 Good, I guess late morning to you all my name is Dylan Horton. I'm the chair of the Davis Police Accountability Commission. I Thank you. I Thank you. I'm really glad that y'all took a little bit of time out of your beautiful Saturday to come out for this event that we've been in one way or the other engaged in for the past year since the murder of George Floyd last year The whole world and our own community has been engaged in this effort to figure out what we can do Locally, and I'm gonna ask Reverend Malone to come to the stage In a second because he's our first speaker But we've been trying to figure out what we can do here in Davis to meaningfully change our system of policing What we can do to get our public safety apparatus working to create public safety for all people in our community What y'all know because y'all are here at this event is that our system of public safety of Policing of prosecution our court system is broadly inadequate to the task of providing public safety to everybody It's you know really adequate to the task of providing public safety to the wealthy and the well connected but when you are a person of color when you are a Immigrant to this country when you come from not the dominant religious Background of this country when you are a person undergoing a mental health crisis a drug or alcohol issue if you are unhoused if you just happen to be a White person having none of those Demographic backgrounds, but just in the wrong place at the wrong time Your public safety your security and prosperity in this community can be harshly Impacted again by this system so broadly inadequate to the task of providing public safety to all residents So we're here today again in the continuation of a movement and an engagement that we've been in for the past year To demand that our city put their money where their mouth is on June 22nd or thereabouts give or take a day or two the Davis City Council will pass its budget for the next budget cycle What we have heard in a number of engagements at the December City Council meeting when we presented the Recommendations at the April 6th City Council meeting is verbal commitment light, I should say verbal commitment to supporting the nine recommendations that the police accountability Commission human relations Commission and social services Commission brought them in December but What we failed to see in this year-long process despite a number of opportunities is that that Inc get dried on the paper is that Support for these reforms brought into the tangible realm where we can see and be confident that it is real So high school and you went to the beside two parties. I didn't go Because I wanted to limit any chance at any kind of kind of interaction I could have with the police I didn't want to have anything to do with it So the reason why I'm telling you all this is because fast forward. I'm now 24 out of college I've done many things you know folks kind of need me from if you went to UC Davis from 040 a I play the men's soccer. I was a captain. We went to answer that. Well, we did many things So I was known as the big man on campus as a student athlete, right? So I kind of I was well knowing town as a student athlete Again, I need to smoke see don't drink, but I enjoyed dancing. I'm a very fun guy. So I'll go out You know city clubs in downtown Thank God for the entertainment Davis could be very boring So on one particular night you all know about Camarie Camarie was shut down before the unfortunate incident I I also encountered something that I couldn't believe But in retrospect it makes sense now The reason I'm telling you all this is because of the intersection between a systematic oppression broken system and The people that will that well aware of it and they're willing to milk the system So in this case, it's a business owner and the police BD and I happen to be You know that victim So the owner who I'm not sure why I'm gonna go get into didn't like me for some reason I'm inside the club, you know with my friends again I don't drink I don't smoke usually when there's any altercation guests was breaking it up Suley because I'm usually the only super one in the club like guys come on stop So I know I'm really I take pride in the mediator. I love being a mediator That's that's my role in life, which is one of these my way into mental health and being a counselor So I'm sitting there and all of a sudden there were four cops. They showed up like flashlight This is like 1 30 in the morning And you're like, whoa, what's wrong? Hey, who's silly? Who's silly? I'm thinking what would I do? Like oh shit like my old 14 years in Davis. I spent literally working on being perfect Like didn't dream I best not breaking it was why did why do police want me? No one before police inside a club So I sat there I didn't move They were like you got to get out Excuse you. No, you got to get out. I'm not moving. I didn't anything wrong. I came in here. I've been dancing. I'm sitting down So after about 30 minutes now my friends they can imagine me because I'm messing up the buzzed I'm mixing up their fun like silly. Come on. You got to get out man, you know, so I walked out One of the cops was the black man I was furious. I was like, wait, why did you all just little folk people to come kick me out? I knew I didn't do anything wrong Meanwhile, everybody was thinking why what do you do these do something for somebody? So now my reputation now worked up for 14 years. It's now being inattentive So I went out I said, sorry the cop called me over the black one. I come over here What happened? What's going on? It goes well You're not told us that you were selling