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'A Synopsis Of The Movie Fruitvale Station'
The movie “Fruitvale station” is a drama biographical film that follows Oscar Grant’s last day and the events leading up to his death. The audience gets a glimpse into Oscar Grant’s life and gets to see the chaos of his unnecessary death. Oscar Grant was a real person who was fatally shot at Fruitvale station, on New Year's day 2009, by a police officer. The incident seemed to happen so fast but it seems that Oscar and his friends were most likely stopped due to racial profiling. Oscar was by no means a saint, he had just been in jail a year earlier, but he was trying to move past it and better his life for his family. However, the incident that caused the cops to be called to Fruitvale station was an altercation between Oscar and a White inmate
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