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1 102. This is the busiest time of year for calls for service and CARDENAL was blamed for a drop 2 ' in proactive enforcement activities of two watches. 3 4 V. CITY Further Retaliated Against CARDENAL by Demoting him from 5 CorporaMO to Officer. G 103. On February 10,2022,CARDENAL was served a Notice of Intent to Discipline which stated 7 that Chief Valentin"inten[ded] to demote [CARDENAL] from [his] current rank as a Corporal and Field 8 9 Training Officer to Officer." 10 104. On March 3,2022,CARDENAL again emailed CITY Leadership to disclose/complain about 11 Chief Valentin's (and others perceived to be in his "gang"/"camp" acting at his behalf) misconduct and 12 intimidation tactics: 13 14 "I am writing to again inform you about the extremely demoralizing inaction on the part of the City of Santa Ana as it relates to Chief of Police David Valentin and his supporters.I copied each of you 15 in an email I sent to Commander Enriquez on September 2,2021,regarding the outrageous behavior of Police Department management. 16 1. 17 As I am sure you are aware, there have been complaints and lawsuits levied against SAPD management for their unprofessional, inappropriate and illegal conduct. Chief Valentin and his 18 cronies in police supervision and management open and substantiate Internal Affairs investigations 19 against those of us who speak out about the blatant disparity in how officers are treated. 20 In a recent investigation launched by Chief Valentin against me,wherein he told officers in multiple roll call briefings that my conduct (prior to being investigated) was unforgivable, I was able to 21 compare Sergeant Lopez' report to the audio files from the recorded interviews.It became obvious 22 that the report was completed in a way to make me sound like someone who masterminded a Patrol- wide work slowdown.This investigation was framed in a way to make me sound guilty in order to 23 justify Chief Valentin prior action (which are being investigated by Human Resources), and his 24 decision demoting me.Witness officers were outraged that their statements were twisted by Sergeant Lopez in his report.I believe this investigation was completed because I was vocal in my displeasure 25 with the fact that Chief Valentin released the photographs of nearly every Officer in the PRA related 26 to now retired Detective John Rodriguez' of duty incident in downtown on May 5,2021. 111 27 111 28 111 CARDENALV.CiTYOFSANTAANA _ CASENo. CO[ufP[ADU .