She shelved the earlier material but would later on develop it. She wrote the short story for her senior project in Mississippi’s Belhaven University’s college creative writing program. The unfortunate incident was the focal point of budding writer Angie Thomas’s short story titled The Hate U Give. Several violent and peaceful protests took place following the incident. The incident, captured by several official and private digital videos, immediately went viral when the various footage were disseminated to media outlets and various websites.
Grant was rushed to the Highland Hospital but was pronounced dead later in the day. While in a prone position, Grant was shot in the back by Mehserle. Unarmed, Grant was kneed in the head and was forced to lie face down on the Fruitvale BART Station platform. The BART Police Officers were responding to reports of a fight on a Bay Area Rapid Train returning from San Francisco. In the early hours of New Year’s Day 2009, 22-year-old African-American Oscar Grant was fatally shot by a BART Police Officer, Johannes Mehserle, in Oakland, California.
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