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On May 15, 1969, at the request of Berkeley mayor Wallace J.S. Johnson, Governor Ronald Reagan ordered the Berkeley PD and California Highway Patrol to clear People's Park, at the time a vacant lot that local left-wing activists had been turning into a garden. This prompted the "Bloody Thursday" riots.
The Berkeley Police Department and other officers clashed with protestors over the site of the park, using deadly force. Ronald Reagan, then-governor of California, eventually sent in the state National Guard to quell the protests.
The University of California was established in 1868, and moved its first campus to Berkeley in 1873. The San Francisco and Los Angeles campuses followed in 1873 and 1919, respectively.
Berkeley's fire and police headquarters in 2020. After the police department was rocked by a scandal involving racist texts, past allegations against the interim chief have arisen.
The police were ordered by Kacalek to use "questionable legal tactics" such as stop and frisk, probation searches with no reasonable suspicion of a crime, and "stay-away" orders from UC Berkeley.
August Vollmer (March 7, 1876 – November 4, 1955) was the first police chief of Berkeley, California, and a leading figure in the development of the field of criminal justice in the United States in the early 20th century.
The Maryland State Police confirmed to Fox News Digital that Jack "Ziz" LaSota, 34, of Berkeley, California, Michelle Zajko, 32, of Media, Pennsylvania, and another person were arrested Sunday ...
The events at Berkeley can be generally defined by three single yet interrelated social topics: the Civil Rights Movement, the Free Speech Movement, and the Vietnam war protests in Berkeley, California. [1] The Berkeley protests were not the first demonstrations to be held in and around the University of California Campus. Since before World ...