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Klan ("KKK") (White Nationalist, Merriam -Webster, <https://www.merriam-
<br />webster.coin/dictionary/white%20nationalism> (last visited Jul. 20, 2020)); and
<br />WHEREAS, the Ku Klux Klan is an organization founded in 1865, when its members
<br />waged an underground campaign of intimidation and violence directed at White and Black
<br />Republican 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.tbi.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 21 st centuries by extremist individuals who have taken
<br />matters into their own hands by mass shootings that target minority groups, and other violent
<br />acts; and
<br />WHEREAS, on August 3, 2019, twenty-two people were murdered in a retail store
<br />located in El Paso, Texas by a white supremacist who admitted that his primary target were
<br />Mexicans, and praised the New Zealand Mosque Shooter, who killed 51 persons in March 2019
<br />(Phil Helsel, Suspected gunman in El Paso Walmart pleads not guilty to attack that killed 22,
<br />NBC News, (Oct. 10, 2019 at 8:58) <https://www.nbcnews.com/n.ews/us-news/suspected-
<br />�,,unman-el-Paso-walmart-shootin,g-pleads-not-,,uilty-attack-n1064876> ); and
<br />WHEREAS, the City of San Leandro has experienced a history of housing
<br />discrimination, recognized by Mayor Maltester during a City Council meeting on March 29,
<br />1972. The policy statement was made by the Mayor followed a cross burning incident at a San
<br />Leandro home. Mayor Maltester stated: "The City Council of San Leandro recognizes there is a
<br />problem and it is for this reason that the City Council has approved the appointment of the
<br />Mayor's Advisory Committee on Housing" (Chronology of the City of San Leandro Efforts to
<br />End Housing Discrimination and Promote Community Diversity, San Leandro.org,
<br /><https://www.sanleandro.org/civicax/filebank/blobdload.aspx?blobid=3761> (last visited Jul. 20,
<br />2020)); and
<br />WHEREAS, on March 27, 2016, the San Leandro Police Department was notified of
<br />graffiti containing racial slurs directed at Hispanics and African Americans located in the
<br />amphitheater wall of San Leandro's Marina Park (Racist Graffiti Found in San Leandro Park,
<br />CBS SF Bay Area,<https://sanfrancisco.cbstocal.com/2016/03/28/racist-graffiti-san-leandro-
<br />marina -park/> (last visited Jul. 20, 2020)); and
<br />WHEREAS, according to The Mercury News, on May 23, 2020, a woman was arrested
<br />for leaving notes outside of the homes of people of color in the city of San Leandro, advising
<br />them to return to their home countries (Ethan Baron, Racist notes targeted people of color in San
<br />Leandro, woman arrested, The Mercury News,
<br /><https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/05/23/racist-notes-tar(,Yeted-people-of-color-in-san-
<br />Iean.dro-woinan-arrested/> (last visited Jul. 20, 2020)); and
<br />WHEREAS, these actions go against the values of the City, and threaten the safety,
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