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From The San Francisco Chronicle

Overlooked in the court hearing that ended in former BART police Officer Johannes Mehserle being ordered tried for murder in the slaying of Oscar Grant was testimony about another officer’s explosive outburst just 30 seconds before Grant was shot.

One of the videos made by riders at the Fruitvale Station in Oakland early New Year’s Day caught Officer Tony Pirone standing over the prone Grant and yelling, “Bitch-ass n-.”

Pirone and his attorney say he was parroting an epithet that Grant first hurled at him – though Grant’s voice is not audible on the tape.

The sound-enhanced tape shows Pirone delivering a shoulder chop to Grant and bringing him to the ground. Pirone can be heard saying twice, “Bitch-ass n-, right?”

Prosecutors showed the tape in court on the last day of Mehserle’s preliminary hearing, but the headlines went to the judge’s decree hours later that there was enough evidence to send Mehserle to trial for murder.

Under questioning from Mehserle’s attorney Michael Rains, Pirone insisted it was Grant who had first “called me a bitch-ass n-.”

Asked if he had repeated the slur to Grant, Pirone testified: “I don’t remember, but it very well may have happened.”

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jushin-thunder-liger/ jushin-thunder-liger

    ARE WE TO BE SURPRISED BY THE COMMENTS BY ONE OF AMERICA’S KNOW KKKOPS??? AS I SAID BEFORE, THEY’RE A BUNCH OF BULLY ASS B***HES WHO HIDE BEHIND THE SHIELD/BADGE, GUNS, FELLOW PIGS AND THE JUSTICE SYSTEM. IF IT WAS LAWFUL TO FIGHT THOSE PIGS IN SELF DEFENSE, A LOT OF THEM WOULD HAVE THEIR ASSES STOMPED AND I GUARANTEE YOU THEY’LL THINK TWICE BEFORE PUTTING THEIR HANDS ON A BLACK PERSON. I WILL DEFINITELY DEFEND MYSELF AGAINST THEIR ROGUE AGGRESSION. THEY’LL GET WHAT’S COMING TO THEM, INCLUDING BLACK COPS WHO JOCKS THOSE WHITE KKKOPS LIKE SUCKERS, TRYING TO IMPRESS TJHOSE HONKEY MOTHER F**KERS.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Tried-N-True/ Tried-N-True

    I agree with you 100 per cent…Those cops know they have the upper-hand because they wear a uniform and a gun…That being so, they know it’s about the only time in their lives they would dare denigrate a Black person without fear of being beat down….IT HAPPENED TO ME!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/vasco5/ vasco5

    denigrate is a new word that was put in the dictionary to keep the n-word(negro)negative when it was positive,don’t fall for the okie dokie… it didn’t came from the slavery days in america.the problem was he called him a b***h to pumped up his partner before he shot and killed him.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/CNoriega/ CNoriega

    Well I hear black people say that all the time. We cant get to mad when our own use that saying over 30 times a day to each other.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/SoularFlarez/ SoularFlarez

    niggas shoot other niggas over the smallest thing….. but when Police shoot niggas, all these “goons” dont do a GOT DAMN THING !!!

    betta learn ya Rights and the Laws, stay on point cause the prison-system is the NEW plantation for these corporations. we got a black president, but we got black police and black judges and black CO’s too so dont sleep and think its all good

    if you dont THINK for yaself, sumone will think for you.

    if you dont CONTROL yaself, some else will control you

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/bigman_213/ bigman_213

    I totally agree with the last comment.These pigs are hiding behind their badges and the law.You have to remember “The Law”was meant to protect white people from Black people since they consider us as”Animals and Degenerates”.The constitution wasn’t meant for us either.After all when this country was fighting for there freedom they were taking ours away.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/JaysWorld135/ JaysWorld135

    yea I totally agree. My father, a strong black mann was fired for trying to take a stand against the “white mann” He was a police officer for th city of Newark and when he noticed differential treatment he spoke up on it. The department claimed he was too much and fired him. Boy he has been fight them ever since. The battle on court has been goin on for 12 years now and let meh tell you guyz…It’s a constant battle. When all of this is over, My father will be gettin aproximiatley a million buck(pain suffering…etc) That just goes to show you standing up to what’s rite iz alwayz better than livin with the lies

