1 00:00:01,280 --> 00:00:06,000 Speaker 1: Oil inside lest bound in jail, had no money for 2 00:00:06,280 --> 00:00:17,360 Speaker 1: the good at baby people who are I guess howless people. 3 00:00:17,920 --> 00:00:21,880 Speaker 1: Their hold is in the wrong place, their minds in 4 00:00:21,880 --> 00:00:25,239 Speaker 1: the wrong place, their mother's talking about them. Say a 5 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:31,560 Speaker 1: thing about us. Our only fin is that we're poor, 6 00:00:32,040 --> 00:00:34,560 Speaker 1: and you want to hold that against us? What is 7 00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:39,280 Speaker 1: wha wha? There's been one hundred and fifty million dollars 8 00:00:39,320 --> 00:00:42,320 Speaker 1: reallocated out of the LAPD budget. Has any of it 9 00:00:42,440 --> 00:00:48,680 Speaker 1: been spent to do anything? Thank you? I said, he 10 00:00:48,760 --> 00:00:51,600 Speaker 1: needs to comment. In the hotels, we have somewhere around 11 00:00:51,600 --> 00:00:55,760 Speaker 1: seventy thousand naked matel rooms right now, and pass little 12 00:00:55,800 --> 00:01:02,000 Speaker 1: completely empty, all the people. You know, it's boring days. 13 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:04,479 Speaker 1: We gotta stop that. And the only way we gonna 14 00:01:04,480 --> 00:01:06,360 Speaker 1: stop that is the Bill Howson in the city that 15 00:01:06,440 --> 00:01:08,920 Speaker 1: all saying we don't need am more condos, we don't 16 00:01:08,959 --> 00:01:11,199 Speaker 1: need no more loss. We need to put the more house. 17 00:01:11,360 --> 00:01:16,400 Speaker 1: We need that put the more house in death. When 18 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:18,720 Speaker 1: we look at what's going on in Washington, d C. 19 00:01:18,920 --> 00:01:23,160 Speaker 1: And the kind of so called leadership that this country 20 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:29,240 Speaker 1: has had in recent years, we see something even more 21 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:33,960 Speaker 1: fundamental about doctor King, which was that he represented a 22 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:38,720 Speaker 1: figure who not only stood on political and economic issues, 23 00:01:38,920 --> 00:01:45,400 Speaker 1: but who wedded those issues to basic questions of morality. 24 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:52,360 Speaker 1: Doctor King used to say often the time is always 25 00:01:52,520 --> 00:01:58,080 Speaker 1: right to do what is right. Who is doing right 26 00:01:58,160 --> 00:02:03,160 Speaker 1: on our behalf in Washington or any place else in 27 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:12,120 Speaker 1: this country? Today? Almost no one, almost no one, and 28 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:19,520 Speaker 1: so it is up to us to stand up ourselves. 29 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:25,560 Speaker 1: We've met jail and violence to gods loveing seeing us 30 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:48,120 Speaker 1: through the period on the prizes, on the pries. Only 31 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:53,480 Speaker 1: change that weekend stand is the change from Kansas and 32 00:02:54,080 --> 00:03:36,360 Speaker 1: on the prison. This is Steil Henderson from Weedian House, 33 00:03:36,640 --> 00:03:39,080 Speaker 1: and I'm here with a part of an act direct 34 00:03:39,120 --> 00:03:42,080 Speaker 1: action that's happening here. It's like the Street Watch is 35 00:03:42,160 --> 00:03:45,440 Speaker 1: killing them with kindness. It's helping the unhoused neighbors, respecting 36 00:03:45,480 --> 00:03:48,760 Speaker 1: them and creating a dignity as well as showing that 37 00:03:48,840 --> 00:03:51,800 Speaker 1: they're solidarity in their struggle. So I have one of 38 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:54,520 Speaker 1: the one of the organizers here, So let's have a 39 00:03:54,600 --> 00:04:00,360 Speaker 1: chit chat with David. David him doing good. So tell 40 00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:03,240 Speaker 1: us what's going on here a little bit. So today 41 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:06,320 Speaker 1: we're out here in support of our neighbors On House 42 00:04:06,320 --> 00:04:10,960 Speaker 1: neighbors and the El Pueblo Sex the Special enforcement and 43 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:17,480 Speaker 1: cleaning zone by the bus. It's a brutal enforcement zone 44 00:04:17,520 --> 00:04:20,400 Speaker 1: that's based around the Bridge home. There's one over there 45 00:04:20,440 --> 00:04:24,120 Speaker 1: on the corner and their union station. Ever since they 46 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:26,320 Speaker 1: put it up a couple of years ago, the residents 47 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:29,919 Speaker 1: around here have been getting swept, at first daily at 48 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:33,760 Speaker 1: least weekly. Now there are people here with disabilities that 49 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:37,320 Speaker 1: we can see that we can't see. There's some older residents. 50 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:39,080 Speaker 1: There are people who just don't want to move, who 51 00:04:39,160 --> 00:04:41,799 Speaker 1: just want to sleep and not be bothered during COVID. 52 00:04:42,040 --> 00:04:44,719 Speaker 1: So we're out here to support them, block this week 53 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:47,600 Speaker 1: from happening, and hopefully send a message to stop this 54 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:51,640 Speaker 1: in perpetuity. I noticed that there were police officers over 55 00:04:51,640 --> 00:04:53,480 Speaker 1: there on across the street. That are they part of 56 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:56,920 Speaker 1: the what's going about actions? I haven't seen. Why are 57 00:04:56,960 --> 00:04:59,000 Speaker 1: they there? Do you think that they're part of this 58 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:03,640 Speaker 1: ongoing situation. Maybe we've blasted this on social media to 59 00:05:03,720 --> 00:05:06,240 Speaker 1: try to get some support, and we've got awesome support, 60 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:09,080 Speaker 1: and we may have blasted it loud enough for these 61 00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:12,839 Speaker 1: these cops to show up. I don't know what their 62 00:05:12,880 --> 00:05:16,680 Speaker 1: move is, but they haven't been out as much with 63 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:20,240 Speaker 1: the care teams care and Care Plus as a result 64 00:05:20,240 --> 00:05:22,720 Speaker 1: of the service is not sweeps coach and doing really 65 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:26,040 Speaker 1: good work on the ground to get services instead of 66 00:05:26,080 --> 00:05:29,919 Speaker 1: just these brutal sweeps. Cops were supposed to be deleted 67 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:34,680 Speaker 1: from the equation, but they still are. Yeah, they'll still 68 00:05:34,760 --> 00:05:37,520 Speaker 1: kind of be around in case sanitation feels like it 69 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:40,560 Speaker 1: gets too dangerous. If I noticed, they always seem to 70 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:44,560 Speaker 1: be skulking about somewhere and ever ready to come down 71 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:48,240 Speaker 1: and criminalize the unhouse. So that's very disturbing, but that's 72 00:05:48,279 --> 00:05:51,480 Speaker 1: also indicative of what people think of unhoused people. And 73 00:05:51,480 --> 00:05:54,920 Speaker 1: there's the sanitation truck going by that's scoping out the situation. 74 00:05:56,120 --> 00:05:59,119 Speaker 1: So let's see what this what else pops up? David, 75 00:05:59,160 --> 00:06:00,720 Speaker 1: thank you for your time and thank you for your 76 00:06:00,760 --> 00:06:03,359 Speaker 1: perspective of what's going on. I'm going to mill about 77 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:06,159 Speaker 1: and I'm going to see what other what other takes 78 00:06:06,279 --> 00:06:09,240 Speaker 1: or what other experiences, what the other house have out here. 79 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:13,400 Speaker 1: Thank you very much, thanks for covering it. The This 80 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:16,039 Speaker 1: is Theo Henderson from Wiedia in house and this is 81 00:06:16,080 --> 00:06:18,360 Speaker 1: more to follow, and I thank you all for listening 82 00:06:18,600 --> 00:07:10,760 Speaker 1: and let us hope we meet in the light of understenth. 83 00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:13,040 Speaker 1: My name is de Ol Henderson from Widian house and 84 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:15,120 Speaker 1: she's gonna tell us her story. What's your name? Man, 85 00:07:15,360 --> 00:07:17,600 Speaker 1: My name is Shirley. So how long have you been 86 00:07:17,600 --> 00:07:21,480 Speaker 1: on house. I've been on house since April twenty fifteen, 87 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:25,600 Speaker 1: minus one hundred and twenty two days incarcerated, which was 88 00:07:25,720 --> 00:07:28,840 Speaker 1: considered housing, so I had to start all over again 89 00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:36,160 Speaker 1: June sixteenth, twenty sixteen. So what has been your experience? Yeah, 90 00:07:36,200 --> 00:07:39,800 Speaker 1: I know that. What's been How has it been out here? 91 00:07:39,920 --> 00:07:42,560 Speaker 1: Has it been an easy transition or what's it been tough? 