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From YouTube: JUN 15, 2020 | City Council - Public Budget Hearing
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City of San José, California
City Council meeting of June 15, 2020
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Agenda pending
A
A
We'll
have
a
public
hearing
now
on
the
budget.
This
is
not
a
time
for
myself
or
other
council
members
to
discuss
the
budget
we'll
be
discussing
it
tomorrow,
but
it
is
a
time
for
us
to
hear
from
members
of
the
community.
We
appreciate
that
many
community
members
want
to
speak
because
we
expect
the
numbers
will
be
very
large.
We
already
have
more
than
100
attendees
we're
going
to
constrain
public
comment
to
one
minute,
so
we
can
ensure
everybody
can
be
heard
before
the
conclusion
of
this
hearing
and
welcome
your
comments.
A
I
will
note,
as
we
have
had
episodes
in
the
past
people
using
expletives,
particularly
racial
epithets,
we
will
be
doing
our
very
best
to
monitor
and
to
cut
off
comments
where
that's
happening.
Thank
you
to
the
many
members
of
the
community
for
your
patience
with
with
that.
We
know
that
it
is
a
challenge,
but
this
is
the
reality
of
operating
in
with
this
technology.
A
B
B
B
A
B
A
Emmaus
jones
here,
lecardo
present
counselor
pros
you
want
to
jump
in
yeah
thanks
mayor,
sorry,
I
didn't
get
a
chance
to
warn
you.
I
actually
just
got
an
email
earlier
today
from
a
constituent
that
was
on
last
friday
and
I
guess
they
may
have
engaged
somehow
with
with
some
of
those
participants
that
we
had
that
were
were
coming
on.
A
You
know,
saying
some
racial
slurs
that
they
engaged
somehow
whether
it
was
through
zoom
or
afterwards,
and
they
ended
up
having
their
home
computer
system
hacked
by
them
and
all
sorts
of
other
bad
things
that
happened.
So
it
was
just
a
warning
that
for
individuals
that
are
watching
or
participating
by
zoom,
you
know
that
they
they
be
aware
that
they
don't
try
to
engage
with
anybody
right
and
certainly
people
that
they
don't
know
or
aren't
aware
of
whether
it's
through
zoom,
here
or
because
of
these
meetings.
So
just
that's
it.
A
I
know
I
heard
from
one
constituent,
so
I
just
wanted
to
be
able
to
make
sure
that
that
warning
went
out.
Okay,
thank
you
for
that.
Okay,
then
we'll
go
to
the
public.
I'll
call
names
as
the
little
blue
hands
are
raised
on
the
screen.
Thank
you
all
for
your
patience.
We
know
this
will
take
some
time,
given
the
number
of
folks
who
are
who
want
to
speak.
So,
thank
you
all
of
you
for
waiting.
A
A
It
only
made
me
feel,
nervous
and
afraid
of
myself.
It
only
signaled
that
my
city
cared
more
about
locking
up
my
friends
who
got
into
fights
than
it
did
about
fixing
or
seeing
swing,
sets
setting
us
on
field
trips
or
helping
our
teachers
get
equipment
for
the
science
projects
we
paid
for
ourselves,
defund
the
police
and
refund
our
communities.
B
Yes,
my
name
is
nancy
pfeiffer,
I'm
the
assistant
superintendent
of
business
services
for
the
campbell
union,
high
school
district,
I'm
here
to
advocate
for
metro,
ed
and
ask
that
you
set
aside
five
hundred
thousand
dollars
from
your
budget
to
continue
to
fund
this
program.
This
much
needed
program
for
students.
It
is
going
to
be
very
difficult
for
us
to
explain
to
our
communities
why
we
have
lost
the
center.
B
Without
this
half
a
million
dollars,
the
center
will
be
lost,
services
will
not
be
provided
to
students
and
we
so
much
need
people
that
are
plumbers
and
electricians
and
technicians,
and
without
this
center
we're
going
to
our
students
are
going
to
lose
the
opportunity
to
gain
certifications
in
areas
that
are
so
much
needed
and
the
amount
that
we
need
to
keep
this
open
so
that
we
can
continue
to
advocate
at
the
sacramento
level
to
restore
direct
funding
is
only
half
a
million
dollars.
So
I'm
asking
that
you
please
fund
them.
Thank
you.
A
You
mentioned
your
new
office
of
racial
equity,
but
I'd
like
to
let
the
public
know
that
you
voted
against
a
pot
of
around
500
000
last
year,
dedicated
for
these
efforts
and
now
you're
only
creating
this
office
as
a
response
to
the
backlash,
you're
still
only
proposing
250
000
or
about
two
positions
for
this
effort.
You
continue
to
talk
about
housing
in
the
context
of
all
funds,
but
the
fact
remains
that
the
general
fund
can
be
most
easily
redirected
to
any
priorities
and
you
still
only
choose
to
invest
point
five
percent
of
it
to
housing.
A
A
A
The
median
salary
across
the
entire
department
is
over
one
hundred
thousand
dollars,
that's
more
money
than
the
average
income
in
the
city
of
san
jose,
as
the
son
of
a
retired,
sjusd
teacher
and
many
others
can
tell
you
that
the
average
teacher
makes
half
that
amount
and
does
a
hell
of
a
lot
more
to
prevent
crime
and
uplift
communities
of
color
than
a
badge
in
a
gun.
One
last
number
mayor
lucardo,
has
already
received
50
000
from
the
police
union
this
year
alone.
B
Hi
I'm
cersei
sj
ray's
current
resident
mayor.
I
have
read
your
budget
proposal
and
I
saw
that
you
said
from
the
few
interactions
you've
had
with
finish-speaking
mothers
they're
asking
for
more
police.
However,
someone
working
in
low-income,
affordable
housing
communities.
I
know
for
a
fact
that
those
same
communities
are
afraid
of
the
police.
They
avoid
police
involvement
at
all
costs.
Many
have
faced
incarceration
themselves
or
know
someone
that
has
so
perhaps
you're
misguided
in
the
needs
of
your
own
community.
B
Please
use
your
funds
to
create
a
new
sector
of
responders
that
aren't
police
officers,
but
consist
of
local
mental
health,
health
organization,
sexual
assault,
assault
organizations,
substance
abuse
organizations
and
a
network
of
shelters
and
halfway
homes.
Let's
work
on
rehabilitation,
services
and
job
opportunities
for
those
leaving
local
prisons
and
jails.
Really
we
need
your
police
officers
with
high
salaries.
Let's
move
away
from
the
prison
industrial,
complex,
implicit
bias.
Training
is
a
front
for
the
true
problem.
Race
is
not
the
only
issue.
Here
is
the
economic
models
that
aren't
empowering
the
poor.
B
A
A
A
San
jose
is
cutting
community
community
equity
education
and
safety
initiatives
such
as
diva
parks,
library,
hours,
community
service
officers,
park
chains
and
equity
strategies
for
allocating
money,
funding,
the
police
budget
budgets,
nearly
half
a
billion
dollars
by
serving
the
community
being
the
police.
San
jose,
is
prioritizing
an
infrastructure
of
violence
over
peace
and
democracy.
A
A
B
First
we'd
like
to
give
a
special
thank
you.
Thank
you
to
councilwoman
arena
city
manager,
david
sykes,
for
continuing
to
recognize
child
care
as
an
important
part
of
the
covet
19
pandemic
response
and
the
city's
plan
for
economic
recovery,
as
well
as
mayor
le
cardo
for
including
child
care.
In
his
annual
budget
message,
the
proposed
1.5
million
investment
to
stabilize
family
child
care
home
providers
in
the
mayor's
message
is
a
strong
step
in
the
right
direction.
B
This
business
to
business
will
support
the
city's
values
are
in
equity
and
the
investment
if
the
investment
does
not
occur.
67
percent
of
our
providers
will
close.
We
want
to
strongly
encourage
every
council
member
to
support
the
proposed
investment
in
the
mayor's
message.
Thank
you
for
consideration.
B
Good
afternoon,
mayor
cardo,
council,
members
and
city
staff,
my
name
is
veronica
and
I
am
an
east
side.
Community
member.
I
am
calling
on
behalf
of
families,
children
and
family
child
care
providers.
I
am
a
parent
of
a
child
in
child
care
in
district
5..
I
am
very
pleased
to
see
mayor
licardo
budget
message.
He
has
provided
guidance
on
setting
aside
1.5
million
for
support
to
family
child
care
providers,
but
it
is
not
enough.
B
My
son
has
a
disability
and
child
care
for
him,
and
us
is
not
an
option
having
to
know
that
I
can
leave
him
with
his
pro
provider.
Who
cares
for
him
and
will
support
him
while
I'm
at
work
is
beyond
what
I
I
can
ask,
I
urge
you
to
protect
our
child,
our
child
care
and
family
child
care
providers.
We
are
investing
in
our
future
san
jose
and
citizens
and
economy.
Remember
when
we
invest
one
dollar
in
child
care,
the
return
in
investment
is
nine
dollars,
no
math
needed
there.
Thank
you.
A
Hello,
my
name
is
sandy
perry,
I'm
from
affordable
housing
network
and
sham
deliverance
ministry.
Millions
of
young
people
have
taken
to
the
streets.
The
last
three
weeks,
they've
presented
the
city
council
an
extraordinary
opportunity.
You
have
the
opportunity
to
reject
systemic
racism.
You
have
the
opportunity
to
reject
mass
incarceration
as
a
solution
to
social
problems.
A
25
percent
of
the
people
in
incarcerated
in
the
entire
world
are
incarcerated.
In
the
united
states.
You
have
the
opportunity
to
support
the
aspirations
of
your
people,
who
are
demanding
that
black
and
brown
lives
matter.
You
have
the
opportunity
to
stop
criminalization
of
poverty
and
the
idea
that
you
can
solve
the
problems
of
all
those
people
and
people
of
color
that
google
and
facebook
refuse
to
fire,
refuse
to
hire
by
locking
them
up
and
throwing
away
the
key.
All
these
things
require
a
paradigm
shift
and
a
paradigm
shift
has
a
name.
B
Hi,
my
name
is
caroline
mccuzek,
I'm
speaking
today
in
support
of
the
letter
sent
on
june
11th
by
the
san
jose
community
to
demand
the
defunding
of
the
san
jose
police
department.
One
life
taken
is
too
many,
but
we
know
that
the
sjpd
have
murdered
dozens
of
our
neighbors
just
in
the
last
few
years.
This
is
not
surprising.
This
is
what
the
police
exist
to
do.
The
first
police
forces
in
this
country
were
formed
in
the
19th
century
in
the
american
south
to
prevent
slave
insurrections.
B
What
made
these
new
police
bodies
different
from
the
slave
patrols
that
preceded
them
was
that
police
officers
were
now
being
paid
by
the
public
to
exercise
state
violence
against
black
people
by
maintaining
the
police
department.
The
city
of
san
jose
is
maintaining
an
institution
founded
to
brutalize
black
people
and
is
standing
on
the
wrong
side
of
history.
Police
are
not
an
inevitable
part
of
our
society,
but
a
development
tied
to
the
rise
of
global
anti-blackness.
B
Good
afternoon,
mayor
and
council
members,
my
name
is
nikita
sinha
and
I'm
the
wax
san
jose
program
manager
with
california
walks
and
a
lifelong
resident
of
san
jose.
While
the
city
has
made
good
steps
this
year
to
invest
in
traffic
safety,
we
continue
to
prioritize
traffic
enforcement,
a
system
that
perpetuates
a
cycle
of
racial
bias
and
anti-blackness.
B
In
order
to
reach
the
root
cause
of
crashes,
our
city
needs
to
address
the
way
streets
are
built
and
invest
in
safe
and
accessible
design
for
our
roadways.
You
can
do
this
by
defunding
sjpd
reinvest
in
the
community
resources.
We
need
to
make
our
city
truly
safe.
More
than
ever,
our
schools,
libraries,
community,
centers
mental
health
resources
and
infrastructure
need
to
be
properly
funded
to
support
the
community.
Thank
you.
B
Yes,
I'm
annie
with
the
silicon
valley,
democratic
socialist
of
america.
You
all
on
council
acts
like
defunding.
The
police
is
a
crazy
idea,
which
is
gonna
cause
chaos,
but
in
reality,
defunding
is
happening
in
our
own
backyard
and
sf
police
will
no
longer
be
responding
to
non-criminal
calls
and
in
la
the
police
budget
is
being
cut
by
over
150
million
dollars
seems
like
most
of
you,
think,
you'll
give
almost
half
a
billion
dollars
to
the
police
and
keep
your
seats
on
council.
B
Remember
those
seats
on
council
are
not
your
seats
and
the
money
in
that
city
budget
isn't
yours
either
it
belongs
to
the
people
of
san
jose
and
you've
heard
our
voices
loud
and
clear.
Use
our
money
to
pay
for
services
that
deal
with
the
poverty
and
suffering
here
do
not
use
our
money
to
oppress
us.
B
Let
me
remind
you
again:
the
police
department
thought
it
was
okay
to
show
up
in
riot
gear
with
tanks
and
start
shooting
tear
gas
like
it
was
confetti
less
than
a
month
ago,
when
you
fund
the
police,
you
find
depression,
brutality,
misconduct
and
violence,
defund
the
police,
because
the
police
are
not
the
answer
to
all
of
our
problems
fund.
The
rest
of
the
answers
to
thank
you.
B
As
a
citizen
of
the
city
of
san
jose,
I
demand
defunding
sjpd
and
reallocating
funds
to
programs
that
benefit
the
citizens.
I
demand
reallocating
funds
to
black-led
community
organizations.
I
demand
providing
immediate
and
long-term
support
for
families.
The
many
many
families
impacted
by
police
violence.
I
demand
allocating
grant
funds
to
brown
and
other
low-income
communities
prioritizing
area
that
are
over
police
and
under
resource.
A
A
And
and
anyway,
I'm
sorry-
I
forgot-
I
was
gonna,
say
I
agree,
the
previous
speakers
I
yield
my
time.
Thank
you.
Thank
you.
Ben
welcome.
Thank
you,
hello.
Council
members.
My
name
is
benjamin
landers
and
I'm
a
resident
of
san
jose.
I
live
in
council
district
9
part
of
that
of
councilwoman
foley
hello,
councilwoman
foley.
A
I
am
here
to
demand
that
funding
is
reallocated
from
the
sjpd
to
social
and
public
programming
for
our
communities,
almost
half
a
billion
dollars
of
san
jose's
citizens.
Money
currently
goes
to
police
more
than
the
housing
parks
and
recreation
and
transportation
budgets
combined.
It's
not
just
ridiculous.
It's
obscene!
A
B
B
B
It's
clear
that
the
community
does
not
trust
sjpd
and
rightfully
so.
I
support
the
policy
changes
outlined
in
the
people
of
san
jose
demand
letter,
including,
but
not
limited,
to
removing
police
officers
from
the
force
who
were
responsible
for
officer-involved
shootings,
eliminating
paid
administrative
leave
for
officers
facing
misconduct,
charges
and
funding
a
new
sector
of
first
responders
to
directly
respond
to
911
calls
for
help.
In
short,
I
support
defunding
sjpt
and
reallocating
funds
towards
community-led
alternatives
to
policing.
Thank
you.
B
B
That
was
made
in
a
recent
article
on
mercury
news,
so
this
is
just
I
just
want
to
say
so
for
once
in
your
career
as
a
mayor,
please
listen
to
your
constituents.
We
are
yelling
defund,
the
police
and
we
are
yelling
it
because
black
lives
matter.
I
read
through
the
article
on
mercury
news
and
every
one
of
your
reactions
to
this
was
completely
misguided.
B
A
A
I
have
a
list
of
community
ideas.
I
will
present
you
at
another
time
all
these
are
budget
questions
that
can
be
go
and
tie
into
police
funding
and
are
simply
some
of
the
more
genuine
positive
ideas
of
sustainability
and
open
democratic
practices.
I
hope
we
can
all
take
to
heart
each
idea
that
we'll
be
hearing
today
and
at
this
time
and
again
after
years
of
studying
good
practices.
A
B
Hi
councilman
and
mayor,
thank
you
so
much
for
this
time.
A
lot
of
people
have
already
spoken
at
great
length
and
I'm
just
going
to
talk
from
personal
experience.
I
live
as
a
black
woman
every
single
day
of
my
life,
I'm
fortunate,
I'm
a
biomedical
engineer.
I
do
great,
but
I
was
at
the
protest
a
month
ago
when
I
was
tear
gassed
and
pepper
sprayed,
and
I
understand
the
other
side
of
it.
B
B
I've
been
pulled
over
and
this
is
just
to
say
that
police
do
too
much
there's
a
lot
of
test
cases
and
studies
out
there
that
I
will
email
ahead
about
about
how
we
can
attack
the
root
of
the
problem,
not
the
symptom,
invest
in
mental
health
care,
come
invest
in
libraries,
education
to
try
and
prevent
these
atrocities
from
happening.
Thank
you.
A
B
You
hear
me
yes
good
afternoon,
mayor
licardo,
council
members
and
city
staff.
My
name
is
sasha
kamal
and
I
work
for
first
five
of
santa
clara,
I'm
calling
on
behalf
of
family
child
care
home
providers.
Many
providers
are
not
able
to
take
time
off
to
provide
public
testimony
at
these
meetings
because
they
are
working
so
I'm
here
on
their
behalf.
B
I
want
to
thank
councilwoman
arenas
and
city
manager,
david
sykes,
for
their
leadership
on
this
issue
and
mayor
licardo,
for
including
child
care
in
his
budget
message
in
response
to
the
covet
19
pandemic
family
child
care,
home
providers
are
critical
supports
during
covet
19,
as
well
as
for
the
recovery
process
of
the
covet
19.
We
support
our
providers,
as
many
of
them
are
struggling
to
keep
their
businesses
open.
Consider
you
utilizing
any
unused
funds
to
support
our
local
providers,
as
they
also
support
big
business
by
providing
child
care
for
workers,
let's
not
lose
momentum.
B
B
The
racial
equity
is
a
public
health
issue.
I'm
asking
that
you
please
vote
for
a
public
safety
budget
that
will
prepare
san
jose
for
a
killer
quake
and
fire
season
power
shutoffs.
This
means
shifting
care
general
fund
monies
in
every
disaster,
from
katrina
to
the
california
fires,
people
with
disabilities
and
black
indigenous
people
of
color
died.
This
is
preventable
not
inevitable.
B
Racism
and
ableism
are
connected.
The
emergency
operations
center,
I
know
firsthand,
does
has
barriers
to
accept
access
for
wheelchair
users.
Also,
no
city
department
consistently
uses
alt-text
image
descriptions
to
ensure
public
safety
for
people
who
are
blind
or
need
to
use
screen
readers.
Thank
you.
B
B
B
A
Can
you
hear
me?
Yes,
we
can
welcome
hi
city
council,
I'm
a
fourth
year
student
at
san
jose
state
and
I've
lived
in
san
jose
for
three
years.
I've
never
seen
my
student
body
fired
up
over
any
issue
as
much
as
this.
It's
not
even
close
police
divestment
is
a
huge
theme
in
this
movement.
When
we
say
defund
the
police,
we
mean
two
things.
First
is
demilitarization.
