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November 24, 2009

Train Station Glass Shattered As Officer Shoves Passenger Into Window
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In Oakland, a BART transit officer has been captured on videotape
pulling a drunk man off a train and then slamming his head into a large
window, shattering the glass. After his head was slammed into the
window, Michael Joseph Gibson was charged with resisting arrest,
assaulting an officer and public intoxication. An attorney for Gibson
said he plans to sue the BART transit agency over the incident.
According to his family Gibsin has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
Earlier this year a BART police officer was caught on videotape fatally
shooting an unarmed African American man named Oscar Grant on a train
platform on New Year’s Day.



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