1 00:00:08,520 --> 00:00:16,760 Speaker 1: Ring on land, no bad, turn me around, turn me around, 2 00:00:18,239 --> 00:00:25,520 Speaker 1: turn around, a bone of no bad, turn me around, 3 00:00:25,880 --> 00:00:33,800 Speaker 1: the bone of people, walking, people talking, watching out to 4 00:00:34,040 --> 00:00:41,239 Speaker 1: speel the lame, the dorg the house, turn me around, 5 00:00:42,760 --> 00:00:51,080 Speaker 1: serving me around it, turn around, go the land, house, 6 00:00:51,560 --> 00:01:00,920 Speaker 1: set around people, the walking people, all the talking. Good afternoon. 7 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:04,120 Speaker 1: This is Deie Henderson from William Howes. Today is d Day. 8 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:08,880 Speaker 1: Today is November third, twenty twenty, and this is the 9 00:01:08,920 --> 00:02:16,079 Speaker 1: big election city and government President Trump against contender Joe Biden. 10 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:19,519 Speaker 1: As we are when you're as then our community and vote. 11 00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:23,200 Speaker 1: They're stating that our voice is nothing matter, particularly locally. 12 00:02:23,320 --> 00:02:25,600 Speaker 1: And when I'm completed, you may not deal where then 13 00:02:25,680 --> 00:02:28,320 Speaker 1: there's a spalens where I'm going to sleep about it before. 14 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:30,400 Speaker 1: You don't have to put it in the city attorney. 15 00:02:30,440 --> 00:02:32,959 Speaker 1: There's you're all still get placed with two hundred thousand dollars. 16 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:35,320 Speaker 1: Let us take your office. He's running around talking about 17 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:38,280 Speaker 1: order and this place that you can see a sign 18 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:41,519 Speaker 1: Larry layer and have financial usus to afford the houses 19 00:02:42,639 --> 00:02:45,720 Speaker 1: roman as spell as I'm to afford themselves because the 20 00:02:45,840 --> 00:02:49,200 Speaker 1: lack of Drayconi and COVID nineteen and the economic policy. 21 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:52,000 Speaker 1: But here is in the city here where our is 22 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:57,760 Speaker 1: a note matter about lot O House voices is in 23 00:02:57,919 --> 00:03:00,959 Speaker 1: paramount in order for these issues that are us and 24 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:03,040 Speaker 1: for them to affect her, and you have to be 25 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:05,880 Speaker 1: able that and make sure that they understand that we're 26 00:03:05,919 --> 00:03:08,160 Speaker 1: citizen liarly the United States as well. Here they are 27 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:12,079 Speaker 1: voting to do that for all piece so as will 28 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:14,320 Speaker 1: vote some of the places in this and they showed 29 00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:16,440 Speaker 1: the location here at the pandage. To check in with 30 00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:20,399 Speaker 1: your sample ballot number two, you go to any available 31 00:03:20,720 --> 00:03:24,239 Speaker 1: talent in my hand vice number three, selecting language and 32 00:03:24,320 --> 00:03:28,440 Speaker 1: customize your setting. Number four, begin voting or scan your 33 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:32,400 Speaker 1: cole pass. Number five, review your selections on the screen 34 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:36,080 Speaker 1: and your about and number six you cast your ballot 35 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:40,480 Speaker 1: back into the ballot market device. Here's where the unhoused 36 00:03:40,480 --> 00:03:45,280 Speaker 1: community is not exactly for everybody. Let's suppose because of 37 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:49,960 Speaker 1: the legal difficulties, particularly forty one eighteen that precludes that 38 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:52,720 Speaker 1: unhoused people are not to be sitting, lying, or sleeping, 39 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:58,240 Speaker 1: and they are the post give the misdemeanor. If you're 40 00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:01,080 Speaker 1: pulling for someone able to vote well, if they charge 41 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:03,360 Speaker 1: their phones or they have been run out or as 42 00:04:03,440 --> 00:04:05,680 Speaker 1: in my previous episodes. Some of the guests have been 43 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:09,120 Speaker 1: saying the police refuses allow them to charge their phones 44 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:13,120 Speaker 1: in certain places are countless. We're in COVID nineteen. There 45 00:04:13,160 --> 00:04:15,400 Speaker 1: are no places where they allow unhoused people to go 46 00:04:15,520 --> 00:04:19,680 Speaker 1: in and charge it for Starbucks has removed those charging places. 47 00:04:19,960 --> 00:04:22,720 Speaker 1: The libraries are closed, so where are they going to? 48 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:25,720 Speaker 1: So how is this all for all people? Well, one 49 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:28,600 Speaker 1: of the best solutions that I've noticed is street Watch 50 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:32,720 Speaker 1: has instituted for some time power up. It has allowed 51 00:04:32,760 --> 00:04:36,520 Speaker 1: the unhoused community to charge your phones and come plugged 52 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:39,640 Speaker 1: into the society that so desperately wants them to gone 53 00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:42,640 Speaker 1: and erased. So one of the things that we are 54 00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:45,360 Speaker 1: doing today is highlighting where the places is. As you 55 00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:48,360 Speaker 1: can see here how much of sen O here co 56 00:04:48,520 --> 00:04:52,120 Speaker 1: seed voting en force All people need to be realized 57 00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:56,240 Speaker 1: that unhoused people are people that you haven't consisted. Maybe 58 00:04:56,360 --> 00:05:00,200 Speaker 1: next time the volting places will have charging station for 59 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:03,840 Speaker 1: unhouse people to vote as well. This is THEO Henderson 60 00:05:03,880 --> 00:05:07,480 Speaker 1: from Median House. There would be more to follow. Today 61 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:11,600 Speaker 1: is the day, November third, twenty twenty, and this is 62 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:15,160 Speaker 1: the election up of the century. I have to say 63 00:05:56,520 --> 00:05:58,920 Speaker 1: this is CEO Henderson from Median House. We're still here 64 00:05:58,960 --> 00:06:01,560 Speaker 1: in Hollywood, and and we have one of the former 65 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:03,680 Speaker 1: one of our guests that was on our show in 66 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:08,200 Speaker 1: episode seven, Nythia Rahman, and her one of the volunteers, 67 00:06:08,320 --> 00:06:11,600 Speaker 1: is out here helping out to make sure her name 68 00:06:11,720 --> 00:06:14,720 Speaker 1: is known to people that aren't potentially casting. Here ballats 69 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:18,840 Speaker 1: and without further ad listen be introducing this get her perspective. 70 00:06:18,880 --> 00:06:20,960 Speaker 1: What does she think, what's really going on with? Say? Hello, 71 00:06:21,279 --> 00:06:23,760 Speaker 1: my name is da what's girl? Hi? I'm Karley Cora. 72 00:06:24,360 --> 00:06:26,880 Speaker 1: All right, Corey, So tell us a little bit about 73 00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:30,280 Speaker 1: what's going on today today. I'm out here, I'm tabling, 74 00:06:30,360 --> 00:06:33,400 Speaker 1: I'm just a volunteer for NYDIA. We want to make 75 00:06:33,440 --> 00:06:37,440 Speaker 1: sure that people who haven't been following the city council 76 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:40,520 Speaker 1: election that closely, maybe you don't know what our current 77 00:06:40,560 --> 00:06:44,760 Speaker 1: council member and Napia Rahman really stand for their platforms. 78 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:46,520 Speaker 1: So we just want to make sure people have information 79 00:06:46,640 --> 00:06:48,400 Speaker 1: before they come into vote. What is going on in 80 00:06:48,480 --> 00:06:50,240 Speaker 1: the city council right now? And why is it so 81 00:06:50,360 --> 00:06:52,960 Speaker 1: important that we get it? It's here on the on 82 00:06:53,800 --> 00:06:57,960 Speaker 1: on board. Well, there's been recent talk of how you 83 00:06:58,040 --> 00:07:02,760 Speaker 1: new legislation that would for criminalized homelessness, making it illegal 84 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:05,360 Speaker 1: to sit or sleep on the sidewalks in certain areas 85 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:09,600 Speaker 1: without really providing enough services to get people into homes. 86 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:15,119 Speaker 1: So one of Nithea's really big platforms is actually getting 87 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:19,160 Speaker 1: services for people experiencing homelessness, not that I'm talking about 88 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:22,320 Speaker 1: it and saying oh, we're trying, but really doing the 89 00:07:22,400 --> 00:07:25,920 Speaker 1: hard work to make sure we're providing affordable housing and 90 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:28,880 Speaker 1: all the resources that people need to get off the street. 91 00:07:29,320 --> 00:07:34,360 Speaker 1: Interesting recently, the city attorney make Fewer, who drafted an 92 00:07:34,480 --> 00:07:38,880 Speaker 1: ordinance to expand and heighten forty one eighteen who makes 93 00:07:39,040 --> 00:07:41,520 Speaker 1: two hundred thousand dollars a year that sleeps in the 94 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:45,560 Speaker 1: house every night, is trying to stay that that we 95 00:07:45,640 --> 00:07:48,360 Speaker 1: could be compassionate by criminalizing the un house. What is 96 00:07:48,440 --> 00:07:52,680 Speaker 1: your perspective on to me, it seems very obvious that 97 00:07:52,840 --> 00:07:56,560 Speaker 1: that just doesn't work. It's been the policy so far. 98 00:07:57,240 --> 00:08:02,200 Speaker 1: Nobody's really proposing new initiatives. What we're doing right now 99 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:05,920 Speaker 1: isn't working, and so I'm really excited to get Nythia 100 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:09,520 Speaker 1: on the city Council to actually start current spurring on 101 00:08:10,080 --> 00:08:13,320 Speaker 1: real change of people need housing. Why do you think 102 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:16,440 Speaker 1: that the city is still doing the same thing. How 103 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:18,560 Speaker 1: many lawsuits are it going to take for them to 104 00:08:18,680 --> 00:08:21,880 Speaker 1: stop criminalizing the unhouse community. Do you think that they've 105 00:08:22,080 --> 00:08:24,960 Speaker 1: this measured that they're going to do would be successful 106 00:08:25,080 --> 00:08:28,080 Speaker 1: in getting on house people housing. I mean, the measure 107 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:31,320 Speaker 1: I don't think would be successful at all. Hopefully it 108 00:08:31,400 --> 00:08:33,679 Speaker 1: does a task, I think, you know, if there's been 109 00:08:33,760 --> 00:08:37,440 Speaker 1: a very strong backlash, you know, people have been asking 110 00:08:37,520 --> 00:08:39,679 Speaker 1: for change and this is the exact opposite of what 111 00:08:39,800 --> 00:08:43,280 Speaker 1: we're looking for. So hopefully this, you know, is dead 112 00:08:43,320 --> 00:08:46,040 Speaker 1: in the water. And you know, with Nythia on the 113 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:49,240 Speaker 1: city council and hopefully more and more actual progressive in 114 00:08:49,440 --> 00:08:52,559 Speaker 1: La La is a very progressive city and it's not 115 00:08:52,720 --> 00:08:55,720 Speaker 1: really represented in our city council. The city council has 116 00:08:55,760 --> 00:08:59,760 Speaker 1: so much power. So I'm hopeful that with this real 117 00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:08,360 Speaker 1: well support for progressive foodness and causes, well yeah, yeah, 118 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:13,560 Speaker 1: I'm I'm hopeful that you know, with more progressive city 119 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:19,679 Speaker 1: council will actually have the power to make changes and 120 00:09:20,240 --> 00:09:22,400 Speaker 1: and homelessness. You know, one of the things that I 121 00:09:22,520 --> 00:09:24,839 Speaker 1: noticed is like that one of the people that pushed 122 00:09:24,920 --> 00:09:27,880 Speaker 1: us was Newry Martinez has pushed us back to November 123 00:09:27,920 --> 00:09:30,839 Speaker 1: twenty fourth, and in this cause there were people that 124 00:09:31,040 --> 00:09:34,880 Speaker 1: perhaps were people of color that were making the same 125 00:09:35,280 --> 00:09:38,720 Speaker 1: powerful statements that white supremacist would say about the young 126 00:09:38,760 --> 00:09:42,360 Speaker 1: house community in particular. For example, some of these people 127 00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:45,200 Speaker 1: are what you see on this sideline pro dressed, uh, 128 00:09:45,640 --> 00:09:49,280 Speaker 1: trying to get counsel rent and red forgiveness. Why is 129 00:09:49,320 --> 00:09:51,600 Speaker 1: it that they don't see that houselessness is one step 130 00:09:51,679 --> 00:09:55,240 Speaker 1: one wrung between that. What if they don't approve rent 131 00:09:55,640 --> 00:09:58,520 Speaker 1: or counsel rent? What happens when they go out of 132 00:09:58,559 --> 00:10:01,280 Speaker 1: the street and those same proposed and those same measures 133 00:10:01,280 --> 00:10:03,600 Speaker 1: are affecting them. Do you think they will change their teams? 134 00:10:04,360 --> 00:10:07,319 Speaker 1: I think so. It's you know, I think it's human nature. 135 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:11,280 Speaker 1: We all want to think that we're okay, we're safe. 136 00:10:11,480 --> 00:10:14,800 Speaker 1: You know, it's not as bad for us. A lot 137 00:10:14,840 --> 00:10:16,599 Speaker 1: of people don't want to reckon with the idea that 138 00:10:16,720 --> 00:10:20,559 Speaker 1: we really so many people are one bad monk, one 139 00:10:20,640 --> 00:10:24,480 Speaker 1: health emergency, a layoff from being in the same position, 140 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:31,600 Speaker 1: being housing unstable, being homeless. It's scary and people don't 141 00:10:31,679 --> 00:10:33,800 Speaker 1: want to believe that that could happen to them. So 142 00:10:34,880 --> 00:10:37,600 Speaker 1: I hope people can really put themselves in other shoes 143 00:10:37,920 --> 00:10:40,920 Speaker 1: and really be honest with themselves and think about you know, 144 00:10:41,120 --> 00:10:43,880 Speaker 1: providing as much care as you would want for your family, 145 00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:47,480 Speaker 1: your friends. You know, I don't think anybody wakes up 146 00:10:47,520 --> 00:10:49,800 Speaker 1: and thinks or wants or hopes to be homeless. But 147 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:53,160 Speaker 1: there's so many things that can push you into that situation, 148 00:10:54,240 --> 00:10:56,679 Speaker 1: and why not provide support for people to get out 149 00:10:56,720 --> 00:11:00,199 Speaker 1: of that situation and things like canceling rent, you know, 150 00:11:00,400 --> 00:11:04,440 Speaker 1: werena condone it. So many people are unemployed, myself included, 151 00:11:04,640 --> 00:11:07,440 Speaker 1: you know, to be able to cancel rent and take 152 00:11:07,480 --> 00:11:10,440 Speaker 1: that burden off of people right now, people in their homes, 153 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:13,800 Speaker 1: it's common sense to me, and I really hope that 154 00:11:14,280 --> 00:11:18,440 Speaker 1: you know, people will come around. Well, it's my hope 155 00:11:18,440 --> 00:11:21,720 Speaker 1: that ry Martinis does, because according to her, her family's 156 00:11:21,720 --> 00:11:25,160 Speaker 1: safety is more important than on house family's safety of 157 00:11:25,240 --> 00:11:28,320 Speaker 1: people that have children too. They keep saying quality of concerned, 158 00:11:28,360 --> 00:11:30,760 Speaker 1: But it is only to her and her family and 159 00:11:30,840 --> 00:11:33,439 Speaker 1: people that are housed. It doesn't seem to be concerning 160 00:11:33,520 --> 00:11:35,880 Speaker 1: about you on house families that are out here. Because 161 00:11:36,080 --> 00:11:39,280 Speaker 1: these kids that Newery Marginius is always so concerned about 162 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:42,000 Speaker 1: her children going to school, those are the ones the 163 00:11:42,040 --> 00:11:44,560 Speaker 1: message that they seem to get from her and her kids. 164 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:47,920 Speaker 1: So thank you very much again this is Stell Henderson 165 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:50,120 Speaker 1: for me in the house. We're gonna be building about 166 00:11:50,240 --> 00:11:54,040 Speaker 1: in different other locations while getting out, getting out the 167 00:11:54,080 --> 00:11:56,400 Speaker 1: word to vote, and as well as learning some of 168 00:11:56,440 --> 00:11:59,920 Speaker 1: the perspectives of different people. Thank you again, maybe again 169 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:06,120 Speaker 1: beating them of my ha a freed on. Hanging on 170 00:12:06,280 --> 00:12:12,200 Speaker 1: that segregation, Lord, turn me round, Tell me around, turn 171 00:12:12,320 --> 00:12:16,640 Speaker 1: me running on the last segregation lordy, turn me round 172 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:20,680 Speaker 1: and keep on the walking. Yeah, keep on the talking. Yeah, 173 00:12:20,720 --> 00:12:24,599 Speaker 1: how much he not to feed on me? Hanging on that? 174 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:29,880 Speaker 1: No jail lord, turn me round, Tell me right, aunt 175 00:12:30,360 --> 00:12:34,480 Speaker 1: tann you running on the end, No Jamus, Tell me 176 00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:38,800 Speaker 1: round and keep on the walking. Rude, keep on the talking. 177 00:12:38,920 --> 00:12:42,839 Speaker 1: Dude and munchy not to feed on me, Hang on on, 178 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:47,800 Speaker 1: let no nervous nil Lord, turn me round, turn me round, 179 00:12:48,679 --> 00:12:53,199 Speaker 1: tell me running on the land. Nervous nelly, tell me round, 180 00:12:53,840 --> 00:12:57,800 Speaker 1: keep on and walking, Yeah, anypoe and talking, Yeah, marching 181 00:12:57,920 --> 00:13:02,080 Speaker 1: had to feed on me, Hang on a lattie pitch 182 00:13:02,160 --> 00:13:07,079 Speaker 1: your daughter, Turn me round, Tell me round, Tell me 183 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:11,240 Speaker 1: how he gonna lety pitches on it? Turn me out, 184 00:13:11,960 --> 00:13:16,079 Speaker 1: keep on the walking, keep on the talking. Much he 185 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:21,600 Speaker 1: got to feed all day? Hang on the mek, Turn 186 00:13:21,720 --> 00:13:26,480 Speaker 1: me round, Turn me round, Tell me how he gonna 187 00:13:26,679 --> 00:13:31,640 Speaker 1: land kenned on it, Turn me round, Keep on the walking, 188 00:13:32,280 --> 00:13:35,719 Speaker 1: keep on the talking mons. He got to feed on me, 189 00:13:36,960 --> 00:13:40,679 Speaker 1: Hang on on lett no uncle Tom, daughter, Turn me round, 190 00:13:41,559 --> 00:13:45,680 Speaker 1: Tell me round, Tell me riding on the laddle off 191 00:13:45,760 --> 00:13:51,000 Speaker 1: the top, Turn you round, keep on the walking, Hey people, 192 00:13:51,360 --> 00:13:54,360 Speaker 1: the talking head and much he got to feed all day. 193 00:13:55,559 --> 00:14:02,360 Speaker 1: Hang on that, Turn me roud, Tell me right, tell 194 00:14:02,480 --> 00:14:08,319 Speaker 1: me dy land by, tell me loud, keep going and 195 00:14:08,480 --> 00:14:11,920 Speaker 1: locking you keep going and talking. You much. You got 196 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:22,000 Speaker 1: your freedom. This is Seo Henderson from me and Alice. 197 00:14:22,080 --> 00:14:26,320 Speaker 1: We're here at Union Station. Union Station is where voting 198 00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:29,560 Speaker 1: spot voting place as well as where you get your 199 00:14:29,640 --> 00:14:32,360 Speaker 1: COVID nineteen act. You can see her that I said 200 00:14:32,440 --> 00:14:35,000 Speaker 1: no food, drink or got twenty minutes before your test. 201 00:14:35,920 --> 00:14:38,680 Speaker 1: Uh so. Of course it's in Spanish as well. And 202 00:14:38,840 --> 00:14:43,160 Speaker 1: here is pre book appointments that you would have to 203 00:14:43,240 --> 00:14:48,280 Speaker 1: book before I guess you're tested. It says, we go around. 204 00:14:48,320 --> 00:14:52,480 Speaker 1: Here's an other. So we're gonna take a tour around 205 00:14:52,520 --> 00:14:54,920 Speaker 1: the rest of the part called Union Station to see 206 00:14:54,960 --> 00:15:28,920 Speaker 1: what else they have around. Union Station is very unique 207 00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:33,240 Speaker 1: because Union Station has a very anti unhoused policy. Did 208 00:15:33,320 --> 00:15:36,800 Speaker 1: you know that they are refusing. For example, they have 209 00:15:37,120 --> 00:15:39,960 Speaker 1: select seating where the young house are not allowed to sit. 210 00:15:40,360 --> 00:15:43,160 Speaker 1: You must have a traveling ticket in order for you 211 00:15:43,360 --> 00:15:46,080 Speaker 1: to uh to be able to sit in those chairs. 212 00:15:46,640 --> 00:15:49,160 Speaker 1: And if you they make it such a way to 213 00:15:49,320 --> 00:15:58,720 Speaker 1: have locking apparatus there, locking apparatus there in order for 214 00:15:58,800 --> 00:16:01,240 Speaker 1: you to stop you from uh taking those kinds of 215 00:16:02,560 --> 00:16:05,080 Speaker 1: seats or as you know, at how people like to 216 00:16:05,120 --> 00:16:07,720 Speaker 1: sit like the pot out, but they want to create 217 00:16:07,840 --> 00:16:13,840 Speaker 1: a brier there. This is Deel Henderson for we and 218 00:16:13,880 --> 00:17:14,159 Speaker 1: how they're mortar battle lame so kind of thing that 219 00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:45,240 Speaker 1: cast the fast same song then the umber so do 220 00:17:56,840 --> 00:19:32,359 Speaker 1: say when they talk say tended to race. This is 221 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:35,520 Speaker 1: Stel Henderson from Willian House on our way to Union Station, 222 00:19:35,640 --> 00:19:39,199 Speaker 1: the ballot voting place. We have Kevin Cross an interesting 223 00:19:39,320 --> 00:19:43,960 Speaker 1: statement here, go vote again. I don't know what jen z. 224 00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:47,080 Speaker 1: This is a poster that says to go vote gen 225 00:19:47,160 --> 00:19:50,560 Speaker 1: z z. G Z is generation Generation gen Z is 226 00:19:50,600 --> 00:19:53,280 Speaker 1: more like oh gen z general, not like generation XYS. 227 00:19:53,359 --> 00:19:56,240 Speaker 1: Oh okay, I mean like I do have it on 228 00:19:56,320 --> 00:19:59,560 Speaker 1: the backside. It's like, go vote millennial and I'm voting 229 00:19:59,600 --> 00:20:01,879 Speaker 1: for like Biden because the one keep the peace right 230 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:04,920 Speaker 1: right right? Yeah? Why why you're not voting for Trump? No, 231 00:20:04,960 --> 00:20:07,320 Speaker 1: I'm not voting for easy, but why not? You know, Like, 232 00:20:07,440 --> 00:20:09,560 Speaker 1: I just I don't have anything against camp. I think 233 00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:11,760 Speaker 1: he's so far like he said, what he did, it's 234 00:20:11,800 --> 00:20:14,080 Speaker 1: really it's good for what he's doing right now. But 235 00:20:15,280 --> 00:20:18,720 Speaker 1: I just I just want just more support area like 236 00:20:18,800 --> 00:20:21,400 Speaker 1: the poverty area, the people who do need help money 237 00:20:21,480 --> 00:20:23,879 Speaker 1: right now. Their economy's not doing so well, so we 238 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:26,360 Speaker 1: we just do need more assistance in this area over 239 00:20:26,440 --> 00:20:28,960 Speaker 1: here in America. Why Trump is not doing that? Trum 240 00:20:29,040 --> 00:20:31,920 Speaker 1: Trump is doing that. It's just I just noticed there's 241 00:20:31,960 --> 00:20:35,520 Speaker 1: a sort of just riot's going on, like you know, 242 00:20:35,760 --> 00:20:41,320 Speaker 1: so many, so many things with like upheavals racist comments 243 00:20:41,720 --> 00:20:43,679 Speaker 1: because he's That's why I'm trying to insane because if 244 00:20:43,720 --> 00:20:45,359 Speaker 1: he is doing that, then why is he making the 245 00:20:45,440 --> 00:20:47,520 Speaker 1: racist comments and the tension that's going on. I'm just 246 00:20:47,640 --> 00:20:49,960 Speaker 1: curious because Joe Biden, I'm not saying, I'm you know, 247 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:53,280 Speaker 1: Joe Biden is all sunshine a light, but but why 248 00:20:53,560 --> 00:20:57,240 Speaker 1: but why why? If that's if he is doing that, 249 00:20:57,400 --> 00:21:00,359 Speaker 1: then why would he make it a statement about taking 250 00:21:00,560 --> 00:21:04,920 Speaker 1: racial connotations and different hostile takes about on house people 251 00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:08,720 Speaker 1: and people poor people in general. Yeah, so it sees 252 00:21:08,760 --> 00:21:13,800 Speaker 1: what's I just it's more focusing on having a president 253 00:21:13,920 --> 00:21:16,760 Speaker 1: that does what he does. But I do want a 254 00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:19,760 Speaker 1: president that has a leadership that we can model off 255 00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:22,200 Speaker 1: of to have you know that there's just things for 256 00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:24,080 Speaker 1: I do want the things to be done in the 257 00:21:24,160 --> 00:21:27,520 Speaker 1: economy and things to be helple and give provide assistant 258 00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:30,280 Speaker 1: an area that you do need assistance, And any president 259 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:32,639 Speaker 1: can do that and can offer that. But then the 260 00:21:33,040 --> 00:21:35,440 Speaker 1: image of the president, I believe, you know, to come 261 00:21:35,520 --> 00:21:38,920 Speaker 1: up more like right now, we need peace. We don't 262 00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:41,520 Speaker 1: need more more fuel to the fire. We don't need 263 00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:43,600 Speaker 1: more people to get angry. We just need the peace 264 00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:46,320 Speaker 1: to be going on right, and we need balance. So 265 00:21:46,560 --> 00:21:49,879 Speaker 1: he's uh so Trump obviously is not about balance and peace. 266 00:21:50,240 --> 00:21:52,320 Speaker 1: And that's what I'm getting the viable you're getting from you. 267 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:55,879 Speaker 1: So that's why you're gonna do going for Trump. So 268 00:21:56,280 --> 00:21:58,399 Speaker 1: what made you get out of this? What makes this 269 00:21:58,560 --> 00:22:01,440 Speaker 1: election so different than any other elections? Oh, that's a 270 00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:05,639 Speaker 1: very good question. You know. Before I remember when Obama 271 00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:09,399 Speaker 1: was president, I didn't vote. Yeah, and also when Tumble, 272 00:22:10,680 --> 00:22:13,920 Speaker 1: I just I wasn't. I wasn't that involved. I was 273 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:16,479 Speaker 1: more of a just in my kind of like, what's 274 00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:18,440 Speaker 1: one all the generations z right now? You know they're 275 00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:23,320 Speaker 1: they're just kind of having fun, having fun and just 276 00:22:23,600 --> 00:22:25,920 Speaker 1: living their life. But I just wanted to make the 277 00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:28,119 Speaker 1: same with that, like when I was around around you know, 278 00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:30,320 Speaker 1: that sort of stage in my life, I just didn't 279 00:22:30,359 --> 00:22:33,200 Speaker 1: want to get involved. And because of that, like you know, 280 00:22:33,280 --> 00:22:36,119 Speaker 1: things can happen when when you don't get involved, and 281 00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:38,920 Speaker 1: then things can get out of hand because you're not 282 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:40,840 Speaker 1: a part, you're not participating in and if you want 283 00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:43,160 Speaker 1: things to go the way you want, please get involved. 284 00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:46,040 Speaker 1: And so I didn't. I didn't do that. That's a 285 00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:48,240 Speaker 1: very good question because I look, I'm in house, and 286 00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:51,080 Speaker 1: I deal with the in house community, and the difficulty 287 00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:53,880 Speaker 1: for the in house to get involved is particularly because 288 00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:57,480 Speaker 1: of the difficulties that the society, like the city makes 289 00:22:57,520 --> 00:23:00,240 Speaker 1: for us. Let me give you an example. If you're 290 00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:02,320 Speaker 1: who makes over two hundred thousand dollars and he's in 291 00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:04,960 Speaker 1: the city that lives in the house, has tried to 292 00:23:05,040 --> 00:23:07,320 Speaker 1: create an amended forty one to eighteen, do you know 293 00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:10,480 Speaker 1: what forty one eighteen is? Right now? I done forty 294 00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:13,720 Speaker 1: one eighteen is an ordnance. It's a legal ordinance to 295 00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:17,200 Speaker 1: criminalize unhoused people. This is why if they have a 296 00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:20,119 Speaker 1: shelter for like forty five people, and right now the 297 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:23,200 Speaker 1: last count is like it's over sixty thousand unhoused people 298 00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:25,640 Speaker 1: that trying to live their lives, just like house people 299 00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:28,760 Speaker 1: that are working class and trying to survive a very 300 00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:31,359 Speaker 1: difficult system. What he wants to do, just like what 301 00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:34,080 Speaker 1: he would do with the house community or working class 302 00:23:34,119 --> 00:23:36,280 Speaker 1: people like in Chinatown of things, he would make it 303 00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:38,880 Speaker 1: criminalize him and make it against the law for them 304 00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:42,440 Speaker 1: to survive, sit to sleep and stay near in a 305 00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:45,840 Speaker 1: sidewalk because there are no shelters and no housing for it. 306 00:23:46,359 --> 00:23:48,920 Speaker 1: And one of the things that really is makes it 307 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:51,640 Speaker 1: difficult for unhoused people is that we are not able 308 00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:54,280 Speaker 1: to get places like the library to close because the pandemic. 309 00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:57,880 Speaker 1: We can't charge our phones, we don't have these systems 310 00:23:58,119 --> 00:24:01,800 Speaker 1: in place enough to really support us. And right now 311 00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:04,960 Speaker 1: in the twenty fourth of November, they're trying to reboth this. 312 00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:07,280 Speaker 1: So do you think this is correct? Do you think 313 00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:11,000 Speaker 1: this is right for them to do that? I don't 314 00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:12,879 Speaker 1: believe this is right. This is his blood right for 315 00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:15,960 Speaker 1: just to help people on the streets right now, people 316 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:19,560 Speaker 1: on the streets do need help. And it's very interesting 317 00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:23,200 Speaker 1: you brought that up because I did go to Skip Brow. Yeah, yeah, 318 00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:25,880 Speaker 1: a while back, just to call, like two weeks ago. 319 00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:28,680 Speaker 1: I just have people who are on the streets that 320 00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:30,840 Speaker 1: I really want to get out of it. Yeah. Yeah, 321 00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:35,200 Speaker 1: he was the one guy in particular, John Johnson. Yeah, yeah, 322 00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:38,480 Speaker 1: we're we just very he's been telling us that we 323 00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:40,879 Speaker 1: want he wants to get out of the streets. He 324 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:43,480 Speaker 1: wants to be helped for his drug addiction, and he 325 00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:45,199 Speaker 1: was pushing for it. And you know what he did. 326 00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:48,040 Speaker 1: He went to rehab and yeah, it was such an 327 00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:50,520 Speaker 1: amazing basic ste But let me point out something too. 328 00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:52,480 Speaker 1: You know, he goes and goes to rehab, but there's 329 00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:54,960 Speaker 1: no housing. So now he's sober and he's still living 330 00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:56,920 Speaker 1: on the street. So that's one of the things that 331 00:24:56,960 --> 00:24:59,040 Speaker 1: people say when you just get off of drugs, that's 332 00:24:59,119 --> 00:25:01,560 Speaker 1: just one component. If you don't have any housing for 333 00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:04,280 Speaker 1: them us the board, that's just only one piece of it. 334 00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:06,560 Speaker 1: Let me ask you something to I don't know if 335 00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:09,080 Speaker 1: you notice here there's a lot of working class families 336 00:25:09,119 --> 00:25:11,879 Speaker 1: they're like first generation people that came here for a 337 00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:14,280 Speaker 1: better life. That came and they work hard. And the 338 00:25:14,320 --> 00:25:15,920 Speaker 1: restaurants a lot of them are my friends over in 339 00:25:16,040 --> 00:25:20,440 Speaker 1: Chinatown in like then May Bistro. This mother she works, 340 00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:22,840 Speaker 1: she owns a restaurant and she's helping employ her husband, 341 00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:27,919 Speaker 1: but could find a job. The rent. The pandemic pandemic 342 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:32,080 Speaker 1: COVID nineteen has prevented them from paying their rents. So 343 00:25:32,520 --> 00:25:35,159 Speaker 1: this is an issue. It's a larger issue when the 344 00:25:35,359 --> 00:25:38,159 Speaker 1: rent forgiveness or whenever the landlord demands the rent and 345 00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:40,120 Speaker 1: they campaign and rent, what do you think is gonna happen? 346 00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:42,959 Speaker 1: They're going to evictim And when they evict them, they 347 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:44,879 Speaker 1: don't have any place for them to be because they 348 00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:47,359 Speaker 1: are working class people. So where they're going to go 349 00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:50,760 Speaker 1: on the street when they get on the streets. Now 350 00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:52,680 Speaker 1: that we got this amended forty one to eighteen, that 351 00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:55,560 Speaker 1: new remarchieus is pushing, what do you think they're gonna do? 352 00:25:55,560 --> 00:25:57,800 Speaker 1: Where they're gonna go If they say that unhouse people 353 00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:00,600 Speaker 1: can't be near a shelter that own the hold twenty 354 00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:03,680 Speaker 1: or fifty people and there's overset now it's almost seventy 355 00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:06,280 Speaker 1: eighty thousand on house people out here. Where they're gonna go, 356 00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:08,960 Speaker 1: They're gonna go on the street. They have nowhere else 357 00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:10,800 Speaker 1: to go. So we do need to help them right 358 00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:13,359 Speaker 1: now with the housing, and that is need and provided. 359 00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:15,440 Speaker 1: I know that there are people who do have money 360 00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:18,120 Speaker 1: right now. They're getting a lot of assistant from unemployment benefits, 361 00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:20,800 Speaker 1: getting lots of money from you know, from that, but 362 00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:23,520 Speaker 1: the pandemic. If they're getting assistant for that, why can't 363 00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:27,280 Speaker 1: we be helping people on the streets. Absolutely, that's my point, 364 00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:29,320 Speaker 1: and not only that too. What my heart goes out 365 00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:32,080 Speaker 1: to is like the ones that their unemployment benefits are 366 00:26:32,119 --> 00:26:34,520 Speaker 1: dying off or or they have medical issues. They have 367 00:26:34,560 --> 00:26:37,320 Speaker 1: a lot of disabled people out here. That's not one 368 00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:40,159 Speaker 1: slice up unhoused people their mental health and now we 369 00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:43,800 Speaker 1: have a higher rate of elderly on house people. We 370 00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:46,800 Speaker 1: can't just tell them to get yeah, right, but we 371 00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:48,520 Speaker 1: can't tell them to get a job. We can't tell 372 00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:50,520 Speaker 1: them to you know, get off drugs. They're not on drugs. 