{"id":64347,"date":"2025-11-21T22:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T22:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/64347\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T22:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T22:31:08","slug":"suspect-charged-in-hit-and-run-death-of-world-famous-sociologist-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/64347\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect charged in hit-and-run death of world-famous sociologist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OAKLAND \u2014 Alameda County prosecutors have charged the man suspected of running over and killing Michael Burawoy, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eastbaytimes.com\/2025\/02\/05\/hit-and-run-death-of-uc-berkeley-professor-emeritus-michael-burawoy-an-unimaginable-loss\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">famous sociologist and retired UC Berkeley professor<\/a>, court records show.<\/p>\n<p>Kermith Miller, 62, of Oakland, was charged with a felony count of leaving the scene of an accident and a misdemeanor count of vehicular manslaughter. He hasn\u2019t yet entered a plea, court records show. The charges were filed on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Burawoy, 77, was struck and killed around 7 p.m. on Feb. 3, as he crossed the street in a crosswalk near Grand Avenue and Park View Terrace near Lake Merritt in Oakland. Prosecutors allege that Burawoy drove off and that he later confessed to police, but claimed he didn\u2019t know he hit someone.<\/p>\n<p>Police who reviewed the crash footage said in court records it should have been \u201cobvious\u201d to the driver that there was a serious collision involving a person. The car, allegedly owned my Miller\u2019s wife, had significant front-end damage and a broken windshield, according to court records.<\/p>\n<p>Miller was arrested and released in February, court records show.<\/p>\n<p>Burawoy was widely considered to be one of the world\u2019s most influential Marxist sociologists. He authored or co-authored more than a dozen books and published hundreds of academic papers, but was perhaps best known for an ethnography entitled, \u201cManufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process Under Monopoly Capitalism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He retired from Cal in 2023 after 47 years of teaching and remained a professor emeritus. He arrived at the campus in 1976 and was at various points the president of the American Sociological Association and International Sociological Association.<\/p>\n<p>UC Berkeley\u2019s sociology department received a $100,000 gift in 2023 to establish an endowment in Burawoy\u2019s honor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND \u2014 Alameda County prosecutors have charged the man suspected of running over and killing Michael Burawoy, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[861,862,38576,143,863,145,38574,144,38575],"class_list":["post-64347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-bay-area-crime","tag-california-crime","tag-michael-burawoy","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-crime","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-hit-and-run","tag-oakland-news","tag-uc-berkeley-professor-killed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}