{"id":36903,"date":"2013-07-31T07:13:29","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T14:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=36903"},"modified":"2013-07-31T07:13:29","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T14:13:29","slug":"thegrio-court-oscar-grants-dad-can-sue-officer-who-killed-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/07\/31\/thegrio-court-oscar-grants-dad-can-sue-officer-who-killed-son\/","title":{"rendered":"TheGrio: Court: Oscar Grant\u2019s dad can sue officer who killed son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO (AP) \u2014 A federal appeals court says Oscar Grant\u2019s father can sue the Northern California transit officer who shot and killed his son on a train platform.<\/p>\n<p>The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday rejected former officer Johannes Mehserle\u2019s claim that he was acting in his official capacity when he killed the younger Grant during a 2009 New Year\u2019s Day melee captured on video by several bystanders.<\/p>\n<p>Violent demonstrations ensued after the videos showing the white officer shooting the unarmed black man were viewed by millions online.<\/p>\n<p>The appeals court said it\u2019s up to a jury to determine whether Mehserle was justified in shooting Grant in the back as he lay face down on the train platform.<\/p>\n<p>Mehserle served 11 months in prison after he was convicted of involuntary manslaughter.<\/p>\n<p>The appeals court\u2019s decision affirmed a lower court ruling.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2013 The Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thegrio.com\/2013\/07\/31\/court-oscar-grants-dad-can-sue-officer-who-killed-son\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for the full story.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO (AP) \u2014 A federal appeals court says Oscar Grant\u2019s father can sue the Northern California transit officer who shot and killed his son on a train platform. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday rejected former officer Johannes Mehserle\u2019s claim that he was acting in his official capacity when he killed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36904,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36903\/revisions\/36904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}