Santa Cruz made the national news again when Chief Andy Mills “took a knee” in solidarity with demonstrators on Saturday. While he is rightly commended for doing so, there is a deafening silence about those we have to thank for creating that moment. Joy Flynn and her colleagues gave us a model of a safe, meaningful, socially-distanced event. In the face of the whirlwind of praise for Mills, failure to acknowledge the labor and leadership of the black women who made that moment possible is bitterly ironic.
— Siobhan Kelley, Scotts Valley
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