1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:03,640 Speaker 1: We didn't have protests last night. We had criminal acts. 2 00:00:08,080 --> 00:00:11,840 Speaker 1: We did have people mourning the death of this man, 3 00:00:12,320 --> 00:00:19,319 Speaker 1: George Floyd. We had people capitalizing his death is on 4 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:24,439 Speaker 1: their hands. We are waiting for the mayor respectfully and 5 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:28,360 Speaker 1: other mayors and governors to call us. We are ready, 6 00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:30,440 Speaker 1: willing and able to go in there with great force. 7 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:35,680 Speaker 1: What is family fitball life? This place is mainly full 8 00:00:35,720 --> 00:00:39,720 Speaker 1: of rich retired life. Then you're not rich and retired, 9 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:45,440 Speaker 1: you're just a very very wealthy persons. So there's no 10 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:50,160 Speaker 1: racial tensions here. You think, they don't think so. At 11 00:00:50,159 --> 00:00:52,040 Speaker 1: some point we may have no other choice but to 12 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:54,920 Speaker 1: go in and did anyone hear about some kind of 13 00:00:54,960 --> 00:00:59,760 Speaker 1: kidnapping that was going on out here. We're equipped with 14 00:00:59,760 --> 00:01:03,200 Speaker 1: the equipment, the best people, and you see what we're doing. 15 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:06,280 Speaker 1: I mean, Portland was coming down, it was busting at 16 00:01:06,319 --> 00:01:11,120 Speaker 1: the seams. You notice someone being snatched and put into 17 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:15,160 Speaker 1: a vehicle by law enforcement, being kidnapped, would you guys 18 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:19,280 Speaker 1: say anything? Yeah, I think the police department around here 19 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:32,240 Speaker 1: we really do anything like that. This is Deo Anderson 20 00:01:32,280 --> 00:01:35,960 Speaker 1: from Wiedian House. We're on our way to San Luis, Obisco. 21 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:40,479 Speaker 1: We are taking a Dark Heart Highway and we have 22 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:42,680 Speaker 1: no idea what's going to be in store for us, 23 00:01:43,160 --> 00:01:45,760 Speaker 1: but we're optimistic on finding out what's getting down to 24 00:01:45,800 --> 00:01:50,040 Speaker 1: the bottom of what's going on with Tiana Rata Mortar 25 00:01:50,120 --> 00:01:59,880 Speaker 1: follow It's a foggy morning. It seems like the overcast 26 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:04,200 Speaker 1: see makes driving very difficult down there to Saint Louis Abisco. 27 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:10,160 Speaker 1: That trucks up front of us and very very few cars. 28 00:02:10,200 --> 00:02:12,760 Speaker 1: But it seems like this is the morning where things 29 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:18,359 Speaker 1: get moved and businesses like trucking is on the road 30 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:20,800 Speaker 1: and there's a lot of fun. You could barely see 31 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:31,320 Speaker 1: your hands, my goodness or to followers. I was expecting 32 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:35,760 Speaker 1: a welcome to St. Louis Orbisco, but the GPS managers 33 00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:39,240 Speaker 1: taking the city center of the city. I see houses, 34 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:46,240 Speaker 1: reback signs. It's look a little bit like maybe rfd uh. 35 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:51,360 Speaker 1: I guess if you there was such a place and 36 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:55,840 Speaker 1: a little bit of modering. It's quiet that it's a 37 00:02:55,960 --> 00:03:33,760 Speaker 1: very foggy, overcast egg a little cool to them. They stay. 38 00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:36,600 Speaker 1: In order for us to truly understand one another, we 39 00:03:36,680 --> 00:03:39,240 Speaker 1: have to walk a mile in their shoes. So far 40 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:43,560 Speaker 1: I'm walking them out and activists. Tiana Aratov's shoes and 41 00:03:43,640 --> 00:03:47,400 Speaker 1: learning a lot about her. She is an awesome example 42 00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:50,160 Speaker 1: of how she is trying to become the change that 43 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:53,440 Speaker 1: she wants to see in the world. Unfortunately, a lot 44 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:59,000 Speaker 1: of people that disagree with Black Lives Matter and defending 45 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:02,120 Speaker 1: social justice in the quality look at her differently. They 46 00:04:02,160 --> 00:04:04,760 Speaker 1: look at Black Lives Matter and the activists as some 47 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:08,880 Speaker 1: kind of violent criminals. And no exception is La Saint Louis, 48 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:14,839 Speaker 1: a physical police officer. Many years ago, Oprah Winfrey said 49 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:17,400 Speaker 1: this is the happiest place on Earth. I think that's 50 00:04:17,440 --> 00:04:20,840 Speaker 1: subjective because right now, how could you be happy if 51 00:04:20,880 --> 00:04:25,440 Speaker 1: you're being kidnapped and blamed for the injustices that you 52 00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:29,479 Speaker 1: experienced at the hands of law enforcement and the society 53 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:33,360 Speaker 1: of ours. This is Deal Henderson from Media on House. 54 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:37,440 Speaker 1: I thank you all for listening. Maybe again meet in 55 00:04:37,480 --> 00:05:05,680 Speaker 1: the light of understanding me too want This is THEO 56 00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:08,640 Speaker 1: Henderson from LUDI and how I'm here and speaking to 57 00:05:08,680 --> 00:05:10,560 Speaker 1: one of the activists here and he's going to give 58 00:05:10,640 --> 00:05:13,400 Speaker 1: us the perspective what the breakdown of what happened. His 59 00:05:13,560 --> 00:05:16,760 Speaker 1: name is Kavin Cavin. Thank you for joining us, Hello, 60 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:21,160 Speaker 1: thank you for having me so tell us what happened here? Well, 61 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:25,160 Speaker 1: I know, I can't really actually remember the exact day, 62 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:29,800 Speaker 1: but Tuesday, so it's a Tuesday. I got here late. 63 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:33,240 Speaker 1: I didn't know that the crust action protests. When I 64 00:05:33,279 --> 00:05:35,920 Speaker 1: came here, everybody was here, relaxed, and the approchess was over. 65 00:05:36,320 --> 00:05:39,040 Speaker 1: But then we can make a call, we find out 66 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:43,159 Speaker 1: she's been arrested. Come back over here, and it's mass 67 00:05:43,240 --> 00:05:47,440 Speaker 1: chaos and confusion, and there's no police officers around, but 68 00:05:47,839 --> 00:05:50,200 Speaker 1: there's at least twenty to thirty people just allowed here, 69 00:05:50,720 --> 00:05:53,599 Speaker 1: upset and confused and not knowing what's going on or 70 00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:58,120 Speaker 1: why anything of this is happening. Got a little tidbits 71 00:05:58,120 --> 00:06:00,719 Speaker 1: of information. There's some more information, and then I thought 72 00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:06,719 Speaker 1: I saw the video. What did the video shows? The 73 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:11,520 Speaker 1: video shows her being handcuffed, shows about seven or eight 74 00:06:11,640 --> 00:06:21,720 Speaker 1: police police officers, I should say, and her clearly stated 75 00:06:22,520 --> 00:06:27,839 Speaker 1: I am not resisted. I am not resisted. It happened about, 76 00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:31,360 Speaker 1: let me say, about four hundred feet over there. For 77 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:52,080 Speaker 1: what is going on? Why in the process the police 78 00:06:52,080 --> 00:06:56,480 Speaker 1: assaulted the bunch of people in the video definitely see 79 00:06:57,600 --> 00:07:00,600 Speaker 1: person we had touched directly in their head, and this 80 00:07:00,640 --> 00:07:03,000 Speaker 1: person's actually asking what is going on? Why are you 81 00:07:03,080 --> 00:07:08,280 Speaker 1: doing this Now to backtrack, because I was not here, 82 00:07:08,320 --> 00:07:11,160 Speaker 1: and this is our witness accounts, and we're talking more 83 00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:16,240 Speaker 1: than s more than twenty people seeing the same thing. Uh. Essentially, 84 00:07:16,320 --> 00:07:18,120 Speaker 1: she went to her car. Uh. One of our other 85 00:07:18,200 --> 00:07:21,240 Speaker 1: activists on his name is Marcus, went to give her 86 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:26,560 Speaker 1: a hug, and then in the process a police a 87 00:07:26,560 --> 00:07:30,160 Speaker 1: cruiser rolls with row Bye and a police I see 88 00:07:30,160 --> 00:07:33,960 Speaker 1: in a motorcycle car road by and stopped towards the 89 00:07:34,040 --> 00:07:36,840 Speaker 1: front and then all of a sudden, all at once 90 00:07:36,960 --> 00:07:39,520 Speaker 1: on three and five, one cruises came over and all 91 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:42,760 Speaker 1: jumped out of the car, then grabbed her, put her handcuffs, 92 00:07:42,760 --> 00:07:44,800 Speaker 1: and that's what she went to. You know, I'm not resisting. 93 00:07:44,840 --> 00:07:49,440 Speaker 1: I'm not resisting. Threw her in the car, and that's 94 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:53,480 Speaker 1: where I come in at that point. So the car 95 00:07:53,600 --> 00:08:00,360 Speaker 1: is gone, I'm getting information. Uh, immediately go to the 96 00:08:00,440 --> 00:08:04,640 Speaker 1: jail on Kansas Street. She's not at the jail. Our 97 00:08:05,240 --> 00:08:09,000 Speaker 1: city mayor comes comes into the jail. Then we find 98 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:12,040 Speaker 1: out she's actually still at the precinct and she's been 99 00:08:12,040 --> 00:08:15,800 Speaker 1: there for more than two and a half hours, which okay, 100 00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:18,600 Speaker 1: no problem, I understand, But then we find out they're 101 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:20,640 Speaker 1: not releasing her to jail because they wanna make a 102 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:24,640 Speaker 1: press release, HM, which I've never heard of before in 103 00:08:24,640 --> 00:08:30,000 Speaker 1: my life, you know. So press release happens when we 104 00:08:30,120 --> 00:08:33,440 Speaker 1: ended up going back to uh the precinct and I'm 105 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:35,960 Speaker 1: with the mayor. I meet the mayor there. Then we 106 00:08:36,040 --> 00:08:39,040 Speaker 1: go back out to the jail and from there that's 107 00:08:39,040 --> 00:08:42,080 Speaker 1: when we find out the charges. But we also find 108 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:45,760 Speaker 1: out another actor, the savar who's uh, who was the 109 00:08:45,840 --> 00:08:48,320 Speaker 1: charge for assaulting the police officer. We find out his charges. 