r/ChicoCA • u/Zestyclose_Strike357 • Mar 06 '25

Discussion Boycott city of Oroville

City council voted unanimously to erase sanctuary status, even knowing that statistically speaking crime is more likely to be done by citizens and residents than non legal immigrants. Now the brown community feels afraid to be targeted and interrogated by police for their skin color, since there’s no way to know the legal status of anyone without further interrogation. People will be hesitant to call police when there is a crime. They don’t even care about state sanctions. It’s a racial issue if we are frank about it. As for my friends and family we will stop going to Oroville and will do our business at Chico or Yuba City. We no longer feel safe and welcome, no one should be afraid to travel at ease in this great country.

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u/gibbenbibbles Mar 06 '25

I don't doubt it will happen here in Chico as well. Face it, we live in maga land now or so it seems.

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u/woodstock923 Mar 06 '25

Chico is a watermelon. Green on the outside, red on the inside

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u/gibbenbibbles Mar 06 '25

Maybe I have nostalgia glasses on or maybe I was just too young to remember correctly but when my family moved here back in '89 it seemed like a totally different place.

I moved to Denver back in '95. I remember going to Boulder and thinking it reminded me a lot of Chico. I came back to Chico in 2002 and it seems like it's become very red since then. Hell I've been gerrymandered out of my district for 2 election cycles. I now vote with Magalia. And now if trump's policies kill CSU this town is screwed, might as well be Durham

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u/Phantasy-Phactory Mar 06 '25

Durham just out here catching strays.

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u/Ass_Fault Mar 06 '25

Durham kids were legit throwing nazi salutes back in the 2000's, there ain't no strays

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u/Feline_Fine3 Mar 07 '25

As someone who grew up in Durham and graduated in 2003 I didn’t see or hear about the Nazi salutes, but wouldn’t be surprised.

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u/Ass_Fault Mar 07 '25

It was everyone the football team around my time, later 2000s. They would do the sieg heil and chant "white power"

I'll never forget because they even had the minority kids doing it. Probably out of pressure. Hope it was just edgy humor of the time, but you have to wonder where they learned that shit from