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Hundreds lined up to volunteer outside San Jose City Hall on Tuesday to clean up graffiti downtown from the ongoing George Floyd protests. The supply of roughly 150 cleaning kits that staff from Beautify SJ and San Jose’s anti-graffiti and anti-litter programs distributed to volunteers ran out less than an hour after the event kicked...
I’m a journalist who was detained by San Jose police for doing my job
When I woke up Sunday morning, I didn’t expect to be detained by police in a stranger’s backyard later that day. I was called in to cover the third straight day of George Floyd protests in San Jose for San José Spotlight, but this time there was a citywide curfew starting at 8:30 p.m. until...
In-store retail, outdoor dining, religious services to resume in Santa Clara County
Santa Clara County health officials announced Monday they will amend the shelter-in-place order to allow in-store retail, outdoor dining, childcare for all families as well as religious, cultural and civic activities previously prohibited to reduce the spread of COVID-19. With the revised order effective Friday, Public Health Officer Dr. Sara Cody said progress with testing,...
Public defenders rally against Santa Clara County court closures amid protests
More than 50 public defenders and others rallied against Santa Clara County court closures on Monday, following a weekend of heated protests in San Jose over police brutality, including the death of George Floyd. Standing in front of the county Superior Court’s Hall of Justice with signs like “Close the jails, not the courts,” advocates...
Santa Clara County elections officials dismiss Trump’s voter fraud claims
After President Donald Trump hurled a firestorm of tweets denouncing vote-by-mail elections, Silicon Valley election leaders insist the voting method is accurate and dispute the president’s claims of voter fraud. “Voters in our county are used to voting by mail,” Shannon Bushey, the Santa Clara County registrar of voters, told San José Spotlight. “They know...
San Jose imposes a curfew, hundreds protest George Floyd death for third day
As protests erupted for the third day in downtown San Jose on Sunday over the killing of George Floyd, an unarmed Minneapolis man, city leaders imposed an 8:30 p.m. curfew beginning Sunday. “This police department wants peace, wants to continue to have dialogue with this community (and) doesn’t want any community member harmed,” said...
San Jose’s new COVID-19 walk-up clinic aims to serve communities of color
A free walk-up COVID-19 testing site opened in downtown San Jose aimed at increasing testing in communities of color. More than 200 people registered to get tested at the Antioch Baptist Church by the Roots Community Health Center, an organization founded in Oakland that aims “to uplift those impacted by systemic inequities and poverty” according...
San Jose: More arrests mark second day of George Floyd protests
Nearly 24 hours after a peaceful march Friday turned into a tense riot with injuries, a handful of arrests and vandalism in downtown San Jose, a group of about 200 protesters took to the streets again Saturday. They began in front of the Martin Luther King Jr. Library around 7 p.m. About 90 minutes later,...
Surviving earthquakes, recessions and Amazon, San Jose bookstore asks for community’s help
After surviving the Loma Prieta Earthquake, Great Recession and advent of Amazon, Hicklebee’s bookstore in Willow Glen is facing its next great challenge with the global COVID-19 pandemic. The 41-year-old San Jose literary institution is calling for the community’s help with a GoFundMe page that has already received more than 1,000 donors in just more...
San Jose: Hundreds protest killing of George Floyd, stop traffic
Hundreds of protesters marched miles from San Jose City Hall down Santa Clara Street to Highway 101, in the wake of the killing of an unarmed black man in Minneapolis earlier this week. The protest led to San Jose police officers spraying tear gas and firing rubber rounds to break up the crowd. As...