373 00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:52,920 Speaker 1: They're elderly as you know. It's like you know, thinking 374 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:55,960 Speaker 1: that by grandmother'zation have health issues or have dementia, things 375 00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:57,520 Speaker 1: like that. We can't tell them to get a job. 376 00:26:57,840 --> 00:27:00,200 Speaker 1: We've got to find ways to give them housing. And 377 00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:04,639 Speaker 1: the city is deplorable at trying to solve the problem. 378 00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:08,520 Speaker 1: They always want to do criminalization, police in law and order. 379 00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:11,639 Speaker 1: That's what the bike for. Who makes two hundred thousand 380 00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:14,120 Speaker 1: dollars that sits in his house and have no thought 381 00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:16,000 Speaker 1: about any kind of suffering and wouldn't know what the 382 00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:18,640 Speaker 1: first thing to do about it if life hits imparts. 383 00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:21,399 Speaker 1: So if you have any other ideas and thoughts on this, 384 00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:27,840 Speaker 1: I just want more attention being focused for housing for 385 00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:30,040 Speaker 1: people who are living on the streets right now. We 386 00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:32,879 Speaker 1: do need attention for people in the working class because 387 00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:35,760 Speaker 1: those are other areas that are not being shown on 388 00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:38,919 Speaker 1: TV and even in news right now. News right now 389 00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:41,800 Speaker 1: is just still his politics of the Trump and the 390 00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:44,520 Speaker 1: meetings and all that stuff. But we need the actual 391 00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:47,920 Speaker 1: real truth of what's going on right now. It's the 392 00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:50,879 Speaker 1: housing and sheltering now. Thank you very much, just to 393 00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:53,200 Speaker 1: steal Henderson for Widia on house, and I thank you 394 00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:56,280 Speaker 1: for stopping and talking with me. There's more to follow 395 00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:58,040 Speaker 1: and I hope we again meet in the light of 396 00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:12,760 Speaker 1: understanding ringbone the man bad around, sending around send the 397 00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:22,560 Speaker 1: rounding bone, turn me around, the bone of people walking, 398 00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:30,440 Speaker 1: keep a looking margin. That's a field name bone of 399 00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:40,840 Speaker 1: nor house. Serve me around, serving around it, Serve around 400 00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:51,520 Speaker 1: the bone the land house, set round people, the walking people, 401 00:28:52,160 --> 00:29:15,200 Speaker 1: the talking margin. That's the field. He the dish. This 402 00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:19,600 Speaker 1: is Deil Henrison from William House. Today is Tuesday, November third, 403 00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:22,960 Speaker 1: twenty twenty. We are here to discuss about voting rights 404 00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:25,760 Speaker 1: from Leon House. We're going through all over LA and 405 00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:29,000 Speaker 1: different spots to talk to different people to figure out 406 00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:32,640 Speaker 1: how they feel about the election, what's their thoughts on it, 407 00:29:33,080 --> 00:29:36,040 Speaker 1: and basically go and investigate some of the police spots 408 00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:39,800 Speaker 1: as well. So in the studios is mister Harvey. Mister 409 00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:42,840 Speaker 1: Harvey has been a guest a few times and I 410 00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:45,120 Speaker 1: wanted to introduce him and talk to him about his 411 00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:49,800 Speaker 1: experiences with what's happened today and how and ask him 412 00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:51,920 Speaker 1: some questions about what do you think how we can 413 00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:55,960 Speaker 1: galvanize the house voting power. So, without further ado, thank 414 00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:58,360 Speaker 1: you for joining us, Harvey, thank you for having me 415 00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:00,520 Speaker 1: so tell us what happened today us this in a 416 00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:04,760 Speaker 1: little bit. Yeah, we didn't expect for sanitation to show 417 00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:08,480 Speaker 1: up today. I was hoping for them to come yesterday, 418 00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:10,800 Speaker 1: but they never showed up yesterday's pick up the trash 419 00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:13,840 Speaker 1: like they normally do. And I was when I asked 420 00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:17,760 Speaker 1: them yesterday if we still had to move today because 421 00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:20,320 Speaker 1: of you know, it'd been a voting day today, and 422 00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:24,040 Speaker 1: apparently they never showed up yesterday. Saw they did show 423 00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:25,880 Speaker 1: up today and we did have to move off the 424 00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:30,520 Speaker 1: sidewalk this morning. Are you guys worried because I'm noticing 425 00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:34,200 Speaker 1: around in particularly the ob gentrified areas are the places 426 00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:37,440 Speaker 1: that criminalize on house people. They're bordering up their buildings 427 00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:40,959 Speaker 1: and with the business Improvement district nearby or police nearby, 428 00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:43,760 Speaker 1: are you worried that if let's say, example of the 429 00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:48,520 Speaker 1: trunk voters or vigilante voters will try to target you guys. Hell, 430 00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:54,200 Speaker 1: even the police would come and taskle you during this time. Yeah, 431 00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:57,560 Speaker 1: there was an incident that happened up too long ago. 432 00:30:57,600 --> 00:30:58,960 Speaker 1: I think it was like about three or four weeks 433 00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:01,720 Speaker 1: ago where some protesters were right here in front of 434 00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:05,440 Speaker 1: this courthouse where Jackie Lacy is at and they kind 435 00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:10,800 Speaker 1: of got rowdy and they were like marching all night, 436 00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:13,680 Speaker 1: and then they got to this corner over here on 437 00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:17,960 Speaker 1: Aliso and the cops blocked it, so they blocked them 438 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:21,800 Speaker 1: from coming further this way towards us. But there was 439 00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:25,440 Speaker 1: a couple of times where the higher patrol will be 440 00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:28,840 Speaker 1: covering these entrances and exits of the freeway back here 441 00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:33,320 Speaker 1: and told us that if you do not want to 442 00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:36,280 Speaker 1: get arrested, get inside your tent and stay there until 443 00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:39,960 Speaker 1: we finish. Wow. So yeah, that was like it was 444 00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:43,360 Speaker 1: like a courtesy in a way by telling us that 445 00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:47,360 Speaker 1: because they knew they were here, and they did say 446 00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:48,720 Speaker 1: it to me, they said it to a lot of 447 00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:51,400 Speaker 1: these people. So let me get this stressed. Protesting is 448 00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:53,080 Speaker 1: the first Amendment, right, So they're telling you if you 449 00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:55,080 Speaker 1: don't going to get arrested, but stay on your test, 450 00:31:55,320 --> 00:31:58,680 Speaker 1: right so that they don't mistake us for being protesters. 451 00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:02,120 Speaker 1: But they have the right to protest. That's exactly right. 452 00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:04,240 Speaker 1: But what they're trying to do is they trying to 453 00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:07,320 Speaker 1: avoid these people from going into the freeway. And like 454 00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:09,600 Speaker 1: they did the last time they stopped the freeway, they 455 00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:11,720 Speaker 1: were actually inside this freeway right here, which is the 456 00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:15,200 Speaker 1: one on one freeway on Hollywood Freeway, and they were 457 00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:17,000 Speaker 1: on the freeway, and that's what they were trying to do. 458 00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:21,800 Speaker 1: But because they were getting really nasty, the cops, they 459 00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:24,160 Speaker 1: gave us at least that much to say, you know, 460 00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:27,800 Speaker 1: you don't want to be arrested. That's that's martial law. Yeah, 461 00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:31,200 Speaker 1: ain't a way yet, it is, but look at it 462 00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:33,400 Speaker 1: like because it is. We're American citizens. This is not 463 00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:36,040 Speaker 1: a third world country. They're telling you that you can't 464 00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:37,400 Speaker 1: come out of your attendant. I you come out, let's 465 00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:38,720 Speaker 1: say you've got to go to the bathroom next to you, 466 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:42,200 Speaker 1: So that means you're gonna arrest you. That's a good question. 467 00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:44,520 Speaker 1: I mean, so those are the issues. That's one of 468 00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:48,320 Speaker 1: the reasons why this election is so intivotal, as well 469 00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:51,840 Speaker 1: as on this House people getting a voting law or 470 00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:55,720 Speaker 1: modern rights idea. So what's your thoughts on do you 471 00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:58,800 Speaker 1: think we're going to have a peaceful election or it's 472 00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:03,240 Speaker 1: going to be a bit sticky. I wish I knew 473 00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:06,360 Speaker 1: what the numbers are right now to answer that one, 474 00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:12,000 Speaker 1: because if Biden's winning, then no, but if he's losing, yeah, 475 00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:16,640 Speaker 1: because earlier today also too this morning, when I got 476 00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:19,160 Speaker 1: up like around I was like maybe about six thirty 477 00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:24,440 Speaker 1: this morning, about twenty motorcycle LPED officers went through here 478 00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:27,120 Speaker 1: and they went that way towards City Hall. So I'm 479 00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:32,200 Speaker 1: assuming they might have stationed themselves over there. I don't know. 480 00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:34,400 Speaker 1: I haven't gone over there, so, but there was twenty 481 00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:36,920 Speaker 1: of them that went through this block early this morning. 482 00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:39,800 Speaker 1: You know there's a voting center in Union Station. Do 483 00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:41,960 Speaker 1: you guys worry as being on house? Do you worry 484 00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:45,000 Speaker 1: about going to vote? Or have you guys? Have you 485 00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:47,520 Speaker 1: guys voted already or have you guys? What's your thoughts 486 00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:50,120 Speaker 1: on if this is really going to be contentious? What 487 00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:53,840 Speaker 1: would you guys plan would be? Well, I don't know 488 00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:57,640 Speaker 1: how many people I hear that vote, but I'm one 489 00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:01,720 Speaker 1: and I already did it, like about three weeks ago. 490 00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:04,280 Speaker 1: In fact, it was late because of the mail not 491 00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:08,920 Speaker 1: giving it to me on time, and I deposited over 492 00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:13,120 Speaker 1: in a money. They had those metal boxes. They had 493 00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:16,839 Speaker 1: one near in Hollywood too. Okay, they put those out 494 00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:19,000 Speaker 1: and I asked the girls she was standing next to it. 495 00:34:19,680 --> 00:34:22,319 Speaker 1: I said, it's late, and she goes, so what's going 496 00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:23,960 Speaker 1: to happen? She goes, don't worry about it. She goes, 497 00:34:24,200 --> 00:34:27,520 Speaker 1: we knew that this was going to happen, so it 498 00:34:27,640 --> 00:34:30,960 Speaker 1: will be counted. She said. He will be counted, even 499 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:33,520 Speaker 1: though you passed the deadline, which was I think the nineteen. 500 00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:36,880 Speaker 1: She said, it will be counted. You can deposit it 501 00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:38,719 Speaker 1: in here and then you don't have to worry about it. 502 00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:41,839 Speaker 1: But President Trump is saying that there's some some Tom 503 00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:44,400 Speaker 1: Fuller trickery going on that they're going to be discounted. 504 00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:47,920 Speaker 1: Do you you know? So that's still interesting. So what 505 00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:50,440 Speaker 1: do you think how the president, Let's say, for example, 506 00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:54,000 Speaker 1: that the president lose, do you think he is going 507 00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:55,960 Speaker 1: to be have to be escorted out of the presidency 508 00:34:56,160 --> 00:35:00,200 Speaker 1: because he's telling his friends or to stand by back 509 00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:03,800 Speaker 1: and stand by you know, there's the election is rigged 510 00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:05,239 Speaker 1: and all of that kind of thing. What is your 511 00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:09,520 Speaker 1: thoughts on this. I hope he's kicking and screaming there 512 00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:11,920 Speaker 1: you go. I hope he's kicking and screaming, because I 513 00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:15,719 Speaker 1: would love to see that and him try to say, 514 00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:18,920 Speaker 1: you know that this was all rigged, and yeah that 515 00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:23,120 Speaker 1: you know I'm staying. And I mean, I would love 516 00:35:23,239 --> 00:35:26,600 Speaker 1: to see a cop go up to him and put 517 00:35:26,680 --> 00:35:29,600 Speaker 1: handcuffs on him and say you're being removed and you're 518 00:35:29,640 --> 00:35:32,000 Speaker 1: no longer in office. So he's going to be this 519 00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:36,759 Speaker 1: placed like the unhoused community. Yeah, which brings interestingly point 520 00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:40,040 Speaker 1: about the election here in the locale, in our locale 521 00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:43,880 Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, California, there are certain punitative measures against 522 00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:46,360 Speaker 1: the unhoused community. One of them is sixty four to 523 00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:50,960 Speaker 1: forty four, fifty six, eleven, forty one, eighteen to name 524 00:35:51,040 --> 00:35:54,600 Speaker 1: a few. And these were born out of punitative measures 525 00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:58,080 Speaker 1: from face He's places, the rich, degreedy, and people that 526 00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:01,560 Speaker 1: have a very hostile and very hateful ideas about the 527 00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:05,920 Speaker 1: unhouse people. They usually use they use gas lighting techniques 528 00:36:06,239 --> 00:36:08,440 Speaker 1: to say that we have to have balance in law 529 00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:10,920 Speaker 1: and order, and with their idea of our law and 530 00:36:11,040 --> 00:36:15,360 Speaker 1: order is criminality of the unhoused. So, with that said, 531 00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:19,000 Speaker 1: the city attorney Mike Fear, who makes over two hundred 532 00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:21,560 Speaker 1: thousand dollars a year, that lives in a house that 533 00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:24,360 Speaker 1: sleeps and goes to sleep without any thought about unhoused 534 00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:26,799 Speaker 1: people having to deal with the challenges of the winds 535 00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:30,000 Speaker 1: and rains of heaven. The unhoused families like Neurary Martinez 536 00:36:30,040 --> 00:36:33,440 Speaker 1: who always claims about her little precious children, where their 537 00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:35,799 Speaker 1: unhoused families have to worry about the winds and rains 538 00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:38,040 Speaker 1: of heaven, where they're going to sleep at night and 539 00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:42,000 Speaker 1: worry about her and her her offspring and her friends 540 00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:45,560 Speaker 1: who vilify the unhoused and say they're all criminals or 541 00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:49,800 Speaker 1: drug addicted. They are putting forward and amend at forty 542 00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:53,759 Speaker 1: one to eighteen to a man and to criminalize the 543 00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:57,360 Speaker 1: unhoused that are near a bridge shelter. And what a 544 00:36:57,440 --> 00:37:00,640 Speaker 1: bridge shelter is is that the bridge shelter maybe holds 545 00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:04,160 Speaker 1: it most one hundred unhoused people. So if you got 546 00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:06,879 Speaker 1: a shelter in your community, that will give them carte 547 00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:10,000 Speaker 1: blanche to go and take the rest of the maybe 548 00:37:10,520 --> 00:37:14,440 Speaker 1: over fifty thousand unhoused people and arrest them and displace 549 00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:18,520 Speaker 1: them because there are no shelters here. There are no housings. 