No Charges for Second Officer Involved in Shooting of Oscar Grant, D.A. Says
Months after the Bay Area authorities reopened an investigation into the 2009 shooting, the Alameda County district attorney said a former transit officer, Anthony Pirone, would not face charges.
A memorial of Oscar Grant in Oakland, Calif., in 2010.Credit.Paul Sakuma/Associated Press
Jan. 12, 2021
Charges will not be filed against Anthony Pirone, a former transit officer involved in the fatal shooting of Oscar Grant III at a Bay Area train station, months after an investigation into the 2009 killing was reopened, an official said Monday.
The Alameda County district attorney, Nancy O’Malley, said in a newly released report that Mr. Pirone could be found guilty of murder only if he personally killed Mr. Grant or if he aided and abetted the actual killer. Her office concluded that he did neither, calling another officer Mr. Grant’s “sole and actual killer.”
BART Silicon Valley Phase 2 Advancing With $100MM FTA Pledge Written by Marybeth Luczak, Executive Editor
The new $100 million funding allocation will go toward the $6.86 billion final phase of VTA s BART Silicon Valley project, which will extend operations 6.5 miles from downtown San José to Santa Clara.
California’s Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) has been allocated $100 million from the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) for phase 2 of the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Silicon Valley project. The $6.86 billion final phase will extend BART operations 6.5 miles from downtown San José to Santa Clara and include four new stations.
The federal funding allocations will be awarded to VTA when the project has met all program requirements needed to proceed to a construction grant agreement, according to FTA.
By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - More than a decade after a white former policeman was convicted of manslaughter for shooting an unarmed Black .
A California transit officer who kneeled on the neck of a 22-year-old Black man in 2009 before another officer fatally shot him will not face any charges, the district attorney announced Monday, despite pleas from the victim’s family.