US cop guilty of involuntary manslaughter in BART shooting case

The verdict was announced at 4pm PST, and Oakland, San Francisco, and the entire Bay Area Transit System are bracing for a violent reaction to a verdict that may carry as little as two years in prison. Then-BART officer Mehserle, shot an unarmed youth on the Fruitvale train station platform in the early hours of New Year's Day, 2009.

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