Bruce Whitaker shamefully and cowardly removed Barry Levinson from his long term position on the Fullerton Parks and Recreation Commission without any formal written notice and without any reason given. Bruce has shown his hand and I believe Dan Hughes once again has too. Was Bruce in on this possible set up of Levinson gone bad with the FPD? Who knows but one thing is for sure, the way Bruce Whitaker handled this issue certainly provided an opportunity for a game of FPD “gotcha” that almost played out when no one was looking on a Monday night while everyone was home watching the ball game.
This speech by Barry Levinson is probably what got Bruce’s bosses up in arms. We all know that Nelson, Fitzgerald, and Bennett are as tight as a pipe wrench on a busted city water main. We know that Nelson and Bruce have been two peas in a pod for years with Bruce squandering all of the political capital of the recall on firework stands under Nelson’s direction. We all know Bruce has never publicly gone after Fitzgerald’s voting record or her blatant conflict of interest as a lobbyist for Pringle as she holds her next fundraiser at Pringle and associates office but Barry has. Bruce even voted for her to be mayor making it even more difficult to throw her out in November. Nice going Bruce. We all know Barry Levinson stands up for the residents of Fullerton and has selflessly given of himself for years with NO CONNECTIONS to the establishment and has foiled more of their plans to rip off the taxpayers and ruin Fullerton with the developers than anyone in Fullerton. He has been more effective than anyone up on the dais and they know it.
Well Barry showed up for the Monday June 13, 2016 Park and Recreation commission meeting for the first time in over 5 years as a citizen instead of a commissioner and sat in the audience. Seated in the audience in the back of the totally empty room in the south aisle were seated not one, not two but three Fullerton Police officers. Yes there were a supervisor and two patrol officers. Why were they there after hours on overtime on a Monday evening in an empty room?
So why were the microphones turned off for the better part of the meeting? The clerk was there typing away and running the computer. Why? What was scheduled to go down?
I believe the plan was to go down like this. Barry was given no formal written notice that he was removed from the commission. The three officers, including a supervisor, were to wait for Barry to take his seat up on the dais, wait for him to be asked to step down, and then upon the slightest inclination of his questioning or refusal, was to be arrested by these three officers. There is no other reason for not one not two but three officers to be there.
In this video, Veth Mam, a citizen was arrested and framed by the Fullerton police while recording the event. The DA brought the charges even when presented with video evidence refuting the lies of the Fullerton Police officers at the scene. Yes they lied on their police report alleging Veth Mam jumped the cop and started chocking him when in fact the officer grabbed and abused a totally innocent man filming a detainment. After jail time, attorney’s fees and a trial, Veth Mam was acquitted of all charges. He later sued and got nothing.
Barry and I had discussions prior to this meeting and knew that something was brewing considering how underhanded city officials have acted in the past. Our plan was to continue being citizen activists like we have all along. The meeting went on and the officers were never introduced, called upon for questions or even mentioned.
So at the end of the meeting, hours later on a Monday night, I took it upon myself to question this blatant waste of taxpayer resources and ask them personally why they were there, all three of them. As it turns out, Hugo Curiel invited them and I believe it was probably on the orders of Dan Hughes and on behalf of Joe Felz who Hugo repeatedly refers to as “the Boss”. Hugo was obviously the most unsettled I have ever seen him. He couldn’t sit still for most of the meeting, noticeably extremely uncomfortable and nervous. I believe his demeanor indicated that this was not going to be a normal evening. It was also a dead giveaway as Alice Loya kept smirking and smiling as acted as if she was the only one in the buffet line at the Bellagio.
So why all the cops with a supervisor just to sit in an empty room for hours in silence? Lying in wait to seize the moment for their boss Danny Boy, intimidation or for information? Well these three models of public service had jack shit for information folks. Listen up. Hugo invited them.
So when I asked them why they were there, they told me it had to do with the homeless issue at Pacific Drive Park. Funny not one staffer or commissioner had a question for the three of them who were probably all on overtime. How many officers does it take to answer staff questions? So as a member of the public, I proceeded to ask these officers questions about the issues at the park as they were supposedly there to answer questions about the park. They of course had no information about the park or anything related to crime or problems associated with the park that Felz wants to fence off and take away from the public possibly to sell it off to Grace Ministries along with the Hunt Library.