550 00:37:18,600 --> 00:37:22,400 Speaker 1: And anytime we talked about entertaining encampment to housing instead 551 00:37:22,440 --> 00:37:27,320 Speaker 1: of encampment to shelter, that conversation dies down. So with 552 00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:31,080 Speaker 1: that said, what is your perspective if they've passed this 553 00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:33,640 Speaker 1: thing on nover min twenty four, what is your plans? 554 00:37:33,680 --> 00:37:36,480 Speaker 1: How are you guys going to survive out here? Hey, 555 00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:39,200 Speaker 1: they said that we have to be what five hundred 556 00:37:39,239 --> 00:37:41,920 Speaker 1: feet away from a shelter. You have to bridge shelter. Okay, 557 00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:44,560 Speaker 1: which we got two of them. Yes, oh that's two. Yeah, 558 00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:46,759 Speaker 1: we got two of them. One it's down over here, 559 00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:48,640 Speaker 1: and the other one is that the original one, the 560 00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:50,759 Speaker 1: first one being, which is down the street from here, 561 00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:59,560 Speaker 1: three blocks right. Well, I'm gonna say this, Chinatown, you 562 00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:03,200 Speaker 1: got new residents. But here's the thing we have no, no, no, 563 00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:06,759 Speaker 1: wait a minute, I haven't finished. Okay, I haven't finished. Whatever. 564 00:38:07,560 --> 00:38:11,880 Speaker 1: Those bastards over here in the Red Shirts security, whatever 565 00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:15,400 Speaker 1: they say, it's not gonna work because they're gonna be 566 00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:19,480 Speaker 1: calling the cops daily, every damn hour, every damn minute. 567 00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:22,400 Speaker 1: I don't give a shit. They're gonna be doing that 568 00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:25,160 Speaker 1: because we're gonna move over there, whether they like it 569 00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:30,400 Speaker 1: or not. It's still public domain. It's not owned by 570 00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:33,840 Speaker 1: the Chinese, it's not owned by anybody other than the 571 00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:36,080 Speaker 1: taxpayers who are paying for these site wants to be 572 00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:39,520 Speaker 1: kept the way they're supposed to be. But what about 573 00:38:39,600 --> 00:38:41,880 Speaker 1: you got George you who's the president of the business 574 00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:45,120 Speaker 1: in district improvement. He goes around and terrorizing unhouse people, 575 00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:48,200 Speaker 1: you know, to take lead pipes and stick his dog 576 00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:50,960 Speaker 1: or unhoused people. How are you guys gonna handle that? Oh, 577 00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:54,800 Speaker 1: you gotta remember I live amongst homies. I got a 578 00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:58,600 Speaker 1: lot of homeboys, and they don't really use sticks and 579 00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:01,440 Speaker 1: stuff like that. They use more like knives and guns 580 00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:03,839 Speaker 1: and stuff. He wants to fight, fine, we'll fight them. 581 00:39:04,360 --> 00:39:05,800 Speaker 1: I mean, it's not gonna be hard for us to 582 00:39:05,840 --> 00:39:10,040 Speaker 1: fight where he lives and tear up that house. I mean, 583 00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:13,719 Speaker 1: if that's what he wants to do, find I'm gained. Surprisingly, 584 00:39:13,840 --> 00:39:16,160 Speaker 1: he doesn't live in Chinatown. I think he lives in 585 00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:18,440 Speaker 1: me I won't tell you where you live at. But 586 00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:21,680 Speaker 1: also here's other bad news is that they are using 587 00:39:21,719 --> 00:39:25,279 Speaker 1: the excuse of Judge Carter's ruling of trying to get 588 00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:29,360 Speaker 1: prior towards the unhoused that are near bridges and overpasses 589 00:39:29,680 --> 00:39:33,000 Speaker 1: and to give them first, first come, first serve of shelters. 590 00:39:33,480 --> 00:39:35,759 Speaker 1: And while that is going on, Mitchell Farrell met with 591 00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:38,800 Speaker 1: the Nimbi's and the people that detest the unhoused and 592 00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:41,520 Speaker 1: said that he's trying to create a shelter to force 593 00:39:41,600 --> 00:39:44,200 Speaker 1: the unhoused the Echo Park Lake to either go to 594 00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:46,960 Speaker 1: shelter or go to jail. And then they're gonna make steps, 595 00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:50,840 Speaker 1: probably illegally to uh to force and make sure that 596 00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:53,960 Speaker 1: unhoused people don't return. So this is the reality that 597 00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:57,440 Speaker 1: the city has passed or are passing and doing and 598 00:39:57,560 --> 00:40:01,800 Speaker 1: behind the scenes. So what is your active on that. Okay, 599 00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:07,960 Speaker 1: First of all, the you know, the they're not getting it. 600 00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:13,000 Speaker 1: They're not getting it. The judge also said that either 601 00:40:14,360 --> 00:40:18,239 Speaker 1: house them in a shelter or get them housing. Okay, 602 00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:20,680 Speaker 1: their thing is shelter. They don't give a shit about housing. 603 00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:24,040 Speaker 1: That's right, that's exactly right. They're leaving the housing part 604 00:40:24,120 --> 00:40:28,200 Speaker 1: out because there's none the shelters. What is the law 605 00:40:28,680 --> 00:40:33,719 Speaker 1: saying now about sheltering people with the disease being out? 606 00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:37,400 Speaker 1: They're supposed to be six feet apart exact. Okay, So 607 00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:40,200 Speaker 1: how are you going to fit that capacity of a 608 00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:44,120 Speaker 1: bunch of homeless people in these stupid shelters when you're 609 00:40:44,120 --> 00:40:47,440 Speaker 1: supposed to be six feet apart? And the fi Union 610 00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:49,719 Speaker 1: Rescue Mission had over one hundred people infected with the 611 00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:52,520 Speaker 1: COVID nineteen in the earliest stages, so that's also not 612 00:40:52,640 --> 00:40:56,919 Speaker 1: a feasibility feasible plan. But apparently, according to Mike Fear 613 00:40:57,120 --> 00:41:00,799 Speaker 1: on KPCC, it's like any time we talk of criminalizing 614 00:41:01,239 --> 00:41:04,799 Speaker 1: house people that we're not compassionate. We could compassionately put 615 00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:06,560 Speaker 1: you in jail and lock you up and give you 616 00:41:06,680 --> 00:41:09,960 Speaker 1: a record. That's compassion according to myke Fure, who makes 617 00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:12,840 Speaker 1: over two hundred thousand dollars a year and he consider 618 00:41:12,880 --> 00:41:15,719 Speaker 1: at home and compassionately puts you in jail to criminalize you, 619 00:41:16,080 --> 00:41:18,880 Speaker 1: to get you out of the sight of the gentrifiers 620 00:41:18,920 --> 00:41:22,720 Speaker 1: of this community. Right. Okay, Now, I don't know about 621 00:41:22,760 --> 00:41:27,200 Speaker 1: it being a criminal offense. I mean because being homeless 622 00:41:27,239 --> 00:41:30,759 Speaker 1: is not a crime or exactly. And two, there isn't 623 00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:33,080 Speaker 1: a law in our law books in the state of 624 00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:38,800 Speaker 1: California or anywhere that says that that is a criminal 625 00:41:38,920 --> 00:41:42,360 Speaker 1: a crime for a homeless person to go through. But 626 00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:44,960 Speaker 1: my fere is in constant talks with the council members 627 00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:48,200 Speaker 1: who sees this visions like for example, Joebah Skuyino, he 628 00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:51,399 Speaker 1: believes in sweeping unhoused people and he's checking it back 629 00:41:51,480 --> 00:41:54,399 Speaker 1: to reopening the Care Act as you know where care 630 00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:57,680 Speaker 1: sweeps and how vicious they were. So even though it 631 00:41:57,760 --> 00:41:59,920 Speaker 1: may not be on the books, but they're in practice 632 00:42:00,239 --> 00:42:02,960 Speaker 1: are getting away with it because they know the unhoused 633 00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:06,680 Speaker 1: are not galvanized yet, but we're galvanizing to be able 634 00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:11,680 Speaker 1: to push back against this. Okay, Okay, then here's this. 635 00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:16,520 Speaker 1: No matter what they did, Okay, in the past, they 636 00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:18,920 Speaker 1: did try to take it to a judge to make 637 00:42:18,960 --> 00:42:21,520 Speaker 1: it into a crime, even when as sorry as the 638 00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:25,680 Speaker 1: Supreme Court they said no that it's still unconstitutional for 639 00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:29,520 Speaker 1: them to make homelessness into a crime because it really 640 00:42:29,640 --> 00:42:33,600 Speaker 1: isn't a crime. It's something that happens to people, you know, 641 00:42:34,200 --> 00:42:38,239 Speaker 1: whether whether whatever it's you know, you're pushing to the 642 00:42:38,320 --> 00:42:41,520 Speaker 1: choir and I agree. However, the city has been sued 643 00:42:41,960 --> 00:42:44,439 Speaker 1: multiple times, that's the other and they still don't send 644 00:42:44,480 --> 00:42:46,040 Speaker 1: to get it, and like you're saying in the beginning, 645 00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:49,719 Speaker 1: they just don't get it in fact. So if they 646 00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:52,279 Speaker 1: continue to keep doing that, what is the stop off 647 00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:55,480 Speaker 1: or start for me, or to tripolize a whole good 648 00:42:55,520 --> 00:42:57,680 Speaker 1: accountable but made in hell even put them in jail 649 00:42:57,719 --> 00:43:00,000 Speaker 1: for wasting taxpayer of money. Well, this is a career. 650 00:43:00,520 --> 00:43:03,160 Speaker 1: These are ideas that were the unhoused as well as 651 00:43:03,239 --> 00:43:05,960 Speaker 1: on house voters need to really start to think about. 652 00:43:06,239 --> 00:43:09,080 Speaker 1: You know, anytime we hear a conversation like in Venice 653 00:43:09,160 --> 00:43:13,600 Speaker 1: talking about transients, hobo offecis O dog wards, we should 654 00:43:13,680 --> 00:43:16,440 Speaker 1: be able to have our own district attorneys started putting 655 00:43:16,480 --> 00:43:20,239 Speaker 1: out criminal acts or criminalizing them in order for us 656 00:43:20,280 --> 00:43:22,640 Speaker 1: to get some help, because this is getting ridiculous. How 657 00:43:22,719 --> 00:43:24,440 Speaker 1: many times are you gonna take for the city to 658 00:43:24,520 --> 00:43:27,800 Speaker 1: realize that being poor is not a crime, and you know, 659 00:43:27,960 --> 00:43:32,160 Speaker 1: continually harassing displaying people is not solving the plow No 660 00:43:32,280 --> 00:43:36,440 Speaker 1: matter how the Olympics, how twenty twenty is coming, this 661 00:43:36,560 --> 00:43:39,040 Speaker 1: is twenty and twenty eight, I should say, it's still 662 00:43:39,400 --> 00:43:42,400 Speaker 1: going to be an issue. So it's going to be 663 00:43:42,440 --> 00:43:45,160 Speaker 1: an issue no matter what, because that was that was 664 00:43:45,200 --> 00:43:48,080 Speaker 1: Alfo Garcedes skipping that straight their word. He was going 665 00:43:48,120 --> 00:43:51,239 Speaker 1: to try to figure out how he was in the 666 00:43:51,280 --> 00:43:54,200 Speaker 1: house everybody. But then again, I don't know seeing the 667 00:43:54,640 --> 00:43:58,640 Speaker 1: Olympics committee, they do have the rules that they're not 668 00:43:58,680 --> 00:44:02,240 Speaker 1: supposed to harass any of the homeless people or anything 669 00:44:02,280 --> 00:44:07,520 Speaker 1: like that, but apparently that's happening, and I don't understand 670 00:44:07,560 --> 00:44:10,359 Speaker 1: how the Olympics committee does not see that. I don't 671 00:44:10,400 --> 00:44:13,560 Speaker 1: know why they're not acknowledging that the city is actually 672 00:44:13,680 --> 00:44:16,040 Speaker 1: doing that. Part of the reason that is is because 673 00:44:16,080 --> 00:44:18,360 Speaker 1: you say, people that make two hundred thousand dollars a 674 00:44:18,480 --> 00:44:21,960 Speaker 1: year are sitting on those communities and creating the belief 675 00:44:22,040 --> 00:44:25,239 Speaker 1: system that on house people don't want to help. They're resistant, 676 00:44:25,440 --> 00:44:28,960 Speaker 1: they're criminals, their drug addicts, they're going to the bathroom 677 00:44:28,960 --> 00:44:31,400 Speaker 1: on the streets. It's very easy to pass this narrative. 678 00:44:31,520 --> 00:44:33,360 Speaker 1: And then when you get some of the working class 679 00:44:33,400 --> 00:44:37,399 Speaker 1: to have intersections with poverty themselves and you pick them 680 00:44:37,440 --> 00:45:03,440 Speaker 1: against more poorer people, then that's what you have. I 681 00:45:04,320 --> 00:45:35,120 Speaker 1: fee like a mo thess child. So time, uh fee 682 00:45:40,920 --> 00:46:11,719 Speaker 1: like a mo thess child. Sometimes ah like a mos 683 00:46:13,880 --> 00:46:38,320 Speaker 1: chi alone from home. This is theo Henderson from On 684 00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:42,040 Speaker 1: the House News. Our top story is Portland, Oregon proteste 685 00:46:42,120 --> 00:46:45,480 Speaker 1: barricade to protect a mixed race black family from being 686 00:46:45,719 --> 00:46:49,080 Speaker 1: overrun by the police and ejected evicted during COVID nineteen. 687 00:46:50,080 --> 00:46:53,120 Speaker 1: The police have had a history of in Portland, Oregon 688 00:46:53,280 --> 00:46:58,480 Speaker 1: of segregation, redlining, and sundown town policies enacted. The mayor, 689 00:46:58,680 --> 00:47:02,120 Speaker 1: Tom Wheeler gives authorization for the police to continue this 690 00:47:02,239 --> 00:47:06,160 Speaker 1: policy joined during COVID nineteen, stating that they have a 691 00:47:06,360 --> 00:47:09,400 Speaker 1: reason that they were legally ejected from the homes in 692 00:47:09,480 --> 00:47:13,719 Speaker 1: the gentrification move in that area. In Los Angeles, California, 693 00:47:14,719 --> 00:47:18,320 Speaker 1: unhoused residents were ejected from a hotel once did the 694 00:47:18,400 --> 00:47:22,239 Speaker 1: paper ink dried for a business owner to make more 695 00:47:22,320 --> 00:47:25,600 Speaker 1: money off of the suffering of unhoused people. Newer unhoused 696 00:47:25,600 --> 00:47:29,120 Speaker 1: people will enter there, and the other former residents stated 697 00:47:29,320 --> 00:47:31,320 Speaker 1: that they were not given notice or any kind of 698 00:47:31,760 --> 00:47:37,360 Speaker 1: consideration for their situation. The owner stated that Patael sad 699 00:47:37,600 --> 00:47:40,480 Speaker 1: that they had no legal basis of staying there and 700 00:47:40,600 --> 00:47:50,520 Speaker 1: they were giving their appropriate notices. Also in Los Angeles. 