Report: Much went wrong before BART shooting

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A still image from a bystander's video shows the Fruitval... CBS5 / Courtesy to The Chronicle

A still image from a bystander's video shows the Fruitvale BART platform early Jan. 1, just before the fatal shooting.

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A still image from a bystander's video shows the Fruitvale BART platform early Jan. 1, just before the fatal shooting.
Oscar Grant, the 22-year-old transit rider who was shot and killed by BART police on New Year's Day.
Johannes Mehserle
Johannes Mehserle, left, talks with his attorney Christopher Miller in the East Fork Justice Court on Jan. 14th in Minden, Nevada.
This composite image, made from a cell phone video released by attorney John Burris, shows the moments before and immediately after Johannes Mehserle shot Oscar Grant on the Fruitvale BART station platform on Jan. 1, 2009. (Top left) BART police officers talk to Oscar Grant as he sits against the wall at the Fruitvale station platform. (Top right) Mehserle and another officer place Grant on his stomach. (Bottom left) Mehserle holds his gun after shooting Grant. (Bottom right) Mehserle looks up...
Bart Police Chief Gary Gee takes questions from the media about the arrest of former BART police officer Johannes Mehserle in Minden, Nevada.
Johannes Mehserle (center) has been charged with murder.
A newly-reseased report reveals a long list of mistakes made by BART police in the moments of a fatal shooting of Oscar Grant on a station platform New Year's Day. Joe Vazquez reports.

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