1 00:00:01,720 --> 00:00:05,319 Speaker 1: You may have seen them running around on the bikes, mopads, 2 00:00:05,320 --> 00:00:09,559 Speaker 1: segues or cars. They had times dressed like the police, 3 00:00:09,760 --> 00:00:12,720 Speaker 1: and they act like the police. But the reality is 4 00:00:12,760 --> 00:00:16,360 Speaker 1: they are not the police. They are private security officers 5 00:00:16,920 --> 00:00:21,920 Speaker 1: paid for by the community to harass unhoused or working 6 00:00:21,920 --> 00:00:28,600 Speaker 1: class people. They are the BIDS Business Improvement District for short. 7 00:00:29,480 --> 00:00:33,440 Speaker 1: They are headed by an executive director who oversees the 8 00:00:33,479 --> 00:00:38,000 Speaker 1: business interest of the community. And I'm putting emphasis on 9 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:41,879 Speaker 1: business interests. Their interest is to raise their property values, 10 00:00:42,479 --> 00:00:47,160 Speaker 1: to dehumanize the unhoused, to run them off for minor offenses, 11 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:52,480 Speaker 1: for example surviving in a bad situation despite inclement weather, 12 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:56,840 Speaker 1: or just trying to avoid the harassment of the police. 13 00:00:58,080 --> 00:01:01,840 Speaker 1: Business owners call them when they're tired of seeing them, 14 00:01:02,080 --> 00:01:05,640 Speaker 1: or verd ayes or or they run off their customers. 15 00:01:06,040 --> 00:01:10,959 Speaker 1: You may see them when a individual is panhandling, a 16 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:15,200 Speaker 1: customer goes in and complains. They'll call these organizations and 17 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:18,600 Speaker 1: they come out. They'll ask them to leave. If they 18 00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:22,200 Speaker 1: don't leave, they call the police and the police will 19 00:01:22,240 --> 00:01:26,399 Speaker 1: eagerly respond because they have been having a one on 20 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:30,440 Speaker 1: one connection with them in Chinatown. That is what the 21 00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:35,760 Speaker 1: role is here. This unhoused and working class terrorists? Is 22 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:39,440 Speaker 1: George you? In our episode today, we're going to discuss 23 00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:44,399 Speaker 1: at lengths how bits came into origins, as well as 24 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:46,440 Speaker 1: talk with one of the people that have been trying 25 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:49,040 Speaker 1: to dismantle them for some time and expose them for 26 00:01:49,080 --> 00:02:01,680 Speaker 1: the corrupt organizations that they are. Adrian riskin Unhoused News 27 00:02:02,240 --> 00:02:07,800 Speaker 1: on December twenty six, two thousand nineteen, Councilwoman Neurie Martinez 28 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:11,320 Speaker 1: will retaliate against the unhoused and against the uphill ruling 29 00:02:11,360 --> 00:02:14,440 Speaker 1: of Martin versus Poise and sweep unhoused residents out of 30 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:18,560 Speaker 1: her area. On December thirty of twenty seventeen, Echo Park 31 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:22,480 Speaker 1: Lake Mitchell Farrell councilmen will be uprooting the unhoused in 32 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:28,160 Speaker 1: Echo Park Lake. Rapper youth based humiliated unhoused residents in 33 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:31,640 Speaker 1: skid row by tossing money into the air and throwing 34 00:02:31,680 --> 00:02:33,840 Speaker 1: it at him as Washington as they were fighting as 35 00:02:33,880 --> 00:02:38,680 Speaker 1: if they were animals. In Atlanta, Georgia, family of seven 36 00:02:39,320 --> 00:02:42,960 Speaker 1: are unhoused due to a fire on their home and 37 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:49,399 Speaker 1: they are living in their vans. Before Christmas, Houston, Texas 38 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:53,639 Speaker 1: police force and house residents to throw away food donated 39 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:56,760 Speaker 1: to them and blankets, leaving them into the cold and 40 00:02:56,760 --> 00:03:02,320 Speaker 1: facing hypothermia. Rents are respectable for thousands in Los Angeles 41 00:03:02,360 --> 00:03:06,800 Speaker 1: County to live in their vehicles. According to KTLA on 42 00:03:06,880 --> 00:03:09,840 Speaker 1: December twenty second, an unhouse person couldn't handle being on 43 00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:13,640 Speaker 1: housed anymore, and she has committed suicide. Rest in peace. 44 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:19,679 Speaker 1: On January eighteenth, twenty twenty, at three o'clock in the 45 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:23,200 Speaker 1: PM if the Museum of Social Justice will have a 46 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:27,600 Speaker 1: live performance of the Bench. Ticket prices are twenty dollars 47 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:32,800 Speaker 1: for general, ten dollars for students ready. In California, Mayor 48 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:38,440 Speaker 1: moves to create a concentration camp for unhoused folk. Due 49 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:42,800 Speaker 1: to the holidays, there is a high end of suicides 50 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:45,800 Speaker 1: and suicide ideations, So here are some numbers to call 51 00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:48,480 Speaker 1: if you feel these or you know someone that are 52 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:53,400 Speaker 1: experiencing these type of situations. The National Hotline for Suicide 53 00:03:53,480 --> 00:03:59,160 Speaker 1: Trevor Project call eight six six four eight eight seven 54 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:03,920 Speaker 1: three eight six again eight sixty six four eight eight 55 00:04:04,360 --> 00:04:10,240 Speaker 1: seven three eighty six, or Nammy call eight hundred nine 56 00:04:10,320 --> 00:04:27,920 Speaker 1: five zero n A m I. The National Suicide Prevention 57 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:32,559 Speaker 1: Lifeline number. You please call one eight hundred two seven 58 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:37,520 Speaker 1: three eighty two fifty five one eight hundred two seven 59 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:46,640 Speaker 1: three eight two five five. My guest today is Adrian Riskin, 60 00:04:47,320 --> 00:04:52,599 Speaker 1: a staleward fixture and an ongoing war of eradicating business 61 00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:58,760 Speaker 1: improvement district personnel. This individual has been a instrumental two 62 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:01,680 Speaker 1: of the fours and exposing the corruption in our city 63 00:05:01,760 --> 00:05:06,640 Speaker 1: government's business improvement district and police officers and their request 64 00:05:06,920 --> 00:05:11,760 Speaker 1: on making on house and vulnerable people targeted and uncomfortable. 