Bill would allow BART to keep out those who repeatedly break law

[RandySF]

BART would get authority to ban those who repeatedly break the law -- fare cheats, vandals or possibly protesters disrupting train service -- from entering its stations under a bill passed by state lawmakers and sent to Gov. Jerry Brown's desk.

Assembly Bill 716 would empower BART to bar someone who commits infractions on three separate occasions over 90 days at a train station, on a train or on other BART property.

Meanwhile, another protest is planned against BART next Monday evening -- the eighth since the July 3 fatal shooting of a knife-wielding homeless man by a transit police officer. Postings via Twitter suggest protesters may ride trains.

A protest that took place Monday night was far less heated than earlier protests and resulted in no arrests, service disruptions or station closures.


http://www.contracostatimes.com/ci_18929792?

[EFerrari]

1. Protesters may ride trains?! Heavens!

lol

What a pantload of blame shifting and propaganda. BART closed those stations, not protesters. And protesters have every right to ride trains until they are forced into camps.

[demosincebirth]

2. ...and disrupt other people lives at will.

[EFerrari]

3. The majority haven't but thanks for making BART's argument for them .

:)

[demosincebirth]

6. You don't comute on BART, do you?

[EFerrari]

9. Not at the moment but I did commute on BART from the time it opened

until 2000. :)

[nomb]

4. "three separate illegal acts over 90 days on BART Property" - not too bad on the first reading

[EFerrari]

10. Except for that little detail that a BART cop can call anything you do illegal

and there's zip you can do about it. Still not too bad?

[The Second Stone]

5. How about the BART cops just shoot the protestors in the back

and be done with it?

[Fumesucker]

7. Wouldn't they have to be handcuffed and laying on the ground for that? n/t

[BlueIris]

8. But, but, when you're on the ground, drooling in an obviously aggressive way, you're a threat

that needs to be neutralized.

:sarcasm: