Authorities Stress Safety and Sanity During San Francisco NYE Celebrations
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS/KCBS) — Tens of thousands of people were expected to cram the streets of San Francisco, as well as its historic waterfront, to ring in 2011. Local emergency response agencies were...
View ArticleBART Balances Heightened Security Amid Crippling Budget Cuts
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) – Osama Bin Laden’s death has mass transit agencies across the US preparing for retaliatory attacks, but they’re also preparing for major cuts in federal funding. At a hearing in...
View ArticleEx-BART Officer Johannes Mehserle Released From Jail
LOS ANGELES (CBS/AP) – Now that a former Bay Area Rapid Transit officer convicted of fatally shooting an unarmed man has been released from jail, he is also free on unsupervised parole. Johannes...
View ArticleMehserle Spending Time With Family, Lawyer Says
OAKLAND (CBS SF) — Former BART police officer Johannes Mehserle is spending time with his family this week after his release from jail for killing BART passenger Oscar Grant III, his attorney said...
View ArticleFCC Investigates BART Cell Service Shutdown
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – The Federal Communications Commission is opening an investigation into the Bay Area Rapid Transit’s shutdown of cell service in order to disrupt a planned protest. The FCC...
View ArticleSouth Bay Police To Be Trained In Defusing Situations With The Mentally Ill
SAN JOSE (KCBS) – Police in Santa Clara County will soon receive training in how to recognize mental illness and learn strategies for handling people in crisis that do not involve using force. The six...
View ArticleBART Police Investigate Assault At Colma Station
COLMA (KCBS) – Police are searching for three suspects who attacked a man Wednesday inside Colma BART Station, said a spokeswoman for Bay Area Rapid Transit. The victim was taken to the hospital to...
View ArticleOscar Grant Shooting Set To Become Feature Film
OAKLAND (CBS 5) – Hollywood filmmakers plan to bring the shooting death of Bay Area Rapid Transit passenger Oscar Grant on the Fruitvale Station platform to the big screen, with some well-known actors...
View ArticleBART Offering Free Rides For Off-Duty Cops, Prosecutors
OAKLAND (KCBS) – Police officers and prosecutors who work in the four counties served by Bay Area Rapid Transit are eligible for smartcards that allow them to ride for free when they are off duty, BART...
View ArticleBART Conducting Internal Review Of Naked Acrobat Incident
OAKLAND (CBS SF)— BART Police Chief Kenton Rainey said Wednesday that he has ordered an internal review of how his department responded to an incident at a San Francisco station last month in which a...
View ArticleBART Police Officer Fatally Shot By Colleague During Dublin Probation Search
DUBLIN (CBS SF) – A Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer was accidentally shot and killed by another officer during a probation search at an apartment complex in Dublin Tuesday afternoon, authorities...
View ArticleKPIX 5 Exclusive: Slain BART Officer’s Widow, Family Speak Out
SAN RAMON (CBS SF) – The widow and family members of slain Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer Sgt. Tommy Smith spoke out publicly for the first time Wednesday afternoon following word of his death....
View ArticleSubject Of BART Police Probation Search That Turned Deadly Charged In Robbery
OAKLAND (CBS SF) — The suspect whose apartment BART police officers were searching on Tuesday when Sgt. Tom “Tommy” Smith was fatally shot by a colleague has been charged with second-degree robbery for...
View ArticleFuneral Services To Be Held In Castro Valley For Fallen BART Officer
CASTRO VALLEY (CBS SF) — A public funeral will be held in Castro Valley next Wednesday for BART police Sgt. Tom “Tommy” Smith, who died after he was accidentally shot by a colleague during a probation...
View ArticleAutopsy Finds BART Officer Killed By Shot To Chest Despite Bulletproof Vest
OAKLAND (KCBS) — An autopsy has determined that Bay Area Rapid Transit police Sgt. Tom “Tommy” Smith died from a single gunshot wound to his chest, an Alameda County sheriff’s spokesman said Thursday....
View ArticleBART Police Names Officer Who Fatally Shot Colleague, Will Attend Memorial
OAKLAND (KCBS) — The police chief of the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit agency said the officer who shot and killed a fellow officer last week will be at his colleague’s funeral. BART Police...
View ArticleVideo Surfaces Of BART Officer Repeatedly Using Stun Gun On Passenger
SAN BRUNO (KPIX 5) – Video has been obtained by KPIX 5 showing a BART police officer who repeatedly used a stun gun to subdue a passenger in front of other riders. A woman who witnessed the incident,...
View ArticleBART Police Defend Using Stun Gun On Passenger
SAN BRUNO (KPIX 5) – The chief of the BART Police Department defended the actions of an officer who repeatedly used a stun gun on a passenger late last month. Meanwhile, KPIX 5 has obtained a second...
View ArticleOakland Police Officers Frustrated By High Crime, Low Morale Enticed By...
OAKLAND (KPIX 5) — Enticed with better benefits, police departments across the Bay Area are luring Oakland officers fed up with high crime and low morale. Normally, BART Police Officer Russell Medeiros...
View ArticleJury Rejects Civil Rights Lawsuit Filed By Oscar Grant’s Father
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF)_ A verdict has been reached in the civil rights lawsuit filed by the father of Oscar Grant, the 22-year-old Hayward man fatally shot by a BART police officer at the Fruitvale...
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