Posted on 12/17/2010 10:22:53 AM PST by SmithL
OAKLAND -- An arbitrator today overturned BART's firing of Marysol Domenici, a police officer who had been accused of lying to investigators and an Alameda County judge about another officer's killing of unarmed train rider Oscar Grant.
Although BART never accused Domenici of using excessive force, she became a focus of some of the community outrage stirred by the case because she helped detain Grant before he was shot by former Officer Johannes Mehserle.
A jury convicted Mehserle in July of involuntary manslaughter for the Jan. 1, 2009, killing at BART's Fruitvale Station in Oakland. He was sentenced to two years in state prison.
The arbitrator, William Riker, ordered Domenici reinstated to the BART force without restrictions and with full back pay. He said a 14-day hearing had produced "no basis for the conclusion that Officer Domenici was untruthful in her statements and testimony" at a preliminary hearing in Mehserle's criminal case last year.
Domenici, 30, is "absolutely thrilled that her name has been cleared," said her attorney, Alison Berry Wilkinson. "She was definitely collateral damage in the frenzy that followed the shooting."
John Burris, an attorney who sued BART on behalf of Grant's family, said he was disappointed . . .
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Translation of title:
Riots Will Resume Tonight In Oakland.
John Burris, an attorney who sued BART on behalf of Grant's family, said he was disappointed . . .Thanks SmithL.
The rioters will probably aks for a rain check.
Heavy storms forecast for Oakland tonight.
Rain check on a riot?
I like it!
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