Before the sun set on Thursday, Sept. 27, a couple dozen members of Inland Congregations United for Change chanted as they walked from Cathedral of Praise on Del Rosa Avenue to a nearby apartment complex where eight people were shot, one fatally, in San Bernardino earlier this month.
As Dawn Thomas, a San Bernardino native, pushed her 23-month-old grandson, Michael, in a stroller along the route, she recalled growing up here in the 1960s, when the city was different. Then, she said, sometime in the ’80s, San Bernardino started trending downward.
“Violence and prostitution and gangs took over the city,” she said.