A
A
We
also
want
more
specialized
resources
that
are
better
equipped
to
handle
many
of
the
responsibilities
that
have
been
delegated
to
this
police
department.
Like
substance
abuse
professionals,
not
law
enforcement
should
be
present
for
overdoses.
Members
of
city
council.
Let
me
remind
you
of
your
role
in
this
movement.
You
are
the
most
powerful
acting
body
over
this
police
department.
Correcting
the
wrongs
of
the
police
is
your
responsibility.
A
A
A
B
My
name,
my
name,
is
I'm.
I
was
born
and
raised
in
san
jose,
and
I
was
also,
and
I'm
a
student
now
and
I've
been
involved
in
the
letter
that
was
sent
to
you
all
in
writing.
The
letter
that
was
sent
to
you
all
on
june
11th
and
was
also
one
of
the
co-authors
of
an
article.
That's
entitled
san
jose
leaders,
ignore
calls
for
justice
from
families
impacted
by
police
violence
which
was
published
in
san
jose
inside
this
morning.
B
You've
been
digging
your
heels
in
for
years
about
the
reforms
that
you've
made
and
about
the
changes
that
you've
made
to
the
police
department
and
how
that's
helped
people,
but
it's
clear
by
the
people
who
have
been
making
comments
today
and
the
people
that
have
been
dying
and
traumatized
by
police
for
years
that
that
change
can
be
made
now
and
it's
it's
okay
to
start
now.
I
urge
you
to
do
that.
B
B
I
just
wish
that
one
day
we
could
be
like
new
york,
who
cut
the
budget
of
the
nation's
largest
police
force,
los
angeles,
the
mayor
called
to
redirect
millions
of
dollars
from
the
police
and
minneapolis.
I
just
wish
we
can
get
to
that
point
one
day
and
we
can
focus
on
our
community.
That
are
your
constituent
voters
that
need
services
like
viva
la
caye
hours
and
so
many
other
services
that
our
community
will
benefit
from.
Thank
you.
B
Hello,
can
you
hear
me
yes,
hi,
I'm
maura
wilson
and
I'm
an
organizer
with
surge
at
sacred
heart.
It
is
unacceptable,
unacceptable
that
the
police
department
be
granted
a
larger
sum
of
money
from
the
general
budget
during
the
coven
19
budget
shortfall
all
while
community
programs
such
as
parks
and
rec
and
libraries
are
being
cut.
We
demand
an
immediate
reduction
of
police
funding
by
50
percent,
including
reduced
field
patrol
closing
the
metro
program
and
the
street
crimes
unit,
closing
the
covert
response
unit
within
investigations.
B
We
demand
termination
of
police
officers
for
any
involvement
in
police
shootings,
excessive
force,
corruption,
sexual
abuse,
physical
abuse,
domestic
abuse
or
discrimination.
We
demand
that
the
city
eliminate
the
mayor's
youth
gang
task
force,
as
law
enforcement
uses
the
task
force
to
covertly
surveil
on
black
and
brown
youth.
We
demand
that
19
million
from
the
karazhak
be
reallocated
from
the
police
to
renters
on
the
brink
of
eviction.
We
demand
that
you
reallocate
the
fund
cut
from
policing
to
community-led
alternatives
to
policing
black
community,
the
underserved
community
and
the
underfunded
community
programs.
A
B
Hi,
my
name
is
kristen
suko
and
I'm
a
resident
of
district
4
in
san
jose.
I'm
calling
to
demand
that
you
defund
the
san
jose
police
department
and
reallocate
the
funds
to
alternative
non-violent
community-based
safety
programs
that
tackle
the
root
of
the
problem
itself
by
uplifting
the
most
vulnerable
populations.
B
Reforming
the
police
does
not
work
when
the
system
itself
is
the
problem.
The
fact
that
innocent
black
people
are
still
getting
murdered
by
police
after
years
of
reform
proved
that
fact,
in
addition
to
reallocating
the
funds
to
things
like
education,
libraries,
parks,
housing
and
transportation,
we
need
to
invest
in
alternative
methods
to
crisis
intervention
like
mental
health
professionals,
de-escalation,
specialists,
mental
service,
provide
medical
service
providers
and
unarmed
city.
B
A
B
A
B
Issues
police
are
asked
to
test
are
asked
to
deal
with.
They
themselves
admit
they
don't
want
to
deal
with
these
things
and
are
not
equipped
with
these
alternative
solutions.
There
is
absolutely
no
reason
to
our
taxpayer.
Dollars
should
be
continued
to
fund
such
a
violent,
racist
and
ineffective
institution.
Defund
the
police
and
investing
community.
B
Okay,
okay,
thank
you.
So,
first
off
we
sent
a
letter
to
you
mayor
to
defund
the
police
and
we're
not
going
to
repeat
that
whole
thing
for
you
right
now.
It's
your
job
and
the
council
member's
job
to
read
that
the
people
of
the
community
spent
countless
hours
going
over
this
and
we
didn't
do
it
for
fun.
We
did
it
because
you
guys
can't
find
a
solution.
We
found
one
for
you.
If
this
is
a
democracy
like
you
have
to
show
us
that
this
works.
B
So
what
is
the
point
of
having
the
democracy?
If
we
all
call
you
and
tell
you
deepen
the
police
and
you're,
not
gonna,
do
it
anyways
you
keep
putting
on
twitter
and
everywhere
that
you're
not
gonna.
Do
it
it's
not
fair
you're,
not
listening
to
us.
You
keep
saying
that
people
say
that
they
need
more
cops.
I
see
cops
all
the
time
pull
up
in
by
groups
of
four
to
pull
over
one
car.
It's
just
not
right.
Defund,
the
police.
A
B
Industry
by
financially
supporting
family
child
care,
home
providers,
but
1.5
million
is
just
the
beginning.
As
a
city,
we
can
do
much
better
to
uplift,
the
community
members,
the
family,
child
care
home
providers
that
raise
and
educate
the
city's
future
generations.
Our
first
five
years
of
life
are
critically
important.
This
is
an
economic
and
racial
justice
issue.
Family
child
care,
home
providers
are
majority.
Women
of
color
run
small
businesses
who
earn
on
average
thirty
thousand
dollars
per
year.
B
Good
afternoon,
mayor
licardo,
council,
members
and
city
staff,
my
name
is
melissa,
hong
and
I'm
a
mother
of
a
one-year-old
child.
I
am
pleased
to
hear
of
the
city's
direction
to
allocate
coronave
relief
funds
to
provide
grants
to
home
base
and
small
child
care
providers,
with
the
condition
that
these
businesses
continue
to
actively
provide
services
to
families.
B
Thank
you
for
choosing
young
children
understand
the
importance
importance
of
investing
in
high
quality
early
learning
experiences
for
children,
especially
at
the
most
crucial
time
in
their
lives.
The
first
five
years
of
a
child's
life
sets
the
foundation
of
how
they
experience
the
world.
It
also
reduces
opportunity,
gaps
and
achievement
gaps
that
we
see
in
student
achievements
in
k-12,
while
the
proposal
of
investing
1.5
million
dollars
to
stabilize
the
child
care
industry
is
a
right
step
in
the
right
direction.
B
B
Hello,
my
name
is
stephanie
conajo
san
jose,
born
and
raised.
My
job
title
has
nothing
to
do
with
me.
Speaking
on
human
rights,
I
had
a
lot
to
written
down
to
say,
but
after
hearing
a
couple
people,
it's
pretty
obvious.
We've
already
spoke
letters,
petitions,
1.5
million
people
in
san
jose.
Compared
to
this
small
group
of
city
council.
You
guys
know
what
we
want
now
we're
just
looking
stupid.
B
B
B
B
A
A
A
This
displays
how
much
our
current
city
leadership
values
their
diverse
residents
with
that
pandemic,
having
a
disproportionate
effect
on
communities
of
color.
Why
aren't
we
being
intentional
with
our
budget
and
coronavirus
relief
spending
to
elevate
communities
that
have
been
impacted?
The
most
now
is
the
time
to
stand
by
our
communities,
who
need
us,
invest
in
direct
services
to
low-income
residents,
fully
funding,
libraries,
child
care
and
bridging
bridging
the
digital
inclusion
gap
recipe.
Thank
you.
A
Hi
city
council,
hi
mayor,
I
went
to
a
low-income
high
school
three
years
ago
I
was
jumped
and
the
police
who
arrived
didn't,
give
me
solace
or
comfort.
They
didn't
have
a
plan
and
they
simply
didn't
seem
like
they
cared.
They
took
a
picture
and
I
believe
to
prevent
crime.
We
have
to
patrol
leaders
with
power,
we
have
to
patrol
the
mismanagement
of
money
where
leaders
will
route
money
towards
themselves.
A
We
have
to
route
money
from
the
police
who
incite
stress
from
those
who
don't
have
privilege
and
we
have
to
invest
in
affordable
housing,
educational
support
and
mental
health.
We
need
to
support
our
people.
These
people,
we
call
criminals,
are
not
criminals,
they
are
people
who
need
to
be
supported.
A
B
B
Hi
there
can
you
hear
me?
Yes,
thank
you
hi.
My
name
is
samhita
kadiala,
and
I
wanted
to
express
my
deep
disappointment
in
the
city
of
san
jose
for
its
misguided
funding
priorities.
How
sjpd's
budget
is
more
than
460
million
dollars,
in
spite
of
the
lack
of
basic
funding
available
for
education,
ensuring
affordable
housing,
food
security
and
mental
health
resources,
especially
for
black
and
brown
communities,
is
beyond
me.
Not
only
is
it
morally
despicable
and
shameful,
it's
a
poor
investment
research
which
I'm
happy
to
send.
B
You
has
shown
innumerable
times
that
food
insecurity,
housing,
insecurity,
inaccessible,
mental
health
and
low
health
literacy
cost
our
state
and
our
country,
billions
of
dollars
in
health
care
expenditures
every
year.
It's
unfair
and
ineffective
for
us
to
expect
policemen
with
six
months
of
training
to
do
more
than
mental
health
specialists,
intelligence
specialists,
social
workers,
domestic
violence,
workers
elder
abuse,
specialists
combined.
I
know
it's
scary
to
lay
off
a
workforce
as
large
as
a
police
force,
but
I
urge
you
to
set
aside
funding
to
pay
for
their
re-education.
B
Hi,
my
name
is
sahithi
madhyari
and
I
live
in
district
four.
I
demand
that
you
divest
from
sjpd
and
invest
in
our
community
in
line
with
the
demands
of
those
who
have
lost
loved
ones
to
the
san
jose
police
department
in
the
letter
delivered
on
june
11th,
your
commitment
to
protecting
the
police
department,
while
the
city
deals
with
budget
shortfalls
from
the
pandemic,
is
an
embarrassment
and
a
deep
disappointment
discontinue
all
future
hires
demilitarize
the
police
and
put
money
into
community
programs
and
rent
relief.
B
A
A
A
A
B
B
The
city
budget
can
be
a
platform
for
this
by
investing
in
services
that
benefit
the
community
by
putting
money
into
frontline
services.
For
those
most
in
need.
The
vast
majority
in
our
city
that
falls
well
below
that
tech
income.
You
can
change
the
course
of
our
city,
I'm
going
to
echo
those
saying
the
police
budget's
too
large
reallocate
the
money
in
the
general
fund
to
protect
the
services
from
parks
and
the
library
do
not
cut
these
departments
that
serve
the
people
most
in
need.
B
Through
the
budget,
you
can
start
to
crawl
towards
bridging
the
economic
divide
in
the
city.
The
federal
funding
the
city
received
for
covet
19
has
shown
how
much
funds
towards
housing,
health
and
other
social
services
can
impact
the
most
vulnerable
in
our
city
and
positively
affect
the
entire
city.
In
turn,
I
urge
you
to
reconsider
the
proposed
budget.
Listen
to
your
community
help
steer
san
jose
on
the
path
toward
equity
by
reallocating
these
funds
and
reimagining.
The
way
the
city
can
support
its
community.
Also
mayor,
please
re-prioritize
your
lunch
hour.
B
Hi,
my
name
is
andrea
kennedy
and
I'm
a
san
jose
resident,
born
and
raised
I'm
here
to
call
to
reallocate
police
funding
and
invest
those
funds
directly
into
the
community,
invest
in
community
programs
and
reimagine
what
public
safety
means
to
our
community
in
san
jose.
We
do
not
want
reform.
Your
reform
is
not
working.
B
B
B
B
Budgets
are
moral
documents,
it's
a
choice
to
direct
money,
one
place
and
not
another,
and
when
the
people
most
affected
are
telling
you
that
that
money
could
be
better
used,
it's
a
choice
to
not
act
on
that
again,
I
want
to
amplify
the
many
voices
we've
heard
and
the
demands
you've
received,
which
outline
the
actions
policy,
changes
and
financial
reallocating.
That
needs
to
happen
to
protect
black
lives
and
make
our
community
safer
for
everyone.
B
If
police
and
elected
officials
really
want
to
serve
their
community,
then
I
urge
you
to
set
your
ego
aside,
refrain
from
getting
defensive
and
instead
listen
to
the
communities
that
are
consistently
traumatized
by
police
violence,
hear
their
stories
and
statistics
they're
sharing
and
make
the
financial
decisions
that
protect
them.
It's
clear:
the
status
quo
isn't
working
simply
put
it's
killing.
A
A
B
Thank
you
good
afternoon,
I'm
a
resident
of
district
9
in
san
jose
and
a
member
of
together.
We
will
san
jose
I'm
asking
that
money
be
redirected
from
the
police
department
budget
to
community
and
social
service
programs.
Increased
funding
for
community
and
social
service
programs
will
allow
members
of
our
community
to
get
help
specific
to
their
needs
and
allow
the
police
to
focus
on
violent
crimes.
B
Please
invest
in
the
members
of
our
community
by
re
allocating
money
from
the
san
jose
police
department
to
education,
health
care,
unarmed,
first
responders,
affordable
housing,
library,
services,
homeless
programs
and
mental
health
response
teams.
Safe
communities,
don't
have
a
bigger
police
presence,
they
have
proper
funding.
Reforming
is
ineffective.
Let's
stop
wasting
our
money
to
criminalize
our
marginalized
communities
of
color.
I
would
like
to
see
police
officers
who
are
involved
in
excessive
force
cases,
barred
from
being
rehired
fired
and
their
pensions
withheld.
A
Hi,
can
you
hear
me?
Okay,
we
can
hear
you
fine,
hey
good
afternoon
city
city,
council,
members
and
staff.
My
name
is
kevin
nguyen.
I
was
born
and
raised
in
the
city
and
come
from
a
moderate
vietnamese
household
that
has
rarely
ever
spoken
out.
How?
I
also
want
to
believe
that
you
all
mean
well
and-
and
I
am
empathetic
to
the
fact
that
the
institutions
you
all
inherited
are
large
and
deeply
rooted.
A
However,
after
being
on
the
ground,
since
the
first
protest
in
may
and
reviewing
your
proposed
budget
and
subsequent
comments
made
online,
I
urge
you
to
be
bolder
when
it
comes
to
police
reform,
please
do
not
just
continue
to
fund
the
status
quo
or
add
on
to
it.
Despite
what
they
say.
We
are
not
anti-police,
but
rather
we
ask
that
we
build
one
more
applicable
to
our
changing
community
and
hope
that
you
all
can
lead
that
from
the
front.
Please
please
reconsider
your
budget.
We
want
accountability
and
cosmetic
reforms
will
not
accomplish
that
money
will.
A
Please
do
not
spend
any
tax
dollars
on
military
grade
weapons
that
will
be
used
against
innocent
civilians.
This
includes
tear
gas,
rubber
bullets,
phone
batons,
lead
filled,
bean
bags,
flashbang
stinger,
grenades,
concussion
grenades
and
any
other
explosive
projectile
or
chemical
agent,
which
has
been
recently
deployed
in
an
obvious
effort
to
suppress
first
amendment
rights.
A
Please
take
the
cost
of
all
lawsuits
from
the
use
of
these
weapons
out
of
the
police
budget.
We
should
not
defund
park
schools
and
community
programs
to
pay
for
police
misconduct.
I
know
it's
been
claimed.
Sjpd
has
already
been
operating
on
a
small
budget,
but
where
did
the
money
for
24
7
helicopters
over
time
for
an
army
of
officers
and
this
whole
or
arsenal
of
weapons
come
from?
I
noticed
on
the
agenda
today.
A
There
are
over
500
or
around
500
pages
of
emails,
demanding
you
defund,
the
police,
hundreds
of
people
marched
to
the
mayor's
house
on
friday
with
the
same
demands.
Hundreds
of
people
today
are
going
to
speak,
thousands
have
sent
emails,
I'm
sure
all
of
your
email
boxes
are
jam-packed,
please
listen
to
the
people.
Thank
you.
Thank
you.
Ryan.
A
Hi,
can
you
hear
me?
Okay,
we
can
hear
you
perfectly
go
ahead.
Awesome
hi!
My
name
is
ryan
johnson.
I'm
a
resident
of
district
3..
I've
noticed
a
rhetorical
tendency
in
this
council
to
dismiss
constituent
demands,
because
you
think
that
defunding,
the
police
is
impossible
or
naive.
I
would
like
you
to
reconsider
that.
We
want
you
to
to
decrease
the
police
budget
and
not
expand
it
in
the
name
of
more
training.
A
If
you
demand
more
training
and
you
decrease
their
budget,
that's
great,
but
we
do
not
want
you
to
give
them
more
money.
I
understand
that
san
jose
might
be
the
best
major
city
in
america
in
terms
of
police
reform.
It
isn't
good
enough.
We
are
telling
you
that
people
do
not
feel
safe
on
your
streets,
that
black
people
don't
feel
safe
on
your
streets,
not
because
of
crime,
but
because
of
san
jose
police
department.
That's
a
problem
that
you
have
a
duty
to
solve
and
we
are
telling
you
how
we
want
you
to
solve
it.
A
B
B
B
B
And
dramatic
changes
to
our
city
budget
to
fully
fund
recreation
programs,
mentorship
programs,
summer
job
programs,
summer
camps,
including
tech,
music,
art,
theater,
dance
athletics
as
deemed
useful
and
needed
by
community-led
organizations,
particularly
for
african-american,
latinx,
indigenous
and
other
youth
of
color.
I
want
evidence
that
the
following
city
improvements
are
fully
funded
on
every
street
and
in
every
neighborhood.
B
Good
afternoon
my
name
is
veronica
lopez.
I'm
calling
on
behalf
of
family
child
care,
home
providers
and
families,
family
child
care
homes.
Small
businesses
earn
on
average
of
thirty
thousand
dollars
per
year
and
are
predominantly
run
by
women
of
color.
This
is
a
racial
justice
issue.
This
is
an
economic
equity
issue.
This
is
support
to
the
child
care
industry
that
has
suffered
greatly
yet
stood
up
to
serve
during
the
covet
19
pandemic.
B
Fcch
providers
are
critical
support
during
covet
19,
as
well
as
for
the
recovery
process
of
code
19..
However,
67
percent
said
close
forever.
If
they
do
not
receive
any
financial
relief,
I
urge
you
to
support
family
child
care
home
providers
to
be
able
to
maintain
their
business
open.
