Confronting Homelessness & Police as Governor

hey everyone me kevin here what you're

about to see is me confronting

a lot of different folks about

homelessness it gets really intense at

parts

and well it should be because

homelessness

is a massive issue in the state of

california and so

what i did is i decided to go to the

echo park reopening

in los angeles this echo park was a

location

where police swarmed the park

to remove everyone in the park by force

if necessary

removing many homeless encampments about

200 homeless individuals

many of them getting displaced and not

having proper housing

the statistics and all the details

around this are available online but

what i really want to show you in this

video

is me talking to the people of this

community so in this video

you're going to see me talking to people

who at first are extremely skeptical

because here i am coming with a tie and

a dress shirt and a blazer

talking to people about echo park when

the folks in charge who kind of

kicked everyone out who evicted people

out of echo park

are the people with suits and ties the

existing politicians

so i'm coming into a pretty hot

situation

but we end up talking to homeless rights

advocates

homeless people people who used to be

homeless who have become advocates

people who are currently trying to get

out of homelessness we ended up talking

to

a captain of the lapd the chief of parks

and wrecks in l.a county who has to deal

with homelessness in parks we do a lot

of good talking here a lot of

conversations

and what you'll find is a lot of

situations that start out pretty intense

when

folks hear our plan for governor start

becoming a little bit more interested

in the change that we could bring to

california

and start liking our plan as a real

solution for california but i'll let you

decide

how people respond so we're just gonna

show you a lot of raw footage here

let me know what you think we'll

probably post some clips at some point

in the future but for now

here you go if we focus on fights we're

not gonna get solutions

together as californians we must show

compassion to the people who are dying

on our streets

they need three meals a day they need

clothing food hygiene bathrooms showers

i am tired of seeing people dying on the

streets of california

if i become governor of california i

don't care which non-profit

stands up to work with me i will end

homelessness

in california everywhere in our state

not this park every single where

i am here to help he's here to help us

just give him some space we will

take you in thank you thank you can i

say one more thing to you we are equal

but you know what you are right to be

skeptical

of somebody coming to this park with a

tie you know why i have a suit on you so

i am better than you i am wearing this

no no no no no no no no no no no

no no no no no no no no no no no no hey

i'm wearing a suit

you know why you should all be

frustrated at people with ties

because they've all been lying to us in

the state and i'm tired of it so i don't

blame you for being skeptical of me

go to meetkevin.com see my 20-part plan

see my interviews

see what my plan is to fix this state

and this state will get better

yeah one thing we don't go to you you

come to us because why do you think i'm

here

why do you think i'm here to come to you

hey i'm here for you you look sharp

thank you ten minutes here go ahead

please

speak to us yes um i do want to let you

know um from sherman who suffered from

those guys i came home from prison two

years ago

okay i'm a medical assistant i'm going

to school now good for you man i'm

struggling with um i'm struggling with

the police

how they treat me it's horrible

homelessness i want you to know that

i was involved i was involved with um i

was involved with rehousing i still have

not been housed yet

programs are horrible in this state

there's so many of them but they all

fail to solve the problem you need a you

need access

to quality education shelter and then

you can have equal opportunity

until we have that until we solve the

problems in the state

how is anybody supposed to get ahead

that's my fact so there's no there's no

excuse for anyone like me

going to school almost done to be

homeless and on the streets

where's the american dream no excuse

where's the american it's impossible in

california with this governor exactly

it's impossible with this governor

these are the things that these are the

