Oscar Grantâs name has been circulating after police in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center claimed that 20-year-old Daunte Wright was âaccidentallyâ killed after a veteran officer shot him with a gun instead of her taser. BART police gave a similar excuse after they killed Oscar Grant in 2009. Cephus Johnson, Grantâs uncle, talked with us last September following a summer of protests against police violence about what itâs like for family members who are thrust into activism after losing loved ones to police and how to heal through resistance.Guest: Cephus Johnson, aka Uncle Bobby X, founder of the Oscar Grant Foundation and Love Not Blood Campaign.
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