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DESCRIPTION:BART Officer Tony Pirone kneeled on Oscar Grant's Neck and called him a 
 "BITCH ASS NIGGER" seconds before he was shot in the back by Officer 
 Johannes Mehserle.  BART Police Chief Gee watched this on video, and called 
 it "Following protocol and performing his duties in a professional 
 manner".\n\n!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!\nJUSTICE 
 FOR OSCAR GRANT!\nPROTEST THIS THURSDAY AT 5 PM\n\n12TH STREET BART 
 STATION\nMeet by Frank Ogawa Plaza:\n14th and Browadway, by the 
 Flagpole\n!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!\n\n 
 Yes, this is for real.  "BITCH ASS NIGGER" are some of the last words Oscar 
 Grant III heard before he was murdered by BART Police Officer Johannes 
 Mehserle on January 1st, 2009.  Mehserle is standing trial for murder, and 
 at Johannes Mehserle's pre-trial hearing, half a year after Oscar's murder, 
 a lot more information came to light about what took place on January 1st, 
 2009.  It's information that BART's General Manager and Police Chief have 
 known all along, and have been trying to hide while lying to the public.  
 \n\nCourt transcripts show that on January 1st, BART Police confiscated 
 (stole) a high quality video from a passenger.  The video captures Pirone's 
 assault on Oscar and his racist slur.  The transcripts reveal beyond a 
 shadow of a doubt that Officer Tony Pirone beat Oscar (as well as other 
 passengers), and then kneeled on Oscar's neck while calling him a 
 “BITCH-ASS NIGGER”, seconds before Johannes Mehserle fired a fatal shot 
 into the young man's back.   But to this day, neither Tony Pirone nor any 
 of the other officers who took part or facilitated the attack on Oscar have 
 faced ANY consequences for their roles in his murder.  \n\nInstead, BART 
 has attempted to protect Tony Pirone and the other corrupt BART Police 
 Officers.  On January 12th, knowing the public did not have access the 
 confiscated video, BART General Manager Dorothy Dugger and Police Chief 
 Gary Gee announced the results of their internal affairs investigation,   
 exonerating ALL of the officers, including Tony Pirone, of any wrongdoing.  
 Chief Gee said, "All of the other officers who responded to the incident at 
 around 2:00 a.m. at the Fruitvale Station followed protocol and they 
 performed their duties in a professional manner".  In February, after video 
 taken by witnesses showed Tony Pirone pushing and striking Oscar, Dugger 
 tried yet another manipulation to quell protests from the public.  Without 
 consulting our elected officials on BART's Board of Directors, she hired 
 her cronies at the law firm Meyers Nave to perform a second "independent" 
 investigation.  On April 3, while the investigation was still in full 
 swing, Dugger instructed BART lawyers to file a legal brief blaming Oscar 
 for his own murder.  And it is now July, and although the Meyers Nave 
 investigation was supposed to be concluded by May, Dugger's chosen law firm 
 has yet to deliver any report at all.  \n\nCURRENT 
 NEWS\nhttp://www.indybay.org/oscargrant\n\nGET 
 INVOLVED\nhttp://nojusticenobart.blogspot.com\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/07/14/18607869.php
SUMMARY:No Justice No BART Action at 12th St. BART Station in Oakland
LOCATION:12TH STREET BART STATION\nMeet by Frank Ogawa Plaza:\n14th and Browadway, 
 by the Flagpole
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/07/14/18607869.php
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