things that need to be handled you're so

right

you're so right i think what's your name

my name is jonathan briscoe can i text

you

yeah what's your name

yeah i understand you're you're jaded

because i came here with you hi

i want to help i want to help everyone

what's your name or number sorry

thank you thank you man all right things

are going to get better right all right

appreciate it

thanks for being here

don't let it absolutely what you're

doing is

needed well thank you for that

thanks for being here really we're

excited anything you need me to do man

like i said out there in antelope valley

i'd be yeah you can if you haven't

already send an email to staff at

vkevin.com

because when we go to different areas uh

we're gonna send out alerts and we're

gonna look for people who say they're in

a county or city

and we'll send out emails too that'd be

great absolutely thank you for that

thanks for being here

set on in let's go

okay meet kevin for governor is going to

fix homelessness

in this state

i'm gonna try to talk to the captain

let's see if we can do that

excuse me captain would you be

interested in me asking you could i ask

you a couple questions

sure thank you um could you give us a

brief summary of what's going on out

here

uh and from your point of view yeah uh

the park has been reopened

um the park was closed for four for

eight weeks

during that eight weeks they spent over

a million dollars

in repairing all the damage that was

done to the park

and at this point they have elected to

reopen the park

for everybody's use now i have a

question for you

uh how has uh well i saw a tweet from

the sheriff of los angeles

uh the specific sheriff he mentioned

that he's frustrated that the city and

county

can't seem to handle homelessness

together that it's almost like they're

fighting each other what are you seeing

with your officers on the street

is there a lack of support from the

government is it a lack of coordination

what would solve homelessness from your

point of view

you're asking a very complicated

question especially when you're dealing

with lower the mic

especially when you're dealing with

multiple layers of city government

you've got county government with the

with the sheriff and you've got city

government with the mayor and

the chief of police as the commanding

officer rampart division i'm focused

only around our division

um and we do need outreach we do need to

give people

homeless shelters we need to get people

out of tents long-term living

intense is not healthy and everybody

will tell you that

so we have to give outreach we have to

get people into into structures

whether it be a project room key a

project home key

a shelter but getting people indoors is

what we need to do

and so it's having viable resources that

get out there and help people

and that's what we need um whether it be

urban alchemy

out of a private fund that uh that

brought them in whether it be uh lassa

that is working with them

whether it be half there are many

organizations out there

do they need to speak together i believe

they are and they're trying

yeah do we feel that we're going to

accomplish this i don't know

wow are you optimistic about the next

five years the way things are going now

or are we going to see maybe a dent in

homelessness like when is this going to

be solved

and why is it being treated as a state

of emergency it is a state of emergency

that's why every entity of the city

government has a homeless coordinator

that's why the los angeles police

department has a homeless coordinator

it's very important that's why the mayor

has elected a homeless

coordinator out of his council members

i'm

you're asking homeless crime homeless

issues i focus on crime i focus on

public safety

i can talk about public safety and our

focus on reducing part one part two

crime

that's my main focus how often are you

called out uh

on you know on an average night uh in

various areas

due to homelessness that either people

suffering or having been hurt by

somebody else who is homeless

or rapes do you have statistics on this

how bad is the problem what would you

tell people

all i could say is i could give you stat

crime stats for right now

and i could tell you that

i'm happy to talk to you in a minute if

you don't mind you want to talk to me

okay so

let's finish i have 66 crimes in this

area from

march 25th through today's date i've had

30.