110 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:54,600 Speaker 1: Basically about five and a half hours later, Tiana was 111 00:08:54,640 --> 00:08:57,320 Speaker 1: released on her own r and then we had to 112 00:08:57,440 --> 00:09:02,680 Speaker 1: post bail uh for the other person out there. He 113 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:08,360 Speaker 1: was released about an hour later. And from there we 114 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:12,600 Speaker 1: are here and currently you know, UH, Tiana has been 115 00:09:12,600 --> 00:09:14,680 Speaker 1: put on the lay low and UH kind of put 116 00:09:14,720 --> 00:09:19,320 Speaker 1: on the release factor until further notice. And that's and 117 00:09:19,360 --> 00:09:22,720 Speaker 1: that's okay. And since that time, you know, we've had 118 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:26,520 Speaker 1: three silent protests and we've done with some other stuff 119 00:09:26,559 --> 00:09:30,240 Speaker 1: and we have meetings with our local with our mayor. 120 00:09:30,320 --> 00:09:33,920 Speaker 1: We also wanna have meetings with our local sheriffs. Being Parkinson, 121 00:09:34,720 --> 00:09:38,840 Speaker 1: he was the reason that this even happened. That protest 122 00:09:38,880 --> 00:09:41,320 Speaker 1: has can happen, but just some statements that he said, 123 00:09:41,880 --> 00:09:47,280 Speaker 1: basically saying that racism, you know, yeah, that that form 124 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:50,839 Speaker 1: of racism, uh doesn't exist, and it does. It exists 125 00:09:50,880 --> 00:09:53,200 Speaker 1: every alright, just because you don't see it, you know, 126 00:09:53,240 --> 00:09:56,439 Speaker 1: cause unfortunately, you know, he is behind the desk, you know, 127 00:09:56,679 --> 00:09:59,000 Speaker 1: so he's not out in the field. But I will 128 00:09:59,040 --> 00:10:01,679 Speaker 1: have to say that that his statements kind of hurt 129 00:10:01,760 --> 00:10:05,400 Speaker 1: me because I know him as a personally. He is 130 00:10:05,440 --> 00:10:09,720 Speaker 1: actually a very good person. And unfortunately I don't know 131 00:10:09,760 --> 00:10:13,080 Speaker 1: where his takements came from. And it's it just it's 132 00:10:13,120 --> 00:10:15,400 Speaker 1: just that it's all bad, it's all been happening because 133 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:18,160 Speaker 1: it's not. In my mind, he's not a racist. He 134 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:21,480 Speaker 1: just made a very bad statement and honestly he needs 135 00:10:21,520 --> 00:10:24,560 Speaker 1: to come for and apologize and just be real with 136 00:10:24,600 --> 00:10:28,800 Speaker 1: your position, you know, as the sharef for recounting, you know, 137 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:31,160 Speaker 1: you gotta you gotta take into account everything, but you 138 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:33,880 Speaker 1: can't just assume some of it because of what you think. 139 00:10:33,920 --> 00:10:37,120 Speaker 1: We don't see. I wanna know too, as because I 140 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:39,560 Speaker 1: I this it's new to me cause I'm not from 141 00:10:39,600 --> 00:10:42,600 Speaker 1: here and La has his own uh animal if you will, 142 00:10:43,400 --> 00:10:45,960 Speaker 1: What is sat louis about? Does there? I, Like you said, 143 00:10:45,960 --> 00:10:49,040 Speaker 1: there's racial incidents here. But I've interviewed a few people 144 00:10:49,200 --> 00:10:51,600 Speaker 1: and they like to share the same thing with the 145 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:54,240 Speaker 1: shriff of beliefs that it don't exist or it's uh 146 00:10:54,280 --> 00:10:57,760 Speaker 1: outside agitation. What is San Louis bis Bow like? What 147 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:01,480 Speaker 1: tell us about this? This place is mainly full of 148 00:11:01,600 --> 00:11:04,800 Speaker 1: rich retired white people there, and then you're not rich 149 00:11:04,840 --> 00:11:08,400 Speaker 1: and retired there, You're just a very very wealthy person 150 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:13,280 Speaker 1: that lives here. That being said, you know the minorities 151 00:11:13,320 --> 00:11:15,720 Speaker 1: here there are. There are lots of Hispanic people here, 152 00:11:15,760 --> 00:11:18,920 Speaker 1: but there's not many Black people, mkay pretty much? Uh 153 00:11:18,960 --> 00:11:21,839 Speaker 1: the last time I remember the the statistics of it, 154 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:26,080 Speaker 1: but basically, out of every ten people that live here afoot, 155 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:29,319 Speaker 1: basically it's a black person. So not even we don't 156 00:11:29,360 --> 00:11:31,160 Speaker 1: even represent a half a point or something like that 157 00:11:31,360 --> 00:11:35,600 Speaker 1: out here. But I've lived out here the majority of 158 00:11:35,640 --> 00:11:37,439 Speaker 1: my life. I'm originally from the Bay Area, but I've 159 00:11:37,440 --> 00:11:39,920 Speaker 1: lived out here for a long long time, and I 160 00:11:39,960 --> 00:11:43,360 Speaker 1: would say I have seen scores of black families, you know, 161 00:11:43,960 --> 00:11:46,160 Speaker 1: come here and want to live here and thrive here. 162 00:11:46,800 --> 00:11:51,960 Speaker 1: And one it's really expensive livery and two it's really 163 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:55,560 Speaker 1: spensive livery, and three a lot of people just don't 164 00:11:55,559 --> 00:12:01,880 Speaker 1: see the opportunities here unfortunately. But for you know, the 165 00:12:01,880 --> 00:12:05,160 Speaker 1: the other cultures out here, they do pretty decently. But 166 00:12:05,200 --> 00:12:07,600 Speaker 1: with the exception of you know, like the Hispanics, they 167 00:12:07,720 --> 00:12:10,280 Speaker 1: gather together very well, you know, and they they do 168 00:12:10,440 --> 00:12:13,480 Speaker 1: very well out here as a as a unit. A 169 00:12:13,480 --> 00:12:14,959 Speaker 1: lot of black people move out here, and they don't 170 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:16,839 Speaker 1: have a lot of families out here, so it's kind 171 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:21,840 Speaker 1: of you against the world time. And then this town 172 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:24,600 Speaker 1: is also like, you know, family owned. You know, it's 173 00:12:24,960 --> 00:12:27,840 Speaker 1: the sim Chimer's family that every school ha has a 174 00:12:27,920 --> 00:12:30,199 Speaker 1: name behind it that was a family that lived down here. 175 00:12:30,920 --> 00:12:33,320 Speaker 1: So and I believe this part too. There's a there's 176 00:12:33,320 --> 00:12:37,520 Speaker 1: a garden of some families that lived down there. You know. 177 00:12:37,640 --> 00:12:39,960 Speaker 1: Madonna's are STI the Madonna family are still out here, 178 00:12:39,960 --> 00:12:44,120 Speaker 1: and they're very big, hugely around there. The law firms 179 00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:47,280 Speaker 1: that are out here, they it just it's mainly w 180 00:12:47,480 --> 00:12:49,960 Speaker 1: you know, white town. It's it's w it's run by 181 00:12:50,080 --> 00:12:53,960 Speaker 1: you know, white people. And I'm not saying they don't 182 00:12:53,960 --> 00:12:56,679 Speaker 1: do a good job, right cause everybody has their faults 183 00:12:56,720 --> 00:12:59,240 Speaker 1: and everybody has their strengths, but there are a lot 184 00:12:59,240 --> 00:13:02,520 Speaker 1: of things that need each you know. I heard from 185 00:13:02,559 --> 00:13:06,559 Speaker 1: the older gentleman that lived here, uh during his time. M. 186 00:13:06,760 --> 00:13:09,320 Speaker 1: He said, when he was growing up, there was a 187 00:13:09,320 --> 00:13:12,880 Speaker 1: lot of racial incidents here and he he was wasn't 188 00:13:13,040 --> 00:13:15,440 Speaker 1: like he so he it's and he says, you know, 189 00:13:15,520 --> 00:13:17,439 Speaker 1: the old uh, the generations that he grew up with 190 00:13:17,600 --> 00:13:21,360 Speaker 1: and I after here. They may have changed. He might 191 00:13:21,400 --> 00:13:23,600 Speaker 1: not be seen that way now. But h do you 192 00:13:23,600 --> 00:13:25,719 Speaker 1: know anything about the racial tensions that went on here? 193 00:13:26,040 --> 00:13:28,199 Speaker 1: And I or heard about any right? I know you're 194 00:13:28,240 --> 00:13:30,280 Speaker 1: not you're a young man, but of course there was 195 00:13:30,440 --> 00:13:33,400 Speaker 1: obviously something going on here. I don't know a lot 196 00:13:33,440 --> 00:13:37,439 Speaker 1: about the racial tensions of in that that aspect. I mean, 197 00:13:37,559 --> 00:13:40,600 Speaker 1: I have it. I had been it would have had 198 00:13:40,600 --> 00:13:43,680 Speaker 1: been racism put on leave by the police. M several times, 199 00:13:43,679 --> 00:13:45,880 Speaker 1: you know, either basically from being a teenager to men 200 00:13:45,960 --> 00:13:50,559 Speaker 1: able to drive up until December to uh to twenty 201 00:13:50,640 --> 00:13:54,760 Speaker 1: oh ten. The only real Rachel divide that I do remember, 202 00:13:54,760 --> 00:13:56,840 Speaker 1: of cause I went to the local high school and 203 00:13:57,320 --> 00:14:00,800 Speaker 1: you did have a problem up there with the skinheads, 204 00:14:01,520 --> 00:14:06,920 Speaker 1: and it came pretty close to all the Hispanics and 205 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:10,840 Speaker 1: all the everybody of color almost you know, basically picked 206 00:14:10,880 --> 00:14:14,480 Speaker 1: sides one day and it hadn't been for the actual 207 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:18,439 Speaker 1: principle of the time, and there would have been a 208 00:14:18,559 --> 00:14:20,800 Speaker 1: racial flaning there it it had been a racial cause 209 00:14:20,840 --> 00:14:22,760 Speaker 1: it was it was going to happen, there was no 210 00:14:22,800 --> 00:14:27,000 Speaker 1: doubt about it. And that person diffused that by kind 211 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:28,960 Speaker 1: of getting to kind of meeting with us and asking 212 00:14:29,080 --> 00:14:30,600 Speaker 1: us what it needs to happen it or need no 213 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:32,480 Speaker 1: good to deal with? You know, we saw we saw 214 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:36,400 Speaker 1: enough changes that where moved back down or with our stish. 215 00:14:36,520 --> 00:14:39,720 Speaker 1: So I was cause when I was we were coming 216 00:14:39,760 --> 00:14:42,760 Speaker 1: in here, I I it it reminded me of maybe 217 00:14:42,840 --> 00:14:45,920 Speaker 1: our of the what the cross of uh uh Mississippi 218 00:14:45,920 --> 00:14:48,600 Speaker 1: burning kind of thing, not big in in well a 219 00:14:48,680 --> 00:14:50,600 Speaker 1: ming aplaint a bad way. But it's just like when 220 00:14:50,680 --> 00:14:53,160 Speaker 1: I it started to ask questioned him, I got that 221 00:14:53,320 --> 00:14:56,120 Speaker 1: feel like, Okay, you know, we don't have no problem 222 00:14:56,120 --> 00:14:58,440 Speaker 1: with our negroes down here. Uh you know, it's just 223 00:14:58,520 --> 00:15:01,760 Speaker 1: outside aggregation. You know. That's basically I'm literally what the 224 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:05,080 Speaker 1: guy was saying. I'm like, Okay, this is not exactly 225 00:15:05,640 --> 00:15:08,360 Speaker 1: what you know I wanted to hear, But then it 226 00:15:08,520 --> 00:15:11,680 Speaker 1: also is what I needed to hear because sometimes that's 227 00:15:11,800 --> 00:15:13,640 Speaker 1: what the world that they live in that they don't 228 00:15:13,680 --> 00:15:16,440 Speaker 1: realize that under the service there may be some some 229 00:15:16,680 --> 00:15:20,240 Speaker 1: tension there that they are completely oblivious about. Absolutely, yes, 230 00:15:20,680 --> 00:15:24,200 Speaker 1: I agree with you that that that's really outside influences. 