SF News First BART Cop Ever Killed In Line Of Duty Shot Tuesday In Friendly Fire Incident A BART police sergeant was shot and killed by a fellow officer Tuesday during a routine search of a suspect's apartment in Dublin. The incident marked the first time ever that a BART
SF News 5th Anniversary Of Oscar Grant Shooting Marked By Occupy March, Vigil in Oakland It was early on New Year's Day in 2009 that Oscar Grant was shot and killed by BART police officer Johannes Mehserle at the Fruitvale Station, and on Wednesday the fifth anniversary of
SF News BART Still On The Hunt For Couple Who Made That Sex Video Lest they spawn too many imitators, that lascivious couple caught on video having unapologetic sex in the back of a moving BART train is now wanted by BART police and will be subject
SF News Glen Park BART Death Believed To Be A Suicide The man who was crushed under a BART train shortly before the evening commute yesterday afternoon was an apparent suicide, BART police say. The man's name has only been identified as a 55-year-old
Arts & Entertainment Fatal BART Shooting To Big Screen: Octavia Spencer To Star In Indie Movie About Oscar Grant Killing Academy Award winner Octavia Spencer and former Friday Night Lights actor Michael B. Jordan are in talks to star in Fruitvale, an independent flick about the 2009 New Year's Eve killing of Oscar
SF News BART Police Have No Plans For Increased Security Tonight BART Police apparently aren't too concerned with backlash following this morning's announcement that District Attorney Gascón won't be pressing criminal charges against the officer who shot and killed 45-year-old Charles Hill last July.
SF News Charles Hill, Homeless Man Shot On BART Platform, Was Extremely High On Meth According to a report from District Attorney Gascón's office, Charles Hill, the homeless man who was shot and killed by BART PD officers in July of last year, was not only "wobbly drunk"
SF News Family Of Charles Hill Sues BART, And They've Got Oscar Grant's Attorney The family of Charles Hill, the "wobbly drunk" homeless man shot and killed by BART police last July has filed a civil suit against BART seeking monetary damages for the incident. According to
SF News Accused BART Copper Thief Busted In the ongoing Depression Era-esque epidemic of stolen metal, at least one copper thief has been brought down. After nearly running over a suspect with a train last week, BART announced yesterday that
SF News Copper Thieves Are Literally Tearing Apart BART And Vallejo Right after BART officials admitted Tuesday that they have a problem with metal thieves yanking wire off the system's tracks, yet another incident of copper theft was reported. This time, thieves ripped out
SF News Copper Thief Yanks Wire From BART Tracks The BART system has the unfortunate honor of becoming the latest victim in the Bay Area's ongoing war on copper thieves after one such bandit narrowly dodged an oncoming train over the weekend.
SF News Another Thing Johannes Mehserle Is Not Guilty Of Doing Excessive force, according to a federal jury in San Francisco today. Mehserle and four other BART police officers were deemed not guilty of using excessive force in a civil trial over a 2008
SF News Todd Mehserle Banned From Court Room For Cell Phone Photos, Being A Jerk Johannes Mehserle, the former BART cop convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the Oscar Grant case, is currently back in court standing trial along with four other BART PD officers for alleged police misconduct
SF News BART Police to Get Officer-Mounted Cameras The transit agency's police force has finally made a move towards more officer accountability in the wake of the high-profile, fatal shootings of Charles Hill and Oscar Grant by BART Police officers. According
SF News BART Protesters Calm Down, Hand Out Fliers After last week's Monday evening BART protest saw an uptick in attending nudists and not much else, demonstrators took an even gentler approach with their rally yesterday evening. Rather than attempting to disrupt
SF News BART Protests Losing Attendance, Gaining Naked People As you know, the OpBART protests organized by the loose hacker collective Anonymous and well-attended by the media continued last night for the fifth straight week since the group began protesting BART's August
SF News BART Protests Continue, Anti-Protestors Counter Protest In keeping with Monday tradition as of late, BART is expecting another protest today beginning at Powell station at 5pm. As usual, expect this to interfere with the evening commute, slowing service and.
SF News More Reactions, Pro and Con, to BART's Cell Service Shutdown Did BART Police violate everyone's civil liberties by switching off cell phone service last week, or were they simply acting in the name of public safety? An editorial in the Examiner today argues
SF News BART Protest Updates: Demonstration Planned for Civic Center Station at 4:30 P.M. Today [UPDATED] Breaking news regarding threatened protests on BART throughout August: No Justice, No BART, the website rallying point for last month's BART protest has posted details on another demonstration set for today's evening commute.
SF News Heads Up, BART Riders: More Protests Could Spoil Your Commute Last night BART put out a rider alert warning passengers, "Protests may disrupt service as early as Thursday, August 11th" (that'd be today). The protests -- more demonstrations in response to the officer-involved
SF News BART PD Releases Footage of Civic Center Station Shooting [Video] At a press conference this afternoon, BART Police released surveillance footage from the Civic Center BART station showing the July 3rd incident in which BART PD officers fired on and killed "wobbly drunk"
SF News Group Demanding BART Police Be Disbanded Might Be Disbanded by BART Police The No Justice, No BART group calling for the complete shutdown of the BART Police Department might run in to some resistance from (wait for it...) the BART Police Department during their protest
SF News BART Shooting Victim IDed, Authorities Questioning Witnesses Before Releasing Surveillance Footage The San Francisco medical examiner's office has identified the victim in Sunday's officer-involved shooting as Charles Hill, a 45-year-old man without a permanent residence. A spokesman for the coroner told the Bay Citizen
SF News BART Cops Shoot, Kill 'Wobbly Drunk' at Civic Center Station Sunday A suspect armed with a knife and a broken bottle of booze on the Civic Center station BART platform was shot and killed during a confrontation Sunday night. Two BART police officers responded
SF News BART Wants to Know What You Think -- No, Really Get your "We Are All Oscar Grant" t-shirt cleaned. Tim Redmond over at SFBG has word that BART is holding a public meeting. Why? Because "they want to hear concerns about civilian oversight
