March 24, 2025

CL uh thanks for allowing me to uh a taxpayer to uh talk I'm here to speak about first the mayor's staff his his secretary and other administrators uh in my opinion they are not only rude and unprofessional they give off the impression in my opinion that either they're related nepotism or they have deep relationships because they can do whatever they want to do uh it's a shame that uh they treat the taxpayers like this and they are public servants but I'm here for the professional management the office of professional uh standards in my opinion it should be called the office of unprofessional standards uh you have a a supervisor down there Christian and my my particular me uh the person looking to my situation Mr Kabir they're doing nothing Miss Miss uh the supervisor Miss Christian don't even know her supervisor's name or phone number I did speak to Mr Perez 6 months ago he's no longer there uh my my I got I got assaulted down at the casino uh in December by a police officer Caucasian in in front of surveillance in front of people and everybody nothing's happening I wish before I leave here somebody give me a lawyer so I can go after somebody the professional office standards is doing nothing and the police officer is there today now I ask a a dumb question he's a Caucasian if I would assaulted that man where would I be don't even answer that cuz that's an anine question even answer I'll be in jail or Hell either or okay and last but not least uh the last week that you had a uh seminar something on the first floor and people was able to just walk in through the metal detector metal detector wasn't even working that was unsafe just go ahead sir go on right in go anybody you know he just look at you and assume that no weapons was brought in come on people it's a shame the way we carrying ourselves here especially taking the taxpayers money and again the office of Professional Standards is a ripoff thank

have the floor uh how's everybody doing good afternoon I'm good evening everybody um unfortunately today I had to come down here and talk about some things that's been taking place that I guess everybody not really paying attention to and I'll just direct this to you Mr Griffin because you're the president of everything it seems to be um of lack of leadership when it comes to corralling your council members it seems one council member Brian Kasich spoke out on media about a situation that nobody in this room right now know anything about and made a derogatory statement towards a monitor and asking for this monitor to be removed based on what we assume took place in my opinion that is very unprofessional and I can go back and remember when Frank Jackson was mayor and Jane Campbell they didn't allow they they didn't allow a councilman to speak out of turn they had to come through you Mr Griffin whoever was sitting in that seat and what we have is a rogue system down here and when you ask for a man to recuse himself with no evidence whatsoever and write him a letter and then threatened to write the federal judge a letter but you failed to write the federal judge the the letter and put in what you're not doing okay you're kicking the can down the road right the responsibility for coming into uh into and consent to Creed the responsibility lies on your city council it lies on your Safety Committee right your Safety Committee is responsible for getting the city in compliance and they're not doing that okay and I want to point out Mr penic uh Mr Conwell Mr uh Griffin mark gri Griffin and the mayor right you guys are older than the mayor not one of you guys have attempted to educate or assist this young man in doing his job as a mayor what you guys have systematically did is throw stones if you're older older people teach younger people and right now I don't see no leadership for my older colleagues I'm going to call you colleagues because we're all in the same city and we're all faced with the same issues so I'm asking and I'm suggesting to Mr Griffin should I put a letter in writing about the Safety Committee not coming in compliance and doing what they're supposed to do let me know because I will put it in writing because right now when we're dealing with the utilities I believe Mr kazic is over that sits in the chair six seven months that went by since I came down here and brought y'all pictures of the polls on Harvard and they still look the same that's D Lex Duty and taxpayers dollar being wasted at its best some of these things that I'm stating down the line there are offenses that can get you locked up and also lose your pension penic thank you thank you next we have

staff you have the floor well first I would like to give condolences to the four Young people that got killed in the car crash regardless of the circumstances I don't matter we lost four potential leaders that could have ran this country the second thing I want to talk about is the collective bargaining agreement contract that you guys are going to rush through that's going to impact accountability and Public Safety you rushed it through you rushed it through you want to do an emergency ordinance you cannot do that you can't do that and you're wrong for doing that the citizens have a right to speak about the collective bargaining agreement we have that right we have to make sure it's in connection with the consent decree and the consent decree the consent decree and the Cleveland police commission we have that right to know that now let's move on to the letter with councilman cazy I'm going to read to you 359 of the consent decree and this is what it says should any of the parties to the agreement determined that the monitor individual members agents employees or independent contractors have ex seeded their Authority or failed to satisfy perform the duties required by the agreement the party May petition the court to such relief as the court deems appropriate including replacement of the Monitor and or individual members agents employees or independent contractors Mr KY councilman casy you submitted that letter with no evidence no affidavit no nothing there's no body Cam and if you have been coming to the meetings which you've never been to no meetings even with the old commission the new commission or any Court status hearing within 10 years you if you would have come to some of the meetings you would know we spoke about people people have body camps even with their secondary employment that officer who engaged with Mr rine did not have on a body camera where is the evidence now I'm going to go to you Mr penic you're the oldest you're on the Safety Committee you're the chair have you ever ever and I've addressed this to Mr Griffin two years ago have you ever ever sit down with the police the union and ask the what is the issue about coming into compliance compliance and I BR the biger staff and making a record today about compliance with the police do you guys understand if you bypass this and you let this roll out and they're not in compliance that we're going to revert back to the old behaviors councilman Meyer councilman um time time sorry Council Melly we going to roll back thank you thank you next we

