Dozens of people attended a press conference and open-casket service at Acts Full Gospel Church in East Oakland on Friday to remember Marvin Boomer, who was killed by a man fleeing the CHP in Oakland last week.

The cloudless, sunny day belied the tragic reason for the gathering.

Michelle Bernard, an attorney and spokesperson for the Boomer family, said that the family is grieving, but also feeling righteous indignation.

“Let me be clear: had this happened in Mill Valley, or Tiburon, or Stanford, or Woodside — if this had happened on streets paved with privilege and protection —Marvin Boomer would be alive,” she said at the start of the press conference, held outside the church. “But in East Oakland, where Black and brown lives are too often deemed expendable, the rules were different. T

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