Residents said Leah Gold made an ignorant statement on the need for police reform in Healdsburg. The mayor says she hopes a person of color takes her spot.
Healdsburg Mayor Leah Gold says she will step down on June 30 and hopes that a person of color will fill her position on the all-white City Council, a demand raised in a petition calling for her resignation.
The mayor told The Times that her decision was largely due to the fact that the criticism, which she mostly received on social media in addition to some calls and letters, was overwhelming.“We expect as public figures on the City Council to take a certain amount of abuse, but this was just more than I had signed up for. I didn’t want to put myself in that position any longer,” she said. “It’s going to be hard to get a citizen representative if they’re exposed to this treatment.
Gold said that misuse of force by police was not a problem in Healdsburg, a statement many residents deemed ignorant. They said Gold believed that racism did not exist in the Sonoma County city of roughly 12,000. According to the U.S. census, the town is made up of 77.5% white residents and 30% Latino residents . Less than 1% of residents are identified as American Indian or Alaskan Native, and 1.5% are identified as Asian.
Gold later denounced the sentiment that her views were racist, saying that “racism is an issue everywhere” and that the town should, after all, be involved in the conversation over police brutality. She thanked peaceful protesters and said she signed the Obama Foundation’s Mayor’s Pledge to review police use-of-force polices.
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