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Initially, there were rumors that Grant was handcuffed before he was killed. However, court filings by the district attorney's office state that Grant's hands were behind his back and that he was "restrained and unarmed", but do not say that he was handcuffed.
Pirone handcuffed Grant’s friend, angering other riders. Officer Pirone directed Officer Johannes Mehserle to arrest two of the individuals who had not been handcuffed. One of the individuals to be arrested was Oscar Grant and Officer Pirone’s direction to Mehserle was overhead by Grant.
1 maj 2019 · Just prior to the shooting, the 22-year-old Grant, face down on the station platform with Officer Pirone kneeling on his neck and head, had put both hands behind him "in a handcuffing position," the report says.
25 lut 2015 · Six years ago, on Jan. 1, 2009, Oscar Grant III, 22, was shot and later died of bullet wounds received when Johannes Mehserle, then a BART police officer, fired his gun at point blank range into Grant’s back – after Grant and his friends had been taunted with racial epithets and assaulted by Mehserle and other BART officers on the scene ...
8 lip 2021 · The group of Oscar Grant’s friends who were with him on the platform, Fernando Anicete, Michael Greer, Jack Bryson, Nigel Bryson and Carlos Reyes were all taken to the BART police station that morning. Each was handcuffed and questioned by police.
28 lut 2024 · Fifteen years ago on Jan. 1, 2009, Oscar Grant was killed at the Fruitvale BART station by former BART police officer Johannes Mehserle while face down against the pavement, with his arms...
18 sie 2021 · The officer, Anthony Pirone, called Grant a racial expletive, punched him in the face and then kneed him in the head, applying pressure to his back to prevent his hands from becoming free,...
