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BULLSHIT BUTTON  REPLACES BULLSHIT METER 

Shock and Awe Slide Show-U.S. Homeless Crime Scenes

 Seattle, Sacramento, Los Angeles, Dallas and New York. Unprosecuted Cases. Coming  January 1, 2010.

Seattle:

Planning begins for Mallahanville and McGinnville as election debate continues. (Because we can-campaign) Neither candidate has discussed ending the public meanness.

 

Sacramento: 

• POTUS will be the first public official to view both police shooting and video-statement from the couple who shot the video.
• Extensive mail out begins today. Congress next, then FBI BSU, HCU and IAD.

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 Fresno:

 

September 22nd, 2008-Happy Birthday Nickelsville!

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Studio Quality Version

Background Music-”Little Pink Houses”-John Mellencamp

Background Music Remastered at Westshore Studios, Crystal Mountain, Washington. By Doc.

Created with (T) Sony-Digital Audio.

Photos by Mary Witt, KIRO TV, KOMO TV, King 5, Seattle Times, Seattle Post Intelligencer and Seattle Weekly’s Aimee Curl.

Created By Homeless Against Nickels and “Blame Me” Productions-Burien, Washington

(c) Copyright 2009-Homeless Underground-Seattle, Washington.

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Music: Pink Floyd-A New Machine

Remastered at Westshore Studios, Crystal Mountain, Washington. By Doc.

A unique look at chronic homelessness.

YouTube Embed Code:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dkmx-nBcSQU

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Special Showing in UK and Israel on December 20, 2009.

 FBI Photos courtesy of Israel

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Special Showing in UK and Israel on December 20, 2009.

 FBI Photos from our Israeli friends!

HU produces homeless phobics list on December 20, 2009, which targets fictitious 911 callers. Lies told to bring cops to public places. 479 names, addresses with phone numbers detail the seriousness of their effort.

VFBA to recreate the great Seattle fire using 300 gallons of gasoline because of sweeps.

http://downtownseattle.komonews.com/content/police-vehicles-torched-city-lot

 

Sacramento Shelter conversions completed. Defies permits and land use ordinances.

Shootout between Rangers and Gangs bring on new effort of disarmament by vets in Sac. Recently, darts were brought into Sac were used to collect 39 weapons, various calibers. The darts harmlessly put the victims asleep.

By kery murakami

Seattle Mayoral candidate Joe Mallahan at a forum on homelessness Thursday morning.

With more living on the streets and budget cuts about to devastate King County’s human services spending, homeless people and advocates wanted to know what Seattle’s next mayor would do.

They didn’t get many specifics from Seattle mayoral candidates Joe Mallahan and Mike McGinn.

Candidates for Seattle City Attorney and the City Council gave more detailed answers at a forum Thursday morning organized by the Seattle-King County Coalition on Homelessness.

But at the forum – one of the few where the candidates have been asked to addressed the poorest in society — Mallahan and McGinn largely talked about their values. Human services advocates had neither seemed particularly knowledgeable about the issues and the forum didn’t do much to assuage those concerns.

Most striking perhaps was McGinn saying he favored finding a stable place for tent cities like Nickelsville to stay, instead of having to constantly move from location to location.

Mallahan, the T-Mobile executive who has spent $230,000 of his own money on his campaign, has been taking pains to reassure voters that he’s not some rich business guy seeking office.

On Thursday, Mallahan said, “Make no mistake” that he’d be a mayor for “the rich and the poor.” As he usually does at forums these days, he said that he’d been a community organizer in Chicago, and that while some of his neighbors had a not-in-my-backyard attitude towards the creation of a battered woman’s shelter in his neighborhood, he supported it. Mallahan said that within days after Hurricane Katrina, he’d gone to West Virginia to help set up shelters and at T-Mobile he’d pushed for the creation of a plan to make cell phones available to low-income people

He turned to McGinn at one point and challenged him to say what, in comparison, had he done for the impoverished.

The question was cut off by the moderator, who’d asked the candidates to not talk about their opponent and keep their remarks to their own positions.

Mallahan complained, “It is an election.”

McGinn did respond, however, and said his mother had started an early learning center at a school district in Long Island where he grew up. He said his father directed community services in the school district.

Asked what he’d do to address NIMBYism that makes it difficult for social services agencies to start programs, McGinn said he’d been president of the Greenwood Community Council. And during that time, the neighborhood welcomed the creation of a low-income apartment and wanted more low-income housing built as part of the neighborhood’s new library.

Mallahan said he’d deal with NIMBYism by being a “moral voice” as mayor.