701 00:47:50,840 --> 00:47:53,520 Speaker 1: Los Angeles is waying of using the Staples Center convention 702 00:47:53,719 --> 00:47:57,160 Speaker 1: center as a place to house unhoused people. Current prices 703 00:47:57,200 --> 00:48:00,360 Speaker 1: for this idea of stating that people are ducking fighting 704 00:48:00,440 --> 00:48:03,480 Speaker 1: traffic and the unhoused people should be removed and put 705 00:48:03,520 --> 00:48:06,960 Speaker 1: into a convention center, neglecting that fifty five people have 706 00:48:07,200 --> 00:48:10,799 Speaker 1: caught COVID nineteen unhoused residents and staff and San Diego's 707 00:48:11,080 --> 00:48:15,360 Speaker 1: Convention Center and Los Angeles Eric gar Citi dispatched the 708 00:48:15,440 --> 00:48:18,600 Speaker 1: Los Angeles Police Department to attack the protested Black Lives 709 00:48:18,760 --> 00:48:23,799 Speaker 1: Matter protesters. The Los Angeles police statements claimed that they 710 00:48:23,880 --> 00:48:26,320 Speaker 1: were picked on an attacked by the protesters who have 711 00:48:26,360 --> 00:48:32,640 Speaker 1: been peacefully protesting several days prior to the event. Activists 712 00:48:33,440 --> 00:48:37,600 Speaker 1: Jamie Pinn claims she was protecting an elderly person from 713 00:48:37,680 --> 00:48:41,800 Speaker 1: being trampled on when the police department sent loose and 714 00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:46,120 Speaker 1: started attack him with batons. Women, children and elderly are 715 00:48:46,160 --> 00:48:49,560 Speaker 1: weren't among the victims to it. As a result of that, 716 00:48:50,800 --> 00:48:53,800 Speaker 1: Mary Garcetti has given a very tempid response to it. 717 00:48:54,480 --> 00:48:57,080 Speaker 1: It is not against the law for protesters to protest 718 00:48:57,160 --> 00:49:01,080 Speaker 1: against the injustices. Unfortunately, Los Angeles believe department doesn't get 719 00:49:01,120 --> 00:49:05,400 Speaker 1: that memo. And finally, Iron House News has an exclusive 720 00:49:05,840 --> 00:49:08,799 Speaker 1: of what is going on across Los Angeles. In fact, 721 00:49:08,840 --> 00:49:12,320 Speaker 1: it's going across all over the country. One of the 722 00:49:12,920 --> 00:49:16,040 Speaker 1: gentlemen that I interviewed for this exclusive, it tells us 723 00:49:16,080 --> 00:49:18,960 Speaker 1: about in Chat's work that they have been being swept 724 00:49:19,040 --> 00:49:22,680 Speaker 1: around during the holidays. COVID nineteen is not an issue 725 00:49:22,760 --> 00:49:25,399 Speaker 1: for the police, Star departments, or SHAFF departments or any 726 00:49:25,480 --> 00:49:29,759 Speaker 1: law enforcement fissues. They are usually the factors of diseases 727 00:49:29,840 --> 00:49:32,560 Speaker 1: toward it. But they have concerns among the un house 728 00:49:32,600 --> 00:49:36,080 Speaker 1: community that they may be infected by these people. Here's 729 00:49:36,120 --> 00:49:41,920 Speaker 1: his story. Ay, Jeane, there you are. If you have 730 00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:43,840 Speaker 1: a minute we was looking for if you get a 731 00:49:44,120 --> 00:49:51,759 Speaker 1: chat as a chat, yes, thank you. Let's hit back 732 00:49:51,760 --> 00:49:54,680 Speaker 1: to your spect. I don't want to disturb them. Thank 733 00:49:54,760 --> 00:49:58,400 Speaker 1: you for doing this because it's so important and it 734 00:49:58,520 --> 00:50:05,480 Speaker 1: gets your perspective as wellis give me some exercise? Oh 735 00:50:05,560 --> 00:50:14,000 Speaker 1: that's a powerful generator. Oh really, Well, you guys could 736 00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:17,399 Speaker 1: connect some lights and have your own electricity. You guys 737 00:50:17,480 --> 00:50:20,120 Speaker 1: give to track your connect some lights and have your 738 00:50:20,160 --> 00:50:26,919 Speaker 1: own electricity. Oh perfect? This is this shows your best 739 00:50:27,280 --> 00:50:29,520 Speaker 1: your best self. I feel honored to be in your 740 00:50:29,719 --> 00:50:32,960 Speaker 1: in your spot, like I say. This is Theo Henderson 741 00:50:33,000 --> 00:50:36,440 Speaker 1: from WII and howes we are here in Chatsworth interviewing 742 00:50:36,520 --> 00:50:39,120 Speaker 1: one of the residents here and who's making the best 743 00:50:39,160 --> 00:50:41,800 Speaker 1: of a situation that's pretty tough, but I'll further do. 744 00:50:42,080 --> 00:50:44,680 Speaker 1: Let's introduce ourselves. My name is Steo. What's your name, sir? 745 00:50:45,160 --> 00:50:49,200 Speaker 1: I mean it's Gary and call me g G. One 746 00:50:49,239 --> 00:50:50,560 Speaker 1: of the few people who live out here on the 747 00:50:50,600 --> 00:50:52,759 Speaker 1: block here. How long have you been out here on 748 00:50:52,840 --> 00:50:55,479 Speaker 1: the block? And how long did it that's the first question? 749 00:50:56,000 --> 00:50:58,719 Speaker 1: A couple of years? Wow? How did you? How did 750 00:50:58,760 --> 00:51:01,239 Speaker 1: you come to be living out here like this? Well? 751 00:51:01,280 --> 00:51:02,959 Speaker 1: I went home one night and my door was locked 752 00:51:03,000 --> 00:51:05,799 Speaker 1: and my wife locked me out and I never had 753 00:51:05,840 --> 00:51:07,880 Speaker 1: a chance to return home. I'd never been homeless before, 754 00:51:08,920 --> 00:51:12,360 Speaker 1: and to be honest with you, I was so depressed 755 00:51:12,360 --> 00:51:14,920 Speaker 1: I didn't care one way or the other. So for 756 00:51:15,000 --> 00:51:16,840 Speaker 1: the first seven days I sat on the bus stop 757 00:51:17,239 --> 00:51:21,680 Speaker 1: and moped and pouted and was depressed and realized that 758 00:51:21,800 --> 00:51:23,080 Speaker 1: that was where I was gonna be, and that I 759 00:51:23,160 --> 00:51:28,799 Speaker 1: did something to change my situation. I mean I come 760 00:51:28,840 --> 00:51:32,160 Speaker 1: from and then I put a prety, brought a new background. 761 00:51:33,280 --> 00:51:35,680 Speaker 1: I've had everything in life that any man could possibly want, 762 00:51:36,560 --> 00:51:38,040 Speaker 1: So I guess I decided I wanted to see how 763 00:51:38,040 --> 00:51:40,399 Speaker 1: the other side lived. What did you do for a living? 764 00:51:40,440 --> 00:51:43,879 Speaker 1: If you h you you were pretty much reasonably financially secure. Oh. 765 00:51:44,080 --> 00:51:46,759 Speaker 1: My wife was a uh works in mental management at 766 00:51:46,760 --> 00:51:49,480 Speaker 1: AT and G. She maskeed about a hundred and forty 767 00:51:49,520 --> 00:51:52,080 Speaker 1: seven thousand a year from practice. That I was a 768 00:51:52,120 --> 00:51:56,920 Speaker 1: fake robber. He was a bank robber. Oh wow, this 769 00:51:57,000 --> 00:51:59,440 Speaker 1: sounds like something out of the movies. Uh Uh, how 770 00:51:59,480 --> 00:52:02,680 Speaker 1: did you get into that? If you don't mind me asking? Wow, 771 00:52:03,360 --> 00:52:06,040 Speaker 1: it was years ago, and basically it was I did 772 00:52:06,080 --> 00:52:09,200 Speaker 1: it on the dare. Hm. Uh, my cousin dared me 773 00:52:09,280 --> 00:52:11,759 Speaker 1: to do what I didn't found that I liked it, 774 00:52:12,400 --> 00:52:14,759 Speaker 1: finished college and instead of going into the field that 775 00:52:14,800 --> 00:52:17,040 Speaker 1: I went to school for. I decided to do that 776 00:52:17,120 --> 00:52:19,839 Speaker 1: for a few years. So for three years I robbed 777 00:52:19,880 --> 00:52:22,920 Speaker 1: banks and I and you didn't get caught. I didn't 778 00:52:22,960 --> 00:52:24,840 Speaker 1: get caught, But in the end I did go to 779 00:52:24,920 --> 00:52:28,279 Speaker 1: prison for it. I wow, someone told on me and 780 00:52:28,840 --> 00:52:31,839 Speaker 1: I did fifteen years in federal prisons for that. Came 781 00:52:31,920 --> 00:52:35,440 Speaker 1: home and I've been home for almost fifteen years and 782 00:52:35,440 --> 00:52:39,120 Speaker 1: I haven't been back to prison since. But I made 783 00:52:39,120 --> 00:52:41,359 Speaker 1: a lot of money and I want that money ran out. 784 00:52:41,480 --> 00:52:43,880 Speaker 1: I'm just basically, you know, depending on my wife to 785 00:52:43,920 --> 00:52:47,479 Speaker 1: support me, and she was able to do so because 786 00:52:47,520 --> 00:52:50,000 Speaker 1: of her paycheck. It was no problem. But then we 787 00:52:50,080 --> 00:52:53,560 Speaker 1: broke up. So did you have any children? I have 788 00:52:53,600 --> 00:52:56,759 Speaker 1: a daughter who lives in Los Angeles. I haven't seen 789 00:52:56,800 --> 00:52:59,840 Speaker 1: her in about five years. And w at uh the 790 00:53:00,040 --> 00:53:02,000 Speaker 1: it was that around the time you became a house 791 00:53:02,120 --> 00:53:04,680 Speaker 1: or you just? Uh was that per before? Uh? It 792 00:53:04,760 --> 00:53:07,160 Speaker 1: s well, prior to me becoming un housed. I am 793 00:53:08,120 --> 00:53:11,319 Speaker 1: my daughter and I had words. They weren't that drawing 794 00:53:11,360 --> 00:53:13,400 Speaker 1: a child, but they were words. And in any case, 795 00:53:14,160 --> 00:53:16,880 Speaker 1: she was resentful of me because I was gone, I 796 00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:20,000 Speaker 1: was in prison, and she basically didn't see me as 797 00:53:20,000 --> 00:53:22,239 Speaker 1: her father, I mean as her as her daddy. As 798 00:53:22,280 --> 00:53:25,840 Speaker 1: she floated, I was just a sperm donor. So I 799 00:53:25,880 --> 00:53:28,840 Speaker 1: pretty much told her, well, that's the case. You know, 800 00:53:28,920 --> 00:53:30,040 Speaker 1: I don't need to be in your life, and I 801 00:53:30,120 --> 00:53:33,880 Speaker 1: haven't been, so I wasn't that. I mean, you know, 802 00:53:33,920 --> 00:53:36,239 Speaker 1: I lived day by day out here, you know, So 803 00:53:36,520 --> 00:53:38,839 Speaker 1: what was the hardest thing to do to live out here? 804 00:53:38,880 --> 00:53:42,080 Speaker 1: What was your first night? Like the first night I 805 00:53:42,200 --> 00:53:44,480 Speaker 1: was out here and just set up all night staring 806 00:53:44,520 --> 00:53:48,440 Speaker 1: up and down the streets at that time, most of 807 00:53:48,480 --> 00:53:51,000 Speaker 1: the homeless people that are out here, and it's really 808 00:53:51,880 --> 00:53:56,320 Speaker 1: it's hard to explain it without putting it in perspective. 809 00:53:56,360 --> 00:53:59,040 Speaker 1: I mean, for myself, I saw them all as being 810 00:53:59,080 --> 00:54:06,040 Speaker 1: in a whole nother subculture slightly below the norm. MM. 811 00:54:07,560 --> 00:54:09,800 Speaker 1: If you look at everything out here, it's almost like 812 00:54:09,840 --> 00:54:12,560 Speaker 1: a reversal of what's what you see every day. H 813 00:54:12,880 --> 00:54:15,480 Speaker 1: Our days usually consists of being up all night, and 814 00:54:15,560 --> 00:54:18,200 Speaker 1: our nights are being asleep during the day. During the 815 00:54:18,280 --> 00:54:21,160 Speaker 1: day when we're out and about, people shun us. People 816 00:54:21,280 --> 00:54:24,600 Speaker 1: treat us bad, and it's hard. Dealing with the general 817 00:54:24,640 --> 00:54:27,560 Speaker 1: public m very hard. So what we do is we 818 00:54:27,719 --> 00:54:31,000 Speaker 1: do everything we have to do at night and it's hard. 819 00:54:31,080 --> 00:54:33,239 Speaker 1: I mean, it's like everything's closed at night, so you 820 00:54:33,880 --> 00:54:35,840 Speaker 1: you need to take a shower, use your restroom or 821 00:54:37,080 --> 00:54:39,359 Speaker 1: if you wanna eat, most places to eat at our 822 00:54:39,360 --> 00:54:41,239 Speaker 1: clothes and so we eat a lot of fast food 823 00:54:41,280 --> 00:54:44,680 Speaker 1: for that matter. Oh you know, and basically it's a 824 00:54:44,719 --> 00:54:47,640 Speaker 1: lonely life. If you have friends out here in friendships 825 00:54:47,640 --> 00:54:50,040 Speaker 1: are really hard to come by out your yeah, true friendships. 826 00:54:50,840 --> 00:54:52,560 Speaker 1: Then really you spend most of your time hoping that 827 00:54:52,600 --> 00:54:56,000 Speaker 1: to be victimized. And unfortunately we get victimized by the 828 00:54:56,040 --> 00:54:58,640 Speaker 1: general public more than we do by each other. Very true. 829 00:54:59,280 --> 00:55:02,719 Speaker 1: I speaking of being victimized, is like today, what caught 830 00:55:02,760 --> 00:55:05,279 Speaker 1: my attention if someone that's on house out here told 831 00:55:05,360 --> 00:55:08,360 Speaker 1: me that the police were out here hassling the unhoused. 832 00:55:08,760 --> 00:55:13,800 Speaker 1: Is that a common occurrence? What happened today? But generally 833 00:55:14,239 --> 00:55:17,239 Speaker 1: the police ride through and they observe what's going on 834 00:55:17,320 --> 00:55:21,279 Speaker 1: around them. I'm fing across the street then, because you 835 00:55:21,320 --> 00:55:24,040 Speaker 1: can see has a lot of stuff. That's another thing 836 00:55:24,080 --> 00:55:27,359 Speaker 1: to being homeless. You it's hard not to accumulate things. 837 00:55:27,920 --> 00:55:29,719 Speaker 1: You will give you stuff, you pick up that stuff 838 00:55:29,719 --> 00:55:32,880 Speaker 1: along the way, and you end up with a lot 839 00:55:32,920 --> 00:55:34,880 Speaker 1: of stuff. Then you have nowhere to put it, just 840 00:55:35,040 --> 00:55:37,600 Speaker 1: since out in the open. The police drive by, they 841 00:55:37,640 --> 00:55:40,040 Speaker 1: see that stuff, they pull up on you. If it's 842 00:55:40,080 --> 00:55:41,359 Speaker 1: on the trader, they want to know if the trader 843 00:55:41,440 --> 00:55:45,080 Speaker 1: is legal and get the registrations up to date. They oh, 844 00:55:45,239 --> 00:55:48,600 Speaker 1: they nit picked that. Anything that's within the law. They 845 00:55:48,719 --> 00:55:50,960 Speaker 1: scrambled the lines, you know, they scraddled the defense on that. 846 00:55:51,120 --> 00:55:53,439 Speaker 1: So for example, I have my ten in the middle 847 00:55:53,440 --> 00:55:55,600 Speaker 1: of the sidewalk. The law states that I could keep 848 00:55:55,640 --> 00:55:58,320 Speaker 1: my tent up, but as have three feet of space 849 00:55:58,440 --> 00:56:00,319 Speaker 1: on one side of it to allow will sure they 850 00:56:00,360 --> 00:56:02,200 Speaker 1: go by m fac If I don't have that to 851 00:56:02,239 --> 00:56:04,279 Speaker 1: be fit of space, they can come in and make 852 00:56:04,360 --> 00:56:07,760 Speaker 1: me move the tent and they will stand there until 853 00:56:07,760 --> 00:56:10,160 Speaker 1: I move the tent m And by it being set 854 00:56:10,239 --> 00:56:11,600 Speaker 1: up like it is, it tends a long time to 855 00:56:11,640 --> 00:56:13,480 Speaker 1: move it right. Everything over you would have to be 856 00:56:13,520 --> 00:56:14,759 Speaker 1: moved to this side and then then have to be 857 00:56:14,840 --> 00:56:16,880 Speaker 1: pushed over tied it off so that it doesn't go 858 00:56:16,920 --> 00:56:19,160 Speaker 1: back over there, and then they'll leave, and then the 859 00:56:19,280 --> 00:56:20,560 Speaker 1: way a couple of weeks en they'll come back and 860 00:56:20,600 --> 00:56:25,560 Speaker 1: do it again. Okay, I can understand them having that law, 861 00:56:25,600 --> 00:56:28,000 Speaker 1: I suppose, But as long as I've been here, I've 862 00:56:28,040 --> 00:56:32,440 Speaker 1: never once seen a wheelchair come through here, but that 863 00:56:32,480 --> 00:56:35,800 Speaker 1: doesn't mean anything to them. Also, they change the street 864 00:56:36,040 --> 00:56:38,719 Speaker 1: signs on the street out here for for parking. They 865 00:56:38,840 --> 00:56:41,359 Speaker 1: change the signs on a regular basis, right when they 866 00:56:41,560 --> 00:56:43,759 Speaker 1: originally it was a green zone, which allows our v's 867 00:56:43,800 --> 00:56:46,880 Speaker 1: to park here, you know, for none limited ti uh 868 00:56:46,920 --> 00:56:50,400 Speaker 1: period of time. But the businesses get upset about them 869 00:56:50,480 --> 00:56:53,400 Speaker 1: being here because of the generators and all the refuse 870 00:56:53,480 --> 00:56:56,960 Speaker 1: and all the the you know, property stack outside kind 871 00:56:57,000 --> 00:56:58,799 Speaker 1: of makes people shut away from the businesses, in which 872 00:56:58,840 --> 00:57:01,600 Speaker 1: case they get upset, may notify the police department. The 873 00:57:01,640 --> 00:57:03,520 Speaker 1: police department come in and they have they have ratters 874 00:57:03,520 --> 00:57:05,719 Speaker 1: about it, and then they change the street signs that 875 00:57:05,840 --> 00:57:07,480 Speaker 1: make us have to make these sides up to move. 876 00:57:08,520 --> 00:57:11,240 Speaker 1: What question is too, is like they don't take regularly 877 00:57:11,320 --> 00:57:13,120 Speaker 1: take your trash. So what are you supposed to do 878 00:57:13,200 --> 00:57:15,040 Speaker 1: with the trash? Cause I hear 'em, they lock 'em. 879 00:57:15,480 --> 00:57:19,280 Speaker 1: They come, sanitation comes every week or so. They know't 880 00:57:19,320 --> 00:57:21,040 Speaker 1: has cause that we have any refuse to get rid of. 881 00:57:21,800 --> 00:57:23,520 Speaker 1: And they'll take anything we put out there. It doesn't 882 00:57:23,560 --> 00:57:26,400 Speaker 1: matter what it is, how both it is, they'll take it. Yeah, 883 00:57:26,560 --> 00:57:29,000 Speaker 1: So A lot of the times people will power trash 884 00:57:29,040 --> 00:57:31,120 Speaker 1: in one area, right, and they'll come from pickle the 885 00:57:31,160 --> 00:57:34,920 Speaker 1: trash up. Hm. Meanwhile we have to wait for them 886 00:57:34,960 --> 00:57:36,480 Speaker 1: to do that. People trying to be as neat as 887 00:57:36,520 --> 00:57:38,960 Speaker 1: they possibly can r right. If you if you walk along, 888 00:57:38,960 --> 00:57:41,000 Speaker 1: you'll see trash bags. But trashing and trash, it's not 889 00:57:41,120 --> 00:57:43,600 Speaker 1: just throwing a pads of the underground. Right. We try 890 00:57:43,680 --> 00:57:45,000 Speaker 1: to bags off and we put 'em in a place 891 00:57:45,080 --> 00:57:46,800 Speaker 1: that's neutrals that slow that they can come and pick 892 00:57:46,840 --> 00:57:48,920 Speaker 1: it up. It's the best thing we can, don't put 893 00:57:48,960 --> 00:57:51,640 Speaker 1: it right. The police came, they know that we're out here, 894 00:57:52,040 --> 00:57:53,440 Speaker 1: They know that we don't have a lot of us 895 00:57:53,480 --> 00:57:55,960 Speaker 1: don't have identification, right, A lot of us don't have 896 00:57:57,520 --> 00:57:59,560 Speaker 1: those normal things that see you through regular life. They 897 00:57:59,560 --> 00:58:01,760 Speaker 1: don't have that stuff. So when they come and ask 898 00:58:01,840 --> 00:58:04,360 Speaker 1: for it, you have it. It gives them probable costs 899 00:58:04,920 --> 00:58:07,680 Speaker 1: to search us, to harass us, and they do it. 900 00:58:08,000 --> 00:58:10,360 Speaker 1: I mean it's like, for example, if I had a 901 00:58:10,480 --> 00:58:12,919 Speaker 1: vehicle in one of the tailights was out, the tail 902 00:58:12,960 --> 00:58:14,920 Speaker 1: light could just blow could have just blown right there, 903 00:58:15,640 --> 00:58:17,280 Speaker 1: and I can tell them here it just blew out 904 00:58:17,360 --> 00:58:19,800 Speaker 1: just now. But it's still probable costs when the just 905 00:58:19,840 --> 00:58:22,280 Speaker 1: search the vehicle. M Now, some people have illegal things 906 00:58:22,320 --> 00:58:25,240 Speaker 1: in their vehicles, some people don't. But harassment is harassment. 907 00:58:26,040 --> 00:58:28,400 Speaker 1: I mean, in real life has been like to stay 908 00:58:28,440 --> 00:58:31,120 Speaker 1: out here. They probably wouldn't have even pulled us over, right, 909 00:58:31,400 --> 00:58:34,160 Speaker 1: But because we're homeless, they do. Most homeless people who 910 00:58:34,200 --> 00:58:36,960 Speaker 1: have vehicles, you'll notice, are feel good stuff to overflow you. 911 00:58:37,360 --> 00:58:39,480 Speaker 1: So it's easy to identify them just by that alone. 912 00:58:40,200 --> 00:58:41,880 Speaker 1: Now I live in a tent because I chose to 913 00:58:41,920 --> 00:58:43,720 Speaker 1: live in a tent. I could have bought an RV, 914 00:58:44,240 --> 00:58:45,840 Speaker 1: but I see the trouble that these people go through 915 00:58:45,880 --> 00:58:48,680 Speaker 1: having RV, and it's easy for me to pack up stuff. 