231 00:15:24,680 --> 00:15:27,600 Speaker 1: That's a bunch of fool. Now what they mean by 232 00:15:27,680 --> 00:15:29,640 Speaker 1: that is they're saying, well, you got these kids to 233 00:15:29,680 --> 00:15:33,240 Speaker 1: go to question and live here. That's what they live here. 234 00:15:33,760 --> 00:15:37,360 Speaker 1: So they're part of our society, our community, right, So 235 00:15:37,520 --> 00:15:43,200 Speaker 1: that just that album the right, that's m so. And 236 00:15:43,360 --> 00:15:45,560 Speaker 1: even with our with some with some of the actions 237 00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:47,480 Speaker 1: say here, you know, there are some that live here, 238 00:15:47,600 --> 00:15:49,400 Speaker 1: and there are some that are students, you know, but 239 00:15:49,920 --> 00:15:53,000 Speaker 1: but they also see something that needs to change. So 240 00:15:53,440 --> 00:15:58,480 Speaker 1: obviously they have something together. They've seen it, seen the racism, 241 00:15:58,600 --> 00:16:01,960 Speaker 1: they've been They've things happened to them that you know, 242 00:16:02,320 --> 00:16:06,360 Speaker 1: wouldn't happen to anybody else in general, whether it be 243 00:16:06,880 --> 00:16:09,280 Speaker 1: walking in the store and wondering why you needn't stared 244 00:16:09,320 --> 00:16:11,440 Speaker 1: at or watched or whatever. You know, as a matter 245 00:16:11,480 --> 00:16:14,800 Speaker 1: of fact, that's gotten a lot worse. Really, Yeah, I mean, 246 00:16:15,240 --> 00:16:18,120 Speaker 1: this whole COVID thing one makes everybody scared. And then 247 00:16:18,920 --> 00:16:20,760 Speaker 1: you add them to the fact that you know, they 248 00:16:20,840 --> 00:16:23,160 Speaker 1: see Seattle, they see port and they see what's going 249 00:16:23,200 --> 00:16:25,040 Speaker 1: on and oh they see the shirt or we didn't. 250 00:16:26,760 --> 00:16:28,280 Speaker 1: That just gets them on the edge. They see this 251 00:16:28,400 --> 00:16:30,120 Speaker 1: short here and they wonder what's going on? You know, 252 00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:33,080 Speaker 1: what's what? Why? Why is this guy doing it? Okay, 253 00:16:33,160 --> 00:16:34,920 Speaker 1: won't Hey, let's just watch him, you know. And I 254 00:16:34,960 --> 00:16:38,600 Speaker 1: gotta admit, like yesterday or Monday was my birthday, and 255 00:16:38,840 --> 00:16:40,160 Speaker 1: all of a sudden, well I was and I was 256 00:16:40,280 --> 00:16:42,720 Speaker 1: being watched. You know, they got like five people in 257 00:16:42,760 --> 00:16:45,240 Speaker 1: the whole store that's you know, and I'm being watched 258 00:16:45,440 --> 00:16:48,160 Speaker 1: and there's several other people all rep and it just 259 00:16:48,320 --> 00:16:50,400 Speaker 1: it made me feel like, wow, I thought these states 260 00:16:50,440 --> 00:16:53,600 Speaker 1: were pretty much Joe plusially. You know, you walk into 261 00:16:53,640 --> 00:16:56,440 Speaker 1: a store, you gotta pocket for the money that you've 262 00:16:56,480 --> 00:17:01,880 Speaker 1: earned reequently, absolutely absolutely, and just just how just how 263 00:17:01,920 --> 00:17:04,840 Speaker 1: they make you feel like it. You know, there are 264 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:08,160 Speaker 1: there are a lot of times you could be anywhere 265 00:17:09,080 --> 00:17:12,560 Speaker 1: anywhere in one of those parks in the store, even 266 00:17:12,800 --> 00:17:16,119 Speaker 1: eating dinner. You know, I've had I've had people literally 267 00:17:16,600 --> 00:17:19,639 Speaker 1: get up and move because they didn't feel comfortable sitting 268 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:23,320 Speaker 1: next to me and my friends, you know, whether they 269 00:17:23,440 --> 00:17:27,320 Speaker 1: be friends of color or just me a couple of 270 00:17:27,359 --> 00:17:29,840 Speaker 1: white friends, a couple of Mexican friends. You know, I've 271 00:17:29,840 --> 00:17:33,800 Speaker 1: even had instances and this this is true where uh 272 00:17:33,880 --> 00:17:37,040 Speaker 1: we're gonna say, uh, I'm just throwing example olive garden 273 00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:40,400 Speaker 1: and we're all dressed up nice. You know, I'm really 274 00:17:40,520 --> 00:17:43,399 Speaker 1: dressed to go out and went to all of a 275 00:17:43,440 --> 00:17:45,880 Speaker 1: little bit earlier. You have a couple of drinks. I've 276 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:50,560 Speaker 1: just literally watched two older people get up and say 277 00:17:50,680 --> 00:17:53,920 Speaker 1: I would like to be moved. Uh, I feel comfortable 278 00:17:54,080 --> 00:17:57,600 Speaker 1: to be next speaking and I and that, And that's 279 00:17:57,680 --> 00:18:00,800 Speaker 1: happened on several people. Because that's happening I want, I 280 00:18:00,840 --> 00:18:04,440 Speaker 1: say several occasions, but recently a love to it. It's 281 00:18:04,520 --> 00:18:06,680 Speaker 1: recent in you know, a couple of weeks. So they're 282 00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:08,960 Speaker 1: in like the point that there is a problem here. 283 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:11,359 Speaker 1: There is a racial kitchen problem here. Yeah, and and 284 00:18:11,520 --> 00:18:14,879 Speaker 1: people are resistant to unacknowledge it now, which is what 285 00:18:15,040 --> 00:18:17,800 Speaker 1: I I suspected cause the way w when any time 286 00:18:17,880 --> 00:18:20,240 Speaker 1: I hear people curribly shut it down, I'm like, Okay, 287 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:22,680 Speaker 1: I know full well I've been I've been black for 288 00:18:22,760 --> 00:18:26,280 Speaker 1: a long time. You know. I know I and I 289 00:18:26,400 --> 00:18:29,280 Speaker 1: went to school in a predominately white area, very Christian reform. 290 00:18:29,359 --> 00:18:31,440 Speaker 1: I know how things get down and it it is. 291 00:18:31,560 --> 00:18:33,200 Speaker 1: It's just you just don't wanna see it, or you 292 00:18:33,359 --> 00:18:37,480 Speaker 1: just are uh willfully ignorant. Right, So I I wanted 293 00:18:37,560 --> 00:18:39,439 Speaker 1: to say, what do you think needs to change here 294 00:18:39,520 --> 00:18:45,200 Speaker 1: in San Louis, Abisco for our police? Honestly, for me, 295 00:18:45,480 --> 00:18:48,840 Speaker 1: they need to be better educated. I feel that you 296 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:52,600 Speaker 1: cannot become a police officer in six months, can't be 297 00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:55,040 Speaker 1: a sheriff for six months. And the only reason I 298 00:18:55,080 --> 00:18:58,080 Speaker 1: wanna say that is because you can't get degree in 299 00:18:58,320 --> 00:19:03,280 Speaker 1: six months. Yeah right, you know, two years as soon 300 00:19:03,320 --> 00:19:04,840 Speaker 1: as you can get a degree that you don't mean 301 00:19:05,200 --> 00:19:06,920 Speaker 1: with five years? Yeah yeah, you know, I mean a 302 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:08,760 Speaker 1: full full degree, but you know, if you don't getting 303 00:19:08,760 --> 00:19:12,119 Speaker 1: trade schoolification, agree, it's eighteen months. Yeah yeah, yeah. So 304 00:19:12,880 --> 00:19:15,680 Speaker 1: in my opinion, they need to be better educated, you know, 305 00:19:15,840 --> 00:19:19,639 Speaker 1: better educated, you know the psychology side of things, you know, 306 00:19:19,720 --> 00:19:23,440 Speaker 1: the economic side of things, and realizing just because you know, 307 00:19:24,560 --> 00:19:27,680 Speaker 1: I have ale like Georgia, I have a nice watch on. Okay, 308 00:19:28,119 --> 00:19:30,879 Speaker 1: don't think that I didn't pay for this, you or 309 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:33,800 Speaker 1: you have. I got I gained it by criminal activity 310 00:19:34,160 --> 00:19:36,359 Speaker 1: another thing. Yeah, and that's that's my ideal behind that. 311 00:19:36,680 --> 00:19:39,440 Speaker 1: I just I would like to see that I would 312 00:19:39,480 --> 00:19:42,680 Speaker 1: like to see our police force better educated, have a 313 00:19:42,720 --> 00:19:46,000 Speaker 1: better understanding, you know. Don't get me wrong, I'm not 314 00:19:46,040 --> 00:19:48,760 Speaker 1: saying get rid of them because we need we need police, 315 00:19:48,880 --> 00:19:51,200 Speaker 1: you know, but you also gotta remember it as a cop, 316 00:19:51,359 --> 00:19:56,840 Speaker 1: you choose for that employment. This isn't something you're forced 317 00:19:56,920 --> 00:19:58,560 Speaker 1: to do, and I don't want everybody to know that 318 00:19:58,960 --> 00:20:01,359 Speaker 1: it's important. That's the one thing I would like to 319 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:03,560 Speaker 1: see with the police force in the way of just 320 00:20:04,480 --> 00:20:07,639 Speaker 1: community relations. I would just like to people, you know, 321 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:11,760 Speaker 1: especially folks, to know that we're we're here, we're going 322 00:20:11,840 --> 00:20:14,480 Speaker 1: to we're we're not here to harm you. We're just 323 00:20:14,560 --> 00:20:19,440 Speaker 1: like anybody else, you know. Like I delivered groceries to 324 00:20:19,600 --> 00:20:22,680 Speaker 1: people and mainly they're elderly, and I don't care what color, y'all. 325 00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:25,360 Speaker 1: All right, I'm I'm just delivering your groceries, making sure 326 00:20:25,359 --> 00:20:27,600 Speaker 1: you got your food, you know. But I don't want 327 00:20:27,640 --> 00:20:31,240 Speaker 1: you to feel uncomfortable because I'm a black person delivering 328 00:20:31,320 --> 00:20:34,280 Speaker 1: your food. And that has happened a couple of times, 329 00:20:34,480 --> 00:20:37,560 Speaker 1: you know, and we just kind of gotta just smile 330 00:20:37,640 --> 00:20:41,000 Speaker 1: it off and laugh it off. But that's why I 331 00:20:41,080 --> 00:20:43,359 Speaker 1: just want everybody to understand we're here, you know. But 332 00:20:43,600 --> 00:20:46,040 Speaker 1: just like the next person, just cause my skin is brown, 333 00:20:46,080 --> 00:20:47,720 Speaker 1: doesn't you know I won't come back to hear you 334 00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:54,560 Speaker 1: talk whenever. And Tyler, thank you very much for your time. 335 00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:57,760 Speaker 1: I got him up so early today. And happy belated Merday. 336 00:20:57,840 --> 00:21:01,320 Speaker 1: And this is THEO Henderson from me and how we 337 00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:05,560 Speaker 1: are down here to investigate and expose the corruption that's 338 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:09,520 Speaker 1: gone on with the kidnapping and harassment of Kiana Arrada 339 00:21:09,760 --> 00:21:14,040 Speaker 1: and her other fellow actiwork and stay tuned for more. 340 00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:44,600 Speaker 1: This is THEEO Henderson from Median House. Here we are 341 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:46,880 Speaker 1: on the trail of trying to find out it makes 342 00:21:46,920 --> 00:21:50,320 Speaker 1: sense of this craziness that happened where one of the activists, 343 00:21:50,400 --> 00:21:54,480 Speaker 1: Kiana Rata, has been kidnapped as well as harassed by 344 00:21:54,760 --> 00:21:58,840 Speaker 1: the San Luis Obispo police. Where police are sometimes can 345 00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:01,680 Speaker 1: be universally bad. I guess they pass it on. So 346 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:06,879 Speaker 1: here in the studios is a lady. She'll introduce herself 347 00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:10,000 Speaker 1: and we're going to talk about what is going on. Hi, 348 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:13,320 Speaker 1: my name is calin So. I'm a San Louis Fisco resident. 