92 00:07:43,040 --> 00:07:45,960 Speaker 1: The struggle is real. It's so rough and so tough 93 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:51,160 Speaker 1: out here. It's ninety one funny especty for myself and 94 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:54,760 Speaker 1: those others of their Chinese shay clean and sober. It's 95 00:07:54,760 --> 00:07:57,960 Speaker 1: hard to be walking through the ghettos, the skid row, 96 00:07:58,720 --> 00:08:02,480 Speaker 1: the neighborhoods where people are using and abusing drugs and 97 00:08:02,640 --> 00:08:06,920 Speaker 1: alcohol because they don't have any better coping skills. They 98 00:08:06,960 --> 00:08:12,280 Speaker 1: need the tools and services in order to make a 99 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:16,000 Speaker 1: difference embedter their lives. And none of us deserve to 100 00:08:16,040 --> 00:08:19,040 Speaker 1: be on the ground like this out in the code. 101 00:08:19,280 --> 00:08:23,360 Speaker 1: And we need your help, and we would appreciate it 102 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:28,480 Speaker 1: if European houses because there's plenty of housing I walked 103 00:08:28,520 --> 00:08:32,240 Speaker 1: through shied Row last night, East La. I see the 104 00:08:32,240 --> 00:08:36,760 Speaker 1: whitehouses and the hotels and everything, and it's just real 105 00:08:36,880 --> 00:08:40,520 Speaker 1: ridiculous how these buildings are closed and they should be 106 00:08:40,559 --> 00:08:45,679 Speaker 1: opened for housing at affordable rates. My question is this, like, 107 00:08:46,320 --> 00:08:50,680 Speaker 1: because I have to have some frightening experiences, what was 108 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:54,240 Speaker 1: it like your first night being out from I guess 109 00:08:54,240 --> 00:08:57,600 Speaker 1: from jail and living out here, what was it like? Well, 110 00:08:58,160 --> 00:09:07,920 Speaker 1: to be honest with you, it's unbelievable, and it's it's scary, 111 00:09:08,120 --> 00:09:14,079 Speaker 1: and uh, it's it's a darge long journey that uh 112 00:09:14,360 --> 00:09:22,480 Speaker 1: is traumatizing, and uh it's depressing, and it's only getting worse. 113 00:09:23,559 --> 00:09:26,560 Speaker 1: And it's almost to the point to where I consider 114 00:09:27,360 --> 00:09:31,359 Speaker 1: giving to the devil, going back to using drugs and alcohol, 115 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:35,160 Speaker 1: even though I have the tools to not do so. 116 00:09:35,840 --> 00:09:39,439 Speaker 1: And I know that's not the solution to the problem, 117 00:09:39,800 --> 00:09:42,120 Speaker 1: but it helps. It helps the pain. Is that what 118 00:09:42,160 --> 00:09:44,160 Speaker 1: you're trying to say. All it does is not the 119 00:09:44,240 --> 00:09:48,840 Speaker 1: pain temporarily, but when you really get down to it, 120 00:09:49,040 --> 00:09:53,080 Speaker 1: then Needy Gritty off the pills after my austrain chemicals 121 00:09:53,600 --> 00:09:59,040 Speaker 1: pressing belief, the reality is there. The pain is still there, 122 00:09:59,600 --> 00:10:03,240 Speaker 1: and it's so deep that yeah, it's hard to even, 123 00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:09,640 Speaker 1: uh comprehend. That's very powerful and very important. Like I say, 124 00:10:09,679 --> 00:10:13,120 Speaker 1: would you be open to project room key I'm not 125 00:10:13,120 --> 00:10:16,040 Speaker 1: familiar with partially project room key is like, what about 126 00:10:16,040 --> 00:10:18,600 Speaker 1: the hotels? Instead of going to a shelter, they put 127 00:10:18,640 --> 00:10:20,440 Speaker 1: you in a hotel and try to fast track you 128 00:10:20,480 --> 00:10:22,880 Speaker 1: to housing. Would you be okay with that? Yes, I 129 00:10:22,920 --> 00:10:26,079 Speaker 1: believe that would be a good solution, one of the solutions. 130 00:10:26,559 --> 00:10:29,720 Speaker 1: A good solution than the shelters. I've been in shelters 131 00:10:30,200 --> 00:10:33,400 Speaker 1: for many years and and and par a few in 132 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:38,559 Speaker 1: between got permanent housing. How is your experiences with shelters? 133 00:10:38,559 --> 00:10:41,000 Speaker 1: Are they a pleasant experience or are they pretty tough? 134 00:10:43,080 --> 00:10:58,560 Speaker 1: They are challenging and they are dramatic and and uh, 135 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:04,400 Speaker 1: it's it's really like, uh, hard to comprehend and to 136 00:11:04,600 --> 00:11:09,240 Speaker 1: believe what you're going through. And Sean, and what was 137 00:11:09,280 --> 00:11:11,320 Speaker 1: the question? Well, they said what's your experience? And you 138 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:14,280 Speaker 1: just basically asked it And it's my explaining. So my 139 00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:16,920 Speaker 1: last housing I was in was help of the Value 140 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:22,080 Speaker 1: sheltered and I had my service animal with me. Unfortunately, 141 00:11:22,320 --> 00:11:25,920 Speaker 1: there was another couple, young couple that had gotten a 142 00:11:25,960 --> 00:11:30,199 Speaker 1: pit bull from a chill shelter that had a muzzle 143 00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:33,040 Speaker 1: on him, and he was there the first day, and 144 00:11:33,160 --> 00:11:37,679 Speaker 1: he came and lunch at my and my shelter, at 145 00:11:37,880 --> 00:11:40,520 Speaker 1: my service animal and I and came out of the 146 00:11:40,600 --> 00:11:44,920 Speaker 1: muzzle just about on the first day. And that was commatizing. 147 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:48,320 Speaker 1: I stood away. But what was more competizing was the 148 00:11:48,360 --> 00:11:54,200 Speaker 1: fact that this type bull actually unleashed on colored, unattended 149 00:11:54,520 --> 00:11:57,360 Speaker 1: on the cart, got off a bit and attacked my 150 00:11:57,559 --> 00:12:01,120 Speaker 1: dog and almost killed my dog, cart me five hundred, 151 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:05,920 Speaker 1: six hundred dollars services. Well, I almost lost my animal 152 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:13,000 Speaker 1: and my companion, my myinantial support. And what happened was 153 00:12:13,080 --> 00:12:17,480 Speaker 1: eventually these people came back. They were allowed to come 154 00:12:17,520 --> 00:12:21,079 Speaker 1: back to the premises and live right there in front 155 00:12:21,080 --> 00:12:25,920 Speaker 1: of me, still no consequences, none at all whatsoever. And 156 00:12:25,920 --> 00:12:27,920 Speaker 1: and I just couldn't deal with it no more. So 157 00:12:27,960 --> 00:12:30,720 Speaker 1: I left the shelters and came back to the streets. 158 00:12:31,480 --> 00:12:34,760 Speaker 1: And I no longer have my companion, my shelter, my 159 00:12:34,840 --> 00:12:39,400 Speaker 1: service animal. Unfortunately, it's just that competising. This is Steil 160 00:12:39,440 --> 00:12:41,400 Speaker 1: Henderson from when you're in the house. I thank you 161 00:12:41,480 --> 00:12:44,240 Speaker 1: for telling me your story. Is there anything else would 162 00:12:44,240 --> 00:12:46,319 Speaker 1: you like to tell us that we could walk away 163 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:52,319 Speaker 1: with please help us get off the grounds. It didn't 164 00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:58,920 Speaker 1: matter what color, race, our religion, or any of that. 165 00:12:59,200 --> 00:13:03,079 Speaker 1: We're all people. We're all human beings and we deserve 166 00:13:03,200 --> 00:13:09,000 Speaker 1: to be treated with some kind of dignity. And there's 167 00:13:09,320 --> 00:13:14,120 Speaker 1: there's enough money, there's enough places. They're building all these 168 00:13:14,600 --> 00:13:18,880 Speaker 1: homes and apartments and stuff, but they're not affordable. We 169 00:13:18,960 --> 00:13:23,559 Speaker 1: need affordable housing. This twelve hundred dollars fourteen hundred dollars 170 00:13:23,640 --> 00:13:28,040 Speaker 1: for a studio apartment is real ridiculous. So if we 171 00:13:28,080 --> 00:13:31,600 Speaker 1: can come together as the community, as the people, we're 172 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:34,480 Speaker 1: trying to make a difference, these mind games that they're 173 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:38,040 Speaker 1: doing is no good. But keeping us down on the 174 00:13:38,040 --> 00:13:43,040 Speaker 1: ground under the throne mining power, control trip and it 175 00:13:43,120 --> 00:13:45,960 Speaker 1: ain't right. And they know what they're doing and they're 176 00:13:46,040 --> 00:13:50,600 Speaker 1: not helping us in it. They're being selfish, heartless. Thank 177 00:13:50,640 --> 00:13:53,200 Speaker 1: you very much. This is THEO Henderson from Weedian House, 178 00:13:53,440 --> 00:13:55,880 Speaker 1: and I thank you all for listening and maybe again 179 00:13:55,920 --> 00:14:14,520 Speaker 1: meeting a lot of understand This is THEO Henderson from 180 00:14:14,559 --> 00:14:17,559 Speaker 1: Median House. I have to stop by this excellent sign 181 00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:20,640 Speaker 1: here as homes not zone. This capitalize what I say 182 00:14:20,680 --> 00:14:24,040 Speaker 1: all the time, stop arresting, start housing. Here is I 183 00:14:24,160 --> 00:14:26,680 Speaker 1: hear we have the sheltering place because these are goals 184 00:14:26,680 --> 00:14:29,520 Speaker 1: into ordinance to the CDC guidelines. So we have one 185 00:14:29,560 --> 00:14:32,280 Speaker 1: of the uh, one of the activists here, Let's get 186 00:14:32,280 --> 00:14:34,960 Speaker 1: her take on the situation. Hello, introduce us to your 187 00:14:35,520 --> 00:14:38,960 Speaker 1: to the audience. Hi, my name is Katie. I am 188 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:41,560 Speaker 1: a member of Street Watch Los Angeles. I am also 189 00:14:41,680 --> 00:14:44,440 Speaker 1: here as press for Knock Dout l A and I 190 00:14:44,480 --> 00:14:52,080 Speaker 1: am jail support which will hopefully not be necessary, but yeah, 191 00:14:52,200 --> 00:14:55,080 Speaker 1: I am I. Yeah, I just wish that the city 192 00:14:55,080 --> 00:14:59,080 Speaker 1: would follow CDC guidelines at a minimum, which is not 193 00:14:59,200 --> 00:15:04,360 Speaker 1: disturbing tents and really what they should be doing is 194 00:15:04,440 --> 00:15:06,280 Speaker 1: you know, especially since we're across the street from these 195 00:15:06,360 --> 00:15:13,920 Speaker 1: luxury condos housing people, both because it's the humane, ethical 196 00:15:13,920 --> 00:15:17,440 Speaker 1: thing to do, but also for you by fiscal conservatives 197 00:15:17,440 --> 00:15:20,400 Speaker 1: out there, it's also a lot cheaper than this and 198 00:15:20,480 --> 00:15:25,200 Speaker 1: all of the outfall of this. So that's my take. 199 00:15:25,240 --> 00:15:32,240 Speaker 1: It's just it's wasteful money wise, it is unethical, it's inhumane. 200 00:15:32,760 --> 00:15:35,320 Speaker 1: So what motivates you to come out here on early 201 00:15:35,800 --> 00:15:39,240 Speaker 1: Tuesday morning because you could be enjoying that cover, the sleep, 202 00:15:39,640 --> 00:15:42,640 Speaker 1: enjoying a donut and coffee. What makes you come out here. 203 00:15:42,680 --> 00:15:46,880 Speaker 1: What's motivating you to come? Since November sweeps have been 204 00:15:47,040 --> 00:15:51,480 Speaker 1: canceled without notice, they have been replaced with spot cleaning 205 00:15:51,520 --> 00:15:55,000 Speaker 1: without notice. It's been entirely inconsistent, so the people here 206 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:58,640 Speaker 1: who live here have no warning. In many cases they 207 00:15:58,760 --> 00:16:01,560 Speaker 1: moved all their tents when they didn't have to, which 208 00:16:01,720 --> 00:16:04,920 Speaker 1: then just exposes them to COVID. And yeah, they're sick 209 00:16:04,960 --> 00:16:07,760 Speaker 1: and tired of it, and they wanted our assistance today 210 00:16:07,840 --> 00:16:11,960 Speaker 1: to make a stand for them, with them, to create 211 00:16:11,960 --> 00:16:15,160 Speaker 1: a blockade so the police could not do their sweep 212 00:16:15,240 --> 00:16:17,920 Speaker 1: if they even decide to do it today, who even knows. 