BART Police Officer David McCormick arrested a man for eating while black in an area where he says that eating is illegal. In the video you can clearly see that the victim here, Bill Gluckman, is just trying to eat a sandwich at the train station on his way to work. McCormick grabs his backpack, wont let go, tells Gluckman that he is not free to leave because by eating in that spot he is violation some frivolous California statute, tells Gluckman that he is going to jail for resisting arrest, calls for back up, arrests him and takes him to jail. This video has gone viral with people wondering, who is Officer D. McCormick?
We believe we have that answer after finding a .pdf from the BART Police Department listing one of their officers as David McCormick.
A public record search produced several David McCormick's in the San Francisco Bay Area that are in their 40s. We believe this man to be the one listed as David GT McCormick because David GT McCormick has what an active "guard" license. The record describing the license is as follows:
First Name: DAVID
Middle Name: G
Last Name: MCCORMICK
License Number: 1638051
License State: CA
License Status: ACTIVE
License Type: GUARD
Issue Date: 04/24/2009
Expiration Date: 04/30/2011