so do i have a reduction of crime yes i

do okay is does homelessness

have crime associated with you know

homeless people experiencing

homelessness

are both victims and can be suspects

just like any other citizen in l.a

so we have to look at it that way okay

anything else that you would add thank

you could the governor help you

it would be nice thank you how could the

governor help you more i'm running for

governor against newsome in the recall

good for you

well you know i think that a lot of it

has to

deal with the fact that it has to be

dealt with for what it is

not just indicating that hey we got

homeless people living on the street

a lot of it you know a lot of the

homelessness that we see on the streets

and a lot of the encampments that we

deal with

you know they have um you know there's

there's a drug problem out here

and it's a huge stroke problem and you

know that has to be dealt with because

you know the the meth and the heroin

that's on the street is affecting a lot

of these young kids that are coming out

here

and it gets to the point where they can

no longer function and that's what's

bringing them to homelessness they can't

work

um you know they they just can't

function in society

because of the fact that they've uh you

know they've been you know

exposed to the to the drug trade and the

drug usage

that in itself is a lot of problem

it really is and people have say half a

quarter

how many are fully look every encampment

that i go

that i go to has some kind of drug

activity

but some are worse than others i mean

there's folks that stay in their tents

all day long because they cannot

function and part of the problem is not

just throwing money at the homeless

problem

they have to throw money at resources

that'll actually deal

with what the true problem is and a lot

of it has to do with

you know unfortunately on drugs a lot of

it and you know i i can say that because

i worked the entire city and you know i

was with law enforcement for 34 years

before i got this position here but what

i see in a lot of these encampments and

you're more than welcome to come with me

if you if you're you set it up you may

be more than welcome to come see and we

can show you firsthand that

it's just not the homelessness and

people that can't afford homelessness

it's also a drug problem and that has to

be dealt with otherwise

yeah you know we're going to stick with

this with this cycle you know

i've seen it that's what it is that's

what i'm witnessing firsthand

it's not all of it but a large portion

of it is are you seeing solutions this

has anything changed over the last 10

years or is it just getting worse

we've been thrown money at the homeless

problem for a long time and

and the homeless problem in many cities

have grown and

not too long ago there was a story on

one of the local news channels that

specifically spoke about

you know the drug problem that we're

dealing with homelessness and it's just

not here in l.a

it's in san francisco it's in sacramento

it's in smaller cities

we're dealing with that and that has to

be dealt with because if you have people

that can't function

or you have people that are depending on

that narcotic

i guess what's going to happen to them

you know now i'm not saying

it's all like that but a large

percentage of it is

and so i think you know as a future

governor for california

that's one of the things that uh you

know

that's key that you have to look at

mental health drug abuse exactly

how much uh how dangerous is it like a

lot of californians i think

they don't see it every day they don't

know how dangerous it is

living on the streets how dangerous is

it really well i think you have a lot of

people waking up to that i mean you know

um look at look at the the crime that

comes with with homelessness i mean you

know

we have they talk about people dying

every day three people they die and

somewhere in the los

angeles county and you know a lot of it

has to do not because

they didn't have the resources or

because they didn't have you know food

or

or water it has to do with the fact that

they're odin in 2000 in

2020 we had five deaths at this part

five

this is a 23 acre lake right and about

17 acres of that is water so when you're

when you're looking at

the area the geographic area outside of

the water it's not that big

but five deaths contributed to

homelessness

continuing to drug activity is is what

we're seeing

and you know it's really unfortunate

because you know we need to

focus on the true issues and that's part

of it

yeah absolutely so uh if what would you

say for those who

economically fall into homelessness are

they more likely to get exposed than to

drugs or substance abuse which makes it

harder for them to ever rehabilitate

back into society

well look there's a lot of there's a lot

of resources out there okay there's a

lot of resources

out there that'll help folks you know

try to get off the street but you got to

understand

that there's rules that come with these

resources

and some of the folks you know that are

homeless don't want to use them but

there are there are some that are

designed

for for instance project routine a lot

of people are not a fan of that

because of the fact that there's rules

here you have to be in by seven o'clock

in the evening you can't drink you can't

smoke there but they're feeding you and

they're helping take those those are

short-term solutions to help people

that are down in their luck and get back

into into society

right but you know a lot of those folks

don't want it

you know and how much of that how much

do you think the governor could change

and what would be the top

say three things you would change if you

were governor tomorrow to solve

homelessness

is it mental health is it drugs is it

all of it is it education in schools

what would you focus on shelter safety

well you know the the first thing that i

would go after on that

would be the the the

the narcotic activity and drinking

activity that

moves into to you know mental

disparity i mean that's one of the

things that i would look at to you and

and also

instead of just having resources thrown

out and throwing money into the streets

you know for for you know homeless

individuals

you know let's let's try to do something

where we could you know maybe move them

into temporary

housing where we the government does not

have to take care of them

on a long term but somewhere where you

know we can actually

put these folks and help them out and

and

and let them get rehabilitated to go

