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BART Shooting Jurors Answer 121 Questions

Potential jurors considering the fate of former BART transit officer Johannes Mehserle have been given a 15-page questionnaire with 121 questions on a broad range of topics.

June 1, 2010

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Subject Killed in New Year's 2009 BART Incident Had Criminal Past

Defense attorneys representing Officer Johannes Mehserle in a murder trial that begins Wednesday in Los Angeles plan to call to the stand a San Leandro, Calif., police officer who says Oscar Grant ran from him and a fellow officer with a loaded pistol in 2006 after a traffic stop, forcing the officers to shock him with a Taser and then kick him when he wouldn't put his hands behind his back.

May 31, 2010

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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 22, 2010

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Two of Four Candidates for BART Chief Are Women

Two of the four finalists to lead the Bay Area Rapid Transit's police department are women.

April 18, 2010

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BART Agrees To $1.5 Million Settlement In Grant Shooting

The lawsuit came as a response to the shooting of 22-year-old Grant by 28-year-old BART officer Johannes Mehserle, who has said he meant to grab his TASER but used his gun instead.

January 27, 2010

Editor's Notes

Top 10 Law Enforcement Stories of 2009

Which stories will make the PoliceMag.com list of the top LE stories of 2009? You can bet you'll find President Obama on this list.

December 29, 2009

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Report Blames Cops for BART Shooting

The report reviewing the actions of BART police officers on the New Year's Day shooting death of Oscar Grant on an Oakland transit platform is another big coffin nail in the case against the regional transit agency.

August 24, 2009

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BART Officer Testifies That Man Killed New Year's Eve Was Uncooperative

A colleague of the former BART police officer who shot and killed an unarmed man early New Year's Day testified Wednesday that the victim would still be alive if he and his friends had cooperated with police.

May 27, 2009

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Partner Tells Court BART Officer was Shaken After Shooting

Former BART police Officer Johannes Mehserle was distraught but silent after he shot an unarmed passenger to death early New Year's Day, his partner testified Wednesday. "When I looked at Officer Mehserle, his forehead was extremely sweaty, his face was flushed and his eyes were big," Officer Jon Woffinden testified at Mehserle's preliminary hearing on a murder charge. "He didn't say anything. ... I told him that he needed to take a walk."

May 20, 2009

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Protestors Link Oakland Ambush to BART Shooting

By late afternoon Saturday, a group of about 50 people lined 73rd Avenue, a block from where Dunakin and Hege were shot.

March 22, 2009

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Bystanders Taunt Police at Scene of Oakland Cop Murders

People lingered at the scene of the first shootings. About 20 bystanders taunted police. Tension between police and the community has risen steadily since the fatal shooting of unarmed 22-year-old Oscar Grant by a transit police officer at an Oakland train station on Jan. 1.

March 21, 2009

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BART Hit with More Lawsuits from Oakland New Year's Chaos

Five men who were with Oscar Grant when he was shot dead by a BART police officer on New Year's Day asked the transit agency for $1.5 million Wednesday, saying their civil rights were violated when officers detained them at the Fruitvale Station in Oakland.

February 4, 2009