kept that hard enough she is at a game doing Mommy duties and I'm glad to be here in her stead we will have the invocation presented by Pastor Chris Wright from South Hills Baptist please rise for the invocation and remain standing for the pledges of Allegiance thank you so much let's pray together father I thank you for our mayor our mayor of attempt for this wonderful Council that works tirelessly to serve our city and God for them and for chief Nokes and our officers that you would guide and direct them First Responders in this city all other cities officials that strive to make Fort Worth the best city in the country and God I pray that we continue to Rise Above the Rest and be on The Cutting Edge of all that's needed to help this city to grow and flourish and prosper and God I pray for this Council and others that you give them wisdom that you give them prudence and you give them tenacity to endure and serve in the best way possible under your guidance and under your care and God I pray for myself and for our church and fellow pastors and churches that we can have wisdom to know how to partner alongside this city to help make it a better place and to improve any and every way that we can helping anyone that comes along our path god grow this city watch over protect keep those who are safe out on the streets to provide everything that they need and God we're so grateful for the chance to enjoy this beautiful day that you've given us of of all that we're thankful for more than anything we're thankful for your son Jesus and it's in his name that we pray amen please remain standing for the Pledge of Allegiance followed by the Texas pledge I pledge thank you thank you now to proceed with the orders of the day I need motions for the minutes from the April 11th 18th 18th public comment and April 25th Council meetings move to approved it has been moved and seconded all in favor please use your finger and vote if you can looks like we're missing Melissa more than we thought Ryan can we do a hand vote you've just earned your pay okay and with that our public comment session has started I'll let the staff call the names and give the rules first speaker will be Bob Willoughby oh you know what there's a page underneath and my notes okay Leanna attorney here I sent a video in for the night to play about Code Compliance thing anyway they stopped my video for this reasoning in the video I stated that code compliant officer Cesar Bell will abuse the power she is entrusted with now that's why they stopped my video because I said that and I have reasons why I believe she will trust it and this is a comment meeting we should be able to comment but I wasn't allowed to okay anyway um also uh Leanne in the city what they do now when you say stuff like that they call it an attack and it's not an attack that's the way they protect these employees if an employee is doing something wrong here and you say anything about it let's say you're attacking and that's how they protect deploys so that's what this is all about but anyway uh I asked attorney can you defend that it is not an abuse of power that this is not an abusive Power by the code officer seal Bell I say it was I want her to defend that it wasn't wasn't one okay to give a command to me to meet or a 300 fine if my cat pain sign is not removed even though it was sitting right next to another campaign signed the same spot okay but there's no reason no no no abuse of power okay anyway she only gave me six hours no notice so I called we got that stop by Tony Hiller he stopped it all this is recorded it's on the video and you can email me and I'll send you the video you can go to my website and see the video to explain a whole lot of this right here but what I'm after here tonight is that we need guidelines I've been asking this is what got me started 13 years ago Code Compliance has no guidelines when they go out and give you a ticket in six hours time you need at least a five-day notice the officers said okay Mr will be but you have uh uh five days but you had to take care of it I'm running out of time now here's why it's so important to get back to City Council on on the council agenda here what makes a difference they do not answer questions here you get us on the council meeting before zoning and these questions will be answered okay just like me asking five days for Code Compliance before they write a citation some kind of guideline what is abuse of power Leanne if she asked me 30 minutes to get it done would that be abusive power four hours six hours where's the line at that you would call it abuse of power there's not a lion okay we need a line and uh this City's full of stuff like that that's what got me started a long time with Coke Appliance why not they won't do a thing and this here is worthless it's a waste of taxpayers money our time and everything unless they make it a q a because they do not answer or do anything they don't want to do now we should be over on the city council agenda before the zoning and we'll get answers and we'll start taking back our city otherwise we're under government control right now thank you call the next speaker next speaker is Jim DeLong good evening I'm Jim Delong Fort Worth resident I've entitled this bullet number three so I'm on a little bit of a series here to recap my first one I talked about if you get shot with a bullet don't distress the wound you need to address the bullet last time I talked about the boil is man's compulsion to dominate we have history is full of that and then I mentioned that we've spent over 20 trillion dollars since the Civil Rights Act that equals 20 trillion dollars that equals 20 million dollars for every man woman and child in our city and what have we got for that money so the point is how can we be effective what we've been doing in the past has not been effective because we still have the racial problems that we do and so uh tonight