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/bigdeedee3000/ bigdeedee3000

    i agree if u don;t want the white man to call u ni**er than u shouldn;t say it to the next person real talk

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/SoularFlarez/ SoularFlarez

    the N-word is the LEAST of our problems LOL

    how about instead of saying Nlgga we say Naga or Negus ???

    both “Naga” and “Negus” are from our own culture(s)/langauge(s) and both Naga/Negus have positive meanings!!

    we need to stop THINKING and ACTING like Nlggers aka Negroes aka NeCroes, which means “dead”(latin). like a zombie or like Frankenstein !!!

    real talk though, nagas better learn yo Rights n Study da Law a lil sumthin….cause yo public-pretender, or ya Attorney/Lawyer’s loyalty is to the BAR-association and to the Court-employee’s NOT YOU !! the sooner you case is finished, the sooner you can go to jail or pay a fine and they can all go play golf together……the court system is just a fcking hustle!!! so best to not get caught up in it, and if they try to pull you into it, make them WORK for that money !!! mad brothas lock the fvck up when they case coulda got dropped cuz the police aint read they rights, or illegal-search without a warrant, etc…..Police have to follow rules too…they are UNDER the law like everyone else.

    but long as you can keep people IGNORANT and DISTRACTED, you can do whatever you want cuz people either too stoopid to peep game or they not paying attention to what the fck is going on…….

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Kadia_Francis/ Kadia_Francis

    I agree with everythign you said except for this, the Latin meaning for NEGRO is NIGER which means black now i dont knpw about you but im not black im a chocolate sista infact im yet to meet a black person, why ahve we settled on the idea of being called black? And im sorry but there are niggas out there and i will defend that, so called men who perpetuate the stereotypes that is the essence of the word, you know them absentee sperm donors, the ones hanging on the corner not for a lack of opportunity and information and knowledge which is free now a days with the advent of the computer not to mention google, but because they fear progress and in their feeble minds a 9-5 is for losers cause why work a 9-5 when you can sell drugs and rob and pimp? a NIGGA is any person male or female who will say im not straight cchocolate im mixed eg. TIGER WOODS

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/BlaqKThought/ BlaqKThought

    This is a distraction tactic; focus on the trivial and not poverty, unemployment, mis-education, poor health care, and cultural nihilism. Hey Bp, why not hire someone with the intelligence to write about the things that really matter.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Big--Blu/ Big–Blu

    THIS IS FOR WHITE PEOPLE …OK IF U ARE RACIST THAT MEAN U GOING 2 HELL…PERIOD WHO IS U 2 JUDGE SOMEBODY CAUSE OF RACE…GOD MADE EVERYBODY …ONLY DEVILS DO THAT..IS WHITE PEOPLE DEVILS…YES..ALLOT ARE …ITS BLACK DEVILS 2 BUT..WHITE PEOPLE IS MOSTLY EVIL NOT ALL OF THEM BUT..THEY THINK THEY ARE BETTER..AND THEY ARE LIERS AND CHEATERS…THATS FAKE 2 ME..

