Pleasant Hill city and police officials are planning a series of three “Community Conversations on Social Justice,” with the first scheduled on Wednesday.
The meeting will start at 6:30 p.m. and will be moderated by Lloyd Schine, diversity chair of the Pleasant Hill Civic Action Commission. The meeting will be held on Zoom.
Pleasant Hill Police Chief Bryan Hill said in a statement the sessions are continuations of a June 20 “virtual town hall” event.
“We appreciated the participation and great questions at the recent town hall that focused on our policing policies,” Hill said. “We are looking forward to continuing our conversations with our community. Hearing
directly from community members is vital.”
Panelists are expected to include Gigi Crowder, executive director of the Contra Costa chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness; Jaime Jenett, community engagement specialist for Contra Costa Health, Housing and Homeless Services; Chief Bryan Hill and several other Pleasant Hill officials, including Mayor Matt Rinn, City Manager June Catalano and police Sgt. Jamalya Pierson.
Registration is required.
To register, people can go to https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_O88JmWd8QzGlQJZr5gCnJg.
“Lloyd Schine, diversity chair of the Pleasant Hill Civic Action Commission”
that’s some title. LMAO!!
Probably makes $350K per year. What a joke.
Community commissioners only get a stipend, not a salary. It’s usually $30 per meeting. Being a commissioner is an advisory role.
So will any normal people engage? Or will it only be far left extremist non profit groups who want to re-imagine our country? Will they consult anyone on the constitution or will they devise work arounds to it? Every city, county, state needs an independent constitutional lawyer supervising their activities (not on their payroll) . We are in this problem due to their policies. Everyone should have been treated equal this whole time. The same people who created these issues, can’t fix them.
Just watch.
There will be about ten Pleasant Hill “residents” who just happen to be a social worker, a teacher, and a concerned mom who had a child 5150’ed by the police who will read their pre-written script written for them by a national organization. One will talk about how the the right services aren’t being provided, one will talk about systemic racism, one will talk about how policing in America originated returning runaway slaves (which is complete bunk by the way), someone else will talk about how police don’t have enough training to deal with mental health, etc..
Sound familiar? It’s because it’s the same tactic by the same organization being used at small city council meetings across America.
These same anti-police “activist” folks will repeat the same scripted nonsense they did in Concord, Walnut Creek, Martinez, and everywhere else asking for the police to be de-funded and will likely ask for the money to be given to social services or schools that the local city council likely has nothing to do with.
As long as it doesn’t turn into a DEFUND THE POLICE rally because I WILL speak up and I will defend our police department. I want safe streets, not NYC crime levels.
While I don’t think the Pleasant Hill Police are very professional or effective, being racist is not one of their issues.
Social justice? Is that like that vigilante group of self-appointed liberal fruitcakes who vandalize the property of those who don’t agree with them and just generally harass them every chance they get?
Sadly I wouldn’t be so sure our city council understands the difference between the statement and the organization. Even if they did, I’m really shocked and disappointed at some of my neighbors in Pleasant Hill, Seems this public unrest has emboldened the worst in society to show their true colors. Walking my dog down Viking towards the high school I see one house with a “Dismantle the police” sign in the window and a few houses down a creep who had an elaborate July 4th “decoration” of US flags defaced with Marxist slogans.