«Fruitvale Station» is based on an actual event, one that resulted in the shooting
death of a twenty - two
year old African - American living just outside San Francisco, one in which the shooter, a cop, was convicted only of involuntary manslaughter and released
after eleven months.
A father and his
eleven year old son are suing Raigmore hospital in Inverness for over # 200,000 in compensation
after the
death of the boy's mother and the baby girl she was carrying, reports the Scotland on Sunday.