Yes sell off public property like the Hunt Library behind our backs to fund the out of control pensions and salaries for people like this.
So tell me how many officers does it take to answer questions of present information to a commission on issues regarding homelessness at a park that sat for hours in an empty room after hours that were never mentioned, introduced or called upon?
How many police officers are required to set up, frame and arrest Barry Levinson? Why do we need Mike Chocek, a supervisor and two patrol officers to sit for hours in a meeting in an empty room on a Monday night and never open their fly traps or answer any questions even when called upon by me after the meeting?
How many officers does it take to set up, frame and arrest Barry Levinson?
How many officers does it take to set up , frame and arrest Barry Levinson?
Why would the FPD’s Dan Hughes want Barry Levinson in jail? Dan Hughes hates Barry Levinson because Barry Levinson is a threat. He exposes corruption that Dan Hughes is involved in. How about “the Boss” Joe Felz?
How about “the Boss” Joe Felz?
Now you tell me after watching this video how the city council including Bruce Whitaker could have done anything but demand a full investigation into what went down with what appears to be the attempted framing of Barry Levinson. After Bruce delivered this speech, he was never the same man up on the dais, never mentioning this issue again and remaining silent on many serious issues that followed even though he promised Barry and I that he would. Obviously he got a talking to and it worked.
BARRY HAS BEEN CALLING OUT CORRUPTION IN THIS TOWN FOR YEARS LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.
Dan Hughes told Bruce Whitaker that he “HATES THE GUY” referring to Barry Levinson
Dan Hughes calls Barry Levinson “CRAZY AND UNSTABLE” at a city council meeting
Dan Hughes claims he can be objective while he hates Barry Levinson and personally runs the investigation, personally interviews the witnesses and writes the report himself and personally submits the complaint to the DA for prosecution but he can be objective right?
Barry was a former chairperson and two time appointee to the Fullerton Parks and Recreation commission. He was put there to do his job by Bruce Whitaker over 5 years ago. Here is just another example of Bruce Whitaker’s appointee Barry Levinson doing his job and for months, the person that put him there, Bruce Whitaker, has totally ignored what Barry has brought forward! So what does Barry get for doing his job? He gets fired by the one who holds himself out as a statesman on the council, Bruce Whitaker. Whatever happened to the audit committee Bruce was crying for? Barry repeatedly hands up the goods on a silver platter and gets set up like a bowling pin. City hall needs an enema like nobody’s business folks.
Ladies and gentlemen, like many of you, Barry and I will never rest until this town is cleaned up and you have our word on that.
Watch who you vote for in November and watch your backs with the FPD-anyone could be next. That is why you will see my name on the Ballot and I won’t take a dime or an endorsement from any of the establishment thugs that are still trying to ruin this town for their own selfish gain and political ambition. Fullerton is worth fighting for because it is our town folks. Lets make sure they never forget that. It is our town, yours and mine. Stay vigilant Fullerton.
#1 by Anonymous on July 18, 2016 - 9:46 am
Excellent idea Joe! By gosh, I wish I would have thought of that! The overwhelming majority of citizens who attend downtown establishments and are able to enjoy alcoholic beverages responsibility should be denied their personal freedoms to do so because of the minority who don’t. Brilliant! And yes, let’s blame the owners of these businesses and not place the responsibility squarely on the shoulders of those who over indulge. You are a genius Joe! (As far as your ridiculous comments about restaurants evading taxes, I won’t even address that). Vote for Joe and let’s turn Fullerton into a ghost town! LOL!!!!
#2 by Reality Is..... on July 18, 2016 - 2:53 pm
LOL just shows the intellect and thought process.
#3 by Joe Imbriano on July 18, 2016 - 2:56 pm
Enjoy responsibly and no need to worry about getting locked up. 99 percent of people that drink at a watering hole need a designated driver, a taxi, uber or lyft. The one percent of you have nothing to worry about and you are not one of the 1 percent.
The MADD presentations at council make me puke because they do nothing about the source of the problem.
#4 by Reality Is..... on July 19, 2016 - 10:59 am
I think drunk driving is way down now due to Uber. So cheap. So easy.
