Friday, December 1, 2017

Media Fail: LA Times Report Branson Dishonest About Huntington Park Lawsuit

The Los Angeles Times has printed the article about my arrest--and now my lawsuit--against the city of Huntington Park for false arrest and violation of my civil rights.



I had contacted Hailey Branson to report on this, but then I realized "Should I give her a second chance when she tried to smear me the last time."

Here's the report, and he are the facts:


Arthur Christopher Schaper sat in the back of the Huntington Park City Council chambers, wearing a “Make America Great Again” cap and a Donald Trump flag around his shoulders like a cape.

The council warned him he was disrupting the June meeting. Police officers asked him to leave. He refused, likening himself to Rosa Parks.

No they didn't. It was Cosme Lozano who had suggested that I be ruled out of order following Joseph Settles' statement to me not to disrupt the meeting.

But I was not disrupting the meeting at all. What's going on here? Why didn't the Los Angeles Times include the videos I had uploaded? Strange.

Schaper was arrested on suspicion of two misdemeanor counts of disturbing a public meeting and disobeying a police officer, according to the Huntington Park Police Department.

Further down in the article, you will find that one of the Lieutenants refuses to release the information to the reporter. Another lieutenant ended up releasing this information.

Now, more than five months later, Schaper has sued the city of Huntington Park, claiming he was wrongfully arrested and that the city trolled him with "false notices" to appear in court when the case had not yet been presented by police to the Los Angeles County district attorney's office.

"Troll"? I didn't use that word. What is she talking about?

Here's an urban dictionary definition:

In Internet slang, a troll (/ˈtroʊl/, /ˈtrɒl/) is a person who sows discord on the Internet by starting quarrels or upsetting people, by posting inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community 

The Police Department is not trolling me, since their decision not to file a case with the district attorney's office is not a mater of exchange on the Internet.

Schaper, who was profiled by The Times three days before his arrest, is a familiar, confrontational — and, some say, racist — presence at Huntington Park council meetings, where he rails against "illegal aliens," and heckles for his Facebook Live audience. Police officers who attend the meetings are so familiar with him that they call him by his first name.

"Racist". Who are the people who say this? Did the LA Times even bother to follow up on these remarks? She had profiled me in May, and she noticed that with one of the groups I interact with, there are men and women of different ethnic backgrounds. I still don't understand why she can print something like that without any proof of it. 

"Illegal aliens" are indeed sitting on two city commissions. They are in the country illegally, and they have no legal right to reside in the country. They are aliens, as that term is appropriate.

On June 6, Schaper and a cadre of anti-illegal immigration activists loudly laughed through the public comments of a man who told the council that Schaper was a white supremacist.

Huh?

Members of the City Council warned Schaper twice that he was disrupting the meeting before asking police to escort him out.

No they didn't. That is a total lie. The videos I have submitted and uploaded all detail this information.

"You have to leave or we're going to take you to jail," a Huntington Park police officer told him. "I don't want to do that if we don't have to. This isn't worth going to jail for."

"They said the same thing to Rosa Parks," Schaper said, just before he was arrested.

He or she was arrested? I am confused.

I don't see why there is a problem here, mentioning a civil rights activist who refused to give up her seat on a bus. I refused to leave the city council chambers because they had no right to arrest me. I was not disrupting the meeting.

Schaper, the president of the Beach Cities Republicans club, wrote on his blog that he sat in jail for two hours and was released with a citation and notice to appear at a Downey courthouse three months later.

I am no longer the President of the Beach Cities Republicans. How could she not get that right?

On Sept. 6, he wrote, he showed up, but his name was not listed on a court calendar. A proof of appearance document from the court, which he posted, said no case had yet been filed.

"I was astounded that the Huntington Park police department couldn't bother to file anything with the District Attorney's office in the last three months. Would it really have taken them that long?" he wrote.

He was rescheduled to appear Oct. 23. The same thing happened. His court date has since been rescheduled two more times.

Misdemeanor charges must be filed within one year of an arrest, said Ricardo Santiago, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County district attorney's office. As of Thursday, no charges had been filed.

Santiago said police presented a case to the district attorney's office, which will decide whether to pursue charges, on Nov. 22.

Really?! That's news to me!

That was the same day Schaper sued the city for $10,000 in small claims court, records show. He claimed a "gross violation of civil rights" and said "city police harass plaintiff with false notices to appear in court."

Schaper reached out separately to two Times reporters about the case this week. Before a reporter could discuss it with him, he declined further comment, citing his displeasure with The Times' profile of him.

I declined further comment to Hailey, since she had tried to do a smear piece against me in the June article. I see no reason to give bad reporters a second chance. It just rewards bad behavior.

I have further reason not to communicate with her, since she thinks of the deceased reporter Helen Thomas as a mentor, when she was a rabid anti-Semite who thinks that the Jews "should get the hell out of Palestine" and called the state of Israel an "occupation".



Huntington Park Police Lt. Patrick Kraut, who is handling the case, refused to discuss the arrest or name the suspected charges on which Schaper was arrested. Local law enforcement agencies are required by the California Public Records Act to provide the charges on which a person is held and factual circumstances surrounding an arrest.

Kraut told a Times reporter that Schaper "has a copy of the citation" and that she should get it from him.

At this point, if this record is true, I have a lot of respect for Kraut. He is handling the case, is he not? Of course he is not allowed to discuss the case! I even saw him at the Huntington Park police department three days ago when I provided evidence in a case against John Turano, aka Gay Cuck Spartan, who had hit me on the hand and has twice threatened me with violence.

Lt. Al Martinez, a spokesman for the department, later provided the two misdemeanor charges on which Schaper was held.

"Full capacity" Alfred Martinez told Hailey whats going on, the same Lieutenant who lied to an entire group of people about
Laurie Levenson, a former federal prosecutor who now is a professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, said it's hard to say if the police would keep refusing to present a case out of spite or if the "inefficiency" of an overburdened court system was to blame.

How could she not know? I mean, the "evidence" was already presented within two hours. I have a clear record of 

"If there's bad blood between them, you would hope [police] would pay attention so they don't make mistakes," she said. "If they are just hassling him, that would be totally inappropriate."

They are hassling me, and it is inappropriate.

Still, with the "enormous volume of misdemeanor and infraction cases" that regularly cause delays in local courts, Schaper's alleged crime, Levenson said, "is not one that would be the highest priority, even though you think he's constantly on their minds."

This is a nonsense argument. It does not take long for a police officer to submit a criminal package to the DA's office.

Reflection

I would like to know why the Los Angeles Times refused to include the videos I had taken for the Huntington Park Chief of Police refusing to answer my questions about not filing the paperwork with the DA's office.

I would also like to know why the LA Times reporter Hailey Branson looks up to an anti-Semite like Helen Thomas--who is now deceased--as a welcome figure of support and comfort.





The race card has become so overplayed, and yet who are the racists by and large? We find so much of it on the Left.

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