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WE HAVE THIS SNEAK PEEK.
>> THERE'S GUN SHOTS.
>> TWO YEARS BEFORE THE TRAYVON
MARTIN SHOOTING WAS NATIONWIDE
NEWS, THE BAY AREA ERUPTED OVER
A CASE WITH DISTURBING
PARALLELS.
OSCAR GRANTS WAS YOUNG,
AFRICAN-AMERICAN, AND UNARMED.
DESPITE BEING -- HE WAS BEAT TO
DEATH BY A COP.
IT WAS CAUGHT ON CELL PHONE
CAMERAS AND TRIGGERED A RIOT.
IT FADED, AND MAY HAVE STAYED
THAT WAY IF THE STORY WAS NOT
MADE INTO A MOVIE.
>> I'M TRYING GET HOME.
>> I SPOKE WITH HIM AND HIS CAST
AT THE SUNDANCE FILM FEST RALLY
WHERE HE TOLD ME THAT GRANT'S
KILL CANNING HIT HIMSELF AND
OAKLAND HARD.
>> IT SHOOK US HARD, IF IT'S
CAPABLE OF HAPPENING HERE, IT'S
CAPABLE OF HAPPENING ANYWHERE.
IT DOES, AND IT STILL DOES.
>> NEXT STOP, FRUITVALE STATION,
THE MOVIE IS COMING OUT AS
GEORGE ZIMMERMAN'S TRIAL CAME TO
AN END, KUGLER AND HIS STARS,
SEE THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE
DEATHS OF GRANT AND MARTIN.
>> I THINK IT GOES BACK TO THE
QUICK JUDGMENT.
PUTTING STEREO TYPES ON PEOPLE.
>> THESE WERE YOUNG MEN WHO
DESERVED, YOU KNOW, LIFE LIBERTY
AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS.
JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE.
>> HE FILMED AT THE STATION
WHERE GRANTS WAS KILLED.
>> IT WAS EMOTIONAL PROCESS.
>> THE OSCAR GRANT HE PORTRAYS
IS NOT ALL GOOD OR ALL BAD, BUT
A HUMAN BEING THAT WAS
STRUGGLING TO GET HIS LIFE
TOGETHER.