213 00:16:18,960 --> 00:16:22,320 Speaker 1: Very true, I noticed too what's been going on as 214 00:16:22,360 --> 00:16:25,520 Speaker 1: well is that they have been because of more attention 215 00:16:25,680 --> 00:16:28,200 Speaker 1: of like speed Watch and other activists, they have been 216 00:16:28,240 --> 00:16:32,320 Speaker 1: trying to figure out their next move. And one part 217 00:16:32,320 --> 00:16:36,240 Speaker 1: of their next move that's considerably consistent. It's like, for example, 218 00:16:36,280 --> 00:16:39,840 Speaker 1: today at ten o'clock, I wanted to draw our listener's 219 00:16:39,880 --> 00:16:43,359 Speaker 1: attention that there's people that has called themselves their vigilante 220 00:16:43,360 --> 00:16:46,760 Speaker 1: group called Friends of Echo Park, and they disdained the 221 00:16:46,840 --> 00:16:50,320 Speaker 1: unhoused people. And these people were called on and they 222 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:53,800 Speaker 1: have latched forces with Mitchell Ferrell and I want to 223 00:16:53,800 --> 00:16:57,040 Speaker 1: take the time to explain that because this last four 224 00:16:57,120 --> 00:16:59,560 Speaker 1: years with the President Trump, but we had, he has 225 00:16:59,600 --> 00:17:04,840 Speaker 1: been citing antagonistic vigilantes and violence, and he's upping the ratchet. 226 00:17:05,080 --> 00:17:08,000 Speaker 1: Mitchell Farrell and Juan ferro Rosso, they are the same. 227 00:17:08,119 --> 00:17:11,040 Speaker 1: They're doing the same thing, trying to ramp up or 228 00:17:11,119 --> 00:17:14,880 Speaker 1: ratchet up this anti unhoused sentiment to get them removed 229 00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:16,840 Speaker 1: and try to get them put in like the Staple 230 00:17:16,920 --> 00:17:19,399 Speaker 1: Center or somewhere where they won't have to see the 231 00:17:19,440 --> 00:17:23,439 Speaker 1: unhoused and houselessness. But the reality and the stupidity of 232 00:17:23,480 --> 00:17:26,560 Speaker 1: this issue is is that the more you take move 233 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:30,879 Speaker 1: those unhoused people are becoming unhoused daily. So it's like 234 00:17:31,320 --> 00:17:34,880 Speaker 1: you know, putting a bandit over a water faucet that's 235 00:17:34,960 --> 00:17:37,320 Speaker 1: keep floored with water. You're not going to stop it. 236 00:17:37,680 --> 00:17:40,520 Speaker 1: Instead of coming together and trying to create solutions like 237 00:17:40,520 --> 00:17:44,639 Speaker 1: housing for the unhused, they'd rather use their time and 238 00:17:44,640 --> 00:17:48,119 Speaker 1: their energy banding together and having a stalking people like 239 00:17:48,320 --> 00:17:51,840 Speaker 1: Riley Montgomery, stalking activists who are trying to change the 240 00:17:51,880 --> 00:17:54,159 Speaker 1: world for the better. So if you have any expect 241 00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:57,879 Speaker 1: insight on this, oh, the only inslight I have is 242 00:17:58,040 --> 00:18:00,520 Speaker 1: just that you know, if anyone sees their the friends 243 00:18:00,560 --> 00:18:03,400 Speaker 1: of Eco Park Lakes Flyers do not believe them because 244 00:18:03,440 --> 00:18:06,960 Speaker 1: the flyers say that they are on the same team 245 00:18:07,119 --> 00:18:09,399 Speaker 1: as we are, and they are not. We have only 246 00:18:09,440 --> 00:18:14,760 Speaker 1: seen them be antagonistic both to the unhoused and by 247 00:18:14,800 --> 00:18:19,119 Speaker 1: harassing members of street Watch. And it's really gross. And 248 00:18:19,200 --> 00:18:22,840 Speaker 1: I think that if you're actually interested in solutions for 249 00:18:22,880 --> 00:18:25,159 Speaker 1: the unhoused, you have to look at the data. You 250 00:18:25,240 --> 00:18:28,040 Speaker 1: have to talk to unhoused people because they're human beings. 251 00:18:28,040 --> 00:18:31,560 Speaker 1: They're not a rat infestation in the city, which is 252 00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:35,679 Speaker 1: often how people talk about them here. And she is infuriating. 253 00:18:36,280 --> 00:18:38,359 Speaker 1: And one other added point that I would like to 254 00:18:38,359 --> 00:18:41,560 Speaker 1: point to, because people that have issues with substances or 255 00:18:41,600 --> 00:18:44,280 Speaker 1: issues that have with mental health, they don't need to 256 00:18:44,280 --> 00:18:46,960 Speaker 1: be criminalized. You can't shoot them to be sanity. You 257 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:50,159 Speaker 1: can't shoot them and criminalize them to be sober. You 258 00:18:50,200 --> 00:18:54,040 Speaker 1: can create places and or programs to be supportive of 259 00:18:54,119 --> 00:18:56,960 Speaker 1: a part of our community. Everyone in their family has 260 00:18:57,000 --> 00:19:00,240 Speaker 1: someone that may have had some mental health challenges. Everyone 261 00:19:00,280 --> 00:19:02,959 Speaker 1: in their family have someone that you maybe even if 262 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:05,960 Speaker 1: it's a cousin, they may have substance uces issues. And 263 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:08,160 Speaker 1: if we don't have used a humane approach in trying 264 00:19:08,160 --> 00:19:10,320 Speaker 1: to figure it a solution out instead of running to 265 00:19:10,400 --> 00:19:14,399 Speaker 1: our guns and police officers and vigilantes. Life free Friends 266 00:19:14,400 --> 00:19:17,520 Speaker 1: of Echo park that the city Council, Mitchell Farroh and 267 00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:22,399 Speaker 1: Wan through FORRGOSO embraces instead of talking to unhoused people 268 00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:25,440 Speaker 1: today that refuse to talk to unhoused people. They don't 269 00:19:25,480 --> 00:19:28,240 Speaker 1: want to hear their needs and concerns. They want to dictate. 270 00:19:28,760 --> 00:19:30,639 Speaker 1: And that last that I heard of, that that was 271 00:19:31,119 --> 00:19:33,359 Speaker 1: earlier World War two, and that we know how that 272 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:35,639 Speaker 1: ended up. Is there anything else would you like to 273 00:19:35,640 --> 00:19:39,200 Speaker 1: say before we log off? Oh? Sure, just to kind 274 00:19:39,240 --> 00:19:43,280 Speaker 1: of echo your point about mental health and subsus abuse. 275 00:19:43,440 --> 00:19:47,840 Speaker 1: I mean, yes, if anyone has ever met someone upper 276 00:19:47,880 --> 00:19:50,840 Speaker 1: middle class or even like higher like some kind of 277 00:19:50,880 --> 00:19:54,840 Speaker 1: inherited wealth, you know, you know that if those people 278 00:19:54,960 --> 00:19:57,760 Speaker 1: are alcoholics or they have some sort of mental illness, 279 00:19:58,600 --> 00:20:02,120 Speaker 1: they just coast on their money and they never see 280 00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:05,560 Speaker 1: any consequences that on house people or even people who 281 00:20:05,600 --> 00:20:07,960 Speaker 1: are working class who because we have such a threadbare 282 00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:13,120 Speaker 1: safety net now. So it's not a matter of control. 283 00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:16,800 Speaker 1: It's not a matter of self control or morals or 284 00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:19,520 Speaker 1: anything like that. It's purely about money. That if you 285 00:20:19,560 --> 00:20:22,320 Speaker 1: have the money to get the care you need, then 286 00:20:22,359 --> 00:20:25,120 Speaker 1: you're fine. If you don't have the money to get 287 00:20:25,119 --> 00:20:26,680 Speaker 1: the carr you need, you're on the streets and you're 288 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:30,159 Speaker 1: maligned for it as though it's your lack of personal responsibility. 289 00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:34,280 Speaker 1: And that's unfortunately some of us, that's our poor and 290 00:20:34,359 --> 00:20:38,520 Speaker 1: working class. We drink into the internalized images. But I 291 00:20:38,640 --> 00:20:42,280 Speaker 1: have heard from medical personnelity stating it is a medical 292 00:20:42,320 --> 00:20:45,440 Speaker 1: issue with substance and mental health issue. And unfortunately, when 293 00:20:45,480 --> 00:20:48,720 Speaker 1: we talk about medical medicare for all, that gets silenced, 294 00:20:48,840 --> 00:20:51,920 Speaker 1: or medical issues with substance usage, that definitely get silenced, 295 00:20:51,920 --> 00:20:54,520 Speaker 1: and people don't want to hear that reality. They rather 296 00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:57,399 Speaker 1: if they feel more comfortable blaming the victim instead of 297 00:20:57,400 --> 00:21:01,680 Speaker 1: helping people find their best selves. Is there anything else 298 00:21:01,760 --> 00:21:03,879 Speaker 1: you like? Oh? Sure, well, just to speak, just to 299 00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:05,960 Speaker 1: speak to that point. I have medicated babe on here 300 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:09,960 Speaker 1: because I have PTSD and I have access to the 301 00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:13,320 Speaker 1: healthcare that I need in order to be like a functioning, 302 00:21:13,359 --> 00:21:17,720 Speaker 1: happy person. And everyone deserves that absolutely absolutely, and they 303 00:21:17,720 --> 00:21:19,960 Speaker 1: definitely don't deserve to be out here on the street. 304 00:21:20,760 --> 00:21:23,000 Speaker 1: This is THEO Henderson from Weedi and House. I thank 305 00:21:23,040 --> 00:21:25,320 Speaker 1: you for your time, Katie, and I hope we again 306 00:21:25,359 --> 00:22:10,200 Speaker 1: meet in the light of understanding. Shame and where's last 307 00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:13,360 Speaker 1: as unlesson should be out here too. The son of them, 308 00:22:14,520 --> 00:22:17,439 Speaker 1: they're also a problem to Their job was never to 309 00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:19,439 Speaker 1: do this where they were going to go against the 310 00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:21,800 Speaker 1: homeless people. They were supposed to help us years ago 311 00:22:22,040 --> 00:22:24,800 Speaker 1: when I got here seventeen years ago. They were supposed 312 00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:27,440 Speaker 1: to help us. They haven't done. Although they're to give 313 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:32,320 Speaker 1: my personal information to them right exactly so that they 314 00:22:32,320 --> 00:22:37,320 Speaker 1: can go ahead. And and you know, and this kid, 315 00:22:38,520 --> 00:22:41,160 Speaker 1: she looked at you. Did they help us kit about 316 00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:47,280 Speaker 1: the job? They no, of course not. You didn't make 317 00:22:47,359 --> 00:22:58,200 Speaker 1: the corner trying get pay and what matter? Well, here's 318 00:22:58,280 --> 00:23:02,880 Speaker 1: here's a good one. There bridge that they that they created. 