San Leandro PD on body cam shown to be dumping homeless person in Oakland

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Mr. Randy Wings and Culver City.

John, first they were living in the storm drains.

Now Matthew Sedorf has found the homeless living in the LA river.

Where are they not?

Good question.

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Well, if you've listened to this show long enough, you know that the homeless are all over the state of California.

You know that what are elected elite leaders are telling us is not true.

They're telling us that people are homeless because of the high cost of housing.

And if you just open up your eyes and open up your ears, you can tell when you see them in the encampments, on the streets, the parks, the libraries, the beaches.

That they are in fact severely mentally ill and or addicted to drugs.

Gavin Newsom and our establishment in Sacramento, they refuse to see it that way.

And therefore our programs are geared towards affordable housing and not treating the underlying cause of why these people are living on the streets or in the storm drains or the river, God knows where else.

Because we won't build insane asylums to put them in, they continue to live on the streets.

Which means if you're a city that doesn't want it in your community, you can't fix the problem, you just have to keep them moving.

And you have to keep them moving until they find a city that's willing to put up with them and then they all end up there.

In Northern California, that city is Oakland, in Southern California, that city is Los Angeles.

However, we now know, thanks to police body camp footage, that that is in fact what is happening and not just a theory.

This is a wild story from Dan Noise following the body cam of police from San Leandro as they pick up a homeless person that was loitering and drop him off seven miles north in Oakland.

That's what I do too. For more, here's ABC 7 in the Bay and Dan Noise.

San Leandro police handcuffed this homeless man at a strip mall, got into a violent struggle and then dumped him in their words seven miles away in Oakland.

Officers did that, even though they concluded the man had committed no crime.

An internal affairs sergeant has filed a nine page complaint with the city on this and other issues.

ABC 7, I witness news. I team reporter Dan Noise has the problem.

If I lived in San Leandro, that's exactly what I want my tax dollars going to.

You think that it is an appropriate use of police to kick them out of the cities that don't want them and give put them in the cities that do want them. We saw this by the way.

Notably, when someone in Burbank got picked up by the Burbank PD and was dropped off in North Hollywood.

100% and you know what? It goes the other way too because how often do you have some kid who has all kinds of problems with the law, problems with gang affiliation and the like.

And what do the judges say? The judges go, you know what? I think you would be better off not being around your bad friends.

So why don't you go live in Victorville? Why don't you go live in the Antelope Valley?

And then they turn Victorville into a hell hole by sending all the bad asses from LA there.

ABC 7, I witness news. I team reporter Dan Noise has the story that you will see only on 7. Hi Dan.

Amma and J.R. I obtained that body camera video. The arresting officer left it rolling the entire time so we can follow along as she decides to dump the homeless man in Oakland.

At San Leandro Police in Turnel Affairs, Sergeant Mike Oliver was going through old body camera video when he came upon this.

That's got to be an interesting job. Everyone in the department must hate you when he came. That is part of this story.

When he came upon this violent incident from December 2024, any use of force is supposed to be thoroughly documented by the arresting officer. This one was not.

Okay, you're dealing with crazy people with fried brains. Every interaction that you have with them is going to be a bad one.

If you filled out the forms every time you had a bad interaction with a homeless person, you'd have carpal tunnel.

That's the policy though. If you kind of force is used, you got to fill out the form.

Okay, it's stupid because when you allow crazy people who are schizophrenic and unfet and all on the streets, isn't the working assumption that all of it's going to be violent?

Mike Reigns is Oliver's attorney.

When you apply force to people, you handcuff them and that happens. You have to make sure you're making a record of it and the best record you can make is you take them into custody.

You tell them they're under arrest, you write a report, you let the DA sort it out.

See, the thing with this story is this guy was never arrested or charged with anything. They picked them off and then they dropped them off.

The thing is, is there's been a complete breakdown because the DAs don't charge people with crimes because we know that if you just put them in there, they're going to be released immediately.

That's not going to solve the problem. If you're going to solve the problem of that individual in your community making life worse for everyone, you have to remove them from that community.

So just send them some place where they're happy to have them.