#5 by Fullerton Lover on July 18, 2016 - 4:16 pm
Data from the state showing the city of Fullerton as the number one city for under age drinkers causing alcohol related crashes…
Still think all those Downtown Fullerton bars are being responsible neighbors?
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/cities-348774-crashes-among.html
#6 by Reality Is..... on July 19, 2016 - 10:46 am
I think what you are missing is the underage part. The bars aren’t serving the underage drinkers!! You get that part yet? So your stat you keep showing has nothing to do with the bars in downtown Fullerton. Next?
#7 by Anonymous on July 19, 2016 - 2:25 pm
Fullerton Lover, I can absolutely guarantee you that under age drinkers are not drinking in downtown bars. They are getting their booze from other sources, maybe even from mommy and daddy. Again, let’s just blame the establishment owners and not place any accountability on the offenders themselves, or in this case, the offenders and their parents. Hammering away at the establishment owners is Politics 101.
#8 by Reality Is..... on July 19, 2016 - 8:12 pm
Fullerton Lover was hoping that no one saw he was putting a link that had nothing to do with the downtown bars. He forgets that we catch him and Joe and Barry with lies daily.
#9 by Fullerton Lover on July 19, 2016 - 10:00 pm
You horses asses need to read this press release from the Fullerton PD saying that they gave out ten citations for underage drinking just this past March…
http://www.fullertonpd.org/news/displaynews.asp?NewsID=428&TargetID=1
Patricia Hart was a stranger in her own town. When city officials and vinegary residents told her that downtown Fullerton was like the welcome mat to hell—that the place had become the epicenter of fights, theft and assaults—Hart, a city planning commissioner and 25-year resident, asked police if she could ride along one night to see for herself.
“It was an eye-opening experience to say the least,” said Hart. “I didn’t have any clue that there were so many young people who were so active at that time.”
By “active,” Hart meant drinking, wandering the streets, listening to music and hanging out in parking lots.
“It didn’t give me a pleasant feeling,” she said. “I didn’t exactly feel proud of my city. I didn’t realize we”—and here she meant good, old Fullerton—”were so popular with that age group, and I made a point of asking everyone I could where they were from: Long Beach, Moreno Valley, Anaheim. I did not meet one person who actually lived in Fullerton.
(that’s because they were off-duty Fullerton police officers!)
http://www.ocweekly.com/news/the-town-weand-othersdrink-in-6379361
#10 by Reality Is.. on July 20, 2016 - 9:43 am
So a Barry clone says there are underage drinkers all over because she says so. Did she check IDs? Or just assuming?
Yes. Shoulder taps are a grant funded overtime detail.
Let me give you a hint. Get a list of the violations and what they were for. Hint: liquor stores that sell and people like you and I that decide to buy for kids that ask.
I’m trying to help you see facts and the big picture. B
Another hint. Don’t ever form your own story from the media. It will never be right. There is no such thing as unbiased media anymore and someone walking around creating their own story based on their opinion, like Hart, is usually wrong. Just like the radical hate terrorist group Black Lives Matter. Nothing they say is true. They are biased media driven.
#11 by Fullerton Lover on July 20, 2016 - 11:14 am
Your reality is delusional as long as you live in denial.
#12 by Anonymous on July 20, 2016 - 4:08 pm
What is radical, hateful, or terroristic about Black Lives Matter?
#13 by Reality Is.. on July 20, 2016 - 6:31 pm
BLM is the same as KKK. But worse.
#14 by Mat Caraffa on July 20, 2016 - 8:17 pm
Wow, dude. I think you have a mistaken conception of what BLM is, but if you want to out yourself as a racist asshole, go right ahead.
#15 by Reality Is..... on July 21, 2016 - 8:08 am
🙂
#16 by Fullerton Lover on July 20, 2016 - 6:50 pm
You do know that racism is a projection of your own fears onto an entire race of people.
I didn’t realize you were such a big coward?
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/07/19/kansas-black-lives-matter-holds-picnic-police-instead-protest/87299934/
#17 by Reality Is..... on July 21, 2016 - 8:09 am
Didn’t I tell you not to believe everything the press puts out? This had nothing to do with BLM. It was a good group of blacks in a community that cares. Not the thugs we see daily destroying, disrespecting, and looting.
