In California, jury deliberations are expected to begin today in the trial of a former Bay Area police officer who shot dead the unarmed African American passenger Oscar Grant last year. The officer, Johannes Mehserle, was videotaped shooting Grant in the back while Grant lay face down on a subway platform. The twenty-two-year-old Grant worked as a butcher at an Oakland grocery store and was the father of a four-year-old daughter. Mehserle faces fifteen years to life in prison on second-degree murder charges. Meanwhile, Thursday, the California Assembly unanimously approved a measure to increase oversight of alleged misconduct by Bay Area Rapid Transit police officers. The legislation was introduced following outcry over Grant’s shooting death.