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Speaker 1: This is Theo Henderson from Nie House. We are in

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Speaker 1: Unhoused News. Our top story is out here in Koreatown.

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Speaker 1: The anti inhouse anti press sentiment is very strong. They

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Speaker 1: are utilizing other people of color to basically dismantle and

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Speaker 1: violate the law and the First Amendment right. So as

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Speaker 1: you can see today they have displaced unhoused people's belongings

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Speaker 1: and further along we will give you a update on

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Speaker 1: that story. Mainstream media Los Angeles Times has created a

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Speaker 1: problematic article endangering the lives of unhoused people. The full

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Speaker 1: story is that the topic of their article was talking

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Speaker 1: about bicycles, which incidentally is important enough that Jopaskino is

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Speaker 1: criminalizing that now due to the article. The article points

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Speaker 1: to the address of unhoused people and then leads a

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Speaker 1: subtle dalk whistle to vigilantes to go and look for

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Speaker 1: unhoused people, creating hostile situations. The conversation has been always

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Speaker 1: ongoing about how mainstream media the fourth estate contributes into

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Speaker 1: the mass hysteria and vigilantes of unhoused news. Me in

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Speaker 1: House has an episode called Nimbiland that highlights that on

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Speaker 1: YouTube as well as the other social media podcast. Incidentally,

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Speaker 1: during the George Floyd protest. There was a big article

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Speaker 1: from Los Angeles Times apologizing for their role and to

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Speaker 1: the racial antipathy that they created in their reporting. It

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Speaker 1: seems like they they had retorted resulted back to got

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Speaker 1: because as you know, fifty two percent of the un

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Speaker 1: of force with the LAPD. And now due to the

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Speaker 1: high hysteria of anti unhoused sentiment that is used as

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Speaker 1: a platform for the politician, Eli Times has joined the

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Speaker 1: fray there. I have always stated that there they are

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Speaker 1: doing balance reporting, but that is not the case. It

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Speaker 1: was incidents before, but they were really eager to try

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Speaker 1: to have workshops, I guess, and they have foundered due

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Speaker 1: to the fact that many of the journalists do not

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Speaker 1: mainstream journalists. However, they have been missing the mark for

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Speaker 1: some time, so I guess that's they're correct in that.

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Speaker 1: In other news, Willian House have found out that there

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Speaker 1: has been a recall on City council member Mike Bonnan.

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Speaker 1: He is one of the people that has not pushed

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Speaker 1: out any forty one eighteen resolutions. He voted against it

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Speaker 1: KDL has created more resolutions to circle on house people

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Speaker 1: near Union Station, the City Hall and other places. The

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Speaker 1: main proponent of the resolution have been joked by skying

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Speaker 1: over one hundred and sixty one and counting Mitchell Farrell.

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Speaker 1: He's growing in his number. Parker Kreyan, KDL, Neuri Martinez.

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Speaker 1: These are the ones that have been pushing for the

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Speaker 1: forty one eighteen resolution utilizing anti on house sentiment stating

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Speaker 1: that unhoused people are dangerous to schools and as if

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Speaker 1: all the sixty two thousand n house people are going

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Speaker 1: to attack school children and there are danger to society.

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Speaker 1: The last conversation that I point out is and the

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Speaker 1: last livestream Instagram live stream that I posted how MacArthur

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Speaker 1: Park had violated the Bulky Order ruling and through away

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Speaker 1: an unhoused person's belongings and left two belongings in their possession.

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Speaker 1: For further details, please look on the Weedian House Instagram

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Speaker 1: live as well as check out the new current episode.

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Speaker 1: Due to the Veterans on House Veterans episode that should

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Speaker 1: be a proposed because today is Veterans Day, but incidentally

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Speaker 1: they have disdained and discarded the un housed, just the

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Speaker 1: same as civilian unhouse. This is the o Henderson from

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Speaker 1: William House and this is on House News the city.

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Speaker 1: They don't have the manpower to it, but they're gonna

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Speaker 1: have the evil intent to be able to displace thousands

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Speaker 1: of people. So what what? What do you think would

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Speaker 1: be a good solution for you? Do? Do you think

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Speaker 1: this is a good solution anyway? No? I think this

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Speaker 1: is really like discrimination. I mean, where would they go?

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Speaker 1: How can you look down at somebody who's already down

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Speaker 1: on their luf? You know, we're all one foot out

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Speaker 1: of the rest. Would be a nation of laws and

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Speaker 1: we go out there and we fight the borders. We

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Speaker 1: to qunch of payperwork. It's ridiculous watching a veteran dinas

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Speaker 1: simple laws and pushed paper around. You can't do anything

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Speaker 1: for the man sitting there right on the street. Right now,

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Speaker 1: the fight for non veteran housing is a bigger challenge

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Speaker 1: right now. Yeah, because the people who are against this humanity,

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Speaker 1: All right. This is THEO Henderson from Willian House and

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Speaker 1: we are here today at nationale Veterans Park. Today we're

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Speaker 1: to introduce two of my guests here. They're gonna talk

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Speaker 1: and then and take it from there. What's your name, sir,

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Speaker 1: Jim Brown, Angel Brown. Well, this is the Browns, not

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Speaker 1: the comedy show. These are the real life Jim Brown

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Speaker 1: and not the football player by the way. So I

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Speaker 1: I see you have a Veteran Army sirt on it.

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Speaker 1: So tell us a little about your story. Well, my

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Speaker 1: story starts back in Oklahoma working with children and at

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Speaker 1: risk kids and also group home kids, and we advanced

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Speaker 1: that now to helping homeless veterans, which I'm a two

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Speaker 1: time veteran and white homeless veterans. Homeless veterans because of

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Speaker 1: the fact the city and the state funding program is

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Speaker 1: not accurate on serving homeless veterans. It's not accurate. We

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Speaker 1: need to find out who's being served, where's the money's going,

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Speaker 1: and who's really getting help from the state and the city.

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Speaker 1: My second question is when you're mentioned and touched on it,

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Speaker 1: it's very correctly too. Do the unhoused veterans do they

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Speaker 1: deal with a lot of the challenges like substance usage PTSD,

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Speaker 1: you know, suicide, it's obvious the same things that happen

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Speaker 1: with house veterans or unhouse veterans. Do they get their

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Speaker 1: appropriate help? No, not really. We get a lot of conversation,

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Speaker 1: it comes to really caring, there's no institution that we

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Speaker 1: can actually go to and receive emergency help. What about

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Speaker 1: because people would argue, many of the nimbies that would

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Speaker 1: argue that, you know, God save our veterans, and patriotic

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Speaker 1: It's not a solution or what's going on there? Well,

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Speaker 1: the Veteran Administration keeps everything under the rug. They sound good,

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Speaker 1: think gets a housing voucher, emergency assistance, medical attention, even

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Speaker 1: resources that they ritually deserve. It's not being done correctly.

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Speaker 1: I understand due to some of the challenges that happened

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Speaker 1: struggles to just get housing and a vash voucher. Can

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Speaker 1: you tell us what a vash vulture is? Do you

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Speaker 1: know that there's a vast voucher? Basically is veterans trying

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Speaker 1: that's foreclosures that lost their homes. But when we go

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Speaker 1: even get the voucher. When you do get the voucher,

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Speaker 1: trying to get this vast vultures that for a house veterans,

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Speaker 1: the obstacle is filling out paperwork. You fill out the applications,

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Speaker 1: you go through the process, you get a case manager.

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Speaker 1: Once you get a case manager, it stops all. This

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Speaker 1: is this conversation. We're working on this, we're working on that.

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Speaker 1: But when it comes down to transitioning from a shelter

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Speaker 1: a voucher. Now, let's take could take this conversation to

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Speaker 1: a new dimension. I don't know if you've heard of

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Speaker 1: forty one eighteen and what I'm going to educate all

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Speaker 1: of us about it. Forty one eighteen has been shot

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Speaker 1: down over several times in city Council's history. I, as

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Speaker 1: But the question becomes now because forty one eighteen now

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Speaker 1: special enforcement zones. But here's a issue here. Forty one

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Speaker 1: But you know, you want to know where they're gonna

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Speaker 1: and we need political leaders not trying to subdue their

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Speaker 1: And one of the things that many of these city

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Speaker 1: will stay in the same breath, you know, respecting and

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Speaker 1: against this. You're a veteran. You're a veteran twice. So

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Speaker 1: when the first time you became into the service of

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Speaker 1: war or anything. No, I had just came from. We

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Speaker 1: I'm pending medical for the agent orange. But you were

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Speaker 1: what was that? What about? Well, my daughter recruited me

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Speaker 1: twenty five years years after I served the first time.

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Speaker 1: come really loud. But when missus les who knows the

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Speaker 1: person's mind, can turn this cause why do you keep

431
00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:08,480
Speaker 1: on making spare your song? Tell unless tie your jail

432
00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:16,200
Speaker 1: way around, cause if you really want you you're wont

433
00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:26,520
Speaker 1: done nothing? Yeah nothing, Send about your room and sat

434
00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:35,040
Speaker 1: in the mountain. I don't come to the thing and

435
00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:43,920
Speaker 1: that head from found to the mount see the love

436
00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:49,840
Speaker 1: by your people say and then do you gonna becomes

437
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Speaker 1: a to google? Come to come to I'm This is

438
00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:05,159
Speaker 1: Ceo Henderson from Wiedi and House. We have a gentleman

439
00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:07,600
Speaker 1: here that is going to highlight it. Give us a

440
00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:10,600
Speaker 1: little bit of some background information, so let us introduce

441
00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:13,480
Speaker 1: himself and then we could take it from there. My

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00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:17,800
Speaker 1: name is Rob Reynolds, US Army veteran who served in Iraq.

443
00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:22,280
Speaker 1: I've been working and helping the homeless veterans outside the

444
00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:25,440
Speaker 1: West LAVA and involved in this advocacy since about July

445
00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:29,440
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, two years. So what got you involved into

446
00:28:29,520 --> 00:28:33,320
Speaker 1: this advocacy. I went through this myself. I came here

447
00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:35,320
Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen. I had a service dog. I went

448
00:28:35,359 --> 00:28:36,520
Speaker 1: to go get in the VA. They told me I

449
00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:37,879
Speaker 1: had to get rid of the service dog before I

450
00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:40,200
Speaker 1: could get in. Ended up out on the sidewalk writing

451
00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:44,240
Speaker 1: letters to my elected officials. I eventually got in with

452
00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:47,600
Speaker 1: my dog. But in the time that I spent out here,

453
00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:49,800
Speaker 1: I watched how there was no outreach. There was no

454
00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:51,680
Speaker 1: one from the VA coming and checking on these guys.

455
00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:54,160
Speaker 1: There was people attempting suicide and all just you know,

456
00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:56,800
Speaker 1: really atrocious things happening. And I did not like it.

457
00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:01,160
Speaker 1: So when I got inside the vaedately, you know, started

458
00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:04,320
Speaker 1: reporting what I was seeing out here to the VA

459
00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:07,200
Speaker 1: White House hot line, the obviously the Inspector General, multiple

460
00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:10,040
Speaker 1: different veteran crisis lines, and no one was really doing anything.

461
00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:14,360
Speaker 1: I started going with the homeless veterans. We started bringing

462
00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:16,880
Speaker 1: them to these federal advisory boards where you know, the

463
00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:19,480
Speaker 1: VA sits and they talk about land use policies and

464
00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:21,560
Speaker 1: we're bringing up all these concerns with the homeless veterans

465
00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:23,320
Speaker 1: and no one was addressing them. And it was at

466
00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:26,160
Speaker 1: that time that we met some Vietnam veterans and also

467
00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:29,800
Speaker 1: residence of the Brentwood community that kind of gave us

468
00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:32,400
Speaker 1: a rundown on this history of the land fraud that's

469
00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:35,080
Speaker 1: been going on here in the misappropriation of land, and

470
00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:38,959
Speaker 1: I myself in the beginning didn't understand the relation between

471
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:42,160
Speaker 1: the two. But you know, throughout this time it's been

472
00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:43,920
Speaker 1: in a learning experience and it all ties back to

473
00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:47,479
Speaker 1: one thing. If your primary focus is to run real

474
00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:50,440
Speaker 1: estate business, it's not taking care of veterans, right. So

475
00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:54,400
Speaker 1: that's how we're in this position today. Excellently, I excellently

476
00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:58,040
Speaker 1: put so, so, have you seen any positive movement away

477
00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:02,280
Speaker 1: from this or is this slowly reaching people's attention, because

478
00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:05,960
Speaker 1: I understand there is some tension with the Brentwood Community

479
00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:10,000
Speaker 1: Neighborhood Council, but they are part of the problem. Is

480
00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:15,520
Speaker 1: that correct? Yes, So the Brentwood Community Council is not

481
00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:17,840
Speaker 1: recognized by the l A n C, which is the

482
00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:21,600
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Neighborhood Council Coalition. That's where all the ones

483
00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:23,200
Speaker 1: that are on that board. You can see him on there.