back in the street but if we don't focus

on the actual

you know narcotic problem that's

bringing a lot of these folks down

and you know unfortunately it's not

everybody there's a lot of good people

that are down in real luck

that are trying but these are the people

that take our resources

and so you know um i see it every day

and it's you know really really sad

because i've seen people when they first

come into homelessness

where they started using drug drug uses

and then you know you see

a 25 26 year old kid and then you see

him seven eight months later and they

look like they're 70

70 years old you know and that's really

sad you know

and i mean i don't know

what all the answers are but i do

believe from what i see in the street

and being out here every day boots on

the ground is that

the narcotics the meth the heroin has

gotten a strong hold on a lot of these

young kids

and i can show you that firsthand if you

ever like to take a walk with me

thank you so much for your time thank

you thank you i am interested in that

how how could i set that can you call

me yeah can i text you yeah you can text

me man i don't wanna interrupt

i want to talk to you if you don't mind

i really do actually i feel like you're

proselytizing jesus right now you've got

everything like this

oh i'm not comfortable talking to you i

did talk to some people around that that

know a little bit more about you than i

do but i think you're you're running for

governor and you're out here in the park

show boat to get some more views well

youtube channel it's it's not about

views it's about solving the problem we

have to solve homelessness as a disaster

what are your qualifications to be

governor

well the people decide who runs and as

governor i'll put the right people in

place to make sure

no it's not that's a belief

what are your qualifications to be

governor i'm a california citizen and

that's what you need

that's what we need and you have no job

skills that you can speak of that would

make you qualified to be a governor i've

got a lot of job skills and i encourage

you to check out

everything about me it's fully

transparent including my tax returns by

going to meet kevin on youtube

what's more important for you or your

cheering section over here what's more

important

is solving homelessness and that's what

we're here for today we're bringing

attention to people dying on our streets

that's why we're talking to the chief of

parks here that's why we're talking to

the captain of the los angeles

police department so we can understand

solutions

so we have a detailed solution i'll give

you a very brief example

what's the future of echocard exactly

every

the first day of my administration which

will be about a five-week transition

period it's really too optimistic for me

not to at least

chuckle well i haven't even said what it

is yet go ahead

no but that you think you're gonna have

the first day of your administration is

really funny okay well day one of my

administration the national

guard is deployed everywhere we have

homelessness not with guns

with compassion with three meals a day

with hygiene products with showers with

shelter and guess what if we can build

shelters in afghanistan under gunfire

we can build 80 facilities to house 2

000 folks each

throughout our state that deals with us

the national guard is made up of the

branches of our military whether that's

the army the navy

it's made up of people in california who

have families and jobs will need to work

and they're getting paid only going to

be called away from national guard in

times of a national emergency you don't

know what you're talking about see you

later

we will be declaring a state of

emergency because people dying on our

streets is a state of emergency

disagree i don't disagree that

homelessness is a huge problem yeah i'm

a compassionate person that has spoken

out against it for a long time

yeah rarely our paths cross is i don't

think a public park that benefits

the entire neighborhood should be

allowed to exist in the conditions that

this lake was previously

and i don't know if you do or not but it

seems as though

you seem to think that echo park should

be turned back into a campground

that's that's not what i said that's not

what i said because after 60 days as

part of our first 60-day plan we are

moving folks and inviting folks

to our facilities where we actually have

services for them we're i just said we

were building 80 of them and they're

going to include

mental health substance abuse

educational services

yet well not governor yet okay so

do you know that it takes longer than

one four-year governor's term to build

these buildings you're talking about

no it doesn't it takes 60 days of the

national guard under emergency powers to

build temporary facilities which is what

we're building within 60

you would love to see all years homeless

people get help that's what we're doing

see the people who don't have a house i

agree have a place to go

bingo i would love to see all of the

income and equality issues in this

country

another issue i would love because if

people are not poor yeah

they have less problems bingo if you ask

i read something in the new york times a

poll of psychologists

yeah where 90 psychologists said 90

of their patients don't have

psychological problems they have money

problems that cause themselves

hopefully if you get elected and prove

me wrong and put this video up of me

laughing at you no no no no was it for

your ads if you'd like

absolutely i hope that you continue

after you clean up the homelessness

issue to work on income inequality

one question for you do you think

financial education should be taught to

14 to 18 year olds

i think financial education should be

taught by parents to 14 to two

i mean i had a bank book when i was

three all right well i started walking

that's fortunate selling pecans six

that's that's 14. you want some pecans

that's two dollars a pound very

entrepreneurial i think it's great

yeah yeah i think it's great take a look

at my plan i think you'll like it

because we've got a future schools plan

that'll teach everybody financial

education and be able to get a career by

18.

so that way at 18 you're not stuck

trying to get a job maybe at mcdonald's

you can have a career at 18. i gotta

tell you kevin you're you're

you're you're earn some more points with

me on there because i don't think

everybody should be forced

into college

college and bingo student loans bingo

should be the singular focus of our

country debt free by 18.

