http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1307/S00098.htm Rosalea Barker: 20 Feet from Reality: An eyewitness account Thursday, 11 July 2013, 12:25 pm Article: Rosalea Barker 20 Feet from Reality: An eyewitness account by Rosalea Barker July 10, 2013 On Friday, July 12, the movie Fruitvale Station will open in Oakland and other “select” cities in the United States. If you follow their Twitter feed @fruitvalemovie you’ll get some idea of the buzz surrounding the film, which is based on the true story of the shooting of an unarmed young man while he was lying face down on the platform at Fruitvale BART station in the early hours of New Years Day, 2009. I wrote about the incident at the time, here. I can’t wait to see the movie. [....]