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RESOLUTION of the City of San Leandro City Council Proclaiming April 18 as a Day Recognizing Steven Taylor and the Sanctity of Every Human Life, Including People of Color
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WHEREAS, on April 18, 2020, Steven Taylor was fatally shot by a member of the San Leandro Police Department (who is now retired from the San Leandro Police Department) at the Walmart on Hesperian Blvd in San Leandro; and
WHEREAS, according to contacts Steven Taylor had with the City of San Leandro Police Department, Steven Taylor had a history of suffering mental health crises in San Leandro before his death and that mental health aid or services could have helped him and/or could have helped to de-escalate the April 18, 2020 fatal shooting; and
WHEREAS, according to the Alameda County District Attorney's Announcement Filing of Voluntary Manslaughter Charges Against San Leandro Officer, which was posted September 2, 2020, FROM THE TIME THE OFFICER ENTERED THE STORE TO THE TIME MR. TAYLOR WAS FATALLY SHOT LESS THAN 40 SECONDS ELAPSED (DA O'Malley Announces Filing of Voluntary Manslaughter Charges Against San Leandro Officer, alcoda.org, https://www.alcoda.org/newsroom/files/Fletcher_PC_Dec.pdf (last visited February 2, 2021)); and
WHEREAS, Steven Taylor was an African American Male, 33 years of age, graduate of San Leandro High School, father of three children and homeless at the time he was fatally shot; and
WHEREAS, African Americans are more than three times as likely as White Americans to be killed by police, according to a study by researchers from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/blacks-whites-police-deaths-disparity/ (last visited February 7, 2021); and
WHEREAS, people with untreated mental illness are 16 times more likely to be killed during a police encounter than other civilians approached or stopped by law enforcement, according to a study released by the Treatment Advocacy Center. http...
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