In California, Oakland police have seriously wounded an unarmed 24-year-old man after shooting him in the back. The victim, Tony Jones, is a cousin of Oscar Grant, who was shot dead by a Bay Area Rapid Transit Police officer on a train platform on New Year’s Day 2009. Grant was also shot in the back. Jones’s mother, Betrina Works-Grant, described her son’s shooting.

Betrina Works-Grant: “I talked to my son. My son said, 'Momma, the officers is lying. They watched me get out the car. They watched me walk. And then they started speeding up, and I took off running across the street. And when I took off running, I just heard the gun go pow, pow, pow.' He said he was running with his hands like this [at his sides]. The police shot at him and shot him in his back. They never said they was the police.”