Tuesday, July 14, 2009
BART Cop Hurled N-Word at Oscar Grant
Crime / People Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 9:57 AM
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BART cop Anthony Pirone called Oscar Grant a "Bitch-ass Nigger," just before fellow BART cop Johannes Mehserle shot Grant to death as he lay face down on the ground, according to the Chron. Pirone was caught hurling the racial epithet on tape, and the bombshell revelation may further help explain how a routine arrest suddenly turned deadly. Pirone, however, maintains that he was merely repeating what Grant had said to him moments before. There is only one problem: Grant can't be heard on the tapes, while Pirone can. Moreover, Pirone has a history of not telling the truth.
For example, Pirone testified that Grant had refused to put his hands behind him, but then was forced to admit that videotapes of the shooting showed Grant doing just that. Pirone also said on the stand that Grant had kicked him in the groin moments before the killing. But then Pirone admitted that he never told investigators about the alleged kick during at least two interviews in the days after the killing. Pirone said he only remembered the kick later, after viewing videotapes of the incident - which, it should be noted, do not show any such kick, just as they do not show Grant calling Pirone a "Bitch-ass Nigger."
— Robert Gammon
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Wow, this looks really bad. BART police force clearly needs new leadership to clean things up.
Well,..O.K.,..So what, if Pirone called Grant a "Bitch ass nigger"? That claim , even if true, does Not prove that Officer Mehserle, "INTENDED", to shoot Mr. Grant, with his firearm,..This whole trial, is about what Merserle, INTENDED to do,..so whatever other officers may have said, or done, should not & cannot, be, rightly, held against Mehserle,..
Well, ... O.k... So what if the police chief saw that video and concluded two internal affairs investigations and decided that NO COP ON THE PLATFORM did anything wrong?
Well, ... O.k... So what if he called this an example of BART Police "following protocol and performing their duties in a professional manner".
So what if some cowboy punk-ass fake police keep killing innocent people because we arm psychotic racist retards and then don't have any mechanism to actually hold them responsible for even the most blatant of murders?
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