349 00:22:13,359 --> 00:22:15,200 Speaker 1: I've been here for the past three years and I'm 350 00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:19,760 Speaker 1: a student at compus So. I've been participating in the 351 00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:24,080 Speaker 1: community activism and protests of San Luis Obisco for about 352 00:22:24,160 --> 00:22:27,520 Speaker 1: the past two and a half months, I've seen Tiana 353 00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:31,520 Speaker 1: do amazing things for this community and to see what happened, 354 00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:35,520 Speaker 1: the egregious acts that happened here in Mitchell Park in 355 00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:38,920 Speaker 1: San Luis Obisco, We're really just a shock because you 356 00:22:39,040 --> 00:22:42,920 Speaker 1: see this all the time on the news, but you 357 00:22:43,080 --> 00:22:45,560 Speaker 1: never like imagine that it'll happen to someone that you 358 00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:49,680 Speaker 1: really care about and someone you actually know and you know, 359 00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:54,400 Speaker 1: are I believe County Sheriff is p shaff Yeah. Ian 360 00:22:54,520 --> 00:22:57,920 Speaker 1: Parkinson made a statement a few days ago and he 361 00:22:58,080 --> 00:23:01,280 Speaker 1: said racism exists every where but the County of San 362 00:23:01,359 --> 00:23:06,280 Speaker 1: Luis Obispo. But obviously, as you can see from the story, 363 00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:09,320 Speaker 1: that exists everywhere and no one is immune to it, 364 00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:12,480 Speaker 1: no county, no cities immune to this. And we have 365 00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:17,399 Speaker 1: to do the bestest possible, you know, all seas and 366 00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:22,080 Speaker 1: actions that we can to help all black lives survive 367 00:23:22,320 --> 00:23:24,960 Speaker 1: in what's going on. So I want to say, you know, 368 00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:28,720 Speaker 1: because San Louis Obispo is a very wealthy area, So 369 00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:32,960 Speaker 1: tell us let's lead up to what Tiana is an activist, 370 00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:35,840 Speaker 1: So what is she's been active on with particularly like 371 00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:41,640 Speaker 1: the Black Lives Matter as well. So what what other 372 00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:43,920 Speaker 1: works that she's been doing that she's so prominent about 373 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:47,040 Speaker 1: and why would she be targeted? So she's been working 374 00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:53,080 Speaker 1: with Race Matters Slow UH, a community organization, but she's 375 00:23:53,119 --> 00:23:56,399 Speaker 1: mainly been organizing with fellow black youth in the area 376 00:23:57,000 --> 00:23:59,960 Speaker 1: to organize just tons of protests the past few months, 377 00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:04,000 Speaker 1: especially after everything that happened with UH George Floyd and 378 00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:07,359 Speaker 1: Breonna Taylor, Right, So they've been organizing in places like 379 00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:11,960 Speaker 1: Mitchell Park where we are today, in front of the 380 00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:16,040 Speaker 1: Slow County Courthouse and everything, and organizing just a ton 381 00:24:16,119 --> 00:24:21,119 Speaker 1: of marches, having beautiful, eloquent speeches. Yes, this is a 382 00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:24,400 Speaker 1: black led movement and that is incredibly important and crucial, 383 00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:27,600 Speaker 1: but non black people and white people, I need you 384 00:24:27,720 --> 00:24:32,200 Speaker 1: doing some basic leg work. It is not my job 385 00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:47,080 Speaker 1: to do all of this. When I came before a 386 00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:48,800 Speaker 1: few of you and many of you, maybe most of 387 00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:52,040 Speaker 1: you on Sunday, I told you I feel like I'm 388 00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:57,359 Speaker 1: being suffocated by the demands for my community. I'm not 389 00:24:57,480 --> 00:24:59,480 Speaker 1: saying I don't feel honored, and I feel like I 390 00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:02,040 Speaker 1: have a play to finally be able to speak out 391 00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:05,280 Speaker 1: on issues that aren't usually pushed under the rug. But 392 00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:11,840 Speaker 1: it's a lot, it's a lot to handle to white 393 00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:14,480 Speaker 1: and non black people. Please don't look to me for 394 00:25:14,520 --> 00:25:20,040 Speaker 1: all the answers. Use your resources, you know you have them. 395 00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:39,320 Speaker 1: Don'tnock like you've never taken a class before. Really, just 396 00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:43,560 Speaker 1: gathering the community around one common goal, and that is 397 00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:47,080 Speaker 1: to educate the community about raisdem to end racistem from 398 00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:51,639 Speaker 1: slam in the studios is Marcus. Thank you Marcus for 399 00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:54,720 Speaker 1: showing up. Can you tell us what happened on the 400 00:25:54,840 --> 00:25:59,560 Speaker 1: night of it's the incident, So on Tuesday night, Sorry 401 00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:03,120 Speaker 1: I cannot or the exact day, but July twenty first, 402 00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:05,880 Speaker 1: thank you very much. So on that night, we had 403 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:10,320 Speaker 1: just finished our rally, I guess you could say, we 404 00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:13,760 Speaker 1: gathered back here at the gazebo at Mitchell Park, and 405 00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:16,320 Speaker 1: before we had left, we had noticed that there was 406 00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:21,000 Speaker 1: four officers on their bikes across the park and they 407 00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:24,239 Speaker 1: were just sitting there, and for some reason, we all 408 00:26:24,359 --> 00:26:27,000 Speaker 1: just felt like something seemed a little off about that. 409 00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:29,919 Speaker 1: We had also seen that they had pulled over two 410 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:33,760 Speaker 1: cars prior to the arrest, and the way they pulled 411 00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:36,040 Speaker 1: over the cars, it just seemed like those cars may 412 00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:38,440 Speaker 1: have had people that were associated already with us, so 413 00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:41,560 Speaker 1: they were maybe just wanting to question them. But after that, 414 00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:44,280 Speaker 1: I had seen, right before we had walked out of 415 00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:47,239 Speaker 1: the park, another officer or two officers in the car 416 00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:51,320 Speaker 1: had pulled up. And I guess you could say, maybe 417 00:26:51,359 --> 00:26:54,000 Speaker 1: off an instinct. I mean, being black, you can just 418 00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:57,119 Speaker 1: tell that when someone something's about to go down. You 419 00:26:57,160 --> 00:27:00,520 Speaker 1: can tell that after organizing something, and what had happened 420 00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:04,679 Speaker 1: on the freeway, the incident that occurred, that maybe something 421 00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:07,359 Speaker 1: would just occur out of this, and so I wanted 422 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:10,320 Speaker 1: to make sure that she had left before they had left. 423 00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:14,639 Speaker 1: But then as soon as we were just waiting for that, 424 00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:17,439 Speaker 1: they had decided to make a move. And then another officer, 425 00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:20,600 Speaker 1: two officers in a car had drove the car right 426 00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:22,720 Speaker 1: into the intersection. They didn't hit anybody or anything, but 427 00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:25,719 Speaker 1: they had sped into it, stopped and came out as 428 00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:27,640 Speaker 1: if they were trying to yes, like they were trying 429 00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:31,159 Speaker 1: to kidnap someone or someone of high interest. And so 430 00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:34,879 Speaker 1: when taking her, they had hit one of her friends, 431 00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:37,600 Speaker 1: had pushed another friend of theirs to the ground, and 432 00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:43,120 Speaker 1: as they were doing this, I know, particularly at this moment, 433 00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:46,240 Speaker 1: any involvement that anybody does, you could find yourself either 434 00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:49,920 Speaker 1: being arrested or being hurt. But for me, I just 435 00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:52,440 Speaker 1: found it so crucial after all these incidents is that 436 00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:55,159 Speaker 1: you see on TV, and especially of recent especially with 437 00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:57,879 Speaker 1: black women, that I had to do something. So I 438 00:27:57,920 --> 00:28:00,400 Speaker 1: didn't get physical with the officers, but I made sure 439 00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:02,520 Speaker 1: to hug her as hard as they could and to 440 00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:05,360 Speaker 1: just try and prevent them from detaining her without any 441 00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:08,120 Speaker 1: actual lawful reason, because they were not telling us why 442 00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:10,120 Speaker 1: she was being detained or where she was being taken. 443 00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:13,640 Speaker 1: So all those things were just too They just made 444 00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:16,080 Speaker 1: me too anxious with like I said, previous to the 445 00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:18,200 Speaker 1: things that have been happening with black women and black 446 00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:20,440 Speaker 1: people in general, that they get taken and you don't 447 00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:23,280 Speaker 1: particularly know what's happening. And we also had this march 448 00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:27,959 Speaker 1: in conjunction with the events that were happening with in Portland. 