Grant’s family’s demands were followed at a news conference on Monday following a decision to reopen the case after more than a decade. Grant was fatally shot on January 1, 2009, when he fell face down on a platform at Fruitwell Station in Clandestine.
“I have assigned a team of lawyers to look into the circumstances surrounding Scar Grant’s death,” O’Malley said in a statement. “We will evaluate the evidence and the law, including the laws and regulations applicable at the time, and make a decision.”
Johannes Mascheral, the officer who shot Grant, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in July 2010. BRT spokeswoman Alicia Trost told CNN that another officer, Hothni Piron, was fired following an internal investigation.
Grant’s mother, Wanda Johnson-Morris, explained at a news conference Monday that Peron would be indicted after he testified at the Mehseral hearing. That did not happen.
Johnson-Morris demanded, “Charge for their actions that the situation escalated and evolved rather than losing my son’s life.” “If all men are created equal, then we also deserve the justice we deserve.”
The incidents that led to Grant’s death provoked Piro, the report said
Last year, a 10-year-old report revealed that Piron had “started a cascade of events that eventually led to Grant’s shooting,” and then lied about those events to “put more of his actions and conduct”. Convenient lighting. “
According to the report, Piron hit Grant and used the word impurity and N, and later lied to investigators about Grant’s actions, claiming that he had hit Piron’s partner and kicked Piron in the groin.
The report states that the video evidence reviewed by investigators was a direct contradiction of Piron’s account.
The report was written by a third-party law firm to investigate internal affairs, which “analyzed the conduct and performance” of officers killed in the shooting of Black’s 22-year-old father, Grant.
The officer slaps Grant, uses the N-word and lies to investigators
Early in the morning of January 1, 2009, Piron and his companions arrived at Fruitwell Station in response to reports of a fight on the train. Some men got off the train and stood against the wall. Piron then saw Grant walking between the cars of the train and using abusive language ordered him to get off the train.
Piron told investigators he soon saw Grant “attacking” his partner. Piron said he reached out and Grant tried to punch and kick him in the groin, at which point Piron thought, “Now I’ve got a fight.” Piron said he felt like “I’m fighting for my life right now.”
None of this happened in the footage seen by investigators, the report said. They determined that Grant did not appear to be attacking “Piron’s partner”, and Piron grabbed Grant and pushed him against the wall before hitting him in the head. “There’s no indication that Grant knelt in the groin as Piron claimed.”
Later, Piro forced Grant to sit down before attacking Grant with his “left knee” in an “irresistible” attack. An autopsy would later suggest a “probable conclusion” that Grant’s facial injuries were caused by Piron’s actions, the force of which, investigators wrote, “did not appear to be fair, reasonable or justified.”
Piron confessed to using the N-word during the encounter, but said he was in response to Grant giving the word to the BART officer.
Regardless, investigators concluded, the frequent use of Piron’s impurity and the N-term only serve to increase the already tense stress on the station platform. The report says its use of the N-term “cannot be, and should not be, pardoned, justified or convicted.”
Investigators eventually called for Peron to be fired for other bounty violations against Grant over his use of uncontrolled force, improper use of language and distrust of his own actions.
CNN’s Dakin Endone and Marlena Baldaki contributed to the report.
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