#community-protest

#community-protest

Debs Newman, 60, was bearing witness to the loss of three mature lime trees in Falmouth when she was seized by officers. Newman, who said she had never been in trouble with the police, fell to the floor and hit her head, leaving her needing treatment from paramedics. She said: It all happened so quickly. I think someone had my arms, someone my feet. I heard a crack and my head hit the pavement.

Harjit Kaur, a 73-year-old Hercules resident who worked in Berkeley for 20 years, has been deported to India after a 15-day detention during which, she said, she experienced harrowing conditions. Courtesy of her family Harjit Kaur, a 73-year-old East Bay woman who was detained for 15 days by Immigration and Customs Enforcement after a routine check-in was deported to her home country of India this week.

Jaime Alanís, a Mexican farmworker, fell while hiding during an ICE raid at a Southern California farm, sustaining severe injuries including a broken neck and fractured skull.

The Berkeley Unified School District faced a tough budgeting process for 2025-2026, balancing an $8 million deficit while warning of possible mid-year cuts.

"I just think it's bullshit what they're doing," one attendee, Erin Poland, told Streetsblog about the NYPD push, which, she said, is "not actually protecting cyclists [but] putting them in more danger and in more harm."