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She served on the East Bay Times' 2017 Pulitzer Prize winning team for its coverage of the Ghost Ship fire. He punched Grant in the face and later kneed him in in the head, an action the authors described as “punitive.” He then applied pressure to Grant’s back, preventing him from getting his hands free.As soon as Pirone released his weight off Grant’s back, Grant put both of his hands behind his back for handcuffing as ordered.This story was produced as part of the California Reporting Project, a collaboration of more than 30 newsrooms across the state to obtain and report on police misconduct and serious use-of-force records unsealed in 2019. Grant Captured . On January 1, 2009, at approximately 2 a.m., officers of the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) responded to reports of a fight on an Oakland subway car. We need more data—we all do. Because Mehserle shot Grant in front of dozens of witnesses, including other "A cell-phone video broadcast on local television station KTVU on January 23 showed what appeared to be Pirone rushing towards one of the detained men and punching him in the face, multiple times, two minutes before the shooting.Witnesses testified that Pirone was the aggressor during the incident.While dozens of people from the stopped train shouted and cursed at officers, Mehserle and Pirone positioned Grant face-down. On November 5, 2010, Mehserle was sentenced to two years with double credit for time already served (due to California jail/prison overcrowding, one day in custody counts as two for most inmates), reducing his term by 292 days for the 146 days he has already spent in jail.On May 9, 2012, nearly a year after his release from prison, Mehserle appealed his conviction to the First District Court of Appeals in San Francisco.
Grant’s death — one of the first to be caught on cell phone cameras — sparked international outrage over police shootings, especially those involving unarmed black men at the hands of the white police officers, and ushered a new era of citizens demanding police accountability.The report, though heavily redacted, found BART’s police department mishandled nearly every step of its response, from the initial investigation of a reported fight on a train to the lack of supervision from commanding officers and their failure to interview witnesses immediately after the shooting. On January 5, 2009, Mehserle's attorney postponed a scheduled meeting by BART investigators, seeking to defer it. Shortly afterward, the train conductor announced to the passengers that the police had been contacted and were on their way to the station at which they were stopped. Oscar Grant Jr. — the slain man's father — filed the federal lawsuit seeking unspecified damages for the loss of the familial association with his son. Bryson said "I would never leave my friend." A report says that Lori Loughlin will express remorse when she is sentenced today in federal court, but she may still feel she has been misjudged and 'scapegoated' by federal prosecutors. It also reveals Bart’s understanding of the ways Pirone escalated the situation and then lied about Grant’s actions in an effort to paint him as an aggressor.Pirone, responding to reports about a fight on the train, ordered Grant off the train in an “aggressive” manner while shouting profanities, and then forced him to sit on the ground, the report said. However, some of the other passengers on the train, along with Grant's girlfriend Sophina, were able to break up the fight. Though he never faced criminal charges, Pirone was fired for his role in the shooting and for the contradictions in his later account of the event, which ran contrary to video surveillance, other officers’ and witnesses’ accounts and even his own retelling.He and his partner that night, Officer Marysol Domenici, were the first officers to respond to a report of a fight on a train at Fruitvale station. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. One of the passengers, who witnesses say was not actually involved in the fight, was 22-year-old Oscar Grant. Each expressed disgust at the behavior officers preceding the shooting that night.On June 22, Jackie Bryson, a friend of Grant "who was kneeling and handcuffed just inches from Grant when Johannes Mehserle shot him", testified for the prosecution. Grant's former girlfriend, Sophina Mesa, testified she called Grant while he and his friends were being detained, and he said, "They're beating us up for no reason, I'll call you back." The movie 'Fruitvale station' was based on Oscar Grant's murder. They detained approximately 20 passengers. Six years ago, on Jan. 1, 2009, Oscar Grant III, 22, was shot and later died of bullet wounds received when Johannes Mehserle, then a BART police officer, fired his gun at point blank range into Grant’s back – after Grant and his friends had been taunted with racial epithets and assaulted by Mehserle and other BART officers on the scene, while Mehserle’s partner, Tony Pirone, held Grant …