#18 by Reality Is..... on July 21, 2016 - 10:50 am
and who said anything about an entire race? I said Black Lives Matter is a racist, radical, terrorist hate group. Same as the KKK is. Or the Westboro Church. I’m white but I’m not a member of BLM. I know many blacks that despise BLM and their message of hate and racism.
#19 by Fullerton Lover on July 21, 2016 - 11:30 am
Hmmmmm???
Doesn’t sound like a racist ,radical, terrorist hate group to me?
Sounds more like folks who believe in treating each other with dignity and respect, regardless of each others race, creed, color, or sexual preference?
http://blacklivesmatter.com/guiding-principles/
#20 by Barry Levinson on July 21, 2016 - 12:17 pm
Fullerton Lover any group that has demonstrations that shouts over and over again the slogans, “What Do We Want Dead Cops, When Do We Want It Now” as they did in NYC and another BLM demonstration in Minnesota shouting, “Pigs in a Blanket, Fry Them Like Bacon” is not espousing treating each other we dignity and respect. Those slogans are inflammatory hate speech. Once they go there, nothing else they say will be taken seriously by law abiding citizens.
I am someone who has consistently spoken out about bad police officers and bad policing, whenever and wherever it exists. But I will never have anything to do with any group that espouses hate and violence and I will condemn those that use those tactics.
#21 by Fullerton Lover on July 21, 2016 - 12:59 pm
I distinctly remember that there were those same sentiments being expressed at the protests which occurred each Saturday in front of the Fullerton Police Department.
In fact, there were mannequins dressed as Fullerton police officers being hung in effigy.
Doesn’t mean that we paint all of those protesters that were involved in Kelly’s Army with the same brush does it Barry?
Weren’t you yourself out there protesting the death of Kelly Thomas?
Does that mean that I shouldn’t take anything you’ve said after that KT protest seriously?
#22 by Anonymous on July 21, 2016 - 11:41 am
You are 100% wrong here.
#23 by Barry Levinson on July 21, 2016 - 2:16 pm
I do not want to pick an argument with you Fullerton Lover. Based on you many comments I can tell you are a very decent honest human being. However may I please point out what I perceive as the very big difference between the Kelly Thomas demonstrations and the BLM demonstrations as follows:
The BLM demonstrations were a march were in unison the marchers were chanting over and over again the above two slogans.
While at the Kelly Thomas protest there were only a few with derogatory signs about the police in general.
That is a major difference.
I did not hear any BLM leaders condemn the marchers in NYC and Minnesota for their violent chants. If they wanted a large segment of the population to take them seriously they should have done so in my opinion. Whenever a group very clearly seems to be advocating for violence is when I must speak out in opposition to that group.
#24 by Fullerton Lover on July 21, 2016 - 3:35 pm
Yeah I like you too Barry, and have always admired your perseverance and tenacity to affect a positive change in Fullerton.
I was trying to illustrate that people like you, Joe, and myself, know from our own personal experiences, that we ARE decent and honest people that stood up for an unarmed 137 pound shirtless mentally ill man after he had been beaten to death by the FPD, and not even close to being the thugs that Reality Is would have you believe.
I know that you and Joe were supportive of a peaceful and passive protest against what we saw as wrong and needed to change, yet their were ALWAYS a couple of knuckleheads in Kelly’s Army that wanted to take the law into their own hands by advocating for violence against the police.
I personally worked VERY hard with others to make sure that NEVER came to fruition.
Do you remember the near riot that almost broke out when the FPD broke their word and started handing out citations for excessive honking?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEIbMZxqJw8
Something tells me that if then Captain Danny Hughes, had not publicly torn up the ticket that the FPOA President Barry Coffman had just issued a motorists for excessive honking, that the Kelly Thomas protest may have turned violent because the police seemed to be agitated that the protest had carried on all summer and they were looking to end it ASAP.
If that would have happened, and a riot had subsequently occurred, someone such as you, Joe, or myself who advocated for a peaceful protest, would’ve been painted with the same brush as the provocateurs and advocators of violence that were amongst us on both side during the Kelly Thomas protest.
Luckily, Danny Boy realized the error of his ways once he was face to face with a couple thousand of protesters who were upset with being lied to by Danny Boy, and called him out for lying and intentionally trying to disrupt a peaceful protest by writing tickets for protestors and supporters that were honking their horns in support, and we all got to go home in one piece after the OCDA later brought murder charges against several officers for the first time in OC history.
