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.
Barry Levinson
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?
Was Mike Chocek waiting for Barry to make a move so these three can make theirs?
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?
Was Mike Chocek waiting to present information that was never asked for, waiting to answer questions that were never asked or waiting for just another opportunity to set up Barry Levinson?
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.
does this face look familiar? Here he is in the video below.
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.
Hugo Curiel and Alice Loya. Ms.Loya was apparently able to see through Travertine walls and an elevator shaft the night of the attempted framing of Levinson back in 2014.
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.
Commissioner Silva looks on as truth is being told
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.
Don’t let the flag fool you. Stanford is an empty suit too.
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 23, 2016 - 11:18 pm
Reality is, I’m amazed that anyone could think he has an ounce of intelligence. He fancies himself as a financial genius, an expert on law enforcement and an expert on the legal system. The truth is that he couldn’t hit the ground with his hat.
#2 by Fullerton Lover on July 26, 2016 - 7:12 pm
I told you my source of information on these 19 year olds getting shot over near the Fullerton airport was more reliable than your standard blind rhetoric, that said that these kids were thugs who were trying to run these officers over, and that the officers shot these kids because they were in fear for their life.
Looks more like they were executed in cold blood for a traffic infraction.
The CHP has said the officers opened fire because Villanueva made a U-turn, drove toward them and failed to stop.
Orozco and the driver’s family claim the pair had no way of knowing the undercovers were law enforcement.
“They never once used a siren, a loud speaker or provided any warning whatsoever before they started shooting,” Orozco says in a statement. “They never identified themselves as law enforcement until after they stopped shooting.”
http://www.ocweekly.com/news/pedro-erick-villanuevas-family-files-claim-against-chp-for-fatal-shooting-7358236
#3 by Reality Is... on July 26, 2016 - 9:07 pm
Lover. Please.
Sometimes you make yourself out to look really stupid.
This is from family and the attorney suing the CHP. They lie. Look at every lawsuit ever filed and the press conference. Even Kelly Thomas. It’s a show and almost all complete nonsense.
I’m sure you believe the mother of the kid shot by LAPD this morning too.
Lawsuits are an everyday thing. You can’t believe anything until you read actual depositions or testimony under oath at trial. The rest is all a show.
So yes, you will see, these so call kids that were adults drove their truck at another human being who happened to be a cop. They made a big boy choice and got a big boy result.
So yes I stand by what I said from the start.
Next?
#4 by Fullerton Lover on July 26, 2016 - 10:36 pm
…you’re telling me on the one hand that I can’t believe anyone or anything until I have read depositions or testimony under oath at trial, and in the next breath your telling me that these suspects made “big boy choices and got a big boy results, which is essentially the same thing as saying they are both guilty and you’ve never even seen the case?
Do you see the hypocrisy
“For anyone still confused about the scandal’s relevance, this case illustrates the enormous power of unethical badged individuals to manipulate the criminal-justice system, trick jurors and win tainted convictions—all while appearing noble public servants”.
Sound like anyone you know Reality Is?
http://www.ocweekly.com/news/da-used-perjury-scam-to-intimidate-defense-witness-in-troubled-murder-case-7079964
#5 by Reality Is..... on July 27, 2016 - 10:56 am
Sure you can listen to them!! I’m not saying you can’t or that you won’t. Clearly that’s all you listen too. That’s the issue. It’s proven that at a police shooting press conference held by family and friends and an attorney that wants nothing but money, most of what is said is not true and its said to make the case look strong. It’s usually not. Very few facts. So yes, run with what you read from them. I can assure you that most will be proven untrue in court. I think it makes you look stupid. You say it doesn’t. We will see who is right. Don’t forget that I also said from day 1 all the cops in the Kelly Thomas would be found not guilty. I also have said since day 1 all the cops in Baltimore would be found not guilty. Some cases, when you look at the facts, are very easy to figure out.
#6 by Reality Is..... on July 27, 2016 - 11:07 am
I’m sure you listened to the mother of the kid killed by LAPD yesterday too. She said that her son did nothing and was just walking across the street. Maybe you should go help her. LOL
#7 by Reality Is..... on July 27, 2016 - 11:09 am
and you probably think this is all true too and everyone they are suing did wrong.
