslaughter, police said.
OAKLAND, Calif., Nov. 6 (UPI) -- Oakland, Calif., police said they arrested 150 protesters during a demonstration over the sentencing of a former police officer involved in a fatal shooting.
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- A former transit police officer was sentenced Friday to two years in prison for involuntary manslaughter in the shooting of an unarmed man in Oakland, Calif.
OAKLAND, Calif., July 10 (UPI) -- Johannes Mehserle, the police officer convicted of manslaughter for shooting a young unarmed man in Oakland, Calif., has released a letter of apology.
LOS ANGELES, July 8 (UPI) -- A Los Angeles jury Thursday found former BART police officer Johannes Mehserle guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the killing of Oscar Grant III.
LOS ANGELES, July 2 (UPI) -- The trial of a Bay Area Rapid Transit officer in the shooting death of a man on an Oakland, Calif., station platform went to the jury Friday.
LOS ANGELES, June 25 (UPI) -- A former police officer on trial for a fatal shooting at an Oakland, Calif., commuter train station wept as he testified in his own defense, observers said.
OAKLAND, Calif., June 19 (UPI) -- Police in Oakland, Calif., held riot training while waiting a verdict in the trial of a former transit police officer accused of killing an unarmed train rider.
