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File Number: 20-388
<br />State of California (City Charter of the City of San Leandro, art.1, §130,
<br /><https://www.sanleandro.org/about/municipal_code.asp>); and
<br />WHEREAS, the health, safety, and welfare of the individuals living and working in San
<br />Leandro is a municipal affair, in addition to upholding and carrying out the City’s values:
<br />inclusivity, excellence, dedication, honesty, and accountability, as indicated in the City of Leandro
<br />website (Vision, City of San Leandro, <https://www.sanleandro.org/depts/rec/about/vision.asp>);
<br />and
<br />WHEREAS, there has been a significant increase in the activities of white nationalist, white
<br />supremacist, and other hate groups in the United States of America under the current executive
<br />administration (Southern Poverty Law Center, Features and Stories, Hate groups reach record
<br />high, <https://www.splcenter.org/news/2019/02/19/hate-groups-reach-record-high>, (last visited
<br />Jul. 20, 2020)); and
<br />WHEREAS, white nationalism is defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary as “one of a
<br />group of militant whites who espouse white supremacy and advocate enforced racial
<br />segregation.” One of the most known and notorious white nationalist groups is the Ku Klux Klan
<br />(“KKK”) (White Nationalist, Merriam-Webster,
<br /><https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/white%20nationalism> (last visited Jul. 20, 2020));
<br />and
<br />WHEREAS, the Ku Klux Klan is an organization founded in 1865, when its members waged
<br />an underground campaign of intimidation and violence directed at White and Black Republican
<br />political leaders (Ku Klux Klan, Reconstruction, topics, HISTORY,
<br /><https://www.history.com/topics/reconstruction/ku-klux-klan> (last visited Jul. 20, 2020)); and
<br />WHEREAS, the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation defines white supremacy
<br />extremists as individuals who are motivated by hatred of other religions, and target the federal
<br />government and racial, ethnic or religious minorities, whose methods have included murderS,
<br />threats, and bombings; (Domestic Extremist Ideologies, Federal Bureau of Investigation,
<br /><https://cve.fbi.gov/whatare/?state=domestic> (last visited Jul. 20, 2020)); and
<br />WHEREAS, white supremacist ideals have caused significant bloodshed nationwide and
<br />locally throughout the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries by extremist individuals who have taken
<br />matters into their own hands by mass shootings that target minority groups, and other violent acts;
<br />and
<br />WHEREAS, on August 3, 2019, twenty-two people were murdered in a retail store located in
<br />El Paso, Texas by a white supremacist who admitted that his primary target were Mexicans, and
<br />praised the New Zealand Mosque Shooter, who killed 51 persons in March 2019 (Phil Helsel,
<br />Suspected gunman in El Paso Walmart pleads not guilty to attack that killed 22, NBC News,
<br />(Oct. 10, 2019 at 8:58)
<br /><https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/suspected-gunman-el-paso-walmart-shooting-pleads-n
<br />ot-guilty-attack-n1064876> ); and
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