Killing of Oscar Grant
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Oct 20, 2026
Farida Jabala RomeroCORRESPONDENT
The family member of a man who was killed by a barred police officer 15 years ago will now sit on the agency's Civilian Review Board.
Farida Jabala RomeroCORRESPONDENT
Sifus Johnson is the uncle of Oscar Grant, who was shot and killed by a BART officer at Fruitvale Station.
Farida Jabala RomeroCORRESPONDENT
It was Grant's death that led to the creation of the Police Oversight Board that Johnson is joining this week.
Sifus JohnsonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You know, that experience with the loss of my nephew, Oscar Grant, forced me to think, what can I do to help prevent another situation like Oscar?
Farida Jabala RomeroCORRESPONDENT
Johnson also previously served on the state's police accountability board, but says he joined the BART review board to be closer to home.
Farida Jabala RomeroCORRESPONDENT
BART's civilian review board investigates allegations of police misconduct, recommends disciplinary action, and advises the board of directors and police chiefs.
Tamice Spencer-HelmsGUEST
And so this book is about sort of it begins with the litany of black bodies, obviously, that began with, for me, it began with Trayvon Martin.
Tamice Spencer-HelmsGUEST
For others, it's Oscar Grant and people before Amadou Diallo.
Tamice Spencer-HelmsGUEST
But for me, it was 2012.
Tamice Spencer-HelmsGUEST
And being in a white evangelical space that had four years prior called a solemn assembly around the election of Obama.
Winston A. MarshallHOST
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Winston A. MarshallHOST
he did such a good job with Oscar Grant doing is he didn't make Oscar Grant an angel.
Winston A. MarshallHOST
He didn't, like, make something up where he was just this, like-
John RochaHOST
Right.
Annie ParadiseGUEST
And I think, David, when you were speaking about a recent conversation that you had on your podcast about the yellow vests in, in France briefly when we were chatting before, this I'm reminded of in this moment of a dear friend of both of ours, Manolo and I, Sahar Driver.
Annie ParadiseGUEST
I remember she was speaking to a comrade of hers from Iran during the Occupy movement, and during the Oscar Grant rebellion and the Occupy movement kind of overlapped and, and synced up in many ways and learned from each other.
Annie ParadiseGUEST
But one of the things that a friend of hers from Iran was saying to her was something like, "These protests are critical because now the young people will know who the police are." In other words, that they came out with such force with tear gas and with armored vehicles and multi-agency responses, and just a massive repression, which is also the conjuncture that we focus on in the book from two thousand and nine to twenty twenty.
Annie ParadiseGUEST
And of course, as, as we all can also understand immediately in that statement, that for some communities have always known what the police are, that there is a war that is everywhere.