Denise Tejada, Turnstyle News

UC Berkeley made international headlines after a video surfaced showing campus police pushing and beating students with batons. One professor, Math professor Nathan Ilten, saw those videos and was inspired to help bring awareness to the issue of police brutality on campus. He reached out to other fellow mathematicians to help put together a "teach-out" on UC Berkeley's campus.

Turnstyle filmed one of the six teach-outs at Berkeley, Professor Andrew Critch's “The Mathematics of Altruism and Civic Involvement.” The class included a review of the simple order-of-magnitude calculations and how they often show that altruistic behaviors -- like voting and civic engagement -- can have a huge expected impact on social issues.

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OAKLAND: After the peaceful rally in Frank Ogawa Plaza, a march headed to the Fruitvale BART station and was interrupted on International Boulevard as police block off the streets. It got ugly as police and protesters began a game of cat and mouse in East Oakland, where police finally surround protesters on 6th Avenue and E 17th Street. Police corralled protestors and ultimately arrested 152 people.

The firm hired to investigate BART police's handling of the January 1st, 2009 Oscar Grant shooting released a report August 11th revealing the many mistakes the police made. Read more...

The preliminary hearing for former BART police Johannes Mesherle concluded today. Over the seven days of the hearing, the defense and prosecution heard from numerous witnesses including BART police Anthony Pirone. According to The Oakland Tribune, yesterday Pirone admitted that Grant posed no threat  while he was handcuffed and lying on his stomach before he was shot. Pirone himself has come under fire from the community for not being charged with assault after it was brought to light that he struck Grant earlier in the incident. Read more...

The preliminary hearing for former BART police officer Johannes Mesherle has been going on for almost two weeks now. Through these past weeks, the testimonies of BART police officers, witnesses for the prosecution and for the defense have all been heard. To this day, five months later, I still don’t know how to gauge my feelings about this case. I feel angry as an African-American male knowing the system would throw the book at me if I were to shoot a man (whether accident or not), but also sorrow for our system in failing the people that it’s supposed to protect.

Attorney John Burris-- who represents the family of Oscar Grant- has filed a claim with the Alameda County Superior Court which states that the events that led to the shooting of Grant were the results of an Read more...

Unfortunately the case of Oscar Grant, the 22-year-old man who was shot and killed by former Bay Area Rapid Transit Johannes Mehserle wa Read more...

19 year-old Karina Vargas welcomed the New Year watching fireworks with friends in San Francisco, but little did she know that later that night she would play a key role in the murder investigation of 22-year-old Oscar Grant. The video she captured of then Bay Area Rapid Transit officer Johannes Mehserle shooting Grant, along with other witness videos, became a catalyst for multiple protests and the eventual arrest of Mehserle.

Youth Radio talks to one of Oscar Grant's in laws who gives us in insight about what happened the day Oscar Grant was killed by former BART official and how the family is dealing with it. 

Youth Radio talks to Oscar Grant's cousin who witnessed former BART officer Johannes Mehserle shot and kill her love one after celebrating the New Year.