JUSTICE FOR OSCAR GRANT!!!!

OAKLAND — Even though Oscar Grant III's family knew it was coming, the sound of former BART police Officer Johannes Mehserle's gun firing made them jump in their courtroom seats Monday and sparked tears as they watched two videos of Grant being killed.

The videos were the most riveting pieces of evidence presented Monday during the first day of a likely two-week-long preliminary hearing for Mehserle, who is charged with murdering Grant at the Fruitvale BART station Jan. 1.
Both videos captured the sound of Mehserle's gun firing; one shows the 27-year-old officer leaning over a prone Grant while pointing an object at Grant's back.

The women who recorded the videos, Karina Vargas and Margarita Carazo,
both said they thought the gunshot was the sound of a Taser, and did not know until the next day they had video of a man being killed by a police officer.

They began to record, both said, because they believed BART officers were acting too aggressively toward Grant and his friends, all of whom were pulled from a train at the Fruitvale station.

Grant never resisted arrest nor did he appear to act aggressively toward police, Vargas and Carazo testified.
Instead, the two women said, it was at least one BART officer, Anthony Pirone, who was the aggressor, yelling at passengers and throwing people against walls. In one video, Pirone was shown charging toward Grant, while Grant sat on the floor with his back against a wall.

Even though the BART train was filled to capacity with New Year's Eve revelers yelling and shouting, both women said the situation appeared to be under control until at least one BART officer, who appears to be Pirone, began acting aggressively toward Grant and his friends.

Pirone, the women said, charged at Grant, demanding the supermarket clerk get off the BART train. He then pushed the 22-year-old face first into a wall, the women testified.

"I heard an officer directing Oscar Grant and his friends to get (off the train). He was yelling at them, 'Get the (expletive) off the car. Get the (expletive) off the car,'"‰" Vargas said. "He was yelling at them; it was obvious he was angry."
Carazo said she began to record the events when she saw an officer grab Grant by the shoulders and throw him from the train.
"I thought it was wrong what the officer was doing. Oscar wasn't doing anything wrong; he wasn't fighting back or anything," Carazo said. "He didn't do anything, he was just standing there."