The San Leandro City Council has proclaimed April 18 as Steven Taylor and Sanctity of Life Day, following the killing of Taylor last year by a former San Leandro police officer.

Former officer Jason Fletcher shot Taylor, a man of color, within a minute of arriving at the Walmart at 15555 Hesperian Blvd. on April 18, 2020.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.