319 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:06,919 Speaker 1: It's now collapsing. Okay, it's not collapsing because of the 320 00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:10,560 Speaker 1: fact that they can't do very much because there's no 321 00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:14,879 Speaker 1: housing available. The shelters are too stupid to put people 322 00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:16,399 Speaker 1: in a lot of us don't want to go in 323 00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:21,080 Speaker 1: there for what, to get another disease or they're primalized. There. No, 324 00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:24,360 Speaker 1: that's a bunch of and that needs to stop. That 325 00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:36,000 Speaker 1: needs to stop. I'm happy so we just here on 326 00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:38,359 Speaker 1: the ground hearing about that. They are not going to 327 00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:41,400 Speaker 1: do the displacement and methods that they're usually doing. They're 328 00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:45,080 Speaker 1: just going to spot claim. So this is what activism 329 00:23:45,119 --> 00:23:48,640 Speaker 1: and organism organizing really does. It does work. So when 330 00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:51,880 Speaker 1: you hear people wanting and complaining about people protesting, that's 331 00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:53,679 Speaker 1: the only way we're going to get things done. We 332 00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:56,080 Speaker 1: cannot just sit up there and allow ourselves to be 333 00:23:56,119 --> 00:23:59,080 Speaker 1: steam rolled and not heard. This is theo Henderson from 334 00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:02,000 Speaker 1: Media in House and this is may we again meet 335 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:12,399 Speaker 1: in a lot of understanding and after it today on 336 00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:15,920 Speaker 1: House News, we are here live at Neuri Martinez's home. 337 00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:19,040 Speaker 1: She is recipient of free money that's given by President 338 00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:23,720 Speaker 1: Joe Biden from FEMA dated January twenty six, twenty twenty one. Today, 339 00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:26,320 Speaker 1: she has not utilized that funds in order for us 340 00:24:26,359 --> 00:24:28,800 Speaker 1: to utilize it to help the young house in the 341 00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:32,600 Speaker 1: communities that surround here and other places all over Los Angeles. 342 00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:36,240 Speaker 1: The question then becomes what is stopping her? The issues 343 00:24:36,359 --> 00:24:39,119 Speaker 1: used to be there was no money. Now we have 344 00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:42,080 Speaker 1: the money, we have the hotels. What else is needed? 345 00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:45,680 Speaker 1: I'm suspecting political will would need to be taken in 346 00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:50,200 Speaker 1: an account Neuri Martinez has stated multiple times that on 347 00:24:50,320 --> 00:24:53,280 Speaker 1: house people are danger to her precious childs and not 348 00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:55,560 Speaker 1: knowing that on house families are also out here on 349 00:24:55,600 --> 00:24:58,679 Speaker 1: the street. Perhaps this money could be used to be 350 00:24:59,080 --> 00:25:03,399 Speaker 1: able to get hol these families as well. This is 351 00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:07,480 Speaker 1: Unhoused News. Good morning. This is Sejo Henderson from Wiedi 352 00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:10,360 Speaker 1: in House. The top story here today is we are 353 00:25:10,359 --> 00:25:15,719 Speaker 1: here planning to present City Council Member President Larie Martinez 354 00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:19,640 Speaker 1: at her home a fake check to show her Marie 355 00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:24,400 Speaker 1: Antoinette type of behavior here to Los Angeles unhoused community. 356 00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:27,320 Speaker 1: Did you know that we have now the money to 357 00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:31,160 Speaker 1: put unhoused people in hotels and extend project room keep. 358 00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:34,400 Speaker 1: Did you know that city council members as well as 359 00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:36,840 Speaker 1: the mayor refuses to use that money to put the 360 00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:41,919 Speaker 1: unhouse people in these places. Did you also know that 361 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:45,280 Speaker 1: they are planning to do a massive violent sweep of 362 00:25:45,359 --> 00:25:47,919 Speaker 1: unhoused people at Epple Park Lake pretty soon in the 363 00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:50,919 Speaker 1: next couple three days. Did you also know that they 364 00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:54,240 Speaker 1: are continually to try to do brutal sweeps against unhoused 365 00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:57,080 Speaker 1: people and use the reason that they don't want help. 366 00:25:58,119 --> 00:26:00,480 Speaker 1: There is absolutely no excuse for them not accept this 367 00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:02,720 Speaker 1: money because they it's not coming out of their pocket. 368 00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:05,159 Speaker 1: But the fact that the matter is, this has always 369 00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:07,440 Speaker 1: been an issue of they did not want their health 370 00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:10,840 Speaker 1: their house because unless they're in some far from place, 371 00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:14,240 Speaker 1: that's the only acceptable solution that they're willing to talk about. 372 00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:17,480 Speaker 1: This is THEO Henderson from Median House and there'll be 373 00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:21,480 Speaker 1: more default tomorrow at three pm. The Black Lives Matter 374 00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:25,560 Speaker 1: will be here to protest the Police Association right across 375 00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:30,679 Speaker 1: the street from the ACLU is the police unions that 376 00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:34,440 Speaker 1: are giving the money to police departments here in Los 377 00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:38,640 Speaker 1: Angeles to continue to brutalize and marginalize in African American 378 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:43,399 Speaker 1: and Latino communities. And on that note of continually to 379 00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:47,160 Speaker 1: marginalize America, said he had taken one hundred and fifty 380 00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:50,479 Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty million dollars outside of the fifty 381 00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:53,440 Speaker 1: four percent of the budget of Los Angeles City Council 382 00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:58,560 Speaker 1: who approved it. However, they rechieve returned that money and 383 00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:01,480 Speaker 1: right now, currently the police Apartment here in Los Angeles 384 00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:05,840 Speaker 1: has over three billion dollars and the housing crisis, it 385 00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:09,640 Speaker 1: barely has over ten million dollars in order for servicing 386 00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:12,840 Speaker 1: the down house community. So we know where the money 387 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:15,439 Speaker 1: is and we know where the money goes. So the 388 00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:18,399 Speaker 1: next time you hear some nimbe talking about we should 389 00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:21,320 Speaker 1: be giving more money to the police, or you hear 390 00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:25,920 Speaker 1: them why about the safeties an issue, you can realize 391 00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:28,720 Speaker 1: and says, well, maybe we take your three billion dollars away, 392 00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:32,080 Speaker 1: maybe your job security will be an issue. So here 393 00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:35,919 Speaker 1: is it is. This is the reality that we are 394 00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:39,879 Speaker 1: here to protest these associations and take away their money 395 00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:42,560 Speaker 1: in order to help the community instead of criminalizing them 396 00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:46,240 Speaker 1: an other. In the House News January twenty twenty one, 397 00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:49,280 Speaker 1: we found that we've reached a total of one hundred 398 00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:52,840 Speaker 1: and sixty five on House Depth and County. The rough 399 00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:55,440 Speaker 1: data that we have so far of COVID nineteen depths 400 00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:59,000 Speaker 1: of unhoused people in Los Angeles County, taking from December 401 00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:03,000 Speaker 1: twenty twenty for seventy one depths. Keeping in mind on 402 00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:06,680 Speaker 1: the weather that's coming up that has been inclement, particularly 403 00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:10,000 Speaker 1: for the Texas and housed, these numbers are also indicative 404 00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:15,080 Speaker 1: of a growing malaise of the weather. Environments are working 405 00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:19,000 Speaker 1: against the unhoused community, and housing is very much, very 406 00:28:19,119 --> 00:28:23,119 Speaker 1: very important. We close this on House News with an 407 00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:27,520 Speaker 1: update hilde Slice has put our name on this project 408 00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:30,720 Speaker 1: and as you can see, these supposed to be tentative 409 00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:34,880 Speaker 1: tiny homes tiny homes. Also, I want to break down 410 00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:38,400 Speaker 1: this information for you. African Americans and Latito people are 411 00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:42,920 Speaker 1: four times enough likely to be unhoused and environmental oppression. 