![]() ![]() "I don't think kicking and beating a man with bully clubs is ever justified. Hornbrook's refusal drew response from students standing nearby. Graduate student John Hornbrook said he felt the students were "attacking innocent people walking by." He said he did not know enough about the situation to judge whether the verdict was supported by evidence other than the videotape, and therefore would not sign a petition. However, not everyone was ready to sign their name. Graduate student Anthony Clark said petitions would be circulated "as long as it takes," adding that more than 2,000 signatures had been gathered in less than 24 hours. We won't let tomorrow go by without doing something."ĭuring the rally, petitions were circulated in White Plaza as one facet of the organized campus protest movement. At the rally, Harris said, "We have to all wake up, stay awake, get up next morning and the morning after and face reality. "There was a large number of people, much more than we expected," law student Michelle Alexander said. One organizer, Maya Harris, said the only preparation for the spontaneous rally was getting a microphone. News of the hastily organized Law School rally spread by word of mouth. MAYA HARRIS FULLIn the first full day of activity following the acquittals in the Rodney King beating case, students rallied at the Law School, petitioned in White Plaza and planned future actions to promote civil rights, including a rally today. ![]() While at Stanford, she was active with the East Palo Alto Community Law Project, serving as Co-Coordinator of the Domestic Violence Clinic and Co-Chair of the Student Steering Committee. That year, she enrolled in Stanford Law School. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1989. When she was eight, she and her sister worked to get the apartment building they lived in to open an unused courtyard as a place for children to play. We incorporated the best of their ideas into our plans, along with input from civil rights organizations that had been in the trenches for decades." Early life, educationīorn in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, Harris grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. I asked Maya and our team to work closely with them. "I took seriously the policies some of the Black Lives Matter activists later put forward to reform the criminal justice system and invest in communities of color. In her book published after the 2016 election titled "What Happened", Hillary Clinton described meeting with Black Lives Matter activists, and her request to Maya Harris to "work closely" with them. Just before the 2016 election Steve Phillips said that Maya Harris would be a "social justice ally" in Hillary Clinton's White house. Her older sister, Kamala Harris, is the Attorney General of California The two met while studying at Stanford Law. MAYA HARRIS MANUALShe has authored two publications which include a report highlighting community-centered policing practices nationwide and an advocacy manual for police reform. Before joining the ACLU, the former law school dean (Lincoln Law School of San Jose) was a Senior Associate at PolicyLink. Prior to joining the Ford Foundation, she served as the Executive Director of the ACLU of Northern California. From 2008 until she took her current position, she was Vice President for Democracy, Rights and Justice at the Ford Foundation. She was formerly a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. She was appointed to be one of three senior policy advisers to lead the development of an agenda for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign. ![]() Harris (born in 1967) is an American lawyer and public policy advocate. ![]()
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