65 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:15,360 Speaker 1: Today in our studio is with Adriane Riskin. He has 66 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:20,160 Speaker 1: been working with the exposure since I believe twenty fourteen. 67 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:23,560 Speaker 1: Without further Ado, let me welcome you and let him 68 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:29,159 Speaker 1: take over the helm. Welcome Adrian. Oh hey, well thanks 69 00:05:29,200 --> 00:05:33,680 Speaker 1: for having me. I wanted to just give I kind 70 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:35,599 Speaker 1: of gave you a little bit of a snapshot of 71 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:38,159 Speaker 1: what your experiences was. Can you tell us a little 72 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:41,159 Speaker 1: bit more about how did you get involved? Yeah? It 73 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:43,200 Speaker 1: was it was very random. I was living in Hollywood 74 00:05:43,240 --> 00:05:45,479 Speaker 1: in twenty fourteen and I had no idea what a 75 00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:48,640 Speaker 1: business improvement district was. But I saw these two guys 76 00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:51,839 Speaker 1: who looked like cops on bicycles wearing green T shirts, 77 00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:56,040 Speaker 1: just hassling this homeless man. Who was obviously he was 78 00:05:56,080 --> 00:05:59,760 Speaker 1: obviously mentally ill. He was muttering to himself and they 79 00:05:59,760 --> 00:06:03,120 Speaker 1: were screaming at him, and it was I stopped to 80 00:06:03,440 --> 00:06:05,279 Speaker 1: record the whole thing, and they ended up calling in 81 00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:08,160 Speaker 1: a false police report on him, and it just upset 82 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:10,799 Speaker 1: me so much that they had somehow, these two guys 83 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:13,440 Speaker 1: in green shirts had a direct line to the LAPD 84 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:15,120 Speaker 1: and they were willing to call them up and say 85 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:17,760 Speaker 1: the guy had made criminal threats against them, when obviously 86 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:21,520 Speaker 1: he didn't. So I started looking into some matters and 87 00:06:21,839 --> 00:06:25,040 Speaker 1: it just what I learned was so incredible. I felt 88 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:27,080 Speaker 1: like I had to publicize it. And that's how it 89 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:29,400 Speaker 1: all got started. Do you think that this is a 90 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:32,600 Speaker 1: common occurrence that the business improvement districts does this kind 91 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:35,720 Speaker 1: of thing? Yeah, this happens every day, hundreds of times 92 00:06:35,760 --> 00:06:38,520 Speaker 1: around the city. Every business improvement district that has a 93 00:06:38,560 --> 00:06:41,320 Speaker 1: security force, they don't all have them, but the ones 94 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:43,920 Speaker 1: that do this is what they do. They ride around 95 00:06:43,960 --> 00:06:46,760 Speaker 1: in their bikes or in their cars and they hassle 96 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:50,440 Speaker 1: unhoused people. The goal seems to be to get them 97 00:06:50,480 --> 00:06:53,520 Speaker 1: to move somewhere else, okay, and the city of Los 98 00:06:53,560 --> 00:06:56,200 Speaker 1: Angeles can't do that because it's too big. You know, 99 00:06:56,240 --> 00:06:58,360 Speaker 1: he can move people around in the city, but they're 100 00:06:58,360 --> 00:07:00,760 Speaker 1: still in the city. But business Improvement to are small 101 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:03,560 Speaker 1: and they win if they can move people four blocks over. 102 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:07,000 Speaker 1: And yeah, it happens all the time. Have you had 103 00:07:07,040 --> 00:07:10,840 Speaker 1: any experience of this kind of occurrence? Have you seen 104 00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:14,120 Speaker 1: any Business Improved District employees here in Chinatown or have 105 00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:17,720 Speaker 1: you had any integractions with them? I haven't spent much 106 00:07:17,760 --> 00:07:21,480 Speaker 1: time in Chinatown watching on the streets what happens with them. 107 00:07:21,520 --> 00:07:24,640 Speaker 1: I see them around when I'm here, so not really. 108 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:28,320 Speaker 1: I mean, my experiences direct experiences are mostly in Hollywood 109 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:34,920 Speaker 1: and downtown and to some extent in Venice. But I've 110 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:38,480 Speaker 1: read a lot of emails about the Business Improvement District 111 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:42,200 Speaker 1: security in Chinatown and other things, conversations with the police 112 00:07:42,280 --> 00:07:45,840 Speaker 1: concerning them and the city Attorney's office, So I have 113 00:07:45,920 --> 00:07:48,760 Speaker 1: that kind of experience. Can you let the audience in 114 00:07:48,880 --> 00:07:51,640 Speaker 1: on what kind of tone or what kind of conversation 115 00:07:51,760 --> 00:07:54,040 Speaker 1: is Is it usually a positive thing with the police 116 00:07:54,080 --> 00:07:57,640 Speaker 1: about the bits or are people complaining about them here 117 00:07:57,760 --> 00:08:02,000 Speaker 1: or well? No, the police and the BIDS get along 118 00:08:02,120 --> 00:08:04,840 Speaker 1: super well. It's the same with the BIDS and any 119 00:08:04,840 --> 00:08:07,880 Speaker 1: part of the city. Government. The BIDS are basically like 120 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:11,400 Speaker 1: a privatized arm of the city government. They carry out 121 00:08:11,440 --> 00:08:17,960 Speaker 1: city policies. They get this kind of unbelievable cooperation with 122 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:20,720 Speaker 1: the police and with other parts of the city government. 123 00:08:20,760 --> 00:08:23,960 Speaker 1: So they're all super it's a one big, happy family there. 