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A badge is not a license to murder: Make sure the murderer Mehserle is charged with murder
May 17, 2009
Build the new civil rights movement to stop police brutality. Rally Monday, May 18, 8 a.m., at the Rene C. Davidson Courthouse, 12th Street and Oak, near the Oakland City Center and the 12th Street BART Station.
To kill or not to kill, be killed or not be killed: That is not our question!
April 22, 2009
Patrick Gonzalez and Tony Pirone, we promise you a rapid promotion! Johannes Mehserle, not to worry, Buddy! We’ll cover all your legal fees. We’ll get you out of that slump with flying colors and added stripes on your bloody sleeve!
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.”
Three poems for Oscar Grant
March 15, 2009
Submit your creative expression – poem, photo, artwork, music, graffiti etc. – to the Oscar Grant Memorial Arts Project. Details follow the poems. Deadline is March 21
Bitter tears, the assassination of Oscar Grant: ‘BARTing while BLACK’
February 4, 2009
RIP Oscar Grant III. You, unarmed, pleading for your life as a young father, at the tender age of 22, while a rogue Bay Area Rapid Transit cop Tony Pirone punches you, then crushes your neck with his knee, shortly followed in his enthusiastic, racist, vicious rage by Officer Johannes Mehserle, who shoots you in the back, murdering you.
BART Officer Tony Pirone caught on video punching Oscar Grant
January 27, 2009
Moments before he was killed, Oscar Grant was punched in the face – but not by the BART officer who shot him. A cellphone video released by KTVU Jan. 23 shows another BART officer, identified as Tony Pirone, punching Grant… Read the rest »