It all started with San Leandro safety ambassadors.

Oh boy, they have those there too.

The most worthless people on planet earth. Of course, they'd make an appearance in this story.

It all started when San Leandro safety ambassadors there on the left tried to make 33 year olds to kill Coleman, leave a shopping area.

A clerk at the natural food store pushed an alarm button because she thought Coleman and the ambassadors were about to find.

What do you know? The ambassadors weren't able to make the situation better.

They did not de-escalate the situation. Nope, and then the cops had to come in. What do you know?

Two San Leandro police officers arrived. I'm asking you, who are you?

It's a lawful order. I'm asking. I'm a person that'd be around us.

Do you have a hearing and sometimes are you just going to be a difficult work and we just get through this easily?

It was no problem. Okay, cool.

Suzanne Mann and another officer tried to.

I was just making people feel incredibly uncomfortable in this shopping center that I was loitering at.

That's what they do. That's what they do.

And when there are drugs, who knows? They're talking to themselves, they're threatening you, they're menacing, whatever.

Suzanne Mann and another officer tried to handcuff Coleman so they can search him, but they can't until a third officer arrives.

Just imagine I get back in.

None of the officers told Coleman he had committed a crime. He did have a receiving stolen property conviction in his past.

Well, of course, hasn't.

And he balked when they tried to put him in the police car.

Do I sit on the ground?

No, sir. No.

What are you doing?

What are you doing?

Police really feels like an episode of cops now.

Oh, I missed that shit so much.

What are you doing?

What are you doing?

A police supervisor, Lieutenant Antoinette Turner, arrived in time to see the interaction turned violent.

Stop kicking.

Stop playing with me, bro.

Stop kicking.

Stop.

Get in the car.

Why would you pull my hand?

Officer Navarro apparently had pulled one of his cornrows.

Uh-oh.

Officer Navarro ripped out Coleman's braids trying to pull him into the car.

Why would you do that to my hair, bro?

What does he have a photo shoot coming up?

Coleman finally complied after Navarro pulled out his taser.

You can see the green dot on Coleman's chest.

The body cam continued to record while Officer Mann tried to figure out what to do next.

She considers what San Leandro police call a green sheet, a 50-150 or psychiatric hold.

She even starts filling out the paperwork before realizing she doesn't have a case.

Well, she, I don't actually, he's, they're saying he didn't do anything.

Besides she doesn't have evidence, the Coleman was a danger to himself or others.

So what do you do then?

Well, see, this is the problem.

When someone is clearly crazy and they're on the streets and they're creating problems,

and clearly he was creating problems for those ambassadors and for the store to call 911,

these are the interactions that they just have on a daily basis.

This guy should be in a mental institution.

What if the ambassadors started it?

Well, a lot of them are ex-conned, so who knows.

But if you have a crazy homeless person that is causing problems at a shopping center,

those things happen every day.

How often do you see that when you go shopping in California?

I mean, I can't count the number of times I've seen incidents similar to this.

And what happens is people just pretend like they're not there and hope they don't get hit.

So she comes up with another plan.

We're going to go way north and then dump them and then we're going to go back to them.

Well, they don't call it for the city a dumpy for nothing.

Very unbranded.

All right, wherever you think of the culprit, I'll follow.

Mantel's officer Nervaro and her supervisor, Lieutenant Turner,

that she wants to dump Coleman and Oakland, but not near any Bart station.

I'm telling you, this is the unofficial policy of every single city in Alameda County.

100%.

And if I were on that city council, I would tell the police to keep going.

It's the same thing in Southern California.

This is what Culver City does.

This is what Elstagundo does.

This is what Burbank does.

It might not be on the books, but we all know.

The alternative is just to let the homeless do what they do, which is harass people when

they're pumping gas, harass people when they're leaving shopping centers, harass people when

they're walking down the streets, occasionally go off and start attacking people.

And then we're just supposed to pretend like it didn't happen because, oh, they're sick.

Why don't they open it?

Isn't he just come back?

Get on that ****ing cup.

No, he's just going to come back and be a problem.

They get to make sure if they dump him in Oakland, it's not anywhere near a Bart station.