I
want
to
thank
thank
councilwoman
marinas
and
city
manager,
david
sykes,
for
their
leadership
on
the
on
this
issue
and
mayor
ricardo,
for
including
child
care
and
his
budget
message
in
response
to
the
covet
19
pathetic,
feel
my
friend
thank
you.
A
A
Hello,
my
name
is
jonathan.
I'm
the
president
of
the
seventh
trees,
neighborhood
association.
I
also
serve
on
our
neighborhoods
commission
and
I
work
for
first
flight
santa
clara
county
on
a
pilot
program
serving
incarcerated
parents
of
our
county
jail
system.
As
someone
who
works
with
just
symbolic
families,
inside
elmwood
and
out
in
our
community
via
re-entry
resource
center,
I
want
to
say
that
we
cannot
arrest
our
way
out
of
poverty.
A
The
impacts
of
incarceration
on
children
have
to
women
within
the
first
hour
and
the
trauma
that
is
associated
with
it
is
the
same
regardless
of
how
long
the
parents
say
incarcerated.
What
we
have
now
is
an
opportunity
to
break
the
generational
cycle
of
incarceration
that
disproportionately
affects
our
latino
and
african
ancestry
communities.
A
A
Okay,
miss
nguyen.
I
know
you'll
be
up
to
speak
right
now,
except
we're
not
you're
not
going
to
be
able
to
communicate
with
us,
because
the
zoom
format
you
have
is
out
of
date.
So
if
you
could
go
online
and
update
it
with
the
latest
version
of
zoom
that'll
enable
you
to
communicate
to
the
city
system.
That
would
be
helpful.
We'll
hear
you
as
soon
as
you're
able
to
do
that.
Veronica.
Welcome.
A
B
Good
afternoon,
thank
you
mayor
council
and
city
staff.
My
name
is
gabriella
sandoval
and
I
live
in
district
seven
and
I'm
also
the
daughter
of
a
family
child
care
home
provider
in
response
to
the
covid19
pandemic.
I
just
want
to
thank
you,
mayor
licardo,
for
setting
aside
funding
in
the
budget
to
continue
supporting
childcare.
B
However,
currently
79
of
family
child
com,
child
care
homes
are
still
closed,
and
this
is
an
alarming
statistic.
However,
the
loss
of
access
to
high
quality
child
care
settings
places
children
at
risk
of
educational
delay,
poor
health
outcomes
and
poor
social
emotional
development,
which
to
me,
is
an
even
more
alarming
statistic.
As
the
daughter
of
a
family
child
care
home
provider,
I
have
seen
the
positive
impact
of
child
care.
I've
seen
how
much
love
supporting
care
is
given
how
lifelong
relationships
are
cultivated.
B
A
A
Now
you
may
have
heard
about
defunding,
but
let's
be
clear
what
it
actually
means
we
mean
demilitarize
and
reallocate
funds
towards
community
programs.
The
police,
as
it
is,
are
over
funded
receiving
more
than
programs
that
prevent
crime
at
the
route.
We're
asking
for
a
gradual
process
of
reallocating
police
budgets
to
community
development
and
crime
prevention
programs
have
been
shown
to
be
more
effective
at
reducing
crime.
A
B
Hi,
my
name
is
shreya
ramesh
and
I
am
a
resident
of
san
jose
and
I've
grown
up
in
san
jose.
I
echo
other
sentiments
and
demand
that
we
defund
the
police
a
system
steeped
in
institutional
racism.
An
unethical
percentage
of
our
city's
budget
goes
to
the
sjpd
specific
opportunities
to
divest
include,
eliminating
paid
administrative
leave
for
officers
facing
misconduct,
charges
and
do
not
allocate
city
funding
for
the
defensive
officers,
who
shoot
mame
and
injured
our
loved
ones.
B
Amongst
many
other
opportunities,
please
instead
invest
resources
for
mental
health,
substance
abuse,
public
housing,
child
care,
as
other
people
have
mentioned,
and
education,
please
remember.
As
elected
officials,
it
is
your
responsibility
to
represent
our
interests,
and
if
you
don't
serve
our
interests,
we
will
elect
officials
who
do.
This
is
also
an
opportunity
for
our
city
to
be
a
leader
in
civil
rights.
Thank
you.
I
yield
my
time.
A
A
A
B
B
Hello,
my
name
is
kirsten
haney
and
I'm
calling
from
family
and
children,
services
of
silicon
valley,
division
of
kaminar
we're
a
mental
health
nonprofit
here
in
san
jose,
and
I'm
also
a
resident
of
san
jose
and
in
my
decade,
long
career
of
mental
health.
I've
had
the
opportunity
to
work
with
law
enforcement
on
more
occasions
than
I
can
count.
B
Our
agency
provides
a
program
called
healing
and
reduction
of
trauma
in
schools.
I
feel
like
if
we
could
have
the
opportunity
to
partner
with
law
enforcement
in
order
to
really
understand
mental
health,
both
of
the
individual
and
of
the
person
that
isn't
giving
the
care
would
be
important
yeah.
I
just
want
to
say
I've
been
called
to
serve
the
greater
good
of
the
public,
and
I
I
hope
we
can
rise
together.
Diversity.
A
A
B
Thank
you.
My
name
is
selena
hughes
and
I
am
a
community
member
within
the
west
side
of
san
jose.
I
am
calling
you
on
behalf
of
family
child
care,
home
providers
and
families.
I
am
a
parent
and
of
a
child
in
a
family
child
care
home.
I
also
want
to
thank
councilwoman
arenas
and
city
member
manager.
Sorry
david
sykes,
for
their
leadership
on
this
issue,
as
well
as
mayor
lecardo
for
prioritizing
the
investment
of
family,
child
care
or
child
care
in
general.
This
investment
is
a
great
start,
but
it
is
not
enough.
B
Family
child
care
homes
are
the
small
businesses
that
earn
less
than
they
are
worth
in
order
to
serve
as
a
backbone
of
our
economy.
Our
quality
child
care
providers
are
struggling
greatly
at
this
time,
as
they
have
scrambled
to
make
ends
meet
our
family.
Child
care
homes
are
predominantly
run
by
women
of
color.
This
is
a
racial
justice
issue
as
well
as
a
woman
of
color
myself.
I
know
that
there
is
only
one
place
that
I
can
ensure
with
my
income.
B
A
A
B
Divide
and
conquer
strategy,
that's
being
used
to
divide
black
and
brown
communities
and
build
this
budget,
and
we
need
a
different
budget,
a
budget
that
believes
in
the
true
world,
because
that's
what
we
want
as
undocumented
people
and
as
people
in
san
jose.
We
believe
that
the
funds
should
be
allocated
to
the
communities
with
the
greatest
needs.
A
B
A
Thank
you,
john
welcome
good
afternoon
mayor
licardo
city,
council,
members
and
city
staff,
I'm
john
tolrico
student
of
san
jose
from
the
past
four
years.
California
is
one
of
the
biggest
beneficiaries
of
the
federal
1033
program,
and
today
you
have
a
real
opportunity
to
help
create
change.
Residents
of
this
diverse
city
should
not
have
to
fear
for
their
lives
because
they
are
seeing
police
wielding
military
grade
weaponry
on
the
same
streets
that
they
walk
and
live
on
daily
realize
that
the
conversation
cannot
simply
end
here.
A
There
must
be
continued
discussion
about
how
perpetual
investment
in
the
police
dives
from
programs
like
education,
affordable,
housing
and
library
hours,
which
are
critical
to
your
poor
constituents.
If
we
want
to
combat
systemic
and
institutional
racism,
we
have
to
address
the
inequalities
entrenched
in
infrastructure,
education
and
ecology
that
disproportionately
affect
communities
of
color.
You
have
failed
anthony
nunez,
jennifer
vazquez,
philip
watkins,
antonio
guzman-lopez
and
jacob
dominguez,
and
so
many
others
who
found
themselves
at
the
hands
of
an
overly
strict
penal
state.
A
A
All
right,
yes,
as
you've
heard
many
people
have
talked
about
statistics
and
all
of
that
stuff.
I
want
to
give
my
own
personal
experience
in
regards
to
this
police
situation.
I've
been
a
resident
of
san
jose
now
for
about
six
years,
I
am
in
district
9.
I
have
been
harassed.
I've
been
unjustly
stopped
and
held
by
the
police
for
no
reason
I
do
not
have
any
type
of
criminal
record,
and
yet
I've
continually
seen
mistreatment
from
this
system
now
mind
you.
A
I
also
work
for
a
school,
and
I
have
plenty
of
officers
that
work
that
are
parents
of
mine.
So
I
understand
that
from
an
individual
level,
there
may
be
some
good
guys
in
there,
but
this
system
has
to
change.
I
have
had
the
police
weaponized
against
me
and
I
do
not
approve
of
that.
We
need
to
reduce
the
budget.
We
need
to
invest
in
restorative
justice
practices
for
our
youth
so
that
we
can
give
them
better
opportunities
than
continually
policing
them
and
incarcerating
them.
A
B
B
A
Stop
policing
our
language
if
we
say
ftp
or
fu,
and
concentrate
more
on
the
violence
your
police
inflict
on
our
bodies.
Eating
lunch
in
our
air
in
our
ear
is
rude.
We
are
offended
and
hopefully
you
won't
do
it
again.
A
council
member
who
still
wears
a
police
badge
cannot
lead
reform
and
be
conciliatory
to
the
chief.
We
will
not
let
you
right
at
the
cause
of
reform
into
the
mayor's
office.
We
are
tired
of
having
to
pull
over
every
time
we
see
police
surrounding
an
unhoused
person,
so
we
can
ensure
their
safety.
A
I've
been
there
when
sjpd
shamed,
a
domestic
violence
victim
I've
been
there
when
they
mishandled
a
5150,
call
so
poorly
that
they
shot
the
person
in
the
head
five
times
with
rubber
bullets
and
left
saying
the
person
would
calm
down,
they
didn't
they
were
still
psychotic
and
burned
down
the
building.
We
need
to
defund
the
police
and
fund
and
put
funds
where
the
people
can
properly
do
and
move
funds
to
people
properly
trained
to
work.
Domestic
violence
calls
and
unhoused
people
and
mentally
ill
people.
B
B
One
of
my
students
in
the
high
school
was
in
and
out
of
juvenile
hall.
He
was
14
years
old
and
when
he
came
back,
I
was
very
happy
to
see
him
that
he
was
back
in
school.
This
was
last
year
in
december,
and
I
said
you
know
how's
your
first
day
back
and
his
response
to
me
was
the
food
tastes
better
at
juvenile
hall
than
here
at
school.
B
A
Hi,
can
you
hear
me
yes,
hi,
sam
hi
everybody.
I
would
just
like
to
encourage
everybody
to
act
with
a
little
bit
more
urgency,
given
situations
that
we're
in
right
now
and
if
you
or
any
of
the
elected
officials
are
not
capable
of
doing
this
defunding
the
police,
please
step
aside
and
we
will
take
over.
This
is
not
a
very
hard
thing
to
do.
A
Given
all
the
news
that
has
been
available,
and
it's
surprising
to
me
that
you're
still
asking
for
constituents
to
send
you
information
when
so
much
is
available,
sam
ricardo,
jeff,
garcia,
do
the
right
thing.
You
also
need
to
fire
jared.
You
win
for
his
app
for
all
the
things
that
like
has
happened.
I'm
surprised
that
you
guys
have
not
come
out
with
a
little
bit
more
urgency.
A
A
B
Hello,
can
you
hear
me
perfect
awesome,
so
I
don't
have
a
speech
prepared
or
anything,
but
in
all
honesty
I
feel
like.
I
don't
need
that
to
tell
you
to
do
what's
right.
I
am
a
san
jose
citizen
born
and
raised,
and
I
just
want
to
bring
attention
to
the
fact
that
we
are
constantly
taking
away
from
our
own
community.
You
are
like
stopping
people
from
being
the
next
best
athlete
the
next
steve
jobs,
the
next
musician,
the
next
artist,
because
you're
not
providing
them
the
resources
that
they
deserve.
B
Talented
kids
are
losing
like
they're,
sorry,
talented
kids
are
losing
opportunities
just
because
you
don't
fund
them
right,
and
it's
that
we
have
to
keep
telling
you
to
do
this.
You
just
have
to
do
the
right
thing.
It's
not.
It
shouldn't
be
a
question
and
from
someone
who
lives
in
san
jose,
I
would
be
so
proud
to
be
able
to
be
behind
a
city
council
who
actually
cares
about
their
community
and
invested
them.
Wouldn't
you
do
the
same,
and
I
just
want
to
leave
like
a
little
quote
too.
A
B
B
I'm
also
a
former
jesuit
volunteer,
just
like
yourself,
mr
mayor
and
you
and
I
have
served
some
of
the
most
vulnerable
people
and
right
now
is
the
time
to
put
money
back
into
the
communities
that
need
it
most.
We
need
to
decriminalize
homelessness,
substance
abuse,
mental
illness.
We
need
to
fund
the
development
of
a
new
sector
of
first
responders
to
directly
respond
to
9-1-1
calls,
especially
those
related
to
mental
health,
violence,
sexual
assault,
gender-based
violence
and
abuse,
substance
abuse
all
rooted
in
the
practices
of
de-escalation,
de-escalation
and
restorative
justice
and
fun.
B
B
Hello,
I
was
raised
all
around.
Can
you
hear
me?
Yes,
okay,
I
was
raised
all
around
san
jose
and
I
experienced
firsthand
what
this
system
does
to
the
black
and
brown
community
watching
my
family
be
institutionalized.
I
realized
we
would
have
never
been
in
that
situation
if
we
were
given
the
proper
resources
prior.
It
really
isn't
hard
of
a
concept
to
understand
mayor.
The
us
government
takes
resources
from
his
people,
then
forces
these
families
to
do
illegal
things
in
means
of
survival
and
in
return
our
government
kills
and
imprisons
its
own
people.
B
We
even
do
it
to
other
countries.
You
profit
off
of
us
by
institutionalizing
us
or
you
murder,
us.
If
you
defend
the
police
and
invest
in
our
communities,
your
quote-unquote
violent
crimes
will
decrease,
because
people
will
actually
have
mental
health
care,
youth,
educational
programs,
food
security
and
many
other
tools
that
allows
us
to
simply
live
in
this
awful
world.
B
The
reoccurring
stories
of
black
murders
and
lynchings
and
latino
murders
in
america
is
traumatizing,
and
the
fact
that
you
say
you
want
more
cops
is
extremely
insensitive,
because
this
have
shown
that
more
cops
equals
more
killings
and
violence.
On
its
citizens,
I
highly
advise
you
all
to
go
yes
to
defund
the
police,
because,
if
you
do
not,
you
are
contributing
to
the
genocide
we
are
facing
here
today,
support
our
demands.
Thank
you.
A
B
Hi,
I'm
a
black
woman,
I'm
here
to
speak
again
on
something
that
is
just
like
so
simple.
I
don't
understand
why
it's
not
getting
to
you
guys!
Well
many!
Actually,
first
I'm
going
to
address,
I
can
see
most
of
the
screens.
I
can
see
you
guys
looking
at
your
phones,
I
can
see
you
guys
looking
at
other
things.
A
And
now,
like
most
of
the
people
are
gone,
and
it's
actually
really
disrespectful
that
you
won't
listen
to
us
like
it's
so
fundamental
that
we
understand
that
investing
in
preventatives
will
like.
In
the
long
term,
mind
you
cut
the
cost
of
having
to
deal
with
these
issues
and
just
become
a
better
community.
A
B
Mayor
ricardo,
you
said
last
time
that
in
a
domestic
violence
situation,
where
someone
has
a
gun,
you
would
want
the
police
to
respond
because
you've
seen
what
happens
when
they're
too
late.
I
understand
where
you're
coming
from,
but
this
reveals
that
you
have
not
taken
the
time
to
look
into
the
extensive
work
that
has
already
been
done
on
alternatives
to
policing.
If
you
had,
you
would
know
that
a
vast
amount
of
this
work
has
been
in
response
to
intimate
partner
violence.
You
would
know
that
by
the
time
an
abuser
has
a
gun
in
their
hand.
B
We
have
already
responded
that
to
that
situation
too
late.
You
would
know
that
when
we
ask
you
to
defund
the
police,
we
are
asking
you
to
instead
invest
in
the
resources
which
would
allow
someone
to
get
the
help
they
need
as
soon
as
they
begin
to
recognize
warning
signs
for
abuse
well
before
the
violence
that
you
are
so
rightly
afraid
of
can
occur.
This
is
what
it
looks
like
to
reduce
violence
and
prevent
trauma,
not
introducing
a
unarmed
stranger
into
a
situation
which
has
already
resulted
in
a
lifetime
of
trauma.
B
B
Okay,
good
afternoon
mayor
and
council
members,
I'm
rosie
zapata,
I'm
a
long
time
resident
of
the
city
of
san
jose
and
a
member
of
the
southwest
progressive
alliance.
I
want
to
demand
the
city
budget
to
be
allocated
to
ensure
equity
throughout
our
communities.
Funds
should
be
focused
on
communities
with
the
greatest
needs.
Equity
goals
need
to
be
incorporated
in
our
budgets
for
in
our
budget
from
here
on.
This
starts
with
demon
demilitarizing
our
police
force
by
redirecting
funding
to
mental
health
services
and
libraries,
allocating
funds
to
community
service
officers
instead
of
police
officers.
B
You
want
to
look
at
a
successful
model.
Look
at
camden
new
jersey,
where
crime
dropped
by
40
percent.
Once
this
model
community
policing
was
implemented.
It
was
a
sad
day
for
me
when
my
city,
san
jose,
made
it
to
the
new
york
times
showing
how
our
police
attacked
our
own
residents.
Please
do
the
right
thing.
I
yield
my
time.
A
Let's
invest
in
social
progress,
mental
health
services,
libraries
parks,
youth
programs
and
community
policing.
These
are
not
radical
ideas.
Given
the
recent
events
and
the
ongoing
violent
behavior
exhibited
by
the
san
jose
police
department,
they
are
logical
and
humane.
These
are
the
steps
to
take.
A
I
want
to
have
our
brown
and
black
families
trust
and
respect
law
enforcement.
Understand.
We
are
scared,
you
know
our
parents,
our
youth,
even
the
police
officers
are
scared.
We
must
do
better
and
we
must
think
different.
Denials
and
excusing
violence
are
wrong
and,
frankly,
it's
just
very,
very
old.
Our
youth
marching
and
the
black
lives
movement
matter.
Movement
are
not
the
thank
you.
Thank
you,
mimi.
A
B
Amity
afternoon,
mayor
and
city
council
members,
I
am
a
member
of
showing
up
for
racial
justice
at
sacred
heart
and
a
resident
of
district
9,
as
well
as
a
parent
and
a
homeowner
and
a
public
school
teacher.
The
demands
you
guys
are
hearing
from
san
jose
community
members
right
now
to
defund
the
police
are
urgent
and
they
need
to
be
addressed.
Small
reforms
have
not
and
will
not
go
far
enough
merlicarta.
You
have
actually
noted
that
the
huge
budget
shortfall
facing
san
jose
because
of
covet
19
poses
opportunities
for
change,
and
you
are
right.
