I want to report a
HATE CRIME

The scene of the crime is South Minneapolis

• It is a hate crime to advocate tearing down your neighbor's house.
• It is a hate crime for the City's Inspections Department to refuse to inspect the house and refuse to allow its rehabilitation
• It is a hate crime for the City Council to vote to tear down a person's house.
• It is a hate crime for the Mayor to sign the Council's order to tear down a person's house.
• It is a hate crime for Excel Energy to take an order from an Excavating company to shut off electricity before the owner has removed contents of the house.
• It is a hate crime for the Excavating Company to tear the boards off the house and leave it open so that people can break in, before he has a contract with the City.
• It is a hate crime for the City Inspections Department to allow this as the ordinary course of business, before the 30 days have elapsed which the City declared they must do in order to allow for more bids.

I am the Conservator for the owner of the above property. We have never been able to obtain any rights for people who are alleged to be mentally ill from the Disability Law Center (a part of Legal Aid), the Minnesota Ombudsman for Mental Health and Developmental Disability, nor from Minnesota nor Hennepin County Adult Protection.

**Tom**: He was AWOL from AMRTC from January to March 3, 2000 after being home on a week-end leave. One of his friends telephoned AMRTC saying a couple of them would return him to AMRTC. They were told not to. "Our policy is to wait for an incident." That incident almost cost Tom his life. I was at the court hearing when Officer Stender testified that, "If he had taken one step forward, he would have been shot." He was hit with many rubber bullets. CS gas was used to destroy his house. The police broke every one of the 22 windows in his house. The city said it had to be condemned. However, I have an Odatus that makes 03 (commonly called ozone) which destroys the gas and other toxic substances such as mold, paint, perfume, and smoke. It is used to restore houses after a fire. We got rid of the gas but the city would not send in an Inspector to find out. The city said we had to pay $30,000 to $50,000 to Service Master in Maple Grove to clean the house. That was the only Service Master who could do this work. Roger Van Tassel, City Inspections Department guaranteed no test of any kind would pass his acceptance in lieu of the Service Master work.

What did **Tom** do to bring all that on himself? He yelled at the postman on March 3rd because he did not bring **Tom's** SSDI check.

**Tom** got into the system in the first place because he had bought a house to accommodate a "friend" who could not get out of a program because he had no place to go. A little later, this "friend" called the police and said they had a fight and **Tom** became angry. That was enough to take **Tom's** house and his life away. Nobody is allowed to speak for the defendant in Commitment Court. No jury trial is allowed. It only takes one person to allege mental illness and then the other loses his property and his life. That person is often a "friend," neighbor, spouse, landlord who wants to evict to get higher rent, etc.

The city condemned **Tom's** house and has let the bids on it. I asked how much time we would have to get his furniture out. The city said that after the bids were let, we would have 30 days until the bidding process was closed. That would have been about October 2nd. Instead, when I went over there on September 24th, the CNH Excavating company was breaking down the door. Someone had pulled the wires from the outside box. Excel Energy said they had an order to shut off the electricity on September 28th. I had met two men there with the expectation of loading up **Tom's** furniture to save for him but we had no electricity to see. This seems to be the city's general policy.

1. I was in AMRTC since then reading a medical record of a person who asked me to when a call came in from the community saying, "We know where she is now and we can bring her back." The nurse said, "No, it is our policy to wait for an incident." This is a bad state policy.
   
2. The incident that got **Tom** into trouble was occasioned by his Social Security check not arriving at his house on March 3, 2000. He yelled at the postman outside the door. For this, he is in St. Peter Security Hospital.
3. I was appointed his Conservator after that. I found that the gas used by the police was only intended to be used outdoors and only in riot control. We learned this from the makers of the gas. In addition, they said the police are supposed to call them before using the gas. There was no record of such a call.
4. There was no need to break out all 22 of the windows in the house, nor to throw in the gas canisters in the front of the house after they had determined that **Tom** was in the back.
5. Pictures of **Tom** taken at HCMC after the incident show scratches and bruises all over his head, consistent with a beating with fists. This was unnecessary as it happened after he was apprehended as it would not have been necessary with (reported) 20 to 50 police officers there. Pictures also show a large wound on his back and reports from the Security Hospital show wounds on his legs and he was limping months after the attack.
6. During this raid on **Tom's** house, **Tom's** brother had come over to his house and told police he might be able to talk Tom to come out of his house. The police promptly locked his brother in the back of a police car and kept him there the rest of the six hours while they had their fun.
7. The above was mentioned briefly in court by **Tom's** court-appointed attorney. Officer Stender said he didn't know what had gone on outside the house. The attorney did not pursue it. I stood up and went to the gate and asked, "May I speak?" The judge said, "No."

My questions to the Minneapolis Police Department after that were not returned.

8. The police left a copy of a Warrant to break into **Tom's** house. His parents retrieved this and it shows that **Tom's** address was handwritten in after a typed address had been crossed out. The Minneapolis Police had not even bothered to get a judge's signature. There is no judge's name typed on the supposed warrant. The judge's signature is unreadable. The initial by the written-in address does not match the signature. I guess this is ordinary procedure.

Illegalities in many other cases are waiting in line, in case there is ever anything that can be done to achieve justice.

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