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<br />were made, like the unnecessarily being arrested and things like that, and whatever, upon a false complaint, by the way.
<br />RAY: Henry, could you submit to us exactly what you’d like to see changed in the Charter? You asked to go first in terms of
<br />your testimony -
<br />ROSS: Yes, I’m almost done.
<br />RAY: And you’re really just going over this one particular instance, and the issues involved in that, and I think we really
<br />need for you to submit to us -
<br />ROSS: I’m giving you the background. You’re not aware that these things are happening.
<br />RAY: I’m very familiar with the background, so I’d just like you to submit to us what you’d like to see addressed in the
<br />Charter, and how you think it could be better handled in regard to the Charter.
<br />ROSS: Okay. Then let me carry on because I don’t want to waste time, if you don’t mind. It should be clear from that, and
<br />other things, that something more, in the way of fundamentals, should be put in the Charter. Now, you can say, yes, but the
<br />Police Commission can do what they like already, and so on. No. The Police Commission has to be told by the Charter what
<br />it should do. Recently, I’m talking a few weeks ago, I was ticketed for not wearing a seatbelt. I have a doctor’s statement in
<br />my pocket. It was ignored. It went to court already. The judge dismissed the case. Here I am, falsely accused again. These
<br />things shouldn’t happen. I wasn’t arrested, by the way. The case is still coming up. That is what I am going to bring a
<br />complaint for in Police Commission, and Corp Counsel has let me know that I’m not going to get a contested case hearing.
<br />Well, the rest is useless. Police can say whatever they like. They’re not even under oath, and so on, which is a big mistake.
<br />And I have stated that everything, as far as I’m concerned, is public. I have no privileges. Then, I don’t know if this is really
<br />your kuleana, so I have to apologize if it isn’t. Now, my brief list is the following: - Forbid the use of hollow point bullets,
<br />which should be done under the Hague Convention of 1907.
<br />RAY: Henry, I really don’t think those areas are under the purview of the -
<br />ROSS: Pardon?
<br />RAY: I don’t think those are areas that are under the purview of the Charter.
<br />ROSS: I think it is. The County can make sub-rules to anything that it wants to. It says in the Charter itself.
<br />SANTANGELO: Mr. Chairman, personal privilege. Mr. Henry was taken out of order as a privilege to you, Henry. You have
<br />people sitting here who have been there for well over half an hour to 40 minutes, listening to you, and you’re taking their
<br />time too. I would ask that the Chair speed this up a little bit out of regard for other people. Henry, there’s more to this
<br />government than just you, and you can give this to us. We understand you.
<br />ROSS: I’m already on my last page.
<br />SANTANGELO: Well, you’ve been saying that for about 15 minutes.
<br />ROSS: The time you are spending, telling me this, I could have finished. Honest.
<br />SANTANGELO: I know you, Henry.
<br />ROSS: - Hollow point bullets should be in the Charter, forbidden, because we signed the Hague Convention in 1907 that we
<br />won’t use hollow point bullets.
<br />- Make Police Commission hearings open. Only phone numbers and addresses are privileged.
<br />- Number 3, prime duty of the police is to protect the public, not to harass it, and I have plenty of stuff to show you, how the
<br />public is harassed, in the paper from last week.
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