I want to address the bullet every one of us has a bullet in us every one of us is born with a bullet inside of us and how we deal with that bullet will depend on whether we turn and become angry cause division cost Strife cause Anarchy or if we address the bullet within us then uh we can bring Unity and work with people and Reconciliation and that's the main reason why I'm up talking about the subject we've gone too long in our country too long over hundreds of years at least and we fight one another we fight one another that's just man's propensity unless they'll take stock within themselves first we have to deal with the bullet inside of Wilson how are we going to act and react am I going to get mad at you guys because I don't like what you do I'm not going to get mad at you because I don't like the way you talk I'm not going to get mad at you because of the color of your skin that's one way but you're not dealing with your brother bullet you're letting the the bullet infect you we all we are all men and women and hopefully I'm hoping uh to make a point where let's address the bullets that's in us I can be nice to anybody like I've said before I could come into agreement with anybody and maybe the starting point is you like ice cream and I like ice cream we can start there if you start with the big issues we'll never we'll never span the chasm let's come together let's be men and women and grown-ups look at ourselves address the bullet and be nice to one another and kind to one another thank you speaker is Stephanie hellstern go ahead please my name is Stephanie helster and I am a resident I've been here in Texas for several years most of my life I lost my 16 year old son during covid and it wasn't due to covid it was due to fentanyl my son thought he was trying a Percocet pill for the first time and it wasn't just laced with fentanyl it was pure fentanyl I'm not sure if you know about what fentanyl is it is a leading cause never caused of death right now between ages of 18 to 45 two milligrams two milligrams kills you my son died with 12 in his system and no one's talking about it my son's um death was not even investigated it was immediately closed and they acted like because it was an acute fentanyl intoxication they saw my son as an addict he was not an addict and even if he did nobody deserved to die in that way um I haven't had a lot of um why I'm here today is I haven't had a lot of community and people and councilmen coming to any of my events I've thrown three events here at the Tarrant County courthouse and on Saturday I'm throwing another event I know it's election day but I'm just rallying trying to bring people in Awareness because we need education as well as Narcan if you don't know what this is this is a preventative of to reverse this um side effects of it right now two out of five kids it was two and five now it went to three and five kids are going to die from Fentanyl and can you tell which pill here is a fake one you can't so we need to educate people about this we have several a brochures several things that we're going to be giving out at our event um I have now started the north Texas fentanyl Coalition I have over 60 members in my group it first started with just a few of us and now it's just grown and grown and grown so like I said I'm here today because I am asking everybody to come and rally upon and come to certain events that you notice but I'm also trying to get into the schools and everywhere else it seems like here I'm not having much presidents but my Governor I've been on his panel twice and he is now have we worked on all these different education awareness there is emojis that our kids are using and they're literally you can buy drugs or alcohol or anything from Snapchat social media and there's codes that our parents and everybody needs to know and there was a crisis in my school and I was not aware of it foreign so just like I said I'm just trying to bring awareness to not only the parents grandparents um brothers and sisters or anybody that has kids we need to be talking to our kids as young as three and four that fentanyl is being mixed in with Gummy Bears nerds everything I know there's false facts and things coming out there but it is being mixed with everything it's actually in vape pens right now too it's coming from China thank you for coming and you do have our sympathy I see your phone number signed in I'll put you in touch with the president of the school board thank you so next speaker is Kenner Kennard George Kennard George Mr George next speaker is Gerald Banks Bolton John liked ice cream too he got a bullet when a cop named James Schmidt number 4645 and a cop named in Sonny's or whatever his name is and number 4570 of the South Division Nettles District refused to give their names and badge number upon requests I filed a complaint upon filing the complaint with opium and the police department in which IA detective Matthew B price number 39 threatened me after I refused to sign the Complaint Form that he filled out in the area that I left blank because my complaint because my complaint was three seats uh three sheets and I had attached them so that there was no reason for him to write in the Box besides what he wrote was a lie they did nothing to the cops and opium was just a joke because they can only recommend after the cop do after the cops do what they want just the front I have proof what we need is a real oversight board with citizens from the community nominated and voted in to get the Justice in this city how can this city be safe with Thug like cops who cover up for each other a drunk driver hit my car well hit a customer of mine's car knocked it into my truck almost killing me and my son the cops were called this is about two o'clock in the morning cops would call and after two hours they still hadn't arrived the drunk driver we had to go ahead and let him go this is still in