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Photo: April 21 vigil for Mario Gonzalez, killed by Alameda police. Credit: Liberation photo by Rosa Astra
Friends, family, and hundreds of supporters from the community gathered in a vigil for Mario Gonzalez April 21 in Alameda, California. Gonzalez, described by his family and friends as a loving father, partner, son, and caretaker for his younger brother, was killed by the Alameda Police Department on Monday.
Gonzalez’s friends and family set up a memorial in a small park on Oak Street with flowers in glass vases, candles, photos of Gonzalez and his family, and signs demanding justice.
In a press release uncannily similar to the one issued last year by the Minneapolis Police Department immediately after murdering George Floyd, the Alameda Police Department claimed that Gonzalez “had a medical emergency” during a “physical altercation” while they were attempting to arrest him. The press release contains suspiciously little detail about how Gonzalez
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‘Sit In The Joy You May Have’: Black Sacramento Organizers Respond To Derek Chauvin Verdict With Relief, Urgency For Change
Black Lives Matter Sacramento protesters march down Richards Boulevard in Sacramento on Aug. 1, 2020.
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Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murder and manslaughter on Tuesday for killing George Floyd, the 46-year-old Black man whose death brought forth calls to defund the police and sparked massive worldwide protests for racial justice, including weeks of action in Sacramento.
Stevante Clark, whose 22-year-old brother Stephon Clark was shot and killed by Sacramento police in 2018, said while there’s more work to be done, “slow progress is better than no progress.”
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SF Mayor: This verdict does not bring back the life of George Floyd
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San Francisco Mayor London Breed speaks at a press conference for the opening day of the UCSF/San Francisco Department of Public Health drive-through COVID vaccination clinic located in a parking lot at City College San Francisco.Susan Merrell / UCSF
San Francisco Mayor London Breed was among the many Bay Area leaders who shared reactions to Tuesday s Derek Chauvin murder verdict. This verdict does not bring back the life of George Floyd, said San Francisco Mayor London Breed. What this verdict does reflect is that the tide is turning in this country, although still too slowly, toward accountability and justice.
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A Minnesota jury’s conviction of former police officer Derek Chauvin on three counts for murdering George Floyd does not go far enough in dismantling police brutality and state-sanctioned violence, says historian and author Khalil Gibran Muhammad. “We know that while the prosecution was performing in such a way to make the case that Derek Chauvin was a rogue actor, the truth is that policing should have been on trial in that case,” Muhammad says. “We don’t have a mechanism in our current system of laws in the way that we treat individual offenses to have that accountability and justice delivered.” Muhammad also lays out the racist history of slave patrols that led to U.S. police departments, which he details his book, “The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America.”