No, of course not.

Lieutenant.

I will get him out of here and there's no bar station.

It's going to take him while we're back.

Officer man gave Shaquille Coleman a choice.

Santa Rita County jail or ride North to Oakland.

Which one?

I don't know.

I don't know which one I'd take.

I'm going to ride up North and then you could walk off and then go figure your life out.

All right, bud.

North we go.

They take surface trees to 580 North.

Pass the San Leandro city limit.

Pass the Oakland Zoo.

Pass the Mills College.

They take them a car through Boulevard exit to a gas station just off the highway.

Seven miles from where they picked up Shaquille Coleman.

I don't know what you're looking for and you're looking for a spot to dump a homeless guy.

I don't know, but let's just hope they didn't leave bird grums.

I don't know what you're looking for and you're looking for a spot to dump a homeless guy.

The car retrieves Coleman's braids.

Officer man removes her pink handcuffs.

All right, sir.

Can you grab your stuff and take it off, man?

Shaquille Coleman gathers his belongings, her partner motions for man to get back in the police car.

I find this incident really disturbing to the point where I almost didn't want to weigh in on it because it's so disturbing.

They should have dropped him off at this idiot's house.

Former SFPD commander and police practice expert Rich Korea is critical of officer man's decisions,

saying they could have violated Coleman's civil rights.

But Rich North Korea, I see.

But he's mostly critical of Lieutenant Turner, the supervisor who told man,

I'll let you do whatever you want, she said.

You can't, in the 21st century, go to a scene as a boss and not do anything.

If there's some...

Well, the boss wanted him out of there too.

Yeah, everyone in that town did.

Support some action you need to take, some advice, some guidance.

You're not there as a passive observer, you're there to add value.

Antoinette Turner left the San Leandro Police Department this past December.

I reached her by phone at Bart police, where she is now deputy chief in charge of the progressive policing and community engagement bureau.

What?

Why is that even a thing?

Deputy chief in charge of the progressive policing and community engagement bureau.

If you're wondering why Bart has broke,

there's so many problems going on right now in that area.

Turner would not answer any of my questions about her role in the incident.

Through a spokesperson, chief Angela Averett declined to be interviewed,

so I met her one day after work.

This is the ultimate Dan noise.

If you don't respond to Dan noise as questions, he comes to your house.

We saw that with Brian Acevedo.

You're all this...

And Gavin, there's some...

Your officers dumped that man up in North Oakland.

Is that the way you do business here?

Well, yes, yes it is. Barbara Lee wants us to bring them in.

Not only would I not deny that, I would paint that on the building of City Hall.

Chief, you have to answer to the public and realize that, right?

To follow up, I sent a detailed list of questions to the city,

and received a response that said, after Sergeant Olivera's complaint last month,

chief Averett launched an independent third party investigation that found

certain personnel violated department policies,

and that they faced corrective action.

That's news to Sergeant Olivera.

It's been one year since he first complained about this incident.

His lawyer says Olivera is facing repercussions.

Oh, yeah, they don't like the tattles.

Good.

You know what? Nobody likes a snitch.

I hope they ruin this guy's life.

He was just doing his job.

Nah, nah, nah.

What he wanted is for that town to be taken over by the nuts and the bums.

If he got his way, that's what what happened.

I think the internal affairs officer just wanted to make sure they filed a report

when they shoved this guy into Oakland.

Uh-huh.

He feels like the result has been that he's been shunned.

He's been discriminated against.

He's been retaliated against the treatment he's received within this administration.

I reached out to all the officers in this report and left messages,

but did not hear back.

Tomorrow, I report on another controversy for chief Averett.

He was investigated for a hit and run while off duty

and driving an unmarked police department Jeep.

Oh boy.

San Leandro feedies got a lot of issues.

There's a lot going on in that town.

No charges were filed in that matter,

but you'll hear from the driver in the other car.

That's tomorrow.

So there you go.

The latest in noise piece,

the body cam footage of San Leandro police officers picking up somebody in San Leandro

not arresting him,

but dumping him in the city of Dumpy.