Nettles District this is the three ring circus in this rotunda and it's a shame what's been transparent child is like acts displayed from city leaders and and to walk out with a temper tantrum is showing the lack of respect and to get respect well that's certainly not the way we all know direct that racism exists and Clan and the clan has been a part of white folks lives and there is no denying it the Willie Lynch and Jim Crow era still lives in each day but in different ways police uniform suits rolls even teachers in school we have to understand the dignity and professionalism no matter what it is being said must remain intact your character is who you are and will eventually show the truth a Tatiana Jefferson I appreciate you listening good evening well I didn't expect Mary to be here as always she likes to walk away well I'm glad the cheapest here because his officers are the reason why my son Javier rice is sitting in detention right now for over 30 days he was picked up he was the only one arrested out of five children on March the 25th and in the whole time they go there and they see him they're talking about my family we had to move the Plano to escape the Fort Worth PD harassment they made they changed the narrative it made it look like they changed the narrative of the report so many lies that it changed the whole narrative and made it about me and my family the in their the retaliation of them speaking of them retaliating against my family for me speaking out publicly of the criminal Injustice that they did to Jalen rice Pivens I don't walk I don't teach my children to walk away from their problems and I don't understand why this Council Council walks away from theirs it doesn't play like since you had so much to say to Peyton you got something to say now about the officers lying about my son and not to mind you march the 20th I mean back in the summertime he was having a mental health crisis the Fort Worth PD took my son to the police station to give a false statement against me it's the one same one that's sitting in Kimball right now said I was trying to shoot him in the head if that was the case then why would y'all send what what he was supposed to go to JPS they kidnapped him and took him to the police station that is kidnapped he was never supposed to be in the back of a cruiser never I never gave this Mission a ride in a caruser that is my son he was supposed to be in the back of MedStar going to JPS to get a mental health evaluation it is pure evil to sit up there and you mad at me be mad at me but you don't take it out on children you don't take it out on children Maddie is the most weakest person and she runs her household like she runs this city I feel bad for her children feel bad because you guys are complicit to the acts of the Footwear PD Officers every last one of y'all they use CPS they use your neighbors this lady they got her evicted from her home they told they told her a landlord that lives in California that the police been out there there 20 times and she had to move within 30 days and yes she has proof to back it up they told her that the house was rated what is that Fort Worth PD's job description coming to Plano talking to my landlord that's that they're they're way out of line the retaliation the harassment you got to be the most miserable city council and police department I ever met in my life next speaker is Adrian Smith let the words of my mouth in a meditation on my heart be acceptable in that sight oh Lord my strength and my redeemer Adrian Smith you all don't have to give me your attention but as long as you can hear my voice hopefully something that us I'm saying or individuals who come to this podium week after week says something that pricks your heart Mr Williams you know I call people out when I'm standing here and I don't see anything funny considering what you're facing so remember sir there are people who support you but there are just as many as people want to see you from off that seat and we know where that comes from but I have nothing personal against you sir so check this out so the man so mayor's not here like we expected that you know we expected that right before election you know it got a little hot for her we know it did it got a little high for but something I take issue with was something that was said at work session today and I quote Miss Davis you you brought up the issue regarding this new technology that they're trying to implement and her particular quote was I'll just say on the record that this may seem a little cross but I do not want to be compared I do not think we want to be compared to Chicago when it relates to gun violence I would like to ask the question of this counselor in the mirror because I know she's Somewhere listening she's probably watching what's the difference what's the difference between Fort Worth and Chicago when it comes to gun violence we know that violence in the city it's not going down it's really on a continual uptick in Chief notes your presence sir where is the quarterly crime data report that hasn't been submitted up on the Fort Worth PD website since the mayor since the mayor is talking about crime is down where are the numbers at we know that's not the case but anyway my digress from that I want people to know this may 6. keep that in mind you have an opportunity you have an opportunity to change whatever it is you do not like concerning your elected representative if you haven't voted vote if you haven't voted vote there's nothing wrong with change into the um later that's the woman who stood up here in regards to the Fentanyl situation God bless you and the loss of your son but let me be want to say that this council is not ready to handle the fentanyl crisis thank you is James Smith in the audience yeah we've tried him three times and he's not answering and he hasn't called called us back uh next speaker will be uh Maria Lena Tillman all