Election Section

As a way to voice their concern about the murders this summer in Berkeley, community members, city officials and several youth organizations turned out to Wednesday evening rallies held at the site of three different killings. 

“If your community was in crisis, where would you be,” said Aunt Bea, 76, one of more than thirty Berkeley community members who came to the two south Berkeley rallies held right next to each other at Adeline Street and Alcatraz Avenue and Adeline and Harmon streets. 

“Berkeley is like a tornado, every night there is flare up,” she said. 

The third rally was held in West Berkeley at Ashby Avenue and Harmon Street. 

Event organizer Candace Miles-Threatt, said the event was set up “to encourage residents to take try and find solutions for their community” and as a way to allow for “mourning and healing.”