916 00:58:48,680 --> 00:58:50,400 Speaker 1: I mean, it's like a lot of this stuff I 917 00:58:50,480 --> 00:58:53,640 Speaker 1: picked the blow the way. This is unique perspective because 918 00:58:53,640 --> 00:58:56,400 Speaker 1: I thought because I I had, I didn't have a tent, 919 00:58:56,480 --> 00:58:58,600 Speaker 1: because someone tried to set me on fire on in 920 00:58:58,720 --> 00:59:01,200 Speaker 1: a tent I had. I slept in a sleeping bag 921 00:59:01,320 --> 00:59:04,160 Speaker 1: because I felt it was a little bit scarier, particularly 922 00:59:04,320 --> 00:59:06,480 Speaker 1: where like it depends on the neighborhood, Like when I 923 00:59:06,560 --> 00:59:08,960 Speaker 1: lived down in downtown in Downtown, LA, it's a lot 924 00:59:09,040 --> 00:59:11,440 Speaker 1: much more dangerous because a lot of people don't like 925 00:59:11,480 --> 00:59:14,440 Speaker 1: to see the unhouse people with tents, so they'll go 926 00:59:14,640 --> 00:59:17,560 Speaker 1: and try to set them on fire, and yeah, oh yeah, yeah, 927 00:59:17,720 --> 00:59:19,840 Speaker 1: it was a big thing. So I felt that was 928 00:59:19,840 --> 00:59:22,280 Speaker 1: the easiest best way for me to have a sleeping bag, 929 00:59:22,680 --> 00:59:24,800 Speaker 1: you know if I wish, Yeah, I can sleep with 930 00:59:24,840 --> 00:59:26,680 Speaker 1: I know, I can see and I can get up 931 00:59:26,720 --> 00:59:29,240 Speaker 1: in time, because it's you know, because they don't like 932 00:59:29,360 --> 00:59:32,760 Speaker 1: unhoused people there. Also they have like things like Business 933 00:59:32,800 --> 00:59:36,240 Speaker 1: Improvement District that are buddy buddy with the police, so 934 00:59:36,360 --> 00:59:39,760 Speaker 1: they'll allow them to do illegal things and then when 935 00:59:39,800 --> 00:59:42,640 Speaker 1: the police come, they claim pretend like they don't know 936 00:59:42,720 --> 00:59:45,400 Speaker 1: what's going on, or they would just nudge and wink 937 00:59:45,480 --> 00:59:48,240 Speaker 1: at the bits and then just go on and loved 938 00:59:48,240 --> 00:59:51,560 Speaker 1: them and continue the illegality. So this is one of 939 00:59:51,640 --> 00:59:54,240 Speaker 1: the cases and points here. What I also thought is 940 00:59:54,320 --> 00:59:55,640 Speaker 1: like that they were people would be a little more 941 00:59:55,720 --> 00:59:58,200 Speaker 1: safer having an RV. But you're telling me that's not 942 00:59:58,320 --> 01:00:01,840 Speaker 1: the case. Here. When you have an r V, when 943 01:00:01,880 --> 01:00:04,680 Speaker 1: it costs money to register those things, to cost money 944 01:00:04,720 --> 01:00:06,439 Speaker 1: to run them, I mean you have to put gas 945 01:00:06,520 --> 01:00:09,440 Speaker 1: in them, you have to find someplace to dump your 946 01:00:09,640 --> 01:00:12,280 Speaker 1: your your waste, your your liquid wats as well as 947 01:00:12,320 --> 01:00:14,840 Speaker 1: your regular refuge. You have to have you know, and 948 01:00:14,960 --> 01:00:16,600 Speaker 1: that has to be done on a regular basis, and 949 01:00:16,640 --> 01:00:19,040 Speaker 1: I'm talking about weekly daily. You have to have to 950 01:00:19,080 --> 01:00:21,200 Speaker 1: wear to dump that stuff, right, they have they call 951 01:00:21,200 --> 01:00:23,360 Speaker 1: it black water, and they have gray waters, green waters water, 952 01:00:23,440 --> 01:00:26,960 Speaker 1: but just pissing it as then you have black waters, 953 01:00:27,000 --> 01:00:32,280 Speaker 1: has you know whatever? You know? Yeah, yeah, so they 954 01:00:32,320 --> 01:00:33,760 Speaker 1: have to have to place to jump that stuff. And 955 01:00:34,800 --> 01:00:37,120 Speaker 1: not only that, like I said, people accumulate things. Man, 956 01:00:37,800 --> 01:00:40,160 Speaker 1: It's an RV is almost like having a house on wheels, 957 01:00:40,720 --> 01:00:43,080 Speaker 1: and you don't put so much in the one. But 958 01:00:43,240 --> 01:00:45,680 Speaker 1: because we live out here and everything that we get 959 01:00:46,600 --> 01:00:48,480 Speaker 1: is if there's a possibility of selling it or making 960 01:00:48,520 --> 01:00:49,880 Speaker 1: a little bit of money on it. Because we don't 961 01:00:49,880 --> 01:00:53,160 Speaker 1: have a job, you know, we have to live. Like bikes, 962 01:00:53,160 --> 01:00:55,600 Speaker 1: people think that people are stealing the bikes. What can 963 01:00:55,640 --> 01:00:57,200 Speaker 1: you tell us a little bit about why would you 964 01:00:57,200 --> 01:00:59,760 Speaker 1: see people with a lot of bikes. Well, most of 965 01:00:59,840 --> 01:01:03,280 Speaker 1: 'em kind of afford cars and the bike is cheaper, 966 01:01:03,320 --> 01:01:06,440 Speaker 1: are owned in a car, and you know, to be 967 01:01:06,520 --> 01:01:08,600 Speaker 1: honest with you, a lot of the bikes that these 968 01:01:08,640 --> 01:01:11,360 Speaker 1: guys have are stolen. I mean, I wouldn't imagine that 969 01:01:12,840 --> 01:01:15,439 Speaker 1: if the opportunity to present yourself. I don't like about 970 01:01:15,520 --> 01:01:19,520 Speaker 1: ride bikes myself, but the opportunity presented shelf jem come 971 01:01:19,600 --> 01:01:21,200 Speaker 1: up on a bike, you know, but they do it 972 01:01:21,240 --> 01:01:22,960 Speaker 1: because they need a way to get around you. You 973 01:01:23,040 --> 01:01:24,560 Speaker 1: have guys who take them to because they want to 974 01:01:24,560 --> 01:01:26,600 Speaker 1: sell them and make money on them. Are the ones 975 01:01:26,680 --> 01:01:30,040 Speaker 1: that I've noticed because the ones that I see people 976 01:01:30,160 --> 01:01:34,000 Speaker 1: collect with parts because the bike where's out, or they 977 01:01:34,080 --> 01:01:36,120 Speaker 1: have a side hustle to selves to be able to 978 01:01:36,520 --> 01:01:39,640 Speaker 1: fix other people's bikes, they do that too. You have 979 01:01:39,680 --> 01:01:42,840 Speaker 1: guys out of repair bikes and they'll have forty bikes 980 01:01:42,840 --> 01:01:46,280 Speaker 1: outside your spot and the like they stole the bikes. Yeah, 981 01:01:46,440 --> 01:01:48,720 Speaker 1: like the case at all, exactly right. A lot of 982 01:01:48,760 --> 01:01:52,160 Speaker 1: the times there's other homeless people who would have asked 983 01:01:52,200 --> 01:01:54,000 Speaker 1: them to repair a bike, and they bring them over 984 01:01:54,000 --> 01:01:56,680 Speaker 1: their repair and if you need the case. Most bikes 985 01:01:56,680 --> 01:01:58,479 Speaker 1: that people when they pull these guys who run these bikes, 986 01:01:59,760 --> 01:02:02,080 Speaker 1: the bikes belowna these guys yeah yeah, I mean they 987 01:02:02,080 --> 01:02:04,000 Speaker 1: will actually go out and buy a bicycle, yeah, or 988 01:02:04,040 --> 01:02:06,240 Speaker 1: they'll buy one from some A lot of the bike 989 01:02:06,320 --> 01:02:08,320 Speaker 1: shops selle bikes cheap. You know. The one that I've 990 01:02:08,320 --> 01:02:10,040 Speaker 1: been repaired and the prison didn't big it up. Yeah 991 01:02:10,160 --> 01:02:14,240 Speaker 1: they set for forty fifty bucks and yeah, you're buying Sokay. Incidentally, 992 01:02:14,560 --> 01:02:16,120 Speaker 1: most of the bikes that are stolen and not stolen 993 01:02:16,160 --> 01:02:17,800 Speaker 1: from the general public, and it's strown from these guys 994 01:02:18,120 --> 01:02:20,600 Speaker 1: each other. And now that's that's a very good point 995 01:02:20,680 --> 01:02:23,560 Speaker 1: because like I noticed that what I particularly if people 996 01:02:23,680 --> 01:02:25,840 Speaker 1: have been released from the president and things like that, 997 01:02:26,040 --> 01:02:29,000 Speaker 1: Oh no, please absolutely go. You're in your home. We're guests. 998 01:02:29,800 --> 01:02:31,479 Speaker 1: And I wanted to tell you. I wanted to admit 999 01:02:31,560 --> 01:02:34,760 Speaker 1: that if you look here, your house has it has 1000 01:02:34,840 --> 01:02:38,080 Speaker 1: a sense of a feeling of welcoming. It's not you know, 1001 01:02:38,200 --> 01:02:41,480 Speaker 1: it's not spartan. It's not like, for example, the Christmas 1002 01:02:41,560 --> 01:02:45,080 Speaker 1: lights and stuffing. It's like you you you despite the situation. 1003 01:02:45,320 --> 01:02:48,520 Speaker 1: What what why why have a decorator like this? What 1004 01:02:48,720 --> 01:02:52,800 Speaker 1: was your insight on this? Well, the lights that you 1005 01:02:52,960 --> 01:02:56,080 Speaker 1: see that you can see cleaning right now or run 1006 01:02:56,160 --> 01:02:58,000 Speaker 1: by electricity. But then I also have lights in here 1007 01:02:58,040 --> 01:03:02,280 Speaker 1: that are are run by batteries and they they have 1008 01:03:02,320 --> 01:03:06,920 Speaker 1: a calming effect. The females that I know out here, 1009 01:03:06,920 --> 01:03:08,480 Speaker 1: a couple in the murmur and with my good friends, 1010 01:03:08,560 --> 01:03:11,000 Speaker 1: they come by and they have a light set of 1011 01:03:11,040 --> 01:03:13,880 Speaker 1: sort of an ambyonce allows them to relax and get back, 1012 01:03:14,080 --> 01:03:17,640 Speaker 1: you know. And also it's not brightened up to become 1013 01:03:17,680 --> 01:03:20,920 Speaker 1: a bother or an annoyance to people. And people look 1014 01:03:20,960 --> 01:03:24,200 Speaker 1: over and see it, and they don't see a harsh 1015 01:03:24,280 --> 01:03:27,280 Speaker 1: glare or you know, or or a non a separate 1016 01:03:27,320 --> 01:03:29,160 Speaker 1: type that's you fear. They see something that's kind of cool, 1017 01:03:29,320 --> 01:03:31,400 Speaker 1: kind of relax you know. Then I play my music, 1018 01:03:31,480 --> 01:03:34,680 Speaker 1: but I heard I heard when you passed by. I 1019 01:03:34,760 --> 01:03:39,680 Speaker 1: heard it my music and I play nice music, you know. 1020 01:03:40,120 --> 01:03:42,240 Speaker 1: You know it's cool, man, it's relaxing. You know. I 1021 01:03:42,480 --> 01:03:45,200 Speaker 1: was gonna say, because I am a foodie, I see 1022 01:03:45,240 --> 01:03:47,720 Speaker 1: you have a set colored set. Are you do you 1023 01:03:47,800 --> 01:03:53,080 Speaker 1: cook or anything? A lot? Oh? Okay, you might that 1024 01:03:53,200 --> 01:03:55,040 Speaker 1: might be your second hustle. Yeah. I cook for the 1025 01:03:55,080 --> 01:03:58,560 Speaker 1: people out here. That's cool. I go out, I go shopping, 1026 01:03:58,680 --> 01:04:00,680 Speaker 1: back toweo hundred dollars worth of food and I'll feed 1027 01:04:00,720 --> 01:04:03,880 Speaker 1: everybody and they eat it, you know, and it makes 1028 01:04:03,920 --> 01:04:06,919 Speaker 1: me feel good. Yeah, and my money goes for something 1029 01:04:07,000 --> 01:04:10,040 Speaker 1: other than the wrong thing, right. You know, I wouldn't 1030 01:04:10,040 --> 01:04:11,760 Speaker 1: admit that in the past. I mean, when I got 1031 01:04:11,840 --> 01:04:14,800 Speaker 1: hold man, I was just I was you was in 1032 01:04:14,880 --> 01:04:17,960 Speaker 1: a bad space do real bad passe psychologically, and you know, 1033 01:04:17,960 --> 01:04:19,880 Speaker 1: I was doing drugs and having my fun doing that. 1034 01:04:20,040 --> 01:04:22,920 Speaker 1: But then at some point doing drugs is no longer fun, 1035 01:04:24,000 --> 01:04:26,160 Speaker 1: and I have a lot of really bad injuries that 1036 01:04:28,040 --> 01:04:29,560 Speaker 1: you can call it. I was on I got hooked 1037 01:04:29,600 --> 01:04:32,520 Speaker 1: on pain fields, and of course they don't They're not 1038 01:04:32,560 --> 01:04:34,920 Speaker 1: always gonna be really available, right. So I went to 1039 01:04:35,000 --> 01:04:38,520 Speaker 1: the other alternative, which was heroin, something I never thought 1040 01:04:38,520 --> 01:04:40,800 Speaker 1: I would be doing in my entire life. And I'm 1041 01:04:40,800 --> 01:04:42,880 Speaker 1: almost cannot just without it now. I mean I could 1042 01:04:42,880 --> 01:04:45,120 Speaker 1: barely got a bed without it now. But I don't 1043 01:04:45,240 --> 01:04:47,560 Speaker 1: use heroin to get high, and use heroin to hope. 1044 01:04:47,600 --> 01:04:49,880 Speaker 1: What the met? Uh? The pains of the h health issue. 1045 01:04:49,920 --> 01:04:53,000 Speaker 1: It's like, I'm you. You were telling me about the 1046 01:04:53,160 --> 01:04:55,160 Speaker 1: the the third degree, birds and stuff. Can you talk 1047 01:04:55,160 --> 01:04:57,760 Speaker 1: about all? So tell me what happened you were telling 1048 01:04:58,000 --> 01:05:00,800 Speaker 1: Tell tell us what somebody's r V trailer and uh 1049 01:05:01,120 --> 01:05:03,000 Speaker 1: and uh, that's another thing too. It's like so many 1050 01:05:03,080 --> 01:05:06,040 Speaker 1: unsafe situations develop out here. He lit the stove and 1051 01:05:06,080 --> 01:05:09,240 Speaker 1: he didn't know anything about him, and the stove that 1052 01:05:09,320 --> 01:05:12,000 Speaker 1: he lit required that he light a pilot and he 1053 01:05:12,080 --> 01:05:15,040 Speaker 1: getting and he had true propane things going, and then 1054 01:05:15,160 --> 01:05:17,960 Speaker 1: it did. It rapidly filled up with propane. And I 1055 01:05:18,000 --> 01:05:19,400 Speaker 1: was sitting here talking to him and inside did a 1056 01:05:19,480 --> 01:05:22,320 Speaker 1: lot of cigarette and I lift the torch and flame 1057 01:05:22,400 --> 01:05:24,760 Speaker 1: on the torch was acting funny, and I realized why 1058 01:05:24,760 --> 01:05:26,720 Speaker 1: it was acting funny. It was too late, and I 1059 01:05:26,800 --> 01:05:29,160 Speaker 1: was like, oh my god. And the whole time thing 1060 01:05:29,280 --> 01:05:31,480 Speaker 1: just sort of a fire h in a flash. It 1061 01:05:31,600 --> 01:05:33,720 Speaker 1: was just I was surrounded by fire. Oh my god. 1062 01:05:34,120 --> 01:05:37,240 Speaker 1: He ran out, his arms got burned really bad. My face, 1063 01:05:37,400 --> 01:05:40,560 Speaker 1: my head, my hands parched, my arm, I have s 1064 01:05:40,600 --> 01:05:42,800 Speaker 1: blisters everywhere. I was in the Burn Center and West 1065 01:05:42,920 --> 01:05:47,920 Speaker 1: Hills for eleven days, two surgeries, and uh, he just 1066 01:05:48,000 --> 01:05:49,800 Speaker 1: sh showed me just how life out of here is 1067 01:05:49,840 --> 01:05:53,080 Speaker 1: so fragile. Did anythink an't happened at any minute? Yeah, 1068 01:05:54,120 --> 01:05:56,160 Speaker 1: your life will be over. Yeah. I got stabbed four 1069 01:05:56,240 --> 01:05:58,600 Speaker 1: years ago, so I know. Yeah, I know. I was 1070 01:05:58,640 --> 01:06:01,200 Speaker 1: in ICU for like several and I had to learn 1071 01:06:01,240 --> 01:06:04,360 Speaker 1: how to walk again. Yeah, I was out in uh 1072 01:06:04,360 --> 01:06:06,880 Speaker 1: in the park, I uh got stabbed, and I got 1073 01:06:06,920 --> 01:06:10,040 Speaker 1: stabbed in eight places. I had my uh uh colon 1074 01:06:10,120 --> 01:06:11,800 Speaker 1: r uh, part of my colon removed part of my 1075 01:06:11,920 --> 01:06:15,360 Speaker 1: stomach removed and uh other places like my now my uh, 1076 01:06:15,440 --> 01:06:17,960 Speaker 1: one of my intestines is attached to my uh in 1077 01:06:18,040 --> 01:06:20,120 Speaker 1: one of the walls of it. Because yeah, so were 1078 01:06:20,120 --> 01:06:21,880 Speaker 1: you where were you home? To? Said? I was down 1079 01:06:22,040 --> 01:06:24,200 Speaker 1: in Chinatown and Los Angeles. I told you it was 1080 01:06:24,360 --> 01:06:28,720 Speaker 1: very tough. It's very very very violent, yes, right, different. 1081 01:06:28,800 --> 01:06:31,200 Speaker 1: I don't even go down there. I had a friend 1082 01:06:31,240 --> 01:06:35,640 Speaker 1: down there, I grown named Apron, and she she had 1083 01:06:35,680 --> 01:06:38,480 Speaker 1: some really serious medical, I mean, psychological problems. When she 1084 01:06:38,520 --> 01:06:40,480 Speaker 1: took her medication, she was cool. When she didn't, it 1085 01:06:40,600 --> 01:06:43,160 Speaker 1: was just it was horrible. And I was on one 1086 01:06:43,160 --> 01:06:44,800 Speaker 1: of those streets down there one day. Send any one 1087 01:06:44,840 --> 01:06:47,800 Speaker 1: of those tints. Yeah. She just wanted to do something 1088 01:06:47,840 --> 01:06:50,160 Speaker 1: like sepoll, like charge her phone in my car, and 1089 01:06:50,200 --> 01:06:51,840 Speaker 1: I told her not now I had to go, and 1090 01:06:51,920 --> 01:06:53,520 Speaker 1: she started screaming, you won't let me chry, you won't 1091 01:06:53,600 --> 01:06:54,840 Speaker 1: let me charge my phone in your fucking car, and 1092 01:06:55,040 --> 01:06:57,240 Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah blah, and all these dudes come 1093 01:06:57,240 --> 01:06:59,720 Speaker 1: out out of these tents and that was alone. Yeah, 1094 01:06:59,760 --> 01:07:02,160 Speaker 1: And I thought, if I don't get away from here, 1095 01:07:02,960 --> 01:07:04,960 Speaker 1: something bad is about to happen to me. Yep, And 1096 01:07:05,080 --> 01:07:06,600 Speaker 1: I had to get away from there. I've never been 1097 01:07:06,640 --> 01:07:09,160 Speaker 1: back down there since because they showed me just by 1098 01:07:09,240 --> 01:07:13,280 Speaker 1: her actions. Now things could change in an instant. Yeah, 1099 01:07:13,560 --> 01:07:15,640 Speaker 1: in your life could be in danger, you know, yea 1100 01:07:16,360 --> 01:07:19,440 Speaker 1: and so and then coming out here, I mean, we 1101 01:07:19,520 --> 01:07:24,240 Speaker 1: were in a situation. Parents exists, run suppoda and in 1102 01:07:24,360 --> 01:07:27,360 Speaker 1: Sherman Wayne right with this big lot, the homeless moved 1103 01:07:27,480 --> 01:07:29,720 Speaker 1: into it and it was like a little village. And 1104 01:07:29,880 --> 01:07:31,600 Speaker 1: this one guy moved in there and decided that he 1105 01:07:31,680 --> 01:07:34,040 Speaker 1: was gonna take over the lot. Yeah, and he began 1106 01:07:34,200 --> 01:07:37,680 Speaker 1: to It was horrible, to say the least. It was horrible. 1107 01:07:37,720 --> 01:07:40,560 Speaker 1: And he began to abuse people, to use the females, 1108 01:07:40,960 --> 01:07:43,640 Speaker 1: grating to kill people, shooting guns the whole nine yard 1109 01:07:44,440 --> 01:07:47,520 Speaker 1: to kill. He ran everybody about that lone oh and 1110 01:07:48,160 --> 01:07:51,320 Speaker 1: seeing history, himself ended up being shot. All this happened 1111 01:07:51,320 --> 01:07:54,000 Speaker 1: in the last forty five days I got so I 1112 01:07:54,120 --> 01:07:56,160 Speaker 1: had to come. I'm sorry to hear that I had 1113 01:07:56,200 --> 01:08:01,160 Speaker 1: to get away from it being a homeless man. For 1114 01:08:01,200 --> 01:08:03,640 Speaker 1: a lot of us out here, it's not a choice. 1115 01:08:04,400 --> 01:08:06,600 Speaker 1: For a lot of us, we just have no choice exactly. 1116 01:08:07,480 --> 01:08:09,560 Speaker 1: Thank you for saying that, because people think it's like 1117 01:08:09,880 --> 01:08:12,400 Speaker 1: you're living out like in mc mansions, or you're living 1118 01:08:12,680 --> 01:08:15,200 Speaker 1: a luxurious life, but this is a very difficult life. 1119 01:08:15,760 --> 01:08:17,960 Speaker 1: You listen to me. You go to sleep every night 1120 01:08:18,560 --> 01:08:22,920 Speaker 1: you're you're you're scared, you wake up scared. Halfway through 1121 01:08:22,960 --> 01:08:25,280 Speaker 1: the day, you're scared. You're always afraid something bad is 1122 01:08:25,280 --> 01:08:28,000 Speaker 1: gonna happen, because something bad is always been happening. And 1123 01:08:28,080 --> 01:08:30,519 Speaker 1: it's it doesn't matter if you are a person across 1124 01:08:30,560 --> 01:08:32,240 Speaker 1: the street to somebody that you can get to know 1125 01:08:32,320 --> 01:08:35,080 Speaker 1: real well and become friends with, two days later somebody 1126 01:08:35,160 --> 01:08:38,160 Speaker 1: kill him. Yeah, it's just how life is for us 1127 01:08:38,160 --> 01:08:40,960 Speaker 1: out here. It's a constant threat of hoping that you'll 1128 01:08:40,960 --> 01:08:43,200 Speaker 1: wake up the next day. All I think about now 1129 01:08:43,320 --> 01:08:45,679 Speaker 1: is death, and it's a horrible feeling to think about 1130 01:08:46,240 --> 01:08:49,280 Speaker 1: dying and whether you'll be here next week, when your 1131 01:08:49,320 --> 01:08:52,000 Speaker 1: family know about it, when anybody miss you, when when 1132 01:08:52,040 --> 01:08:54,599 Speaker 1: anybody come to your funeral, whether it be a funeral, 1133 01:08:54,760 --> 01:08:56,800 Speaker 1: you know, it's for the whole nine yards, you know, 1134 01:08:56,840 --> 01:09:00,080 Speaker 1: and then you're the police. Recently they started housing the 1135 01:09:00,120 --> 01:09:04,320 Speaker 1: homeless in these hotels project room key right, yeah, project 1136 01:09:04,439 --> 01:09:06,840 Speaker 1: room key right. There has a lot of people worried 1137 01:09:06,880 --> 01:09:10,439 Speaker 1: also because they're wondering why all of a sudden, the 1138 01:09:10,520 --> 01:09:12,679 Speaker 1: city can afford to put people in these nice luxury 1139 01:09:12,760 --> 01:09:18,160 Speaker 1: otails and putting them up und day at the air 1140 01:09:18,240 --> 01:09:20,920 Speaker 1: Chaiir hotels by the airport, the room is just start 1141 01:09:20,960 --> 01:09:23,960 Speaker 1: at two hundred dollars a day. But how why why 1142 01:09:24,000 --> 01:09:27,000 Speaker 1: are we be in housed like that the Sportsman's Lodge, 1143 01:09:27,000 --> 01:09:29,240 Speaker 1: your rooms start their four hundred dollars a day. How 1144 01:09:29,400 --> 01:09:30,439 Speaker 1: is it that they were able to take over the 1145 01:09:30,520 --> 01:09:32,960 Speaker 1: Sportsman's Lodge and put every single put a homeer's person 1146 01:09:33,000 --> 01:09:35,719 Speaker 1: in every single room and afford that. What's the purpose 1147 01:09:35,800 --> 01:09:38,840 Speaker 1: behind that? People think there's a conspiracy going on. Well, 1148 01:09:38,960 --> 01:09:41,759 Speaker 1: the reason they are doing that is because pro public 1149 01:09:41,880 --> 01:09:46,160 Speaker 1: pressure has because COVID nineteen, as you probably know now, 1150 01:09:46,560 --> 01:09:48,479 Speaker 1: but COVID nineteen has been killing off a lot of 1151 01:09:48,520 --> 01:09:51,640 Speaker 1: people and as fact in Los Angeles is spiked and 1152 01:09:51,880 --> 01:09:55,280 Speaker 1: they will worry that people that living on the street 1153 01:09:55,600 --> 01:09:58,639 Speaker 1: would take those yeah well not yeah factory but also 1154 01:09:58,760 --> 01:10:01,720 Speaker 1: would be taking up hospital beds for house people. So 1155 01:10:01,840 --> 01:10:04,479 Speaker 1: that was the reason. It wasn't because of concern, It 1156 01:10:04,600 --> 01:10:07,000 Speaker 1: was just because they didn't want on house people to 1157 01:10:07,080 --> 01:10:09,880 Speaker 1: be taking up the medical services so that that house 1158 01:10:09,920 --> 01:10:14,640 Speaker 1: people could take advantage of burn cause it's cheaper to 1159 01:10:14,680 --> 01:10:16,040 Speaker 1: put us in the hotel room than to put us 1160 01:10:16,040 --> 01:10:18,439 Speaker 1: in the hospital. Comes in the Burn Center eleven days. 1161 01:10:20,000 --> 01:10:22,000 Speaker 1: The hospital bill for my stay at that Burn Center 1162 01:10:22,080 --> 01:10:23,960 Speaker 1: came close to a million and a half dollars. Oh 1163 01:10:24,040 --> 01:10:28,080 Speaker 1: my god, that's expensive. The two surgeries and then, I mean, 1164 01:10:28,080 --> 01:10:30,519 Speaker 1: I didn't realize it was that expensive. The probably the 1165 01:10:30,600 --> 01:10:35,160 Speaker 1: thing I see though, is that having the homeless housed 1166 01:10:35,160 --> 01:10:38,800 Speaker 1: in these hotels, in my opinion, it was a good 1167 01:10:38,840 --> 01:10:41,959 Speaker 1: thing in the beginning, But where are they gonna go afterwards? 