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 competing in a beard growing contest...
#Redding#California#Police Sgt. Chris Smyrnos is Professional Standards Unit Investigating Cpl. Will Williams and Major Cocaine, Guns , Drug bust ! Now Investigating fellow corrupt officers from home.....Direct RPD line 776- 0325 pic.twitter.com/FROU4yhCF0
— Redding Bethel Church Community Cult Watch (@BethelCult) May 26, 2020
I was so tramatized by an unknown officer harboring such violent intentions towards me I even called and reported incident to FBI
Well I got that letter from Redding Police Chief Bill Schueller a year later poo pooing my allegations against who the chief identified as Redding Police officer Will Williams just after his arrest for major drug crimes
I have written response with his name on it from RPD Chief Schueller.
Yet, sadly , looks like a big cover up of officer Williams activities ...
"It was in April of 2020 that an investigation uncovered 138 pounds of processed marijuana, 332 marijuana plants, 30 grams of cocaine, $59,000 and 2 firearms at a warehouse off of Old Highway 44 and Old Oregon Trail, according to the CHP."
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 this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.”
Looks like this officer did not want to talk about Redding police officer Will Williams, I can see why. Is this a cover up? Dont talk about it, maybe it will just all go away?
Thanks for letting us know, but it is the cost of doing business in America. We have all had law enforcement harassment when we challenge authority in our society. I was ticketed for opening my car door into traffic when I stopped at a parking meter. https://t.co/izOAPblEFt
In almost 15 years as a Redding California homeless advocate I have never seen such a radical pre cleansing and removal of homeless before a Point in Time survey as I have today.
The downtown covered parking lot for months had dozens of homeless inside... Gone.
The Shasta County Library homeless population whittled down to almost nothing.
Henderson open space cleaned and swept of homeless several times just prior to Point in Time survey.
In the last couple of mornings few homeless could be seen and those who were downtown wandering in the rain dragging or covered by a wet blanket rousted im sure by Redding Police .
Most homeless that do remain and are hiding refuse to participate knowing if they do afterwards their camps will be raided and KRCR News Channel 7 will be right there as well to take all multitudes of garbage pictures one can imagine.
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History reveals their fears to be reality.
Sadly KRCR TV. like others I believe is totally and completely in bed with this diabolical City of Redding scheme, and their news stories covering them have been brutal.
Why cut yourselves from funding that Redding has needed for homeless solutions for years?
Can we expect more of this from our Police Chief Bill Schuller ?
4 Redding California police officers surround a homeless man as he sits in back of city hall.
The eagerly awaited and compassionately long overdue California "Homeless Person's Bill of Rights and Fairness Act" passed its first hurdle in the Assembly Judiciary Committee on a 7-2 party line vote.
InLos Angeles the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that a city law prohibiting sleeping, sitting or lying on public byways constituted "cruel and unusual punishment," because the city has so few shelter beds its street people have nowhere else to stay.
The same is true in Redding California.
Many California cities like Redding criminalize homelessness, giving tickets for camping (sleeping) and sitting, often taking their necessary survival gear (tents, sleeping bags ) telling them to leave town and violate them for what you and I may very well take for granted... everyday living and life-sustaining activities.
"The solution to homelessness is not citations or jail time, Democratic Assemblyman Tom Ammiano said. He called it a narrow bill to provide "a few basic protections" that would ensure California does not criminalize homelessness. Proponents compare current laws targeting the behavior of homeless people to past Jim Crow and "Anti-Okie" laws that were designed to segregate or remove people deemed undesirable."
Redding, with a city council who believes the poor , homeless and marginalized do not fall under their governing jurisdiction along with the middle and upper class of our community, as well as a "Handouts Don't Help" campaign created by hotelier Ed Rullman and the Redding Business Merchantshave noticeably increasedhomeless hatred in our community as well as a sense of homeless being a second class citizenry and promoting an entitlement mentality for the violation of their constitutional and civil rights.
The bill insures homeless have the right to "move freely, rest, solicit donations, pray, meditate, or practice religion, and to eat, share, accept, or give food and water in public spaces without being subject to criminal or civil sanctions, harassment or arrest.
Homeless people in California would have the right to rest in public spaces, including sidewalks, without the threat of arrest, and local governments would have to provide access to bathrooms and showers."
A.B. 5 is sure to receive a flood of opposition from League of California Cities, the Chamber of Commerce, and other business groups as it heads next to the Assembly Committee on Appropriations.
Here is how YOU can help...!
* For those of you in favor of Homeless Person's Bill of Rights and Fairness Act we have made it easy tocontact Redding's Assembly Member Brian Dahleonline, or reach him at (530) 223-6300 to let him know you wish him to support the California "Homeless Person's Bill of Rights and Fairness Act" and vote YES !
Outside of Redding contacts for California State Assembly can be found here.
* Letters of support needed for the California Homeless Bill of Rights (AB 5).
If you are a California resident, please take a moment to send a letter of support to Assembly Member Ammiano's office. You may fax the letter to (916) 319-2117 or you may mail the letter to: Honorable Tom Ammiano, California State Assembly, State Capitol, Sacramento, CA 95814.
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Please take the time to fight for our less fortunate brothers and sisters and the American concept that the nation founded on the principle that all men are created equal will not tolerate practices and laws that unfairly single out homeless people and criminalize them for everyday living and life-sustaining activities.
******* UPDATE: "At a meeting in Sacramento last week, we learned that the California State Assembly’s Appropriations Committee has killed all proposed legislations which were heard and then placed onto ‘suspense’ status during the last session. AB5 (Homeless Person’s Bill of Rights and Fairness Act) is one of those legislations. Our bill is officially dead.
More than a 100 social-justice based organizations have worked together to bring this piece of civil rights legislation to where it got. Over the next six months, we will organize more vigorously and reach out to a broader base. In 2014, we will be back with our Bill and will work to get it passed by the State’s Assembly, and moved on to the Senate. We will win this fight! Local ordinances that criminalize sitting or sleeping in public spaces across the country are not the answer to homelessness."