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Family-Sues-Music-Festival-After-Daughters-Drug-Overdose-388391652.html
#8 by Fullerton Lover on July 26, 2016 - 11:57 pm
Looks like even the Fullerton Police Department disagrees with your account?
….According to the Fullerton Police Department account, undercover CHP officers were conducting an operation in Los Angeles County against car clubs just before 11 p.m. July 3 when they followed a red pickup truck to a cul-de-sac near Fullerton Municipal Airport.
The truck at some point made a U-turn and headed directly at the officers, who opened fire. Villanueva, the truck’s driver from Canoga Park, died at the scene. His passenger, an unidentified 18-year-old man from Santa Fe Springs, was hit in the arm with gunfire, treated at a local hospital and released.
Villanueva probably did not know he was being followed by CHP officers because they were wearing street clothes and driving an unmarked vehicle, Fullerton Police Sgt. Kathryn Hamel later disclosed.
pedro-erick-villanueva-shot-dead-by-undercover-chp-officers-in-fullerton-7314917
p.s. you need to read the comments section and get back to me and tell me how many people you found that agree with your perspective?
#9 by Reality Is..... on July 27, 2016 - 10:57 am
So if you are being followed by someone you don’t know you do a u turn and try to run them over? Ok. great logic. Try that today and let me know how it goes LOL.
Yes, comments sections of any police shooting are full of keyboard warriors that never come out of mama’s basement. They mean nothing.
#10 by Fullerton Lover on July 27, 2016 - 12:48 pm
Are you sure that you and bong load Bair aren’t hitting that bong that he brought to the city council meeting again?
Great logic?
It was actually a 200 foot long cul-de-sac that those young men turned onto while they were being followed by two undercover officers that looked like gang bangers that had been behind them in an unmarked car.
They had no choice but to do a U-turn as it was a cul-de-sac that had no other outlet.
Weak sauce.
Try again?
#11 by Reality Is.... on July 27, 2016 - 6:17 pm
LOL nevermind. You seem to know all the facts and I’m sure you say they tried to drive around the car driving down the street too. WE will let the court process run out. I say they don’t get a penny and no charges ever filed. You say millions and charges filed for wrong doing. CAre to put a few thousand in an escrow account to the winner?
#12 by Fullerton Lover on July 27, 2016 - 12:49 am
I think you need to re-read blow by blow account if the savage beating of Kelly Thomas by six “officers” of the Fullerton Police department…
kelly-thomas-oc-homicide-no-43-cop-accused-of-beating-homeless-man-to-death-6464735
… and tell us tour rationale as to why these officers, as well as the watch commander who monitored it via a live city camera feed, shouldn’t have been charged by the OCDA as direct accomplices to murder?
I honestly think that none of them have a snowballs chance of hell of ever reaching heaven.
kelly-thomas-oc-homicide-no-43-cop-accused-of-beating-homeless-man-to-death-6464735
#13 by Reality Is..... on July 27, 2016 - 10:59 am
So now you say that because the two main players were found not guility of any crime, you want to still charge the others for murder? Really? LOL
Go read the Baltimore case. At least that DA finally realized she screwed off and dropped all charges against the others. That case was dead from the start. No cop committed a crime in that case or the Thomas case.
#14 by Fullerton Lover on July 27, 2016 - 12:39 pm
I’ve said it from the beginning that if these six police officers were civilians that had beat Kelly Thomas till death, that all six of them would have been on trial for accessory or aiding and abetting a murder, and I find what is particularly sad, whom I personally think should be held to a higher standard, because of they’re all obviously very knowledgeable of the law as sworn police officers, are actually held to not even a lower standard…they’re actually held to no standard at all and were able to get away with the murder of Kelly Thomas.
A friend of mine told me the other day that there are some imminent changes in the laws that are currently in the works, and that by the end of the year that their will be major reforms announced which should shake things up a bit.
Stay tuned!
#15 by Reality Is.... on July 27, 2016 - 6:23 pm
LOL your friend. I’ll wager on that bet too. Any amount you choose by the end of the year. I can 100% guarantee no law will change by the end of the year. $10,000? $20,000? Let’s gamble!! Put your money where your mouth is?
Policing can only have so many reforms. YOu have to show something is wrong to fix it. Black LIves mater has no substance because they don’t rely on facts. Just like the Baltimore case. DA just tried to flex muscle. YOu can’t flex muscle against cops. They have millions in backup to fight bad charges. She learned a very hard lesson and her career is now over.
