Film Screening of "Fruitvale Station"

The USC School of Social Work's Diversity Committee is hosting a special screening of Fruitvale Station (2013), which recounts the life of Oscar Grant, a 22-year-old African American man who was shot to death on New Year's day 2009 by a BART police officer at the Fruitvale Station in Oakland, California. 

The film will be followed by a panel discussion with Cephus "Uncle Bobby" Johnson, Grant's uncle and co-founder of the Love Not Blood Campaign Foundation, as well as other family members directly affected by police violence. The panelists will examine systemic bias against prosecuting police-on-civilian shootings due to limited transparency and lack of accountability; discuss how character assassinations of victims of police violence are used by law enforcement, the district attorney and media; and share how families are self-organizing to fight back against police brutality.