California Prosecutors Reopen Fatal Police Shooting Of Oscar Grant

A California district attorney is reopening the investigation into the murder of 22-year-old Oscar Grant, a young Black man who was killed by a Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer on New Year’s Eve of 2009.

Grant’s family has been fighting for justice for a decade after he was fatally shot while lying face down on a train platform at Fruitvale Station. His shooting was one of the first to be caught on cell phone video and to go viral sparking outrage and protests.

“We have listened closely to the requests of the family of Oscar Grant. The murder of Oscar Grant greatly impacted the county and the state,” Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley said ito NPR. “We are re-opening our investigation. have assigned a team of lawyers to look back into the circumstances that caused the death of Oscar Grant. We will evaluate the evidence and the law, including the applicable law at the time and the statute of limitations and make a determination.”

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Grant’s family is hoping for felony murder charges to be brought against BART officer Anthony Pirone.

“Absolutely we are hopeful that Nancy O’Malley and her team will do the right thing, and the right thing is to convict Pirone for his actions in causing my son to lose his life and be killed,” his mother, Wanda Johnson, said to Mercury News.

Pirone was fired but never charged.