#25 by Anonymous on July 21, 2016 - 12:26 pm
I kind of remember you saying the same thing about this unarmed 19 year old kid who was shot multiple times by CHP officers who had chased him in a black unmarked car into a cul-de-sac near the Fullerton Airport and then shot them as they came back out.
Why did they have to shoot these two kids?
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/claim-723100-officers-villanueva.html
#26 by Reality Is.. on July 21, 2016 - 3:32 pm
CHP shooting will be 100% justified. A truck is a weapon. Marked car or not. You drive into someone anyone you can die. The right person died in that incident. Could have easily been a CHP officer or other innocent victim.
#27 by Fullerton Lover on July 21, 2016 - 6:22 pm
Absolutely no evidence that these two unarmed kids pointed their vehicle at the undercover officers as they were trying to exit the dead end street near the Fullerton Airport.
However I’m sure that the District Attorney will say that the shooting was still justifiable because the officers will say that they were in fear of their life when they saw this truck bearing down on them.
Just like they justified beating Kelly Thomas to death because they said that they were all in fear for their life to justify six of them beating him to death
That’s why we have civil courts where local politics and politicians receive no consideration.
#28 by Joe Imbriano on July 21, 2016 - 6:29 pm
The first ones in line for the lake of fire in The Bible are the cowards. The cowards that murdered and that tortured Kelly Thomas have gotten away with nothing. Fear Him who has the power to cast the soul into hell.
#29 by Anonymous on July 21, 2016 - 3:26 pm
Who’d have thought Barry and Reality Is could ever find common ground, let alone with their casual racism?
#30 by Seriously? on July 21, 2016 - 5:27 pm
Here’s what I find interesting. After the death of Kelly Thomas, weeks and weeks of protests took place with protesters demanding justice. They chanted “No justice, no peace” and “What do we want? Justce! When do we want it? Now!” So DA Tony Rackauckas succumbs to public prrssure and charges two officers – not six- but two officers with murder and manslaughter respectively. The wheels of justice spin. A criminal trial takes place and both men are found not guilty in a matter of hours by a jury of their peers. So our justice system plays out, which is exactly what tbe protesters demanded. So why are they so angry? Because when people demand justice, what they are really saying is they want THEIR version of justice, not the justice decided by the US system of justice decided in a court of law. And then we have people like Barry Levinson, who has stated many times after the verdicts that SIX cops murdered Kelly Thomas. Uh, Barry. Mr. Son of a NY Cop, only two were charged and those two were found not guilty. Stop talking like an idiot!
#31 by Fullerton Lover on July 21, 2016 - 7:42 pm
How do you determine which one of the participants landed the fatal blow that actually killed Kelly Thomas?
In California law, there is a term called, accomplice liability, or, “aiding and abetting”.
This means that an aider and abettor generally faces the same criminal charges under California’s Penal Code as the direct perpetrator. If convicted, they would typically also face the same penalties. In a murder case, for example, an aider and abettor typically faces life in prison just as does the one who commits the actual killing.
#32 by Reality Is..... on July 21, 2016 - 9:58 pm
No one landed the fatal blow. That was the whole point. Kelly brought the run and fight on until he couldn’t fight anymore. Jury spoke. Get over it.
You are talking like Mosby in Baltimore now. She thought it would be fun to charge all 6 like you say all 6 should have been charged in Fullerton. She’s learning the same hard lesson. You don’t charge cops just because. She’s lost every case and won’t win one, and will hopefully lose her license over it all and her career. You don’t play politics with justice and policing.
So you can throw terms as much as you want. Policing can be ugly and it was in Kelly case. Suspects bring reactions by cops to get them in custody. Sometimes it’s not pretty but it’s also not a crime.
#33 by Fullerton Lover on July 22, 2016 - 12:05 am
Cases like this one with the school teacher illustrate why groups like Black Lives Matter are formed.
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/video-723258-king-people.html
#34 by Fullerton Lover on July 22, 2016 - 9:38 am
I find that there is a dark irony/hypocrisy in your comments about the all of the officers in the Kelly Thomas beat down not being charged with aiding and abetting a murder.
