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Tony Pirone shouldn’t have a badge
November 23, 2012
Anthony “Tony” Pirone, the police officer who had his knee on Oscar Grant’s back while Grant was laying on the Fruitvale BART platform in Oakland as Officer Johannes Mehserle shot and killed him, is seeking arbitration with BART to be reinstated to his previous position with the BART police. Many consider Pirone as one of the main instigators in the events leading to Grant’s murder.
California Assembly votes to report on human rights to U.N. committees
August 13, 2010
The California Assembly took the historic step of making California the first state to agree to publicize the text of three human rights ratified U.N. treaties and to submit the required reports to the State Department for consideration by the U.N. treaty committees.
Solidarity with Oscar Grant’s family from the families of other police murder victims
February 20, 2010
These short but moving statements of solidarity with the family of Oscar Grant come from parents whose children were also murdered by police. Let’s spread the word to every mayor, city council and police department in the country that the days when police could murder young Black men – or anyone – with impunity are over!
The cold-blooded murder of Oscar Grant: What happened the night of Jan. 1, 2009
March 18, 2009
Early New Year’s morning phones in Hayward and Oakland were ringing: “Wake up, wake up. Something’s happened to the boys.” Calls were going back and forth between the families of 22-year-old Oscar Grant and his friends – families so close all the women were called “aunties.”