Only in a San Francisico suburb could this madness be true!
Between 7 and 10 rival gang members beat each other to a bloody mess when they arrived to pick up their monthly "life path" stipends. The "Operation
Peacemaker" members were part of a Richmond, CA program paying gang members and gang neighborhoods.
After the brawlers fled, the program managers from the city's Office of Neighborhood Safety reused to cooperate with police despite serious injuries,
bloody walls, floors and elevators and broken furniture left in the wake of the gathering.
A bloody fistfight broke out among rival gang members at Richmond City Hall on Friday, according to police.
Seven men from different parts of the city brawled in a third-floor suite that houses the city’s Office of Neighborhood Safety, director Devone
Boggan said.
He said all of the men involved in the melee are enrolled in the office’s “Operation Peacemaker” fellowship and happened to show up at the
office at Richmond’s Civic Center at the same time unexpectedly.
Police received several 911 calls from City Hall reporting the fight, and found blood splattered across the office where the fight happened, which is
located above council chambers.
Bloody Gang Fight Breaks Out At Richmond City
Hall
This program itself wouldn't be so bad if it didn't reward these gangsters with "private stipends" for their participation in "anger management" and
mental health counselling.
Predictably, the program sponsors have decided NOT to cooperate in the police investigation and are downplaying the miscreants' behavior and flaunting
of the law, property rights and personal safety to protect their misguided bleeding heart scheme to pay gangsters to not act like gangsters, and
little else..
The city of Richmond is all abuzz about a blood-spattered brawl at City Hall after which everyone — including the alleged gang members
involved and a city office responsible for operating anti-violence programs — clammed up to police.
The incident devolved into an all-out brawl that left at least one person bloodied, apparently from a broken nose. When it was all over, officers
found blood, broken dishes and upended furniture in an office break room. There was enough blood that police called in a Crime Scene Cleaners crew,
which typically mops up what’s left behind at homicides or suicides.
But that’s all police could do. Investigators have yet to identify any suspects, or even any victims, police Capt. Mark Gagan said Tuesday.
“We’re trying to solve a violent crime and not able to get pivotal pieces of information,” Gagan said.
Richmond officials clam up to cops about gang
brawl
The idiot firector of the program cited the fight as "progress" because no one was killed. Since they were in the City Hall Office Building, they
presumably were screened on entering for guns and knives, so they had to resort to furniture, fists and fixtures.
Gagan said his department needed to “bolster our relationship” with the ONS, formed in 2007 to “build partnerships and support
initiatives that create greater neighborhood and community well-being.”
The office’s director, DeVone Boggan, downplayed the incident Tuesday.
“Everybody got up and walked away alive,” Boggan said. “They did not kill one another. I feel like this is a sign of progress with our
work.”
Some of those involved were members of three rival gangs in Richmond who had shown up to pick up privately supplied monthly stipends of up to $1,000
for proving to city staff that they were following a “life map” attending counseling or conflict-resolution sessions, undergoing mental-health
therapy and paying things like parking tickets and child support, Boggan said.
Boggan denied that his office was stonewalling, saying, “That’s the first time I’ve heard that term associated with me.” He said he has
liaisons and contacts who tip him off when one of the 40 young men who are paid as part of “Operation Peacemaker Fellowship” gets into
trouble.
Councilman Corky Booze said Boggan’s statements didn’t wash. As director, Boggan should know when people are showing up to collect checks and
recognize the “volatility of these folks,” Booze said. And “why would you even bring those people to City Hall like that?”
Apparently, the entire Office of Neighborhood Safety is corrupted and participating in the coverup as staffers and participants in the "Peacemakers"
program have bound tigether in silence to thwart the City of Richmond and the Police from fully investigating the incident in City Hall Offices.
Three days after a gang brawl splattered blood across the walls and floors of a Richmond city office, police cannot identify suspects or even
victims -- because their city co-workers will not cooperate in the investigation. Documents obtained by Bay Area News Group show that Richmond police
failed to retrieve that basic information Friday from staff at the Office of Neighborhood Safety, which police described as "stonewalling" in their
reports.
"The investigating officers interviewed a group of ONS clients and employees inside the office," wrote Sgt. Albert Walle in a police report Friday.
"There was a reluctance to speak with the officers because I heard a chorus of 'I ain't seen nothin' from both the clients and office workers."
That, despite copious blood in the office break room, and on the clothing and bodies of several present.
Trouble touched off when verbal barbs between groups escalated into dish-smashing, furniture-overturning violence in the third-floor office, above the
City Council Chambers.
Richmond staff uncooperative with police after melee
Even now, City employess are refusing to cooperate in the investigation of an obviously flawed program supported by taxpayer money tha pays thugs to
be thugs.
Police confirmed Monday afternoon that the person or people who tracked blood across the city building remain unidentified. Nor did police
identify any suspects.
"What we do know is that it appears someone was seriously hurt and that possibly weapons were involved," Capt. Mark Gagan said Monday. "It's what we
don't know that is more concerning. We have not received the cooperation necessary from the individuals involved in this incident or those who
witnessed it to identify a victim, determine the extent of their injuries, or obtain an understanding of the motivation for this apparent crime."
Officers followed a trail of blood from the elevator to the ONS office. They found a break room covered with blood, broken dishes and overturned
furniture. Enough blood covered the floor that the department later called Crime Scene Cleaners, a service normally reserved for cleaning homicide
scenes.
Officers had not arrested anyone as of Monday, in part because ONS staff would not release a list of people present in the office at the time of the
brawl. "I waited in the office for approximately a half-hour while (a supervisor) sat typing at her computer while seemingly gathering the requested
the requested information," Walle wrote. "I was eventually told by (the supervisor) that she would not release the information
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