UPDATE: Oakland Foot Locker Looted in Mehserle Protest

Videos posted to YouTube show looters breaking into a Foot Locker store in Oakland, Calif., after a verdict was announced in the trial of a former police officer who shot and killed an unarmed BART passenger, Oscar Grant.

On Thursday, a jury in Los Angeles found ex-BART police officer Johannes Mehserle guilty of involuntary manslaughter. Protesters who gathered in Oakland's streets complained Mehserle should have been found guilty of murder.



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Oaklanders Respond to Guilty Verdict in Oscar Grant Murder Trial

Oaklanders gathered downtown following the conviction of Johannes Mehserle, the former BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) police officer accused of shooting and killing Oscar Grant while on duty in the early hours of New Year's Day, 2009. Cell phone videos of the shooting shared on YouTube by witnesses gave rise to a movement surrounding the incident and a protest that became violent in the weeks following Grant's death.

This afternoon, a jury in Los Angeles convicted Mehserle of involuntary manslaughter. One video captured a few people's initial reaction, which was to leave the city:



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Oakland businesses boarded up their shop windows in anticipation of possible riots following the verdict. On the boarded up windows of one building, artists painted a mural of Grant.



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