pink good evening everyone um I'm the author of this book choose life I wrote it in 2016 someone took it upon themselves to change the title in 2020 when I ran for president again of United States in that election as well before I get started with some of my concerns I want to give my compliment first I first of all want to compliment you uh council president Griffin for the excellent work that you do in this city I've watched you climb the ladder in this city and I am very pleased with the fact that you challenged the uh effort to deny Community funding that was blocked by the mayor's office and I want to compel you to keep that fight going because people who do that are people who don't know what it means to have a need they have had a silver platter before them most of their lives and they don't know what it means to have to struggle so you keep the fight up for the community and for this city and you keep doing what you're doing and I will support you in that my concerns this evening are of a few I reported the abuse of my children and me sexual abuse rape and other abuses and under the former leadership before mayor Frank G Jackson became the mayor the Cleveland division of police decided to alter I I hope you're listening mayor bib since you're on your telephone decided to um alter my police reports to make me look like I'm mentally ill and covered it up and I ended up homeless for 22 years until eight months ago and I would asked that the council president in this Council to review my complaints and my concerns to address this to correct it because I currently have another situation where now my grandchild children are being abused and the Cleveland division of police from the old guard I hope you're listening mayor bib because this affects your leadership and the money for this city and you're very disrespectful I I would like for this Council to look into this because it has covered up rape it has covered up theft and I am concerned because Mark Griffin was an attorney on the matters for my being a plaintiff and I he became the law director for the city of Cleveland is a compromise of the safety of my children my grandchildren and me and it's a compromise of women and children in the city of Cleveland and and to be targeting black and poor communities is a challenge for me because I have a real concern when P okay thank you and I know my time is up but I'm at 2165 48820 thank you thank you next we have

Mr bad good evening mayor B president bla Griffin Council I'm here to talk about Gardens in the city but call my attention to it the ladies who spoke few weeks ago about the community garden in West 47 and the developer or Cote unquote developer uh wanted to take over that Garden from them see in my immediate neighborhood of Cel we have seven Gardens two community garden and five private Gardens I have one of the private Garden the best Gardens in Cleveland located in West 96 and medicon it sells a product all year round it does sell eggs and honey and stuff people come from Bay Village from other places to that Garden to buy their product in my garden actually I have every herb in the book I have 35 fruit trees that's why I care I mention that tell you why I care about coming to raise this subject before you I'm calling your attention to something important this uh Community Gardens start Ed as idea when Michael White was mayor and the comest started when Michael White was mayor I remember his first speech about not to throw that waste but to combus them now Cleveland is loaded with Community Gardens and private Gardens to have those developers or C developers come invade a garden I don't know what development is somebody can tell me educate me maybe I'm stupid ignorance I don't know what development is is development put the ground a concrete and the ground and put four walls and off bucket $200,000 in profit and make it that development but not but not when they create life in that in that in that ground life and spread Health that's not development I mean how could I mean for somebody to come to be able to take a community garden must be get help from this city because the community garden usually owned by land bank in this city and that's wrong I'm not worry about my garden or any because I have Deeds as my name on it I don't call it I own it because I believe God in his Soul living Soul just like my soul like I'm living soul and soul cannot own another Soul see I'm calling your attention mayor B Mr vad time one word one word may everyone has the same amount of time Mr bador time thank you thank you next we

cors uh good afternoon mayor council residents uh I am I don't currently live in the city of Cleveland but I know this city um I think I've rode on every bus in this city from the 14 to the 40 to the 32 to the 1 to the 76 um I've been in uh over 20 schools within this city working with over hundreds of young students um and their families um and I've canvased these neighborhoods doing eviction prevention in pretty much all of your Wards and organizing tenants to help protect them from predatory lending predatory practices by landlords and other factors um I I'm here to speak today because I was very disturbed um not surprised unfortunately by councilman pin's uh McCarthyism uh surrounding uh the Drone usage and I just wanted to give people a little context especially for my black people in the room um communism didn't come snatch my people from Africa uh it didn't work them to death for Generations uh it didn't kill emit tail they didn't burn down Tulsa uh they didn't kill Tamir rice they did help organize sharecroppers after the Civil War they did support multi-racial labor organizing after the great migration in the north while facing extreme violence from capitalist robbert Barons of the time that he play a huge role in Liberation struggles across Africa with resounding effects uh some of the names you may recognize like web de boys Fred Hampton huie Newton Ella Baker Richard Wright stokeley carmichel Philip Randolph Claude McCay Paul Roberson James Baldwin Angela Davis we lionize their iconography but have no interest in the principles that guided their actions do not allow councilman pinic and his ilk to Define who we are who we have been or who we can be Fred Hampton uh told a story um of a police officer who came up to him and said oh not to him to to a older woman whose children were in the uh breakfast program and he said you know these folks socialists and he said she said I don't know what socialist is and I don't care but I know that they feed my kids every morning and if you mess with them I'mma go upside your head and I known you since you was a grasshopper high so what I want us to do um what we at Nea continue to do like is to embrace a cleare eyed understanding of what the reality is today and has been and let that inform the way that we move and the way that we communicate there's no expectation of perfect alignment okay but while people while students are being disappeared from campuses Isis marauding through neighborhoods and shipping people all across the globe what we do not need is an unfettered and un with no guard rails uh drone policy time thank you thank you