124 00:08:24,520 --> 00:08:27,120 Speaker 1: So they're guilty by association. My mom used to say, 125 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:30,320 Speaker 1: birds of us feather flock together. So if they are 126 00:08:30,400 --> 00:08:33,040 Speaker 1: engaging in these kind of activities like you stated that 127 00:08:33,080 --> 00:08:36,320 Speaker 1: you've seen in twenty fourteen, so the police in itself 128 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:38,680 Speaker 1: is okay with these kinds of things. It seems to me, 129 00:08:38,880 --> 00:08:41,400 Speaker 1: do you think, yeah, no, they're more than okay with it. 130 00:08:41,400 --> 00:08:43,959 Speaker 1: It's like they actively encourage it. Okay. You got to 131 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:45,840 Speaker 1: think about what would happen if you or I called 132 00:08:45,840 --> 00:08:48,200 Speaker 1: in a false police report. I mean there would be 133 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:51,280 Speaker 1: we would get in trouble. Okay. It's like, meanwhile, nothing 134 00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:54,160 Speaker 1: happened to these two guys. The Business Improvement District wouldn't 135 00:08:54,160 --> 00:08:56,120 Speaker 1: even listen to my complaint about them. I don't owe 136 00:08:56,160 --> 00:08:59,160 Speaker 1: the police, and I've tried over the years to complain 137 00:08:59,280 --> 00:09:02,400 Speaker 1: to the city and to the police about bids, and 138 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:04,600 Speaker 1: I just get it's like they tell me the best 139 00:09:04,640 --> 00:09:06,360 Speaker 1: they tell me is there's nothing they can do, and 140 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:09,320 Speaker 1: the worst is they tell me that they're happy with 141 00:09:09,360 --> 00:09:12,480 Speaker 1: what they're doing. I experienced that same thing too. I 142 00:09:12,640 --> 00:09:15,640 Speaker 1: talked to one of the higher ends up, the senior 143 00:09:15,720 --> 00:09:18,680 Speaker 1: lead officers, that has no intention of trying to remove 144 00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:22,120 Speaker 1: the bids here in Chinatown. In fact, it was your 145 00:09:22,240 --> 00:09:25,800 Speaker 1: reporting skills have shown that the business Improvement district here 146 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:28,960 Speaker 1: in Chinatown has just been awarded twenty four nine hundred 147 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:31,360 Speaker 1: dollars by Gill Cidello. Can you talk a little bit 148 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:34,360 Speaker 1: about that? Yeah? Sure. So the city has this fund 149 00:09:35,520 --> 00:09:38,040 Speaker 1: of public money that they use to help business improvement 150 00:09:38,080 --> 00:09:40,600 Speaker 1: districts pay for their renewal process, which they have to 151 00:09:40,640 --> 00:09:43,200 Speaker 1: do every few years, and it's pretty expensive. So I 152 00:09:43,280 --> 00:09:45,520 Speaker 1: read the city motions every day that they come out, 153 00:09:45,559 --> 00:09:49,280 Speaker 1: and I saw earlier this week that Cidio had moved 154 00:09:49,640 --> 00:09:51,800 Speaker 1: to pay Georgi U of the Chinatown bid. It was 155 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:54,120 Speaker 1: about twenty five thousand, I don't remember the exact number 156 00:09:54,400 --> 00:09:56,920 Speaker 1: to pay for his renewal. So, you know, I emailed 157 00:09:56,960 --> 00:09:59,800 Speaker 1: Cidio's office, and I know one of his staffers pretty 158 00:09:59,800 --> 00:10:02,600 Speaker 1: well through public records requests, and I said, you know, look, 159 00:10:02,679 --> 00:10:06,280 Speaker 1: I'm suing this bid for violing the Public Records Act. 160 00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:08,120 Speaker 1: He's going to have to pay my lawyers about fifty 161 00:10:08,160 --> 00:10:10,440 Speaker 1: thousand dollars at this point, and I don't think it's 162 00:10:10,440 --> 00:10:12,480 Speaker 1: reasonable for you to give him twenty five thousand dollars 163 00:10:12,520 --> 00:10:16,080 Speaker 1: in tax money to help him cover this renewal when 164 00:10:16,160 --> 00:10:19,600 Speaker 1: he's just wasting money on purpose. And they wrote back 165 00:10:19,640 --> 00:10:22,280 Speaker 1: to me and said like they weren't going to stop it. Okay, 166 00:10:22,040 --> 00:10:24,760 Speaker 1: they need the bid in Chinatown, they told me, So 167 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:27,719 Speaker 1: what is there, Rastadale for why they needing the bit? 168 00:10:27,840 --> 00:10:30,679 Speaker 1: Because I have, as you as most of the listeners know, 169 00:10:30,720 --> 00:10:34,160 Speaker 1: I've been targeted by Georgia on multiple occasions and they 170 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:37,559 Speaker 1: have been harassed. And my first experience with Georgiu was 171 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:42,440 Speaker 1: when he was what the large pipe actually two separate occasions, 172 00:10:42,480 --> 00:10:46,000 Speaker 1: and a large dog hastling an unhoused person at Alpine 173 00:10:46,040 --> 00:10:50,000 Speaker 1: Recreation Center, which is a public park. But he has eyes, 174 00:10:50,080 --> 00:10:53,800 Speaker 1: he has his tentacles, and then trying to privatize a 175 00:10:53,800 --> 00:10:58,000 Speaker 1: public park. Why do you think that they're won't do anything? Well, okay, 176 00:10:58,120 --> 00:11:00,920 Speaker 1: I've tried over the years to get somebody from the 177 00:11:00,960 --> 00:11:03,400 Speaker 1: city to tell me why they need bids so badly, 178 00:11:03,440 --> 00:11:05,880 Speaker 1: and they just won't comment on it. So you have 179 00:11:05,920 --> 00:11:07,760 Speaker 1: to look at how they use the bids if you 180 00:11:07,800 --> 00:11:10,319 Speaker 1: want to see what it is that they need them for. 181 00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:15,840 Speaker 1: And what they use them for seems to be to 182 00:11:15,920 --> 00:11:19,920 Speaker 1: direct security forces towards unhouse people and other vulnerable people 183 00:11:19,960 --> 00:11:21,839 Speaker 1: in a way that the city's not allowed to do. 184 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:25,360 Speaker 1: That's one thing that happens a lot. Another thing is 185 00:11:25,360 --> 00:11:28,400 Speaker 1: that they use business improvement districts to create an impression 186 00:11:28,920 --> 00:11:32,280 Speaker 1: of public support for policies that are trying to enact. 187 00:11:32,480 --> 00:11:36,520 Speaker 1: I've seen this. I don't know particularly that George. Oh. Yes, 188 00:11:36,520 --> 00:11:38,080 Speaker 1: as a matter of fact, I do or I George 189 00:11:38,080 --> 00:11:41,600 Speaker 1: you has been involved in trying to regulate street vendors 190 00:11:41,760 --> 00:11:46,600 Speaker 1: and the city was forced by state law to allow 191 00:11:46,679 --> 00:11:49,440 Speaker 1: street vending and they didn't like it, so they're working 192 00:11:49,480 --> 00:11:51,959 Speaker 1: hard to regulate it very carefully. In George, you has 193 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:55,480 Speaker 1: been instrumental in creating a showing of public support for 194 00:11:55,520 --> 00:11:58,440 Speaker 1: those efforts. Those are two of the main things. And 195 00:11:58,480 --> 00:12:02,280 Speaker 1: also there's fundraising. Okay, the people who are in bids 196 00:12:02,280 --> 00:12:06,160 Speaker 1: are rich developers. They give donations and the bids help 197 00:12:06,280 --> 00:12:09,079 Speaker 1: organize that process. Those are some of the main things 198 00:12:09,080 --> 00:12:12,120 Speaker 1: that the city gets out of its business recently. Recently, 199 00:12:12,280 --> 00:12:14,920 Speaker 1: the BID has had a hand. I remember attending a 200 00:12:14,920 --> 00:12:19,520 Speaker 1: couple of the improvement meetings in response to the whisper 201 00:12:19,559 --> 00:12:22,760 Speaker 1: campaign against me, and I do remember that they had 202 00:12:22,840 --> 00:12:27,440 Speaker 1: made a vociferous outcry against a neighborhood store for a 203 00:12:27,480 --> 00:12:32,360 Speaker 1: working class and struggling Chinatown residents in Iowa is closing 204 00:12:32,440 --> 00:12:35,920 Speaker 1: next month, and they were excited about that. They were 205 00:12:35,960 --> 00:12:39,440 Speaker 1: okay with a developer, a gentrifier or I call him 206 00:12:39,440 --> 00:12:42,000 Speaker 1: a colonizer, that has come in by the