Redding Homeless Blog

 This Redding Police Officer Threatened me and demanded I come to him and fight him in his uniform in back of Redding City Hall with Redding Police Officer Sam Llamas standing right next to him. An investigation was done since at the time I did not know his name. Unfortunately I got second officers name wrong on report complaint to Redding Police Department... He was standing with Sam Llamas, not Ed Ochoa. Sam Llamas " I passed by officer Ed Ochoa and unknown officer with stripes on his sleeve and followed me to back door of city hall repeatedly challenging me to fight, to come back, and made comments that I was a coward to not come back and fight him over and over while he followed me. It had me to believe with this officer my life is in physical danger. I wish documentation of the incident as well as unknown officers name"  Well an investigation (cover up) supposedly happened... What turned out to be by his good buddy from " Professional Standards Unit"  of course...

Redding Police Violate Harass Homeless Advocate Taking Their Picture Redding California police officer follows me almost all the way home after talking to 4 officers and two cars jacking up one homeless man sleeping on  Pine St sidewalk in front of downtown restaurant. After chatting briefly at intersection first officer in pic is already walking to his car to follow me. Two blocks from my home he lights me up and best he can come up with is no back license plate light.  Intimidation, retaliation and fear... A pattern of repeated harassment, where are your bodycams? Did Redding Police union threaten then chief Paoletti with a vote of no confidence some time back if he insisted on officers wearing bodycams? And have him removed like the chief of the Red Bluff police department was removed by their union at that time also? All this told to me by a past member of the Redding city council... What did the union  tell you Redding Police Chief Bill Schueller?   "And th...

   Imagine if you will, you are heading up a facebook site seeking justice for one of the most heinous crimes ever to be covered up in Shasta County. Oh im not talking about the lynching of the Ruggles brothers or the multitude of other unsolved lynching's over the years here. I speak of the beating, torture and mutilation of a black man covered up some 23 years ago. "The mutilated body of 31 year-old Leo Coleman, Jr. of Redding, California was found hanging from a tree in the nearby town of Anderson by two teenage boys November 24, 1997. "Police reports document that Officer Ochoa received three separate ' reports from three different people on November 24, that Leo Coleman, Jr. was the victim of hanging by adherents of so-called "white pride" elements in the local community. On the day after Leo, Jr.'s death was reported, someone made a drawing of a hanging man and put it on Bobbi Culver, Leo, Jr.''s girlfriend's, front door." After re...