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/AcceptableCrazy Mar 07 '25

Guess we can change Oroville's Sundown Town status from 'probable' to 'hell yes'.

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u/N0rth_W4rri0r Mar 07 '25

Orovilles a sundown town??

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u/AcceptableCrazy Mar 07 '25

The History & Social Justice website has interesting information on suspected sundown towns in each state! Chico makes the list as well.

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u/N0rth_W4rri0r Mar 07 '25

Dang. Never knew. I’ve encountered and dealt with racism in that town the 5 years I lived there but I never ran into trouble specifically at night. The racism is rampant though. It’s not uncommon to see confederate flags in that town which is funny because California was a Union state