Brady Violation Complaint Against Huntington Park Police Department Officers

Cosme the Clown

To Chief of Police Cosme Lozano:

My name is Arthur Schaper, a resident of Torrance, CA and an active member of We the People Rising, LA County for Trump, and American Children First.
I am filing this formal complaint against the following police officers of the Huntington Park Police Department.

1. Yourself, Chief of Police Cosme Lozano
2. Lieutenant Alfred Martinez Badge #: 5529
3. Sergeant Joseph Settles, Badge #:5200

Alfred "Full Capacity" Martinez

1. On June 6th, 2017, Lieutenant Alfred Martinez informed a large crowd of individuals who wanted to attend the city council meeting that the city council chambers was “at full capacity”, meaning that there was no room for any more people to sit in the city council chambers.

Statements from individuals inside the chambers informed me and others by text as well as with photos that there were indeed more chairs available. The Lieutenant clearly misled the citizens in the lobby. Such dishonesty must be confronted and censured.

2. During the same meeting, I was wrongly ruled out of order due to the unfounded allegations of Sergeant Joseph Settles, who had alleged that I was disrupting the city council meeting in session at that time.

The mayor, Marilyn Sanabria, followed your suggestion to issue me a first warning.

Another member of the audience—Tlaleac Oceotl--called out to the mayor, saying that I had already received a warning, which would make Chief Lozano and Settles’ warning my second warning—even though I had not received any warning at the time.

The mayor then ordered my removal from the city council chambers. For the record, neither you, nor Sergeant Settles, nor Mayor Sanabria ruled Tlaleac him out of order for the numerous times he was shouting out, especially when he was telling me to shut up. Furthermore, I had spoken to two police agents at the back of the room that two people behind me were cursing at me and shining a light in my eyes, but your officers did nothing about it.

I refused to leave the room because every citizen has a right to attend public meetings per the Ralph M. Brown Act, and no citizen is required to give up his First Amendment rights due to unjust, unlawful orders from police officers. The members of my group and other activists have routinely disobeyed unjust orders from Huntington Park police officers in the chambers, which have included demanding that we lower or remove signs, or that we sit down when more than one of our members has stood at the podium during public comment.

Sergeant Settles ordered me to leave, then surrounded me with other officers, trying to pressure me to leave. Then I was unjustly placed under arrest, subjected to a demeaning search, placed in hold in the Huntington Park jail cell for two hours, then released.

At no time did I receive a booking number of a bracelet. From police sources, I find this practice highly questionable. It’s as though the police department had no interest in filing a police report or seeking charges against me from the DA’s office, since the common practice in police departments is to provide both and then send charges to the DA.

Sergeant Joseph Settles -- the Clown

To add insult to this unjust injury, the negligent Police Department refused to file the paperwork with the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office, even though I was ordered to appear in court on September 6, 2017.

This is clearly a negligent, abusive tactic, as I appeared at the Downey, CA Court house in a timely manner on the assigned court date, only to find that my name was not listed on the Criminal Court Calendar.

These abusive behaviors warrant redress, censure, and consequences:

1. The unfounded allegations for me to be ruled out of order during the June 6th, 2017 city council meeting
2. My unfounded arrest and incarceration
3. The illegal seizure of my cellphone
4. The noncompliance of the police department to file charges against me to the LA County DA’s Office
5. The violation of my civil rights, including the attempt to prevent me and others from attending the June 6th, 2017 City council meeting, then the assault on my First Amendment right to petition my government for a redress of grievances.

All of these actions are the results of the unethical behaviors and choices of the Huntington Park Police Department, particularly the three police officers listed above.

For these reasons, I am seeking a Brady Violation strike against all three.

Respectfully submitted:

Arthur Schaper

Hilarious! Corrupt Sanctuary City Police Chief Runs from Trump Supporters--AGAIN!

Huntington Park is a de facto sanctuary city. They have appointed two illegal aliens to city commissions, and in spite of the growing crackdown on illegal aliens throughout Los Angeles County, the city council has doubled-down on their lawless stupidity. 

Did they really think that they would get away with dishonoring our country's immigration laws?

The only reason why the corrupt city council and police administrators have gotten away with it is that the President and his federal enforcement team have focused on violent criminal aliens and the backlog of immigration judicial cases held over from the Obama Administration.

The crack down is only going to get worse, of course, since Governor Brown has signed off on a little piece of paper which orders local and state law enforcement not to cooperate with ICE.

El Dorado County Sheriff will not comply.

Orange County Sheriff's Department will not comply, either, as they have continued their contract with ICE to house illegal aliens for deportation.

Different municipalities in Los Angeles County chose to defy the federal government and their own sheriff to pander to illegal aliens and their illegal enablers.

Shameful, but true.

At the same time, in Huntington Park, I was arrested for sitting in a meeting and saying nothing.

Crazy but true. I am now convinced that the Huntington Park police department delayed my arrest because they knew that they had overstepped their authority. They had neither right nor reason to arrest me for disrupting the meeting.

I didn't. I was quiet, while other members of the audience were routinely calling out or shouting at me, and the mayor did nothing about it.

Huntington Park police chief Cosme Lozano had me ruled out of order, then an agitator behind me lied to the public claimed that I had already been ruled out of order. I refused to leave since I had not disrupted the meeting, and it was crystal clear that the mayor and her police and activist cronies were just lying about me to get me thrown out of the meeting.

Now it gets really interesting.

I was taken down the Huntington Park jail. I was booked in, with all my personal affects taken from me. I waited in the holding area for about an hour.

Then I was fingerprinted and my headshot taken, then I rested in a jail cell for about an hour. 

Then I was released from the jail. No bail, no directions from a judge--nothing.

Two weeks later, I realized from another previous arrestee-who was eventually exonerated--that I did not receive a booking number or a wristband! Did they even put anything in place regarding my arrest? Did they file anything at all?

When I arrived in court on September 6th, 2017 at Downey Court House, my name was NOT listed on the calendar for any criminal court!

I had some interesting questions for the Chief of Police about this:

Instead of telling me what was going on, he said to me "No comment", then ran off to the Police Department Headquarters.

What?!

What kind of police chief is this? Someone who refuses to explain why he would have someone arrested, but take no time to file charges.

All of this is quite strange!

Then I confronted him a second time, and guess what?

He ran away!

I literally begged the police chief to file the paperwork with the District Attorney's office!

Have you ever heard of such crazy nonsense or incompetence?

Is it really possible that a police department would be so inept and incompetent that they could not file the paperwork to the district' attorney's office?

This is Huntington Park, folks, where illegals are treated like citizens, and law-abiding citizens get arrested for no good reason.

And the police are more corrupt than the criminals--and more inept, too!