Working Together - Homeless Senior Citizen Saved by City of Redding - Shasta County Supervisors

 

It is known that homeless folks who sleep right next to busy lighted roads usually are afraid, fearful that they will be attacked. And of course they hold out on the hope that if they are attacked someone passing by will see and have the compassion to come to their aid. Often times senior citizens and the disabled will tell you juvenile homeless will beat and rob them of anything of value.

A homeless man named Marcus, who slept on the sidewalk and bus stop on Cypress Ave. taught me this, having had first hand experience.

You may remember Marcus, one of my first photos of him dropped off at the same place he was picked up, with a hospital discharge bag tied to his chair.....minus his ankles and feet.

Now another poor soul who has spent years suffering in that same parking lot, bus stop with Marcus is quite possibly taking the same path as Marcus, literally walking in the same Valley of the Shadow of Death.

Where will this suffering soul recover after his initial hospital care? The Safeway parking lot? Bus stop?

Happily I can report after several calls and e mails Hill Country Care Crisis van responded, did a fantastic assessment and immediately called an ambulance.

City of Redding councilors and city staff as well as Shasta County supervisors Joe Chimenti, Leonard Moty, and Mary Rickert quickly answered e mails of concern and quickly set the ball in motion to compassionately seek out shelter options while he recovers from his hospital stay. 

I also cannot thank enough Trista Bauman, lead civil rights attorney for the National Homeless Law Center in Washington DC for her keen interest in this mans well being.  

As Shasta County Health and Human services is actively working out his shelter options, I cannot agree with the Red White and Blueprint and/or Recall folks who seem to want to do away with the counties Health and Human services division.

I certainly believe we should Reject the Recall, especially during this time of even greater need.

And we  thank our 3 county supervisors, city councilor's, those who prayed and others who called this in to proper authorities.

And those in power that continue to watch out for the communities safety.

I have no doubt your actions saved a mans life ...

Plz RT #Redding #Shasta #County Red White and Blue - Just Not You Supervisors NO @#Recall #Protest Event ! NO #Militia ! NO #StateOfJefferson ! NO Blueprint !https://t.co/Bux2NMaY7Z#coronavirus #California #Anonymous pic.twitter.com/ByM94YhOar

— Redding Homeless (@ReddingHomeless) May 2, 2021

Redding Police Corporal Will Williams Threatened Local Homeless Advocate With Violence

 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."

"Ongoing investigation" for RPD Corporal arrested during drug bust

Redding Police Violate Harass Homeless Advocate Taking Their Picture

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?

"Ongoing investigation" for RPD Corporal arrested during drug bust

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

— National Homeless (@Ntl_Homeless) March 15, 2021