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January Tempers flair in Oakland, California, when Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Police fatally shoot Oscar Grant during an attempted arrest. Grant, a Black man, was unarmed, causing protests in the Bay Area. The arresting officer is charged with murder. Violence erupts throughout Brownsville, Brooklyn, as 10 people are shot in a week. Community leaders, including Charles Barron, A.T. Mitchell …
YEAR IN REVIEW (New York Amsterdam News)
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