top
East Bay
East Bay
Indybay
Indybay
Indybay
Regions
Indybay Regions North Coast Central Valley North Bay East Bay South Bay San Francisco Peninsula Santa Cruz IMC - Independent Media Center for the Monterey Bay Area North Coast Central Valley North Bay East Bay South Bay San Francisco Peninsula Santa Cruz IMC - Independent Media Center for the Monterey Bay Area California United States International Americas Haiti Iraq Palestine Afghanistan
Topics
Newswire
Features
From the Open-Publishing Calendar
From the Open-Publishing Newswire
Indybay Feature
Sun Sep 20 2009
BART Police Oversight Plan Dead
Community Activists Take to BART Trains Again to Inform Riders About BART's Rogue Police
Justice for Oscar Grant activists took to East Bay BART trains and stations on September 4th to inform riders about BART's intransigence toward holding anyone accountable for their police officers' behavior on New Year's Day. Besides laying out some of the basic facts about the events surrounding the murder of Oscar Grant, activists implored: Help us pressure BART to do the right thing and discipline these officers; Help us pressure the state to charge these officers with the crimes they committed. As the morning commute wound down, activists left BART to attend Mehserle's 995 hearing.

Later in the day, after the Mehserle hearing, it was learned that BART's attempt to pass AB1586 (originally named AB16) would fail in this legislative session in the California Assembly, meaning that there would be no new police oversight of any kind established before the end of the year. In April, BART had already stalled Tom Ammiano's AB312, which would have mandated civilian oversight for the BART Police Department (and potentially could have been law by now if BART had gotten behind it). BART stymied AB312 (along with California police unions) under the promise that they would create their own civilian police oversight model, but BART undercut the strength of their proposal every step of the way.

video photo Read More

Related Indybay Feature: No Justice No BART Takes the Truth to the Trains, July 16th

Recent Related Coverage: video photo pdf Johannes Mehserle's 995 Hearing: video, photos, and court documents including ruling || Murdering BART cop Mehserle's attempt to get case dismissed with 995 motion FAILS || audio Town Hall for Justice for Oscar Grant, Oakland, 8/29/09: audio || video audio pdf Community Demands Action at BART Board Meeting; BART Lies Yet Again: video and audio || Oscar Grant Protesters Interrupt Bart Board Meeting, Demand Action || audio photo pdf BART Uses Faux "Community" at Press Conference to Attack Ammiano for BART's Own Failures: audio and photos || audio Town Hall on BART's Lobby of State Legislature for Their Police Oversight Plan, 8/22/09: audio || pdf BART Releases Public Report from Meyers Nave Investigation of New Year's Day Murder, 8/18/09 || pdf BART Police Oversight Vs. Every Cop Union in the State; Police Chief Gee Out; and a Rumor || audio Town Hall for Justice for Oscar Grant, Oakland, 8/15/09: audio || audio pdf BART Anxious to Wrap Up Police Oversight Plan at Final Subcommittee Meeting || audio Town Hall on Obama, Parnell Smith, Brownie Polk, BART, & Emeryville Police Racism, 8/8/09: audio || audio MOI JR Interview with Rekia Jabrin on the Trial Of Johannes Mehserle || audio BART Public Hearing on Flawed Draft Police Oversight Plan: audio || pdf BART Going Forward with Seriously Flawed Police Oversight Plan Created Behind Closed Doors || audio Town Hall on BART Police Oversight, Mehserle, Obama, Racial Disparities, 7/25/09: audio || audio Town Hall for Justice on Racial Profiling, OPD, BART, Justice Department, 7/18/09: audio
2024-02-09 Catholic Anti-Choice Marchers Get an Earful from Abortion Rights Activists in San Francisco Front Page | Health, Housing & Public Services | Womyn | San Francisco | South Bay | U.S.2024-01-10 Wall of Shipping Containers Intended to Keep the Public Out of People's Park Front Page | Police State & Prisons | Environment & Forest Defense | Global Justice & Anti-Capitalism | East Bay | California2023-12-08 Largest Ever Pro-Palestine Marches in NorCal Demand End to US Aid for Israel's War on Gaza Front Page | Anti-War | Central Valley | San Francisco | South Bay | Peninsula | U.S. | International | Palestine | Santa Cruz Indymedia2023-10-31 Three Activists Detained at Climate Protest for Crossing Beale Air Force Base Gate Front Page | Environment & Forest Defense | Anti-War | Central Valley | California | U.S.2023-09-29 California Climate Justice Actions in Coordination with Massive New York City March Front Page | Environment & Forest Defense | Central Valley | California2023-08-19 Environmentalists Speak Out Against Airport Expansion as Climate Disasters Accelerate Front Page | Environment & Forest Defense | East Bay2023-08-12 Starbucks Bus Tour Stops in San Francisco, Rallies with Allies to Support Unionization Front Page | Labor & Workers | San Francisco | Peninsula | California | U.S.2023-07-19 Halt to Fossil Fuel Funding Demanded as Wells Fargo Operations Shut Down Environment & Forest Defense | Global Justice & Anti-Capitalism | San Francisco | U.S.2023-07-13 Demonstrations Wrack France, Boiling Over After Police Murder of Youth Police State & Prisons | Health, Housing & Public Services | Global Justice & Anti-Capitalism | LGBTI / Queer | International | Government & Elections | Immigrant Rights2023-07-02 A Call for Pride to Return to its Roots as a Riot in Defense of LGBTQ+ Rights Health, Housing & Public Services | LGBTI / Queer | Womyn | San Francisco2023-05-31 Reactionary "Street Art" Campaign Backed by Billionaire Michael Moritz Targeted by Graffiti Artists Police State & Prisons | Health, Housing & Public Services | Global Justice & Anti-Capitalism | Drug War | Arts + Action | San Francisco
We are 100% volunteer and depend on your participation to sustain our efforts!

Donate

$80.00 donated
in the past month

Get Involved

If you'd like to help with maintaining or developing the website, contact us.

Publish

Publish your stories and upcoming events on Indybay.

IMC Network