Sentences with phrase «transit officer»

A formerly homeless couple charged with soiling a trolley seat after a confrontation with transit officers in August took their citations to trial...

The film is based on a true story, and the tone of the movie is set right away as we watch footage from a cell phone camera of the policy brutality against the real life Grant and his friends by the Bay Area Rapid Transit officers.

CIVIC CENTER — The man chosen to replace Police Commissioner Bill Bratton when he steps down in September said his philosophy of policing was first shaped when he worked as an overnight transit officer in gritty, early»80s New York.

McDonald was introduced by DOE Fund security director Louis Napolitano, a former transit officer who had once arrested McDonald for distributing food to the homeless at the station.

In the early hours of New Year's Day 2009, on a platform of Oakland's Fruitvale Bay Area Rapid Transit Station, a young man named Oscar Grant III was shot in the back by a BART transit officer.

The event was captured by various cell phones from bystanders to the event, and as the film opens, we see the real - life footage from one of them, as the Bay Area Rapid Transit officers are standing over several seated young men they've detained at the Fruitvale station in Oakland's subway.

The transit officer is expected to return to court on Aug. 8 and faces up to seven years in prison if convicted of the top count, according to the Brooklyn District Attorney's office.

According to the NYPD, on Saturday, El Sokary, a transit officer in Williamsburg who covers her head with a scarf known as a hijab, was dropping her 16 - year - old son off in Bay Ridge when a man started shoving him.

Bay Area native Ryan Coogler was visibly proud and humbled to be in San Francisco representing Fruitvale Station, his debut feature which reconstructs 22 - year - old Oscar Grant's last day on earth, before he was shot and killed by a transit officer in a BART station in Oakland.

During his detention by police, Grant lost his life after a transit officer shot him.

A transit officer patrolling what cops in the city called «the caves,» Maple rode the rails of New York's subways using his down time to take an analytical approach to determine where crime was highest in an effort to help the NYPD use their resources more effectively.