name of 207 00:12:42,040 --> 00:12:46,040 Speaker 1: Tom Gilmour to displace and build to some luxury hotel 208 00:12:46,160 --> 00:12:49,559 Speaker 1: where people here that medium income does not match the 209 00:12:49,679 --> 00:12:53,760 Speaker 1: level of finances that they're going to have to build 210 00:12:53,760 --> 00:12:58,000 Speaker 1: this mostrosity in a working class neighborhood. Yeah. Absolutely. I 211 00:12:58,040 --> 00:13:01,080 Speaker 1: forgot to mention that, thanks for bringing up. Gentrification is 212 00:13:01,160 --> 00:13:03,840 Speaker 1: one of the big things that the city and the 213 00:13:03,840 --> 00:13:07,520 Speaker 1: bids work together on because if they can increase the 214 00:13:07,600 --> 00:13:10,199 Speaker 1: value of the commercial property in the neighborhood, then the 215 00:13:10,200 --> 00:13:13,280 Speaker 1: developers get richer, they give more money to the politicians, 216 00:13:13,320 --> 00:13:16,280 Speaker 1: the taxes go up. Everybody in that kind of circle 217 00:13:16,320 --> 00:13:18,640 Speaker 1: wins at the expense of the people who actually live 218 00:13:18,640 --> 00:13:22,920 Speaker 1: in the neighborhoods, and you know, part of gentrification is 219 00:13:23,720 --> 00:13:26,439 Speaker 1: making an area comfortable for the new people that move 220 00:13:26,480 --> 00:13:29,719 Speaker 1: into the expensive new apartments and the way that they 221 00:13:29,760 --> 00:13:33,760 Speaker 1: do that. This happens all over the city, in Chinatown 222 00:13:34,320 --> 00:13:37,520 Speaker 1: and everywhere else I've looked, is the business improvement districts 223 00:13:37,559 --> 00:13:40,320 Speaker 1: help promote the right kind of businesses and they help 224 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:42,960 Speaker 1: drive out the wrong kind of businesses. And then you 225 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:45,600 Speaker 1: see it in in Highland Park too as well as Chinatown. 226 00:13:45,880 --> 00:13:48,040 Speaker 1: So this is a big function that bids in the 227 00:13:48,040 --> 00:13:50,720 Speaker 1: city work together on to as part of the process 228 00:13:50,760 --> 00:13:54,880 Speaker 1: of gentrification. I suspect that George Hugh's reluctance to open 229 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:59,280 Speaker 1: up his public records it's kind of insinuates that he 230 00:13:59,400 --> 00:14:04,040 Speaker 1: may have done some unsavory or illegal things because when 231 00:14:04,080 --> 00:14:07,880 Speaker 1: he made his spurious accusations in me, I had nothing 232 00:14:07,920 --> 00:14:11,760 Speaker 1: to hide, so they went to tooth and nail to 233 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:14,240 Speaker 1: find things from three years ago and things of that. 234 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:17,640 Speaker 1: So it's a logical conclusion if he's trying to fight 235 00:14:17,720 --> 00:14:20,000 Speaker 1: you to show what his records are. Do you think 236 00:14:20,040 --> 00:14:23,760 Speaker 1: that he perhaps has something interesting there that might not 237 00:14:23,800 --> 00:14:26,000 Speaker 1: put him in a flattering light. Yeah, I have no 238 00:14:26,160 --> 00:14:29,320 Speaker 1: doubt that there's plenty of interesting stuff that will not 239 00:14:29,320 --> 00:14:31,760 Speaker 1: put Georgia in a flattering light. I mean, the guy 240 00:14:31,880 --> 00:14:35,280 Speaker 1: is really unhinged. You can see his performances at his 241 00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:38,480 Speaker 1: public meetings. He acts like a lunatic. So if he 242 00:14:38,560 --> 00:14:41,320 Speaker 1: thinks that people aren't watching, I can't imagine he's going 243 00:14:41,360 --> 00:14:44,680 Speaker 1: to act more sane in private. I've actually I've heard 244 00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:47,520 Speaker 1: him admit in public meetings to breaking the law. That is, 245 00:14:48,280 --> 00:14:51,480 Speaker 1: business improvement districts are not allowed to operate outside their boundaries. 246 00:14:51,480 --> 00:14:53,720 Speaker 1: They're not allowed to spend money outside their boundaries, but 247 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:58,240 Speaker 1: he does, and he admits it openly. And also, you've 248 00:14:58,280 --> 00:15:00,320 Speaker 1: been to the meetings, You've seen how they never us 249 00:15:00,360 --> 00:15:04,120 Speaker 1: anything substantial. So however that bid is being run, they're 250 00:15:04,160 --> 00:15:06,320 Speaker 1: not talking about it at the meeting, which means that 251 00:15:06,560 --> 00:15:09,240 Speaker 1: they're talking about it in secret somehow, because somebody has 252 00:15:09,280 --> 00:15:11,200 Speaker 1: to talk about it. You can't run something like that 253 00:15:11,280 --> 00:15:14,120 Speaker 1: with that big a budget without some discussions, and under 254 00:15:14,120 --> 00:15:17,920 Speaker 1: California law is illegal to have those discussions in private. Okay, 255 00:15:17,960 --> 00:15:20,320 Speaker 1: So I'm sure that's one of the things that we're 256 00:15:20,320 --> 00:15:22,320 Speaker 1: going to see in those emails, as well as like 257 00:15:22,560 --> 00:15:25,520 Speaker 1: plenty of other just ugly, ugly stuff. I agree. One 258 00:15:25,520 --> 00:15:28,760 Speaker 1: of the major concerns I became concerned as on how 259 00:15:28,960 --> 00:15:31,720 Speaker 1: individual is that bid has taken the point to be 260 00:15:31,880 --> 00:15:35,240 Speaker 1: like vigilantes or police officers. They would deliberately come to 261 00:15:35,280 --> 00:15:38,160 Speaker 1: the public part, dictating what people could do and can't be, 262 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:40,760 Speaker 1: and run them out. And it got to such a 263 00:15:40,800 --> 00:15:45,600 Speaker 1: point that the director had got annoyed with that kind 264 00:15:45,640 --> 00:15:48,400 Speaker 1: of thing because she was getting to blame. And so 265 00:15:49,320 --> 00:15:51,600 Speaker 1: I understand that that has been a major tussle. I 266 00:15:51,640 --> 00:15:53,640 Speaker 1: don't know what the outcome is going to be of that, 267 00:15:54,080 --> 00:15:58,440 Speaker 1: But what is your thoughts on a private institute? Because 268 00:15:58,760 --> 00:16:03,240 Speaker 1: Business Improvement District and Chinatown is run by Allied Universal, 269 00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:05,960 Speaker 1: which was a company that was merged recently, do you 270 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:09,240 Speaker 1: think the security companies are in cahoots with this as well? Well, 271 00:16:09,280 --> 00:16:11,080 Speaker 1: you know they must be because they're making a ton 272 00:16:11,080 --> 00:16:14,080 Speaker 1: of money off of it. For instance, in I don't 273 00:16:14,120 --> 00:16:18,520 Speaker 1: know the details in Chinatown because George won't release the budget, 274 00:16:18,560 --> 00:16:21,280 Speaker 1: but in Hollywood they're making a million and a half 275 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:25,080 Speaker 1: bucks a year. That's one contract with one bid, and 276 00:16:25,360 --> 00:16:27,400 Speaker 1: so yeah, there's so much money in it that the 277 00:16:27,440 --> 00:16:31,000 Speaker 1: security companies themselves are definitely behind it. I don't know 278 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:33,200 Speaker 1: if they care about the issues, but they sure care 279 00:16:33,240 --> 00:16:35,840 Speaker 1: about the money. Let's take a step back. As an 280 00:16:35,840 --> 00:16:39,200 Speaker 1: an house person, what specific roadblocks to watch for if 281 00:16:39,200 --> 00:16:42,480 Speaker 1: what dealing would be it's in Chinatown. You know, I'm 282 00:16:42,480 --> 00:16:46,480 Speaker 1: not a lawyer. I don't know how to I don't 283 00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:48,880 Speaker 1: know what kind of advice I can give you about that, 284 00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:52,680 Speaker 1: but I would say, like, don't back down. Okay, you 285 00:16:52,760 --> 00:16:55,560 Speaker 1: have like a lot of rights in this country. You 286 00:16:55,560 --> 00:16:58,120 Speaker 1: can use them if you insist on them. But as 287 00:16:58,120 --> 00:17:00,840 Speaker 1: far as specifics go, I just don't know what can 288 00:17:00,880 --> 00:17:03,640 Speaker 1: concerns citizens and community and members do to stop bids, 289 00:17:03,760 --> 00:17:07,320 Speaker 1: LAPD and city council relationships. You know, it's not easy, 290 00:17:07,320 --> 00:17:10,040 Speaker 1: but it's not impossible. I would say, go to meetings. 