449 00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:31,080 Speaker 1: So people that Trump has hired, he's taking them in 450 00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:34,920 Speaker 1: on marked cars and so not that Ian Parkinson is 451 00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:37,480 Speaker 1: directly affiliated with Trump, but taking a message from his 452 00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:40,400 Speaker 1: book and doing something similar like that, it makes you anxious, 453 00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:41,760 Speaker 1: so you don't know, so you want to do as 454 00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:43,720 Speaker 1: much as you can to prevent that from happening without 455 00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:46,120 Speaker 1: the opera answers. So I wanted to do that. They 456 00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:48,400 Speaker 1: pushed me off. Of course, they put her in the 457 00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:50,800 Speaker 1: back of the car. She sped off. They sped off. 458 00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:53,320 Speaker 1: I tried to you know, you're such an a heated 459 00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:55,000 Speaker 1: moment that all I thought about is I just wanted 460 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:56,640 Speaker 1: to chase down the car like a dog and see 461 00:28:56,680 --> 00:28:58,840 Speaker 1: if I could do something. That didn't work. I came 462 00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:02,920 Speaker 1: back and as they were still around the area. You know, 463 00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:05,040 Speaker 1: there's a whole bunch of us just asking where are 464 00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:07,760 Speaker 1: they taking her, why she's being taken in. It goes 465 00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:10,120 Speaker 1: from we can't tell you, oh, to this one reason, 466 00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:12,640 Speaker 1: to might she might be there? We can't tell you. 467 00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:15,600 Speaker 1: And you can tell that the actions that they're taking 468 00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:17,320 Speaker 1: and how we're coming about them, I mean, in case 469 00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:19,760 Speaker 1: boy was still there, so they caught this. So the 470 00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:21,760 Speaker 1: fact that they're not giving us any of these reasons, 471 00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:25,000 Speaker 1: you could tell that they messed up. And so they 472 00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:28,360 Speaker 1: gathered everyone really quickly and left. And so we went 473 00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:31,240 Speaker 1: to the first station on Santa Rosa and next to Walnut, 474 00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:34,600 Speaker 1: and they had already barricaded it. So from my perspective, 475 00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:37,160 Speaker 1: if you are in the lawful right to take somebody. 476 00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:39,160 Speaker 1: Why would you have this barricaded down? I mean, I 477 00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:41,440 Speaker 1: can understand the aggression of the people. Take that will 478 00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:43,720 Speaker 1: come to there. But if you're all lawful rights, you 479 00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:46,160 Speaker 1: have nothing to hide. You have every right to take her. 480 00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:48,280 Speaker 1: You can have everybody yell you, but you know you're 481 00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:51,200 Speaker 1: within your rights. The question I had was even deeper 482 00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:54,640 Speaker 1: than that, is that I was informed by cavin Is 483 00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:57,040 Speaker 1: that they had instead of taking her to jail, they 484 00:29:57,080 --> 00:29:59,440 Speaker 1: held her for two hours for a press release. Yes 485 00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:03,120 Speaker 1: that's not is that correct? Yes, that that is actually correct. 486 00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:06,240 Speaker 1: So after realizing that we could not enter into the 487 00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:10,320 Speaker 1: in the Santa Rosa department, that we went to the 488 00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:13,880 Speaker 1: county jail and waiting there for her arrival. And you know, 489 00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:16,479 Speaker 1: they tell us, oh, we're processing her, she'll be here 490 00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:18,520 Speaker 1: in a second, or in an hour or so. But 491 00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:22,040 Speaker 1: that whole time while we were waiting, we then saw 492 00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:24,719 Speaker 1: that slow PD had already came out in a narrative. 493 00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:28,600 Speaker 1: So before there she's even booked properly, and really the 494 00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:31,360 Speaker 1: cases even really played out, they're already making a narrative 495 00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:35,160 Speaker 1: already on their on their Instagram or Facebook, And we 496 00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:37,160 Speaker 1: were already looking at the comments, and so that doesn't 497 00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:39,880 Speaker 1: help out before the story or the whole narratives out 498 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:42,160 Speaker 1: to give your own perspective, to then have the people 499 00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:45,520 Speaker 1: within who one believe in you already to believe in that, 500 00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:47,960 Speaker 1: and then other outsiders who don't know, then they're gonna 501 00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:50,280 Speaker 1: go to that story and then make their story based 502 00:30:50,280 --> 00:30:51,800 Speaker 1: off of that. That's one of the things that I 503 00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:54,760 Speaker 1: noticed that law enforcement does it, and not just not 504 00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:58,560 Speaker 1: just sant Luis or Bisco. They have a very perverse 505 00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:01,440 Speaker 1: knack of making sure that they create the story but 506 00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:03,720 Speaker 1: the people that they are, a person of color is 507 00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:06,400 Speaker 1: the criminal and paint that picture in the mind even 508 00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:09,000 Speaker 1: though that that's not true. And they know that people 509 00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:13,240 Speaker 1: who blindly bootlet or or deified police officers, they're not 510 00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:15,800 Speaker 1: gonna question that they do anything wrong because and they're 511 00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:17,960 Speaker 1: not gonna be out here on the protest because they 512 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:20,040 Speaker 1: feel that they're doing their job or doing a hard 513 00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:23,320 Speaker 1: job and they should be which forever should be grateful 514 00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:27,440 Speaker 1: for any type of abuse that they put our way. So, Kaitlin, 515 00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:31,320 Speaker 1: did you see the Tavin. I was not here. I 516 00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:34,480 Speaker 1: had just went home, but I remember just the energy 517 00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:38,520 Speaker 1: of like the area right right before I left was 518 00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:41,880 Speaker 1: feeling a bit off. I don't know if Cavin kind 519 00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:44,720 Speaker 1: of gave a rundown of what the protest was, like, yes, yeah, 520 00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:47,440 Speaker 1: so you know, it was feeling a little bit off, 521 00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:50,280 Speaker 1: and we noticed there were cops just surrounding the whole 522 00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:52,440 Speaker 1: area the whole time, and I was like, you know what, 523 00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:55,520 Speaker 1: it's time to get out. So one of the things too, 524 00:31:56,120 --> 00:31:59,160 Speaker 1: it was it's it was intimated, and I wanted to 525 00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:02,800 Speaker 1: make sure I get clearification. Was the police stopping her 526 00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:06,040 Speaker 1: prior to the protest, because I heard that what's going 527 00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:11,040 Speaker 1: on as well. I cannot give a direct answer on 528 00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:14,920 Speaker 1: whether or not they were, but after the event, we 529 00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:17,680 Speaker 1: and after she was taken, we had heard that there 530 00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:20,080 Speaker 1: was already an unmarked car waiting for her at home 531 00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:23,720 Speaker 1: in case somehow the cops here were not able to 532 00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:26,320 Speaker 1: get her. Maybe they thought maybe she would have walked home, 533 00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:28,360 Speaker 1: or we would all been together and something like that. 534 00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:31,680 Speaker 1: So prior to this event, I do not know if 535 00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:34,920 Speaker 1: they had already had this planned, but I know during 536 00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:39,160 Speaker 1: the event, using her fair Semendment right and someone else, 537 00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:43,120 Speaker 1: they had made statements talking about the comments that ian 538 00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:47,800 Speaker 1: Parkinson had made and Dianna, the head of is that 539 00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:52,040 Speaker 1: Camptrell Danna Hendry. Yes, yes, they had both made statements 540 00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:56,720 Speaker 1: about both of those officers, and then the events on 541 00:32:56,880 --> 00:33:01,360 Speaker 1: the on the freeway. I think then that those two 542 00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:05,680 Speaker 1: Ian Parkerson Indiana then decided to have that go uh, 543 00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:09,520 Speaker 1: decide to make that plan go through. And so after 544 00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:11,720 Speaker 1: the event, they had already had that set They had 545 00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:14,840 Speaker 1: somebody waiting for her just in case at home, So definitely, 546 00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:18,840 Speaker 1: if not before during they had set up a plan 547 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:22,120 Speaker 1: to take her in as if she was a terrorist 548 00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:26,760 Speaker 1: or someone to buy interest. So what happens now? What? What? 549 00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:29,400 Speaker 1: What do you what do you want to achieve out 550 00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:32,720 Speaker 1: of this? Because this is shocking to me, and I 551 00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:34,440 Speaker 1: know it's shocking to the rest of the world that's 552 00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:37,480 Speaker 1: going to hear