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Orozco, Norma <br />From: Nathaniel Greensides <mynci90@gmail.com> <br />Sent: Monday, June 01, 2020 4:31 PM <br />To: eComment; Villegas, Juan <br />Subject: Non -Agenda Item June 2nd City Council Meeting <br />Dear City Council. <br />I strongly encourage the city council to make a public statement against the excessive police force employed <br />across the nation (as well as here in Santa Ana) in murdering our Black community members so as to better <br />allow for healing in our communities to take place as opposed to furthering harm. <br />I am also severely disappointed in the unnecessary police response employed on Saturday and Sunday nights <br />(May 30th and May 31 st, 2020). If the protests arose because of police abuse of power and violence against <br />George Floyd in Minneapolis, it is inappropriate that our city (and other surrounding cities' police forces) would <br />respond so harshly to crowds here in Santa Ana. The SAPD police response of using tear gas and rubber bullets <br />against the leftover crowd on Sunday night (without warning to the crowd or provocation from the protestors) is <br />exactly the excessive force which protestors aimed to protest against. Additionally, it did not go unnoticed that <br />the law enforcement helicopters which monitored the March on Sunday, did NOT enter the airspace above <br />Floral Park (despite the March walking through Floral Park) which shows the true intent of airborne law <br />enforcement here in Santa Ana - to criminalize and instill fear in the least economically advantaged <br />neighborhoods of our cities. I encourage our city council members to push for better transparency regarding <br />policing tactics in our communities so that community members can be informed of the true extent to which the <br />police aim to protect and serve us (or not). <br />Sincerely, <br />Nathaniel Greensides <br />Ward 5 Resident <br />