Chad Michael Murray as Officer Ingram (based on Johannes Mehserle).Kevin Durand as Officer Caruso (based on Tony Pirone).The final footage is of a gathering of people celebrating Grant's life on New Year's Day 2013 with the real-life, older Tatiana (Grant's daughter) standing among them. The BART Police officers involved were fired and "Ingram" (the officers' names were changed) was later tried and found guilty of involuntary manslaughter, claiming he mistook his gun for his Taser, and served an 11-month sentence. Title cards at the end describe the aftermath: Grant's killing sparked a series of protests and riots across the city, as well as that the incident was recorded by several witnesses, with both cell phones and video cameras. Grant is rushed to the hospital, where he dies in ICU shortly after emergency surgery. A stunned Caruso demands to know what happened. While being restrained by officers Caruso and Ingram, he is shot in the back by Ingram. Grant is among the passengers the BART police attempt to arrest. This causes a former inmate (during Grant's days in jail) to notice Grant and a fight breaks out. On the return train, Katie, a customer at the grocery store where Grant used to work, recognizes Grant and calls out his name. Grant later attends a birthday party for his mother, Wanda, and agrees to take the BART train to see fireworks and other New Year's festivities in San Francisco, since she is worried about him driving. He briefly considers selling some marijuana, but ultimately decides to dump the stash. It later shows Grant unsuccessfully attempting to get his job back at the grocery store. The film shows Grant and his girlfriend Sophina arguing about Grant's recent infidelity. The movie begins with the actual footage of Oscar Grant and his friends being detained by the BART Police at the Fruitvale BART station in Oakland on January 1, 2009, at 2:15 a.m., right before the shooting. The film depicts the story of Oscar Grant III, a 22-year-old from Hayward, California, and his experiences on the last day of his life, before he was fatally shot by BART Police in the early morning hours of New Year's Day 2009. The film was released in theaters July 12, 2013. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival where it won the award for Best First Film. įruitvale Station debuted under its original title Fruitvale at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award for U.S. Melonie Diaz, Ahna O'Reilly and Octavia Spencer also star. Jordan as Oscar Grant with Kevin Durand and Chad Michael Murray playing the two BART police officers involved in Grant's death, although their names were changed for the film. It is Coogler's feature directorial debut and is based on the events leading to the death of Oscar Grant, a young man who was killed in 2009 by BART police officer Johannes Mehserle at the Fruitvale district station of the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system in Oakland. Fruitvale Station is a 2013 American biographical drama film written and directed by Ryan Coogler.
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