Susan Burton confronts 3 police officers in front of her
resident where she house women and their children, after they came to do a
compliance check under AB109. The officers handcuffed the woman, searched her
twice, tore her room and closet up and told her that it was protocol and
that they would be back. All of this took place while Board of Supervisor Mark
Ritley Thomas was down the street visiting another resident of Susan where
the woman had just told her story to MRT and his crew.
Susan speaks to some of the issues concerning AB 109 and
calls up the woman that the police harrassed earlier that day to tell of what
took place.
Chief of the police officers
that came out speaks to the townhall meeting about AB 109 at the Community
Coalition headquarters. He indicated that there should be some changes and
that they were working on reviewing how officers do compliance checks.
There are some serious questions that we have to ask surrounding AB109, especially in the matter of compliance checks and how they should be conducted. I believe that probation should do their own checks and that when they do them that they at the least know who they are dealing with instead of just a name as the officers claim about the woman just getting on their list. The bottom line is that compliance checks should have more regard for the people when they are being searched and basically harrassed. Filmming these videos for me was a joy to share with the world some real good stuff.
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