An unarmed black man was squirming on an Oakland train platform while being placed under arrest moments before he was shot and killed by a Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer last year, a fellow officer testified Friday.
Tony Pirone, who was fired from the transit agency in April, recounted how he and defendant Johannes Mehserle took Oscar Grant to the ground and tried to restrain him.
"He was trying to wiggle free," Pirone testified. "I remember vividly telling him to put his hands behind his back."
Mehserle has pleaded not guilty to murder in the shooting death of Grant, 22, on New Year's Day 2009. The trial was moved from …
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