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City of San Leandro <br />Meeting Date: February 16, 2021 <br />Resolution - Council <br />Agenda Section:File Number:21-098 ACTION ITEMS <br />Agenda Number: <br />TO:City Council <br />FROM:Fran Robustelli <br />Interim City Manager <br />BY:City Council <br />FINANCE REVIEW:Not Applicable <br />TITLE:RESOLUTION of the City of San Leandro City Council Proclaiming April 18 as a <br />Day Recognizing Steven Taylor and the Sanctity of Every Human Life, Including <br />People of Color <br />WHEREAS, on April 18, 2020, Steven Taylor was fatally shot by a member of the San Leandro <br />Police Department (who is now retired from the San Leandro Police Department) at the Walmart on <br />Hesperian Blvd in San Leandro; and <br />WHEREAS, according to contacts Steven Taylor had with the City of San Leandro Police <br />Department, Steven Taylor had a history of suffering mental health crises in San Leandro before his <br />death and that mental health aid or services could have helped him and/or could have helped to <br />de-escalate the April 18, 2020 fatal shooting; and <br />WHEREAS, according to the Alameda County District Attorney’s Announcement Filing of Voluntary <br />Manslaughter Charges Against San Leandro Officer, which was posted September 2, 2020, FROM <br />THE TIME THE OFFICER ENTERED THE STORE TO THE TIME MR. TAYLOR WAS FATALLY <br />SHOT LESS THAN 40 SECONDS ELAPSED (DA O’Malley Announces Filing of Voluntary <br />Manslaughter Charges Against San Leandro Officer, alcoda.org, <br /><https://www.alcoda.org/newsroom/files/Fletcher_PC_Dec.pdf> (last visited February 2, 2021)); and <br />WHEREAS, Steven Taylor was an African American Male, 33 years of age, graduate of San <br />Leandro High School, father of three children and homeless at the time he was fatally shot; and <br />WHEREAS, African Americans are more than three times as likely as White Americans to be <br />killed by police, according to a study by researchers from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. <br /><https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/blacks-whites-police-deaths-disparity/> (last <br />visited February 7, 2021); and <br />WHEREAS, people with untreated mental illness are 16 times more likely to be killed during a <br />police encounter than other civilians approached or stopped by law enforcement, according to a study <br />released by the Treatment Advocacy Center. <br />https://www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org/key-issues/criminalization-of-mental-illness/2976-people-with <br />-untreated-mental-illness-16-times-more-likely-to-be-killed-by-law-enforcement- (last visited February 7, <br />2021); and <br />WHEREAS, the 2017 City of San Leandro Recreation and Human Services Department Human <br />Services Gap Analysis identified that mental illness and unmet mental health needs emerged as a <br />Page 1 City of San Leandro Printed on 2/11/2021 <br />293