After one housing encampment dubbed itself Nickelsville – in protest of incumbent Mayor Greg Nickels – the candidates were asked what they’d do to avoid having an encampment named in their honor. Mallahan said he’d avoid the creation of a Mallahanville through one word.

“Dignity.”

Mallahan said that growing up in Everett, the children in the neighborhood would run away from a street person. He said his mother would tell them to treat the person with dignity. “That’s Jesus walking up the sidewalk,” his mother would say.

More broadly, the candidates returned to their stump themes when asked what they’d do.

Mallahan said he’d bring his 20 years of management experience to run a tight ship, which would make sure that as much money as possible would be available to address issues like homelessness.

McGinn pointed to his opposition to replacing the Alaskan Way Viaduct with a $4.2 billion tunnel. The city’s share of the project is $930 million – which he said could be used for higher priorities. He said he was running “to make smart investments” and pledged to have a “people-first budget.”

He noted that an advisory group had been asked to come up with a solution for about $2.8 billion. But in the end, elected leaders came up with more than another $1 billion to do the tunnel.

McGinn said there are higher priorities for the money like homelessness or dealing with a bus system that faces major cuts.

Asked about the protests the homeless group WHEEL has held recently outside the homes of Nickels and City Council members, McGinn said allowing the homeless to ride buses wouldn’t cost Metro money. The group had been protesting the city’s decision not to fund $50,000 in bus vouchers the group said the homeless needed to get to and from shelters. Mallahan had given a similar answer at a human services forum last week.

WHEEL, as reported by the political site Publicola , was facing allegations of having pressured homeless people to participate in the protests. The group denied the allegations.

McGinn said he’d support the creation of single-room occupancy hotels that had once housed low-income people, but have largely disappeared from the city. He also said he’d support incentives to allow developers to build taller buildings than zoning regulations allow in return for the inclusion of affordable housing

Mallahan also said he supported incentive zoning and said he’d push for the creation of more living-wage jobs.

<a href=”http://www.seattlepostglobe.org/2009/10/15/mcginn-and-mallahan-debate-homeless-issues-at-forum”>Seattle Post Globe</a>

Greg Nickels, Robert Nellums, Richard Russell and Alex Belden and two other city employees are now targeted for a federal lawsuit over indifferential treatment as discrimination regarding the differential treatment of the homeless and the public. Video, photographs and public statements and victims statements will be mailed with the complaint to the city attorney next week as the center house policies regarding treatment comes to focus. One year ago, photo and video documentation of hate began and since then 13,000 photos and videos have identified indifferential treatment as a form of discrimination.

This morning, Scott Morrow sent this e-mail to supporters of Nickelsville, the homeless encampment that has been living around the Seattle area since last September. Nickelsville has been staying at the Port of Seattle’s Terminal 107 Park in West Seattle since July 23, and celebrated its first anniversary on September 26. The e-mail announced that, according to Port officials, the camp would be “swept” today around 1 PM. Nickelsville residents (“Nickelodeons”) have been expecting and preparing for the eviction for some time, while trying to negotiate with the Port to extend their stay.

A press conference was underway at Nickelsville around 1 PM, but it was largely inaudible except to those located directly next to those speaking. Some supporters held signs with slogans such as “It’s time for a pragmatic and compassionate response” and “Our Lord said, whatever you did for the least of our brothers (and sisters) you did for me – Matthew 25:40.” Some residents were packing up bags and leaving camp during the press conference.

Following the press conference, Port police made several loudspeaker announcements, spaced about 10 minutes apart, informing those remaining in the camp that they would be arrested and charged with second degree criminal trespass. After the second announcement, most Nickelsville residents and supporters left the camp in a group. Many gathered behind the police line with media and other supporters to watch the arrests; others went to the nearby city Herring’s House Park. The fourth loudspeaker announcement was made at about 2 PM; shortly thereafter, 30-40 officers moved into the camp. They conducted a full search of the camp before beginning arrests.

Police tagged each tent with a number; media were told afterward that this was to facilitate the later collection of belongings by Nickelodeons. Port spokeswoman Charla Skaggs said it was unclear whether belongings would be held for pickup on Port property or at the central Seattle police warehouse.

Arrestees were led in ones and twos out of the camp accompanied by two or three police officers. Kevin Dockery, a Nickelsville resident, was sitting on a milk crate in a central location of camp, visible to all spectators. Several officers encircled him. An officer took his cane and laid it down next to him. Dockery and the officers talked for several minutes. Eventually he stood and was led out of camp by a few officers, unhandcuffed, using his cane. A couple of other arrested Nickelodeons were also allowed to leave camp without being cuffed.