291 00:17:10,080 --> 00:17:13,120 Speaker 1: The meetings are public, Film them and put them on YouTube, 292 00:17:13,480 --> 00:17:16,320 Speaker 1: write about them, write letters, write a blog, write on 293 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:19,399 Speaker 1: Twitter or social media. Just expose what these people do. 294 00:17:19,440 --> 00:17:22,960 Speaker 1: They really really can't stand to be exposed. They're used 295 00:17:22,960 --> 00:17:25,480 Speaker 1: to operating in secret. They're used to working just with 296 00:17:25,560 --> 00:17:29,080 Speaker 1: the city where they get this kind of approval. They 297 00:17:29,080 --> 00:17:31,960 Speaker 1: can't stand criticism and they will dial back their behavior 298 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:35,960 Speaker 1: if they think they're being watched. That's as an unhouse person, 299 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:37,919 Speaker 1: I can say that there has been some of my 300 00:17:38,480 --> 00:17:41,359 Speaker 1: intent too when I figured the pitch of the harassment 301 00:17:41,440 --> 00:17:44,560 Speaker 1: couldn't I couldn't stand it anymore, So could on house 302 00:17:44,560 --> 00:17:47,080 Speaker 1: people do the same thing? I believe so. I mean 303 00:17:47,119 --> 00:17:49,720 Speaker 1: it's hard when you're on how's your first concerns are, like, 304 00:17:49,960 --> 00:17:52,320 Speaker 1: you know, survival and all kinds of other things. But 305 00:17:52,840 --> 00:17:54,800 Speaker 1: if you have time and you have access to the 306 00:17:54,840 --> 00:17:57,920 Speaker 1: Internet or other other means of communication, then yeah, you're 307 00:17:57,960 --> 00:17:59,879 Speaker 1: out there on the street. You can see what's happening 308 00:18:00,240 --> 00:18:04,000 Speaker 1: every day and make a record and tell people about it. 309 00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:07,440 Speaker 1: How does Business Improvement District contribute to the in house 310 00:18:07,520 --> 00:18:10,680 Speaker 1: vigilanteism and the house people? Before I give the mic 311 00:18:10,760 --> 00:18:13,080 Speaker 1: back to you for our audience that are not aware, 312 00:18:13,240 --> 00:18:17,720 Speaker 1: there has been a recent uptick of vigilanteism with unhoused 313 00:18:17,760 --> 00:18:24,200 Speaker 1: people and that includes firebombs, their tens, people throwing dog feces. 314 00:18:24,320 --> 00:18:28,240 Speaker 1: There was a picture on Facebook where a individual was 315 00:18:28,280 --> 00:18:31,720 Speaker 1: in a crouching sniper position with a bb gun shooting 316 00:18:31,760 --> 00:18:36,159 Speaker 1: pellets at unhoused people. There's one where an unhoused person 317 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:40,320 Speaker 1: was burned alive and a person was recording it and 318 00:18:40,400 --> 00:18:42,960 Speaker 1: the city of Chamber of Commerce sun It has been 319 00:18:43,040 --> 00:18:46,080 Speaker 1: charged with murder of an unhoused person. I have my 320 00:18:46,119 --> 00:18:49,359 Speaker 1: own stories of how they increase vigilantism because of the 321 00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:52,480 Speaker 1: challenges and the salacious things that it was surrounding me. 322 00:18:52,960 --> 00:18:55,480 Speaker 1: How I can speak from my experience. I've had five 323 00:18:55,560 --> 00:19:00,040 Speaker 1: death threats, and that's in response to their behavior and 324 00:19:00,040 --> 00:19:03,239 Speaker 1: the narratives that's been pushed by House community members. What 325 00:19:03,280 --> 00:19:05,960 Speaker 1: are your thoughts on this? Well, I see at business 326 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:10,600 Speaker 1: improvement district meetings and when business improvement districts send people 327 00:19:10,640 --> 00:19:14,320 Speaker 1: to comment at in city Hall, they push this narrative 328 00:19:14,440 --> 00:19:18,720 Speaker 1: that unhoused people are crazy, that they're dangerous, that they're subhuman, 329 00:19:18,840 --> 00:19:21,680 Speaker 1: that they're addicted to drugs, that they're committing crimes, that 330 00:19:21,920 --> 00:19:23,800 Speaker 1: just you know, you know the kind of rhetoric, and 331 00:19:23,840 --> 00:19:25,919 Speaker 1: business improvement districts are right in the middle of that. 332 00:19:26,080 --> 00:19:28,360 Speaker 1: You know, I don't know of any instances where they're 333 00:19:28,400 --> 00:19:32,800 Speaker 1: personally implicated in actual vigil anti actions, But by creating 334 00:19:32,840 --> 00:19:35,359 Speaker 1: that kind of atmosphere, by pushing that kind of rhetoric, 335 00:19:35,400 --> 00:19:39,320 Speaker 1: by giving it a respectable face, they're helping promote an 336 00:19:39,359 --> 00:19:42,240 Speaker 1: atmosphere where people can carry out those kind of acts. 337 00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:43,960 Speaker 1: It's like nobody pulls out a gun of aims that 338 00:19:44,040 --> 00:19:46,440 Speaker 1: at homeless people on the street unless they've heard a 339 00:19:46,480 --> 00:19:49,080 Speaker 1: lot of stuff in the air on the internet about 340 00:19:49,080 --> 00:19:51,520 Speaker 1: how that's okay and how those people deserve it or 341 00:19:51,560 --> 00:19:54,919 Speaker 1: whatever is they're hearing, So that's how they're implicated. That 342 00:19:55,040 --> 00:19:57,440 Speaker 1: is also a very good point because there's a senior 343 00:19:57,520 --> 00:20:01,879 Speaker 1: Lea officer, Sean Denise is a person that is joined 344 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:04,480 Speaker 1: a vigilante groups along with other officers. And I'm not 345 00:20:04,520 --> 00:20:08,200 Speaker 1: surprised if there is any senior officers in Chinatown. That's 346 00:20:08,280 --> 00:20:12,120 Speaker 1: showing because one of your letters showed that senior League 347 00:20:12,119 --> 00:20:15,800 Speaker 1: officer Elizabeth Ortega was directing officers to come hunt me 348 00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:19,560 Speaker 1: down at the park to arrest me or cite me 349 00:20:20,640 --> 00:20:23,520 Speaker 1: just for just trying to survive. So what they are 350 00:20:23,560 --> 00:20:25,960 Speaker 1: doing is that if you go on to those sites, 351 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:29,720 Speaker 1: you can see his express approval of him throwing is 352 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:34,720 Speaker 1: it unhouse people people using car horns or yelling at 353 