right good evening everyone I am here on behalf of the Waterview tenants Association again our issues with the landlord and management company have not been resolved in addition to arising issues with Fort Worth Code Compliance they have no idea what they're doing um I would like to pray first that the Lord would give each of you on this panel ears to hear in the spirit that follows suit um I'm here just to make a statement just to say that the businessmen that are providing our basic necessities in Fort Worth are actually price gouging um it is written in article 17 section 46b of the Texas deceptive trade practices consumer protection act that it is a false misleading or deceptive act or practice to take advantage of a disaster declared by a governor under chapter 418 government code or the president by one selling releasing fuel food medicine lodging building materials construction tools or another necessity at an exorbitant or excessive price or too demanding and exorbitant or excessive price in connection with the sale or lease of fuel food medicine lodging building materials construction tools or another necessity Tri-County electric and their wholesaler is in violation of the gas price gouging prevention Act passed in March of 2022 they still provide service to Residents that were drawn into Fort Worth District 4. the rule of thumb for a cap on Price increasement is set forth by the state of California at 10 percent the cost of electricity natural Fuel and rent are in excess of a 50 markup specifically in District 4 of Fort Worth and the former District 2 of Keller before I make my request I would like to make it very clear to everyone in this room that this floor belongs to me as much as it belongs to everyone in this room and all the residents of Fort Worth it is my understanding that the government is employed by us and it is impossible for me or us to impose something on a system that is already mine or ours we have been in a state of emergency since the year 2020. I I really need an additional three minutes because I am proposing a solution to what I'm complaining about there is no additional time well I'm proposing that the city of Fort Worth declare as local state of emergency in order to get a local rent control in ordinance next speaker is Peyton Jackson Miss Jackson [Music] good afternoon Council I'll keep it short I'm actually yielding until Parker is back so right no no no it's okay I'll wait I'll wait till she comes back thank you guys next speaker is Carolina Rodriguez hi mayor if you're looking online so Elizabeth my my lady up there so Carolina so we just spent a million dollars on a report to tell us that the police were using excessive force and that there were punks right has anything changed since we got that report oh yeah we spent a quarter of a million dollars on somebody named Abraham Prado last week does anybody know about that we had the city had to pay him a quarter of a million dollars for some kind of excessive force from the fleece quarter Mill and beat my ass up for a quarter mil I'd take it um so I was looking at the excessive force report for March of 2023 and I saw that it the excessive force was used 192 times on the self on the monthly um um brutality or Force excessive force report that they put out 192 times but of course they self-report so the number is probably much higher than that since it's done on the honor System um last month in March they brandished their weapons 132 times but they didn't have to use any kind of weapon on Brandon Zapata all they had to use was a knee on the neck that's all they needed for that so like I said I don't know what part of the sets of force report that's going to be on um we got a body cam footage but we had minutes that were blacked out redacted I wonder if those what was on those reductive minutes um we can't rely on the members for the car reports that's not how you judge they can manipulate those numbers too you gotta you gotta rely on excessive force reports and how many people are suing for a quarter Mill a quarter mil and plus the way they falsify reports I just happen to have Manuel Montez arrest reports from his last arrest where he was arrested over um I'm very straight I think it was or Ellen as an allen and it was it's written by Deputy Rodriguez it took them nine hours to write this because they had to get it right he was arrested for uh he was arrested for interference with public duties and interference with public duties is written as interference with like an officer you and Pete them you um interrupt him uh that's that's how that's written so Deputy Rodriguez she was on routine Patrol and she she stopped it she got an LPR hit on a great Dodger she conducted the traffic stuff she approached the vehicle advised the reason for the stop the driver stated she would identify herself only only to without an Enterprise herself after I told her why I stopped the vehicle with an upset tone I responded with no problem how her vehicle was hitting the LPR system that my patrol car is equipped with and alerted me to someone in the vehicle um has a warrant the driver identified herself to satanapo the passenger refused to even look at me making my awareness and safety more heightened she immediately pried it that Pride it's me I I have the warrants like she like that like that machine knew that she had warrants because she was the passenger but anyways it goes on and um there's no interference written in here she starts saying that I was on the phone with her warrant's office confirming active warrants I heard a male voice loudly walking up from behind with the vehicle and the front passenger window of my mark patrol car I'll have to put this on my website so you can see it but it's a classified report thank you for coming and we're back the meeting is adjourned for this evening you have a half hour to vote if you haven't voted today have a great evening [Music]