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BART Fires Second Officer in Fruitville Station Shooting

Officer Tony Pirone was seen on cell-phone video punching Grant, then kneeling on him when Officer Johannes Mehserle shot him.

April 23, 2010

The BART police officer accused of punching Oscar Grant in the face and calling him a racial epithet has been fired, making him the third officer disciplined in the Fruitville Station incident, the San Francisco BayView reports.

Officer Tony Pirone was seen on cell-phone video punching Grant, then kneeling on him when Officer Johannes Mehserle shot him. Mehserle will go in trial in June.

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The link below includes a news report with the initial video footage of the incident.

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