1168 01:10:42,400 --> 01:10:44,439 Speaker 1: Not too they say they're in a house didn't after 1169 01:10:44,800 --> 01:10:46,760 Speaker 1: But they're not because there's the biggest scandal in the 1170 01:10:46,800 --> 01:10:49,320 Speaker 1: Los Angeles Times talking about they're throwing out people that 1171 01:10:49,439 --> 01:10:52,200 Speaker 1: were there to put other poor people there. The whole 1172 01:10:52,280 --> 01:10:55,240 Speaker 1: idea was, which which the governor claimed to say, is 1173 01:10:55,680 --> 01:10:58,040 Speaker 1: what we were going to do is project room key 1174 01:10:58,120 --> 01:11:00,920 Speaker 1: to project home key, that they get a spot, you 1175 01:11:01,000 --> 01:11:02,680 Speaker 1: know that they can be what we wonna throw 'em 1176 01:11:02,680 --> 01:11:05,400 Speaker 1: out on the streets. Well, guess what the shelters shut 1177 01:11:05,479 --> 01:11:08,559 Speaker 1: down in the parks and recreations. The shelters are are 1178 01:11:08,560 --> 01:11:10,960 Speaker 1: people are project room kids running out of money and 1179 01:11:11,120 --> 01:11:13,280 Speaker 1: unhoused people are gonna go back on the streets, and 1180 01:11:13,400 --> 01:11:16,040 Speaker 1: there are new unhoused people that I've interviewed that are 1181 01:11:16,080 --> 01:11:18,680 Speaker 1: gonna be jacked up too. So that's the reality of 1182 01:11:18,720 --> 01:11:21,080 Speaker 1: what's been going on. Because them that bothers me the 1183 01:11:21,120 --> 01:11:22,800 Speaker 1: most about it is that those of us who don't 1184 01:11:22,800 --> 01:11:25,120 Speaker 1: wanna be in these rooms, who don't wanna be a 1185 01:11:25,160 --> 01:11:27,560 Speaker 1: burden on society, we would rather be able to just 1186 01:11:27,600 --> 01:11:29,320 Speaker 1: set up a tent somewhere to the side, out of 1187 01:11:29,360 --> 01:11:33,600 Speaker 1: the way and live like that, not bothering anyone. They 1188 01:11:33,640 --> 01:11:35,880 Speaker 1: don't want us to do that, But here's the and 1189 01:11:35,920 --> 01:11:38,160 Speaker 1: then put us out there. I mean, there were peoples 1190 01:11:38,160 --> 01:11:39,880 Speaker 1: who were out of the way, not bothering anyone, and 1191 01:11:39,920 --> 01:11:42,920 Speaker 1: they becoming droves in their little vans and trucks. They say, hey, 1192 01:11:42,960 --> 01:11:46,800 Speaker 1: you wanna go to a a hotel, okay, and a 1193 01:11:46,880 --> 01:11:48,200 Speaker 1: lot of people saying, now, I don't wanna go to 1194 01:11:48,200 --> 01:11:50,400 Speaker 1: the hotel. I'd resther stay here right. Part of the 1195 01:11:50,479 --> 01:11:52,360 Speaker 1: reason too, is because they act like they treat them 1196 01:11:52,439 --> 01:11:54,479 Speaker 1: like they're in jail in prison too. People that get 1197 01:11:54,479 --> 01:11:56,200 Speaker 1: that's the That's why. The other thing too, when you 1198 01:11:56,280 --> 01:11:58,240 Speaker 1: go in juniors hotels, do you have to submit your 1199 01:11:58,320 --> 01:12:01,920 Speaker 1: shelter to room searches and the property searches that are 1200 01:12:02,000 --> 01:12:05,759 Speaker 1: now unconstitutional in my opnion. I mean, they're they're searching 1201 01:12:06,000 --> 01:12:08,600 Speaker 1: stuff that first I don't understand about the laws for 1202 01:12:09,520 --> 01:12:12,320 Speaker 1: search and seizure kind of fitth Amendment. They can't do 1203 01:12:12,400 --> 01:12:15,160 Speaker 1: that with a search warrant. Yeah, but they do it anyway. Yeah, 1204 01:12:15,160 --> 01:12:17,320 Speaker 1: and they use that as a as a reason they 1205 01:12:17,400 --> 01:12:20,000 Speaker 1: keep them out of these hotels. Okay, what black do 1206 01:12:20,040 --> 01:12:22,080 Speaker 1: you have the search propity and it in a hotel? 1207 01:12:22,439 --> 01:12:24,599 Speaker 1: And not only is that too, Let's say for examples, 1208 01:12:24,600 --> 01:12:27,439 Speaker 1: people are dealing with like substance usage or mental health 1209 01:12:27,479 --> 01:12:30,120 Speaker 1: issues and they you know, they're not gonna magically become 1210 01:12:30,240 --> 01:12:32,479 Speaker 1: a sober and they have a relaxed and then you 1211 01:12:32,560 --> 01:12:34,320 Speaker 1: throw them back out on the street. But they were 1212 01:12:34,479 --> 01:12:37,120 Speaker 1: you know, they had their situation together, or they were 1213 01:12:37,320 --> 01:12:39,960 Speaker 1: had some similars of their own stuff. But now they 1214 01:12:40,040 --> 01:12:42,920 Speaker 1: started all over again. Yeah. And you know I'm so 1215 01:12:43,040 --> 01:12:44,640 Speaker 1: sad about that is that once they do kick them 1216 01:12:44,680 --> 01:12:46,320 Speaker 1: all back out on the street, then they'll be ten 1217 01:12:46,320 --> 01:12:48,800 Speaker 1: times worse than they were before because they get used 1218 01:12:48,840 --> 01:12:51,080 Speaker 1: to living a certain way in these hotels and everything's 1219 01:12:51,080 --> 01:12:52,960 Speaker 1: a certain way. They're not gonna happen that way when 1220 01:12:52,960 --> 01:12:54,519 Speaker 1: they hit the streets again, and they're gonna want some 1221 01:12:54,560 --> 01:12:56,120 Speaker 1: similars of that, and they're not gonna be able to 1222 01:12:56,160 --> 01:12:59,040 Speaker 1: get it, and it's gonna cause problems. It's gonna cause 1223 01:12:59,320 --> 01:13:02,599 Speaker 1: serious problems for myself. This is the third time I've 1224 01:13:02,600 --> 01:13:04,160 Speaker 1: set up what I call my home. You know, I 1225 01:13:04,200 --> 01:13:06,080 Speaker 1: don't my house looks like this because I like interview 1226 01:13:06,160 --> 01:13:08,120 Speaker 1: like a home. I don't like being in a tent 1227 01:13:08,200 --> 01:13:09,600 Speaker 1: which is seeming back on the floor and in a 1228 01:13:09,640 --> 01:13:11,880 Speaker 1: couple of subtentions. I like to be able to turn 1229 01:13:11,920 --> 01:13:14,240 Speaker 1: on my TV and watch TV, listen to my music, 1230 01:13:14,479 --> 01:13:17,000 Speaker 1: cook something to eat, have somebody over to have, you know, 1231 01:13:17,040 --> 01:13:19,160 Speaker 1: for dinner or whatever, have a nice colde drink. I 1232 01:13:19,240 --> 01:13:21,040 Speaker 1: like to be able to have all these things without 1233 01:13:21,080 --> 01:13:23,120 Speaker 1: being a burn on society. I don't have society for nothing. 1234 01:13:23,400 --> 01:13:25,800 Speaker 1: But you also want to have a simbilans of something 1235 01:13:25,880 --> 01:13:29,680 Speaker 1: that you had before. Because all every unhoused person that 1236 01:13:29,760 --> 01:13:32,080 Speaker 1: I've interviewed have the same thing. They're going to something 1237 01:13:32,120 --> 01:13:34,600 Speaker 1: on the similar as a Normously. They want to be 1238 01:13:35,120 --> 01:13:37,320 Speaker 1: where they you know, not a burden to society, true, 1239 01:13:37,360 --> 01:13:39,519 Speaker 1: but they also want to live not like they're having 1240 01:13:39,600 --> 01:13:41,920 Speaker 1: to survive at a moment's notice that they worried about 1241 01:13:41,920 --> 01:13:43,960 Speaker 1: their head gonna be bashed in or staffed to death 1242 01:13:44,080 --> 01:13:46,040 Speaker 1: or with all that kind of stuff. Exactly, I went 1243 01:13:46,120 --> 01:13:48,000 Speaker 1: from living in a three thousand dollars a month apartment 1244 01:13:48,000 --> 01:13:50,800 Speaker 1: over on Willison's in venture A Boulevard to live in 1245 01:13:50,840 --> 01:13:53,720 Speaker 1: here and in project is that apartment. That went from 1246 01:13:53,720 --> 01:13:56,000 Speaker 1: living in a three million dollar house to live in 1247 01:13:56,160 --> 01:13:58,800 Speaker 1: an apartment. So I know how I'm living a laft 1248 01:13:59,000 --> 01:14:01,439 Speaker 1: of luxury. This is not the lap of luxury, right, 1249 01:14:01,640 --> 01:14:04,160 Speaker 1: This is barredy getting there, barrely making it. This is 1250 01:14:04,240 --> 01:14:06,639 Speaker 1: in their mattress. This is not a real mattress, okay, 1251 01:14:06,720 --> 01:14:08,439 Speaker 1: and I have to replace it every three or four weeks. 1252 01:14:09,080 --> 01:14:12,640 Speaker 1: So I'm struggling every day just to survive, just to 1253 01:14:12,720 --> 01:14:15,720 Speaker 1: make it. You know, people come through here who are 1254 01:14:15,800 --> 01:14:19,160 Speaker 1: not homeless, and they glances ade my tent. I think 1255 01:14:19,160 --> 01:14:20,760 Speaker 1: you're living in a lap of luxuries. You have big 1256 01:14:20,840 --> 01:14:23,360 Speaker 1: stream TV and you're a music playing and they think, 1257 01:14:23,360 --> 01:14:24,720 Speaker 1: oh my god, look at this guy. You know, they 1258 01:14:24,760 --> 01:14:27,960 Speaker 1: see his lights yeah yeah, and they and they think, wow, 1259 01:14:28,120 --> 01:14:30,479 Speaker 1: you know, he hasn't made well because there was a 1260 01:14:30,640 --> 01:14:35,800 Speaker 1: nasty report by this horrible reporter saying meg mansions or 1261 01:14:35,920 --> 01:14:38,479 Speaker 1: having a teeki bar and things like that. And when 1262 01:14:38,520 --> 01:14:41,080 Speaker 1: you say this, what what do you say when people 1263 01:14:41,120 --> 01:14:44,200 Speaker 1: think you're living like you're in a mansion. I tell him, 1264 01:14:44,200 --> 01:14:47,240 Speaker 1: show me a mansion that lives like this, Show me 1265 01:14:47,320 --> 01:14:49,160 Speaker 1: a mini mansion that looks like this. Better than that, 1266 01:14:49,240 --> 01:14:51,320 Speaker 1: show me a house that looks like this. She's not 1267 01:14:51,400 --> 01:14:53,200 Speaker 1: living in a mansion. You know what I'm saying. I'm 1268 01:14:53,240 --> 01:14:55,840 Speaker 1: on like I get food steps every month, like any 1269 01:14:55,920 --> 01:14:59,760 Speaker 1: poor person does. You know what I'm saying. I have 1270 01:15:00,080 --> 01:15:05,000 Speaker 1: to live every day from hand to mouth. It's not life. 1271 01:15:05,200 --> 01:15:06,680 Speaker 1: I can go to the bank anytime I wanted to 1272 01:15:06,800 --> 01:15:09,599 Speaker 1: pull money out or write a check. If I get sick, 1273 01:15:09,800 --> 01:15:11,960 Speaker 1: I have to hope that the paramedics take me to 1274 01:15:12,080 --> 01:15:14,439 Speaker 1: a hospital. And that's when I got sick. They kicked 1275 01:15:14,479 --> 01:15:17,160 Speaker 1: me out of the hospital. Who really crawled? I crawled 1276 01:15:17,200 --> 01:15:18,479 Speaker 1: on my hands the knees from the door of the 1277 01:15:18,560 --> 01:15:22,120 Speaker 1: hospital to the sidewalk where I collapsed because they found 1278 01:15:22,920 --> 01:15:24,960 Speaker 1: a heroine in my system. They said that I was 1279 01:15:25,000 --> 01:15:26,800 Speaker 1: self medicating and if there was nothing they could do 1280 01:15:26,920 --> 01:15:28,240 Speaker 1: for me, and they kicked me out of the hospital. 1281 01:15:28,479 --> 01:15:31,000 Speaker 1: I can't believe that. Why kid with kidney stones, and 1282 01:15:31,439 --> 01:15:34,800 Speaker 1: I mean, I need to show you my surgical scars. Oh, 1283 01:15:34,960 --> 01:15:38,679 Speaker 1: eb I almost died, you know what I'm saying, almost died, 1284 01:15:39,640 --> 01:15:41,600 Speaker 1: you know, and sad there with the birds. It's like 1285 01:15:42,880 --> 01:15:45,519 Speaker 1: when I sat on the corner for two hours and 1286 01:15:45,640 --> 01:15:47,360 Speaker 1: when the paramedics finally showed up, they were like, oh 1287 01:15:47,400 --> 01:15:49,880 Speaker 1: my god, because I had blisters everywhere. What happened? And 1288 01:15:49,960 --> 01:15:52,559 Speaker 1: I told him? They begin the panic, Well where's this RVA? 1289 01:15:52,880 --> 01:15:55,320 Speaker 1: Is the other guy? Okay? All of these different things, 1290 01:15:56,000 --> 01:15:59,080 Speaker 1: and I realized seven years the reason they were treating 1291 01:15:59,080 --> 01:16:00,680 Speaker 1: me that way was because they didn't know I was 1292 01:16:00,760 --> 01:16:03,040 Speaker 1: homeless and didn't know when I was homeless. I wonder 1293 01:16:03,040 --> 01:16:05,080 Speaker 1: if they had treated me the same way. They took 1294 01:16:05,120 --> 01:16:06,760 Speaker 1: me to the best hospital that I could ever go 1295 01:16:06,880 --> 01:16:11,160 Speaker 1: to for treatment, which is the Grossman Burn Center in 1296 01:16:11,200 --> 01:16:13,599 Speaker 1: West Hills, right. It's the I mean, it's a multi 1297 01:16:13,680 --> 01:16:18,439 Speaker 1: billion dollar corporation that caters to those who can afford it. 1298 01:16:19,439 --> 01:16:23,680 Speaker 1: I got lucky, you know, and God bless them me. 1299 01:16:24,520 --> 01:16:28,080 Speaker 1: They pretty much they kept me from going and I 1300 01:16:28,120 --> 01:16:30,880 Speaker 1: could have died pretty much, you know, and I'm grateful 1301 01:16:30,960 --> 01:16:34,519 Speaker 1: for that. But it's just sad how we get treated 1302 01:16:34,560 --> 01:16:37,200 Speaker 1: out here. It's like people shy away from us, as 1303 01:16:37,240 --> 01:16:39,200 Speaker 1: if we have a disease or something. And I don't 1304 01:16:39,200 --> 01:16:40,680 Speaker 1: even know for a fact. I'm out here with these 1305 01:16:40,720 --> 01:16:43,640 Speaker 1: homeless people. There are less homeless people with COVID right 1306 01:16:44,080 --> 01:16:47,040 Speaker 1: than the general public, but the general public insists on 1307 01:16:47,160 --> 01:16:49,759 Speaker 1: being putting themselves in front of us. And I actually 1308 01:16:49,840 --> 01:16:54,400 Speaker 1: had someone have the nerve on who was obviously very 1309 01:16:54,439 --> 01:16:58,320 Speaker 1: sheltered and ignorant, saying, get offended about I'm saying house 1310 01:16:58,360 --> 01:17:01,960 Speaker 1: people have more COVID outbreaks the unhoused people. And it's 1311 01:17:02,000 --> 01:17:05,000 Speaker 1: a fact. It is a fact. It goes back to 1312 01:17:05,160 --> 01:17:08,760 Speaker 1: the when they had the Black Play that in the 1313 01:17:09,439 --> 01:17:14,559 Speaker 1: sixteenth seventeenth century, when ignorant people lock themselves in their 1314 01:17:14,600 --> 01:17:16,479 Speaker 1: houses with the disease because they didn't know any better, 1315 01:17:17,080 --> 01:17:20,880 Speaker 1: which caused twenty million people to die. And the thing 1316 01:17:21,000 --> 01:17:23,080 Speaker 1: is is that ignorance has always been a you know, 1317 01:17:23,280 --> 01:17:26,559 Speaker 1: stupid shit. There's always better follow ignorant and inglans. It's 1318 01:17:26,560 --> 01:17:30,120 Speaker 1: always gonna put people in a bad place. I wear 1319 01:17:30,280 --> 01:17:32,960 Speaker 1: masks because i'm'a fraid somebody that your republic is gonna 1320 01:17:32,960 --> 01:17:35,040 Speaker 1: give me the shit exactly. You know what I'm saying. 1321 01:17:35,400 --> 01:17:37,000 Speaker 1: When I go to or gas station or a store 1322 01:17:37,040 --> 01:17:39,559 Speaker 1: or something, and I have my mask on. They're worried 1323 01:17:39,560 --> 01:17:41,679 Speaker 1: about me because I'm homeless. I'm worried about them because 1324 01:17:41,680 --> 01:17:43,720 Speaker 1: they're not right, because they're the ones who are doing it. 1325 01:17:43,880 --> 01:17:47,000 Speaker 1: That's spitting and not me. I'm not spreading COVID. The 1326 01:17:47,160 --> 01:17:49,920 Speaker 1: general public are spreading COVID. And if the people who 1327 01:17:49,920 --> 01:17:53,360 Speaker 1: over saw that, they would realize that, well, maybe the 1328 01:17:53,400 --> 01:17:56,960 Speaker 1: homeless has something going on here. Basically, it's just keep 1329 01:17:57,000 --> 01:18:00,120 Speaker 1: it to yourself, you know, give your hands cleaned, n 1330 01:18:00,200 --> 01:18:03,600 Speaker 1: you know, and basically not interacting in a way that 1331 01:18:03,640 --> 01:18:05,960 Speaker 1: would be hazardous. You're helping that other person's help. MM. 1332 01:18:06,120 --> 01:18:08,240 Speaker 1: They won't allow us into the hospitals, thank god, cause 1333 01:18:08,240 --> 01:18:11,240 Speaker 1: that's where it's at, you know. They literally, if your 1334 01:18:11,240 --> 01:18:12,960 Speaker 1: homeless come to a hospital, they tell us that we 1335 01:18:13,000 --> 01:18:16,639 Speaker 1: can't be admitted, but we can't be seen because of COVID. 1336 01:18:16,760 --> 01:18:20,680 Speaker 1: M okay, well guess what your hospital is FU. All 1337 01:18:20,680 --> 01:18:22,080 Speaker 1: your bids are filled with people that are from the 1338 01:18:22,120 --> 01:18:24,160 Speaker 1: general public. What does that tell you about the homeless? 1339 01:18:24,880 --> 01:18:27,720 Speaker 1: You must be doing something right or if be doing 1340 01:18:27,760 --> 01:18:30,920 Speaker 1: something wrong, which i I turns out to be right 1341 01:18:31,040 --> 01:18:34,960 Speaker 1: because I haven't had any symbols of COVID, right, And 1342 01:18:35,080 --> 01:18:36,880 Speaker 1: when I was in the hospital for this, the burden 1343 01:18:36,960 --> 01:18:39,639 Speaker 1: for the explosion and kept testing me for COVID, which 1344 01:18:39,800 --> 01:18:42,120 Speaker 1: drove me crazy because it's the like you tip all 1345 01:18:42,160 --> 01:18:44,439 Speaker 1: the way up to your science got mm and it 1346 01:18:44,520 --> 01:18:46,160 Speaker 1: just driving me next. So it's like stop doing that, 1347 01:18:46,280 --> 01:18:48,040 Speaker 1: you know. It's just like, who we have to test people? 