HOW IT STARTED: City of Berkeley Approves Police Defunding Plan.

—NBC Bay Area, July 15th, 2020.

How it’s going: Berkeley man, 69, lit on fire by stranger, in critical condition. Police say the assailant poured gasoline on the man and lit him on fire. Then he fled the scene.

The Berkeley Scanner, yesterday.

Related: 4 out of 10 Californians say they are ‘seriously considering’ leaving state, poll shows.

—Los Angeles’ KTLA 5, last Friday.