And this guy at Internal Affairs is lucky I wasn't one of his co-workers,

because I would have made his life real comfortable.

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Let's go to Walter in Santa Clarita. Walter, hello.

Hello, John.

Listening to the topic there reminded me of a story I heard years ago.

In Rio de Janeiro, the merchants were having trouble with the young men,

glue sniffers, harassing the tourists.

So they created a private security wink, wink company.

And all of a sudden these glue hovers were disappearing into the jungle.

I'm not promoting that, but that's just one solution that they came up with.

Well, that's a tale as old as time.

In the old days, the mob used to take care of that for different businesses.

They called them protection rackets.

So if you had street tuffs that were robbing your store or causing problems for your customers,

the mob would come in and take care of it.

And they would take care of it the way that the mob handles problems.

The problem is now you owed the mob a monthly installment that only goes one way and that's up.

Otherwise, you become the problem.

Yeah, I know that it's not a perfect solution, definitely.

By the way, you know what I regard as modern day protection rackets?

No, what?

HOAs.

No, yeah, there we go.

That's a can of worms.

I think I'd rather deal with the mob.

Thank you for the call, sir.

Let's go to Dan and Chino Hills.

Dan, hello.

What's happening, John?

You know what?

Why don't you have people call in and see what they, what their recommendations are to do with these crazy people.

As a police officer, we do that all the time.

We sometimes dump people off in other cities because that's what you can really do with them.

Oh, yeah.

If you know who else gets in trouble for this, hospitals, the VA gets in trouble for this because someone who's in that hospital is homeless, they treated them.

They need that bed for someone who's sick and the homeless person goes, well, I don't have a home.

And so they dump them off in downtown LA on Skid Row.

Well, they got in trouble for doing that.

So what are you supposed to do?

Turn the hospital into a homeless shelter.

So you have no beds to treat sick people?

Well, that's what we did when I was doing police work.

We always took them to Skid Row.

Now with the cameras everywhere, you can't do it.

So I was just wondering what people think we can do with them.

They don't fit the 50-150 criteria.

They ever really committed a crime.

What do we do with them?

Just throw them in the ocean.

Well, I don't know how much pushback you'd get from me.

How about just taking them over to that internal affairs guys house?

Leave them right on the front porch.

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It's time to open up the California crime blotter.

He's the cashier.

He's dummy.

We couldn't make this stuff up if we tried.

I said, hell no, baby boy.

Let me get up on out of here.

It's the California crime blotter.

And Randy, this piece of Bay Area news went national.

A bunch of jackass teens on e-bikes tried to take over the bay bridge.

But SFPD and the CHP said, hell no.

They finally put their foot down.

For more, here is Kron 4.

85 people were detained.

A lot of people.

After trying to take over and stop traffic on the bay bridge, they were all on bikes this

weekend, the CHP.

And the SFPD worked together to stop the crowd in its tracks and the whole thing was

caught on camera.

Yeah, our current first Stephanie Rothman joins us to our live in studio with the latest

on this.

Wow.

It's a lot and it's scary for people on the road and not, I mean law enforcement.

They were standing firm tonight saying that this is not child's play.

These are dangerous tactics that could lead to mass injuries, but not this time.

Yeah, but kids are dumb.

And you put them on an e-bike and they become a demon.

On Saturday, 85 bicyclists were caught on SFPD drone cameras, swirving in.

Out of traffic in downtown San Francisco, catching the attention of concerned drivers and

California highway patrol.

This isn't a group of cyclists that are just out for a Saturday ride.

These are individuals who are intentionally wreaking havoc in our communities.

They even have a phrase for it.

The kids call it a ride out.

Well, you know, what we're going to do.

We're going to do it.

We're going to do it.

We're going to do it.

We're going to do it.

We're going to do it.

We're going to do it.

We're going to do it.

We're going to do it.

We're going to do it.

Well, you know what would happen if a motorist didn't see one of them and ran them over

and killed them.

It would be that person's fault.

Well, for that situation to happen, you would have to imagine that someone was going faster

than five miles an hour on the Bay Bridge.

That's true.