Mother of God pray for us sinners now at the hour of our death amen the scripture I have gotten for over 3 years on the Middle East is the Revelation is certain a great War Daniel 10:1 conditions in Gaza are worse than anything in this country has experienced yet nobody is doing anything John Kennedy said and you call this the human race all in the city council belong to a party that has resulted in the abortion of 100 million on born babies repent so why why should they care about the relatively few babies perishing in Gaza to the chairman unless you have something in your 2002 rules uh I'll address the rest of my speech to the public I have written three messages to the city council and they have done nothing so maybe I can get the public to act could I address it to them please proceed sir did he say yes did he say yes sir you have the microphone please proceed okay all right are you finished sir yeah so I'm going to okay back M it's okay okay talking the mic okay last time I spoke the only person of the city council or the public that made a response was a black woman in the first row and she said charity begins at home so I'm going to address that when the slaves came from Africa they forgot about their ancestors uh in Africa what Europeans did to those black people in Africa was much worse than the treatment they got in America so no go can accuse me of racism for I have the black white party Reverend Martin Luther King was abandoned by all the black leaders it was the loneliest time of his life it's because he prayed and he got to speak out against the war in Vietnam Reverend King saw children being bombed by Napal over 1 million died many burned alive by Napal this was much worse than what the black suffered in the USA Reverend King said let Justice surge like a mighty stream I believe Reverend king would say what I say black people complain white people don't want to help them no one wants to help people who don't want to act in a Christian way and help others here Gaza okay all these people being fired they care about themselves not the country John Kennedy said that's not what your country could do for you but what you can do for your country I ask the public to help me keep St Vincent Charity Hospital open to help the people of Gaza but also black people who live in those neighborhoods next to the hospital see me after the meeting um and if you if you're interested in helping me see me after the meeting I'll have some information for you thank you

paid by anyone thank you so much good evening mayor bib law director Mark Griffin council members and fellow clevelanders my name is Terry Wong I had the honor of serving as a community Police Commissioner and remain deeply committed to to Justice and Public Safety in our city tonight I respectfully call for collaboration to address serious concerns about the appointment process for the community police commission over the past several months I've submitted detailed feedback through public comments formal requests and a taxpayer demand letter to law director Griffin regarding violations of Charter 1155 these um include appointing Police Association members with prior discipline and failing to appoint an attorney with expert and police misconduct as required by law these are not new concerns they Mir they mirror the very problems that led the last commission into disarray political interference from the people in this room Cleveland cannot afford to repeat the same mistakes both the charter and consent decree call for independent community- centered oversight but leadership gaps at the office of Professional Standards and use of force rates not going down with that we risk losing hard one progress that affects both officers and residents let's avoid costly litigation and focus taxpayer resources your constituents resources on reform and accountability many of you earn six figure salaries in this room nearly triple Cleveland's median income that Gap makes empathy possibly harder but leadership means bridging that divide not just through you know doing legislation but principle tonight I urge you to resolve these appointments issues lawfully and transparently civilian oversight must be much more than a checkbox it must reflect a real commitment to Justice uh thank you and I have copies of the taxpayer demand letter with me and you can follow me on updates on Instagram at commissioner Terry Wong I also want to speak very briefly about Mr ky's letter it is confusing Ops should not be inv investigating Mr rine because Ops does not investigate civilians it is likely investigating why the second officer who was on duty did not have body cam the collective bargaining agreement had previous issues with officers escaping discipline the same thing that you're trying to shepher through tonight and I do want to mention some of a personal note the Drone policy with Mr corus um I was the one that was assaulted by two Commissioners for opposing the Drone policy based on the fact that they were targeting protesters your police officers falsify those reports your law director refuses to investigate all this misconduct if it's happening to a commissioner if it's happening to the federal monitor who used to be Attorney General of DC it is happening to all of us and this retaliation for merely pursuing police's conduct must stop time thank