B
Our
community
requires
an
immediate
reduction
in
police
funding,
the
demilitarization
of
the
police
and
the
termination
of
officers
for
any
involvement
in
police
shootings,
excessive
force,
corruption,
abuse
of
any
kind
or
discrimination.
San
jose
can
do
better.
We
can
reimagine
community
safety
that
truly
keeps
everyone
safe.
B
Hi,
here's
some
facts.
According
to
a
study
published
by
the
national
academies
of
science,
militarization
of
police
is
used
almost
exclusively
as
a
weapon
against
communities
of
color
irregardless
of
crime
rates
or
the
assumed
danger
of
an
operation.
Swat
traders
are
more
heavily
deployed
against
communities
of
color.
In
addition,
militarization
does
not
lead
to
a
decrease
in
officer
fatalities.
In
fact,
fatalities
are
so
minor
on
a
national
level
that
a
decrease
would
have
to
have
would
have
be
have
to
be
measured
in
single
digits.
B
Research
into
military
tactics
conclude
that
it
has
little
impact
on
crime
rates,
but
massive
impact
on
community
confidence
in
police.
I
ask
you,
the
council,
to
consider
that
police
forces
be
replaced
with
non-violent
community
programs,
invest
in
safety,
training,
conflict
mediators
strategies
to
advance
the
well-being
of
youth,
stop
punishing
those
who
are
symptoms
of
a
broken
system
that
has
done
far
too
little
for
them
fund,
after-school
programs,
rehabilitation,
low-income
housing
and
substance
abuse
help.
If
not
now,
when
I
best
my
time.
B
Sorry,
sorry
about
that
hi,
my
name
is
al,
I'm
with
xr
south
bay,
and
I
don't
have
a
script
myself
today
either.
I
want
to
thank
you
for
giving
us
this
time
to
address
this.
This
issue
of
the
budget,
I'm
of
course
calling
regarding
the
police
aspect.
More
specifically
the
focus
on
making
sure
that
we're
spending
our
money
wisely.
B
B
B
B
What
positive
impacts
did
sjpd
or
police
presence
have
on
my
life?
None
that
I
can
think
of.
However,
public
parks
in
the
san
jose
public
library
were
staples
of
my
childhood
places
of
play,
learning
and
diversity
that
provided
much
needed,
multilingual
resources
for
the
immigrant
communities
of
san
jose
that
make
our
city
great
defund,
the
sjpd
and
fund
unarmed
community
officers
trained
in
de-escalation
and
knowledgeable
and
mental
health
services.
A
My
name
is
amanda
jacobo
d7,
sjsu
student
in
the
masters
of
urban
air
regional
planning
program,
greetings
san
jose.
I
see
you,
you
are
beautiful
and
I
love
you.
I
do
not
agree
or
support
any
budget
with
more
than
40
percent
allocated
to
the
police
department,
especially
a
department
that
does
not
take
responsibility
or
accountability
for
their
actions.
A
Please
do
not
cut
funds
to
love,
viva,
kaya,
sjr,
viva
parks,
library,
hours,
traffic
safety
or
street
improvements.
Community
police
officers
parks,
maintenance,
equity
strategy
for
allocated
funding.
Please
fund
the
community,
affordable
housing,
health
care,
education,
libraries
after
school
programs,
parks,
food
justice,
infrastructure,
public
art
rehabilitation,
not
incarceration,
defund,
the
police,
defund,
militarized,
policing,
defund,
sjpd,
defund,
police
brutality,
defund
racism,
black
lives
matter.
Thank
you.
B
We
demand
a
budget
that
adequately
and
effectively
meets
the
need
of
the
most
at-risk
san
jose
residents
during
the
coven
19
pandemic
and
years
into
the
future.
We
demand
that
funding
is
reallocated
towards
mental
health,
housing,
healthcare,
education,
libraries
and
other
city
services
that
serve
our
communities
rather
than
terrorize
them.
It
is
absurd
that
police
officers
involved
in
shootings
or
other
violent
incidents
have
not
been
removed
from
the
force.
B
We
must
eliminate
paid
administrative
leave
for
police,
facing
misconduct,
charges
and
stop
allocating
city
funding
for
the
defense
of
officers
who
shoot,
maim
or
injure
our
community
members.
It
is
long
past
time
for
the
san
jose
community
to
divest
from
the
police
and
to
invest
in
social
programs.
B
Thank
you,
hello.
My
name
is
kelly.
Taymara
and
I've
been
a
lifelong
resident
of
san
jose
and
currently
live
in
district
7..
I'm
here
to
state
that
I
find
the
extravagant
funding
for
the
police
to
be
disturbing
and
morally
disparaging,
I'm
a
financial
analyst,
and
I
would
be
let
go
for
my
job
if
I
continually
push
for
the
plurality
of
the
budget
to
fund
something
that
had
negative
returns
on
investment
and
pose
no
beneficial
strategic
outcomes.
B
Not
only
is
this
the
case
with
the
police,
but
is
it
also
costing
people
their
lives
and
continuing
horrendous
institutionalization
of
government-funded
white
supremacy?
In
recent
public
comments?
San
marco
ricardo?
You
stated
that
many
people
share
the
need
for
more
control,
more
police,
because
this
is
an
anecdote
and
not
a
claim
made
by
data,
it's
difficult
for
me
to
respond.
However,
I
believe
that
you
are
completely
disregarding
the
cause
for
what
our
capitalist
and
white
supremacist
government
considers
a
crime.
B
A
A
A
B
Hi,
my
name
is
jessica
matthew,
I'm
a
resident
of
d1
and
with
silicon
valley,
dsa
I'll
go
right
to
the
point.
Defund
the
police
invest
in
our
community
instead
and
listen
to
us.
I
have
had
to
run
from
tear
gas,
flash,
bangs
and
rubber
bullets
at
the
protests
myself.
I
had
multiple
friends
injured
by
rubber
bullets
and
tear
gas.
It
is
clear
that
sjpd
does
not
understand
the
difference
between
real
threats
and
regular
citizens
peacefully
protesting.
We
don't
want
reform.
We
want
a
process
that
works
towards
defunding
the
police
instead
of
spending.
B
So
much
of
our
budget
on
police
use
those
funds
to
ensure
equity
throughout
our
communities
support
community
well-being
rather
than
empowering
the
police.
It
is
your
duty
to
represent
your
constituents
who
overwhelmingly
want
you
to
defund
the
police.
You
should
completely
revise
the
budget.
Make
no
mistake:
your
inaction
is
violence.
Frankly,
if
you
cannot
muster
the
courage
to
actually
do
something
about
this,
when
the
residents
of
your
city
are
basically
begging
you
to,
then
you
should
resign,
listen
to
us
or
resign
black
lives
matter.
A
B
My
name
is
linda
goytea
and
I'm
the
current
board
president
for
silicon
valley,
career
technical
education.
I
never
expected
to
be
reaching
out
to
the
city
for
help,
but
I
never
expected
a
pandemic
either
if
we
have
to
close
our
doors.
What
would
I
ever
say
to
a
shocked
community
afterward?
How
would
I
explain
my
inaction?
How
would
the
city
explain
its
failure
to
act?
The
community
would
want
to
know.
Why
did
we
let
that
get
away
from
us
before
me?
I
see
a
group
of
highly
intelligent
and
creative
people.
B
I
have
absolute
faith
that
you
can
find
a
path
forward
to
approve
our
ask.
People
are
going
to
remember
for
a
long
time
what
we
did
or
didn't
do
in
this
moment
mayor
le
cardo,
I
know
you're
a
supporter
of
equity
initiatives.
Well,
our
center
is
what
equity
looks
like.
We
are
meeting
the
needs
of
our
most
underserved
students
and
providing
access
to
careers.
They
would
not
have
through
a
traditional
high
school
and
we're
providing
training
in
areas
that
would
be
critical
to
the
economic
recovery
of
our
great
city.
B
B
B
Hi,
my
name
is
megan
swift
and
I
live
and
vote
in
dev
davis's
district,
I'm
also
active
with
search
the
rapid
response
network
and
la
mesa
verde.
I'm
talking
to
you
today,
because
san
jose
police
department
is
not
capable
of
the
change
required
to
keep
all
people
safe
in
our
city,
meredith
carter
and
councilwoman
davis.
Please,
please
reallocate
funds.
I
mean
at
the
least
the
funds
used
to
militarize
the
hit
san
jose
police
department
and
put
it
into
the
hands
of
organizations
that
support
and
lift
up
our
neighbors.
B
This
is
not
what
san
jose
police
department
does,
and
recent
events
with
protesters
is
not
the
only
reason
for
my
request.
I
want
you
to
understand
that
san
jose
police
department
has
a
long
history
of
abuses
and
misdeeds.
It's
like
all
they
have
is
a
hammer,
and
so
everything
looks
like
a
nail.
I've
been
working
for
years
to
keep
my
neighbors
safe,
often
from
san
jose
police
department.
There
are
many
organizations
that
have
helped
in
the
past
and
will
continue
to
support
our
families
and
neighbors
if
you
support
and
fund
them.
Please.
Thank
you.
B
A
B
B
The
very
sight
of
a
police
car
in
my
community
surprises
me,
as
is
my
privilege,
and
should
be
a
privilege
given
to
our
san
jose
communities.
Moreover,
police
as
a
child,
I
was
able
to
spend
hours
in
the
library
engaging
in
their
programs
and
enriching
my
mind
hours
that
have
been
cut
more
and
more
as
I've
grown
up,
while
our
city
grows
richer
and
richer.
B
Please
do
not
terrorize
my
community
because
we
are
well
funded
and
I
do
not
fear
that
we,
we
will
have
less
police
because
they
were
never
there
in
the
first
place.
I
fear
that
our
libraries
and
parks
and
communities
will
fall
apart
with
less
funding
to
truly
solve
crying.
We
cannot
do
with
just
punishment.
We
need
to
get
to
the
root
of
why
they
feel
like
they
need
to
commit
the
crime
in
the
first
place,
stop
criminalizing
the
homeless.
Stop
criminalizing
the
poor,
the
police
cannot
exist
without
the
consent
of
the
people
and.
A
B
Hi
sorry,
my
name
is
kalia
and
I
work
for
casa
de
clara,
a
organization
serving
people
experiencing
homelessness
and
I'm
urging
you
to
defund
sjpd
and
allocate
funding
to
support
people
of
color-led
community
organizations
and
to
address
issues
disproportionately
affecting
black
and
brown
folks,
especially
homelessness,
and
we
call
for
funds
diverted
from
the
police
to
health
care,
housing,
nutrition,
rent
relief
and
rehabilitation
programs,
and
specifically,
we
advocate
for
an
end
to
the
over
policing
and
criminalization
of
homelessness
and
the
end
to
encampment
sweeps.
Please
defund
the
police
and
invest
directly
in
our
diverse
community.
A
Device
welcome
hello
as
a
resident
of
san
jose.
I
demand
that
we
defund
and
dismantle
sjpd
san
jose
police
department
has
continuously
displayed
their
disregard
for
protecting
and
serving
the
greater
public.
Instead,
they
have
constantly
shown
that
they
are
only
here
to
protect
and
serve
white,
wealthy
people
and
property.
A
The
money
you
allocate
that
allows
police
to
tear
gas
and
shoot
rubber
bullets
at
peaceful
protesters
could
go
towards
funding
mental
health
professionals
and
first
responders,
as
well
as
countless
other
resources
to
benefit
black
and
indigenous
people
of
color.
Five
days
ago,
you
tweeted
in
favor
of
police
reform.
Instead
of
defunding,
we
are
not
asking
for
police
reform,
because
you
cannot
reform
a
system
that
was
built
to
kill
and
oppress
black
and
indigenous
people
of
color.
We
are
demanding
the
abolishment
of
sjpd
sam
licardo.
We
are
getting
your
bootlicking
ass
out
of
office.
B
Bro
hi
hi,
my
name
is
brenna
savage,
I'm
a
resident
of
san
jose
in
district
district
3.,
I'm
a
registered
nurse
and
I've
worked
in
an
icu
in
a
hospital
on
the
east
side
of
san
jose.
For
several
years,
I've
seen
the
health
inequities,
black
brown
and
poor
people
in
our
community
face,
and
it's
simply
unacceptable.
B
The
current
budget
is
a
reflection
of
continued
public
abandonment
and
the
siphoning
of
funds
that
systematically
use
violence
to
enforce
policy
instead
of
meeting
the
needs
of
the
community.
The
behavior
of
san
jose
pd
during
the
protest
and
their
pr
event
afterwards
to
justify
their
aggressive
use
of
force
has
eroded
my
faith
in
police
reformation.
B
Hi,
my
name
is
theresa
and
I
am
a
lifelong
resident
of
san
jose
district
seven
and
the
community
outreach
assistant
at
wake
san
jose.
I
stand
in
solidarity
with
my
community
to
defund
the
police.
It
is
well
documented
that
policing
perpetuates
racialized,
gendered
class
and
sexual
violence
that
destroys
communities.
They
do
not
protect
us
to
quote
miriam
caba
a
safe
world
is
not
one
in
which
the
police
keep
black
and
other
marginalized
people
in
check
through
threats
of
arrest,
incarceration,
violence
and
death.
B
A
safe
world
is
one
in
where
we
invest
in
our
communities,
infrastructure,
health
resources,
housing,
youth
programming,
community
mediation
programs
and
other
social
goods.
It's
not
unrealistic
or
naive,
as
you
might
believe,
we're
here,
because
more
diversity
and
training
and
policing
don't
work
during
this
unprecedented
time.
What
is
unrealistic
is
using
what
feels
achievable
as
a
metric
for
whether
we
should
change
something
we
are
saying:
defund,
the
police,
not
reimagine,
policing,
not
reform
the
police.
There
is
no
ambiguity
in
the
phrase
defund.
The
police.
A
B
B
It
is
your
duty
as
the
mayor
and
as
city
council
members
to
serve
the
communities
that
elected
you
and
so
now,
it's
time
to
do
that.
Now
is
the
time
to
show
that
you
want
our
communities
to
succeed
and
excel.
Do
you
best
from
the
police
whose
primary
aim
is
to
maintain
power
over
us,
invest
in
education
parks
and
recreation,
community
programs
and
the
libraries
your
community
has
spoken.
Please
listen
to
us.
I
yield
my
time.
B
B
B
A
B
Interest
when
people
are
speaking,
you
guys
are
just
sitting
there,
not
it
doesn't.
Look
like
you're,
you
really
care
you're.
Looking
at
your
phones,
you're
on
your
computers,
the
only
reason
you
should
be
looking
down
is:
if
you're
taking
notes,
the
library
department
was
asked
to
make
major
cuts
in
the
budget
due
to
covet
economic
crisis.
Was
the
police
department
asked
to
make
cuts?
We
furloughed
538
staff
members
indefinitely?
B
A
A
Hello,
my
name
is
carlos
escobar.
I
just
want
to
say
thank
you
for
having
me
on
here,
mayor
licardo
and
the
rest
of
the
city
council
members.
I
am
from
district
six
and
I
just
wanted
to
communicate
or
to
amplify
a
couple
voices.
So,
as
we
have
already
heard,
many
folks
are
asking
for
the
funding
of
the
police,
but
specifically
reallocation.
A
The
reason
for
it
is,
I
assisted
in
a
research
project
specifically
on
district
three
3
across
to
see
how
people
perceive
crime
and
violence
and
access
to
green
green
spaces,
and
I
had
to
interview
up
to
200
residents
of
san
jose
and
the
reason
why
I
support
the
reallocation
towards
whether
it's
a
prns
or
to
education.
It's
strictly
there's
one
gentleman
who
told
me
and
makes
me
emotional.
A
A
Please
send
me
your
device
hi
welcome
hi,
so
my
name
is
I'm
here
to
call
that
you
reallocate
money
from
the
police
to
the
programs
that
are
actually
helpful.
The
hundred
fifty
thousand
dollars
that
you're
reallocating
the
ipa
to
engage
community
in
order
to
quote
get
recommendations
for
meaningful
improvements.
Our
practices
end
quote,
is
nothing.
It's
a
platitude.
A
A
A
B
I'm
a
resident
of
district
3
and
I
grew
up
in
district
9.,
I'm
calling
to
voice
my
support
of
the
letter
from
the
people
of
san
jose
and
sv
debug
to
defund
the
police
and
invest
in
our
community.
We
have
no
need
of
an
armed
city-sanctioned
force
that
operates
virtually
beyond
the
law
and
whose
purpose
is
to
enforce
compliance
through
violence.
B
Our
community
is
known
and
celebrated
for
innovative
thinking
the
people
of
san
jose
deserve
and
can
arrive
at
better
solutions
for
public
health
and
safety.
If
you've
read
the
letter
from
the
people,
you
would
know
this
defund
the
sjpd
fund,
equitable
and
material
public
health
and
safety
solutions
make
san
jose
a
place
where
black
and
brown
lives
matter.
Thank
you.
A
Thank
you.
The
phone
number
ending
in
6629
welcome
hello.
Can
y'all
hear
me.
Yes,
we
can
welcome
hi.
My
name
is
oscar
staniball
and
I'm
an
educator
and
d10
san
jose
resident,
I'm
one
of
thousands
of
community
members
that
have
joined
alongside
the
families
who
have
had
ones
murdered
by
sjpd
to
demand
the
immediate
defending
of
the
san
jose
police
department
and
reinvesting
in
the
community.
A
These
reinvestments
can
look
like
reallocating
funds
for
black,
led
community
organizations,
youth
services,
community
centers
and
libraries,
additional
mental
health
support
and
long-term
support
for
those
families
that
have
lost
those
loved
ones.
I
just
want
to
be
very
real,
like
how
much
more
do
y'all
need.
At
this
point.
You
have
data.
You
have
personal
narratives
community
narratives,
how
much
more
blood
do
you
need
dripping
from
your
hands,
because
at
this
point
the
puddle
you're
standing
in
is
growing
with
every
day
you
defend
sjpd
and
institutional
policing.
A
If
y'all
remember
those
videos
from
the
60s,
where
all
you
see
these
white
elected
officials
on
the
receiving
end
of
protesting
may
change.
Y'all
are
those
people
right
now.
History
is
watching
we're
watching.
I
know
a
lot
of
y'all
want
to
run
for
other
elected
officials.
We
will
remember
how
you
voted
tomorrow
and
we
will
never
let
you
forget
how
you
use
or
didn't
use
this
voice.
You
have
an
opportunity
on
the
right
side
of
history.
Please
this
year.
B
Okay,
hi
I'm
I'm
speaking
as
the
mother
of
two
boys
and
I'm
a
resident
of
district
6..
I
don't
feel
represented
by
my
council
member
and
demand
that
everyone
take
care
of
now.
We
need
to
address
the
elephant
in
the
room
who
economically
benefits
every
single
time
our
kids
end
up
in
prison.
I
ask
it's:
not
our
communities
stop
giving
our
resources
and
money
to
private
institutions,
because,
indirectly,
that's
what
we're
doing
essentially
we're
paying
for
our
kids
to
end
up
in
prison.
This
doesn't
make
sense,
and
this
needs
to
stop.
