The family that was destroyed by the BART shooting just filed a 50 million dollar suit in The Bay:
The family of a man slain by a former transit police officer filed a $50 million lawsuit Monday against officers involved in the New Year’s Day shooting, the family’s attorney told CNN affiliate KTVU. The hefty price tag is double what the family’s attorney originally asked for in its legal claim, which is the first step in filing a lawsuit. In the weeks after the shooting, John Burris, the victim’s family attorney, filed a $25 million claim alleging wrongful death. Burris said he decided to raise the amount of the lawsuit after learning more about the shooting of 22-year-old Oscar Grant III on a platform of a Bay Area Rapid Transit train station. “It is the most outrageous shooting, police-misconduct case I have ever been involved in,” the veteran civil rights lawyer told the affiliate. The lawsuit alleging wrongful death and violation of civil rights names then-Officer Johannes Mehserle, the BART police chief and other officers involved in the incident, Burris said. The shooting of the unarmed man sparked large protests in Oakland and led to the arrest of Mehserle on a murder charge.
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