484
00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:27,440
Speaker 1: Brentwood is not the Brentwood Community Council. They're board members

485
00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:30,480
Speaker 1: a lot of the time have been illegal land users.

486
00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:32,960
Speaker 1: It's always people that have some interest in the land

487
00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:36,360
Speaker 1: on this council board. Even one of the principal developers

488
00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:39,440
Speaker 1: was Thomas Saffron used to be a VCC board member.

489
00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:41,880
Speaker 1: So it's always like everyone from the BCC gets cherry

490
00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:44,800
Speaker 1: picked for things going on at the West Lava, almost

491
00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:47,040
Speaker 1: to the point where it's like it's their property and

492
00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:50,280
Speaker 1: they're running everything here. And I've been in a meeting

493
00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:54,320
Speaker 1: with council member Bonnin where he told me himself, he said,

494
00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:57,040
Speaker 1: you know, the BCC doesn't want homeless veterans here at

495
00:30:57,080 --> 00:31:00,320
Speaker 1: the West Lava. They don't want housing for them. You know.

496
00:31:00,440 --> 00:31:02,120
Speaker 1: Ted Lew and his own words at one point in

497
00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:04,560
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen at one of the meetings, said the same thing,

498
00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:07,720
Speaker 1: that they don't want this to become a large depository

499
00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:11,880
Speaker 1: for homeless disabled veterans. And it's just a bunch of

500
00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:16,440
Speaker 1: nimbi neighbors, right. But the fact is is this soldier's

501
00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:18,280
Speaker 1: home property has been here for one hundred and thirty

502
00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:21,240
Speaker 1: three years. Civil War soldiers once walked on this property.

503
00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:24,200
Speaker 1: All these towns Brentwood, Westwood, the neighborhood of Hotel, they

504
00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:27,640
Speaker 1: were all developed around this property. Right. Veterans helped develop

505
00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:29,600
Speaker 1: a lot of these communities that everyone lives in today.

506
00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:32,440
Speaker 1: So the fact that they're being exiled from their inherited

507
00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:36,800
Speaker 1: property is absolutely unacceptable. I totally agree, and I'm just

508
00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:41,400
Speaker 1: taking aback the level of nimbiism that could reach to reach.

509
00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:44,560
Speaker 1: It's just unbelievable. You're going to exile people from their

510
00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:46,440
Speaker 1: own property. Why am I not surprised? They did it

511
00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:48,600
Speaker 1: in Venice, They did it in Manhattan Beach. They do

512
00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:51,840
Speaker 1: it everywhere. They come in their antelopes and take over

513
00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:55,400
Speaker 1: the places where there are spaces that with the community.

514
00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:58,720
Speaker 1: Veterans had a community. This was a community way before

515
00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:01,600
Speaker 1: this was the neighborhood for britain Wood Neighborhood Council or

516
00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:05,480
Speaker 1: any o. The other nimbies were even a thought. Absolutely,

517
00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:08,240
Speaker 1: And you know, this place used to be a bustling

518
00:32:08,280 --> 00:32:09,840
Speaker 1: little city. At one point there was upwards of five

519
00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:12,440
Speaker 1: thousand veterans living on the property, you know. And then

520
00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:16,680
Speaker 1: then the VA started focusing on commercially leasing off the

521
00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:20,800
Speaker 1: land for profit and the whole focus became, you know,

522
00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:23,920
Speaker 1: selling off the land and not building veteran housing. Now,

523
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:26,520
Speaker 1: what they did to try to fill the gap was

524
00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:29,120
Speaker 1: they started pushing a lot of these hud Vash vouchers.

525
00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:33,960
Speaker 1: They're essentially like a civilian Section eight voucher you can get. However,

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00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:36,640
Speaker 1: the problem is is it can take upwards of three

527
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:38,680
Speaker 1: months just to get a voucher in hand. So if

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00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:41,640
Speaker 1: you don't have somewhere where somebody can sit in the interim,

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00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:44,240
Speaker 1: like a shelter or a housing place for them to stay,

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00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:47,360
Speaker 1: the likelihood of them getting through that process is slim

531
00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:49,560
Speaker 1: to none. Because you're on the street. You got to

532
00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:51,360
Speaker 1: get ID cards the whole thing. I mean, it's like

533
00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:54,160
Speaker 1: on house. People have to go through the gap. That's right, absolutely,

534
00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:56,040
Speaker 1: And you know when you have other cities around the

535
00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:59,520
Speaker 1: country that spend time building shelters and everything, in Los

536
00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:04,120
Speaker 1: Angeles focus was building permanent housing. Permanent housing is a

537
00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:06,480
Speaker 1: good thing, but you still have to have some type

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00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:08,760
Speaker 1: of shelter to keep people in the interim. You can't

539
00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:12,320
Speaker 1: just have them all over the streets. So basically they're

540
00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:15,560
Speaker 1: utilizing Nimbis to be able to push this agenda again.

541
00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:18,680
Speaker 1: But the issue is that they and house people are

542
00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:22,560
Speaker 1: keep talking about. What they want is basically reasonable housing,

543
00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:26,680
Speaker 1: safe housing, and these congregod shelters according with the COVID nineteen,

544
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:30,520
Speaker 1: it's not an option anymore. What they have now is hotels.

545
00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:33,160
Speaker 1: Are they offering that to you guys. We've had a

546
00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:35,320
Speaker 1: lot of people go through the hotel vouchers, been kind

547
00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:38,400
Speaker 1: of some problems with those. They weren't providing food every

548
00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:39,840
Speaker 1: twenty eight days, they had to move to a new

549
00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:43,040
Speaker 1: hotel room, so they're bouncing around. Then money runs out,

550
00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:44,120
Speaker 1: and we have a lot of guys that were in

551
00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:46,160
Speaker 1: hotel vouchers that are back out on the sidewalk now.

552
00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:48,760
Speaker 1: And I know that there are issues with shelters and

553
00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:51,520
Speaker 1: the congrege living and safety issues and concerns. However, what

554
00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:53,280
Speaker 1: I think a lot of this all ties into is,

555
00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:56,440
Speaker 1: you know, these are simple problems to fix. It's our

556
00:33:56,480 --> 00:33:59,600
Speaker 1: elected officials. You know, they're listening to the one percent

557
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:02,120
Speaker 1: of the population has all the money that lobbies them

558
00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:04,960
Speaker 1: that you know, and that's what happens here. Everybody in

559
00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:08,600
Speaker 1: between gets screwed when our elected officials are doing everything

560
00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:11,640
Speaker 1: to appease these wealthy donors. Well, one of the things

561
00:34:11,680 --> 00:34:13,840
Speaker 1: they are doing is with forty one eighteen. I know

562
00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:16,960
Speaker 1: you've heard of forty one to eighteen. It's basically both

563
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:19,680
Speaker 1: civilians know it. So forty one to eighteen is the

564
00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:22,440
Speaker 1: ordinance that they're trying to do this Wednesday to outlaw

565
00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:26,400
Speaker 1: that the house out here veterans they can be near parks,

566
00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:33,120
Speaker 1: around parks, in parks, near schools, daycares, any place where

567
00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:36,400
Speaker 1: they where their businesses. Their unhoused people are not to be.

568
00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:40,120
Speaker 1: They have allocated a place outside of Los Angeles for

569
00:34:40,239 --> 00:34:42,920
Speaker 1: in house to get people to be. So if this passes,

570
00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:46,880
Speaker 1: this affects everybody, uh, civilians and veterans, And I was

571
00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:49,759
Speaker 1: wondering what your perspective is on it. Well, thankfully this

572
00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:55,480
Speaker 1: sidewalk falls within the county jurisdiction unincorporated county Supervisor shielda

573
00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:57,520
Speaker 1: COOLS officer, does not fall within the city, so that

574
00:34:57,560 --> 00:35:01,520
Speaker 1: won't apply here. And also there's a simple solution. We

575
00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:03,080
Speaker 1: could just get everything on the other side of the

576
00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:04,800
Speaker 1: fence here. We got three hundred and eighty eight acres

577
00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:07,200
Speaker 1: and we could do some really good stuff and get

578
00:35:07,239 --> 00:35:09,160
Speaker 1: them off the street. So that's really what we're pushing for.

579
00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:12,200
Speaker 1: Oh good, good, Well, this is news to me because

580
00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:13,920
Speaker 1: I thought this was part of the city. But that's good.

581
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:16,680
Speaker 1: This is a county, so you guys probably would this

582
00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:18,640
Speaker 1: probably definitely would pass you guys by it, but it

583
00:35:18,719 --> 00:35:23,600
Speaker 1: will not with the civilian population unfortunately. So is there

584
00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:27,640
Speaker 1: anything else that I missed that I should have asked you? No,

585
00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:30,800
Speaker 1: I think you pretty much pretty much hit everything. And

586
00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:34,840
Speaker 1: you know, I think definitely our elected officials need to

587
00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:40,000
Speaker 1: start putting human beings lives before their personal agendas and

588
00:35:40,080 --> 00:35:42,680
Speaker 1: before the special interest groups agendas, because it's a lot

589
00:35:42,719 --> 00:35:45,320
Speaker 1: of what we're getting into here. Absolutely, I'm going to

590
00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:47,359
Speaker 1: I would like to come back and interview you again

591
00:35:47,560 --> 00:35:50,160
Speaker 1: or come and check out get deeper into it. I

592
00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:54,399
Speaker 1: promised the other gentleman. Is that okay? Absolutely anytime. Thank

593
00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:57,359
Speaker 1: you for talking with me, and I appreciate your time,

594
00:35:57,719 --> 00:35:59,919
Speaker 1: and I thank you all for listening and maybe again

595
00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:03,799
Speaker 1: meet in the light of understanding good. I mean, it's

596
00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:06,680
Speaker 1: the CEO Henderson from Median House and there you could

597
00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:08,799
Speaker 1: build the breeze growing to just been a hot day.

598
00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:12,239
Speaker 1: It's been a hot week, and I wanna put to

599
00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:15,400
Speaker 1: say something about climate change. Envilimate change is real. It

600
00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:18,080
Speaker 1: gets really very hot and it would be abruptly cold.

601
00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:21,040
Speaker 1: But one of the things that's preconstant is unhoused people,

602
00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:24,080
Speaker 1: and the unhouse bedroom community is out here in enduring

603
00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:28,000
Speaker 1: and they deserve better. So we're here. UH. Last time

604
00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:30,799
Speaker 1: we had a conversation, I'm afraid with was a little

605
00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:32,920
Speaker 1: bit short, but I wanted to take the time to

606
00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:36,560
Speaker 1: come back and interview again and to take our time

607
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:39,440
Speaker 1: to talk to one of the uh one of the proponents.

608
00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:42,520
Speaker 1: I told you recently giving out a video if I

609
00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:45,400
Speaker 1: got shore be the Instagram a TikTok about what was

610
00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:47,799
Speaker 1: going on, and I wanted to talk about UH up

611
00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:49,960
Speaker 1: there the community and what's going on. So tell me

612
00:36:50,040 --> 00:36:52,840
Speaker 1: a little bit about UH recap what uh what you

613
00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:55,800
Speaker 1: do and what's the lights is so important that you

614
00:36:55,880 --> 00:37:02,280
Speaker 1: speaker about the very important issues, and I definitely appreciate

615
00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:04,480
Speaker 1: you coming out and taking the time to understand what's happening.

616
00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:09,680
Speaker 1: You know, I'm a veteran. I I went through this,

617
00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:12,040
Speaker 1: this whole situation when I tried to come here and

618
00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:14,560
Speaker 1: give service in years back, and UH just didn't agree

619
00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:18,160
Speaker 1: with it seeing veterans sleeping outside the VA on the

620
00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:20,480
Speaker 1: sidelong because all this planned right here and it doesn't

621
00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:23,480
Speaker 1: make any sense to be really and uh, and they're

622
00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:27,560
Speaker 1: a lot of long. I don't understand why won't they

623
00:37:27,560 --> 00:37:29,480
Speaker 1: allow the other community to come out on the law

624
00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:32,120
Speaker 1: as well? That's I not this thing got best right

625
00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:34,560
Speaker 1: because they have the empty building here. But it was

626
00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:37,440
Speaker 1: just back to the groups are well. You have to

627
00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:40,080
Speaker 1: understand COVID. COVID plays a big role in this. So

628
00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:43,279
Speaker 1: the VA was supposed to have around four hundred dating

629
00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:47,359
Speaker 1: units and housing built in two thousand twenty, didn't have it. Uh.