    THEY CHEATING WITH THE SCHOOLPL SYSTEM ..BLACK SCHOOLS CANT GET FUNDING OR NEW BOOKS AND WHITE SCHOOLS GET FUNDING…AND NEW BOOKS..BLACK HOODS GET HARDLY ANY GOD SERVICE WHITE HOODS GET ALL THAT..WHITE PEOPLE GET HIRED FASTER AND KEEP THERE JOBS LONGER AND BLACKS GET FIRED REAL FAST IF HE AINT KISSIN THAT ASS..I MEAN I CAN GO ON AND ON ..POLICE PROTECT WHITE CITYS AND BLACK CITYS THEY STOP US MORE AND THEY KILL US …SO F**K WHAT U HEARD ..WHITE PEOPLE WORKING FOR OUR SYSTEM..IS RACIST..AND THEY ARE ALL GOING TO HELL HOLLA

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/vasco5/ vasco5

    n****r derived from>negro thats derived from latin thats derive from the greek word nacro which means dead how it came on meaning for blacks is when they went to the river nile and see the pyramid and to discribe who blacks are they said”blacks are people who studied the dead.know calculate how the spelling change…easy it’s through pronouciation and new letters that adapted in the alphabet.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Purd_Man/ Purd_Man

    in todays society, “niggaz” have become their own race… now a nigga doesnt mean its only limited to blacks.. excuse me AFRICAN AMERICAN, ANYONE i repeat ANYONE from any race can be a nigga… when i say nigga i just mean people who are and act ignorant… u cant jus say black people are the only ignorant people in the world here people.. i love my black folks but i hate niggaz wit a passion…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/mrbarfield/ mrbarfield

    The world is filled with niggas. Ignorant,uncouth individuals who just don’t give a f**k,my question is why give this word or ny other word this much attention?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/rwj21/ rwj21

    n****r was only a word when the evil whites spoke that to black folks the word was even in the dictionary but something happen the word crossed over and whites started calling each other n****r so the word was taken out the dictionary and to those who think its cool to call each other that well the word nigga does not come from the hood its been rolled off the toungs of the evil white brethren since before we were born

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/teddyrr/ teddyrr

    big blu Your not?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/YoungEx19/ YoungEx19

    This exceeds freedom of speech by a long shot. If Mehserle and Pirone aren’t convicted for their actions in this man’s tragic death our justice system will have failed again. Won’t be anything new though, it failed with Diallo, Bell and countless other innocent people too.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/t4cash/ t4cash

    I can’t believe @vasco said :” n****r derived from>negro thats derived from latin thats derive from the greek word nacro which means dead”

    Why do people like to spread ignorance. You can go and google the word N*gger and its clear in every dictionary that it comes from the LATIN word NIGER, meaning BLACK. As in Nigeria, River Niger etc

    Its is a curse word, but it has no relation to deat.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/hrgel/ hrgel

    Black man in the white house means nothing,I mean everyone wants to be black ,look black talk black but you dont want the back lash that the black man gets.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ladyjay510/ ladyjay510

    Mehserle, looks racist, no remorse for what he has done.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/vasco5/ vasco5

    WHAT MAKES YOU THINK THAT NIHER DERIVED FROM NIGERIA RIVER ISN’T IGNORANT WHEN ALL THESE WORDS WAS NEW EVEN BEFORE THE LETTER (G) WAS EXCEPT IN THE ALPHABET, IN LATIN NEGRO PRONOUCE THE SAME AS NACRO WHERE DO YOU THING SOME OF THE ENGLISH WORD CAME FROM DON’T TALK ABOUT THINGS YOU HAVEN’T RESEARCH ON N****R DERIVED FROM NEGRO IN LATIN AND NEGRO DERIVED FROM NACRO FROM GREEK WHICH MEANS DEAD SO THEY USED REVERSE PSYCOLOGY AFTER THEY SEE HOW GREAT BLACK WERE ON THE RIVER NILE COAST AND SAID BLACKS ARE PPL WHO STUDIED THE DEAD AND KNOW YOU HELPING THEM SAYING WE’RE DEAD FROM OUR ROOTS AND CULTURE WHEN WE NEED TO SEEK THE REAL TRUTH HOW IT CAME ABOUT AND REMEMBER BLACK,AFRICANS OR MOORISH WAS WELL RESPECT WHEN THEY EDUCATE THE WORLD BEFORE THEY PLAGURIZE AND RAPE AFRICA RICHNESS TO MAKE BE THEIRS.

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