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JoAnn Walker (left) and prominent civil rights attorney Pamela Price create a progressive ticket for justice transformation in Alameda County.
A pair of progressive Black women – a prominent civil rights attorney and a veteran police officer – are joining forces to even the playing field by eliminating the double standards that work against women and minorities in the Alameda County criminal justice system.
Attorney Pamela Price, one of the only Black women to win a civil rights case before the U.S. Supreme Court, and 25-year veteran police officer JoAnn Walker have just announced they are running separate but parallel campaigns for Alameda County District Attorney and Alameda County Sheriff respectively.
According to the New York Times, O’Malley released a report saying that Pirone, who was removed from the BART police force in 2010, will not be charged because he neither killed Grant nor aided and abetted Johannes Mehserle, who was convicted of manslaughter in a Southern California court in 2010.
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Anthony Pirone. Pirone was the second officer connected to the killing of
Oscar Grant in 2009. O Malley declined to charge Pirone because she did not feel that she had a strong enough case to convict the former police officer. In view of everything we have considered and reconsidered we conclude that we cannot prove Pirone guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, the district attorney said.
Grant was shot and killed at Fruitvale Station in Oakland on New Year s Day in 2009. Officers claimed Grant was involved in an altercation while on the train. Officers then removed Grant from the train and placed him face-first on the platform as Pirone held him in position. Pirone s former colleague,
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