630
00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:50,120
Speaker 1: Then when the COVID pandemic struck, it was already a

631
00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:52,239
Speaker 1: shortage of housing, and they took all the programs and

632
00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:54,120
Speaker 1: they went down there fifty percent of you didn't see

633
00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:58,400
Speaker 1: for social distancing guidelines. And that's really when the population

634
00:37:58,600 --> 00:38:01,440
Speaker 1: uh homeless veterans on the side while exploding. Every time

635
00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:03,480
Speaker 1: you have an outbreak in one of the buildings, they'll

636
00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:05,480
Speaker 1: shut down admissions and they won't take anybody in and

637
00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:08,200
Speaker 1: everything kind of goes the standstill and the population starts

638
00:38:08,239 --> 00:38:11,600
Speaker 1: to you know, increasing sidewalk correct. So that's that's a

639
00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:14,400
Speaker 1: lot of what happens here. They have not been consistent

640
00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:16,960
Speaker 1: he chasing people in throughout the pandemic. Again, every time

641
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:19,680
Speaker 1: they have a breakout and stop trading people in. But

642
00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:22,680
Speaker 1: it doesn't make any sense because there's plenty of land here,

643
00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:25,880
Speaker 1: be clean, undreds eighty and acres. We can social distance everybody.

644
00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:29,000
Speaker 1: Thank you. I'm like, this was the thing. They're like, dude,

645
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:31,239
Speaker 1: they're kind of much space they have and even down

646
00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:34,040
Speaker 1: how civilia is we we're in the park. We know

647
00:38:34,120 --> 00:38:36,160
Speaker 1: how to coach the distance enough that we have great

648
00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:39,320
Speaker 1: through his moue. This is ridiculable. This is a this

649
00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:43,040
Speaker 1: is insane. It's own right here. We just had uh.

650
00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:45,960
Speaker 1: We had one of the veterans US Army veterans and

651
00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:49,040
Speaker 1: he was kind of a fixture of around here. We

652
00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:52,040
Speaker 1: got them inside the inside of camp in It actually

653
00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:56,000
Speaker 1: died last weekend. That's the memorial dist What was the

654
00:38:56,080 --> 00:39:00,560
Speaker 1: Gentleman's pagers, right, Jake Tagger Taggard the start countries. He

655
00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:02,960
Speaker 1: was in the military of a veteran, and this is

656
00:39:03,280 --> 00:39:05,880
Speaker 1: the reward in America into I'm very sorry for the

657
00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:10,200
Speaker 1: guys to managing law and so uh. I I wanted

658
00:39:10,239 --> 00:39:11,759
Speaker 1: to sit tack a step, which is why it's so

659
00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:16,280
Speaker 1: important that housing would immediately helpful everyone here in the community.

660
00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:21,200
Speaker 1: Is that recently the sheriff has came out and the

661
00:39:21,280 --> 00:39:25,080
Speaker 1: business improvement or people that don't like seeing houssness and

662
00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:29,200
Speaker 1: enjoying their comfortas by blockade having listed the support of

663
00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:32,799
Speaker 1: a problematic sheriff uh building a wage and who also

664
00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:36,160
Speaker 1: apparently endorsed to Larry Elder, which is another problematic. The

665
00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:39,280
Speaker 1: big experience of dealing with housing before that, no experience

666
00:39:39,360 --> 00:39:42,359
Speaker 1: was did it. He says that he's been thirty days.

667
00:39:42,440 --> 00:39:45,160
Speaker 1: He's going to remove all of these guys. What do

668
00:39:45,239 --> 00:39:47,799
Speaker 1: you think of that? Uh, well, it's definitely not gonna happen.

669
00:39:47,920 --> 00:39:50,400
Speaker 1: So he was in about two weeks ago he was

670
00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:53,520
Speaker 1: in a Grantwich community council here they brought up to

671
00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:55,080
Speaker 1: cam in He said that they were gonna do an

672
00:39:55,080 --> 00:39:58,520
Speaker 1: assessment period. He actually uh met with the Sheriff's Cork

673
00:39:58,640 --> 00:40:01,759
Speaker 1: ghost team right out for that meeting. And then we

674
00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:03,600
Speaker 1: have the Sheriff's department host and we have a town

675
00:40:03,640 --> 00:40:05,200
Speaker 1: hall with all the veterans. So we set up with

676
00:40:05,200 --> 00:40:07,600
Speaker 1: all the VA directors, all the homers veterans from the sheriffs.

677
00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:10,360
Speaker 1: We went over to the questions, you know, questions and

678
00:40:10,360 --> 00:40:12,800
Speaker 1: answers with the riffs department can also filled them in

679
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:15,399
Speaker 1: on you know what's going on here in the VA

680
00:40:15,520 --> 00:40:18,640
Speaker 1: and the history and the things that happen. And the

681
00:40:18,760 --> 00:40:21,239
Speaker 1: thing is when they do start their assessments, which they

682
00:40:21,280 --> 00:40:24,160
Speaker 1: have not started yet yet, they're very easily gonna see

683
00:40:24,239 --> 00:40:26,680
Speaker 1: that every time you get to three veterans' side, four

684
00:40:26,719 --> 00:40:30,160
Speaker 1: or five more show up. And also this VA has

685
00:40:30,200 --> 00:40:33,560
Speaker 1: a terrible problems to recycling, essentially recycling vetterans. They go,

686
00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:35,520
Speaker 1: they go into programs and the kick them right out

687
00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:38,000
Speaker 1: for kissing a head check. Yeah, there's a lot of

688
00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:42,640
Speaker 1: artural appects to the program ye, similar to the Pavilion

689
00:40:42,960 --> 00:40:46,320
Speaker 1: treatment of it. But yeah, clean, Yeah, and the COVID

690
00:40:46,560 --> 00:40:48,799
Speaker 1: they've really used COVID lyric manage it as far as

691
00:40:48,840 --> 00:40:51,399
Speaker 1: meeting a lot of the rules more strict. These guys

692
00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:52,840
Speaker 1: can't even leave to go on you know, if there

693
00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:54,480
Speaker 1: are any of this programs. They can't even leave to

694
00:40:54,480 --> 00:40:58,000
Speaker 1: go to the store without someone from the DA walking

695
00:40:58,080 --> 00:41:00,200
Speaker 1: with them go down to the store. They can't walk

696
00:41:00,239 --> 00:41:01,759
Speaker 1: around the property and I get up, go for a

697
00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:03,360
Speaker 1: walk or do anything. So they're really kind of like

698
00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:06,719
Speaker 1: isivating everybody in group? Yeah, and it's it's uh, it

699
00:41:06,840 --> 00:41:09,239
Speaker 1: kind of goes against all logical you know people, Yes,

700
00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:10,560
Speaker 1: TV and they need to be able to get out

701
00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:12,680
Speaker 1: and boom around right out of stuck in your head's

702
00:41:12,719 --> 00:41:14,280
Speaker 1: so a lot of them in their rooms and stuff.

703
00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:16,960
Speaker 1: It's just problematic and causes you know, causes people to

704
00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:21,000
Speaker 1: constantly get kicked out. And so until you know these problems,

705
00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:23,480
Speaker 1: that's fixed, and it's gonna keep seeing veterans on the sidewine.

706
00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:27,239
Speaker 1: And there's a there's some really simple solutions to it.

707
00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:29,560
Speaker 1: I mean, there's there's no reason why we can't set

708
00:41:29,640 --> 00:41:32,040
Speaker 1: up large tents, so one of these buildings and have

709
00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:33,920
Speaker 1: a bunch of continent where you just have immediate same

710
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:35,719
Speaker 1: day services the veterans shows up and give him a

711
00:41:35,719 --> 00:41:37,479
Speaker 1: place to stay. It's not the same amount to street

712
00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:40,279
Speaker 1: because this is uh no, you can do better than that.

713
00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:42,879
Speaker 1: You're gonna do you know they are I I than

714
00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:45,480
Speaker 1: on how they can't uh play through that at least

715
00:41:45,560 --> 00:41:47,279
Speaker 1: is a comfortable with grot in the airmatic. I mean,

716
00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:48,919
Speaker 1: if the different things that you can do the gun

717
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:51,120
Speaker 1: humanize people, you don't have to make them feel like

718
00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:54,160
Speaker 1: they are a gale where they've dug truck of wall

719
00:41:54,200 --> 00:41:57,680
Speaker 1: forbes on pound. If not in a crime to people period.

720
00:41:57,840 --> 00:41:59,920
Speaker 1: If not in crime, you have the challenges are they

721
00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:03,520
Speaker 1: to happen? Life happens to we the ridiculous idea that

722
00:42:03,600 --> 00:42:06,400
Speaker 1: popet me through cunnigs or yailed or or thrown out

723
00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:08,920
Speaker 1: in the suitet or shot through the field or all

724
00:42:08,960 --> 00:42:11,560
Speaker 1: of these crazy things that if the counting through in general,

725
00:42:11,960 --> 00:42:15,200
Speaker 1: it really bobles me and I even inho like the

726
00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:18,600
Speaker 1: police or Saffill always become at the favorite day then

727
00:42:18,640 --> 00:42:21,800
Speaker 1: it's week. Is a horrible example at your carve with

728
00:42:21,880 --> 00:42:25,120
Speaker 1: another horrible example, they literally heared people in trying to

729
00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:27,319
Speaker 1: get treat them in health because they were running around

730
00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:29,680
Speaker 1: attacking them, throwing the new jails and things like that.

731
00:42:30,080 --> 00:42:32,440
Speaker 1: So they're not gonna be deep or go back and

732
00:42:32,560 --> 00:42:34,879
Speaker 1: try to get the help even if you aren't going

733
00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:38,680
Speaker 1: to be sincere about it. Absolutely, and this is a

734
00:42:39,040 --> 00:42:41,279
Speaker 1: this is a whole different situation here. And when these

735
00:42:41,320 --> 00:42:44,000
Speaker 1: guys are they're not down on venice the h they're

736
00:42:44,040 --> 00:42:46,279
Speaker 1: not in for us so h they're right outside of

737
00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:48,880
Speaker 1: the AA, they're right outside of property they just needed

738
00:42:48,920 --> 00:42:51,960
Speaker 1: for them, right the tax players paid dearly to have

739
00:42:52,120 --> 00:42:54,480
Speaker 1: these guys house to take care of may have benefits.

740
00:42:54,560 --> 00:42:56,919
Speaker 1: They should not even be in this position. And again

741
00:42:56,960 --> 00:42:58,600
Speaker 1: it just goes into the history. You say, have five

742
00:42:58,640 --> 00:43:00,520
Speaker 1: thousand veterans living on the property when there were none

743
00:43:00,560 --> 00:43:03,440
Speaker 1: homeless in the local community here and half fall homeless

744
00:43:03,520 --> 00:43:07,120
Speaker 1: around this. BA are better for student So it's, uh,

745
00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:09,440
Speaker 1: it's about time that they get these guys back in

746
00:43:09,480 --> 00:43:11,000
Speaker 1: the land. And I think, you know, we're getting in

747
00:43:11,120 --> 00:43:14,279
Speaker 1: that direction. We're insurance gonna happening. But it's just, you know,

748
00:43:14,360 --> 00:43:17,560
Speaker 1: with any large bureaucracy, it's such a push and shoventural

749
00:43:17,600 --> 00:43:20,200
Speaker 1: really get too. Do you think the Sheriff's Department's goland

750
00:43:20,400 --> 00:43:23,320
Speaker 1: make the things work? Because they are not. I'm not

751
00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:24,680
Speaker 1: saying that they're not. Uh that you don't have a

752
00:43:24,719 --> 00:43:27,320
Speaker 1: lot of pots through the veteran but if the community

753
00:43:27,480 --> 00:43:30,360
Speaker 1: pressure them to, you display people in your own because

754
00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:32,360
Speaker 1: I look at this as basically literally it is a

755
00:43:32,520 --> 00:43:35,239
Speaker 1: veteran land and you can't have them in droves in

756
00:43:35,360 --> 00:43:38,560
Speaker 1: the veteran community. What do you think is just gonna happen.