B
B
san
jose,
like
many
cities
right
now,
needs
deep,
focused
attention
on
building
shared
community
understanding
of
our
nation's
racist
and
violent
paths
and
presence,
and
we
must
find
a
process
to
build
a
shared
vision
for
our
future,
as
well
as
an
equitable
economic
recovery
plan
that
needs
to
prioritize
arts
and
community
building.
Artists
are
naturally
community,
build
our
natural
community
builders
and
the
organizations
that
support
their
creative
work
are
embedded
in
communities
of
color
and
produce
programming.
That
brings
people
together
from
all
walks
of
life,
the
city
budget.
B
Hi,
my
name
is
sujan
I'd
like
to
echo
the
same
sentiment
as
the
previous
speakers,
which
is
to
defund
the
police.
Divesting
funds
in
our
sitting
can
begin
the
process
of
ending
the
culture
of
punishment
in
the
criminal
justice
system.
Additional
trainings
and
body
cameras
haven't
brought
any
change,
and
I
don't
understand
how
police
reform
can
happen
when
the
system
is
broken
from
the
route.
I
demand.
We
allocate
those
funds
to
support
people
and
services
that
matter
to
marginalized
communities.
B
I
demand
we
put
these
tax
dollars
into
education,
hospitals,
housing,
food
and
social
services
for
mental
health,
domestic
violence
and
homelessness
in
these
communities.
First
responders
should
be
mental
health
providers
and
social
workers
not
strangers.
Armed
with
guns,
policing
does
not
equate
with
public
safety
as
they
are
not
equipped
or
trained
to
solve
the
above
issues.
So
why
are
we
if
we
continue
to
under
fund
the
support
services
that
can
actually
prevent
crime?
That
will
only
cause
us
to
have
higher
crime
rates
and
will
continue
to
hurt
the
communities
in
need
of
help?
A
Thank
you,
laura
hello.
I
attended
the
san
jose
city
hall
protest
on
saturday
june
6th
the
afternoon
was
peaceful
and
powerful.
There
was
not
one
cop
in
sight
when
I
heard
first
heard
the
phrase
to
fund
the
police.
I
was
admittedly
uncomfortable
over
the
past
two
weeks.
I've
reflected
on
why
I
felt
this
way.
The
answer
is:
I'm
a
white
woman.
The
system
and
law
enforcement
are
trained
to
see
me
as
someone
who
needs
protection.
A
B
A
B
A
B
B
We
learn
that
we
have
to
think
is
real
and
I
want
to
say
if
you
are
not
listening
to
your
constituents,
when
you
hear
them
say:
defund
the
police
and
instead
want
to
continue
funding
the
place
it
seems
like
you
have
it
backwards,
like
you
think,
force
is
where
your
authority
comes
from
and
not
from
the
consent
of
the
government
and
you're
wrong.
We
are
the
funders
of
the
police
and
what
we're
saying
is
that
they
are
not
doing
what
we
want
them
to
do
and
we
don't
want
to
fund
them
anymore.
B
Thank
you,
city,
council,
hi
ricardo.
I
don't
think
san
jose
is
a
crime-ridden
city
and
I
don't
necessarily
believe
that
we
need
more
police
to
be
a
seafood
city
and
I
spent
my
childhood
living
in
downtown
by
the
chaparral
supermarket
and
now
I'm
rocked
by
the
mexican
heritage
plaza.
Also,
only
13
percent
of
arrests
were
for
violent
crimes
in
2018..
B
If
you
believe
that
there
is
a
strong
correlation
between
police
to
citizen
ratio
and
the
number
of
violent
crimes,
then
go
ahead
and
hire
more
officers,
I
don't
want
you
to
lay
off
any
of
the
police
officers
unless,
of
course,
they
abuse
their
authority.
Many
of
the
san
jose
police
officers
make
a
good
chunk
of
the
money
from
overtime
defund
the
police
by
hiring
more
police
less
over
time,
more
funds
for
other
departments.
Another
thing:
why
did
our
golf
course
budget?
Go
from
3.
B
A
B
Hello,
my
name
is
kathleen
bridges
and
I
was
born
and
raised
in
san
jose
district
10..
I
have
been
watching
your
actions
regarding
these
two
public
health
crises
covet
19
and
also
systemic
racism.
I
am
disappointed
and
disgusted
you
give
interviews
and
tweets
about
how
you
are
so
willing
to
reform
police.
You
claim
to
support
eight
can't
wait,
but
they
themselves
admit
it
is
an
ineffective
strategy
and
instead
call
for
abolition.
You
act
like
you
can't
hear
us
when
our
voices
have
never
been
more
clear
or
united.
B
You
need
to
listen
to
your
people
and,
put
aside
your
ego
for
two
seconds
and
look
at
the
big
picture.
There
are
over
100
plus
people
here
waiting
for
hours
telling
you
the
exact
same
thing:
don't
you
think
they
have
a
point?
Defund
the
police
refund
social
services
as
a
replacement
use
the
sjdp
funds
to
end
qualified
immunity
for
police
officers,
hold
them
accountable,
remove
officers
accused
of
misconduct
and
withhold
pensions
and
administrative
leave
for
officers
under
investigation.
When
we
voted
you
in,
we
will
vote
you
out.
A
B
Hi,
can
you
hear
me
yes,
hi?
My
name
is
sierra
valenzuela
and
I've
lived
in
san
jose
my
whole
life
and
I've
stayed
here,
even
though
many
of
my
friends
have
had
to
move
away
because
of
rising
living
wages
and
rent
and
all
that,
but
I
always
felt
safe
in
this
city,
and
I
was
one
of
those
protesters
who
was
out
there
earlier
this
month
and
I
gotta
say
that
I
did
not
feel
safe
at
that
time.
B
Hi,
I'm
a
student
and
I
work
in
the
area
I
was
born
and
raised
in
san
jose.
I
live
in
district
two,
but
I
was
raised
in
district
nine
and
I
have
experienced
what
it
means
to
have
a
budget
cut.
I
had
to
go
to
three
different
elementary
schools,
because
my
schools
could
no
longer
afford
to
keep
us
in
those
schools,
so
I
know
what
it's
like
to
be
shifted
around
how
traumatizing
that
can
be
for
students,
especially
minority
students.
B
So
I
would
like
to
relocate
the
funds
from
san
jose
police
to
education
and
things
that
actually
will
in
will
improve
the
community
instead
of
keeping
it
to
benefit
the
corporations
which
are
ultimately
the
ones
profiting
off
of
the
huge
police
departments
and
just
quickly
want
to
say
that
I
hope
that
more
of
these
meetings
will
occur
outside
of
working
hours
so
that
the
working
class
can
participate
in
the
future,
because
it's
unfortunate
that
we're
only
allowed
to
participate
now
that
we're
in
shelter
in
place.
Thank
you.
A
Hello,
hello,
can
you
hear
me?
Yes
welcome,
hi
yeah,
so
I
think
everyone's
kind
of
they
have.
They
have
it
nailed
right
here
on
the
head,
but
I
want
to
say
with
the
the
police
budget,
you
can
also
get
88
million
slices
of
pizza,
29.3
million
large
one-topping
pizzas,
880
million
pounds
of
mozzarella
cheese,
88
million
pounds
of
sausage
880
new
pizza
shops,
22
million
hours
of
wages
at
20,
an
hour
for
pizza
shops,
12,
600,
professional
pizza
ovens
and
146.6
million
pounds
of
sauce.
A
A
A
It's
all
you
know
directly
related
to
public
health
and
the
only
thing
that's
not
related
to
public
health
would
be
the
police
force
that
we
continue
to
militarize
and
invest
in
financially
a
force
that
brutalizes
in
communities
of
color
and
won't
even
wear
masks.
Sometimes-
and
so
I
know
you
say
it's
thinly
staffed,
but
it's
a
circular
argument,
so
black
lives
matter.
Thank
you.
B
My
name
is
sarah
powell,
I'm
a
health
educator
and
a
resident
of
district
10,
and
I'm
calling
to
join
those
who
demand
the
defunding
of
sjpd
and
the
reallocation
of
those
resources
to
education,
mental
health
and
other
community
services.
As
others
have
mentioned,
service
surface
level.
Reforms
are
simply
unacceptable
when
residents
of
our
city
have
been
tear-gassed
and
shot
at
with
rubber
bullets
during
protests.
B
And
when
someone
is
experiencing
a
mental
health
crisis,
we
shouldn't
just
have
the
armed
police
to
call
upon
putting
them
at
risk,
rather
than
giving
them
the
care
and
support
they
need.
As
someone
with
deep
roots
in
san
jose,
I'm
proud
of
the
community
for
speaking
up
and
standing
up
for
what's
right,.
B
Hello,
my
name
is
veronica
and
I
am
a
member
of
their
reinvest
for
racial
equity.
Island
rocks
school
now,
a
coalition.
Are
you
a
prisoner,
some
mayor
of
sam?
You
only
listen
and
not
do
anything
and
wait
for
some
god
to
answer
our
prayers
and
demands
because
we
didn't
elect
god
to
represent
us.
We
elected
you,
sam
ricardo,
chappie
jones,
sergio
jimenez,
raul,
perales,
landeep,
magdalena
carrasco,
dev
davis,
maya,
esparza,
silva
arenas,
pam
foley,
john
cagney's.
We
ain't
playing
with
our
black
brown
indigenous
lives
anymore.
B
Our
children
will
not
fund
those
prisons
and
we
won't
let
you
ruin
their
lives,
take
away
their
rights
anymore.
You
are
the
problem.
Our
black
brown
and
indigenous
children
need
those
who
believe
in
them
in
their
fullest
and
not
who
believe
they
should
be
locked
up.
We
demand
you
put
the
money
we
put
in
the
police
and
resources
for
our
black
brown
indigenous
children,
well-being
enough
trust,
cardo.
We
need
leaders,
not
money
sniffers
again,
if
you
can't
do
it
step
aside,
for
those
who
can
als.
B
A
A
A
A
B
Hi,
mayor
ricardo
city
council,
my
name
is
emilia.
Yarapothu
I've
lived
in
district
8
of
san
jose.
Since
I
was
2
years
old,
I'm
asking
you
to
reconsider
our
budget
and
defund.
The
police
you've
already
received
a
letter
from
svdbug
and
a
list
of
demands.
You
know
what
specific
policy
proposals
your
constituents
are
asking
for.
Mayor
licardo.
You've
spent
a
lot
of
time
in
the
last
few
days,
arguing
with
people
on
twitter
about
this,
insisting
that
sjpd
has
already
conducted
enough
reform
nitpicking
about
how
much
money
we
actually
spend
on
affordable
housing.
B
You're
missing
the
point.
I
understand
that
sjpd
has
been
enacting
reform.
We
are
telling
you
that
those
reforms
are
not
enough.
The
lived
reality
of
san
jose
residents
right
now,
where
folks
exercising
their
first
amendment
rights,
are
attacked
by
militarized
force
where
black
and
brown
residents
are
regularly
exposed
to
police
violence
is
unacceptable.
B
B
B
Rather
than
penalizing
and
criminalizing
black
and
brown
communities.
Crime
is
not
random,
but
rather
an
expression
of
systemic
racism
that
has
plagued
your
nation
and
marginalized
communities
are
not
getting
their
needs.
Met,
police
uphold
a
racist
system
and
we
are
done
with
reform
policies
that
are
not
working.
Thank
you
and
I
yield
my
time.
A
B
Hello,
my
name
is
emily
rangel
district
5..
Please
don't
throw
away
this
opportunity.
The
sjpd
funding
for
this
fiscal
year
is
at
the
hand
of
our
black
and
brown
community
safety
and
well-being.
You
have
the
power
to
redirect
our
tax
dollars.
Similarly
to
minneapolis
the
four
billion
dollars
is
not
your
money,
and
I
urge
you
to
listen
to
your
community.
It
is
your
job
to
listen
to
your
community
and
take
action
immediately.
B
This
cosmetic
reforming
is
ineffective.
Please
defund
the
police,
black
lives
matter
and
your
community
demands
the
immediate
defunding
and
demoralization
of
the
old
and
racist,
violent
sjpd,
invest
in
first
responders
mental
health,
sexual
assault,
substance
abuse,
invest
in
hospitals,
housing,
libraries
parks
resources
to
con
to
close
the
opportunity
divide.
Thank
you.
I
have
my
time.
B
A
A
A
The
police
san
jose
is
such
an
evolved
city
does
not
need
to
be
patrolled
like
nazi
germany.
We
don't
need
a
tyrannical
force
with
historical
racism
built
in
to
watch
over
us.
Second,
I'd
like
you
to
focus
on
the
amount
of
trash
around
the
site
around
every
freeway.
Every
site
is
full
of
trash.
That'll
probably
lead
to
another
pandemic.
A
A
B
It
is
a
public
health
issue.
You
need
to
invest
in
our
people
and
communities
by
funding
services
for
health
care,
mental
health,
education,
housing
and
other
social
programs
that
are
essential
to
our
communities.
Health
and
well-being
recognize
that
your
silence
and
inaction
on
this
issue
is
deafening
to
the
community
that
you
are
supposed
to
serve.
Do
your
job
as
public
health
officials,
public
officials
and
listen
to
the
constituents
who
have
the
power
to
vote.
You
out.
B
B
Any
cut
is
detrimental
especially
to
the
black
latino
and
indigenous
communities
already
facing
the
greatest
impact
from
coba
19.
The
library
is
a
safety
net
for
these
communities
and
has
broadened
its
reach
into
underserved
communities
over
the
past
few
years.
Any
cuts
mean
a
reduction
in
library,
hours
and
staff
that
could
be
supporting
these
communities
as
they
get
back
on
their
feet,
helping
them
by
providing
educational
resources.
When
many
school
libraries
have
been
closed,
providing
workforce
development
services
and
increasing
digital
inclusion,
this
would
slow
the
city's
recovery.
B
B
Hi,
can
you
hear
me?
Yes,
my
name
is
vanessa
bermudez
and
though
I
am
no
longer
living
in
san
jose.
I
have
been
a
resident
of
the
city
for
many
years.
So
what
goes
on
in
san
jose
still
concerns
me
lecardo
in
your
medium
article,
on
defending
the
police
and
euro-
and
I
quote
yet:
defending
the
police
will
undermine
our
efforts
and
keep
san
jose's
community
safe,
particularly
for
those
members
of
our
community
who
have
suffered
the
most
from
systemic
racism,
mary
lou,
cardo
and
members
of
the
city
council
council.
B
It
does
not
seem
that
you
are
listening
to
the
people
of
san
jose
to
the
people
who
have
quote
suffered
the
most.
Our
communities
have
been
saying
for
decades
that
the
police
do
not
make
us
feel
safe.
Why
are
you
not
listening?
Why
are
you
so
insistent
on
keeping
this
perspective
that
the
police
are
actually
here
to
keep
black
and
brown
and
indigenous
and
queer
and
trans
and
disabled
communities
safe?
You
do
not
have
our
perspective,
so
you
must
listen
to
our
real
experiences
and
act
on
it.
B
B
Hi
there,
my
name
is
linda
stewart,
I'm
an
organizer
with
showing
up
for
racial
justice
at
sacred
heart
and
I'm
a
lifelong
resident
of
san
jose
mayor
licardo.
In
your
june
8
budget
message,
you
stated
that
defunding,
the
police
would
cause
white
communities
to
hire
private
security
companies,
and
this
would
cause
communities
of
color
to
quote
struggle
with
robbery
and
vandalism
without
recourse.
End
quote,
mr
mayor.
Those
don't
sound
like
the
words
of
somebody
who
actually
wants
to
do
something
to
reduce
crime
or
who
wants
to
see
real
change.
B
Those
sound
like
the
words
of
someone
who
believes
that
crime
is
inevitable
and
a
foregone
conclusion,
but
the
truth
is
divesting.
Budget
from
the
police
means
investing
in
housing,
education,
community
services,
libraries,
social
workers,
mental
health
experts,
rehab
clinics
and
so
much
more
and
those
are
the
tools
san
jose
needs
for
a
long-term,
sustainable
solution
to
violence
and
crime.
That's
what
we're
asking
for
when
we
ask
you
to
defund
the
police.
I
support
the
people
of
san
jose
demand
letter.
Thank
you.
A
Of
social
work
program
at
sjsu
and
work
in
community
mental
health
policing
is
a
regressive
response
to
the
problems
we
face
and
by
decreasing
funding
to
essential
social
programs.
We
are
only
addressing
the
punishment
of
crime
rather
than
the
prevention
of
it
through
systemic
causes.
Speaking
from
experience,
responding
to
crisis
police
involvement
typically
escalates.
A
B
Power
dynamics
at
play
makes
law
enforcement
inappropriate
for
the
jobs
they
are
being
called
upon
to
do
and
the
funding
being
allocated
to
policing
when
they
are
so
limited
in
their
skill
set
myopic
in
their
response
and
racist
in
their
application
is
a
misuse
of
funding
which
could
be
invested
in
more
effective
alternative
solutions.
Please
consider,
as
elected
officials,
how
many
constituents
each
of
you
would
need
to
hear
from.
A
A
A
A
B
Thank
you.
I
don't
see
my
district
5
representative
magdalena
on
the
screen.
I
hope
that
she's
listening,
because
council
members,
this
comment
is
really
for
you.
The
san
jose
police
department,
union
contract,
expires
on
june
30th.
It
is
being
negotiated
now
by
the
city
manager,
council
members.
The
city
manager
must
do
what
you
tell
them
to
do.
Demand
the
city
manager,
negotiate
hard
demand,
police
accountability,
remove
anything
from
this
contract.
This
union
contract
that
prolo
that
protects
police
from
the
repercussions
of
their
actions.
B
Hundreds
of
police
brutality,
complaints
have
been
logged
these
past
few
weeks,
when
these
lawsuits
are
settled,
that
money
is
coming
from
city
coffers
and
from
grants
that
cost
taxpayers
money
police
lack
accountability.
This
will
bankrupt
our
city
council
members.
You
must
order
the
city
manager
to
negotiate
hard.
You
must
make
police
accountable
for
their
actions.
Thank
you.
B
B
I
graduated
the
academy
in
2011
and
I'm
ashamed
of
that.
It
makes
me
sick
to
know
that
I
sat
and
watched
the
men
and
women
in
that
class
exhibit
these
symptoms
and
these
behaviors
that
stem
from
systemic
racism,
and
it
just
really
hurts
my
heart
to
see
that,
and
I
want
to
share
that.
I
really
feel
like
I'm.
I'm
sorry,
I'm
totally
out
of
time.
If
we
could
review
those
law
enforcement
code
of
ethics,
if
we
could
really
just
evaluate
our
department,
I've
been
traumatized
by
san
jose
pd
myself,
my
family.
B
Hi,
my
name
is
savannah
marquez
and
I
demand
city
council
to
prioritize
defunding
and
the
demilitarization
of
police,
along
with
the
redistribution
of
these
funds
to
education
systems,
healthcare
systems,
libraries
and
low-income
communities.
From
personal
experience,
along
with
many
testimonies
from
others,
I
do
not
feel
safe
in
the
presence
of
sjpd.
B
A
Hi
my
name
is
christina
and
I
am
a
recent
graduate
of
the
san
jose
unified
school
district.
