SOME ISSUES WITH LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
DATE: Oct 2015-Nov 2015
INCIDENT: I enter the Los Angeles downtown library. I only have my cell phone.
Intent, to charge cell phone and download window/word application. The download
is taking longer than expected and keeps fall off. I continue various ways, and
get 3 magazines to content me during the wait.
The download has still not complete. What
should have been 1 hour at max, has now turned into 3 hours. I still continue,
and now get 3 books to content me during the wait. I am getting frustrated, the
download falls out again. As I am thumbing through one of the books, with no
interest in any of them. I accidently tear one of the pages out of the
book.
A Librarian (Civil Employee-by the state
taxes from the people of the state) hears a page torn and confronts me. I do
not respond. The librarian make assumptions. I do not respond. The librarian
radios to security. I do not respond. She informs security to come and
instructs the dispatcher who she wants to come. She also lets the security
know, that she wants the police called and that she is making a
"citizen" complaint. She is on the clock of the citizens. The library
already has an internal security department.
After she finishes her call. I inform her,
she can have her data back (the 3 magazines, the 3 books and now 1 torn page:
which is not damaged and usually is taped back in (total cost $0.05)) and that I will be waiting in the lobby
for security. I get up and walk out to the lobby. She radios dispatch and
informs them I am moving into the lobby. Once in the lobby I kick back and wait
for security.
One security guard arrives. She expresses
to him, where are the two she REQUESTED. He informs her, they are probably head
to the first call and her second call, results in him attending to it. She
informs him that I am the person that the first call is about. She wants him to
take me to the security office, and when the police arrive, make sure he tells
them-"SHE IS PRESSING CHARGES". Surprise to me, seeming she is a
civil employee on the clock. Such actions remove the authority of the police
(now the police can only apprehend), it removes the authority from the internal
security guards (all paid for by taxes payers) and I am a citizen (resident) of
the state. WHAT IS THE PROBLEM HERE!
This seemed like an easy event. But it
turned to the worst. I will not plead guilty. I want a jury trial. The public
defender agrees. First the state wants 1 year probation. Not happening as far
as I am concern. I want a jury trial. Next hearing the state wants 1 year off
paper probation. The judge is not happy with the state’s decision and decides
to take a recess and let the state consider what they are asking. Public
defender lets me know, that request is rare and judges usually do not let it
occur.
They recess. The state and public defender
go to inform her (civic employee) what is going on. When public defender
returns, she informs me that this case is making her mad now. While they were
informing her of the state’s decision. She explains that maybe she made a
misjudgment and that I at first seemed like A HOMELESS MENTAL PERSON. I am a tax paying citizen (San Diego County)
and I feel offended, that a civil employee can't seems to understand--She
should consider, that we the citizens are the client, the customer, the people:
like her, we have our civil liberties and she is on the clock. Her personal
opinions should be constrained or she should not go into civic work.
Is this what this nation has come to? Has
the people, forgotten who they are and who has the voice of weight in this
nation? Do civic employees realize - that they, are subject to discrimination
just like private industry: and yet their discrimination is worst. Their
discrimination is against another citizen, who they are (while on duty) obliged
to. Each time a civic employee discriminates, against a citizen they minimize
the civic interactive trust. I look to teachers, enforcement, civic
administrations as having my/our best interest at hand--seeming this is the
nation for the people by the people.
I am homeless and a civic employee wants
to insult me! I will always remind those around me that civic duty regardless
of the field should always be: STRENGTH BASED, SELF DERMINATE, EMPOWERING for
all citizens. Would anyone appreciate a teacher telling a student that they are
"stupid"! A social worker telling a client, they are "lazy
and need to get a job"--Seriously once again I am getting disappointed in
my nation, now in the state I was raised and educated in. What ever happen to
radiating GOLDEN California Love!
Worst part of this incident. I didn’t get a jury trial. The state
had to drop the charges, the 5 days in jail ---I guess covers the mistake (as I
see it). I wanted this to be determined by the citizens, seeming we are paying
for it. So what do you this the total cost of this entire incident (police
apprehension, 5 days in jail, 3 court appearances ) cost LOS ANGELES COUNTY (my
guess-- $10,000.00, when a $0.05 piece of tape would have resolved the issues.
The judges who was not comfortable with the states decision of 1 year probation off paper, was excellent. As stated, if the states get what they want (1 year probation off paper) then on the 11th month, odds of me getting a simple arrest, will result in the state having to explain, where's the data of the 1 year probation, which they won't be able to provided:seeming they wanted that way!!! What was the state thinking????
