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She Worked for Black Press for Over 48 Years By Evan Carlton Ward, San Francisco Sun-Reporter Gail Cordelia Berkley-Armstrong, legendary awarding-winning Bay Area journalist and Sun-Reporter editor, has died after a lengthy illness. She was 74. She was born Jan. 5, 1947, in Berkeley, California. She attended Berkeley public schools and received a Bachelor of […]| She Worked for Black Press for Over 48 Years By Evan Carlton Ward, San Francisco Sun-Reporter Gail Cordelia Berkley-Armstrong, legendary awarding-winning Bay Area journalist and Sun-Reporter editor, has died after a lengthy illness. She was 74. She was born Jan. 5, 1947, in Berkeley, California. She attended Berkeley public schools and received a Bachelor of […]
Students marched in support of Black Lives Matter from San Pablo Park to Berkeley High School on June 9, 2020. Credit: Jerome Paulos
Berkeley leaders and community members joined the nation in responding to the guilty verdict handed down Tuesday afternoon for Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who knelt on and killed George Floyd in May 2020 and reinvigorated scrutiny toward police brutality throughout the United States.
A jury in Minneapolis found Chauvin guilty of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. On May 25, 2020, Chauvin knelt on Floyd’s neck for over 9 minutes as bystanders captured the scene on video and pleaded with Chauvin to spare Floyd’s life. Chauvin remained on Floyd’s neck for 3 minutes after Floyd took his last breath.