Another arrestee was supporter Dorli Rainey, who is 82 years old.

The assembled supporters and media, as well as the police, were very quiet during the camp search and observing the arrests, except to cheer each arrested person as they left camp.

After the last of the 12 arrestees were led away, Skaggs asked all of the assembled media to move to the park’s parking lot, per police order. There, police officer Tuttle said that no one arrested at Nickelsville would be taken to jail unless they had an existing warrant. Skaggs said arrestees would be taken somewhere else for processing (location unspecified) and released – with local transportation being provided. Tuttle also told media that police had not been sure how many people they would arrest – a rumor had been that activists might have come up from Portland.

At 2:40 PM, the entrance to the park was cordoned off by police tape. Anyone wishing to observe the takedown of the camp would have a difficult time getting an adequate view from outside the park. The park has been closed “indefinitely for maintenance” since before Nickelsville settled there.

A commentary on the Nickelsville arrests will be added on this site in the next couple of days.

EXAMINER

 

Some people camped out overnight outside the home of Seattle City Councilman Tim Burgess, in the Queen Anne neighborhood.

The Associated Press

SEATTLE —
Some people camped out overnight outside the home of Seattle City Councilman Tim Burgess, in the Queen Anne neighborhood.

The Tuesday night campers are members of the group SHARE who also camped out Monday night outside Mayor Greg Nickels’ home, demanding more free bus fares from the city.

A homeless camp on Port of Seattle property is facing eviction at noon Wednesday, and a spokeswoman for the camp called Nickelsville says it will stand up to police.

Seattle Times

September 29, 2009 at 1:24 pm

(Photo by Kevin McClintic, taken during the “Nickelsville” open house on Saturday)
ORIGINAL 1:24 PM REPORT: We have a call out to a Port of Seattle spokesperson to try to confirm the reported park closure as well as the estimated time of police arrival, but in the meantime, we’ve just received this news release from a spokesperson for the encampment:

PARK CLOSES TODAY – NICKELSVILLE DETERMINED TO STAY – POLICE ARRIVE TOMORROW, 9/30/09, AT 12 NOON

* T-107 Port Park closes today at noon
* Nickelsville will stand through arrival of Port of Seattle and Valley Police tomorrow, Wednesday, at noon
* Candidates for Seattle City Council, David Bloom and Sally Bagshaw, will stand with Nickelsville tomorrow
* Nickelodeons who plan to stay and peacefully stand-up to removal by police will ultimately risk arrest

Chief of Police Colleen Wilson says “We’re going to take back our port.” However, Nickelsville plans to stay as they at the current portion of the park where they reside, as they have no other place to go. Residents, friends, citywide Nickelsville supporters and more will stand with Nickelsville when Port and Valley police (i.e. Renton) arrive to remove the encampment. City Council candidates David Bloom and Sally Bagshaw will be present to stand with Nickelsville.

The only City of Seattle Police used tomorrow will be animal control officers to collect unaccompanied pets.

T-107 Park, located at 4700 W Marginal Way SW (map), closes today at Noon. Cars will be impounded 24 hrs later. Nickelsville will stand as a community until it is forceably removed by police.

1:35 PM UPDATE: Just spoke with Charla Skaggs from the port, who tells us that the park is indeed closed – to everyone – they had to do this to give 24 hours’ notice that vehicles would be towed and that anyone in the park would be trespassing. She also says that the park is likely to stay closed a while AFTER the encampment is gone because “we will have to do some repair and maintenance.” She says that Port officials including the police chief met with encampment reps last night to tell them about the closure and reiterate the deadline as well as explaining what would happen to their property and their pets if the camp was swept, and to stress again that they hoped that “they will leave voluntarily.” Says Skaggs, “We don’t want this to become an arrest situation but they’ve been given a deadline – they will have been on our property for 69 days.” She says the port believes there are area churches who are willing to host the encampment but its organizers “have to reach out to them.” She would not confirm that noon is the expected arrival for police but did mention the noon closure today was something of a 24-hour warning.

West Seattle Blog

The Controversial Video-What we can release.

The video was supposed to be a documentary of wildlife. One half hour into the video, a Sacramento police cruiser pulls up. The officer in plain clothes, steps out of his car doesn’t close his door fully, approaches the tree line where a darkened silhouette stood-a few seconds later, three shots rang out and the homeless man falls to the ground. Psychologist  reviewed the DVD, and found a new clue-an observer, possibly a ride-along or perhaps a third party of interest was in the car.

An intensive investigation is now under way and more investigations in the near future by federal authorities will follow.

More than 600 copies have been made for distribution to agencies including  POTUS and  Congress.

The incident happened in 2008.