2134 Martin Luther King Jr Way
Berkeley, CA 94704
USA
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OCTOBER 10TH: MARCH FOR KAYLA MOORE
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Show up Oct. 10th to amplify the Moore family’s call for justice for Kayla Moore, their loved one who was killed by BPD in 2013. We’re taking to the streets of Berkeley to lift up Kayla’s name, gear up for court support and demand mental health crisis response that is accessible to trans people, people of color, disabled people and everyone who ends up criminilized and endangered when our cities send cops to respond to crisis.
***Want to help prep for the march?***
Contact us to learn about support tasks/roles!
Email: justice4kaylamoore@gmail.c
Call: 510-548-0425
Come to a meeting, Monday’s, 7pm-9pm at the 2022 Blake St., Berkeley
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ABOUT KAYLA MOORE & HER FAMILY’S COURT CASE
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Kayla Moore was a Black trans woman with a mental health disability – schizophrenia – who was born, raised and living in Berkeley. She was a poet and loved to cook, dance and help people – her neighbors, friends and even strangers on the bus.
On Feb. 12, 2013, Kayla was killed by Berkeley police in her own home after a friend of hers called 911 to request mental health support for Kayla. Four years later, the family has finally been granted trial dates for their civil suit against the City of Berkeley and BPD: October 23-27, 2017. Four years later, we have not forgotten Kayla’s life. Nor have we forgotten Berkeley police’s brutal transphobia and racism, their use of excessive force, and, as the Moore family’s court case points out, their failure to accommodate – let alone respect – Kayla’s mental health disability, schizophrenia.
Kayla’s family’s civil suit centers the City of Berkeley and BPD’s failure to failure to comply with the American’s with Disabilities Act on the night they killed Kayla. To us, it’s common sense that crisis is not a crime and a militarized police response is not the way that cities should offer “support” to people experiencing mental health crises. The Moore family’s court case is a call to action for Berkeley and all cities: it’s time to build non-police crisis responses – in line with the ADA – that truly support and honor people with disabilities, especially those who are so often further criminalized for being Black, Brown, trans and/or homeless.
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