Harris offers hope, but U.S. needs reform
Kamala Harris’ impact on arguably the most consequential presidential election in our lifetimes was immediate. Joe Biden raised $26 million in campaign funds in the 24 hours after he named Harris as his running mate, the Associated Press reported, doubling his previous oneday record. Civil rights attorney Eva Paterson, who has known Harris since Harris began her career as an Alameda County prosecutor in 1990, wept with joy when Harris was selected.
“As a Black woman, I was weeping because this is a big, big deal. It’s a big deal,” Paterson said about Harris becoming the first Black woman and the first Indian American — and Asian American — to be on a majorparty ticket. “And she’s from Oakland.”
The Oakland native is a child of immigrant parents, both academics. Her father, Donald Harris, a Jamaican immigrant, is an emeritus professor of economics at Stanford University. Her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, was born in India and was a cancer researcher and civil rights activist.
Many people are excited to see Harris as Biden’s pick, but I’ve got to be straight with you: I was hoping for Stacey Abrams.
There’s no arguing Harris has been outspoken about civil rights as a senator and presidential candidate, emerging as the tellitlikeitis voice sorely lacking in American politics.
She pressed Biden for opposing mandatory busing to
Two Fairfield residents were arrested in connection with a fatal shooting of a woman whose car was stopped at a traffic light in the early morning hours Friday, police said Saturday.
Louis Marsh, 58, and Amber Nothstein, 42, were arrested on suspicion of murder Friday afternoon around 3:30 p.m., hours after Fairfield police said the two Fairfield residents were suspected of involvement in a fatal shooting.
Police said a man and a woman were driving on Lopes Road in Fairfield and approaching the onramp to Interstate 80 when they stopped at a traffic light around 3 a.m. Friday.
While they waited at the light, police said a white Mitsubishi Eclipse pulled up next to the vehicle. A man and woman were also in the Mitsubishi, police said. The man, identified by police as Marsh, got out of the Mitsubishi and approached the other vehicle stopped at the traffic light.
“An exchange with the occupants began, which escalated to the male subject outside firing a gun at the occupants inside the waiting vehicle,” police said in a statement. “The male driver sped away onto the freeway with the suspect firing two more times and striking the vehicle.”
The driver of the victim’s vehicle pulled off the freeway at Central Way at Pittman Road and called 911 for help, police said.
Fairfeld police officers and firefighters responded to the scene, where they said the woman — who was identified only as a 38yearold Fairfield resident — died from gunshot wounds. The woman’s name is being withheld until her family is notified.
Police said the suspects and victims knew each other, and that the shooting was not random.
Detectives with the Police Department’s Investigations Bureau identified Marsh and Nothstein as the people suspected in the shooting and released their names and the description of the vehicle to officers on patrol, police said.
Police Sgt. Robert Piro saw the pair driving on Empire Street in Fairfield, where police said they were arrested. They were both booked into Solano County Jail on suspicion of murder, police said.
Anyone with information about this incident may call the Police Department’s Investigations Bureau at 7074287600.