00:20:34,720 --> 00:20:37,160 Speaker 1: them or recording them when they're in a vulnerable state 354 00:20:37,280 --> 00:20:40,919 Speaker 1: and showing or trying to justify or dehumanize them. Is 355 00:20:40,920 --> 00:20:42,879 Speaker 1: there anything you want to add on that? Well, you know, 356 00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:46,320 Speaker 1: that's a terrible situation with Sean dins or Dincy in 357 00:20:46,359 --> 00:20:49,159 Speaker 1: the valley. I don't know of any connection with business 358 00:20:49,160 --> 00:20:51,800 Speaker 1: improvement districts. But that's exactly the kind of atmosphere I'm 359 00:20:51,840 --> 00:20:55,080 Speaker 1: talking about. This guy is a police officer. He promotes 360 00:20:55,200 --> 00:20:59,080 Speaker 1: this pernicious distinction between the real homeless and the transience, 361 00:20:59,119 --> 00:21:01,480 Speaker 1: which I don't know where they got this from. He 362 00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:04,800 Speaker 1: blames all of homelessness on mental illness, on drug addiction, 363 00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:07,639 Speaker 1: on all kinds of things that make it seem okay 364 00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:11,680 Speaker 1: for his audience to carry out their violence, both verbal 365 00:21:11,760 --> 00:21:15,560 Speaker 1: violence and in many cases over there, actual physical violence. 366 00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:19,080 Speaker 1: I had eight audience members requests, so I'm going to 367 00:21:19,240 --> 00:21:23,040 Speaker 1: honor it an act aging this. What was the craziest 368 00:21:23,040 --> 00:21:27,080 Speaker 1: thing that you've heard in BIT meetings? Well, you know, okay, crazy. 369 00:21:27,119 --> 00:21:30,000 Speaker 1: I can tell funny stories like I was in BID 370 00:21:30,119 --> 00:21:33,440 Speaker 1: in Studio City, Okay, and I was pushing them pretty 371 00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:37,600 Speaker 1: hard about their meetings being illegal in certain ways. And 372 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:39,720 Speaker 1: I went over there and I started filming them, and 373 00:21:39,760 --> 00:21:42,520 Speaker 1: one of the board members wasn't prepared, and he said, 374 00:21:42,520 --> 00:21:45,000 Speaker 1: why is this guy filming? And then he got so 375 00:21:45,119 --> 00:21:47,399 Speaker 1: angry that he just stood up and walked out, like 376 00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:50,080 Speaker 1: he left the meeting. I mean, that kind of thing 377 00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:53,879 Speaker 1: happens fairly regularly. But listen, the true craziest thing is 378 00:21:53,920 --> 00:21:57,400 Speaker 1: actually not funny at all, all right. It is crazy 379 00:21:57,560 --> 00:22:00,680 Speaker 1: in the sense that it's completely insane. Happened in twenty 380 00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:05,719 Speaker 1: fifteen when a Hollywood business improvement district was in the 381 00:22:05,760 --> 00:22:08,639 Speaker 1: process of trying to close down hip hop clubs on 382 00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:10,560 Speaker 1: Hollywood Bulevard. So I don't know if you remember, but 383 00:22:10,760 --> 00:22:13,239 Speaker 1: in the first decade of the twenty first century, there 384 00:22:13,240 --> 00:22:14,560 Speaker 1: were a lot of hip hop clubs. You go out 385 00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:16,760 Speaker 1: to Hollio Bulevard on Friday, was Saturday night, just be 386 00:22:16,880 --> 00:22:19,000 Speaker 1: full of kids coming from all over the city to 387 00:22:19,119 --> 00:22:23,240 Speaker 1: dance whatever. And that business Improvement district hated it, okay, 388 00:22:23,280 --> 00:22:25,639 Speaker 1: and they hated it because these kids were not white, 389 00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:29,120 Speaker 1: all right, and that made them scary. And for a while, 390 00:22:29,119 --> 00:22:30,720 Speaker 1: they get together every month and they walk up and 391 00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:33,440 Speaker 1: down Hollywoo Bovard, these Business Improvement District people, and they'd 392 00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:35,800 Speaker 1: film these kids, and then they'd go back to their 393 00:22:35,840 --> 00:22:39,000 Speaker 1: meetings and complain about how terrified they were by these 394 00:22:39,080 --> 00:22:42,640 Speaker 1: kids out there having a good time. So after one 395 00:22:42,680 --> 00:22:45,119 Speaker 1: of these these expeditions that they did, they called them 396 00:22:45,160 --> 00:22:47,600 Speaker 1: Midnight Walk. So I was at their meeting. I got 397 00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:51,040 Speaker 1: this on film. They sat there and talked about how 398 00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:54,960 Speaker 1: they had black and brown kids on Hollywood Boulevard, how 399 00:22:55,280 --> 00:22:58,120 Speaker 1: it was out of control, how they needed more police, 400 00:22:58,200 --> 00:23:01,760 Speaker 1: they needed to shut them down. The specific reasons that 401 00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:04,000 Speaker 1: they gave, Oh, they were poor, they said, they're not 402 00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:07,040 Speaker 1: rich people, and they're they're black and brown people, and 403 00:23:07,080 --> 00:23:09,679 Speaker 1: they're from the valley too, as if that was an 404 00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:11,760 Speaker 1: extra bad thing. And that was the start of a 405 00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:15,040 Speaker 1: campaign to actually get that involved the LAPD to get 406 00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:18,280 Speaker 1: there the liquor licenses of these clubs pulled. And that 407 00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:20,720 Speaker 1: was crazy to me because like, first of all, that 408 00:23:20,760 --> 00:23:23,200 Speaker 1: was a beautiful scene on Hollio Boulevard. I was living 409 00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:24,639 Speaker 1: in the area at the time. I always loved it 410 00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:26,760 Speaker 1: when I was walking through there. It was a bunch 411 00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:29,240 Speaker 1: of kids having a good time. Anybody who can't see 412 00:23:29,280 --> 00:23:33,600 Speaker 1: that shouldn't have any kind of power over social institutions. 413 00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:36,359 Speaker 1: And for the next two years, that Business Improvement District 414 00:23:36,359 --> 00:23:39,399 Speaker 1: worked with the LAPD to to get all their liquor 415 00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:41,840 Speaker 1: licenses taken away. If you go down Hollyo Bulevard, now 416 00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:44,480 Speaker 1: those clubs are all gone, every one of them, and 417 00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:47,680 Speaker 1: instead you got a bunch of clubs on Kowenga which 418 00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:50,479 Speaker 1: are open date. They cause crowds, but the kids are 419 00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:53,320 Speaker 1: all white, and they're all rich, and everybody's happy with it. 420 00:23:57,359 --> 00:24:01,560 Speaker 1: So there is again we have a different a shift 421 00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:07,760 Speaker 1: where gentrification brings in a certain type of ideals, particularly 422 00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:12,960 Speaker 1: white supremacy and white idea of white acceptance and black 423 00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:21,240 Speaker 1: and brown denial. As your host, I can speak for 424 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:28,560 Speaker 1: pers firsthand how abusive Business Improvement District employees are in Chinatown. 