California freed Johannes Mehserle (left), a former transit police officer convicted last year in the shooting death of 22-year-old Oscar Grant (right) on New Year's Day 2009. Grant was unarmed on an Oakland, California, train platform when the trained transit police said he intended to draw and fire his taser rather than his gun when he killed Grant.
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