Writing at other vehicles, writing at pedestrians.

And then when they get up on the freeway, they have no concerns with the fact that they are

shutting down a major transportation route in the Bay Area.

Yeah.

Have some respect.

That bridge is named after Willie Brown.

People have places to go.

Sergeant Andrew Barclay with a CHP's Golden Gate Division says they had to act fast, deploying

units to cut them off before they entered the bridge.

If they did take a ramp, then our biggest goal would be to stop them before they got to

the top of that ramp.

And that comes to the planning of having CHP units stationed to kind of leapfrog for

a lack of a better term to say, okay, they've passed this ramp, let's stay for the next

ramp.

They've passed this ramp, let's stay for the next one.

So it is boy, this they really knew what they were doing here and there's so much work

they have to do to make sure that they intercept these jackasses on the right ramp.

Can you imagine if you were late for something because all this nonsense was going on?

It is I guarantee there are people listening right now that have been late for something because

jackasses on e-bikes shut down traffic.

Imagine if you missed a flight.

It is, it is an incredibly fluid process, a lot of moving parts, a lot of communication.

But when that all goes right, you see the result.

In the past law enforcement has been unprepared for an really behavior.

But this weekend, Sergeant Barclay credits learning from previous incidents nearby patrol

and real-time monitoring for their success.

I'm telling you right now, the game changer here is that real-time information center

which operates like the Batcave and the drones which they can launch from all different

kinds of corners of the city way faster than any police vehicle can get around San Francisco.

I wonder how often this sort of thing happens where we don't even hear about it because

the cops just don't respond.

And if you're thinking of taking a joy ride yourself, do you want to go to court?

Do you want to be held accountable and do you want to lose your bicycle?

That's the new thing.

We're taking away the bike, good.

Don't risk it.

It's not worth it.

Well, a CHP said 85 people were detained and cited for riding a bike on the freeway.

They were all released, but the bikes have been taken away.

In the studio, Stephanie Rothman, back to you.

There you go.

The SFPD and the CHP shut down the attempted takeover of the Bay Bridge.

And Randy, it's time to reopen the California crime blotter.

It's happened yet again.

It's wow, wow, what's up here?

Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun,

beats the California crime blotter with John and Randy.

And on this one, I think I can speak on behalf of the late great Tony Gwynn and say if he

was aware of what happened, he'd be shaking his head.

Is that a baseball reference?

Yes.

Oh, we're doing that story.

I don't know.

I only did sports here for six years.

There was a fight at the Padres game.

Here's CBS 8.

All right.

There's always a lot of excitement at the beginning of a baseball season.

And sometimes that can go too far.

Take a look at this.

What if Tony Gwynn was an Uber driver?

Then we'd be doing cut 23.

Take a look at this video shared with News 8 showing a brawl in the stands last Friday

night that ultimately led to arrest.

And tonight I wonder if people are on edge because San Diego jacked up the parking at Petco

so much.

Could be.

And tonight I spoke with the Padres, San Diego Police, and a witness about what went down

at the ballgame.

That sounds like fun.

And you pay a fortune to go there.

As the Padres took on the...

Well I guess the thought process is why I paid $20 for this beer.

I better do something stupid with it in my system.

As the Padres took on the Detroit Tigers Friday night, up in the stands at Petco Park,

punches were thrown.

It appears to have started with two people before others joined in.

This is that mod mentality with the kids on the e-bikes, drunk people at a baseball game.

One of them gets angry, they all get angry.

You know, you can take the Raiders out of California, but you can't take the Raider fans with

them.

It appears to have started with two people before others joined in, and at one point,

they slammed into other fans.

It turned in from two people to a group, and then within 30 seconds, all of a sudden,

they come flying down the stairs right into the woman that was on my right.

I didn't know her, but...

I don't think anyone was actually watching the game at this point.

I'd be watching the fight too.

That's more interesting.

Right into the woman that was on my...

If you're operating the jumbo tron, do you zoom in or do you got to turn away?

Oh yeah, just turn it into a hockey game and show the fight.

I didn't see the woman that was on my right.

I didn't know her, but I got to know her because she came flying into me, unfortunately.