this, because it's a scary time and 553 00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:40,960 Speaker 1: we don't anticipate that. Even though I may have issues 554 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:43,600 Speaker 1: with the police, I don't expect them, which is why 555 00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:46,920 Speaker 1: I get very upset about to break the law or 556 00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:50,080 Speaker 1: to abuse their power. What do we want to accomplish 557 00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:52,200 Speaker 1: out of this? What do we want to know in 558 00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:56,120 Speaker 1: order for us to help Tiana? Well, what I want 559 00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:59,080 Speaker 1: to see first in order to help Tiana is you know, 560 00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:01,920 Speaker 1: security for the from the surrounding areas to really bring 561 00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:05,400 Speaker 1: light to another side of the story. Because there's always 562 00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:08,560 Speaker 1: two sides to your story. There's multiple parts, it's not 563 00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:11,120 Speaker 1: just one dimensional. So that's what I want to see. 564 00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:15,280 Speaker 1: And I just want my community and communities all around 565 00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:18,600 Speaker 1: San lis Bestow in the Central Coast to still band 566 00:34:18,680 --> 00:34:23,040 Speaker 1: together for Tiana and organize on her behalf because we 567 00:34:23,160 --> 00:34:25,239 Speaker 1: need to continue this movement. We can't just put on 568 00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:29,719 Speaker 1: one person to do this and holding police accountable for 569 00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:32,160 Speaker 1: their actions like in the future, I want to see 570 00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:36,320 Speaker 1: police departments defunded. I want to see the abolition of police. 571 00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:38,759 Speaker 1: That's what I personally want to see. So you know, 572 00:34:39,520 --> 00:34:43,480 Speaker 1: current future and all along down the road, that's what 573 00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:45,360 Speaker 1: I want to see. Okay, what do you what are 574 00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:50,680 Speaker 1: you going to see? If not simp Basically all the 575 00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:53,399 Speaker 1: same things that she wants I would like to see 576 00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:56,719 Speaker 1: out of this case. I would like everybody who I 577 00:34:56,760 --> 00:35:00,839 Speaker 1: would like every able, able bodied person to yes, get 578 00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:04,040 Speaker 1: the correct information about Tuesday's Nights event and then actually 579 00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:07,680 Speaker 1: contact the DA and tell them that what they're doing 580 00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:10,960 Speaker 1: is wrong. Not only are they giving her five charges, 581 00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:13,960 Speaker 1: but two of those charges are felonies, and felony charges 582 00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:18,440 Speaker 1: will ruin someone's life. And Tiana is a woman, but 583 00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:20,640 Speaker 1: she is twenty years old. She's still a girl. She 584 00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:23,200 Speaker 1: is somebody who is still growing up, and she has 585 00:35:23,239 --> 00:35:25,719 Speaker 1: a future. She's planning to go to college. These things 586 00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:28,640 Speaker 1: will affect her future. Them they are trying to make 587 00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:30,920 Speaker 1: an example out of someone for using their first Amendment, 588 00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:33,600 Speaker 1: for just trying to speak up about events that not 589 00:35:33,719 --> 00:35:36,400 Speaker 1: only affect her, but others like her, other people around her, 590 00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:39,160 Speaker 1: and other people that aren't like her but still fall 591 00:35:39,239 --> 00:35:43,040 Speaker 1: in the same category being discriminated like her. And these 592 00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:45,400 Speaker 1: are all events that happen here and slow that SLOPPD 593 00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:49,480 Speaker 1: won't take initiative in. They happen around her, and she 594 00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:52,480 Speaker 1: just wants to do something about it. So that's very 595 00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:54,440 Speaker 1: important that gets done. But then I would like to 596 00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:57,279 Speaker 1: also see yes, like the slow in general. They have 597 00:35:57,360 --> 00:36:01,239 Speaker 1: the statement that slows the happiest city and America so 598 00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:04,120 Speaker 1: and Oprah made that, which is also I think funny 599 00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:06,359 Speaker 1: for her to coin that and not really be part 600 00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:08,959 Speaker 1: of this county like that. So for me, when someone 601 00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:10,759 Speaker 1: makes the statement or if that's the statement of the city, 602 00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:13,520 Speaker 1: it needs to be actually, it needs to be affected. 603 00:36:13,560 --> 00:36:14,880 Speaker 1: It needs to be built on the fact that we 604 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:17,799 Speaker 1: see these received races, we see bigotry, we see these 605 00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:20,080 Speaker 1: things where we attack it, we take it down effectively. 606 00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:22,680 Speaker 1: We raised the weet, we meet the numbers of which 607 00:36:22,719 --> 00:36:25,880 Speaker 1: all these incidents happened down to the most minute, and 608 00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:28,399 Speaker 1: that we actually then have that name the happiest city 609 00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:31,400 Speaker 1: in America because we see these things, we acknowledge them, 610 00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:34,040 Speaker 1: and we take care of them, not because someone wants 611 00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:36,400 Speaker 1: to make that quote, and it only it's only sufficient 612 00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:39,359 Speaker 1: to those who aren't actually affected to this area. All right, 613 00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:41,360 Speaker 1: I think that's well said, and also one of the 614 00:36:41,440 --> 00:36:43,600 Speaker 1: things I want to point out with too. We always 615 00:36:43,640 --> 00:36:45,920 Speaker 1: say that children are the future as well as the 616 00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:48,239 Speaker 1: young people are the future, and changing a lot of 617 00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:53,080 Speaker 1: things that have been let slide or let fester by 618 00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:55,680 Speaker 1: the older generation. They've only did so much and they 619 00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:59,759 Speaker 1: basically have not they have passed on them. Matsu. So 620 00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:03,879 Speaker 1: if she's getting arrested and getting these charges, that's also 621 00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:07,640 Speaker 1: it's sending a message to people not to speak up 622 00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:10,080 Speaker 1: for your rights, yes, to keep your head down and 623 00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:13,360 Speaker 1: allow abuse to happen. And that's abusive and despite the 624 00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:18,200 Speaker 1: legal enforcements, that happens. I had one question before I 625 00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:22,040 Speaker 1: log off. I wanted to ask both of you. One 626 00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:25,120 Speaker 1: of the things is why is it that people here 627 00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:28,440 Speaker 1: in San Louis Obispo don't realize there's racial tensions what? 628 00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:31,320 Speaker 1: So I just want to before I answer that, I 629 00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:33,960 Speaker 1: want to go back to the previous question. I think, 630 00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:36,600 Speaker 1: you know, we kind of failed Tiana as a community. 631 00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:39,719 Speaker 1: Everyone let her lead, which was great. You know, she's 632 00:37:39,719 --> 00:37:43,160 Speaker 1: an amazing activist, a beautiful woman, just an amazing spirit. 633 00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:46,600 Speaker 1: But we still need to protect black women at all costs. 634 00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:50,200 Speaker 1: You know, black trans women, black fems, black queer women, 635 00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:53,879 Speaker 1: every black woman needs to be protected. So that's kind 636 00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:57,520 Speaker 1: of my input on the last question. And again, Dan 637 00:37:57,640 --> 00:38:01,680 Speaker 1: daw is our district attorney of SANLISABETHPO County, so it's 638 00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:05,320 Speaker 1: public information his email and phone numbers, so you know, 639 00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:09,360 Speaker 1: contacting them would be an amazing help. And back to 640 00:38:09,440 --> 00:38:12,240 Speaker 1: the question about why people in Slow want to disregard 641 00:38:12,320 --> 00:38:15,520 Speaker 1: any racial tension. I mean, coming as a student at 642 00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:18,160 Speaker 1: CAW Poly Slow, we had a blackface incident two years 643 00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:25,360 Speaker 1: ago as my freshman year where a man i Kyler Watkins, 644 00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:31,360 Speaker 1: affiliated with the National fraternity Lambda Kai Alpha, did blackface 645 00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:35,040 Speaker 1: and it's all over the internet. His affiliates, you know, 646 00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:40,080 Speaker 1: dressed up as quote unquote gangsters like Latin X game gangsters, 647 00:38:40,600 --> 00:38:44,600 Speaker 1: and it was just a complete embarrassment to the reputation 648 00:38:44,719 --> 00:38:48,239 Speaker 1: of Caw Polly Stan elizabethpo And I've tooked sorry. I've 649 00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:54,120 Speaker 1: spoken to the president of the university, Jeffrey Armstrong, and 650 00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:59,120 Speaker 1: he's just been completely unhelpful. He has the same mentality 651 00:38:59,160 --> 00:39:01,560 Speaker 1: as everyone else. They just want to disregard what's happening 652 00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:05,200 Speaker 1: and you know, just keep on getting the money from 653 00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:09,320 Speaker 1: people who want to, you know, remain oblivious to actual 654 00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:12,960 Speaker 1: real issues. And I've talked to so many students. I've 655 00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:16,160 Speaker 1: lost a lot of friends from just people who don't 656 00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:19,399 Speaker 1: want to, you know, inform themselves. They want to remain 657 00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:22,719 Speaker 1: ignorant because a lot of people come from wealthy communities 658 00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:28,920 Speaker 1: in Colorado, Seattle, Murin County, the Bay Area, Walnut Creek, 659 00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:32,759 Speaker 1: you know, a lot in Encinitas, California, the really nice 660 00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:35,680 Speaker 1: parts of LA like Beverly Hills, Mondale. A lot of 661 00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:38,320 Speaker 1: kids come from there, and that's like half of our cities. 