Although all of them actively participated in beating him to death, you would openly mock the DA’s attempt to charge them with a crime, yet if these were brown or black, you would have called them all thugs, and said that they all needed to be charged as accomplices to murder!
Says a lot about who you really are.
#35 by Reality Is..... on July 22, 2016 - 9:45 am
Yes I’ll agree with you. Some groups are formed for a reason. But when your group and your associates preach racial bias, hate, racial preference, violence, destruction, and law breaking, you lose all credit quickly. Just like now. BLM is nothing anymore. Never were.
#36 by Reality Is..... on July 22, 2016 - 9:46 am
and wouldn’t right now be the right time for someone or many people to form the group WLM? Since whites are taking the brunt of all the hate, violence, destruction, etc? Or would that be termed racist right away? Like Immediately? Why is that? Whites are now the minority and getting the least government benefits of any race.
#37 by Fullerton Lover on July 22, 2016 - 12:02 pm
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/black-720133-lives-matter.html
#38 by Anonymous on July 22, 2016 - 12:11 pm
Just keep digging.
#39 by Reality Is..... on July 22, 2016 - 2:22 pm
No one is digging anything. facts talk shit walks.
#40 by Fullerton Lover on July 20, 2016 - 6:52 pm
“A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
#41 by Fullerton Lover on July 20, 2016 - 6:57 pm
“Hatred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated.”
― George Bernard Shaw
#42 by Fullerton Lover on July 19, 2016 - 10:01 pm
On March 12th, 2016, members of the Fullerton Police Department participated in a statewide Shoulder Tap Operation in conjunction with the Department of Alcohol Beverage Control.
The operation was conducted at establishments which sell alcohol. The focus of the operation was to prevent the sale of alcohol to minors throughout the City of Fullerton.
The operation resulted in 10 citations issued to subjects furnishing alcohol to minors and 2 subjects were arrested for narcotic related offenses.
#ABC #ShoulderTap #DontBuyForMinors #21andOver #FPD
#43 by Barry Levinson on July 20, 2016 - 9:40 am
Please name and provide the proof for even one Reality Is. Based on your baseless comment above, you should easily be able to do this for dozens of my statements.
According to you, I have been lying on a daily basis. Therefore, please prove it! Please quote each of those statements, the sources and the dates or those quotes and prove that those daily statements were lies.
The clock is ticking.
The level of childishness expressed by Reality Is, is so very sad. RI repeated claims that I am lying is verbal bullying. It is a very desperate and childish attempt to discredit me. What RI fails to realize is that his baseless attacks on me and others only discredits himself.
#44 by Anonymous on July 20, 2016 - 11:42 am
Well, to be fair, it’s not necessarily lying if you’re just plain ignorant.
#45 by Reality Is.. on July 20, 2016 - 6:34 pm
I hadn’t seen this response yet. I think it’s both his ignorance combined with his blindness to reality. Appears to be lies.
#46 by Anonymous on July 20, 2016 - 12:46 pm
It’s funny you suddenly care about evidence when you’re the subject of derision. Fun to have a double standard, eh?
#47 by Barry Levinson on July 20, 2016 - 6:20 pm
Please note the two comments above by Anonymous. They have absolutely nothing to support their baseless claims against me. They are guilty of the worst kind of gutter politics of name calling and defamation.
#48 by Anonymous on July 20, 2016 - 8:16 pm
Pot, meet Kettle.
#49 by Reality Is..... on July 21, 2016 - 10:48 am
Kettle meet Joe and Barry.
#50 by Reality Is.. on July 20, 2016 - 6:32 pm
One what? Nothing you say is true. It’s all pure opinion based on no facts. If I could fine one truth I would name it.
#51 by Reality Is.. on July 20, 2016 - 6:36 pm
And my clock has been ticking for awhile now.
I’m still waiting for the past 10 years salaries and benefits chart for Fullerton police and fire to back your claim that the revert raise wasn’t deserved and earned.
I’m also waiting for you to show me that you aren’t listed as a suspect in a police report that is public information.
Also for you to post the video that supposedly shows you didn’t assault someone.
I’ve been waiting for proofs on all kinds of other claims you make.
I’ll be waiting for years. I know why.