1348 01:18:48,040 --> 01:18:50,000 Speaker 1: Why do you have to test me for COVID because 1349 01:18:50,000 --> 01:18:52,400 Speaker 1: you're homeless? Because I'm homeless? How many people that you 1350 01:18:52,439 --> 01:18:54,880 Speaker 1: know will have COVID that are homeless? And they had 1351 01:18:54,960 --> 01:18:57,640 Speaker 1: to shut up, yup because all of them that new 1352 01:18:57,640 --> 01:18:59,600 Speaker 1: people that would had COVID were not onless. Yeah, they 1353 01:18:59,640 --> 01:19:01,439 Speaker 1: were very well to do. People that were wealthy who 1354 01:19:01,600 --> 01:19:03,720 Speaker 1: you know, live me. Oh my god. The President was 1355 01:19:03,840 --> 01:19:08,560 Speaker 1: exposed to it, thank you, you know, the Prince of 1356 01:19:08,600 --> 01:19:11,720 Speaker 1: England was exposed to it. Yeah. And now here's a 1357 01:19:11,760 --> 01:19:13,680 Speaker 1: man who's mama's worth billions of dollars and he was 1358 01:19:13,720 --> 01:19:16,320 Speaker 1: exposed to call that. What does that tell you? And 1359 01:19:16,479 --> 01:19:19,360 Speaker 1: it's like I'm tired of people judging me. I mean 1360 01:19:19,400 --> 01:19:21,880 Speaker 1: it's like I'm black and I don't even worry so 1361 01:19:22,000 --> 01:19:25,000 Speaker 1: much about being judged, uh being judged or being black 1362 01:19:25,160 --> 01:19:27,640 Speaker 1: any morning. Prejudice was rapping in this country in the 1363 01:19:27,680 --> 01:19:32,560 Speaker 1: sixties and seven. Now I'm worrying more about being criticized 1364 01:19:32,680 --> 01:19:36,360 Speaker 1: or or or or or or attacked because I'm homeless. 1365 01:19:37,560 --> 01:19:40,720 Speaker 1: We ended being homeless become a crime. We didn't be 1366 01:19:41,080 --> 01:19:43,280 Speaker 1: We needn't being without the ability to live in our 1367 01:19:43,320 --> 01:19:45,599 Speaker 1: house become a crime. Why is it because I don't 1368 01:19:45,640 --> 01:19:47,880 Speaker 1: have a house in a car, but you wanna have kids? 1369 01:19:48,040 --> 01:19:50,759 Speaker 1: Why is it a crime We didn't ever do to anybody. 1370 01:19:50,800 --> 01:19:53,920 Speaker 1: I didn't do anything to anybody. My wife has everything 1371 01:19:53,920 --> 01:19:56,680 Speaker 1: anybody could ever want right now, She's less than ten 1372 01:19:56,720 --> 01:19:59,439 Speaker 1: miles from me, and she's one of the most depressed 1373 01:19:59,439 --> 01:20:02,639 Speaker 1: people I know, m planet. Why is it that it's 1374 01:20:02,680 --> 01:20:04,679 Speaker 1: not a crime that she's living in la a luxury, 1375 01:20:04,840 --> 01:20:06,439 Speaker 1: but it's a crime that I'm living out on the board. 1376 01:20:07,439 --> 01:20:09,720 Speaker 1: I mean literally, the cop told me one day. I said, 1377 01:20:09,720 --> 01:20:11,240 Speaker 1: I don't have any idea, but you're not going to 1378 01:20:11,280 --> 01:20:14,760 Speaker 1: rest you for that. Why Why if somebody just stole 1379 01:20:14,800 --> 01:20:18,519 Speaker 1: my idea an hour ago, why am I being tortured 1380 01:20:18,560 --> 01:20:21,479 Speaker 1: it and and ticked on a harassed because I don't 1381 01:20:21,479 --> 01:20:24,000 Speaker 1: have an ID. I don't have an ID because every 1382 01:20:24,040 --> 01:20:25,400 Speaker 1: time your mother fucks look at it and wanted to 1383 01:20:25,400 --> 01:20:28,840 Speaker 1: take me to jail. I mean, my history, my my, my, 1384 01:20:29,160 --> 01:20:33,439 Speaker 1: my history of the books. When they look at my my, 1385 01:20:33,680 --> 01:20:35,880 Speaker 1: my police record, they stopped talking to me. Uh huh, 1386 01:20:36,640 --> 01:20:38,080 Speaker 1: because they know I have nothing to say to them. 1387 01:20:38,120 --> 01:20:39,599 Speaker 1: I already know what the game is. I know what's 1388 01:20:39,600 --> 01:20:42,120 Speaker 1: gonna happen, so I don't speak to them. But when 1389 01:20:42,120 --> 01:20:43,479 Speaker 1: I sit here and watching, like this morning, when they 1390 01:20:43,520 --> 01:20:45,680 Speaker 1: take you an harass. They came to and harassed him 1391 01:20:45,720 --> 01:20:49,160 Speaker 1: this morning. He wasn't bothering anybody. They pulled up on 1392 01:20:49,240 --> 01:20:52,120 Speaker 1: him on in droves and and and messed with him 1393 01:20:52,560 --> 01:20:54,920 Speaker 1: for almost an hour. They started were trying to find 1394 01:20:55,000 --> 01:20:57,840 Speaker 1: some way to take his stuff, or if to take 1395 01:20:57,920 --> 01:20:59,840 Speaker 1: his trailer and to it. They came to it too. 1396 01:20:59,840 --> 01:21:01,640 Speaker 1: We to go and s and told people's vehicles and 1397 01:21:01,720 --> 01:21:03,640 Speaker 1: just took 'em. You know, these people can't afford to 1398 01:21:03,680 --> 01:21:05,880 Speaker 1: get that stuff out of the empound, So it's this 1399 01:21:06,040 --> 01:21:08,880 Speaker 1: car my home grow down the way. They had two 1400 01:21:09,000 --> 01:21:13,080 Speaker 1: RV's full of stuff. They told both the RVs hundreds 1401 01:21:13,240 --> 01:21:15,200 Speaker 1: of dollars put the things in them. Would not let 1402 01:21:15,280 --> 01:21:17,080 Speaker 1: 'em get their things out of these RVs. Took the 1403 01:21:17,200 --> 01:21:19,280 Speaker 1: RV's away, and they they they weren't able to recover 1404 01:21:19,360 --> 01:21:22,240 Speaker 1: their things. Why is that? Okay? Mm, they would never 1405 01:21:22,320 --> 01:21:25,519 Speaker 1: be except when the private sector, these RV's parked out here, 1406 01:21:25,560 --> 01:21:27,920 Speaker 1: they harassed him all the time. I can go back 1407 01:21:27,920 --> 01:21:29,960 Speaker 1: into any of these neighborhoods and this RV's parked all 1408 01:21:29,960 --> 01:21:32,639 Speaker 1: in front of those houses in the driveways. The police 1409 01:21:32,680 --> 01:21:34,840 Speaker 1: never say anything to them about those RV's. Yeah, why 1410 01:21:34,920 --> 01:21:38,280 Speaker 1: because nobody's living in them. I don't understand it, man, 1411 01:21:38,520 --> 01:21:42,840 Speaker 1: You know, I'm just one person, I mean amongst thousands, right, 1412 01:21:42,920 --> 01:21:45,719 Speaker 1: we're only tryna live every day. Man. You know, yourself 1413 01:21:45,760 --> 01:21:48,599 Speaker 1: and myself, we're both lucky to be alive. Bro, living 1414 01:21:48,600 --> 01:21:50,280 Speaker 1: out here on these streets, we're lucky to be alive. 1415 01:21:50,640 --> 01:21:53,439 Speaker 1: I agree, you know, because not only we do, we 1416 01:21:53,600 --> 01:21:55,519 Speaker 1: have each other to worry about it. We terms to 1417 01:21:55,560 --> 01:21:59,720 Speaker 1: being victimized. The general public victorizes us, the police victormids us. 1418 01:22:00,240 --> 01:22:02,000 Speaker 1: You know, pretty soon the National Guard's gonna be in 1419 01:22:02,000 --> 01:22:05,360 Speaker 1: the you know it's not gonna be long. Then. This 1420 01:22:05,479 --> 01:22:07,920 Speaker 1: is Steel Henderson from weed in House, and I thank 1421 01:22:08,000 --> 01:22:10,000 Speaker 1: you for taking your time. I want to ask you, 1422 01:22:10,200 --> 01:22:11,840 Speaker 1: but can we come back to check on your have this? 1423 01:22:12,000 --> 01:22:13,640 Speaker 1: You man? Can you tell you what you're calling through. Bro. 1424 01:22:13,840 --> 01:22:15,840 Speaker 1: Thank you, Uh, like I said, you have seemed like 1425 01:22:15,880 --> 01:22:17,640 Speaker 1: you have much of it. And I hope you have 1426 01:22:17,760 --> 01:22:20,760 Speaker 1: a safe holiday. And I wish more of our our 1427 01:22:20,800 --> 01:22:23,400 Speaker 1: listeners meet in the light of understanding and listening to 1428 01:22:23,520 --> 01:22:25,720 Speaker 1: your words. Thank you very much for your time to 1429 01:22:25,760 --> 01:22:28,720 Speaker 1: stand one day. We're not there. I mean, we're not 1430 01:22:28,800 --> 01:22:30,960 Speaker 1: the enemy. We're the same person that you are. You 1431 01:22:31,000 --> 01:22:33,720 Speaker 1: already felt a little bit of a hard lot. You know, 1432 01:22:33,960 --> 01:22:36,320 Speaker 1: that's all it is. Man, You just like you, you 1433 01:22:36,400 --> 01:22:54,400 Speaker 1: know well said well said, showing me time, I see 1434 01:23:01,200 --> 01:23:30,840 Speaker 1: like a mo theless child, So time ah, feed like 1435 01:23:31,080 --> 01:23:57,880 Speaker 1: a mo theless child. Sometimes I have feed like a 1436 01:23:58,400 --> 01:24:28,320 Speaker 1: mode of theist chize A long from home, a long 1437 01:24:36,960 --> 01:25:20,200 Speaker 1: forh sometimes lack time allmost gone, so time hay like 1438 01:25:20,439 --> 01:25:52,640 Speaker 1: i'mon most go sometimes apy like im most go W 1439 01:26:01,280 --> 01:26:37,759 Speaker 1: in theven Li lane way in the heaven lea lane, 1440 01:26:49,400 --> 01:27:42,320 Speaker 1: really evil way in the heaven land way in the land. 1441 01:27:51,080 --> 01:27:53,960 Speaker 1: I'm here out of same as center. This is three 1442 01:27:54,200 --> 01:27:59,799 Speaker 1: election results. We are in uh in a insesitive environment. 1443 01:28:00,280 --> 01:28:03,919 Speaker 1: There's black lives matter. The youths are out here enjoying themselves, 1444 01:28:04,040 --> 01:28:10,120 Speaker 1: showing solidarity and a way to Uh, just just take 1445 01:28:10,160 --> 01:28:12,559 Speaker 1: the leadership be together and it's too long to his time. 1446 01:28:13,080 --> 01:28:16,479 Speaker 1: In the studios here I have doctor Lena Abdullah and 1447 01:28:16,640 --> 01:28:20,639 Speaker 1: I want to give her an interview. I think she's 1448 01:28:20,720 --> 01:28:23,080 Speaker 1: in the middle of a conversation. So we're gonna happen 1449 01:28:23,080 --> 01:28:25,720 Speaker 1: to play this right here. We just want to ask 1450 01:28:25,720 --> 01:28:28,720 Speaker 1: you first, because you're Americ busy lady. We just want 1451 01:28:28,760 --> 01:28:30,599 Speaker 1: to thank you all for taking the time to talk 1452 01:28:30,640 --> 01:28:33,000 Speaker 1: to so what is going on here? I just know 1453 01:28:33,120 --> 01:28:34,920 Speaker 1: this is a lot of sensativity. It just makes you 1454 01:28:34,960 --> 01:28:37,960 Speaker 1: want to cut a rug a good boss. This is 1455 01:28:38,640 --> 01:28:43,439 Speaker 1: a marathon. Black Lives Matter, a marathon party at the post. 1456 01:28:44,320 --> 01:28:46,880 Speaker 1: We've been here since seven o'clock this morning. Oh my 1457 01:28:47,040 --> 01:28:51,400 Speaker 1: jo here we are you optimistic with the difference fal 1458 01:28:51,479 --> 01:28:54,920 Speaker 1: rdulton going to be and absolute. We are declaring and 1459 01:28:55,439 --> 01:29:02,160 Speaker 1: victory on every level of the light out or go 1460 01:29:02,360 --> 01:29:05,880 Speaker 1: out the White House. You gonna eject LA out of 1461 01:29:05,880 --> 01:29:15,200 Speaker 1: the wet sea. I'm speteen sixteen as we all kill 1462 01:29:16,520 --> 01:29:19,000 Speaker 1: twenty five. One of the things I noticed too, is 1463 01:29:19,080 --> 01:29:21,639 Speaker 1: that can for the unhoused, Like there's a conversation going 1464 01:29:21,720 --> 01:29:24,640 Speaker 1: on about forty one eighteen and they're trying to amend it. 1465 01:29:25,080 --> 01:29:27,879 Speaker 1: And we're trying to the Unhouse community and other activists 1466 01:29:28,120 --> 01:29:30,960 Speaker 1: are trying to hear off for the election of twenty 1467 01:29:31,040 --> 01:29:34,240 Speaker 1: twenty two and November twenty four, they are trying to 1468 01:29:34,360 --> 01:29:36,920 Speaker 1: really push the ram this through in public. What is it? 1469 01:29:37,120 --> 01:29:39,840 Speaker 1: What suggestions that you have in order to really make 1470 01:29:39,880 --> 01:29:43,240 Speaker 1: sure that discussing come to pass. We're working out Oh 1471 01:29:43,320 --> 01:29:50,720 Speaker 1: my god, man, working at thank you, thank you, no, 1472 01:29:51,960 --> 01:30:04,840 Speaker 1: no that. So it's really enough understanding. I just agreeingly. 1473 01:30:05,600 --> 01:30:07,800 Speaker 1: That's one of the things about your house. What are 1474 01:30:07,840 --> 01:30:11,280 Speaker 1: you saying for people that I keep hearing that say, well, 1475 01:30:11,479 --> 01:30:13,599 Speaker 1: the void, keep your vote, no matter, if both voting 1476 01:30:13,640 --> 01:30:16,200 Speaker 1: really don't change anything, What would you say to people 1477 01:30:16,240 --> 01:30:19,759 Speaker 1: to say that I have that idea voting look mattery, 1478 01:30:20,479 --> 01:30:25,479 Speaker 1: trying to block up, trying thank you, try to keep you. 1479 01:30:26,439 --> 01:30:31,160 Speaker 1: I'm quite absolutely that's one of the things that I 1480 01:30:31,320 --> 01:30:33,760 Speaker 1: want to put out. Another point I always say is 1481 01:30:34,280 --> 01:30:37,800 Speaker 1: if voting didn't matter, then that's fine for you. But 1482 01:30:37,880 --> 01:30:40,120 Speaker 1: the people that are I'm trying to oppress you, they 1483 01:30:40,200 --> 01:30:42,960 Speaker 1: have no problem going to the polling place voting, foil 1484 01:30:43,120 --> 01:30:46,160 Speaker 1: a criminalization against you and put their foot on your neck. 1485 01:30:46,520 --> 01:30:49,439 Speaker 1: So obviously they must think that vote matter. So if 1486 01:30:49,479 --> 01:30:51,720 Speaker 1: you if you don't think that that's wonderful, you could 1487 01:30:51,760 --> 01:30:54,160 Speaker 1: be outstaying all you want, but they're still voting and 1488 01:30:54,200 --> 01:30:57,960 Speaker 1: calling their their congressman, the president and anybody else that 1489 01:30:58,080 --> 01:31:00,400 Speaker 1: they want to be able to continue to I'm alive. 1490 01:31:01,240 --> 01:31:03,760 Speaker 1: So this is one of the things that I wanted 1491 01:31:03,800 --> 01:31:05,400 Speaker 1: to thank you for your time. I know that you 1492 01:31:05,479 --> 01:31:07,719 Speaker 1: know you're a very busy lady, but thank you again. 1493 01:31:08,520 --> 01:31:13,120 Speaker 1: I will hopefully at a eight we get a little boy. 1494 01:31:16,080 --> 01:31:18,960 Speaker 1: Thank you very much. This Iso Henderson Commedia a House, 1495 01:31:19,280 --> 01:31:21,479 Speaker 1: and I thank you all for listening. And I hope 1496 01:31:21,520 --> 01:31:53,080 Speaker 1: again we needed a light of understanding. Voting holds a 1497 01:31:53,160 --> 01:31:57,680 Speaker 1: different resonance for people of color that are African ancestry 1498 01:31:58,400 --> 01:32:02,599 Speaker 1: in this country, in particular in that when I created 1499 01:32:02,640 --> 01:32:05,200 Speaker 1: this episode, I wanted to show that some of the 1500 01:32:05,400 --> 01:32:09,839 Speaker 1: music and the undercurrent that outside cultures that don't understand. 1501 01:32:10,400 --> 01:32:14,439 Speaker 1: And when I was creating this episode, I could see 1502 01:32:14,680 --> 01:32:19,840 Speaker 1: the dearth of cultural significance and understanding sometimes when I 1503 01:32:19,880 --> 01:32:25,920 Speaker 1: would introduce certain musical selections, you know, or trying to 1504 01:32:26,040 --> 01:32:29,600 Speaker 1: find how to what that struggle is and what the 1505 01:32:29,800 --> 01:32:33,599 Speaker 1: deeper complexities of the issue of today. Doing the video 1506 01:32:33,760 --> 01:32:36,640 Speaker 1: of Wei a House so I'm going to explain a 1507 01:32:36,680 --> 01:32:40,160 Speaker 1: little bit about what is called the Black National Anthem. 1508 01:32:40,240 --> 01:32:43,240 Speaker 1: When I was a child, this was something that was 1509 01:32:43,439 --> 01:32:47,960 Speaker 1: instilled in us to show a living tapestry of our history. 1510 01:32:49,080 --> 01:32:52,800 Speaker 1: Many people look to the star spangled banner as some 1511 01:32:52,960 --> 01:32:56,360 Speaker 1: kind of uplifting and a motivator. For many people of 1512 01:32:56,400 --> 01:32:59,160 Speaker 1: African An accestry or that lived in a certain time 1513 01:32:59,280 --> 01:33:02,559 Speaker 1: through this country, we took the Negro National anthem, lift 1514 01:33:02,600 --> 01:33:06,040 Speaker 1: every voice and sing as such. And the first stance 1515 01:33:06,120 --> 01:33:08,320 Speaker 1: that talks about it when it says, lift every voice 1516 01:33:08,360 --> 01:33:11,320 Speaker 1: and sing to Earth and heaven ring, ring with the 1517 01:33:11,439 --> 01:33:15,720 Speaker 1: harmonies of liberty. Now, that's usually when you can hear 1518 01:33:15,840 --> 01:33:18,720 Speaker 1: TEA parties or Republicans talk that nonsense when they're talking 1519 01:33:18,760 --> 01:33:22,840 Speaker 1: about a mask and the lack thereof. But for people 1520 01:33:22,920 --> 01:33:27,200 Speaker 1: that have been in bondage for several centuries, that has 1521 01:33:27,240 --> 01:33:30,720 Speaker 1: a different significance. For people that talk about when they 1522 01:33:30,800 --> 01:33:34,679 Speaker 1: were script from their motherland script and enforced here, that's 1523 01:33:34,720 --> 01:33:36,920 Speaker 1: the different significance. And it had got a thing to 1524 01:33:37,040 --> 01:33:40,639 Speaker 1: do with people's masks or a constitutional right for about 1525 01:33:40,680 --> 01:33:45,000 Speaker 1: a mask, it's also what their humanity. So when we 1526 01:33:45,080 --> 01:33:48,680 Speaker 1: go from lift every voice and sing from Earth and 1527 01:33:48,800 --> 01:33:52,559 Speaker 1: heaven ring ring with the harmonies of liberty. Let our 1528 01:33:52,640 --> 01:33:57,120 Speaker 1: rejoicing rise. That means, once we're free, let it rid rise, 1529 01:33:57,840 --> 01:34:01,000 Speaker 1: and as you conceide that we are still rising and 1530 01:34:01,080 --> 01:34:05,720 Speaker 1: lifting our voices and to vote, let it resound as 1531 01:34:05,760 --> 01:34:07,600 Speaker 1: the loud as the world has seas. That means that 1532 01:34:07,760 --> 01:34:13,840 Speaker 1: our collective chanting, our collective rejoicing will move mountains and 1533 01:34:13,920 --> 01:34:17,320 Speaker 1: move the earth. Office access if you will offer access 1534 01:34:17,360 --> 01:34:20,960 Speaker 1: of injustice. And then the second and third Stanzas talks 1535 01:34:20,960 --> 01:34:26,040 Speaker 1: about the struggles of the past, because we our African ancestry, 1536 01:34:26,160 --> 01:34:29,400 Speaker 1: dealt with a lot of the spoken word and in 1537 01:34:29,560 --> 01:34:35,200 Speaker 1: order for keeping our lineage and our lines of history connected. 1538 01:34:35,920 --> 01:34:38,960 Speaker 1: So when we talk about the size and the struggles 1539 01:34:39,040 --> 01:34:41,960 Speaker 1: and stonies of road we trod literally, we're talking about 1540 01:34:42,000 --> 01:34:46,200 Speaker 1: the physical aspect and torture of that. So the second 1541 01:34:46,240 --> 01:34:50,320 Speaker 1: and third Stanzas are equally more important and for the 1542 01:34:50,479 --> 01:34:55,400 Speaker 1: generations that now that has been embroiled with people talking 1543 01:34:55,400 --> 01:34:59,720 Speaker 1: about calling it black supremacy or just willfully ignorant and 1544 01:35:00,080 --> 01:35:06,120 Speaker 1: and desecrating the historical advances and the advances of our people. 1545 01:35:06,880 --> 01:35:11,400 Speaker 1: That's really problematic. But it's also an issue that we 1546 01:35:11,560 --> 01:35:14,439 Speaker 1: as a society. We shouldn't push back and let our 1547 01:35:14,560 --> 01:35:17,760 Speaker 1: voices rise as loud as the rolling sea to push 1548 01:35:17,840 --> 01:35:20,320 Speaker 1: back against that hate. We are trying to do that 1549 01:35:20,560 --> 01:35:24,800 Speaker 1: with the voting of this election. But we need to 1550 01:35:24,880 --> 01:35:28,960 Speaker 1: steal let God of our weary years. Our weary years 1551 01:35:29,040 --> 01:35:32,080 Speaker 1: is not given complete. We still have a few more 1552 01:35:33,080 --> 01:35:36,800 Speaker 1: dark times, but we must steal stony the world. We tried, 1553 01:35:37,120 --> 01:35:39,679 Speaker 1: God of our lightning rods, so we need to continue 1554 01:35:39,760 --> 01:35:43,400 Speaker 1: to press on. So this narration about this is to 1555 01:35:43,560 --> 01:35:49,679 Speaker 1: implore non African ancestry people to understand it's more about 1556 01:35:49,760 --> 01:35:53,040 Speaker 1: just smacking of music or just taiwan An episode. This 1557 01:35:53,280 --> 01:35:56,120 Speaker 1: was our legacy. This was our coded language because we 1558 01:35:56,160 --> 01:35:59,280 Speaker 1: couldn't read or write. This was our language to ourselves 1559 01:35:59,680 --> 01:36:03,560 Speaker 1: to continue to press on through the darkness and for 1560 01:36:03,840 --> 01:36:06,720 Speaker 1: us to get to the point of liberty not only 1561 01:36:06,880 --> 01:36:11,439 Speaker 1: celestial but also earthbound. This is Steo Henderson from Media House. 1562 01:36:11,520 --> 01:36:15,040 Speaker 1: I hope this education will resound in your ears and 1563 01:36:15,160 --> 01:36:18,120 Speaker 1: pass on to the next generation. Maybe all meet in 1564 01:36:18,200 --> 01:37:01,880 Speaker 1: a life work the