412 00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:46,240 Speaker 1: Racism and oppression is very real. So as you can 413 00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:49,960 Speaker 1: see here on the statement here it says they have 414 00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:53,320 Speaker 1: arsident and lad and if anyone knows that arsenic and 415 00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:57,720 Speaker 1: ladd is poisons, So what if the unhoused community gets 416 00:28:57,720 --> 00:29:01,720 Speaker 1: this lad or arsenic poison? Where's the families that will 417 00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:03,880 Speaker 1: get this? What would be what would be the recourse 418 00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:07,640 Speaker 1: or what would happen if they would have be able 419 00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:11,280 Speaker 1: to contract this. So if we want to really really 420 00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:13,600 Speaker 1: look at this, look how where we are. We're so 421 00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:16,600 Speaker 1: far away from most of the society. We're next to 422 00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:19,640 Speaker 1: a recycling band. So you can also hear the dois 423 00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:23,440 Speaker 1: violations and noise pollution as well. They don't stop because 424 00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:26,520 Speaker 1: it's because it's COVID nineteen, So you're going to be 425 00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:30,360 Speaker 1: dealing with auditory pollution as well as in ground and 426 00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:34,440 Speaker 1: surface pollution. But this is their solution of helping in 427 00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:36,600 Speaker 1: our house who's going to speak up for this or 428 00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:39,120 Speaker 1: who's going to speak out for this, and what precautions 429 00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:41,240 Speaker 1: are going to be put in place if on house 430 00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:44,920 Speaker 1: people do catch arsenic poisoning or lead poisoning or families 431 00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:49,480 Speaker 1: because it also affects learning, memory, cognitive abilities, and other 432 00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:51,479 Speaker 1: kind of skills that you may need in order to 433 00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:55,760 Speaker 1: navigate in this world. This is Theo Henderson and this 434 00:29:55,800 --> 00:30:10,520 Speaker 1: is in House News. Hello, this is CEO Henderson from 435 00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:13,600 Speaker 1: Weed the in House. We are here and El POI 436 00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:17,240 Speaker 1: blow for the second attempt to try to displace the 437 00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:20,640 Speaker 1: house community here at El Poiblo, and El Poeblo has 438 00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:24,440 Speaker 1: a history of police coming by along with sanitation and 439 00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:30,160 Speaker 1: steamrolling them away from their places of their livelihood basically 440 00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:32,720 Speaker 1: of the in house they are trying to hear to survive. 441 00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:36,640 Speaker 1: We're here in a cold weather temperature. We're here with 442 00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:40,360 Speaker 1: there's COVID nineteen and we have people here lining up 443 00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:42,840 Speaker 1: and setting up to do the same very thing that 444 00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:45,520 Speaker 1: they know that they're not supposed to do. And when 445 00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:48,840 Speaker 1: we allow blanket power to police officers, this is what happens. 446 00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:52,160 Speaker 1: But it takes the citizens to organize and to make 447 00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:54,360 Speaker 1: sure that we hold them in check and that is 448 00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:57,040 Speaker 1: what they failed to realize that we don't work for 449 00:30:57,040 --> 00:30:59,240 Speaker 1: the police. The police work for us and they will 450 00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:35,800 Speaker 1: do what we ask to do. This is THEO Henderson 451 00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:38,840 Speaker 1: from Weedian House. This is we're here following up on 452 00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:42,360 Speaker 1: the second successful stop of a brutal sweep on a 453 00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:47,080 Speaker 1: cold Tuesday here in El poy Blow. We have another 454 00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:49,520 Speaker 1: activist that we interviewed before, but we're doing a follow 455 00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:53,160 Speaker 1: up interview that give us some touch conversational bit and 456 00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:55,000 Speaker 1: explain a little bit how why do you think that 457 00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:57,520 Speaker 1: there's such a heavy presence of police officers this time? 458 00:31:58,040 --> 00:32:00,840 Speaker 1: So why is this such a heavy presence of police 459 00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:04,800 Speaker 1: officers here? So we're actually surprised about that because we 460 00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:08,320 Speaker 1: feel pretty a good relationship with our sanitation team here. 461 00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:11,600 Speaker 1: They're usually pretty respectful of the residents and when they're not, 462 00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:15,600 Speaker 1: you know, we hold them accountable. But we suspect that 463 00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:19,000 Speaker 1: someone from one of the lofts across the street potentially 464 00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:22,360 Speaker 1: called them. It could have been the church. But a 465 00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:25,080 Speaker 1: lot of times we see on like apps like Citizen 466 00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:30,000 Speaker 1: or next door like chatter about actions like this, and 467 00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:37,160 Speaker 1: given the amount of antipathy towards unhoused people on those networks. 468 00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:39,280 Speaker 1: It's it's like, makes total sense that someone would just 469 00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:43,320 Speaker 1: call the cops. They have a lot of suspicion towards 470 00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:46,920 Speaker 1: their unhoused neighbors, and I've seen it specifically in this building. 471 00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:50,080 Speaker 1: So one of the questions I have too, is that 472 00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:52,680 Speaker 1: why is it that the police always you notice that 473 00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:56,040 Speaker 1: come out in mass One is these nimbiess have always 474 00:32:56,200 --> 00:33:01,160 Speaker 1: making these asperious claims about unhoused people. Yeah, it's interesting 475 00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:03,880 Speaker 1: because usually when they come out on masks, there isn't 476 00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:09,360 Speaker 1: like an actual, like quote crime happening. It's a very 477 00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:14,280 Speaker 1: vague call about someone threatening on citizen. Every day you 478 00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:17,280 Speaker 1: see hundreds of man with knife, woman with knife. And 479 00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:19,560 Speaker 1: you know, honestly, if I was a single lady out 480 00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:21,440 Speaker 1: on the street, I'd probably have a knife on me too, 481 00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:26,800 Speaker 1: So you know, that's all very hypothetical shit. It seems 482 00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:29,960 Speaker 1: like to me, you know, I don't really see a 483 00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:31,720 Speaker 1: lot of police coming out to help with the fact 484 00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:34,360 Speaker 1: that four people a day are dying out here on 485 00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:37,560 Speaker 1: the street. We've had COVID cases out on this block. 