757
00:43:38,680 --> 00:43:41,359
Speaker 1: That's gonna cause more you know, trauma, and it's gonna

758
00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:44,759
Speaker 1: cause like I understand that twenty two a day is

759
00:43:44,960 --> 00:43:48,239
Speaker 1: the suicide race for u uh vectlum. So if it's

760
00:43:48,320 --> 00:43:51,120
Speaker 1: going to spike it or is it going to do people.

761
00:43:52,360 --> 00:43:54,880
Speaker 1: I think that the pandemic is actually you know, spike

762
00:43:54,960 --> 00:43:57,600
Speaker 1: a lot of it and a lot of things. Yes,

763
00:43:57,680 --> 00:44:00,440
Speaker 1: if if the Shriff's word, come in and we can

764
00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:03,000
Speaker 1: aggressive with people. If you remember, we have sixteen of

765
00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:05,000
Speaker 1: these guys out here in combat veteran, so we serve

766
00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:07,440
Speaker 1: multiple tours and stuff. There's there's no need to gitting

767
00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:11,719
Speaker 1: pressure anyone in that way. And they haven't yet, have

768
00:44:11,880 --> 00:44:16,560
Speaker 1: not done anything yet, been respectful of the situation. We'll

769
00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:19,319
Speaker 1: see how that goes as things to progress, but it's

770
00:44:19,360 --> 00:44:21,600
Speaker 1: gonna be it's gonna be very difficult to come in

771
00:44:21,640 --> 00:44:24,440
Speaker 1: and remove everyone because you know, we know exactly what

772
00:44:24,600 --> 00:44:27,200
Speaker 1: each individual. I know what each individual is waiting for

773
00:44:27,280 --> 00:44:30,520
Speaker 1: as far as their service is for. And uh, everybody's

774
00:44:30,560 --> 00:44:33,080
Speaker 1: waiting for something, whether that be a DASS voucher or

775
00:44:33,120 --> 00:44:35,120
Speaker 1: a hotel voucher, or a train to take it back home,

776
00:44:35,200 --> 00:44:36,600
Speaker 1: plan you take it back home, or the way that

777
00:44:36,640 --> 00:44:38,759
Speaker 1: you get into one of the programs right now. So

778
00:44:38,880 --> 00:44:42,320
Speaker 1: we have all that very well documented and we're constantly

779
00:44:42,360 --> 00:44:44,800
Speaker 1: sharing that information and just letting you know, Cheff's department

780
00:44:44,800 --> 00:44:46,480
Speaker 1: in the county and everybody know, Hey, these are what

781
00:44:46,560 --> 00:44:49,080
Speaker 1: these guys are waiting for let's not do anything to

782
00:44:49,120 --> 00:44:51,120
Speaker 1: remove them, or you haven't had any more stress to them,

783
00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:53,400
Speaker 1: Let's get them what they need. You would make a

784
00:44:53,520 --> 00:44:56,440
Speaker 1: very good point. It's a big respector that we've had

785
00:44:56,480 --> 00:44:58,480
Speaker 1: many of the house people in the in the pact

786
00:44:58,520 --> 00:45:00,440
Speaker 1: that we're in goes forward the different and like the

787
00:45:00,960 --> 00:45:04,279
Speaker 1: UH section a UH find housing vouchers and things like

788
00:45:04,360 --> 00:45:09,320
Speaker 1: that the opportunity and unfortunately the city has shown particulars

789
00:45:09,320 --> 00:45:12,479
Speaker 1: filling the waiver has shown UH along the lay review

790
00:45:12,480 --> 00:45:14,080
Speaker 1: as well. I don't wanna get to ruin or but

791
00:45:14,200 --> 00:45:16,759
Speaker 1: the sheriff because it is there, they're for Romain. It

792
00:45:16,840 --> 00:45:21,359
Speaker 1: has basically turned a blind eye and that basically displaced them.

793
00:45:21,680 --> 00:45:23,360
Speaker 1: And that's the thing what it is. They didn't displace

794
00:45:23,440 --> 00:45:26,040
Speaker 1: them too much to Tea or twenty miles away from

795
00:45:26,080 --> 00:45:30,480
Speaker 1: the services UH are also put in next if not

796
00:45:30,600 --> 00:45:33,280
Speaker 1: into the area where the membies are, but also flooded

797
00:45:33,320 --> 00:45:36,960
Speaker 1: and other neighborhoods who are now creating their own kind

798
00:45:37,040 --> 00:45:40,680
Speaker 1: of UH are schools kind of environment. They also have

799
00:45:40,800 --> 00:45:44,160
Speaker 1: created forty one eighteen uh ammdies. So if there be

800
00:45:44,320 --> 00:45:47,400
Speaker 1: even much more tractonian for and house people that are

801
00:45:47,480 --> 00:45:53,439
Speaker 1: civilians su g UH against the city against sleeping even

802
00:45:53,520 --> 00:45:56,400
Speaker 1: lying down. And if you know the human bottom l functions,

803
00:45:56,440 --> 00:45:58,840
Speaker 1: you cannot just pick the walk forever. You got to

804
00:45:58,880 --> 00:46:01,120
Speaker 1: sit somewhere, you got I could rent from there, and

805
00:46:01,239 --> 00:46:03,759
Speaker 1: we got to light out. So they are they Their

806
00:46:03,840 --> 00:46:06,000
Speaker 1: idea is that they offered you a hunger good shelter

807
00:46:06,200 --> 00:46:09,560
Speaker 1: right now where the pertendage of COVID outreats are very high,

808
00:46:09,920 --> 00:46:12,000
Speaker 1: and you turn it down. That's the foot for me

809
00:46:12,120 --> 00:46:14,360
Speaker 1: because what you did. But there's not enough jail for

810
00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:18,960
Speaker 1: for over sixty thousand county. I'm just concerned that yet

811
00:46:19,080 --> 00:46:22,440
Speaker 1: that it's true that they're being they're acting slow moving,

812
00:46:22,640 --> 00:46:24,799
Speaker 1: but I don't want to see what happens to Pa.

813
00:46:24,840 --> 00:46:27,960
Speaker 1: Willions happen to effective because I and if by all right,

814
00:46:28,080 --> 00:46:30,640
Speaker 1: you guys should be out here anyway, Yeah, none of

815
00:46:30,640 --> 00:46:33,480
Speaker 1: these guys should be out here. It's gonna be difficult.

816
00:46:33,520 --> 00:46:35,919
Speaker 1: So this is the jurisdiction here is is a little weird.

817
00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:39,200
Speaker 1: So on the sidewalk, the lights that you see on

818
00:46:39,239 --> 00:46:41,239
Speaker 1: the sidewalk are owned by the county, so therefore to

819
00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:44,520
Speaker 1: considered county jurisdiction. So those that anti camping organs doesn't

820
00:46:44,560 --> 00:46:46,440
Speaker 1: have at from the city of Los Angeles right, actually

821
00:46:46,440 --> 00:46:48,839
Speaker 1: doesn't attact these guys thankfully, you go, a county doesn't

822
00:46:48,840 --> 00:46:53,040
Speaker 1: adopted anything like that yet. And Supervisor Sheila Coole's office,

823
00:46:53,080 --> 00:46:55,480
Speaker 1: this is this is her district church. Everybody's a district

824
00:46:55,520 --> 00:47:00,560
Speaker 1: free she said she wants to see all guys in

825
00:47:00,760 --> 00:47:04,600
Speaker 1: permanent house. Right, So again, I know the sheriff's got

826
00:47:04,600 --> 00:47:08,360
Speaker 1: are not going few of the John Gorde supervisors, So

827
00:47:08,960 --> 00:47:11,319
Speaker 1: we'll kind of see how that how it all flows out.

828
00:47:11,960 --> 00:47:15,840
Speaker 1: But you know a lot of the some of the

829
00:47:15,880 --> 00:47:18,080
Speaker 1: officers on hosting are veterans too, so you can spend

830
00:47:18,080 --> 00:47:19,640
Speaker 1: a lot of time, you know, talking with them and

831
00:47:19,800 --> 00:47:22,480
Speaker 1: just larning situation. You know, in light of everything that's

832
00:47:22,520 --> 00:47:26,200
Speaker 1: happening in Afghanistan right now. You know, that's why it's

833
00:47:26,239 --> 00:47:28,399
Speaker 1: so important for this to be fixed, because the guys

834
00:47:28,440 --> 00:47:30,719
Speaker 1: that are getting wounded and injured in Afghanistan, if they

835
00:47:30,719 --> 00:47:33,799
Speaker 1: can come home and they couldn't to this area, they're

836
00:47:33,840 --> 00:47:36,279
Speaker 1: gonna be on the side who after that's problem. That's

837
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:41,160
Speaker 1: part that can't happen. Yeah, this is absolutely unacceptable that

838
00:47:41,280 --> 00:47:45,040
Speaker 1: this is going on, and I think I think we're

839
00:47:45,400 --> 00:47:47,400
Speaker 1: about to see some good change as far as getting

840
00:47:47,400 --> 00:47:51,759
Speaker 1: guys taken care of the gang. You just never know that. Yeah, yeah,

841
00:47:52,200 --> 00:47:54,040
Speaker 1: and that good thing. You know. I I thought I

842
00:47:54,120 --> 00:47:56,240
Speaker 1: have leave to the backup because I have a pavilion,

843
00:47:56,560 --> 00:47:59,799
Speaker 1: I have feeling that popusness. I know how they look

844
00:47:59,800 --> 00:48:03,480
Speaker 1: good good politically. And then we have ap a park

845
00:48:03,719 --> 00:48:06,080
Speaker 1: or here we have you know they're looking at they're

846
00:48:06,200 --> 00:48:09,759
Speaker 1: actually here of a membies that are actually diking in

847
00:48:09,920 --> 00:48:12,600
Speaker 1: here of building the wave to can it, to insert

848
00:48:12,680 --> 00:48:16,400
Speaker 1: themselves in the fight of your profit now in a

849
00:48:16,440 --> 00:48:19,359
Speaker 1: little way of prusishuit wasn't a big speech, but he's

850
00:48:19,440 --> 00:48:23,080
Speaker 1: reserve Againstuffy and he caused unfortunately a lot of tram

851
00:48:23,160 --> 00:48:26,399
Speaker 1: unharmed to the a house pavilion who had different things

852
00:48:26,440 --> 00:48:29,040
Speaker 1: that were going on, and that wasn't member. And so

853
00:48:29,200 --> 00:48:32,719
Speaker 1: I I worry you know that he he would try

854
00:48:32,800 --> 00:48:35,200
Speaker 1: it here, But I I have a suspicion it may

855
00:48:35,239 --> 00:48:37,480
Speaker 1: be a little bit of a different fight because you know, you,

856
00:48:37,640 --> 00:48:39,560
Speaker 1: like you said, you have a combat next him. It's

857
00:48:39,600 --> 00:48:41,560
Speaker 1: not fun to be the easier win where you can

858
00:48:41,680 --> 00:48:45,200
Speaker 1: just try to intimidate thirteen cops. To intimidate the civilian,

859
00:48:45,440 --> 00:48:48,640
Speaker 1: U uh, that's vulnerable. You got veterans that you know

860
00:48:48,800 --> 00:48:51,520
Speaker 1: that night they might not want to smoke psicar uh

861
00:48:51,600 --> 00:48:56,160
Speaker 1: figuratively and little ye know they're not. It's not gonna

862
00:48:56,160 --> 00:48:58,120
Speaker 1: be uh easy to come in and intimidate any of

863
00:48:58,120 --> 00:49:01,399
Speaker 1: these guys. I sure he's that. And you know what's

864
00:49:01,440 --> 00:49:03,920
Speaker 1: been eye opening for me is veterans obviously have a

865
00:49:03,960 --> 00:49:07,560
Speaker 1: lot more resources to hand than the civilian house h

866
00:49:08,239 --> 00:49:10,960
Speaker 1: Even with all the resources get veterans have and all

867
00:49:11,000 --> 00:49:13,000
Speaker 1: the enemies that we bring in here, it's still a

868
00:49:13,239 --> 00:49:16,040
Speaker 1: very long process. So I can only imagine how I'm

869
00:49:16,040 --> 00:49:18,080
Speaker 1: hardy it must be for someone on the civilian side

870
00:49:18,160 --> 00:49:21,560
Speaker 1: going through all of this to get get housing. You

871
00:49:21,719 --> 00:49:24,480
Speaker 1: must be like an attorney. If I'm seeing here with

872
00:49:24,560 --> 00:49:26,360
Speaker 1: these guys who have a ton of resources, then it

873
00:49:26,440 --> 00:49:29,440
Speaker 1: must be that much worse for the civilian population. And

874
00:49:29,520 --> 00:49:31,640
Speaker 1: then the mented you try to get the rest if

875
00:49:31,640 --> 00:49:34,600
Speaker 1: you'd compably live, but maybe trying to put through a gap,

876
00:49:34,760 --> 00:49:36,480
Speaker 1: and then you gotta fire all over again and pick

877
00:49:36,480 --> 00:49:39,520
Speaker 1: it everything. Yeah, And I think, uh, you know, a

878
00:49:39,560 --> 00:49:41,879
Speaker 1: lot of the lot of the excuses are the red tape.