425 00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:33,280 Speaker 1: They are headed by executive director George U. Georgi U 426 00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:38,600 Speaker 1: is a Chinese mafia tongue and a working class and 427 00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:43,760 Speaker 1: un a housed terrorist. He has been known by newspapers 428 00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:46,960 Speaker 1: such as Steve Lopez and other newspapers as the Sheriff 429 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:53,000 Speaker 1: of Chinatown, and other Chinese people that doesn't know his 430 00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:56,280 Speaker 1: true nature considers him as a mayor or a sheriff 431 00:24:56,320 --> 00:25:01,520 Speaker 1: of Chinatown. And so it was in that vein that 432 00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:06,120 Speaker 1: he has taken running Chinatown and then Aron fists upon 433 00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:08,840 Speaker 1: learning some of the records that I've gleaned from his 434 00:25:09,359 --> 00:25:13,600 Speaker 1: correspondence with city officials and police officers, he has stated 435 00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:16,679 Speaker 1: to one of the neighborhood prosecutors that one of the 436 00:25:17,080 --> 00:25:19,760 Speaker 1: many of the in house or in his eyes, criminals 437 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:24,359 Speaker 1: are not Chinese. Thus has the tinge of anti black 438 00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:29,000 Speaker 1: sentiment along with his obsessive controlling of Chinatown and the 439 00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:33,440 Speaker 1: unhoused population. He has been known and I have been 440 00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:37,160 Speaker 1: It can be verified by even my own opponent has 441 00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:40,480 Speaker 1: taken the time to take thirty minutes to speak about 442 00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:45,320 Speaker 1: my unhoused condition and where I basically stay at during 443 00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:49,520 Speaker 1: the day. I stay for the most part in a 444 00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:52,680 Speaker 1: public park, a public park that I have the civil 445 00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:57,080 Speaker 1: rights just like anyone at his house or unhoused. In 446 00:25:57,160 --> 00:26:00,560 Speaker 1: his mind, it should be run like a business. He 447 00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:04,160 Speaker 1: wants to be the supervisor and dictate who should be there. 448 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:09,200 Speaker 1: I can enumerate many instances where he has contacted Captain Harrison, 449 00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:14,240 Speaker 1: Steve Nichols, Senior lead Officer and Senior Lead Officer Elizabeth 450 00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:18,920 Speaker 1: Wotega writing numerous missives about me being in a park, 451 00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:22,440 Speaker 1: my interaction with the community members, the children and the grandparents, 452 00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:25,960 Speaker 1: and always with the ever in mind to paint a 453 00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:31,399 Speaker 1: sinister issue, a sinister picture about who I am. In fact, 454 00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:35,800 Speaker 1: there was a major campaign to have me removed In 455 00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:41,600 Speaker 1: bed with this kind of abusive behavior. Was the neighborhood prosecutor, 456 00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:44,160 Speaker 1: the police officers, or the lead officers of the Shinytown 457 00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:47,040 Speaker 1: area who has gone on and stated that I should 458 00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:49,640 Speaker 1: have a background check when I interact with the children 459 00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:53,480 Speaker 1: in the park. Now, mind you, no other individual has 460 00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:56,720 Speaker 1: background checks in the park, strangers or cousins or whatever, 461 00:26:56,760 --> 00:26:58,720 Speaker 1: they don't go through that. But as an the house 462 00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:01,840 Speaker 1: man that interacts with the kids teaches at martial arts 463 00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:05,520 Speaker 1: tutors and knows them since they were a young and 464 00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:09,000 Speaker 1: knows the grandparents. I am considered a sinister force or 465 00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:14,679 Speaker 1: a as he says, borderline child a music. So in 466 00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:17,560 Speaker 1: order for he needed to make the effort much more 467 00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:21,400 Speaker 1: widespread and to pass on this campaign. What he has done. 468 00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:25,280 Speaker 1: He's enlisted a park employee who I now have a 469 00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:29,639 Speaker 1: ceased assist letter on and he'st He has enlisted his friend, 470 00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:34,000 Speaker 1: Captain Albertaurus, who's now deceased. And now he also has 471 00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:38,600 Speaker 1: enlisted the support of the principle of a school. This 472 00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:42,320 Speaker 1: was done by the behator, behind the scenes, by the 473 00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:47,240 Speaker 1: Captain Steve Nichols. Steve Nichols has been running around telling 474 00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:49,919 Speaker 1: one of my friends who didn't know that I was 475 00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:52,439 Speaker 1: a child of music, and he didn't know that I 476 00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:57,399 Speaker 1: who was aware of his handiwork, as well as the 477 00:27:57,440 --> 00:28:01,359 Speaker 1: Business Improvement District employee our team is going to another 478 00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:04,199 Speaker 1: parent who came up to me and was informing me 479 00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:06,520 Speaker 1: that they were trying to go around to paint the 480 00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:09,159 Speaker 1: pictures that I was a child