(BCN) — Oakland police on Wednesday introduced the arrest of a suspect within the hit-and-run loss of life of famend sociology professor Michael Burawoy. Kermith Miller, 61, was arrested in Oakland and booked into Santa Rita Jail on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter and hit-and-run inflicting loss of life, in line with courtroom information.
He’s being held with out bail and scheduled for an arraignment on Friday at 9 a.m. on the Wiley Manuel Courthouse in Oakland.
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Miller is suspected of hitting 77-year-old Burawoy whereas he was in a crosswalk on the intersection of Grand Avenue and Park View Terrace at about 7:15 a.m. on Feb. 3.
Paramedics responded to the scene and took Burawoy to a hospital, the place the previous professor at College of California, Berkeley was pronounced useless.
Burawoy “dedicated 47 years of his life to Berkeley, contributing immeasurably to the discipline, transforming the fields of labor, ethnography and theory,” in line with a social media put up by Raka Ray, dean of UC Berkeley’s Division of Social Sciences.
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Ray stated Burawoy was previous president of the American Sociological Affiliation and the Worldwide Sociological Affiliation, the creator of many scholarly books and a mentor and inspiration to 1000’s of scholars whose lives he modified together with his “fierce intellect and kindness.”
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