The mayor of small town in California’s Sonoma Valley is stepping down from her post amid an uproar over her initial silence over the Black Lives Matter movement. Healdsburg Mayor Leah Gold announced in a Facebook post on Tuesday that she is resigning to allow a person of color the chance to take over role on the wine country town’s all-white City Council. Gold’s problems began earlier month when she choose not to make the issue of police reform an agenda item at a City Council meeting. The backfire was quick and harsh, with a Change.org petition calling for her resignation being signed 1,800 times and the issue of her stepping down being discussed at a following city council meeting. "I fully support the Black Lives Matter movement and am eager to consider and adopt policies that advance its goals," Gold said in her resignation statement.

Source: Fox News June 17, 2020 20:37 UTC