662 00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:40,879 Speaker 1: So they just want to remain ignorant for the rest 663 00:39:40,920 --> 00:39:43,239 Speaker 1: of their lives. They're not majoring in these majors like 664 00:39:43,360 --> 00:39:46,840 Speaker 1: women's and gender studies, ethnic studies, all of that in 665 00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:50,120 Speaker 1: our curriculum fails students. We don't even have to take 666 00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:52,880 Speaker 1: ethnic studies classes. We have to take like US history, 667 00:39:53,239 --> 00:39:55,240 Speaker 1: and we all know what US history is all about. 668 00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:58,160 Speaker 1: It's the white people's history. It's not about who actually 669 00:39:58,280 --> 00:40:00,839 Speaker 1: built this country and what land we're on. And we're 670 00:40:00,880 --> 00:40:05,280 Speaker 1: actually on Chumash Land right now, so native indigenous tribes. 671 00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:08,640 Speaker 1: Then yeah, from I think it's like Malibu up to 672 00:40:10,680 --> 00:40:14,359 Speaker 1: let's say Passer Roles. But yeah, it correct me if 673 00:40:14,360 --> 00:40:19,400 Speaker 1: I'm wrong. Yeah, So to basically pick it back off 674 00:40:19,440 --> 00:40:22,160 Speaker 1: of everything that she has said, since she's so important 675 00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:25,120 Speaker 1: about it living here. So I've lived in San Luis 676 00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:28,240 Speaker 1: Obispo for fourteen years alone. I was up in paser 677 00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:30,800 Speaker 1: Rovol's County prior to this, and I was born in 678 00:40:30,880 --> 00:40:35,880 Speaker 1: San Demons, so kind of coming from La County to 679 00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:41,400 Speaker 1: hear basically what she has said. This county in general, 680 00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:45,600 Speaker 1: like any any county, any city, they're built of a 681 00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:47,960 Speaker 1: whole population. You know that you have every type of 682 00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:49,960 Speaker 1: class in it. But with this county, like so many 683 00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:54,280 Speaker 1: other do they they want to only mostly be populated 684 00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:56,560 Speaker 1: by those of upper class. They that's the people that 685 00:40:56,600 --> 00:41:00,680 Speaker 1: they're trying to attract count Sandis County is a mini 686 00:41:00,719 --> 00:41:05,200 Speaker 1: Santa Barber Essentially, it's reflecting off of that you find this, 687 00:41:06,239 --> 00:41:08,200 Speaker 1: and so in conjunction with that, the people who want 688 00:41:08,239 --> 00:41:10,800 Speaker 1: to flock here are people who are associated with that 689 00:41:10,920 --> 00:41:14,960 Speaker 1: mind frame, high society people, yes, those on the higher scale, 690 00:41:15,040 --> 00:41:17,759 Speaker 1: and so those people and not all people, but most 691 00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:20,759 Speaker 1: of those people obviously, their mind frames are built off 692 00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:23,080 Speaker 1: of making sure that their families and themselves are okay, 693 00:41:23,239 --> 00:41:27,759 Speaker 1: and mostly those people being white. Regardless if they know 694 00:41:27,960 --> 00:41:31,080 Speaker 1: directly or indirectly, it's still direct the actions that they've 695 00:41:31,160 --> 00:41:34,280 Speaker 1: taken or not taken have their I either white privilege 696 00:41:34,640 --> 00:41:38,279 Speaker 1: affect the community. And this community is, like I've said, 697 00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:40,320 Speaker 1: for the term of the happiest city on Earth, because 698 00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:43,959 Speaker 1: it's trying to base itself off of well, just because 699 00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:46,160 Speaker 1: everything else happens in the world, we can still be 700 00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:50,040 Speaker 1: the brightest town in the world. And that's trying to 701 00:41:50,160 --> 00:41:54,120 Speaker 1: negate everything that can happen around here. So it's the 702 00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:58,359 Speaker 1: mind frame of the people. And to also say, if 703 00:41:58,440 --> 00:42:01,360 Speaker 1: Kalpally wasn't here, this town would be mostly dominated by 704 00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:06,080 Speaker 1: elderly white people because that's the liberal side of this town. 705 00:42:06,160 --> 00:42:08,480 Speaker 1: Really does come from CalPoly, comes from questa, It comes 706 00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:13,319 Speaker 1: from people who want to question the authority. So that's 707 00:42:14,120 --> 00:42:16,560 Speaker 1: so that's how you can already see that the town itself, 708 00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:20,560 Speaker 1: it's it's it's not even wholly within what that statement 709 00:42:20,600 --> 00:42:22,879 Speaker 1: is said. That statement is built off of just trying 710 00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:26,320 Speaker 1: to build publicity to bring more people who want that 711 00:42:26,440 --> 00:42:29,480 Speaker 1: idea into this town. But there are this town, I mean, 712 00:42:29,680 --> 00:42:31,400 Speaker 1: but also the location of where this is. It's a 713 00:42:31,400 --> 00:42:34,279 Speaker 1: beautiful town, it's a beautiful city. Everybody has the right 714 00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:37,480 Speaker 1: to be here. But obviously, like anywhere else that it's 715 00:42:37,520 --> 00:42:40,759 Speaker 1: beautiful and has beautiful commodities and so forth, are those 716 00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:42,640 Speaker 1: who want to take that away from others who want 717 00:42:42,640 --> 00:42:45,879 Speaker 1: to experience that. And so one of the main things is, yes, 718 00:42:45,920 --> 00:42:48,919 Speaker 1: it is racism. How could there be racism in such 719 00:42:48,920 --> 00:42:52,320 Speaker 1: a beautiful town like this with such beautiful people. Apparently, 720 00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:57,200 Speaker 1: well that's not the case, because those beautiful people are 721 00:42:57,320 --> 00:43:02,160 Speaker 1: human beings, and those human human beings are choosing to 722 00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:05,680 Speaker 1: say that racism doesn't exist, and that we're ugly and 723 00:43:05,840 --> 00:43:09,279 Speaker 1: we're causing all this pain, we're causing all these things 724 00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:13,160 Speaker 1: for for wanting to speak up about it. But like 725 00:43:13,320 --> 00:43:14,759 Speaker 1: the post, I made a post the other day that 726 00:43:14,760 --> 00:43:18,439 Speaker 1: I had seen it said if we stand, you're mad. 727 00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:23,040 Speaker 1: We we we protest, you're mad. I forget. There was 728 00:43:23,040 --> 00:43:24,960 Speaker 1: another one that said, you're mad, but if you if 729 00:43:24,960 --> 00:43:27,279 Speaker 1: you kneel, if we kneel, you're mad. But if we die, 730 00:43:27,520 --> 00:43:31,760 Speaker 1: you're silence. So that's very much played here in Sandler's 731 00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:34,839 Speaker 1: with Disbrow and especially with Ian Parkinson's words the other 732 00:43:34,960 --> 00:43:39,280 Speaker 1: day saying that he doesn't believe that systemic racisism exists 733 00:43:39,280 --> 00:43:41,840 Speaker 1: here or that the Black Lives Movement is not effective 734 00:43:41,880 --> 00:43:44,839 Speaker 1: here because that doesn't exist here, and that the only racism, well, 735 00:43:44,880 --> 00:43:47,400 Speaker 1: the only prejudice that he experiences is that when he 736 00:43:47,480 --> 00:43:53,600 Speaker 1: puts on his uniform. So, I mean, what has to 737 00:43:53,680 --> 00:43:56,000 Speaker 1: be said about that. Police? Police think that they're the 738 00:43:56,080 --> 00:43:59,600 Speaker 1: only ones who are treated differently because of what they wear. 739 00:44:00,120 --> 00:44:02,080 Speaker 1: But they choose to wear that, they choose to put on. 740 00:44:02,120 --> 00:44:05,120 Speaker 1: The actions that they've taken since the beginning when they 741 00:44:05,160 --> 00:44:08,200 Speaker 1: have formed, have not backed up what their statements have 742 00:44:08,640 --> 00:44:10,920 Speaker 1: the statements that they try to stay stay about themselves 743 00:44:11,560 --> 00:44:14,520 Speaker 1: and that everybody else who is born of their color, 744 00:44:15,640 --> 00:44:19,399 Speaker 1: where we're the problem. We're the problem. We're the ones 745 00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:21,719 Speaker 1: who choose to make the problems on you. So it's 746 00:44:22,560 --> 00:44:26,120 Speaker 1: this city is very ass backwards. It's the sun is 747 00:44:26,200 --> 00:44:28,239 Speaker 1: not a it's very cloudy. Well you know what I 748 00:44:28,320 --> 00:44:31,600 Speaker 1: think it's like this is the most major colossal gas 749 00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:34,680 Speaker 1: lighting of it at all, is to say that there's 750 00:44:34,719 --> 00:44:36,800 Speaker 1: no racism, it doesn't exist here. It's just like it 751 00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:40,200 Speaker 1: floats over San Louis obispo and floats off into like 752 00:44:40,280 --> 00:44:44,120 Speaker 1: an old long a masters in other cities. But it 753 00:44:44,200 --> 00:44:48,000 Speaker 1: looks like and then the idea of a blue plas. 754 00:44:48,239 --> 00:44:51,000 Speaker 1: You know, they're being picked on. No one's picking off. 755 00:44:51,239 --> 00:44:53,920 Speaker 1: We just decided to pick on beliefs because they just 756 00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:57,360 Speaker 1: have a uniform on That's what's really very very alarming 757 00:44:57,480 --> 00:45:01,319 Speaker 1: that they will say something like that lives can't matter, 758 00:45:01,640 --> 00:45:04,960 Speaker 1: blue lives don't exist, period. And also like you know, 759 00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:08,160 Speaker 1: this city at least, if you're gonna say racism doesn't exist, 760 00:45:08,280 --> 00:45:12,320 Speaker 1: classism exists, and classism is rooted in racism. So indeed, 761 00:45:12,440 --> 00:45:14,800 Speaker 1: you know, that's just what we want people to realize, 762 00:45:14,880 --> 00:45:17,399 Speaker 1: like we have real issues going on here, but people 763 00:45:17,520 --> 00:45:21,680 Speaker 1: just want to live their happy little lives first of all, 764 00:45:21,760 --> 00:45:25,600 Speaker 1: disregarding a pandemic twenty four to seven. So yeah, that's 765 00:45:25,880 --> 00:45:29,279 Speaker 1: that's kind of what I'll say on that. Well, I 766 00:45:29,440 --> 00:45:31,319 Speaker 1: thank you all for your coming in and your time, 767 00:45:31,440 --> 00:45:34,400 Speaker 1: and I know you guys have been very busy, and 768 00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:37,040 Speaker 1: I will return and I would probably follow up to 769 00:45:37,080 --> 00:45:41,279 Speaker 1: see hopefully how things are fair. And I would like 770 00:45:41,360 --> 00:45:45,080 Speaker 1: to if you you guys again, as well as Leanna 771 00:45:45,120 --> 00:45:48,560 Speaker 1: and her family and a lawyer, if you will, hopefully 772 00:45:48,640 --> 00:45:51,799 Speaker 1: this weekend. But this is the Yo Henderson from Union House. 