I’m all for mixing things up or changing bad laws or fixing things that are broken. You can’t fix things that aren’t broken.
I do predict one thing. Crime rates will continue to skyrocket as they are now. They will get worse until people demand change. They will get way way worse each day because of the law changes thus far. You rely on crime stats from 2014 when you talk. 2015 and 2016 will show a drastic increase. The other main contributor to that will be cops not being proactive any longer. Some say it’s been happening since last year. Some say crime is going up for run and it has nothing to do with the last 1.5 years. I say it has everything to do with that and criminals being treated better than victims now. Cops have no reason to be proactive. It’s not part of their oath and is of no benefit any longer. Just be reactive. Just answer calls and drive around. Being proactive used to make policing more fun. More arrests. Bad people off the street. But proactive also involves force, shootings, and getting injured. So when we come back here next year at this time, I will say crime rates will be way worse than now and I will blame it almost all on cops being cops and nothing more. Just doing their job as they are supposed to do it.
We shall see.
#16 by Fullerton Lover on July 27, 2016 - 9:06 pm
Can’t wait!
I’ll make sure to send you the first post when the news breaks.
Then will you go away?
Just kiddin.
I think we enjoy busting each others chops too much : )
#17 by Reality Is.... on July 27, 2016 - 6:25 pm
and just to educate you a little bit. There is a huge difference between cops and civilians in terms of laws and case law. Research it. So comparing those two like you did makes no sense at all. Cops chasing someone fleeing an arrest and then resisting arrest, is much different than you and I beating the crap and killing Tony Bushala. So yes, I agree with you but that’s way apples and oranges. Not even close.
#18 by Anonymous on July 27, 2016 - 12:56 pm
A personal message for Reality Is!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hfYJsQAhl0
#19 by Fullerton Lover on July 27, 2016 - 8:11 pm
…I personally only wish that I had 1/10th of the character and personal integrity that the district attorney in Baltimore displays in this video which shows that she is clearly not going to succumb to the threats that law enforcement is making against her and her family.
I LOVE this woman’s pluck!
http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/27/us/baltimore-freddie-gray-prosecutor/?iid=ob_lockedrail_topeditorial
#20 by Reality Is..... on July 27, 2016 - 10:35 pm
She’s the epitome of garbage. Her career is over. She’s typical of BLM and other people in this generation. All about blame. Half this country said from the start that case was trash and she fell to politics in her charging the case. The case clearly had no shot from the start. Her speech was garbage just like her. Blame blame blame. This generation was clear in her speech. Now she has to defend the 6 lawsuits against her from the 6 cops. Hope they rape her for millions.
#21 by Fullerton Lover on July 27, 2016 - 11:28 pm
What happened to that law degree of yours?
Look up the Supreme Court decision of Connick vs. Thompson in Louisiana.
How do you think T Rack has gotten away with all he has without the Justice Department intervening?
The district attorney’s office is even a thousand times harder than suing a cop.
Blame the conservative majority that decided it, because the decision was split along party lines.
#22 by Reality Is... on July 28, 2016 - 8:29 am
Didn’t say they would win but goes along with my other points. Anyone can sue anyone anytime. She will still have to defend it. I think it was clear there wasn’t evidence to charge all 6 from the start. I think she might be in trouble. At least her career is over.
#23 by Fullerton Lover on July 28, 2016 - 10:10 am
“Opinion polls show that Mosby has remained popular in Baltimore. Democratic primary voters surveyed last fall said they supported her handling of the case by a 3-to-1 margin.”
#24 by Reality Is... on July 28, 2016 - 2:06 pm
Yes last fall Dems thought she was as close to God possible. Now that even people with a half a brain see the facts, I’m sure she has lost steam. The people that love her don’t even know what the cases are about and how bad she screwed them up. Now that she blamed the cops for the cases failure, it just shows how lost she is. She conducted her own independent investigations and it’s the cops fault? Lol she’s lost. Mirror Mosby?
#25 by Vanilla ice cream on July 27, 2016 - 11:51 pm
Maybe she is not going to succumb to threats made by law enforcement, but she sure succumbed to the pressure of a mob of thugs when she decided to file charges against five cops after an investigation that lasted all of a day and a half. Those types of investigations typically take many many months. Even the judge admonished her for wasting the court’s time.