879
00:49:42,080 --> 00:49:44,080
Speaker 1: If everything he will take care of. But you know,

880
00:49:44,160 --> 00:49:47,319
Speaker 1: for instance, right now you see in afghanistand we'll bring

881
00:49:47,400 --> 00:49:49,200
Speaker 1: you over a lot of the refuge teams that helped

882
00:49:49,320 --> 00:49:52,200
Speaker 1: uh assist US service members during you know, the twenty

883
00:49:52,280 --> 00:49:53,920
Speaker 1: year War, and they're gonna bring them back over here,

884
00:49:54,560 --> 00:49:56,759
Speaker 1: and they're putting forward the legislation to cut through the

885
00:49:56,840 --> 00:49:58,800
Speaker 1: red tape to get these people immediately housed on the

886
00:49:58,840 --> 00:50:02,799
Speaker 1: military takes. So we can do that for the refugees.

887
00:50:03,120 --> 00:50:04,800
Speaker 1: And why can't we cut them some red tape and

888
00:50:04,880 --> 00:50:07,520
Speaker 1: some legislation for to get the veterans immediately house or

889
00:50:07,560 --> 00:50:11,880
Speaker 1: get small you know, explain from immediately house areas not okay,

890
00:50:11,960 --> 00:50:15,520
Speaker 1: i'se broke, Maybe give my intence. Why can't gigs is

891
00:50:15,600 --> 00:50:18,200
Speaker 1: literally just as the empty building. Why can't get gets

892
00:50:18,239 --> 00:50:21,839
Speaker 1: the back tomorrow? Say hey, we're gonna put you here.

893
00:50:22,520 --> 00:50:24,239
Speaker 1: We don't have to build a building. We don't have

894
00:50:24,320 --> 00:50:26,080
Speaker 1: to go to the city hall, we don't have to

895
00:50:26,200 --> 00:50:28,520
Speaker 1: pray and moan about it. We have you have to

896
00:50:28,680 --> 00:50:32,759
Speaker 1: play here. Why can't they just basically took them here?

897
00:50:32,840 --> 00:50:35,080
Speaker 1: They don't. I mean they're differ head to africcoery to

898
00:50:35,200 --> 00:50:37,480
Speaker 1: help the build their land. They have a building that's

899
00:50:37,520 --> 00:50:41,320
Speaker 1: not occupied. They can book them in and out then tomorrow.

900
00:50:41,480 --> 00:50:43,839
Speaker 1: But it doesn't take a view. It shouldn't pay of us.

901
00:50:44,160 --> 00:50:47,400
Speaker 1: I mean for the differ, but EASi not if not

902
00:50:47,520 --> 00:50:50,279
Speaker 1: a no brainer, it is a no brainer. And the

903
00:50:50,360 --> 00:50:52,520
Speaker 1: problem here is just something that's been going on for

904
00:50:52,640 --> 00:50:56,320
Speaker 1: decades is the politics behind the property. You have a

905
00:50:56,400 --> 00:50:58,279
Speaker 1: lot of big money influence that wants to be on

906
00:50:58,400 --> 00:51:00,200
Speaker 1: this land and two the biggest ones ever. I'm with

907
00:51:00,320 --> 00:51:02,720
Speaker 1: school in DC regions in U c. L A. Naturally

908
00:51:02,800 --> 00:51:04,840
Speaker 1: this building right behind us here, this is a research

909
00:51:04,920 --> 00:51:09,279
Speaker 1: and development building. They do some really crazy things in

910
00:51:09,360 --> 00:51:12,839
Speaker 1: their animal testing. They recently just got less regilancy kind

911
00:51:12,880 --> 00:51:15,560
Speaker 1: of your experiments on the continent the thing. Wow, yes,

912
00:51:15,840 --> 00:51:18,319
Speaker 1: so you UCLA actually uses a lot of this land

913
00:51:18,719 --> 00:51:23,000
Speaker 1: for their research and development, and you know that benefits

914
00:51:23,040 --> 00:51:25,480
Speaker 1: the hospital resement. But UCLA is not even supposed to

915
00:51:25,480 --> 00:51:28,359
Speaker 1: be honest land or what donating for them. So that's uh,

916
00:51:28,800 --> 00:51:30,840
Speaker 1: that definitely shouldn't be happening. They shouldn't have all this

917
00:51:30,960 --> 00:51:33,960
Speaker 1: new town influence. They have baseball stadiums on the land.

918
00:51:34,080 --> 00:51:36,000
Speaker 1: UCLA gets reading pretty much whatever they want when it

919
00:51:36,040 --> 00:51:38,160
Speaker 1: comes to this property. And they're not veterans. It's not

920
00:51:38,200 --> 00:51:41,120
Speaker 1: a veteran organization. It's a you know, it's the building. Yeah,

921
00:51:41,360 --> 00:51:44,520
Speaker 1: that's the something I didn't know you you the bigot.

922
00:51:44,680 --> 00:51:47,600
Speaker 1: You see, regions got a lot of money and influence. Okay, okay,

923
00:51:47,680 --> 00:51:49,600
Speaker 1: So that's one of the reasons why if they are

924
00:51:49,680 --> 00:51:52,680
Speaker 1: off of the frijuditative are probably just played on the

925
00:51:52,800 --> 00:51:56,040
Speaker 1: very faith this is good land anyway, this is different land.

926
00:51:56,080 --> 00:51:58,080
Speaker 1: And then they are throwing them out on their own. Man,

927
00:51:58,200 --> 00:51:59,719
Speaker 1: you think about it. For u c. L A. There's

928
00:52:00,239 --> 00:52:02,400
Speaker 1: really good hospital, I think number one in California and

929
00:52:02,600 --> 00:52:05,560
Speaker 1: not mistaken. But you know, they run all their residents

930
00:52:05,600 --> 00:52:08,000
Speaker 1: through here at the VA, so all the home the

931
00:52:08,040 --> 00:52:09,920
Speaker 1: doctors get all their training out and all the mistakes,

932
00:52:09,960 --> 00:52:11,960
Speaker 1: all their issues on the veterans. They run all their

933
00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:17,280
Speaker 1: research programs on the veterans. So it's they really utilize

934
00:52:17,320 --> 00:52:20,319
Speaker 1: in the veteran population and utilize based plans for their betters.

935
00:52:20,320 --> 00:52:24,400
Speaker 1: They have their own self game. They really don't. They

936
00:52:24,480 --> 00:52:27,120
Speaker 1: do not get back to home with veterans really at all.

937
00:52:27,160 --> 00:52:30,279
Speaker 1: It's just an absolutely fair minimum. And you know, then

938
00:52:30,320 --> 00:52:32,799
Speaker 1: for instance, we have Brentwood School. There's got another thirty

939
00:52:32,840 --> 00:52:34,440
Speaker 1: acres up there and they control a lot of what

940
00:52:34,520 --> 00:52:36,480
Speaker 1: goes on here. It's a lot of money. Kids that

941
00:52:36,560 --> 00:52:39,120
Speaker 1: go there pay forty thousand dollars a year. Pers few

942
00:52:39,160 --> 00:52:44,520
Speaker 1: of your parents. It's uh, it's really insane. So that's

943
00:52:44,719 --> 00:52:46,480
Speaker 1: that's what the whole push is on this property. They

944
00:52:46,560 --> 00:52:48,880
Speaker 1: have plans they want to utilize this. When I say ay,

945
00:52:48,960 --> 00:52:51,840
Speaker 1: I'm talking about the VA and the special interest groups

946
00:52:51,920 --> 00:52:54,600
Speaker 1: that want to turn this into a downtown Brentwood and

947
00:52:54,880 --> 00:52:57,200
Speaker 1: push all the homeless veterans places like skid Row or

948
00:52:57,280 --> 00:52:59,719
Speaker 1: dat down on things like that. And they already do

949
00:53:00,040 --> 00:53:01,960
Speaker 1: what they forget. They already got the MBIs and they

950
00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:04,960
Speaker 1: already got the business improve the district and cop probably

951
00:53:05,280 --> 00:53:08,719
Speaker 1: proving that up. It's it's gonna be that will be

952
00:53:08,760 --> 00:53:10,920
Speaker 1: a meth. Yeah, it would be a math. It is

953
00:53:10,960 --> 00:53:15,200
Speaker 1: gonna be a mess, definitely, And it's just, uh, it's

954
00:53:15,239 --> 00:53:18,080
Speaker 1: really unfortunate because it's a lot of our you know,

955
00:53:18,120 --> 00:53:21,240
Speaker 1: our elected officials are too worried about again a teasing

956
00:53:21,280 --> 00:53:24,080
Speaker 1: their wealth for donors, and they're not listening to the

957
00:53:24,280 --> 00:53:26,560
Speaker 1: you know, everyday people and they're just ignoring them and

958
00:53:26,640 --> 00:53:28,760
Speaker 1: going to one whoever got the most money to their campaign.

959
00:53:28,760 --> 00:53:31,359
Speaker 1: That's who they're gonna listen to, and everyone else canna

960
00:53:31,360 --> 00:53:34,920
Speaker 1: get screwed the way. Yeah, for instance, you know, this

961
00:53:35,120 --> 00:53:37,120
Speaker 1: is the this is the thirty third Congression of the district.

962
00:53:37,120 --> 00:53:39,839
Speaker 1: I mean this is Congressman Ted Lewis district. Congressman Ted

963
00:53:39,960 --> 00:53:42,239
Speaker 1: Lou's office, his west side office is literally about a

964
00:53:42,280 --> 00:53:44,520
Speaker 1: mile down the street. Oh wow, congress from ted louis

965
00:53:44,520 --> 00:53:48,120
Speaker 1: an Air Force veteran congress and Ted Loo has never

966
00:53:48,239 --> 00:53:52,399
Speaker 1: once step foot out here, had even an intern step

967
00:53:52,520 --> 00:53:55,600
Speaker 1: foot out here. Despite us having Lascy Council. They're trying

968
00:53:55,640 --> 00:54:00,120
Speaker 1: to supervisors office everyone here. However, Congressman Tedloo, right, it's

969
00:54:00,120 --> 00:54:02,839
Speaker 1: a lot of the legislation that affects everyone here. He's

970
00:54:02,880 --> 00:54:06,160
Speaker 1: responsible for a lot of the planning US is. Yes,

971
00:54:06,880 --> 00:54:12,200
Speaker 1: So it's very uh, it's very promatic. He is a veteran.

972
00:54:13,600 --> 00:54:18,200
Speaker 1: What he's doing is just it's unacceptable. And regardless of

973
00:54:18,719 --> 00:54:22,920
Speaker 1: you know, what the accusations are of his involvement in

974
00:54:22,960 --> 00:54:25,240
Speaker 1: the propt or anything like that, it doesn't matter because

975
00:54:25,280 --> 00:54:28,600
Speaker 1: the fact is in his district a mile from one

976
00:54:28,640 --> 00:54:32,600
Speaker 1: of his offices outside the VA, there's fifty veterans, sixteen

977
00:54:32,640 --> 00:54:35,160
Speaker 1: of which are combat veterans, and there's been people reaching out,

978
00:54:35,280 --> 00:54:38,480
Speaker 1: veteran service organizations reaching out of his office for two years.

