Muni Diaries

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Coming to a movie theater near you: the Oscar Grant fatal BART shooting. The movie is called “Fruitvale” and is being produced by Forrest Whitaker. Academy Award winner Octavia Spencer (The Help) and former Friday Night Lights actor Michael B. Jordan are in talks to star in the movie. The movie is still in negotiation.

SFist has more details about the story.

What do you think — do you want to watch a movie about Oscar Grant or are the news reports enough to do it justice? I’m personally curious about how the events will be portrayed on the big screen.

Yesterday afternoon an “Occupy” protester jumped in front of the tracks at the 24th Street station as the Daly City train was approaching. After several minutes, the BART police arrived, the power to the third rail was turned off, and this man luckily survived what could have been a grisly scene. The Uptown Alamanac has the video of how it all went down.

More from Mission Local:

A man named Michael jumped onto the 24th Street BART tracks just as a Daly City-bound train was approaching. Wearing a shirt that said Viva la Revolucion and yelling “You have the power,” he said he was occupying the tracks because he was sick of sleeping on the streets for six years.

Witnesses on the platform waved their arms frantically at the driver, and the train came to a screeching halt within a foot of hitting the man.

Michael was on the tracks for no more than two minutes when police arrived on the scene.

Read the rest of the Mission Local story here.

A commenter on MissionMission said that Michael turned around to the oncoming train and said, “You almost hit me.”