That's the Padres fan.

She was safe in case you're wondering.

That's the Padres fan who witnessed, recorded, and shared this video with me.

You requested to remain anonymous.

You a friend of retaliation from other Padres fans?

Probably.

Maybe it's like with the police, you can't snitch on your fellow friars.

If I let up to the fight, that's still unclear.

Alcohol.

Lots and lots of alcohol.

The only thing we heard that really drew our attention was we heard someone yell super

loud like do something about it then, but...

You know each other's never a fight on AA night at the baseball game.

They may be grouchy, but they're not throwing fists.

The only thing we heard that really drew our attention was we heard someone yell super

loud like do something about it then, but like really loud like do something and then

that's what all of a sudden we turn around and it's just, you know, everybody, like they

just, they went at it.

He tells me law.

This society is done, right?

Well, I guess a lot of people did something.

He tells me law enforcement soon arrived to break up the brawl.

I spoke with the San Diego Police Department Monday afternoon and they told me two people

were arrested, cited, released, and ultimately expelled from the game.

No more petco for you.

You know what I think causes a lot of these fights at these sporting events?

What's that?

Nobody sits in the seats that they're assigned to.

And then if you show up to your seats and someone's in there, you go, hey, you're in my

seat.

About half the time they go, we'll go sit somewhere else.

I've seen that happen.

Not an angel stadium.

Well, there's a lot of that stadium when I go with friends to other parks.

That is a very common confrontation at the big.

Hey, you might have a whole row to yourself.

Hey, it's like flying on a holiday.

I reached out to the Padres who tell me they have a zero tolerance policy for behavior that

disrupts the game day experience.

They went on to say that anyone who violates their policy will be subject to immediate

removal from the ballpark, lost a future ticket privileges, and face potential criminal

prosecution.

Only two got that punishment.

The rest of them, well, they didn't start it, but they finished it.

Well, this is why if I'm not going to see a game in Orange County, I insist on getting

there super early, because if you get there super early, you're in your assigned seats,

and no one's going to squat in your seats, so you don't have to have a confrontation.

The mood in our section was definitely like everyone wanted to get out of there, right?

It was it was the Padres were losing, they already wanted out.

Keep in mind, these are adults.

So the whole crowd was, Dodger fans are a different breed though.

The Dodgers could be winning and they want to get out of there.

I don't care how exciting this game is, that traffic's going to be hell.

So the whole crowd was just, you know, watched that whole fight, that whole brawl go down.

So it kind of did take away the fun of the, you know, the end of the game.

Meanwhile, STPD added that during the game, San Diego police officers work with Padres

guest safety representatives and security to monitor the crowd and address issues like

this as they arrive, arise.

There you go.

That's what happened.

The big ol' brawl at the Padres game.

Is this something new for San Diego?

Because I've always known that Dodger Stadium is aggressive when the Raiders were here, whether

it be in Los Angeles or in Oakland, their fans were aggressive, but I've never thought

of the Padre fans as being that aggressive.

San Diego's supposed to be like the ultimate expression of California laid back, but maybe

that's why this made news because this happens all the time at Dodger Stadium, but because

it happens so often, it ain't newsworthy unless someone gets a concussion in the parking lot.

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We have some breaking news.

President Trump has just weighed in on the insurance companies who were servicing the homeowners

whose homes burned down in the fires in Pacific Palisades and Altadena, and he's telling

the insurance companies that they're now unnoticed for not fulfilling their obligations

in those contracts.

I'm very kind of sketchy.

The post reads, I have just met with various political representatives of the tragedy that

took place in California, considering the burning of thousands of once beautiful homes.

It was brought to my attention that the insurance companies, in particular, state farm, have

been absolutely horrible to people that have been paying them large premiums for years,

only to find that when tragedy struck, these horrendous companies were not there to help.

I have asked the administrator of the U.S. EPA Lee Zeldin to give me a list of the companies

who acted swiftly, courageously, and bravely in order to make their clients happy, and even

more importantly, in order to fulfill their legal obligations.

Likewise, I have asked to see those companies that were particularly bad.