979
00:54:39,440 --> 00:54:43,880
Speaker 1: This guy has done nothing, absolutely nothing, and for someone

980
00:54:44,440 --> 00:54:46,880
Speaker 1: in his position, it has the power and influence to

981
00:54:46,920 --> 00:54:49,279
Speaker 1: be able to effect you a change and get some

982
00:54:49,360 --> 00:54:51,960
Speaker 1: people taken care of it. Just to ignore it. I mean,

983
00:54:52,040 --> 00:54:56,239
Speaker 1: that's that's just disgraceful. Yeah, right, totally agreeable, and it's

984
00:54:56,360 --> 00:54:59,960
Speaker 1: very problematic. And he's a veteran talent at least give

985
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:01,839
Speaker 1: we've heard to hear a man calls leave from Americ

986
00:55:01,880 --> 00:55:04,479
Speaker 1: comparent or even a cown copy. You know the leads

987
00:55:04,520 --> 00:55:09,040
Speaker 1: with that. Well, Henry Waxman was the congressman prior to

988
00:55:09,120 --> 00:55:12,080
Speaker 1: Ted Liu in this distance year. He all the time

989
00:55:12,440 --> 00:55:13,960
Speaker 1: he would come here and have town halls with the

990
00:55:14,040 --> 00:55:16,080
Speaker 1: veterans and age of what's going on. And that's normally

991
00:55:16,080 --> 00:55:19,160
Speaker 1: how it happens to Das. But Congressman Ted Lou does

992
00:55:19,200 --> 00:55:21,200
Speaker 1: not do that. I mean back to the when he

993
00:55:21,320 --> 00:55:24,440
Speaker 1: first got into office. One of the first things to

994
00:55:24,520 --> 00:55:29,000
Speaker 1: dick here at the West Laba was after the lawsuit

995
00:55:29,040 --> 00:55:32,240
Speaker 1: there was a loss of that happened and these leases

996
00:55:32,280 --> 00:55:34,640
Speaker 1: were supposed to be evicted. There was this soccer club

997
00:55:34,680 --> 00:55:37,040
Speaker 1: called FC Breaker Soccer Club and they were utilizing mac

998
00:55:37,120 --> 00:55:39,640
Speaker 1: Arthur Field, which the back of the BA, and they

999
00:55:39,719 --> 00:55:42,120
Speaker 1: received the federal eviction notice. It was just a soccer

1000
00:55:42,200 --> 00:55:45,560
Speaker 1: club like civilians soccer moms. So they receive a viction notice.

1001
00:55:46,040 --> 00:55:49,040
Speaker 1: Congressman tedlou steps in and intervenes and stops the eviction

1002
00:55:49,120 --> 00:55:52,440
Speaker 1: of Epsley Breaker Soccer Club thanks to a Floyer request.

1003
00:55:52,520 --> 00:55:54,879
Speaker 1: You know why, And his whole excuse was he thought

1004
00:55:54,880 --> 00:55:57,680
Speaker 1: it would be bad publicity to kick out soccer mon

1005
00:55:58,320 --> 00:56:02,279
Speaker 1: But the thing is where down the field is you're

1006
00:56:02,280 --> 00:56:03,920
Speaker 1: they're supposed to be evicted, rum, we're supposed to be

1007
00:56:04,000 --> 00:56:06,239
Speaker 1: housing us. They now have not been building, and it

1008
00:56:06,280 --> 00:56:09,719
Speaker 1: stopped that election that was going the first six times years.

1009
00:56:10,040 --> 00:56:13,520
Speaker 1: Then you know, it's just have you not done that?

1010
00:56:14,080 --> 00:56:17,759
Speaker 1: You really have housing? Yeah? Yeah, So it's it's a

1011
00:56:17,840 --> 00:56:22,399
Speaker 1: lot of let's just spend years in the making. That's

1012
00:56:22,480 --> 00:56:24,320
Speaker 1: the thing too. I could said, you know this is

1013
00:56:24,440 --> 00:56:27,560
Speaker 1: not this is not some far flung place we have.

1014
00:56:27,840 --> 00:56:31,040
Speaker 1: You know you don't have to This is the community affecting.

1015
00:56:31,360 --> 00:56:33,600
Speaker 1: This is the community where you don't have to be

1016
00:56:33,600 --> 00:56:37,080
Speaker 1: a the NB moms talking about unhoused people or people's

1017
00:56:37,080 --> 00:56:40,080
Speaker 1: going stop or they're gonna attacter a poor field. This

1018
00:56:40,239 --> 00:56:42,880
Speaker 1: is there, this is their area. There's no excuse for

1019
00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:45,359
Speaker 1: them to have and yet this still don't have house.

1020
00:56:45,600 --> 00:56:48,200
Speaker 1: This is the issue. So it's never really about these

1021
00:56:48,280 --> 00:56:52,080
Speaker 1: these stories, these pectious a narratives that they make up,

1022
00:56:52,239 --> 00:56:53,880
Speaker 1: is that they just don't want to be the right

1023
00:56:54,000 --> 00:56:56,640
Speaker 1: thing and that it needs to change. No matter if

1024
00:56:56,680 --> 00:56:59,920
Speaker 1: you civilian or or a military on how, you just

1025
00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:03,440
Speaker 1: deserve housing, you deserve servicely, you deserve to be treated

1026
00:57:03,560 --> 00:57:06,400
Speaker 1: justin you as a hut be being. Just because you

1027
00:57:06,520 --> 00:57:08,800
Speaker 1: uh in a building doesn't mean you're better than someone

1028
00:57:08,880 --> 00:57:12,120
Speaker 1: that doesn't not anyone. So is there anything else that

1029
00:57:12,160 --> 00:57:15,920
Speaker 1: I miss in trouble fifth? No, I think, uh think

1030
00:57:15,960 --> 00:57:22,479
Speaker 1: pretty much covered everything. And I've definitely uh, I feel

1031
00:57:22,520 --> 00:57:24,480
Speaker 1: that we're gonna we're gonna have some good rogats here

1032
00:57:24,480 --> 00:57:26,480
Speaker 1: as far as getting things change of planning we already have.

1033
00:57:27,480 --> 00:57:31,440
Speaker 1: It's unfortunate that it's taken this long, and I just

1034
00:57:31,520 --> 00:57:34,240
Speaker 1: really hope that everyone kind of kiss ourselves in here

1035
00:57:34,400 --> 00:57:37,440
Speaker 1: before we have another other death. Since I've been involved

1036
00:57:37,480 --> 00:57:42,120
Speaker 1: in this, you know, six veterans not slangs next in

1037
00:57:42,200 --> 00:57:44,200
Speaker 1: the last two years, and that's really that's really too

1038
00:57:44,280 --> 00:57:46,560
Speaker 1: many to be dying right house type of the A. Yeah,

1039
00:57:46,560 --> 00:57:48,680
Speaker 1: that's that's kinds and there's more than that. It's just

1040
00:57:48,760 --> 00:57:53,040
Speaker 1: ones that I know, but definitely thinking for on out

1041
00:57:53,040 --> 00:57:55,680
Speaker 1: they're doing what you do. Really appreciate it. I'm gonna do.

1042
00:57:55,800 --> 00:57:58,240
Speaker 1: I'm a determinative thing on the space to see, like

1043
00:57:58,320 --> 00:58:00,840
Speaker 1: you say, I'm hopefully I next time I interview is

1044
00:58:00,880 --> 00:58:03,720
Speaker 1: some of be in the more positive circumstances. And again

1045
00:58:03,840 --> 00:58:05,520
Speaker 1: Rob sks up the bike and I go said, I

1046
00:58:05,560 --> 00:58:07,800
Speaker 1: will be doing my part next year as well to

1047
00:58:08,080 --> 00:58:11,520
Speaker 1: educated of our positioning business. Again, thank you very much,

1048
00:58:11,640 --> 00:58:14,960
Speaker 1: just the Siohinnersipvidian house. I thank you all for listening.

1049
00:58:15,280 --> 00:58:17,040
Speaker 1: And maybe we again't leave in the light of unders.

1050
00:58:17,640 --> 00:58:20,480
Speaker 1: You might have asked a few questions, that's your and

1051
00:58:20,600 --> 00:58:26,880
Speaker 1: why are we here? We're here protesting the disrespect that

1052
00:58:27,160 --> 00:58:34,280
Speaker 1: they are given the veterans of America. When America called me,

1053
00:58:35,120 --> 00:58:40,200
Speaker 1: I answered the call. Now I'm back and I turned

1054
00:58:40,280 --> 00:58:47,680
Speaker 1: to America and get a tent. Then, never wonder why

1055
00:58:48,080 --> 00:58:51,240
Speaker 1: I don't vote on them. It ain't a racial thing.

1056
00:58:51,920 --> 00:58:56,280
Speaker 1: I know ignorance and stupidity when I see it, I

1057
00:58:56,360 --> 00:59:17,000
Speaker 1: ain't got to bathe in it. And that's from a sea. No, dude,

1058
00:59:17,440 --> 00:59:22,400
Speaker 1: we're not speculation. We're left that we're sucking damn right,

1059
00:59:22,640 --> 00:59:28,400
Speaker 1: shut them nothing to say, absolutely, thank you for your service.

1060
00:59:30,600 --> 01:00:02,560
Speaker 1: Let me talk with me who I can oh yea,

1061
01:00:03,200 --> 01:00:09,280
Speaker 1: so thank you? And I here tell you yu, yeah,

1062
01:00:16,320 --> 01:00:35,800
Speaker 1: thank you. I'm right. The fun well you can see now, Uh,

1063
01:00:35,960 --> 01:00:39,040
Speaker 1: this veteran is truly finding out what the Sheriff's department

1064
01:00:39,120 --> 01:01:37,680
Speaker 1: really think of him. Man, everyone else out here so nothing?

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Speaker 1: What else? What else do you want for me? What? Oma? What? Well?

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01:01:48,280 --> 01:01:53,200
Speaker 1: Did I? Damn? Do you? People? What can't up? I

1067
01:01:53,400 --> 01:02:01,920
Speaker 1: say something? I want to get up from up. That's

1068
01:02:02,000 --> 01:02:06,480
Speaker 1: not the escalation that you guys. This is Stil Henderson

1069
01:02:06,520 --> 01:02:08,560
Speaker 1: from Willia and House. This is mister Garcia, who's going

1070
01:02:08,600 --> 01:02:10,800
Speaker 1: to tell us he's a marine, tell us a little

1071
01:02:10,800 --> 01:02:13,120
Speaker 1: about what's going on. What are we doing here? Well,

1072
01:02:13,160 --> 01:02:15,920
Speaker 1: we're out here telling too that excuse me. We're out

1073
01:02:15,960 --> 01:02:19,760
Speaker 1: here telling Ted mister Lou that these tents are not

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01:02:19,960 --> 01:02:25,320
Speaker 1: acceptable housing for veterans, especially for disabled veterans. This is

1075
01:02:25,520 --> 01:02:29,840
Speaker 1: extremely beyond pathetic. When we were talking about Aland there's

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01:02:29,840 --> 01:02:31,840
Speaker 1: three hundred and eighty eight acres of land that was

1077
01:02:32,160 --> 01:02:36,800
Speaker 1: donated to specifically house disabled veterans. Right, there's a reason

1078
01:02:36,840 --> 01:02:39,040
Speaker 1: they donated that line to us is because every once

1079
01:02:39,080 --> 01:02:40,960
Speaker 1: in a while, when we come back from combat, we

1080
01:02:41,120 --> 01:02:43,160
Speaker 1: might not all be there and we need our buddies

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01:02:43,360 --> 01:02:46,840
Speaker 1: to watch over us. So it was designed as a

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01:02:46,960 --> 01:02:50,320
Speaker 1: veterans home, right for veterans come back home to, so

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01:02:50,480 --> 01:02:53,960
Speaker 1: we could take care of each other. However, Congressman Ted

1084
01:02:54,080 --> 01:02:56,880
Speaker 1: lou has decided that those three hundred and eighty eight

1085
01:02:56,920 --> 01:02:59,840
Speaker 1: acres our best for the Brandwick community. So they could

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01:03:00,120 --> 01:03:03,160
Speaker 1: their bicycles, so they could swim, so they could play golf,

1087
01:03:03,720 --> 01:03:05,960
Speaker 1: so they could play football, so the kids to have

1088
01:03:06,080 --> 01:03:10,920
Speaker 1: a nice education, while veterans are literally dying on their doorstep,

1089
01:03:11,120 --> 01:03:14,040
Speaker 1: just wayne begging to get in. Let me actually, let

1090
01:03:14,040 --> 01:03:16,400
Speaker 1: me jump back a bit, because I remember I came

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01:03:16,440 --> 01:03:18,720
Speaker 1: here earlier when down the House community was out there,

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01:03:19,160 --> 01:03:23,000
Speaker 1: and I understood that the neighborhood councils were pushing because

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01:03:23,360 --> 01:03:27,680
Speaker 1: for the removal of unhoused people. Flashback today, I see

1094
01:03:27,760 --> 01:03:32,439
Speaker 1: unhoused people in tiny sheds and in tents outside. Why

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01:03:33,320 --> 01:03:37,680
Speaker 1: is that a problem for the veterans. Well, because UCLA

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01:03:37,920 --> 01:03:39,880
Speaker 1: has the buildings that we're supposed to be inside of.

