Conversations around police brutality and its impact on marginalized communities have been occurring in Berkeley for a while, but the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020 sparked more conversation regarding police brutality and its impact on marginalized communities.
Berkeley police stop data from October 2022 to April 2023 revealed that Black and Hispanic/Latine residents were stopped at disproportionate rates compared to white residents.
Over the past decades, movements starting from the Free Speech movement in the mid-1960s to recent protests like the United Automobile Workers, or UAW, strike have shown trends of significant differences and similarities that have translated over time.