The attorney for the family of an unarmed Black California man shot to death by transit police now says that the ordeal never would have occurred if the officers had not been engaged in an affair. In his $50 million wrongful-death lawsuit, filed with the Alameda County Courthouse, Attorney John Burris contends that the two Bay Area Rapid Transit officers who confronted 22-year-old Oscar Grant on the train on New Year’s Day were involved in an “unprofessional relationship.” Burris’ complaint contends that a female officer “got in the face of the young men (suspected of being in the fight) and repeatedly pointed her Taser at them, threatening to tase them in the face.” Read more.