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01:03:40,200 --> 01:03:43,600
Speaker 1: Brentwood School has the buildings that Brentwood School has twenty acres,

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01:03:44,040 --> 01:03:47,520
Speaker 1: they got an Olympic size, he did swimming pool. We

1099
01:03:47,640 --> 01:03:51,920
Speaker 1: don't even have sufficient restrooms, you know, So UCLA. They

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01:03:52,160 --> 01:03:55,040
Speaker 1: have their baseball stadium there. There's plans for them to

1101
01:03:55,120 --> 01:03:58,919
Speaker 1: have a practice baseball stadium there. The Purple line, they're

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01:03:58,960 --> 01:04:03,480
Speaker 1: having a public train stop there. This is land specifically

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01:04:03,600 --> 01:04:08,720
Speaker 1: designed to house on housed disabled veterans. There shouldn't be

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01:04:08,800 --> 01:04:11,640
Speaker 1: anyone on that property in those buildings aside from one

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01:04:11,680 --> 01:04:14,320
Speaker 1: house disabled veterans. So that's it. Brace is a good

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01:04:14,400 --> 01:04:17,720
Speaker 1: question because the city usually loves to say that they

1107
01:04:17,800 --> 01:04:20,080
Speaker 1: have no housing, but you have a place in housing,

1108
01:04:20,480 --> 01:04:24,840
Speaker 1: and we have civilians and rich residents are kicking people

1109
01:04:24,920 --> 01:04:27,840
Speaker 1: out of their places. That's the effect of gentrification. So

1110
01:04:28,320 --> 01:04:30,680
Speaker 1: what would it be? What would be the message that

1111
01:04:30,760 --> 01:04:35,480
Speaker 1: you sent to Ted lou today. Your intentions are obvious ed.

1112
01:04:36,120 --> 01:04:38,360
Speaker 1: You don't want veterans on your property. I have no

1113
01:04:38,480 --> 01:04:41,320
Speaker 1: idea how you call yourself a veteran your active duty.

1114
01:04:41,400 --> 01:04:45,400
Speaker 1: This is dereliction of duty. You haven't never walked out

1115
01:04:45,400 --> 01:04:47,360
Speaker 1: to veterans row. You have never looked at any one

1116
01:04:47,400 --> 01:04:49,960
Speaker 1: of these guys in the face. I challenge you to

1117
01:04:50,040 --> 01:04:52,840
Speaker 1: spend five minutes face to face with Rob Reynolds, just

1118
01:04:52,920 --> 01:04:55,160
Speaker 1: talk to them about the problems. Bring up a problem

1119
01:04:55,440 --> 01:05:00,200
Speaker 1: to Rob Reynolds face. I dare you last question, and

1120
01:05:00,360 --> 01:05:02,720
Speaker 1: one of the questions that I feel is important is

1121
01:05:02,840 --> 01:05:06,920
Speaker 1: because Ted Lou's pseudo solution was to disperse the veterans

1122
01:05:07,000 --> 01:05:09,480
Speaker 1: out in Los Angeles proper. And I don't know if

1123
01:05:09,520 --> 01:05:11,959
Speaker 1: you've been following closely what's going on in the city.

1124
01:05:12,280 --> 01:05:14,160
Speaker 1: There is an ordinance called forty one to eighteen that

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01:05:14,280 --> 01:05:17,480
Speaker 1: was passed by twelve city council members, and it criminalizes

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01:05:17,560 --> 01:05:21,240
Speaker 1: poverty and people living and sleeping and lying outside near

1127
01:05:21,360 --> 01:05:28,440
Speaker 1: sensitive areas like parks, schools, daycarees, underpasses, overpasses, basically everywhere

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01:05:28,480 --> 01:05:31,120
Speaker 1: in the city. So the solution that he's trying to

1129
01:05:31,200 --> 01:05:33,520
Speaker 1: do is that means you will be susceptible to the

1130
01:05:33,600 --> 01:05:37,160
Speaker 1: same laws that on houseavillians are. So what's your perspective

1131
01:05:37,200 --> 01:05:38,640
Speaker 1: on that. You think that's going to be a good

1132
01:05:38,640 --> 01:05:43,240
Speaker 1: solution to do criminalize poor people? No, that's just feeding

1133
01:05:43,320 --> 01:05:47,480
Speaker 1: the problem. It's part of the greater problem where no

1134
01:05:47,560 --> 01:05:50,680
Speaker 1: one is really coming up for solutions to house un housed.

1135
01:05:50,880 --> 01:05:53,600
Speaker 1: They're just creating this little cycle of just like push,

1136
01:05:53,800 --> 01:05:56,080
Speaker 1: you're kicking the can along right in the sense, it's

1137
01:05:56,120 --> 01:05:58,360
Speaker 1: not really can. It's a big old lot of money

1138
01:05:58,600 --> 01:06:02,400
Speaker 1: that everyone just kicking the kick around to to to

1139
01:06:02,520 --> 01:06:04,320
Speaker 1: kind of and then that want of money just feeds

1140
01:06:04,360 --> 01:06:07,520
Speaker 1: everybody but on house. So that's definitely not a solution.

1141
01:06:07,880 --> 01:06:10,640
Speaker 1: All the vest was dispersed throughout l A property. Uh,

1142
01:06:10,800 --> 01:06:14,520
Speaker 1: they're they're they're not the best areas in within l A.

1143
01:06:14,600 --> 01:06:16,800
Speaker 1: I visited a bunch of them, so I know. And

1144
01:06:16,960 --> 01:06:20,160
Speaker 1: then aside from that, they it's it's carcereal housing. Uh,

1145
01:06:20,240 --> 01:06:22,320
Speaker 1: they got a lot of rules they I mean, we're

1146
01:06:22,360 --> 01:06:25,200
Speaker 1: grown men and they can't have like a guest, right,

1147
01:06:25,600 --> 01:06:31,760
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's that's that's that's unimaginable. That's beyond

1148
01:06:32,320 --> 01:06:35,640
Speaker 1: just stupid. But anyway, my feelings that they're just gonna

1149
01:06:35,680 --> 01:06:36,920
Speaker 1: end up right back on the street because they're not

1150
01:06:36,960 --> 01:06:39,640
Speaker 1: gonna like that housing. They're gonna rather have their freedom

1151
01:06:39,720 --> 01:06:43,160
Speaker 1: on the street than inside of a jail. Well put,

1152
01:06:43,360 --> 01:06:45,520
Speaker 1: Thank you, mister Garcia. This is the CEO Henderson Food

1153
01:06:45,600 --> 01:06:47,800
Speaker 1: and House. This puts ships more light on it and

1154
01:06:47,960 --> 01:06:50,520
Speaker 1: we hope again that we're meeting in a live of understanding.

1155
01:06:50,760 --> 01:06:52,640
Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Thank you brother for that was

1156
01:06:52,800 --> 01:07:00,680
Speaker 1: really the same. This is CEO Henderson and William Howees.

1157
01:07:00,680 --> 01:07:02,720
Speaker 1: We were in the plant. One of the people in

1158
01:07:02,800 --> 01:07:06,360
Speaker 1: the fights that has been. I've been following his Instagram

1159
01:07:06,480 --> 01:07:10,440
Speaker 1: lives about the situation. So, mister Sinnet, without further do

1160
01:07:10,760 --> 01:07:12,680
Speaker 1: tell us a little bit about why we're here and

1161
01:07:12,760 --> 01:07:15,120
Speaker 1: give us some background. You've been educating for a while

1162
01:07:15,280 --> 01:07:17,880
Speaker 1: about the property, what's going on. I've been watching some

1163
01:07:17,920 --> 01:07:20,280
Speaker 1: of your videos, so can you give us a snapshot

1164
01:07:20,360 --> 01:07:23,960
Speaker 1: of what's going on? Yeah? Absolutely so. My first peak

1165
01:07:24,040 --> 01:07:26,600
Speaker 1: into this whole situation was actually when COVID started. I

1166
01:07:26,640 --> 01:07:29,160
Speaker 1: saw tents popping up inside the VA, and I saw

1167
01:07:29,240 --> 01:07:31,240
Speaker 1: them popping up on the parking lot, and I, just

1168
01:07:31,640 --> 01:07:33,760
Speaker 1: as a resident in LA driving by, was wanting to

1169
01:07:33,840 --> 01:07:36,160
Speaker 1: check it out, and I was asking the people sleeping

1170
01:07:36,240 --> 01:07:38,800
Speaker 1: on the asphalt intents like yo, who's organized? Who thought

1171
01:07:38,800 --> 01:07:41,360
Speaker 1: that was a good idea? With all the grass and land,

1172
01:07:41,480 --> 01:07:44,000
Speaker 1: and knowing there's abandoned building and stuff, I just started

1173
01:07:44,040 --> 01:07:48,680
Speaker 1: asking questions. Then fast forward in August, I was told

1174
01:07:48,720 --> 01:07:51,320
Speaker 1: that the host team was going to be attending a

1175
01:07:51,400 --> 01:07:54,560
Speaker 1: meeting on the VA property, and so I went to

1176
01:07:54,640 --> 01:07:57,640
Speaker 1: that and I filmed a consecutive ninety minute video and

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01:07:57,800 --> 01:08:00,360
Speaker 1: I shared it, and it was Lieutenant Did and his

1178
01:08:00,480 --> 01:08:05,120
Speaker 1: team talking about their intention for cleaning up the sidewalk

1179
01:08:05,400 --> 01:08:08,760
Speaker 1: of Brentwood on San Basani wilshare, which is against the

1180
01:08:08,840 --> 01:08:11,800
Speaker 1: gate of the VA. So I started going every Tuesday

1181
01:08:11,840 --> 01:08:14,840
Speaker 1: Thursday documenting exactly what vets were being told, what was

1182
01:08:14,920 --> 01:08:18,320
Speaker 1: then occurring. I've seen vets get all their stuff thrown away,

1183
01:08:18,400 --> 01:08:20,360
Speaker 1: put in a car, told they were going to a center.

1184
01:08:20,720 --> 01:08:22,400
Speaker 1: They got to the center, it wasn't what they thought.

1185
01:08:22,479 --> 01:08:24,800
Speaker 1: Some didn't have the things they needed when they got

1186
01:08:24,880 --> 01:08:27,120
Speaker 1: to the center and actually came back to all of

1187
01:08:27,200 --> 01:08:29,679
Speaker 1: their belongings being thrown in the trash. And we would

1188
01:08:29,720 --> 01:08:33,880
Speaker 1: then use the mister Chuck Point community to raise instant

1189
01:08:33,920 --> 01:08:36,720
Speaker 1: money for tents and all these things. And so the

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01:08:36,800 --> 01:08:40,840
Speaker 1: people have definitely been supporting in different ways the veterans,

1191
01:08:41,320 --> 01:08:44,960
Speaker 1: and I think now that the tents are inside, you

1192
01:08:45,040 --> 01:08:47,080
Speaker 1: don't have that community. It's hard for me to even

1193
01:08:47,120 --> 01:08:50,160
Speaker 1: starting out the relationships and continue talking to the people

1194
01:08:50,200 --> 01:08:52,680
Speaker 1: and the residents that I once did. And same with

1195
01:08:52,760 --> 01:08:55,120
Speaker 1: the people that formed and would stop by right with

1196
01:08:55,240 --> 01:08:57,719
Speaker 1: the good food and the good vibes. That stopped because

1197
01:08:57,760 --> 01:09:01,160
Speaker 1: now they're on the property. Sovan is a US Army

1198
01:09:01,240 --> 01:09:05,280
Speaker 1: veteran and he came and we were having a casual conversation.

1199
01:09:05,680 --> 01:09:08,920
Speaker 1: He said, how come everyone's rallying for a Black lives matter.

