Crime & Safety
Thousands Protest Police Violence Across Bay Area Saturday
Saturday's demonstrations included a large march across the Golden Gate Bridge and protests in front of Bay Area police stations.
BAY AREA, CA — Thousands marched across the Golden Gate Bridge on Saturday, one of several events this weekend around the region and country to support the Black Lives Matter movement and protest the death of George Floyd at the hands of police in Minneapolis.
The event coincided with large protests in Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Chicago and other major cities.
The peaceful protest and march across the span started at noon from the toll plaza, and thousands queued up ahead of time.
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Across the bay in Berkeley, a New Orleans-style funeral procession "to bury racism" was set to kick off at 3:30 p.m. Saturday from Malcolm X Elementary School, 1731 Prince St., ending at Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park.
Other events Saturday included a 1 p.m. protest at Hayward City Hall, by the Southern Alameda County Resistance Network, and at 2 p.m., a protest and march at the Cupertino police substation, at 1601 DeAnza Blvd.
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Hundreds of peaceful protestors outside of the Cupertino police station, chanting “George Floyd” “Breonna Taylor” “revote Trump” as cars driving by honk their support pic.twitter.com/zH2DrIWYBM
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At 10 a.m. Sunday, a car rally to demand justice for lives lost to racism in 1942 and 2020 will start from Orange Park in South San Francisco.
The event is being held by Tsuru for Solidarity, to link the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor to the mass wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.
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