486 00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:42,160 Speaker 1: We've had overdose deaths, very many overdose deaths since the summer. 487 00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:44,800 Speaker 1: These guys haven't been out here for that. You know, well, 488 00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:47,120 Speaker 1: my question is too, is like when you're pointing out 489 00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:50,160 Speaker 1: the backtrack a little bit about the safety of women. 490 00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:53,720 Speaker 1: Is I was having a conversation about why some of 491 00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:56,520 Speaker 1: the women are having dogs and other things. It's a 492 00:33:56,640 --> 00:34:00,600 Speaker 1: very violent concern. You're open to anything out here, vulnerable 493 00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:04,160 Speaker 1: house men too, but women much more so. This is 494 00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:07,800 Speaker 1: why that's such a thing. But unless I always say 495 00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:10,000 Speaker 1: when they always are saying that when a women, or 496 00:34:10,080 --> 00:34:12,200 Speaker 1: because they've done the same thing to me at the park, 497 00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:15,600 Speaker 1: so I do know they'll quickly come if they feel 498 00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:17,839 Speaker 1: like that they are threatened. But see there they're usually 499 00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:21,560 Speaker 1: the aggressor. And when the person that's on houses defending themselves, 500 00:34:21,680 --> 00:34:23,840 Speaker 1: then they want to start with sudden used weaponize the 501 00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:27,359 Speaker 1: police to justify why they should be there. But you 502 00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:29,560 Speaker 1: know it's not I rarely see the police are usually 503 00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:33,960 Speaker 1: arresting the people that start the problem, which is one 504 00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:36,319 Speaker 1: of the things I wanted to say. Also, I wanted 505 00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:38,520 Speaker 1: to touch upon is too that there is for a 506 00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:41,719 Speaker 1: day that it's dying and there's no trauma inform care 507 00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:45,000 Speaker 1: with the exception of activist is like street watch and 508 00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:49,279 Speaker 1: community Health, Hollywood Health, those kind of actions are being 509 00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:51,400 Speaker 1: taken by people that are not paid by the city 510 00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:53,799 Speaker 1: to go in and care for our residents and our 511 00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:56,759 Speaker 1: neighbors here. So what's your thoughts on this? Yeah, I 512 00:34:56,760 --> 00:34:59,000 Speaker 1: think about that a lot. We've done a lot of 513 00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:03,000 Speaker 1: de escalating work here. We had someone you know, who 514 00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:05,799 Speaker 1: came up and he was using a substance that had 515 00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:08,680 Speaker 1: kind of worked up. He ended up stealing someone else's 516 00:35:08,719 --> 00:35:12,400 Speaker 1: cell phone that we were charging, and that ended up 517 00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:15,080 Speaker 1: bringing the police in. Not on our cord. We were 518 00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:18,239 Speaker 1: trying to keep the cops out. They got involved, and 519 00:35:18,719 --> 00:35:22,680 Speaker 1: suddenly we had twenty police surrounding us as phone, yeah, 520 00:35:22,719 --> 00:35:25,520 Speaker 1: for over a last phone, and their main thing was 521 00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:28,400 Speaker 1: who should be pressed charges against? And my thing was like, 522 00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:32,200 Speaker 1: please leave right now. But we were in this position 523 00:35:32,239 --> 00:35:34,640 Speaker 1: of putting our bodies in between the tasers and the 524 00:35:34,719 --> 00:35:38,200 Speaker 1: drawn guns that were coming out against this unhoused man. 525 00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:42,279 Speaker 1: And I think it's just like over and over we 526 00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:45,080 Speaker 1: have our caretakers in the community, like so many people 527 00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:47,400 Speaker 1: here who are you know, bringing nar can out for 528 00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:50,960 Speaker 1: their neighbors who are using opiates, or you know, holding 529 00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:55,040 Speaker 1: onto ppe, for people holding onto clothing so that someone's colled, 530 00:35:55,120 --> 00:35:57,799 Speaker 1: you know, they don't die of exposure that night, Like, uh, 531 00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:00,880 Speaker 1: there's just so much mutual aid where happening on this 532 00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:05,200 Speaker 1: grassroots level. That's like every day showing up what the 533 00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:08,080 Speaker 1: efforts of the city are doing, you know, like on 534 00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:11,680 Speaker 1: a shootering budget. Absolutely, And that's one of the bizarre 535 00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:14,480 Speaker 1: things is the police gets over billions of dollars to 536 00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:17,280 Speaker 1: come out and terrorize it, harass people and unhouse people. 537 00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:20,120 Speaker 1: But yet here's grassroots that are really trying to stop 538 00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:22,960 Speaker 1: the make the solution that we have it more humane 539 00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:26,000 Speaker 1: and less criminalization. But it seems like listening from the 540 00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:29,120 Speaker 1: top that they keep talking. For example, Mary Garcetti had 541 00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:33,800 Speaker 1: a horrific a State of the City address talking about 542 00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:38,960 Speaker 1: crime incidents due to and then are also calling for 543 00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:43,880 Speaker 1: the need for calling for the need for more police officers. 544 00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:47,400 Speaker 1: So here's the bizarre thing about it is that you know, 545 00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:50,200 Speaker 1: there's people that have lost their jobs, there's people that 546 00:36:50,239 --> 00:36:53,000 Speaker 1: have lost their homes. And I interviewed then individual that 547 00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:57,000 Speaker 1: was doing desperation survival stealing, and that's a conversation that 548 00:36:57,040 --> 00:36:59,719 Speaker 1: we need to have. It's because of the fact that 549 00:36:59,840 --> 00:37:03,800 Speaker 1: we know that that's going to happen. But the issue 550 00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:06,080 Speaker 1: is it's not more for police, but It's the fact 551 00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:08,360 Speaker 1: of the matter is what can we do to change 552 00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:11,840 Speaker 1: the situation that people don't do the same thing that 553 00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:16,000 Speaker 1: they did like fifty years ago, word be poor and 554 00:37:16,120 --> 00:37:19,360 Speaker 1: unworthy poor, So anything anything else you would you like 555 00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:22,000 Speaker 1: to add. Yeah, I think that's the part that people 556 00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:24,760 Speaker 1: always forget about. When you know, we say defund the police, 557 00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:26,800 Speaker 1: we say abolished the police. We're not talking about just 558 00:37:26,880 --> 00:37:29,160 Speaker 1: leaving a void there. We're talking about filling it with 559 00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:31,640 Speaker 1: that community care that you brought up, that idea of 560 00:37:31,760 --> 00:37:35,120 Speaker 1: people coming together, bring each other, that healthcare, bring each other, 561 00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:38,560 Speaker 1: the mental health care, the addiction support, all of that 562 00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:43,000 Speaker 1: stuff is what will fill the void that punitive policing 563 00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:46,680 Speaker 1: has caused, has formed in this society. That's what it's 564 00:37:46,680 --> 00:37:50,920 Speaker 1: all about. Joanna. Thank you very much for your insight 565 00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:53,439 Speaker 1: on things that I appreciate your time. This is Still 566 00:37:53,520 --> 00:38:26,640 Speaker 1: Henderson from Weedian House and be more to follow. This 567 00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:29,000 Speaker 1: is THEO Henderson from Willian House. We have a person 568 00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:31,319 Speaker 1: that wants to do an interview, So tell us what 569 00:38:31,360 --> 00:38:34,759 Speaker 1: your name is, ma'am. My name is Rosa Vernegas and 570 00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:41,360 Speaker 1: I am seventy six years old and my request to 571 00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:50,280 Speaker 1: Gavin Newson ed Garcetti. How they are announcing daily and 572 00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:57,080 Speaker 1: the daily news announcing the people stay home, keep us 573 00:38:57,120 --> 00:39:03,359 Speaker 1: six feet apart and use the mask. Come they they 574 00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:08,920 Speaker 1: agreed to move us. We are homeless, we are people. 