My
school
was
predominantly
hispanic,
so
sam
licardo,
your
concern
for
that
community
is
misplaced
and
will
only
criminalize
them
further
and
cause
them
more
harm.
The
most
caring
teachers
were
overworked
and
underpaid,
forcing
them
to
leave
the
school.
These
teachers
were
the
ones
who
empowered
and
championed
for
low-income
students
of
color.
A
Like
me,
I
had
to
watch
my
teachers
have
breakdowns
because
they
weren't
able
to
focus
on
their
students,
since
their
class
sizes
were
being
pushed
packs
past
the
maximum
capacity
my
school
didn't
have
enough
funding
to
hire
more
teachers,
defund
the
police,
invest
in
our
school
systems
and
invest
in
our
future.
I
yield
my
time.
Thank
you.
A
B
Of
the
way
that
you
merge
the
the
positions
for
the
san
jose
city,
that's
why
I'll
probably
never
be
able
to
transfer
there,
but
also
I
mean
just
talking
to
the
sheriffs
and
talking
to
cops
and
the
way
that
they
are
being
groomed
in
their
training
on
handling
the
public
is
in
a
positive
manner.
You
room
them
to
be
defenseful
automatically
before
they
take
any
action.
B
They
don't
listen
to
everything,
because
they're
not
taught
to
listen
to
anything,
they're
taught
to
act
and
you
need
to
you
need
to
fix
these
finances
because
there
are
so
many
other
ways.
You
could
be
spending
your
money
not
trying
to
get
these
analytics.
You
can
google
that
stuff,
you
can
google
what's
right
and
what's
wrong,
you
don't
have
to
hire
a
third
party
to
figure
that
out
defund
the
police.
A
A
B
A
Okay,
gerardo
welcome
hello,
hi,
welcome
all
right.
There
we
go
all
right.
Everybody
seems
to
agree
that
we
want
police
reform
and
to
reallocate
money
from
the
sjpd
budget,
two
resources
that
will
help
lift
our
community
and
help
us
progress
which
imo.
For
honestly,
it
does
not
seem
that
you
have
the
public
support,
trust.
You
want
your
community
to
start.
Trusting
you
start
holding
officers
accountable,
make
there
be
real
consequences
for
bully
cops.
Everybody
knows
cops
will
always
protect.
Other
cops,
no
matter
how
corrupt
that's
just
how
cop
culture
is.
A
However,
that's
not
how
it
should
be.
Many
cops
are
a
bunch
of
power-hungry
pricks
that
go
home
and
beat
their
wives
after
a
long
day
of
terrorizing.
The
community,
regular
people
shouldn't
be
scared
of
cops.
Cops,
should
be
scared
of
the
people
and
remind
themselves
that
they
are
here
to
serve
and
protect,
not
intimidate
and
hurt.
You
need
to
start
taking
real
action
and
making
real
change
now.
A
good
start
would
be
by
firing
jared
ewan.
These
cops
need
to
know
that
there
are
consequences
to
their
corruption.
I
yield
my
time
black
lives
matter.
A
A
Defending
the
police
sounds
pretty
radical
until
you
realize
we've
been
defunding
education
for
years,
you're,
putting
library,
staff
and
hours
libraries
which
provide
countless
resources
for
all
ages
from
getting
a
high
school
diploma
online,
to
help
finding
a
job
to
workforce
development
for
communities
of
color,
but
always
make
sure,
there's
money
to
hire
more
police
to
stalk,
harass,
abuse
and
kill
us.
I
would
like
to
remind
you
that
a
gun
cannot
teach
a
child.
A
How
to
read
a
police
officer
wielding
a
baton
cannot
help
a
man
find
a
job
by
cutting
library
of
staff
and
funds.
You
are
actively
taking
away
life-giving
opportunities.
You
cannot
punch,
shoot
or
rest
away
the
problems
that
arise
as
a
result
of
conditions
you
have
created.
You
have
failed
to
support
san
jose
citizens.
I
demand
that
you
divest
from
state-sanctioned
violence,
invest
in
our
city
and
our
people.
A
A
B
Hi,
my
name
is
sonica
mahodjan
and
I'm
a
lifelong
resident
of
santa
clara
county,
a
student
at
harvard.
I
would
like
to
address
several
directly
misguided
points
made
in
the
june
9th
article
on
medium
mayor
licardo.
You
suggest
that
increased
police
staffing
is
needed
for
sexual
assault
and
domestic
violence
units
as
a
survivor
and
a
long-time
organizer
for
sexual
justice.
B
I
know
that
police
involvement
is
only
ever
ill-informed
increases
trauma
and
victim
shames
police
involvement
means
that
the
violence
has
been
prevented
too
late
mayor,
you
said
that
mothers
of
bipoc
school
children
plead
for
you
to
counter
gang
and
gun
violence.
Yet
you
ignore
the
armed
violence
and
escalation
that
police
bring
to
these
same
communities
and
ignore
that
funding
needs
to
be
directed
toward
crime
prevention
instead,
including
education,
mental
health
and
trauma
informed
care
for
these
same
school
children.
You
mentioned
boosting
spending
on
police
to
address
fatigue
decision
making.
Racism
is
not
fatigue
decision
making.
B
B
B
Yet
at
some
point,
families
of
color
still
need
to
routinely
prepare
their
children
such
as
mine
about
how
to
behave
when
approached
by
law
enforcement,
because
that
parent
already
knows
what
may
happen
to
them,
which
is
the
slightest
wrong
blink
of
an
eye.
This
is
not
the
first
time
I've
had
to
discuss
with
my
son
about
the
racial
injustice
in
our
world.
It
kills
me
that
this
is
still
a
conversation
that
I
know
will
have
to
be
talked
about
to
my
future.
B
Children
and
his
own
police
need
to
be
held
accountable
for
their
actions,
continuing
the
dismissal
of
their
brutality
and
is
literally
harming
and
killing
innocent
black
brown
and
indigenous
lies
everywhere.
We
are
asking
that
the
funding
for
the
police
department
is
redirected
to
community
support
such
as
education,
health
care,
homelessness,
support,
child
care,
immigration,
resources,
affordable
housing,.
A
B
Okay,
so
there
are
many
issues
I
have
with
the
proposed
budget.
First
of
all,
why
is
the
golf
budget
going
from
2
million
last
year
to
10
million
dollars
this
year?
But,
more
importantly,
and
forgive
me
if
I'm
wrong,
but
it
looks
like
only
0.4
percent
of
the
entire
s,
pd
budget
is
dedicated
to
prep
crime
prevention.
This
speaks
volumes
to
the
city's
police's
priorities
if
you
really
refuse
again
to
defund
the
police.
After
all,
these
calls
confused
too.
B
Let's
start
by
focusing
where
the
police
money
is
going
internally,
we
can
start
with
sjpd
salaries,
sjpd
officer
starting
sally,
has
no
business
being
98k
and
up
and
academy
training
pays
40
46
an
hour.
Why
are
officers
in
training
getting
paid
almost
twice
as
much
as
middle
school
medical
school
graduates
in
residency?
I
urge
you
to
look
into
chief
eddie
garcia.
Why
did
he
reinstate
a
rapist?
Why
does
he
refuse
to
fire
jared
joran,
despite
the
community
demanding
for
it,
expressing
that
they
don't
feel
safe
with
him
on
the
streets?
B
B
Hello,
my
name
is
sophia
newan
and
I'm
a
resident
of
san
jose,
I'd
like
to
say
to
the
san
jose
city
council.
I
want
to
preface
this
by
saying.
I
believe
you
have
a
responsibility
to
listen
to
your
constituents
calling
for
changes
in
policing
and
the
end
of
systematic
racism
in
the
police
force.
I
demand
the
defunding
of
the
sjpd.
B
A
2012
audit
found
that
the
chip
bv
is
insufficiently
performing
its
mission
statement
and
san
jose
has
a
long
history
of
police
brutality
such
as
teardropping,
innocent
and
peaceful
protesters.
Just
a
few
weeks
ago.
There
are
many
more
reasons,
but
these
are
a
few
reasons
why
money
in
our
city's
budget
should
be
going
towards
the
community,
the
same
community
that
the
police
has
been
terrorizing.
We
should
invest
in
our
schools,
child
care,
our
teachers
and
our
libraries
and
our
schools
are
notoriously
underfunded.
B
A
A
We
are
aware
of
how
detrimental
and
unfortunately
fatal
this
is
for
black
and
brown
communities
and
we
will
not
allow
you
to
continue
this
anymore.
I
demand
that
you
divest
funds
from
sjpd
to
vital
social
services
if
san
jose
can
afford
440
million
for
a
violent
police
force,
but
a
meager
5
million
to
housing
when
there
are
6,
000
homeless,
san
jose
residents,
I
think
you
definitely
have
the
resources
for
defunding
and
reallocation
instead
of
utah
reform.
A
I'd
like
to
remind
you
that
the
funds
that
you
are
allocating
to
the
sjpd
are
our
taxes
and
as
taxpayers,
we
demand
that
our
taxes
be
used
for
social
services
inside
of
sjpd.
Remember
we
voted
you
into
position
and,
if
you
don't,
if
you
do
not
listen
to
your
concerns,
we
will
vote
you
out.
Thank
you.
Thank
you.
District
8
welcome.
A
Hi,
can
you
hear
me
there
you
go
yep
hi,
welcome,
hi,
mayor
licardo
and
city
council.
This
is
jeremy
burus,
director
of
civic
engagement
with
siren
as
an
immigrant
refugee
rights
organization.
We
stand
in
solidarity
with
our
black
brothers
and
sisters
and
with
the
community
and
joining
on
the
call
for
the
mayor
and
council
to
defund
police
and
invest
in
our
communities.
A
A
A
It
shows
you
clearly
where
each
of
their
priorities
lie.
Reform
alone
has
not
and
will
not
work,
listen
to
your
citizens.
If
the
police
department
can't
do
their
job
with
the
resources
available
to
them,
that
is
on
them.
They
need
to
spend
their
money
wisely.
Just
like
the
rest
of
us.
If
you
truly
want
to
reform
them
decrease
their
budget
in
proportion
with
every
other
area.
That
has
been
cut
and
write
new
legislation
to
guide
them
to
utilize
those
funds
correctly.
Thank
you.
B
B
B
Hello,
my
name
is
yanin
and
I
am
a
resident
of
san
jose
district
3..
I
asked
you
to
defund
the
police
department
and
divest
this
money
to
pro
for
to
support
our
social
services
and
programs.
One
example
is
to
divest
five
percent
of
the
police
department's
proposed
budget
towards
the
office
of
racial
equity,
so
they
can
take
actions
to
address
systemic
and
institutional
racism
in
san
jose
as
a
survivor
of
sexual
assault.
When
I
reported
my
case
to
the
police
department,
the
san
jose
police
officer
responded
by
shaming
me.
Clearly,
training
is
not
enough.
B
B
A
A
We
need
to
defund
the
police.
I
stand
with
silicon
valley,
debug
and
what
us
families
put
together.
Unfortunately,
I
met
a
lot
of
families
through
police
violence.
We
need
to
defund
get
rid
of
these
officers.
People
complain
all
the
time
that
oh,
how
come
we're
paying
taxpayer
money
to
pay
out
these
settlements?
A
B
A
A
Good
afternoon,
everyone
city
council,
my
name-
is
jake
tonkel,
I'm
running
to
represent
district
six
for
the
next
four
years.
I've
literally
spent
the
last
year
going
door
to
door
having
conversations
about
what
people
want
to
see
in
the
city
of
san
jose,
affordable
housing,
good,
paying
jobs,
good
schools,
healthy
lifestyles.
A
Unfortunately,
irresponsibility
blindness
to
racial
and
social
justice
and
disinvestment
from
needed
community
programs
have
exacerbated
the
problems.
We're
trying
to
solve
our
own
local
studies
show
housing.
The
unhoused
saves
hundreds
of
millions
of
dollars
that
we
invest
in
first
five,
child
care
making
a
400
percent
return
and
bold
emissions
reductions
will
save
more
than
5
billion
over
the
next
30
years.
Even
investment
in
the
arts
has
positive
financial
returns
for
us.
Yet
we
continue
an
old
way
of
thinking,
one
that
wastes
money,
band-aiding,
systemic
inequalities
in
our
community,
with
violence,
eviction,
displacement
and
gentrification.
A
B
Hello
city,
council
members,
my
name
is
sydney
lung
and
I
have
lived
in
san
jose
for
seven
years
in
district
three
and
five,
I'm
tired
of
the
growing
urban
renewal
and
gentrification
I've
seen
in
this
city.
I
understand
that
silicon
valley
is
a
hub
for
technology
and
innovation,
but
divest
from
outsourcing
tech
companies
and
invest
in
citizens
of
the
city.
Celebrate
the
cultural
diversity
you
all
brag
about
by
supporting
black
and
brown
lives
and
community
organizations.
B
B
Hi,
I'm
kate.
I
live
in
district
6.
right
now.
The
general
fund
budget
for
the
sjpd
is
more
than
the
housing
parks
and
rec
and
transportation
budgets
combined.
We
cannot
police
our
way
into
equity
and
prosperity.
Listen
to
the
people.
You've
been
elected
to
represent
we've
been
incredibly
clear,
fund,
housing,
libraries
and
mental
health
services.
Defund
the
police
we've
offered
you
plenty
of
specific
demands
and
solutions.
A
Hear
me,
I
guess
we
can
go
ahead
hi.
This
is
cody
brown
from
local
union
393.,
a
message
to
san
marco
ricardo.
The
unions
first
endorse
you
and
then
you
turn
your
back
on
the
unions.
The
city
voted
you
in
endorsed
you
then
you
turn
your
back
on
the
city.
Last
night
I
was
riding
my
bike
downtown
guadalupe
trails.
I
got
a
flat
tire
on
a
dope
needle
last
night,
also
my
parents,
hadn't
attempted
breaking
and
entering
in
their
house.
It
took
45
minutes
for
the
police
er
to
arrive.
A
B
Hi,
my
name
is
karina
and
I'm
daughter
of
rudy
cardenas.
I
will
say
that
your
moment
of
silence
was
didn't
include
any
of
the
families
in
san
jose,
and
that
was
just
super
disrespectful
to
the
families,
as
we
are
the
ones
in
your
community
who
suffer
daily
and
have
trauma,
and
not
only
did
it
separate
me
at
18.
It
affects
me
as
a
wife
as
a
mother,
because
I'm
still
dealing
with
the
trauma
today
and
you
refuse
to
meet
with
families
that
want
to
have
open
dialogue.
A
B
Hi
yeah,
my
name
is
nitika.
I
lived
in
amaden
nearly
all
my
life
and
I'm
disappointed
to
not
have
even
seen
a
memo
from
my
council
member
johnny
kamis
about
police
brutality
or
his
plans
to
support
the
community.
So
I'm
back
here
to
speak
directly
to
you
all
mayor
le
carter.
Your
point
last
week
about
domestic
violence
requiring
police
intervention
is
based
on
a
narrow
view
of
what
it
means
to
protect
a
community.
B
All
of
these
women
want
the
violence
to
stop,
but
not
at
all
costs.
End
quote
consider
that
black
women
face
higher
rates
of
domestic
violence
than
other
populations,
but
have
to
weigh
this
against
calling
the
police
who
could
potentially
kill
their
partner.
The
systemic
racism
built
into
our
police
system
harms
their
communities
in
so
many
ways,
even
in
this
example
for
why
they
might
be
necessary.
Please
do
your
research
stop
cutting
our
public
library
hours
and
defund
the
police
black
lives
matter.
B
Me,
yes,
we
can
okay,
all
right!
Thank
you.
So
my
name
is
elizabeth
jimenez,
I'm
speaking
for
the
children
students
that
I've
worked
with
for
over
15
years
and
dozens
of
schools,
mainly
in
san
jose
district
5
in
district
7.
children.
I
worked
with
some
now.
Adults
are
part
of
the
vulnerable
vulnerable
communities
that
we
speak
about,
meaning
impoverished
community
impoverished
is
a
verb
and
poverty
is
a
root
cause
of
crime,
violence
and
health
problems.
B
B
Therefore,
I
ask
that
the
leadership
of
san
jose
redirect
funds
from
the
san
jose
police
department,
to
education
and
to
housing
for
low-income
residents
and
residents
of
color,
proper
and
affordable
housing
and
enough
food
should
be
unconditionally
accessible
to
working
people
and
their
families,
children
and
those
unable
to
care
for
themselves.
You.
B
Hi,
thank
you
for
having
me
I'm
a
resident
of
district
7
born
and
raised,
and
I'm
seeking
you
today
with
the
same
sentiments
as
those
who
spoke
before
me.
I'm
calling
for
the
defunding
of
the
police
and
would
like
to
reiterate
that
this
is
not
calling
for
a
total
wipeout,
but
rather
taking
on
the
dives
and
invest
model
where
we
allocate
funds
from
the
very
bloated
police
department
budget
towards
the
long
list
of
community
needs,
such
as
community
programs,
education,
housing,
drug
rehabilitation,
addressing
the
homeless
crisis,
mental
health
services,
etc.
B
By
shrinking
this
massive
budget,
we
can
help
decrease,
help
end
decades
of
racially
driven
social
control
and
oppression,
as
well
as
address
social
problems
at
the
root.
Instead
of
investing
in
an
institution
that
further
oppresses
and
terrorizes
communities,
please
be
leaders
and
listen
to
your
constituents
black
lives
matter.
I.
A
Hello,
yes,
welcome.
Okay,
this
is
paul
soto,
I'm
a
lifelong
resident
of
the
horseshoe
born
at
valley,
med
and
I
got
15
ancestors
buried
at
oak
hill
cemetery
and
my
mother,
my
father,
my
dears,
my
grandmothers
all
experienced
sausage
weathers
back
in
the
1930s
and
40s
and
picked
fruit
and
built
the
economy
of
this
city.
Okay,
I'm
gonna
trust
what
esparza
and
jimenez
are
doing
in
their
memos.
I've
read
them.
A
B
Hi,
can
you
hear
me?
Yes,
okay,
so
on
twitter,
mayor
ricardo,
I
saw
that
you
said
defunding.
The
police
wouldn't
work
in
sj,
because
there
are
1.3
police
officers
to
1.
000
residents
still
plenty
enough
to
have
120
decree
increase
of
deadly
force
since
2016.
plenty
to
still
commit
racial
and
classist
violence.
You
provided
a
thoughtless,
reactionary
statistic.
I
heard
children
during
these
hearings
with
thoughtful
analysis
and
imaginings
for
the
future.
B
In
the
words
of
angela
davis
from
last
week,
we
can
come
up
with
an
amount
with
more
imaginative
ideas
of
accountability
that
does
not
involve
locking
people
up
in
cages.
Throughout
these
hearings,
I
hear
librarians
teachers,
social
workers,
abolitionists
youth
and
black
and
brown
community
members,
providing
a
wealth
of
information,
knowledge
that
are
already
imagining
a
better
world
and
working
towards
that
listen
fund
them
give
libraries
and
schools
money,
give
black
and
brown
and
indigenous
communities
their
reparations.
A
B
Hi,
my
name
is
melissa
healy
and
I'm
an
associate
marriage
and
family
therapist.
I
work
for
family
and
children
services.
