Prosecutor: Anger led to killing at train station (AP)

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AP - Two different portraits of a white transit officer accused of killing an unarmed black man at an Oakland train platform emerged Thursday at the start of a trial tinged with racial overtures that will likely delve into appropriate use of lethal force by law enforcement.



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Protestors hold signs during a demonstration outside of a Bay Area Rapid Transit station in Oakland, Calif., Wednesday, June 9, 2010. City Arts and Technology High School students in San Francisco demonstrated with the theme: 'We are All Oscar Grant!' A jury has been selected in the trial of former BART officer, Johannes Mehserle, charged with killing unarmed black man, Oscar Grant, at this same station on New Year's Day 2009. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)