abuser and not to 481 00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:13,560 Speaker 1: interact with me, to elicit and house vigilanteism and a 482 00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:18,080 Speaker 1: public outcry that would have me removed. The Business Improvement 483 00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:22,440 Speaker 1: District employees used to come to the park incessantly. They 484 00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:25,320 Speaker 1: would come and it's spect particularly around ten thirty, and 485 00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:27,600 Speaker 1: if I was still there, they would run and run 486 00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:30,480 Speaker 1: me out. If I didn't move fast enough or I 487 00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:38,120 Speaker 1: did not comply with their security officer authoritative manner, they 488 00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:41,080 Speaker 1: called the police. Now and remember the police and their 489 00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:44,240 Speaker 1: Business Improvement District, they are full aware of the situation. 490 00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:47,600 Speaker 1: They're in tandem with each other. They play the role 491 00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:50,600 Speaker 1: like that they have no idea. But I had learned 492 00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:54,480 Speaker 1: from a letter that Captain not Captain Senior Leader Officer 493 00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:58,280 Speaker 1: Elizabeth Otaga sent out to George you that she has 494 00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:02,720 Speaker 1: instructed her evening officers to trove the park for me 495 00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:07,640 Speaker 1: and if he finds me, they will arrest me or 496 00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:14,480 Speaker 1: cites me. Leader of Mike Flanagan has also corroborated that 497 00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:19,000 Speaker 1: they've stated that they were looking for me in the park. Now, 498 00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:23,360 Speaker 1: I tell you why is an individual that is supposed 499 00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:27,240 Speaker 1: to be a business owner so obsessed with unhoused people 500 00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:29,760 Speaker 1: that he has to have that much power and control 501 00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:33,560 Speaker 1: and wants to emit that kind of control over unhoused people. 502 00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:38,520 Speaker 1: Why is it that business owners is in the community 503 00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:43,080 Speaker 1: sit for thirty minutes talking about unhoused people, looking at 504 00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:46,200 Speaker 1: pictures in various when they're trying to sleep, or if 505 00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:49,120 Speaker 1: they're in the grip of their addiction to paint up 506 00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:53,440 Speaker 1: and gen a fear among the populace in the community. 507 00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:57,240 Speaker 1: After they've used them, then they will take their businesses 508 00:29:57,280 --> 00:29:59,680 Speaker 1: and their homes and high rents and run them out. 509 00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:02,640 Speaker 1: But in the main time, what is he doing is 510 00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:07,160 Speaker 1: used his cultural connection with him because he's Chinese, Taiwanese 511 00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:10,880 Speaker 1: and factors parent Barb I believe was a general or 512 00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:14,200 Speaker 1: an arm official, and he is taking that trait with 513 00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:18,040 Speaker 1: this disdain for Americanism. He has stated in his meetings 514 00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:21,320 Speaker 1: he doesn't have a forgiving nature, he doesn't have kindness. 515 00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:24,640 Speaker 1: He just sees money and he sees that the working 516 00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:29,160 Speaker 1: class in his area, in his town are a blight, 517 00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:32,920 Speaker 1: a eye sore, and know so many words he has 518 00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:35,680 Speaker 1: gotten together and tried to run out the neighborhood's store 519 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:39,360 Speaker 1: and aided Tom Gilmour and running out the working class 520 00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:44,080 Speaker 1: buyers in Iowa. That is a store that was for 521 00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:47,800 Speaker 1: their whole community. He's also in working with the enforcement 522 00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:52,600 Speaker 1: to getting street vendors who is trying to survive, to 523 00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:58,360 Speaker 1: run them out of the neighborhood. He is Chinatown's terrorist 524 00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:01,880 Speaker 1: with the suit. He is also in the part of 525 00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:05,560 Speaker 1: the cabal with the Los Angeles Police, the prosecutors. Captain 526 00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:09,680 Speaker 1: Harold Son is part of this as well. They meet 527 00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:14,480 Speaker 1: downtown to conspire and how can they use new tactics, 528 00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:18,160 Speaker 1: new ways to harass vian housed. In fact, the last 529 00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:22,840 Speaker 1: Business Improvement District meeting, Tia Strozer, neighborhood prosecutor, was there 530 00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:27,400 Speaker 1: trying to console with business owners in their attempt to 531 00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:31,000 Speaker 1: try to run out unhoused people. So this is a 532 00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:43,480 Speaker 1: widespread thing. And I want to thank our guests again, 533 00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:47,040 Speaker 1: Adrian Riskin. He's taken from a very busy man and 534 00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:49,760 Speaker 1: I want to thank our listeners for listening in. If 535 00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:52,400 Speaker 1: you have any questions, you can go on his block. 536 00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:55,840 Speaker 1: He has Michael Colcos. He has a very very extensive 537 00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:59,680 Speaker 1: list of different misdeeds that these entities have. I want 538 00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:01,800 Speaker 1: to thank all us again for listening, and may we 539 00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:07,640 Speaker 1: again meet in the light of understanding. H