All
of
my
clients
currently
are
all
felons
and
they
are
mostly
gang
members
in
my
four
years
of
service
with
this
company.
I
have
yet
to
meet
anybody
who
is
a
bad
person,
but
I
have
met
a
lot
of
people
who
are
underserved,
under-resourced,
under-housed
and
traumatized.
B
These
people
are
victims
of
our
systems
as
much
as
they
are
perpetuators
of
violence
and
crime
in
our
community,
and
we
have
a
solution
and
the
solution
is
to
reallocate
funds
to
social
workers,
therapists,
public
health
workers
to
be
able
to
offload
what
the
police
have
to
deal
with
that
are
not
crimes,
homelessness,
substance,
use
disorders,
mental
health,
the
police
shouldn't
have
to
deal
with
these
things.
Let
us
take
the
load
off
for
you,
people
who
are
trained.
B
Thanks
for
welcoming
me
so
my
name
is
brittany,
theresa
I'm
a
resident
of
sunnyvale
and
I've
been
a
resident
of
sunnyvale
for
almost
five
years
now.
I
agree
with
my
the
rest
of
my
colleagues
to
defund
the
police
and
put
back
the
money
towards
homelessness,
domestic
abuse
and
also
mental
health.
Thank
you.
A
Thank
you,
lyden
welcome,
hey.
First
of
all,
I
want
to
thank
all
the
people
that
commented
already
very
poignant,
passionate
comments
that
really
exemplify
the
intelligence
and
powerfulness
of
this
community.
My
name
is
lyden
george,
I'm
a
resident
of
d3
san,
jose
state
graduate
student
master,
urban
planning
program
and
408
born
raised.
A
I
want
to
touch
on
the
the
culture
and
priorities
of
the
city,
quoting
a
great
urban
thinker,
it's
hopeless.
We
can't
even
feed
the
homeless
right
now
at
st
james
park.
There
are
signs
all
around
that
park
that
display
a
city
ordinance
that
says
that
we
residents
cannot
feed
and
clothe
the
most
vulnerable
population
in
the
city,
the
homeless
and
guess
who
enforces
that
the
police,
it's
wrong,
it's
inhumane!
It's
warfare
against
our
community
defund,
the
police
fund,
community-led
focused
initiatives.
Thank
you.
B
B
Dependent
having
grown
up
in
the
actual
military,
the
closest
that
I've
seen
to
wartime,
have
been
on
the
streets
of
downtown
san
jose.
I
was
forced
to
de-escalate
tensions
on
the
street,
because
the
pd
couldn't
I
stopped
agitators
from
throwing
water
bottles
from
breaking
windows
and
doors.
I
moved
garbage
cans
out
of
the
road
I
put
out
fires
I
directed
passing
traffic.
I
ran
into
stores
and
chased
out
looters
all
while
unarmed
and
unpaid
as
a
resident
going
to
college
to
eventually
work
for
the
planning
department
for
this
city.
B
B
Thank
you
yes,
hi.
So
I'm
17
years
old
I
graduate
on
wednesday,
and
I
would
like
to
say
that
1.7
million
students
are
in
schools
with
cops,
but
no
counselors,
3
million
students
are
in
schools
with
cops,
but
no
nurses,
six
million
schools
are
have
cops
but
no
psychologists,
10
million
students
in
school
with
cops,
but
no
social
workers.
B
All
of
this
atlanta
police
officer,
garrett,
wolfe,
was
fired.
So
many
officers
were
fired
by
because
of
mayor
keisha,
the
60th
mayor
of
atlanta,
a
wife,
a
mama
teacher,
a
woman,
a
powerful
woman.
If
she's
a
good
she's,
a
good
representation
of
a
mayor.
If
she
could
do
this
the
bare
minimum,
then
I
don't
see
why
you
can't,
because
it's
literally
no
freaking.
B
Job
only
three
years
ago,
I
was
aware
of
the
high
cost
of
living,
and
it
was
one
I
was
willing
to
pay.
However,
I
was
not
aware
of
how
terribly
misused
these
funds
would
be.
The
abysmal
lack
of
funding
for
public
education,
libraries
and
community
health
programs
is
nothing
short
of
shameful.
Had
I
known
how
horribly
allocated
these
funds
are,
I
wouldn't
have
even
considered
applying
for
a
job
here,
which
is
awful,
because
I
love
my
job
in
the
downtown
community.
B
B
Hi,
I
know
I
had
a
lot
planned
out
and
written
out
beforehand,
but
it
was
just
a
reiteration
of
everything
that
everyone
has
been
saying,
and
I
did
just
want
to
say
that
I
support
them
in
saying
that
we
need
to
define
the
police
and
it's
just
beyond
me,
how
you
can
continue
to
support
and
defend
an
institution
that
has
time
and
time
again
shown
to
be
corrupt
and
to
only
further
enforce
violence,
white
supremacy
and
systemic
racism.
I
yield
my
time.
Do
your
damn
job.
B
B
B
A
A
Hello,
can
you
hear
me?
Yes,
thank
you.
Yeah
the
city
of
san
jose
needs
to
defund
the
traffic
cops
and
start
putting
in
more
patrol
between
midnight
and
six
and
all
the
crime
happens.
All
these
people
wanted
to
defund
the
police.
I've
been
saying
it
for
years
and
because
they
really
don't
do
anything,
you
know
they
take
an
hour
to
show
up
for
a
call
and
they
typically
hire
horrible
people
and
like
to
enforce
p,
enforce
people
not
sitting
at
picnic
tables
during
the
covid
crisis.
A
B
A
B
Hi,
I'm
a
domestic
violence
advocate
at
next-door
solutions,
and
I'm
here
to
share
the
perspective.
We
are
hearing
from
our
clients,
which
is
to
drastically
defund
and
demolitize
sjpd
and
divest
funds
to
community
services
that
would
actually
help
prevent
violence.
The
sj
police
usually
does
not
treat
survivors
with
respect
and
their
very
presence
can
be
dangerous,
and
especially
especially
for
women
of
color.
When
calling
911
black
and
indigenous
women
who
face
higher
rates
of
tv
must
weigh
the
very
real
concern
that
they
or
their
partner
may
be
injured
or
killed
by
responding
officers.
B
B
You
have
been
too
comfortable
in
your
seat,
while
the
people
are
out
on
the
streets,
risking
their
lives
to
speak
up
and
demand
justice
and
peace
for
our
black
and
brown
communities
that
suffer
most
from
police
brutality.
We,
the
people
of
san
jose,
do
not
trust
sjpd.
We
do
not
want
to
fund
a
rotten
system
that
overpays
and
gives
far
too
much
power
to
police
officers
to
hide
behind
a
tainted
slogan
claiming
to
protect
and
serve
our
communities.
B
B
B
Hi,
thank
you.
I'm
speaking
directly
to
my
council
member
raul,
perales
of
district
three,
you
said
you
were
embarrassed
by
the
unprofessional
actions
of
the
police
department,
but
actions
are
louder
than
words.
What
will
you
do
to
rebuild
trust
in
our
community
during
the
black
lives
matter?
Protests.
San
jose
police
department
demonstrated
unnecessary
use
of
force
and
violence
to
peaceful
protesters,
voicing
their
concerns.
B
I've
heard
too
many
stories
of
our
community
members
killed
by
police.
It's
clear
that
what
you're
doing
is
not
working
as
a
resident
of
your
community.
I
demand
that
you
reinvest
your
taxpayer
funds
for
san
jose
programs
that
directly
support
equality
and
the
needs
of
our
community
housing,
mental
health,
education
and
health.
There
are
too
many
people
that
are
suffering
and
the
time
to
act
is
now.
Thank
you.
A
Hello,
hello,
my
name
is
nikhil
dharmaraj,
I'm
a
resident
of
santa
clara
county
and
I'm
a
rising
sophomore
at
harvard
mayor
licardo.
In
an
interview
on
june,
8th
2020,
you
referred
to
defunding
the
police
as
something
that
would
be
a
quote
interesting
experiment,
one
for
which
you'd
quote
rather
not
be
the
guinea
pig.
Like
you,
mayor
licardo.
I
grew
up
in
saratoga
named
one
of
america's
top
20,
most
educated
small
towns
according
to
forbes
in
2009
and
the
eighth
wealthiest
city
in
the
united
states,
according
to
bloomberg
business
week
in
2011..
A
So,
like
you,
I
know
what
it
is
like
to
live
in
a
world
with
funded
schools,
good
public
infrastructure
and
almost
no
policing
like
you.
I
know
that
defunding
sjpd
and
funding
communities
instead
isn't
an
outlandish
experiment,
but
the
reality
for
so
many
neighborhoods
in
the
wealthier
parts
of
the
bay
area.
In
light
of
this,
it
is
preposterous
for
you
to
claim
that
we
must
expand
sjpd,
because
quote
americans
of
color
statistically
suffer
from
higher
rates
of
victimization
to
serious
and
violent
crime.
A
Such
a
statement
ignores
the
real
cause
of
this
crime,
which
is
centuries
of
colonization,
exploitation
of
bipoc
communities,
instead
perpetuating
the
extremely
racist
idea,
that's
that
communities
with
higher
populations
of
color
are
naturally
more
prone
to
criminality.
The
only
way
forward
is
to
defund
sjpd
gabriel,
welcome,
hi,
mayor
city
council
members.
Can
you
hear
me
okay,
yeah
welcome.
I
just
wanted
to
again
highlight
the
need
for
the
digital
equity
and
inclusion.
You
know.
A
We've
been
working
with
the
city
of
san
jose
to
support
digital
access
and
inclusion,
and
we're
hoping
that
you
know
again.
The
budget
reflects
enabling
free
and
low
cost
high
speed.
You
know
at
least
one
gigabyte,
faster
broadband
services
for
low
income
communities
and
increasing
access
to
hardware,
including
tablets
and
laptops.
A
A
B
Okay
hi,
my
name
is
veronica.
I've
been
a
resident
of
san
jose
for
three
years.
I've
attended
sjsu
for
my
undergrad
and
I'm
a
special
education
teacher
for
a
charter
school
in
eastside
san
jose.
With
a
majority
of
my
students
being
hispanic,
I
have
watched
many
students
fear
to
live
because
of
the
color
of
their
skin.
B
No
child
should
fear
existing
I've,
listened
in
and
viewed
these
council
meetings
and
have
seen
you
pay
more
attention
to
what
you
were
going
to
have
for
lunch
than
you
do
this
community
I've
seen
so
much
racial
and
justice.
In
h,
in
sjpd,
I've
watched
my
black
and
brown
friends
be
racially
discriminated
against.
Witness
police
brutality
among
them
too
many
times
for
no
reason
other
than
the
color
of
their
skin.
They
instigate
and
abuse
their
power
instead
of
protecting
and
serving.
I
am
appalled
the
amount
of
money
allocated
to
the
sjpd
and
city
council.
B
B
B
A
Can
you
hear
me
yes,
hi
I'd
first
like
to
just
thank
all
the
beautiful
citizens
that
have
taken
the
time
out
of
their
days
to
call
in
be
here.
It's
really
nice
to
see.
I've
got
a
specific
suggestion
for
for
defunding
or
reallocating
police
funds.
I
think
we
took
away
their
cars
and
gave
them
little
pogo
sticks.
They
could
jump
around
like
the
clowns
they
are,
and
that
might
be
more
representative
of
how
the
the
public
sees
them.
Also,
sam
ricardo
you're,
a
boot
all
right.
A
A
A
B
Hi
and
thanks
for
having
us
today,
my
name
is
alison
baronian.
I
am
an
organizer
with
surge.
I
live
in
district
10
and
I'm
here
today
because
I
know
that
the
world
that
I
was
raised
to
believe
in
is
a
white
woman,
one
in
which
the
police
are
there
to
protect.
All
people
is
simply
not
a
reality.
The
experiences
shared
today
by
black
san
jose
and
other
san
jose
and
of
color
speak
to
this
better
than
I
ever
could,
and
you
need
to
listen
to
their
voices.
B
It
is
clear
that
sjpd
isn't
keeping
people
safe,
at
least
it
isn't,
keeping
all
people
safe.
Equally,
we
all
oppose
racism,
and
all
of
us
must
join
the
fight,
which
means
that
during
these
challenging
times,
we
need
to
reinvest
the
budget
allocated
for
police
to
community-led
health
and
safety
strategies.
B
With
this
in
mind,
we
demand
that
19
million
dollars
from
the
cares
act
be
reallocated
from
the
police
to
renters
on
the
brink
of
addiction
and
that
you
reallocate
the
fund
cutting
from
policing
to
community-led
alternatives
to
policing
the
black
community,
the
under-served
community
and
underfunded
community
programs.
I
yield
the
rest
of
my
time.
Black
lives
matter.
A
Thank
you,
jr
welcome,
hi
people
before
me
have
said
what
I'm
going
to
say,
but
I'm
going
to
say
it
again:
the
police
need
to
be
defunded.
Anything
else
just
hasn't
worked.
Reform
has
not
worked.
Other
states
have
proven
that
reform
just
doesn't
work,
but
we
do
have
community
organizations
which
are
good
at
dealing
with
with
homeless
people,
domestic
disputes,
people
with
mental
health
issues.
If
you
give
them
the
money,
we
could
probably
get
something
done.
Reforming
the
police
just
hasn't
been
working.
Thank
you.
B
B
You
I
am
calling
to
reallocate
police
funds
to
other
public
services
such
as
education,
libraries,
youth
services,
housing,
homelessness,
hospitals
and
mental
health,
etc.
While
I
recognize
the
efforts
already
in
place
to
reform
sgpd,
we
must
also
be
realistic
in
reviewing
the
last
three
weeks
and
acknowledge
that
those
reformations
have
not
only
been
ineffective
but
have
also
caused
even
more
harm
to
the
community
and
severed
our
trust
in
law
enforcement.
To
quote
a
medium
article
by
officer
a
cab.
B
My
job
as
a
police
officer
required
me
to
be
a
marriage,
counselor
mental
health
crisis,
professional
conflict
negotiator,
social
worker,
child
advocate
traffic,
safety,
expert,
sexual
assault,
specialist
and
every
once
in
a
while.
A
public
safety
officer
authorized
to
use
force
all
after
only
1
000
hours
of
training
at
a
police
academy.
So
when
the
community
calls
to
defund
the
police,
we
mean
a
systemic
change
with
those
who
vow
to
protect
and
serve.
B
Hello,
can
you
hear
me
hi?
My
name
is
cepha.
I
live
in
district
5..
I
am
commenting
to
urge
the
san
jose
city
council
to
reallocate
funding
from
sjp
to
social
and
public
programming
that
take
place
in
our
communities.
It
is
an
outrage
that
44
of
city
funding
goes
toward
the
police
department.
The
sjpd
has
seen
a
rise
in
overtime
pay
which,
more
often
than
not,
is
paid
after
the
officers
responsible
for
harassing
the
unhoused
and
black
and
indigenous
people
of
color.
B
The
police
do
not
serve
the
interests
of
the
people,
they
serve
the
influence
of
white
supremacy
and
capital.
You
heard
what
other
residents
said.
These
are
acts
of
warfare
and
psychological
violence.
Is
this
really
the
legacy
you
want
to
leave?
Brutality,
excessive
force,
corruption,
sexual
abuse,
physical
abuse,
domestic
food
abuse?
This
is
what
you
want
to
be
known,
for
it
is
heartbreaking.
A
B
Hello
hi,
I'm
a
registered
voter
and
a
resident
of
san
jose.
I
was
born
and
raised
in
san
jose
in
district
six.
I've
also
lived
in
downtown
san
jose.
The
homeless
situation
is
absolutely
appalling.
They
were
chased
out
of
their
encampments.
Now
they're
spread
around
everywhere
else.
I
demand
you
help
these
people
instead
of
giving
millions
of
dollars
to
golf
courses.
That's
absurd.
There's
already
adopted,
there's
already
laid
out
plans
for
you
to
adopt
to
defund
the
police
fire
jared
and
cops
like
him.
Reform
is
not
enough.
B
A
B
B
I
would
like
the
the
police
to
be
defunded
and
their
militarized
weapons
and
their
covert
response
unit
who
actually
took
out
my
nephew
with
no
regards
to
life.
This
needs
to
stop.
You
allowed
them
to
leave
his
kids
without
a
father
and
made
them
another
statistic.
I
will
be
damned
if
they
will
be,
though,
if
you
can
change
this
and
and
have
that
money
put
towards
resources
trusted
resources
within
the
community.
I
believe
they
can
have
a
better
future.
Here.
B
You
have
left
every
family
member
that
has
had
kids
and
that
are
mothers
and
wives
with
trauma
trauma
that
is
endured
that
I
can't
even
explain
you
get
to
see
your
kids
that
night
and
they
don't
get
to
see
their
daddy.
Their
youngest
baby
asks
for
his
daddy
every
christmas
change.
This
and
defund
the
police
and
invest
into
the
community.
A
One
hi:
can
you
hear
me?
Yes,
we
can
welcome
mayor
licardo,
council
members.
Thank
you.
I'm
a
resident
of
district
3.,
the
status
quo
of
policing
in
this
country
is
overly
militarized,
lacks
real
accountability
and
does
not
serve
the
best
interest
of
our
community.
The
militarized
response
of
the
sjpd
to
the
protests
has
not
been
acceptable.
A
I
urge
you
to
direct
more
funds
away
from
policing
and
toward
public
housing.
We
have
a
housing
crisis
in
this
city.
We
have
been
told
that
the
closest
homeless
shelters
with
available
beds
for
people
on
the
streets
we
have
tried
to
help
are
over
60
miles
away.
This
needs
to
change.
We
need
to
envision
a
criminal
justice
system
that
acknowledges
the
legacy
of
exclusion
that
poor
people
of
color
have
faced
in
the
united
states,
but
does
not
perpetuate
and
extenuate
those
exclusions.
B
B
Instead
of
supporting
systematic
violence
against
black
brown
and
indigenous
people,
please
ensure
that
the
current
budget
prioritizes
equity
for
all
people,
and
not
just
as
an
afterthought
funds,
should
be
focused
on
communities
with
the
greatest
needs.
As
a
special
education
teacher,
I
spend
much
of
my
time
explaining
how
equality
is
not
the
same
as
equity
equity
means
allocating
resources
to
those
who
need
it
the
most
because
our
system
is
currently
not
addressing
everyone's
needs
and
effective
ways.
B
Investing
in
digital
equity
and
inclusion
and
reallocating
resources
to
close
the
digital
divide
is
one
such
way
that
you
can
prioritize
equity,
our
students,
families,
working
individuals
and
all
residents
need
access
to
devices,
internet
resources
to
live,
learn
and
thrive.
Reinvest
in
our
residence
and
put
equity
first
put
people
first.
Thank
you.
A
A
You
guys
are
not
the
enemy,
but
if
you
guys
do
not
vote
are
over
funding
to
the
police,
you
guys
are
standing
on
the
wrong
side
of
history,
mayor
city,
council,
city
manager.
It
is
clear
what
your
what
your
constituents
and
neighbors
want.
We
want
to
defund
them
police
and
invest
in
our
affordable
housing,
libraries,
mental
health,
clinics
services
and
etc.