drugs inside inside this club I was like, what is that? Yeah, he told us I said, so you're doing action My bad man We just do what we were told So literally his excuse was they were they got a call that a black man was inside the club selling drugs and They ran over there and they kicked me out So what am I telling you story? So let's assume that you know for some reason I didn't work so hard on being almost perfect Maybe that night. I was just you know, I had a bad day, right? Maybe that night I had a little you know, I was a little buzz I'm just tired of this systemic oppression. I'm just sick of you know being picked on being treated like you know the second season, right? And the cops said get out and I stood there and I didn't move That's how someone hands up getting killed Hello, I'm really glad to see you all out Change doesn't come without individuals willing to put themselves on the line and willing to get out there and do the work And doing a rally like this is doing the work the march will be seen by a lot of people To introduce myself again, I'm Cynthia Rodriguez and I'm running for the yellow county district attorney's office and Thank you. We have a tough fight ahead of us But I think a lot of people have seen that we have not been getting the service out of our District attorney's office that we deserve I those who know me know that I spent almost a decade as the General counsel for the state department of mental health advising the governor's office legislature and All for all the mental health care that was given in the state and Mental health care used to have its own department when I started there it had a department of mental health With people specifically interested in that to deal with the problems of people who have mental health Now it has been combined most Medicare issues have been sent to health and human services Mental health only runs the state hospitals and the state hospitals are far over 95 Patients from the corrections and that is because there is no system that we use on a regular basis Except the criminal justice system to deal with people who have mental health crises that are become public And that is just the opposite of what ought to be happening mental health care crises are Intimate and private and ought to be cared for in the community every chance possible The community resources that we need To to be out there to be amongst the public to have counselors and responses and places for safety Those are now being once again diverted into the old systems that never worked Black lives matter No justice, no racism, we don't get it, and if we don't get it, and if we don't get it, and if we don't get it. Yeah, I mean, I think you just after an introduction like that, you have to acknowledge that you left, I left a lot of things undone. And I don't live all my life with regret, but there are things that I could have done pushed further on that I just maybe lacked the courage to do. And that's why I'm encouraged to see you all here, because I think this, I didn't see this five years ago. And so it does my heart good to see people coming out and really not just doing this, but actually doing the significant behind the scenes work. And so I appreciate everybody being here and trying to figure out ways to actually make this happen. Okay, so I just wanted to quickly remind everybody, you know, you've heard about the process with the temporary joint subcommittee and the report that took so, so long and with so much care from so many unpaid commissioners in the city who spent their time and effort really putting together this amazing document. And then it was presented to city council in December. And we were really hopeful that we would be heard, right? This wasn't something pithy. This was like 80 pages of really academic research with an eye towards what does Davis need specifically. And we waited from December to April to hear what city staff would do with that report, what they would do with those nine recommendations. And to remind everybody in April, they came back, they being city staff came back with a report that was written by the chief of police. Primarily, he's the first author he just named right on that document. And they said, well, we see your nine recommendations. And we offer you a list of what we are already doing and a list of some things that maybe wouldn't be too crazy. So we're going to do those. And that's actually what we're even grading city council on on this fire is this watered down document that does not address all of what we asked them to address. And even those watered down recommendations by our account, they are getting around a D plus average from those nine recommendations. So they really are not addressing the problems. They're not thinking, as Rob Davis said, in a transformative way about, you know, using leadership to transform the narrative to go beyond what chief Pytel is saying at any given second to what city staff wants us to believe is possible with the budget. They're not doing that. And they have a lot of nice words for them. I got to say, you know, I listened to that April 6 council meeting. And if you had asked me right after Mayor partita had spoken and given her speech, I would have said this is in the bag. They are going to make a new department. If you'd asked me after will Arnold spoke that night, I would have said, yes, that's two council members for a new department. And then when the Lucas spoke, I would have said, yes, that counts as well. But none of them decided to take a vote to take any action. All they did was say, I see what the police chief has written, and I like that. And we're going to vote on that.