575 00:39:09,160 --> 00:39:14,480 Speaker 1: We have feelings the same of the rest of the people. 576 00:39:15,719 --> 00:39:19,920 Speaker 1: That is my complaint. Actually it's a very valid complaint. 577 00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:22,239 Speaker 1: We're human beings and we're citizens here too. We have 578 00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:24,879 Speaker 1: the same rights as house people, but somehow we don't 579 00:39:24,920 --> 00:39:27,040 Speaker 1: are not believed that. So, so what do you think 580 00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:28,800 Speaker 1: that they should do? Why do you think the police 581 00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:31,760 Speaker 1: are here today? Pon? Why do you think the police 582 00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:36,560 Speaker 1: are here today? Oh, to protect the sanitation, not to us. 583 00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:42,200 Speaker 1: The police is here to harass the homeless and to 584 00:39:42,440 --> 00:39:49,600 Speaker 1: give support to the sanitation. And I say again, we 585 00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:54,040 Speaker 1: are people, we have feelings. We aren't the same risk 586 00:39:54,239 --> 00:40:00,920 Speaker 1: to get the virus. Because they I see that they 587 00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:04,960 Speaker 1: don't care about our like saying, oh they are homeless. No, 588 00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:08,799 Speaker 1: yes we are, but we are people. Why do you 589 00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:11,200 Speaker 1: think that they Why do you think that sanitation needs 590 00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:13,799 Speaker 1: protection against people that they want to live and be 591 00:40:13,880 --> 00:40:21,760 Speaker 1: in peace. Sanitation doesn't care about us, really, they don't 592 00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:27,040 Speaker 1: care about us. They have harassed us in so many 593 00:40:27,080 --> 00:40:32,759 Speaker 1: ways the police has harassed me. Uh in the past time, 594 00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:38,840 Speaker 1: same officer gave me in three tickets and in a 595 00:40:39,040 --> 00:40:44,400 Speaker 1: row three three twas in a role. I'm sorry to 596 00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:46,440 Speaker 1: hear that. Why would they taking you tickets because you're 597 00:40:46,480 --> 00:40:50,560 Speaker 1: just trying to survive? Because I I those tickets. I 598 00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:57,640 Speaker 1: got them for using the the shopping cars inne The 599 00:40:57,719 --> 00:41:03,240 Speaker 1: officer everybody always we have used the chopping cars, and 600 00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:07,320 Speaker 1: why he was giving me the ticket And his answer 601 00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:11,880 Speaker 1: was because the other the others left and now I 602 00:41:12,760 --> 00:41:18,000 Speaker 1: see you with the chopping cars. On a different lighter note, 603 00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:20,560 Speaker 1: I see you have a beautiful dog. What's his name? 604 00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:23,719 Speaker 1: Nicola las Nicholas? How long have you had the dog? 605 00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:28,040 Speaker 1: For five years? And I have been here for five years? 606 00:41:29,120 --> 00:41:30,960 Speaker 1: You have a very pretty dog. I could see you 607 00:41:30,960 --> 00:41:33,360 Speaker 1: have a good connection with her. H one of the 608 00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:35,480 Speaker 1: questions I have. But I see some people that are 609 00:41:35,520 --> 00:41:37,439 Speaker 1: out here with the dog. Why did you get a dog? 610 00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:45,360 Speaker 1: Uh to I feel like a protrajection from my dog. Yes, excellent, 611 00:41:45,560 --> 00:41:48,200 Speaker 1: Thank you very much, Rosie. This is the old Henderson 612 00:41:48,239 --> 00:41:50,520 Speaker 1: from WILLI in the house. I appreciate your comments. AT's 613 00:41:50,640 --> 00:41:53,160 Speaker 1: very old time and I will come back. Is it okay? 614 00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:56,240 Speaker 1: Come back? And interview again. Yes, thank you for coming 615 00:41:56,360 --> 00:42:01,880 Speaker 1: and protecting us. No problem. There's Steele Henderson from Wiedia 616 00:42:01,880 --> 00:42:28,080 Speaker 1: and House. There'll be more to follow. It's a ste 617 00:42:28,080 --> 00:42:30,960 Speaker 1: Henderson from Weedia and House. In good morning. We're here 618 00:42:30,960 --> 00:42:33,840 Speaker 1: at El Pueblo for the third day of trying to 619 00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:38,440 Speaker 1: prevent the brutal sweep, brutal criminalization that often ensues when 620 00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:41,399 Speaker 1: it's the street cleaning. Today, I was informed a little 621 00:42:41,440 --> 00:42:44,840 Speaker 1: bit about, uh, the sanitation and the police and l 622 00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:47,440 Speaker 1: Austin was here and one of the people that's on 623 00:42:47,480 --> 00:42:51,120 Speaker 1: the ground that experiences will give us a little more insight. Lou, 624 00:42:51,280 --> 00:42:55,080 Speaker 1: please introduce yourself. Yeah, my name is Lou. I'm with 625 00:42:55,440 --> 00:43:00,600 Speaker 1: Street Watch, the Downtown chapter. Haven't been involved super long 626 00:43:00,640 --> 00:43:04,319 Speaker 1: because I actually am new to California. I moved here 627 00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:08,239 Speaker 1: during the pandemic. Where you're originally from Ohio. Actually I'm 628 00:43:08,239 --> 00:43:13,480 Speaker 1: from Chicago. Yeah. Oh nice, nice Midwestern. Yeah, and I've 629 00:43:13,680 --> 00:43:17,319 Speaker 1: been we've been coming out here, uh, well, different stre 630 00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:18,759 Speaker 1: Utch people have been coming out here for I think 631 00:43:18,760 --> 00:43:21,560 Speaker 1: a couple of years now. El Pueblo was actually the 632 00:43:21,600 --> 00:43:27,160 Speaker 1: first special enforcement zone, so they're pretty like well seasoned, 633 00:43:27,360 --> 00:43:31,640 Speaker 1: I guess with the with these sweeps and stuff. So 634 00:43:32,239 --> 00:43:33,920 Speaker 1: when I first started coming out here, like it was 635 00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:36,400 Speaker 1: just kind of you know, helping people move their things, 636 00:43:36,960 --> 00:43:40,319 Speaker 1: film in sanitation, making sure they weren't getting into like 637 00:43:40,440 --> 00:43:43,319 Speaker 1: any shit, you know, and you can definitely notice like 638 00:43:43,520 --> 00:43:46,239 Speaker 1: a change in their behavior when you're there with a 639 00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:50,200 Speaker 1: camera versus not like resident like residents have told us 640 00:43:50,200 --> 00:43:54,480 Speaker 1: that too. But then yeah, like over the like through 641 00:43:54,520 --> 00:43:57,279 Speaker 1: the pandemic, I would say, starting like in November ish 642 00:43:57,440 --> 00:44:01,320 Speaker 1: or so, like sanitation has just become like so inconsistent 643 00:44:01,520 --> 00:44:05,160 Speaker 1: and like they would show up with their full team 644 00:44:05,280 --> 00:44:08,200 Speaker 1: and like everybody on this street was like ready moved 645 00:44:08,200 --> 00:44:11,279 Speaker 1: across the street, and then Sanitation would be like, oh no, 646 00:44:11,320 --> 00:44:12,799 Speaker 1: you don't have to move, it's just a spot clean 647 00:44:13,080 --> 00:44:14,920 Speaker 1: and everyone would be like, well, I woke up at 648 00:44:14,960 --> 00:44:18,080 Speaker 1: six am to move my shit, put myself you know, 649 00:44:18,320 --> 00:44:24,120 Speaker 1: in in risk with COVID and whatnot. And so actually 650 00:44:24,320 --> 00:44:28,040 Speaker 1: kind of how this, like I wouldn't say how it 651 00:44:28,040 --> 00:44:30,960 Speaker 1: Nessie started, but like maybe a couple months ago. There's 652 00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:34,600 Speaker 1: also an enforcement zone right next to this, the Civic 653 00:44:34,640 --> 00:44:37,080 Speaker 1: Center enforcement zone. Like they're literally like right next to 654 00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:42,200 Speaker 1: each other, and on Thursdays is when that zone is 655 00:44:42,200 --> 00:44:46,520 Speaker 1: supposed to get swept. But they've been they haven't swept 656 00:44:46,520 --> 00:44:48,920 Speaker 1: that zone at all. They just do spot cleaning every week. 657 00:44:49,719 --> 00:44:52,360 Speaker 1: And one week they were gonna do a full sweep 658 00:44:53,480 --> 00:44:56,080 Speaker 1: on Civic Center and this, and I was there film 659 00:44:56,080 --> 00:44:59,440 Speaker 1: in and this one person in a tent just like 660 00:44:59,520 --> 00:45:02,840 Speaker 1: said no, oh, I'm not leaving, and the cops like 661 00:45:02,960 --> 00:45:06,839 Speaker 1: came and talked to her. She just said no, I'm 662 00:45:06,840 --> 00:45:09,320 Speaker 1: not leaving, and like kind of nothing ended up happening. 