A
The
only
way
we
can
keep
our
communities
safe
is
by
defunding
the
police
and
investing
that
money
to
our
minority
communities
and
other
social
services
defunding.
The
police
also
prevents
crimes
from
occurring
in
the
first
place.
Before
I
end,
I
just
want
to
say
that
we
don't
need
to
abolish
the
police
department,
but
we
have
to
defund
the
police.
Thank
you
and
I
yield
my
time.
B
Hello,
I'm
a
resident
of
district
9
and
the
member
of
together.
We
will
san
jose.
We
need
to
make
equity
funding
a
priority.
I
do
want
a
safe
community,
but
I
want
it
to
be
safe
for
all
of
us.
Funding
the
sjpd
purchase
of
militarized
equipment
and
militarized
training
does
not
make
us
safe.
In
fact,
it
has
done
the
opposite
and
it
has
actively
harmed
our
community
members.
B
I
hear
your
justification
and
excuses
for
the
behavior
of
the
sjpd
and
for
your
budget
for
them,
but
I
also
hear
from
my
trusted
friends
and
the
community
and
I've
seen
the
video
about
what
the
sjpd
is
actually
doing,
which
runs
counter
to
what
you
say
and
your
justifications
ring
hollow.
San
jose
police
have
shown
us
that
funding
bias
training
is
not
making
our
community
safer.
Watered-Down
reform
has
not
made
us
safer.
The
police
need
to
face
true
accountability.
B
A
B
Awesome,
my
name
is
diane
hardiness
and
I
want
to
thank
all
of
those
in
community
who
have
spoken.
I
stand
in
solidarity
with
my
community
to
defund
sjpd,
I'm
a
city
employee.
I
work
for
the
library
department.
The
library
department
was
asked
to
make
major
budget
cuts
due
to
the
covet
economic
crisis.
For
example,
we
recently
furloughed
over
500
employees
was
the
police
department
asked
to
make
extensive
budget
cuts,
like
the
library
I'm
currently
looking
at
the
2019-2020
proposed
budget
brief,
and
the
proposed
budget
for
sjpd
is
33
percent
the
library
at
2.
B
These
funds
need
to
be
re-allocated.
I
support
the
committee
to
reallocate
sjpd
funding
to
cities,
departments
such
as
the
parks
and
recreation,
the
neighborhood
services,
library,
department
and
other
social
services
now's
the
time
for
you,
mayor
and
city
council
members
to
show
your
support
for
your
community.
It's
not
as
unrealistic
as
you
might
believe.
Please
see
the
community
because
more
diversity
trained
policing
are
not
effective.
I
love
my
time.
Thank
you
for
listening.
A
B
A
Name
is
fiona
and
I'm
a
small
business
owner
living
in
district
six
and
I'm
calling
in
about
the
sjpd
the
sjpd
treats
us
the
people
who
actually
live
and
work
and
pay
taxes
here
as
their
enemies
heck.
I'm
a
white
woman
and
I
would
never,
in
my
life,
feel
safe
going
to
them
for
literally
anything.
So
what
am
I
even
paying
them
for
if
they
don't
serve
the
citizens
of
the
city?
Who
do
they
serve
I've
spent
years
watching
the
sjpd
claim
to
be
reforming,
but
they
never
do
so.
A
I'm
not
going
to
accept
that
cop-out
anymore.
We
know
police
reform
doesn't
work.
So
it's
time
for
you
to
choose.
Do
you
abolish
this
violent
gang
of
thugs
paid
for
with
my
tax
dollars,
or
do
you
support
the
abuse
the
hjpd
inflicts
upon
me,
my
neighbors
and
the
rest
of
the
city?
I
yield
my
time.
Thank
you,
sam
hi,
there,
hello,
yes,
all
right!
First
of
all,
like
I
said
black
lives
matter
and
because
black
lives
matter.
A
That
means
that
education
for
black
brown
and
non-white
people
needs
to
be
put
to
the
forefront
of
your
priorities
right
otherwise,
you're
saying
that
effectively
the
treatment
they
get
now
is
the
treatment
they
deserve.
As
part
of
that,
I
think
that
you
should
increase
the
funding
towards
the
public
library
system,
as
well
as
as
much
as
you
can,
with
the
city's
education
budget
or
reaching
out
to
the
state
for
more.
As
you
said,
and
in
addition,
I
think
that,
as
a
resident
of
district
six,
the
police
have
never
come
to
help.
A
B
B
The
police
is
a
snapshot
of
society
and
the
extreme
violence
of
the
san
jose
pd
against
the
people
of
san
jose
no
longer
represents
the
communities
of
san
jose.
I
wish
to
amplify
the
san
jose
community
voices
and
groups
here
to
defund
the
san
jose
pd
mayor
sam
has
asked
orchard
city
indivisible
to
support
his
policies.
A
A
I
understand
the
budget
items.
You
must
address
to
run
a
city
you're
not
here,
to
take
care
of
schools
for
transportation.
Those
are
funded.
Another
way
I
heard
earlier
need
for
metro
ed
needing
help.
Hopefully
you
can
help
this
program,
as
it
obviously
will
work
to
give
our
students
a
track
to
have
a
career.
A
B
B
B
So
I'd
be
in
vain
if
they're
just
that
to
you
numbers
on
a
page
rather
than
living,
people
who
bleed
and
suffer
and
whose
only
skin
is
only
sin,
is
the
color
of
their
skin.
Our
call
to
action.
We
need
you
to
look
inside
of
yourselves.
We
need
you
to
track
your
vices.
We
need
you
to
recognize
both
publicly
and
internally,
that
there
is
a
real
problem
with
our
current
police
system
when
the
sheriff's
majority
of
speakers
today
are
have
pushed
for
sjpd
funding.
B
A
Hello,
hi
hi
yeah,
so
I'm
not
a
president
of
san
jose.
However,
I
am
here
to
defend
city
council
as
a
whole.
Defunding
the
police
and
getting
rid
of
them
would
completely
just
destroy
any
system.
We
have
in
place
to
protect
you
or
others,
black
people,
white
people,
asians,
mexicans,
and
it
can
go
on
right,
but
if
we
get
rid
of
that
police
force,
it
ruins
it.
I
understand
that
there
are
bad
apples,
but
that
does
not
ruin
the
bunch.
A
If
there
are
bad
apples,
we
reform
those
bad
apples
and
reforming
the
training
that
they
go
through
right
in
and
we
are
doing
that
we
are
getting
ready
for
we're
reforming
them
by
doing
mental
checks
and
all
this
other
stuff.
So
if
you
would
please
understand
that,
do
some
research
instead
of
just
coming
on
here
and
saying
that
we
need
to
get
rid
of
police
if
you
want
to
get
rid
of
police,
get
rid
of
your
safety
all
together,
get
rid
of
everything
together,
gun
laws
they
need.
B
Hi,
this
is
tamara
hi,
everyone
hi
sam
council.
This
is
tamara.
Loretto
I've
been
a
resident
of
district
3
for
over
20
years.
I'm
calling
because
I
used
to
think
that
this
idea
of
defunding
the
police
was
not
pragmatic
and
too
radical
and
in
the
last
couple
of
weeks
my
thoughts
have
really
changed
around
that.
So
I
offer
myself
also
as
a
person
to
talk
to
about
that,
and
I
actually
don't
know
why.
B
I
haven't
thought
about
this
sooner,
considering
that
I've
had
family
members
in
district
3
dragged
out
of
their
home
thrown
down
into
the
ground
by
sjpd,
because
they
were
at
the
wrong
house.
I've
been
to
funerals
with
children
and
a
wife
crying
screaming,
as
their
loved
ones
have
been
buried,
shot
by
police,
san,
jose
pd
and
we've
had
members
of
our
own
aztec
dance
group.
Young
people
who've
been
hurt
by
these
gigantic
river
bullets.
B
B
A
B
A
B
A
B
A
Hello,
can
you
hear
me
all
right,
hi,
I'm,
my
name
is
kyro
and
I
am
a
resident
of
san
jose
and
I'm
calling
on
you
today
to
reallocate
funding
from
sjpd
to
social
and
public
programming
that
take
place
in
our
communities.
As
many
callers
before
me
have
said,
we
need
to
remove
funds
from
the
police
into
sectors
such
as
education,
health
care
and
public
services
and
housing
that
actually
keep
our
communities
safe.
Here
are
some
concrete
moves
that
you
can
take.
First
of
all,
unpaid
administrative
leave
for
cops
under
investigation.
A
A
This
restriction
reduces
the
ability
of
police
forces
to
move
around
or
re-engage
cops
known
for
their
use
of
violence,
and
this
will
reduce
the
scale
of
policing.
Also
and
number
three
require
cops
to
be
reliable
for
misconduct
elements,
so
don't
let
the
settlements
come
out
of
the
general
fund,
make
the
cops
that
are
responsible,
pay
the
funds
themselves.
B
A
B
Yeah,
but
generally,
what
I'm
just
trying
to
say
is
that
you
should
reallocate
funding
from
sjpd
to
social
and
public
programming
that
takes
place
in
our
communities.
You
heard
the
abhorrent
racist
comments
made
earlier.
These
are
not
abstract
political
debates.
This
is
murder
and
histories
of
state-sanctioned
genocide.
This
is
a
culture
that
encourages
people
to
make
comments
that
treat
the
murder
of
black
people
as
a
joke.
This
is
absurd.
The
police
do
not
serve
the
interests
of
the
people,
they
serve
the
interests
of
white
supremacy
and
capital.
You
heard
what
other
residents
said.
B
These
are
acts
of
warfare
and
psychological
violence.
Is
this
really
the
legacy
that
you
want
to
leave?
Brutality,
excessive
force,
corruption,
sexual
abuse,
physical
abuse,
domestic
abuse?
This
is
what
you
want
to
be
known,
for
it
is
an
outrage
that
44
of
city
funding
goes
towards
the
police
department,
and
it
is
heartbreaking
to
see
san
jose,
denies
people
the
resources
they
want
and
need
year
after
year,
defund
the
police
and
reinvest
in
safer,
stronger
communities.
All
cops
truly
are
bastards.
I
yield
my
time.
A
A
A
Anybody
that
is
listening
to
this.
That
is
still
supporting
the
the
funding
that
we
are
seeing
now
towards
the
police,
do
not
understand
and
we're
not
trying
to
replace,
replace
the
police
with
librarians
and
we're
not
trying
to
not
have
any
type
of
protective
agency.
That's
going
to
help
us
once
we
defund
the
police.
A
A
Mitch,
could
you
please
on
you
your
device?
Please
hello.
Can
you
hear
me?
Yes,
all
right.
Thank
you.
I
know
defunding,
the
police
can
sound
like
radical
demand,
but
at
the
time
when
the
budget
is
facing
cuts
across
the
board,
it's
really
not,
and
when
we
have
social
services
that
are
underfunded,
we
have
people
who
are
homeless
in
the
streets.
We
have
insufficient
mental
health
services.
A
A
We
need
police
accountability,
but
we
also
need
to
reshift
our
priorities
to
really
prioritize.
What's
important
to
this
city,
a
lot
of
people
are
calling
in
saying
the
same
thing.
I
am
it's
a
lot
of
votes,
and
I
know
two
council
members,
def
davis
and
landiap
are
up
for
re-election
in
november,
so
think
about
what
you're
hearing
from
us
take
into
account.
What
you've
heard
in
private
comment?
B
Hello,
hi
hi,
I'm
calling
from
district
nine.
I
would
like
to
challenge
your
comments
on
why
you
don't
want
to
defend
the
police
so
on
your
online
video
statement
about
san
jose
budgets
in
low-income
communities
asking
for
more
police
based
on
the
annual
survey.
That's
because
at
the
time
of
the
survey,
people
weren't
really
aware
of
the
fact
that
you
know
people
just
really
don't
feel
safe
about
police
right.
So
what
good
does
that
do
with
for
the
community?
B
A
Hello,
hello,
can
you
hear
me?
Yes,
hi,
my
name
is
rich.
I
stay
in
district
10,
I'm
a
san
jose
resident
born
and
raised
yeah,
and
I'm
I'm
I'm
not
trying
to
waste
my
whole
minute,
but
yeah,
I'm
not
very
politically
inclined,
but
just
you
know
the
climate
of
you
know
everything
happening
everything
that
I've
seen.
I've
been
really
active,
you
know
and
showing
up
to
the
protests
that
have
been
occurring
in
downtown
and
the
seeing
really
who's
doing.
A
What
and
what
the
police
are
responding
to
yeah
and
just
yeah
this
yeah,
it's
just
really
james
welcome
hi.
Can
everyone
hear
me
yes
yeah,
so
I
just
want
to
say
I'm
not
going
to
respond
in
a
sort
of
email
form,
because
I
know
how
easy
it
is
for
you
all
to
ignore
that
type
of
thing.
I
just
want
to
say,
of
course,
there's
a
every
time
I
tune
into
these
city
council
meetings.
A
So
I
want
to
express
that,
yes,
obviously,
people
like
council
member
davis,
as
well
as
council
member
yep,
who
are
up
for
re-election,
acknowledge
that,
but
I
also
want
to
say
as
a
as
a
resident
of
district
10,
I
just
want
to
say
that
it's
really
really
really
infuriating
to
see
councilmember
caymus
put
up
tweets
asking
for
people
to
come
in
and
say
reform
the
police
instead
of
defund,
when
he's
obviously
ignoring
the
pleas
of
people
around
this
city.
Thanks.
A
Hi,
my
name
is
dean
lorenzo
I
am
from
district
4..
I
do
work
as
a
teacher
at
campbell
union
high
school
district,
I'm
here
to
ask
that
the
metro
education
is
part
of
the
budget
discussion
in
the
classroom.
I
see
my
students
succeed
and
also
I
see
some
of
my
students
slowly
lose
the
passion
of
learning
because
of
the
system
our
schools
are
set
up
in.
A
This
has
pretty
much
re-sparked
my
students
and
I've
seen
some
of
my
students
start
to
compete
in
national
levels
with
their
dental
education
that
they
got
from
the
service.
I
know
linda
gautier,
trustee
of
cu.
Hsd
is
working
hard
to
bring
funding
to
this
program
and
I
hope
you
find
the
time
to
listen
and
work
with
her
to
try
to
bring
more
funding
to
this
program.
Thank
you.
A
Can
you
hear
me
guys,
yes
hi?
My
name
is
pedro
medina
from
district
6
born
and
raised
in
san
jose
just
want
to
share
an
experience
that
when
I
was
in
high
school
I
was
sexually
targeted
by
the
the
police
and
you
know
mistreated
grabbed
by
the
neck
and
thrown
against
the
wall.
Because
I
looked
like
you
know
a
gangster.
I
guess-
and
I
want
to
say
that
experience
wasn't
very
helpful
for
my
career
path
in
you
know:
education
and
tech.
A
Now,
so
I
want
to
say
that
education
is
important,
regardless
of
the
experiences
we
live,
because
it
helps
us
grow.
But
we
should
not
forget
about
the
experience
experiences
we
live
because
they
really
are
important
to
to
to
to
talk
about,
and
also
at
this
point
that
we're
living
right
now,
it's
important
to
address
that
and
I
think
that
we
should
really
invest
more
in
education
for
minorities.
A
A
But
I
I
would
like
to
sort
of
put
out
there
that
you
know
police
unions
often
make
a
big
deal
about
the
relationship
between
the
size
of
crime
and
the
number
of
police
forces.
We
know
from
the
data
that
relationship
is
really
thin
and
then
also
as
we,
if
you
increase
the
the
sort
of
budget
that's
allocated
to
police.
We
also
know
that
the
the
pensions
which
was
like
a
big
fight
a
few
years
ago,
it
creates
problems
down
the
line
in
terms
of
physical
solvency.
A
B
B
B
B
Hi,
my
name
is
cordelia
larson
and
I'm
calling
from
district
6..
I
want
to
bring
to
your
attention
to
specific
cases
of
police
brutality
in
our
city
that
I
feel
are
under
recognized.
In
2018
24
year
old
jennifer
vazquez
was
shot
37
times
after
cops
chased
her
down
in
a
case
of
mistaken
identity.
They
were
chasing
another
car.
They
accidentally
ended
up
chasing
her
car
instead
and
they
shot
her
37
times.
It
was
on
christmas
day
and
she
was
supposed
to
see
her
parents
the
next
morning.
B
They
never
got
to
see
their
daughter
again
in
2016,
anthony
nunes
was
fatally
shot
after
his
cousin's
desperate
calls
to
cops
for
help
after
he
shot
himself
in
the
head.
During
a
mental
health
crisis,
the
cops
afterward
high-fived
each
other,
while
anthony's
cousin
was
in
the
back
seat,
watching
them
handcuffed
by
the
way.
If
you
think
these
are
isolated
incidents
that
can
be
rooted
out
as
bad
apples,
you're
clearly
missing
the
bigger
picture:
the
systematic,
the
system,
systemic
oppression
of
people
of
color
from
the
current
institution.
B
A
B
Hi,
I
just
want
to
say
thank
you
for
taking
the
time
to
listen
to
us
here.
I
am
a
student
in
san
jose
and
I
just
wanted
to
let
you
guys
know
that
it.
I
really
would
hope
that
you
listen
to
the
people
that
are
saying
what
they're
saying
over
and
over
and
over.
I
think
you
guys
really
need
to
take
into
consideration
what
the
people
want.
They
elected
you
guys
into
these
positions.
A
That
kind
of
street
is
self-policing.
There's
no
way
to
drive
unsafely
on
those
streets.
People
using
the
street
can
see
other
people
around,
and
so
we
are
here
to
help
and
we
can
address
street
safety
through
engineering
rather
than
enforcement,
and
so
I
look
forward
to
you,
leaning
on
all
of
us
city
service
workers
to
come
and
help
fill
in
some
of
the
gaps
that
the
police
department's
not
addressing.
Thank
you
pat,
wait.
B
B
A
A
B
B
Those
need
to
be
transferred
over
to
our
social
service
departments,
mental
health
departments
and,
as
the
previous
person
was,
even
speaking,
to
the
library
services
that
will
help
young
people
truly
get
the
care
that
they
need
and
older
people
as
well.
So
please
defund,
the
if
on
the
police
has
been,
has
been
requested.
Thank
you.
B
Hi,
my
name
is
anna.
I'm
from
district
9
san
jose
resident,
born
and
raised.
I'm
calling
in
to
echo
the
voices
of
so
many
other
constituents
calling
on
you
as
council
members
to
be
accountable
to
the
people
that
you
serve
and
defund
sjpd.
So
many
people
have
already
stated
how
the
police
do
not
uphold
public
safety.
How
policing
endangers
our
black
brown,
undocumented
and
unhealthy
residents?
How
the
money
currently
allocated
to
police
could
be
invested
in
essential
public
services
that
are
suffering
from
austerity
and
actually
do
proactively
pre
crime
from
occurring.
B
B
A
B
A
Metro
ed
has
been
an
amazing
opportunity
for
them
and
if
we
are
to
lose
that
it
is
going
to
be
a
huge
detriment
to
our
to
our
community,
so
please
consider
defunding
the
police
and
redirecting
that
money
towards
things
that
can
really
benefit
our
community.
Thank
you.
Thank
you.
Alyssa
you've
spoken
before.
Haven't
you?