1200
01:09:09,000 --> 01:09:12,360
Speaker 1: How come, George Floyd, you're rallying police brutality, people rally,

1201
01:09:12,760 --> 01:09:15,200
Speaker 1: how come vets aren't rallying regarding this issue? And I

1202
01:09:15,280 --> 01:09:18,280
Speaker 1: got to say, it struck a cord and within five

1203
01:09:18,360 --> 01:09:21,800
Speaker 1: minutes we posted off an American flag saying, YO meet

1204
01:09:21,880 --> 01:09:24,760
Speaker 1: us at this time this day on eleven seventeen, ten am,

1205
01:09:24,840 --> 01:09:26,680
Speaker 1: and we're gonna go to TEDL Loo's office. This is

1206
01:09:26,840 --> 01:09:29,599
Speaker 1: just the community and the people advocating. Why are vets

1207
01:09:29,600 --> 01:09:33,840
Speaker 1: sleeping in tents? Why do we trust people to sacrifice

1208
01:09:33,880 --> 01:09:36,160
Speaker 1: their life from more than one time? Some of these

1209
01:09:36,200 --> 01:09:38,840
Speaker 1: guys have sacrificed, signed on the doll line more than once.

1210
01:09:38,880 --> 01:09:41,519
Speaker 1: They come back. Now they're on a federal property three

1211
01:09:41,560 --> 01:09:43,840
Speaker 1: times the size of Disneyland. But they aren't allowed to fork,

1212
01:09:44,160 --> 01:09:47,519
Speaker 1: they aren't allowed a tool. If they have a shower,

1213
01:09:48,120 --> 01:09:50,400
Speaker 1: it's limited hours. They can't take showers in a night

1214
01:09:50,400 --> 01:09:52,920
Speaker 1: before bed. Why why do we treat the people who've

1215
01:09:52,920 --> 01:09:55,559
Speaker 1: served us like they're in an institution when we should

1216
01:09:55,600 --> 01:09:57,960
Speaker 1: actually be treating them with hospitality. I think should be

1217
01:09:58,000 --> 01:10:02,320
Speaker 1: four seasons hospitality for those who' us. And if there's

1218
01:10:02,400 --> 01:10:06,880
Speaker 1: any corruption, fraud, that I've seen that's affecting people and

1219
01:10:07,040 --> 01:10:10,959
Speaker 1: dying on a curb that have sacrificed everything. It's these veterans,

1220
01:10:11,000 --> 01:10:15,160
Speaker 1: and so I'm happy to bring any advocacy, community and

1221
01:10:15,280 --> 01:10:19,280
Speaker 1: outreach to this issue. So you put in a mouthful

1222
01:10:19,400 --> 01:10:21,240
Speaker 1: that there's so many things to and that's great. I'm

1223
01:10:21,240 --> 01:10:23,679
Speaker 1: great you're putting this in because one of the things

1224
01:10:23,720 --> 01:10:27,000
Speaker 1: the stories that they have with on house civilians is

1225
01:10:27,120 --> 01:10:29,240
Speaker 1: that they don't have a place to stay. The difference

1226
01:10:29,280 --> 01:10:31,639
Speaker 1: between unhoused veterans they do have a state to play

1227
01:10:31,880 --> 01:10:35,280
Speaker 1: plus to stay, but house people have over infiltrated their

1228
01:10:35,360 --> 01:10:38,760
Speaker 1: areas where they could be. Like the Brentwood Neighborhood council, Uh,

1229
01:10:38,880 --> 01:10:42,639
Speaker 1: these people are taking over these the land, are stealing

1230
01:10:42,680 --> 01:10:45,160
Speaker 1: their land where they can be and then on top

1231
01:10:45,200 --> 01:10:47,400
Speaker 1: of it, to add insult to injury, it seems like

1232
01:10:47,439 --> 01:10:50,800
Speaker 1: they're complaining about the very problem that they created. What

1233
01:10:51,360 --> 01:10:55,040
Speaker 1: what kind of consequences do you think the civilian community,

1234
01:10:55,200 --> 01:10:58,680
Speaker 1: like these business neighborhood councils should be getting because I

1235
01:10:58,760 --> 01:11:03,040
Speaker 1: think this is uh, very problematic. I mean, anyone benefiting

1236
01:11:03,120 --> 01:11:05,800
Speaker 1: from that land and advocating that that land should be

1237
01:11:05,880 --> 01:11:09,360
Speaker 1: used for anything but and serving veterans, to me is

1238
01:11:10,560 --> 01:11:13,120
Speaker 1: some form of corruption and fraud. I'm not a lawyer,

1239
01:11:13,240 --> 01:11:16,880
Speaker 1: but it's very obvious to me that that is illegal

1240
01:11:17,160 --> 01:11:20,840
Speaker 1: and not okay, and really the most unethical and moral

1241
01:11:20,880 --> 01:11:22,600
Speaker 1: thing that could ever be imaginable. So the fact that

1242
01:11:22,600 --> 01:11:24,320
Speaker 1: we got to talk about laws when we're looking at

1243
01:11:25,280 --> 01:11:28,800
Speaker 1: veterans dying intents on a curb is disgusting. Something you

1244
01:11:28,880 --> 01:11:32,240
Speaker 1: mentioned that I think is specific is and I think

1245
01:11:32,280 --> 01:11:34,640
Speaker 1: it's got to be looked at all. Right, regarding LA

1246
01:11:34,720 --> 01:11:37,559
Speaker 1: and homelessness, there's what sixty seventy thousand plus homeless, Okay.

1247
01:11:37,960 --> 01:11:40,680
Speaker 1: I've heard ten percent is veterans. Okay, so if that's

1248
01:11:40,720 --> 01:11:43,200
Speaker 1: six thousand veterans, great. What I've seen is a lot

1249
01:11:43,280 --> 01:11:46,519
Speaker 1: of services LASA, Saint Joseph. Right, you have all these

1250
01:11:46,560 --> 01:11:48,760
Speaker 1: services that are LA funded. They show up and then

1251
01:11:48,800 --> 01:11:52,280
Speaker 1: they offer veterans different things at different places. Right, And

1252
01:11:52,360 --> 01:11:55,160
Speaker 1: I've been witnessing this. This is a disservice to LA.

1253
01:11:55,640 --> 01:11:59,800
Speaker 1: Any service talking to veterans in trying to house them

1254
01:11:59,840 --> 01:12:02,640
Speaker 1: in these motels, hotels and different structures is all a

1255
01:12:02,760 --> 01:12:04,960
Speaker 1: disservice to Los Angeles. Because Los Angeles already has a

1256
01:12:05,000 --> 01:12:08,920
Speaker 1: homeless epidemic. Problem. We already have too many people on

1257
01:12:08,960 --> 01:12:10,880
Speaker 1: the street, and so they need to be advocating getting

1258
01:12:10,920 --> 01:12:13,040
Speaker 1: those people on the land where the services and the

1259
01:12:13,080 --> 01:12:16,600
Speaker 1: best hospitals with the best doctors, where it is on

1260
01:12:16,760 --> 01:12:19,679
Speaker 1: the property that they need to serve, visit and extend.

1261
01:12:19,800 --> 01:12:21,680
Speaker 1: If you go to Instagram and try to tag via

1262
01:12:22,160 --> 01:12:24,479
Speaker 1: the VA, I want to be clear, it says VA campus.

1263
01:12:24,680 --> 01:12:28,000
Speaker 1: This is propaganda and bullshit. That is not a campus campus.

1264
01:12:28,040 --> 01:12:29,960
Speaker 1: You come and go. It's supposed to be their home,

1265
01:12:30,000 --> 01:12:31,800
Speaker 1: where they live, and it's not supposed to be something.

1266
01:12:32,040 --> 01:12:34,479
Speaker 1: Oh you're having a tough time, let me give you this. No,

1267
01:12:34,640 --> 01:12:37,360
Speaker 1: it's not like a donation. It's supposed to be thank you.

1268
01:12:37,800 --> 01:12:41,599
Speaker 1: It's like yours home. Home is different than stay here

1269
01:12:41,640 --> 01:12:43,680
Speaker 1: for a few nights if you need it. But like

1270
01:12:43,800 --> 01:12:45,560
Speaker 1: when you're off on your two feet, you're good. No,

1271
01:12:45,840 --> 01:12:49,439
Speaker 1: actually and with me and jump in right quick and

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Speaker 1: asks about the event of forty one eighteen. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if you've been following it. Forty one eighteen is

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Speaker 1: utilized was approved by twelve city council members to criminalize sleeping,

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Speaker 1: lying and existing outside. Now what they am saying with

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01:13:03,080 --> 01:13:06,560
Speaker 1: ted Lu's conversation stating that he's going to disperse on

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01:13:06,680 --> 01:13:09,600
Speaker 1: how civilians on house veterans out there, What do you

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Speaker 1: think is going to happen to the in house veterers

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Speaker 1: who fall under the forty one eighteen trap. I see

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Speaker 1: them getting no benefit, no special treatment. I see the

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01:13:20,080 --> 01:13:24,120
Speaker 1: police treating nobody differently when they're in circumstances that many

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Speaker 1: of these people are in and there, I think it's

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01:13:30,200 --> 01:13:33,679
Speaker 1: a they're criminalizing. When you criminalize someone, that's the easiest

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Speaker 1: way to dehumanize someone. So it's the lead. It's a

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01:13:37,400 --> 01:13:41,080
Speaker 1: way to infrastructurely say these people are bad and we

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Speaker 1: need to remove them because we're all now unsafe. And

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Speaker 1: you have kids, right, oh, unsafe. We don't treat criminals

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Speaker 1: as humans, so okay, And what is that? It's giving

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Speaker 1: them a ticket they don't show up in court. Now

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01:13:51,920 --> 01:13:53,639
Speaker 1: they have a warrant. And when you go tell any

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01:13:54,160 --> 01:13:56,200
Speaker 1: old lady or old person round here, this guy's got

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Speaker 1: a warrant, it sounds like he just killed two people

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01:13:58,479 --> 01:14:01,080
Speaker 1: and is going to kill your sib. And not only that,

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01:14:01,200 --> 01:14:03,639
Speaker 1: there's even some in the in house community that runs

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01:14:03,640 --> 01:14:06,360
Speaker 1: around talking about career criminals and that kind of thing.

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Speaker 1: Once you get that narrative going with the aid of

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Speaker 1: main street media and not understanding the complexities. You can't

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Speaker 1: survive but be on the streets. So you're going to

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Speaker 1: criminalize them, give them tickets or if we put them

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Speaker 1: in jail, you're creating the cycle. Yeah, you're giving someone

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Speaker 1: a ticket who can't afford a place to stay. This

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Speaker 1: is absolutely uncomfortable. I have a niece that's eight years old,

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Speaker 1: and when I told her about forty one eighteen, she

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Speaker 1: like her what, Like, it's the most appalling thing, because

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Speaker 1: why would you give someone a ticket that can't afford

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Speaker 1: a place to stay? Is literally her response. So children

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01:14:40,840 --> 01:14:43,599
Speaker 1: would know that's wrong. It's obvious. Bigger than that, it's

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01:14:43,640 --> 01:14:47,519
Speaker 1: set up to create these things that are messed up,

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Speaker 1: and we have to keep advocating for certainly. Yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: mister Sennett, you definitely gave us a mouthful and things

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Speaker 1: to think on, and I thank you. I'll probably invite

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Speaker 1: you on again, I pless sure, and I appreciate what

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Speaker 1: you do and your advocacy, so I'm happy to continue sharing.

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Speaker 1: I am it's the same here. I enjoy your videos,

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Speaker 1: and I'm glad that you're keeping an eye on the situation,

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Speaker 1: and hopefully together we'll beat in the light of understanding

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Speaker 1: for other people to absolutely brom Heaven helped the child

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01:15:23,520 --> 01:15:29,000
Speaker 1: never had a home. Heaven help the girl who watched

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Speaker 1: the streets alone. Heaven helped the roses if the bombs

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Speaker 1: begin to fall. Ever even help the black man and

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01:15:48,280 --> 01:15:52,800
Speaker 1: he struggles one morning day. Ever helped the white man

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01:15:52,960 --> 01:15:58,160
Speaker 1: and it turns back way. Heaven help the man who

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Speaker 1: many son ever ever lampus never us here zing Evan

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Speaker 1: of the Boys won't beach twenty one. Don't help a

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Speaker 1: man again that even help the people who with a

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Speaker 1: bass against the ball. So em help son emon must

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Speaker 1: all right, So so now lay it down. I saw

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Speaker 1: go to sleep in the trouble world. I pray the

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Speaker 1: Lord to keep keep hating from the Mighty and the

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Speaker 1: Mighty from the school all the next one maybe