663 00:45:10,160 --> 00:45:12,440 Speaker 1: And so that day I came back over here to 664 00:45:12,440 --> 00:45:16,600 Speaker 1: El Pueblo and started telling residents like what happened, Like, hey, guys, 665 00:45:16,800 --> 00:45:19,719 Speaker 1: this woman was just chilling in her tent saying she 666 00:45:19,840 --> 00:45:22,360 Speaker 1: has COVID doesn't want to move. And so then a 667 00:45:22,400 --> 00:45:24,520 Speaker 1: lot of the residents here were like, well that then 668 00:45:24,520 --> 00:45:28,479 Speaker 1: we're not going to move either. We're moving. That makes sense, 669 00:45:28,560 --> 00:45:31,600 Speaker 1: And people don't understand when you're displaced like this. This 670 00:45:31,640 --> 00:45:33,960 Speaker 1: is one of the brutal aspects of it. I didn't 671 00:45:33,960 --> 00:45:36,200 Speaker 1: find anyone that lives in the house to have like 672 00:45:36,239 --> 00:45:38,359 Speaker 1: five minutes to move all of their belongings in their 673 00:45:38,360 --> 00:45:40,840 Speaker 1: home and to go to another location, all on the 674 00:45:41,480 --> 00:45:43,680 Speaker 1: side of the building, And how much work that takes 675 00:45:43,680 --> 00:45:45,640 Speaker 1: and how much it takes out of you. Now add 676 00:45:45,680 --> 00:45:47,680 Speaker 1: to it that you have health issues or you have 677 00:45:47,760 --> 00:45:50,879 Speaker 1: physical challenges. Now, who the hell will have that kind 678 00:45:50,920 --> 00:45:53,719 Speaker 1: of energy and time to do that. So that's the 679 00:45:53,760 --> 00:45:57,320 Speaker 1: reality of it with many people that are sitting here 680 00:45:57,360 --> 00:46:01,240 Speaker 1: and speaking about houselessness or these solutions to unhouse people 681 00:46:01,560 --> 00:46:05,120 Speaker 1: and have no earthly idea what they're talking about. Yeah. Well, 682 00:46:05,160 --> 00:46:08,200 Speaker 1: and I think a lot of people too, unfortunately, assume that, 683 00:46:08,320 --> 00:46:12,160 Speaker 1: like you know, everything in these tents is trash, or 684 00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:14,520 Speaker 1: they assume that like everything that like people have around 685 00:46:14,520 --> 00:46:16,600 Speaker 1: them like, oh, it's just trash. Like these people don't 686 00:46:16,600 --> 00:46:19,839 Speaker 1: actually have possessions, and it's like no, like these are 687 00:46:19,840 --> 00:46:22,720 Speaker 1: people's things, Like you can't just like throw their away. 688 00:46:23,840 --> 00:46:26,520 Speaker 1: It's something that I've learned actually, like from just talking 689 00:46:26,520 --> 00:46:29,000 Speaker 1: with people, is that like, yeah, some people will sort 690 00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:33,520 Speaker 1: of like line their space with trash to deter people 691 00:46:33,520 --> 00:46:37,040 Speaker 1: from like stealing from them. Like you know, I mean, 692 00:46:37,080 --> 00:46:39,480 Speaker 1: I think people like kind of I know you've said 693 00:46:39,520 --> 00:46:43,400 Speaker 1: this many times, like housed people are like very afraid 694 00:46:43,400 --> 00:46:45,759 Speaker 1: of unhoused people, thinking that they're gonna like you know, 695 00:46:45,920 --> 00:46:48,279 Speaker 1: steal from them, assault them, whatever. But like it's so 696 00:46:48,600 --> 00:46:51,200 Speaker 1: the opposite, Like it it really is the unhoused people 697 00:46:51,200 --> 00:46:56,040 Speaker 1: that are, you know, daily experiencing attacks both like from 698 00:46:56,120 --> 00:46:58,759 Speaker 1: other unhoused people, from house people, from the police from 699 00:46:58,880 --> 00:47:01,520 Speaker 1: I mean, it's just it's and the thing of it 700 00:47:01,600 --> 00:47:03,440 Speaker 1: is where house people could pick up the phone and 701 00:47:03,480 --> 00:47:07,200 Speaker 1: complain about an unhoused person, the police would instantaneously be 702 00:47:07,280 --> 00:47:09,640 Speaker 1: on the spot. But if it was a house person, 703 00:47:09,680 --> 00:47:12,840 Speaker 1: with my own personal experience that attacking an unhoused person, 704 00:47:13,120 --> 00:47:16,120 Speaker 1: they are not coming to the defense of the unhoused person. 705 00:47:16,440 --> 00:47:18,799 Speaker 1: They're going to gaslight them, They're going to dismiss what 706 00:47:18,840 --> 00:47:21,480 Speaker 1: their claims are, and they're just basically going to take 707 00:47:21,520 --> 00:47:23,719 Speaker 1: the side of the house people. So this is one 708 00:47:23,719 --> 00:47:26,560 Speaker 1: of the reasons why when I heard yesterday that really 709 00:47:26,600 --> 00:47:29,879 Speaker 1: proturreed me was when one of the residents talking about 710 00:47:29,920 --> 00:47:32,719 Speaker 1: that she doesn't buy that the people of color and 711 00:47:32,800 --> 00:47:35,759 Speaker 1: vulnerable unhouse people don't need the police. I said, you know, 712 00:47:35,800 --> 00:47:38,640 Speaker 1: that's eric nonsense. They are one of the perpetrators of it. 713 00:47:38,800 --> 00:47:40,799 Speaker 1: I give you a case in point. There was a 714 00:47:40,840 --> 00:47:44,160 Speaker 1: family that was an unhouse woman with a family child 715 00:47:44,320 --> 00:47:46,160 Speaker 1: and she was trying to find a way to stay 716 00:47:46,160 --> 00:47:48,080 Speaker 1: into a hotel of the night, and I wish we 717 00:47:48,239 --> 00:47:52,160 Speaker 1: had had the services to help her. She called the police. No, 718 00:47:52,200 --> 00:47:53,840 Speaker 1: I don't think she called the police. Someone called the 719 00:47:53,880 --> 00:47:58,520 Speaker 1: police and the police took the baby. So now you 720 00:47:58,600 --> 00:48:02,080 Speaker 1: tell me a vulnerable woman that what will be the 721 00:48:02,120 --> 00:48:04,360 Speaker 1: first person to call the police about helping her in 722 00:48:04,400 --> 00:48:07,279 Speaker 1: a child? That doesn't make sense. Yeah, no, absolutely. And 723 00:48:07,440 --> 00:48:10,399 Speaker 1: like another example that I have heard a lot one 724 00:48:10,400 --> 00:48:13,600 Speaker 1: of my I guess we're friends. I don't know if 725 00:48:13,600 --> 00:48:15,640 Speaker 1: you consider me a friend. I consider but like one 726 00:48:15,640 --> 00:48:19,200 Speaker 1: of my friends here in al Pueblo, like, uh, he said, 727 00:48:19,360 --> 00:48:21,440 Speaker 1: you know, there's been people that have tried to attack 728 00:48:21,520 --> 00:48:24,880 Speaker 1: him on many occasions, and he'll call the police and 729 00:48:24,920 --> 00:48:27,680 Speaker 1: then the moment the police ask like, oh, what's your address, 730 00:48:28,040 --> 00:48:30,520 Speaker 1: and he'll say, oh, I live on this corner, they 731 00:48:30,520 --> 00:48:33,920 Speaker 1: immediately hang out and I've had that happen. Yeah, and 732 00:48:33,920 --> 00:48:36,680 Speaker 1: he's just like, how am I you know, like obviously 733 00:48:36,719 --> 00:48:39,080 Speaker 1: you know he understands the problems with the police as well, 734 00:48:39,120 --> 00:48:40,880 Speaker 1: but he's like, but like, you know, this person is 735 00:48:40,920 --> 00:48:44,280 Speaker 1: trying to like kill me. I have to somehow protect myself, 736 00:48:44,320 --> 00:48:47,600 Speaker 1: and yeah, they just hang up. I had was stabbed 737 00:48:47,600 --> 00:48:49,960 Speaker 1: a few years ago, and I had a similar situation 738 00:48:50,280 --> 00:48:52,120 Speaker 1: and I had to go inside and get a house 739 00:48:52,160 --> 00:48:56,239 Speaker 1: person to call, or a business or institution to call 740 00:48:56,719 --> 00:48:58,640 Speaker 1: for them to come out, because they will not come out. 741 00:48:58,680 --> 00:49:01,440 Speaker 1: Fund of house people don't listen to that nonsense. The 742 00:49:01,480 --> 00:49:03,360 Speaker 1: only time they'll come out is all you have to 743 00:49:03,360 --> 00:49:05,360 Speaker 1: do is says, I see this unhouse person. He's got 744 00:49:05,400 --> 00:49:07,080 Speaker 1: a knife for a gun, and I'm living in the house. 745 00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:09,440 Speaker 1: You give your address, they will be there on a 746 00:49:09,440 --> 00:49:11,640 Speaker 1: house person being attacked by a house person, and they 747 00:49:11,680 --> 00:49:15,640 Speaker 1: will have the opposite end of the situation. They will 748 00:49:15,680 --> 00:49:20,160 Speaker 1: not come out, Yeah, and they won't listen or dismiss him. 749 00:49:20,880 --> 00:49:22,960 Speaker 1: I think we've covered most of it. Is there anything 750 00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:25,440 Speaker 1: else would you like to let the audience know about 751 00:49:25,760 --> 00:49:30,520 Speaker 1: the situations? From your perspective, I don't think so. Just that, 752 00:49:30,719 --> 00:49:32,920 Speaker 1: Like I mean, we I mean, we definitely just need 753 00:49:32,920 --> 00:49:36,640 Speaker 1: more people coming out and more people like, you know, 754 00:49:36,719 --> 00:49:41,319 Speaker 1: making a fuss because it's just the solution is so clear. Right, 755 00:49:41,360 --> 00:49:43,719 Speaker 1: There's sixty six thousand people living on the street in 756 00:49:43,840 --> 00:49:47,960 Speaker 1: La County. There's two hundred thousand empty the hotel rooms. 757 00:49:48,040 --> 00:49:52,960 Speaker 1: There's you know, seventy thousand empty apartment units. Like we 758 00:49:52,960 --> 00:49:54,839 Speaker 1: we just need to open the door, Like that's all 759 00:49:54,840 --> 00:49:58,520 Speaker 1: that needs to happen. And it's yeah, lou, thank you 760 00:49:58,719 --> 00:50:01,759 Speaker 1: very much. You have been very insightful. Like I said, 761 00:50:01,800 --> 00:50:03,960 Speaker 1: I'm going to mill about a little bit and try 762 00:50:04,000 --> 00:50:06,440 Speaker 1: to interview a few more people and I will look 763 00:50:06,480 --> 00:50:09,400 Speaker 1: forward to telling you again once again here and this 764 00:50:09,520 --> 00:50:11,360 Speaker 1: is Dean Henderson for you guys, and I hope we 765 00:50:11,560 --> 00:50:42,960 Speaker 1: meet it again and a lot of understanding to the 766 00:50:43,160 --> 00:50:50,759 Speaker 1: world as it's been fund Thank you for listening to 767 00:50:50,880 --> 00:50:54,320 Speaker 1: episode forty two of Median House. I hope we learned 768 00:50:54,320 --> 00:50:57,880 Speaker 1: a lot about what it is to me proactive and 769 00:50:57,920 --> 00:51:01,440 Speaker 1: in the struggle. No one does deserves to be evicted 770 00:51:01,760 --> 00:51:05,040 Speaker 1: or forcibly removed when there is a lack of housing 771 00:51:05,160 --> 00:51:08,279 Speaker 1: available in the city's reluctance to do something about it. 772 00:51:09,480 --> 00:51:11,800 Speaker 1: We have now the money from the state from President 773 00:51:11,880 --> 00:51:14,480 Speaker 1: Joe Biden, but we still have the coward days of 774 00:51:14,520 --> 00:51:18,080 Speaker 1: the city. They refuse to use the money to commandate hotels. 775 00:51:18,520 --> 00:51:21,560 Speaker 1: So it stands the reason why would we force people 776 00:51:21,600 --> 00:51:24,160 Speaker 1: when we have the financial wherewithal to put them in 777 00:51:24,239 --> 00:51:27,760 Speaker 1: places to distract them and displace them in further areas 778 00:51:27,800 --> 00:51:33,560 Speaker 1: and causing terror unless that is their aim terrorism homeland terrorism. 779 00:51:33,760 --> 00:51:36,480 Speaker 1: There's a CEO Henderson from Wiedia in house, and I 780 00:51:36,520 --> 00:51:38,839 Speaker 1: thank you all for listening, and I hope to see 781 00:51:38,840 --> 00:51:42,120 Speaker 1: you again. For episode forty three, where I interview the 782 00:51:42,160 --> 00:51:46,480 Speaker 1: unhoused community in Oceanside, California, let us meet in the 783 00:51:46,520 --> 00:51:48,920 Speaker 1: light of understanding, and let us try to do something 784 00:51:48,960 --> 00:52:58,320 Speaker 1: about it. Some be free, yeah jee walk into oh 785 00:52:58,600 --> 00:53:14,600 Speaker 1: ye head, lay your right up to the gun thing, 786 00:53:14,800 --> 00:53:28,160 Speaker 1: go right and you'll get run rolling out. Take it 787 00:53:28,280 --> 00:53:40,680 Speaker 1: a little something, something will go iftree, say that way 788 00:53:41,120 --> 00:54:01,760 Speaker 1: and see something, will yeah te try Tommy, will little 789 00:54:01,800 --> 00:54:08,759 Speaker 1: woman up there on me sway to revolt with me 790 00:54:14,840 --> 00:54:15,000 Speaker 1: Bo