OAKLAND, California—Gerardo Sánchez, Socialist Workers Party candidate for city treasurer in San Francisco, speaks to a reporter at January 11 meeting in Oakland of the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) commissioners. Speaking at the hearing Sánchez called for the arrest and prosecution of the BART cop who killed Oscar Grant, along with the others who have assisted in the cover-up. “I am a worker, a butcher like my brother Oscar Grant,” Sánchez said. “Workers who are Black, immigrants, and also workers who are white are brutalized by the police every day.” He called for militant, disciplined, and peaceful protests by workers and youth to bring the killer cops to justice.

—ERIC SIMPSON