I'll wait till you find out what the California fair plan is, buddy.

The names of some surprise me, but in a world which we live in, nothing really surprises

me.

State Farm and others should get their act together and treat people fairly.

The government is looking into this matter as we speak.

Good for him, because whenever we talk to a fire victim, we hear the same story over

and over and over again.

The insurance companies are no help, and they will not give them what is owed to them,

and the two worst ones that we keep hearing about, from just about everyone, is the fair

plan and state farm.

You remember when Karen Bass held that really pathetic press conference in front of the

first house that was rebuilding in the palisades, and they just had a couple of studs up, and

she's like, look, progress is being made.

We're so much faster than paradise.

And Channel 4 asks the homeowner, hey, how's this going?

He says, well, this is about as far as I can go, because state farm won't pay out my claim.

I wonder if the federal government starts turning over stones in the Pacific palisades

in Al-Tadena, and they're looking into the transgressions of state farm.

How long it takes before them to be hot on Ricardo Lara?

I'm very kind of sketched.

Well, based on the investigations that we already know about Ricardo Lara, not only did

he give state farm an emergency rate increase when they haven't paid out those claims, but

we now know that state farm was aware of all the deals he was going to make when it comes

to his insurance strategy, which in effect incentivized companies like state farm to drop

as many people as possible to create the conditions where they could get anything that they wanted.

And if those companies are not fulfilling their contractual obligations, and the California

Department of Insurance exists to make sure that they do that, and he's not doing that,

and then they're paying his way to all of these junkets all over the globe, so he can

live like Ellie may clamp it.

That's not going to look good.

If anyone can get a hold of Lee Zeldin, they should have him meet Stephanie Sierra at ABC

7 in the Bay, so they could learn about all of Ricardo Lara's taxpayer funded travel that

he was doing instead of making sure that we had an insurance market in this state.

As you mentioned, that's already been broadcast on local television stations in California,

and certainly on this radio program, and I assume on others, at this point, one would

assume that his transgressions are on the radar of the federal government and the FBI.

If he's not under any kind of investigation, I'd be shocked.

Well we know that California won't do anything to him, because Rob Bonta is about as crooked

as they come, and he would be the one in charge of investigating Ricardo Lara.

So either the feds do something about it, or nothing happens.

All right, Randy, what do you say we take a call?

It's going to John in the East Bay, John Hello.

Well, you know, you've really given me a target rich environment here.

I was calling originally on the San Leandro police taper where they shipped the guy up

to Oakland.

Finally, the lieutenant was on the scene, took no action, and she got promoted, and there's

now the deputy chief at the Bart police department.

The fights at the Oakland radar dams, I used to have some really choice seats behind the

first base dugout, and I used to give him frequently to my son and his friends.

Well, they preferred sitting in the bleachers, and he told me, Dad, we just go out there

to watch the fights.

They're fighting all my wrong, it's happening.

Hey, I'll pay in thousands for these seats, he said, the waste of money, we'll sit in

the bleachers just to watch, just to watch the fights.

The San Leandro caper, when Jerry Brown was the mayor of Oakland, he got upset about all

the prostitutes on the car through Boulevard in Oakland, and I had one of my buddies call

me up about three weeks later, and he told me, he's 20 years after I left, he says, they

drive down the car through Boulevard, you won't find a prostitute in sight.

And I said, well, I'm not looking for any, but I'm curious where the hell they go.

And he said, basically, they harass the Johns to the point that the prostitutes asked

him what was going on, and they ran a buy-em and told San Francisco, will not prosecute

prostitution.

And they all went to San Francisco.

It's a give and a take, that's for sure, thank you for the call, Sarah.

Hey there, I'm Paula Pan, I help people make the smartest money decisions possible.

Joe, you know what's been great about being a saver?

More money to make.

And that money over the past couple of years has made a pretty good yield, pre-pandemic,

money was making zero, now it's actually making something, but that's starting to go down,

down, down.

I love how we can play the fact that inflation's been really high.

It's a positive, but if you're a saver, you know what that means?

Shacheng.

Soberlining, Joe.

Soberlining.

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