IN MEMORIAM: First Annual Oscar Grant Day Celebrated with Inspirational Speeches, Powerful Performances

Oakland Post, March 6, 2022. Excerpt:

Price gave a fiery speech on the needed reforms of the D.A.’s office. Price called out how the D.A.’s office has been toying with the Grant family’s emotions as they seek justice when O’Malley announced an investigation into charging Pirone last year, only to announce months later that no charges would be filed.

Price noted that the original prosecution of the case was “flawed because the D.A.’s heart was not in it,” just as the prosecution of the Oakland ‘Riders’ failed “because the D.A.’s heart was not in it.”

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