BART officer fired in Grant probe gets job back

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Source: San Francisco Chronicle

(12-17) 09:49 PST OAKLAND -- An arbitrator today overturned BART's firing of Marysol Domenici, a police officer who had been accused of lying to investigators and an Alameda County judge about another officer's killing of unarmed train rider Oscar Grant.

Although BART never accused Domenici of using excessive force, she became a focus of some of the community outrage stirred by the case because she helped detain Grant before he was shot by former Officer Johannes Mehserle.

A jury convicted Mehserle in July of involuntary manslaughter for the Jan. 1, 2009, killing at BART's Fruitvale Station in Oakland. He was sentenced to two years in state prison.

The arbitrator, William Riker, ordered Domenici reinstated to the BART force without restrictions and with full back pay. He said a 14-day hearing had produced "no basis for the conclusion that Officer Domenici was untruthful in her statements and testimony" at a preliminary hearing in Mehserle's criminal case last year.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/12/17/BAIM1GRT41.DTL

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1. This is unbelievable - SMH n/t

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2. THE William Riker???