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What we know about the Orinda Halloween party mass shooting:
➖4 killed, several more injured
➖No suspects have been arrested
➖The party was at a rented Airbnb mansion
➖Airbnb is working with police and banned the person who booked the rental
Mt. Diablo High School in Concord blocked students from walking out for
#NationalWalkoutDay
. Students walked out anyway before being escorted back on campus.
BREAKING: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Sonoma counties and the city of Berkeley recommend that everyone, regardless of vaccination status, wear masks indoors in public places.
“What is power? How does it work? What is our power? That’s what today is answering. Our power comes from the fact that we create the wealth. Wealth is power. We have the ability to withhold that power,” Boots Riley says to the crowd here in Oakland.
#JUNETEENTH2020
This is the largest number of homicide fatalities in the Orinda's recent memory. The last homicide was in 2012, when a man killed his longtime girlfriend; previously, a killing had not taken place for at least a decade, police said.
#Orinda
“Congratulations Thousand Oaks Alumna”
A sign congratulating
#VicePresidentKamalaHarris
is displayed outside her childhood elementary school in Berkeley.
Photo:
@Tyska
JUST IN: John Cowell, the convicted killer of Nia Wilson — who was fatally stabbed on a BART platform in 2018 — was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Juneteenth in Oakland: Thousands have gathered at the Oakland Port Shutdown rally organized by The International Longshore and Warehouse Union. Workers are stopping work at all 29 ports on the West Coast today to commemorate Juneteenth.
#JUNETEENTH2020
UPDATE: Alameda County Sheriff’s Office officials say the evacuation order for residents of Kilkare Canyon in Sunol has been reduced to a warning and that they are no longer required to leave their homes. Article is updated.