773 00:45:51,960 --> 00:45:54,080 Speaker 1: Is there any other protests or any other things that 774 00:45:54,120 --> 00:45:58,320 Speaker 1: we should be aware about? Okay? So I'm helping organize 775 00:45:58,440 --> 00:46:03,120 Speaker 1: the kids protest all this time, and us we want 776 00:46:03,160 --> 00:46:05,400 Speaker 1: to make it as accessible as possible. We're getting an 777 00:46:05,400 --> 00:46:10,320 Speaker 1: ASL interpreter Spanish interpreter right here in Mitchell Park. And 778 00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:13,040 Speaker 1: we want to also like walk off parking spaces for 779 00:46:13,360 --> 00:46:15,520 Speaker 1: families who want to attend and just crack the window 780 00:46:15,560 --> 00:46:20,320 Speaker 1: open and safely social distance and just educate our entire community, 781 00:46:21,120 --> 00:46:24,040 Speaker 1: our privileged community, because this is a privileged community about 782 00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:27,399 Speaker 1: systemic racism. And you can't be too young to learn 783 00:46:27,440 --> 00:46:33,760 Speaker 1: about racism. So yeah, we're educating little children, middle age children, 784 00:46:34,480 --> 00:46:37,680 Speaker 1: bigger age children, and it's gonna be organized by high 785 00:46:37,719 --> 00:46:40,200 Speaker 1: school youth, like I'm not even helping organize all of it, 786 00:46:41,080 --> 00:46:44,360 Speaker 1: a high schoolers doing all of this, like she's overseeing 787 00:46:44,400 --> 00:46:46,440 Speaker 1: all the committees. So it's really just gonna be an 788 00:46:46,440 --> 00:46:51,680 Speaker 1: amazing plethora of people and there's gonna be music and stacks, 789 00:46:51,719 --> 00:46:53,520 Speaker 1: and we just want to make it just such a 790 00:46:53,600 --> 00:46:57,160 Speaker 1: great educational opportunity and we're gonna march around Mitchell Park 791 00:46:57,200 --> 00:47:01,399 Speaker 1: with all the little nuggans. So yes, oh yeah, that's 792 00:47:01,760 --> 00:47:04,880 Speaker 1: essentially what's planned for next and to basically figure back 793 00:47:04,920 --> 00:47:06,759 Speaker 1: on that, which what is really nice about it is 794 00:47:06,800 --> 00:47:08,440 Speaker 1: the fact that, yes, the high schooler is the one 795 00:47:08,480 --> 00:47:10,560 Speaker 1: that's putting this together. So when we talk about that 796 00:47:10,640 --> 00:47:13,640 Speaker 1: the youth is the next generation growing up, you can 797 00:47:13,719 --> 00:47:16,319 Speaker 1: see that not only with this, but like climate change 798 00:47:16,320 --> 00:47:18,319 Speaker 1: and so forth, the youth are really taking it upon 799 00:47:18,440 --> 00:47:22,120 Speaker 1: themselves to make sure that their future is better. Because yeah, 800 00:47:22,160 --> 00:47:24,120 Speaker 1: if Sandlist wants to say it's the happiest saying Earth, 801 00:47:24,160 --> 00:47:26,520 Speaker 1: well it'll be. It needs to actually be that way 802 00:47:26,560 --> 00:47:29,120 Speaker 1: for the next generation and actually be like that instead 803 00:47:29,160 --> 00:47:32,759 Speaker 1: of cloudy. So it's nice to see that someone Yeah, 804 00:47:32,800 --> 00:47:36,640 Speaker 1: who I believe she's sixteen. I'm twenty five. That's you know, 805 00:47:36,920 --> 00:47:39,360 Speaker 1: that's eleven years of a difference, so that could be 806 00:47:39,640 --> 00:47:41,640 Speaker 1: very different. We can have very different mind frames that 807 00:47:41,719 --> 00:47:43,759 Speaker 1: you can see that even with five years, people have 808 00:47:43,880 --> 00:47:46,360 Speaker 1: very different mind frames. So for her to take this 809 00:47:46,480 --> 00:47:50,400 Speaker 1: as serious as maybe I have when I've started that 810 00:47:50,640 --> 00:47:53,840 Speaker 1: that'll hopefully be that'll give me hope. That gives me 811 00:47:53,920 --> 00:47:55,960 Speaker 1: hope to see that that's the future we want. We 812 00:47:56,000 --> 00:47:57,680 Speaker 1: want to change that. And yes, to have this event 813 00:47:57,800 --> 00:48:00,160 Speaker 1: here in San Luis, Obisco, and to make it as 814 00:48:00,880 --> 00:48:04,600 Speaker 1: almost one bodied for all for a similists, that's the 815 00:48:04,640 --> 00:48:06,640 Speaker 1: whole point, so we can all be on the same page, 816 00:48:06,680 --> 00:48:08,920 Speaker 1: so we can all understand the things that are happening 817 00:48:08,960 --> 00:48:11,680 Speaker 1: in Said Luis to actually, yes, to make things progressively 818 00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:14,080 Speaker 1: better for all, and just to have these all these 819 00:48:14,080 --> 00:48:18,080 Speaker 1: conversations outside and at home, and for people to have 820 00:48:18,120 --> 00:48:20,560 Speaker 1: them at school, to have them at comfortable, to feel 821 00:48:20,560 --> 00:48:23,520 Speaker 1: comfortable about them. If they if they're feeling that those 822 00:48:23,560 --> 00:48:26,680 Speaker 1: conversations already happening around their city, it'll be easier for 823 00:48:26,760 --> 00:48:29,560 Speaker 1: them to talk about it individually. Well, there you have it. 824 00:48:29,719 --> 00:48:33,640 Speaker 1: It's like they're feeling a very deepermassive. The younger generation, 825 00:48:33,719 --> 00:48:36,440 Speaker 1: you're feeling investive. A lot of times I always hear 826 00:48:36,520 --> 00:48:38,960 Speaker 1: the older generation. You always saying the disappointment with the youth, 827 00:48:39,400 --> 00:48:42,440 Speaker 1: but I think this is where the opposite is is. 828 00:48:42,520 --> 00:48:45,120 Speaker 1: I think the youth are disappointed and the older because 829 00:48:45,440 --> 00:48:48,480 Speaker 1: they have failed in so many respects of listening and 830 00:48:48,640 --> 00:48:51,160 Speaker 1: understanding that they need to change and be part of 831 00:48:51,200 --> 00:48:53,839 Speaker 1: the change. This is Bill Henderson from me in House 832 00:48:53,880 --> 00:48:56,000 Speaker 1: and I thank you all for listening and maybe we 833 00:48:56,080 --> 00:49:42,080 Speaker 1: again meet in the light of understanding. This is Stil 834 00:49:42,160 --> 00:49:45,120 Speaker 1: Henderson from Media in House with Weed in House Investigations. 835 00:49:45,960 --> 00:49:49,000 Speaker 1: If one thing that's taught me about this investigation is 836 00:49:49,520 --> 00:49:53,960 Speaker 1: America has a track record of silences its protesters against 837 00:49:53,960 --> 00:49:58,160 Speaker 1: the injustice that is inflicted by the American citizens and 838 00:49:58,200 --> 00:50:03,800 Speaker 1: the American law enforcement. Kiana Rata is one of those casualties. 839 00:50:04,480 --> 00:50:06,560 Speaker 1: She is a long list of people that is fighting 840 00:50:06,680 --> 00:50:11,279 Speaker 1: for the equality and the safe treatment by law enforcement officials. 841 00:50:13,200 --> 00:50:17,120 Speaker 1: It is ironic that the very people that she's fighting 842 00:50:17,160 --> 00:50:21,440 Speaker 1: against have charged her with eight felonies and five misdemeanors 843 00:50:21,880 --> 00:50:24,719 Speaker 1: in response to the retaliation and the abuse practices that 844 00:50:24,800 --> 00:50:30,120 Speaker 1: is widespread around the world. There is no justification for 845 00:50:30,560 --> 00:50:35,120 Speaker 1: you to attack or criminalize a person that is fighting 846 00:50:35,160 --> 00:50:39,759 Speaker 1: for injustice. They took her kidnapped her, held her hostage, 847 00:50:40,120 --> 00:50:43,759 Speaker 1: and created and crafted a press release in order to 848 00:50:43,880 --> 00:50:49,440 Speaker 1: vilify her. It is very apparent that the FBI or 849 00:50:49,560 --> 00:50:53,160 Speaker 1: Internal Affairs should be going and to investigate these people 850 00:50:53,320 --> 00:50:57,560 Speaker 1: instead of them. I hope that you listen to this 851 00:50:57,760 --> 00:51:01,880 Speaker 1: as well as called to action to free her story 852 00:51:02,120 --> 00:51:05,200 Speaker 1: is one that's like many other stories in America that 853 00:51:05,360 --> 00:51:09,759 Speaker 1: doesn't get publicized correctly and fairly. The media is not 854 00:51:09,880 --> 00:51:12,920 Speaker 1: covering it like it should. The Sand Louis Belief of 855 00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:15,920 Speaker 1: BISCO is sending a message to the young protesters to 856 00:51:16,040 --> 00:51:20,279 Speaker 1: say if you protest again too, you will be criminalized 857 00:51:20,280 --> 00:51:22,920 Speaker 1: as well. They gonna come out and say it, but 858 00:51:23,000 --> 00:51:25,480 Speaker 1: they're sending the message to the recal effect. But the 859 00:51:25,560 --> 00:51:29,080 Speaker 1: movement will not stop. Black Lives Matter, for those who 860 00:51:29,200 --> 00:51:31,960 Speaker 1: do not know, is about to protest against the police 861 00:51:32,000 --> 00:51:35,440 Speaker 1: brutality and killing, an abuse that is an acted on 862 00:51:35,600 --> 00:51:39,759 Speaker 1: black Americans that are here in this country. No one's 863 00:51:39,800 --> 00:51:42,920 Speaker 1: saying that they're anti police, but there are anti injustice. 864 00:51:43,760 --> 00:51:47,719 Speaker 1: Many times police escalate. Case in point, the time where 865 00:51:47,800 --> 00:51:50,520 Speaker 1: they said that this woman and her family had robbed 866 00:51:50,560 --> 00:51:53,120 Speaker 1: a motorcycle and took them out of the van and 867 00:51:53,239 --> 00:51:57,520 Speaker 1: held them at gunpoint. Example number two, the Sheriff's Los 868 00:51:57,560 --> 00:52:03,560 Speaker 1: Angeles Sheriff's Department has full weaponry out on black teenagers 869 00:52:04,000 --> 00:52:06,839 Speaker 1: because they are claiming that they had a gun. Yet, 870 00:52:06,960 --> 00:52:09,800 Speaker 1: on that very same notion that there are other white 871 00:52:09,960 --> 00:52:14,600 Speaker 1: people that have done the same criminal access shot people 872 00:52:15,040 --> 00:52:18,120 Speaker 1: or police officers, they get a burger, they get a 873 00:52:18,400 --> 00:52:21,359 Speaker 1: special treatment, and we have to listen to the sensitivity 874 00:52:21,480 --> 00:52:25,360 Speaker 1: of their flight or their situation. So let's listen to 875 00:52:25,440 --> 00:52:29,000 Speaker 1: the sensitivity and flight of Tiana's situation. Keana is the 876 00:52:29,080 --> 00:52:32,680 Speaker 1: victim here. She's not a criminal. She had the temerity 877 00:52:32,800 --> 00:52:34,680 Speaker 1: of a young person that has We come from a 878 00:52:34,719 --> 00:52:37,800 Speaker 1: long life of civil rights activists that speak out against 879 00:52:37,840 --> 00:52:40,920 Speaker 1: the justice, and she's another black woman that has singled 880 00:52:41,000 --> 00:52:45,080 Speaker 1: out criminalized in the Simbola Veine Evangela Davis, this is 881 00:52:45,160 --> 00:52:47,719 Speaker 1: our youth, who is our future. But we send a 882 00:52:47,800 --> 00:52:51,000 Speaker 1: message of our future that we cannot and they should 883 00:52:51,040 --> 00:52:53,600 Speaker 1: not protest and should stay and put their head under 884 00:52:53,600 --> 00:52:56,959 Speaker 1: the sand. What future are we going to make better? 885 00:52:57,320 --> 00:52:59,080 Speaker 1: If we can't leave the world a better place than 886 00:52:59,080 --> 00:53:02,799 Speaker 1: when we found it. This is theo Henderson for Weedy 887 00:53:02,880 --> 00:53:06,759 Speaker 1: and Howard's investigation. I thank you all for listening and 888 00:53:06,880 --> 00:54:24,799 Speaker 1: maybe again meet in the light of understanding the bomb