i got a 21 year old cousin who climbs up

those great big light things bigger than

that building over there

owns a home has a wife and a kid makes

80 grand a year in overtime he's 21

years old there you go those kind of

skill jobs are out there they're out

there

i'm not too big or dumb to say well i'm

wrong what do you think man what's been

going on

um we talked earlier man i wanna hear it

um i want to know oh thank you yeah i

want to ask you

sir first of all what is your plan yeah

i want to hear it yeah i want to take

the time to understand what you're

planning

perfect the homeless plan or all plans

homeless plan no

it's not there okay we're learning a lot

homeless plan first 30 days

national guard provides compassion

support food three meals a day

access to clean bathrooms and showers so

the people who fall homeless

actually have somebody that cares about

them we're not talking about guns with

national guard we're talking about

people to serve

now give the national guard dignity give

the people on the streets some dignity

at the same time you got to build places

for people to be able to go

and get additional support that

additional support

includes mental health support substance

support

educational support and even

transportation to get you to schooling

if you want to build an education and

get back into the society man

those are all

those are necessities valid necessities

um the fact of the matter is i do want

to understand that compassion is very

necessary

if we don't have the kind of compassion

to understand that these people are

broken

these people have not they've been

broken down by the system they've not

been broken down by themselves they've

been broken down by a system that is

systematically designed to break them

down

so if we can understand that these

people need exactly what you need

exactly what you said we're beta and we

need food we need shelter

we need people who actually care about

basics man basics basics basics is

realistically it's

inhumane for these people not to have

these bingo let's not talk about colors

or racists now

it's inhumane for people not to be

allowed to use the restroom inhumane for

people not to have three means all day

it's not humane for people to be out

here in the streets it's inhumane

period for anyone to be sleeping on the

bus or a train hang up

bingo so if we can make those things

change and that's really your movement i

would love to see that happen that's my

day one priority because i am tired of

this

i'm just tired of seeing the fifth

largest economy treat humans like this

it's unacceptable i'm running for

governor that's what i thought

we gotta recall do something get him out

you're not the one in power

tell me about your experiences i like

the homeless here it got

a little intense but they were

interesting they did have a community

and all these people who said they could

not come here because of them were full

of crap

because i came here through the whole

pandemic

i'm old we walked every week we made

friends with the homeless the paths were

open

dogs were here people were exercising

the people who didn't come use the park

just didn't want to see

the homeless there you go so

you know so did they try to just put a

bandage on echo park to try to

bandage the problem or are they actually

helping the people who were just like

they didn't help them

you know they separated them all over i

just read about orange county they took

a bunch of people who lived under a

freeway

they moved them together they knew they

were a community

and now a lot of people here they're in

whittier they're in orange county

they're downtown

they don't have their friends it's still

no shelter and it's also

it's the the room key thing i can hold

it for you

so they have to leave shortly it's not

like they found homes for them yeah

and mitch o'connell is like oh we helped

them no

no did you want to say something else

yeah i was just brought to my attention

sorry no no no i appreciate it thank you

thank you thank you it's just brought to

my attention that someone from

from the queen here from our from the

community was actually sexually harassed

by one of the

one of the team mitchell uh officials

what are you gonna do about that oh my

god

well here's the thing there should be

there should never in our state

be any form of sexual harassment or

assault and you know where it's worse

i was told by individuals nonprofits

that i interviewed to go out of my way

about homelessness

that the rape rate amongst women on our

streets who spend their first 24 hours

on the street

is 100 that 100 of women who spend their

first night homeless

are victims of rape we have to end that

this is unacceptable

so how are you gonna end it i was a

victim of rape as a matter of fact

not too many long days long ago i had to

pick up a lineup

but you know what they're victims how to

he just cut my breast and he has the

best disguise ever because he's in

uniform and we have

on camera this is one thing and i even

told him to stop

touching my breast and he goes and

squishes to time i'm sorry but this this

is the kind of

like security this is what we have to be

in peace at the end of the night

i'd rather i'd rather be with the wolves

thank you for sharing them

jeez it's bad man it's bad you gotta fix

them and anything else you want to add

yeah yeah i just feel like uh

i like your agency thank you i hope that

you keep your work that's really good

that's the most important thing we've

been live too enough we've had fake

promises

yep we've had we've had all that these

people out here who are suffering and

i'm one of them

um i feel like we all need to change yep

i feel like the time is now it's not

yesterday

it's time day one day one

man day one if you can please start that

for us i really appreciate it thank you

man thank you

thank you i want to get your information

we have you on the show have a rest of

you but

if you want to film anything now i'll

ask you a bunch of questions

for the press conference that's fine

let's do it so your show's fine hit me

up

uh i'll write it down for you you have a

card i can write down more or better yet

let me just text you right now all right

that's the best way to ratio my name is

craig but they call me pasta is that

with a c

yeah but they call me pasta like the

food i love it

awesome yes and my numbers let me know

when you're ready for the number

great three two three yeah so how about

those dodgers that's a

that's a good social security number so

what if i was asking let me just yeah

i don't know why you run as a democrat i

would run as an independent that's me

personally but trump

you know uh why don't you tell us why

you're running as a democrat what you

would have done differently here

yeah show some compassion towards the

people that were thrown out because

i i gotta be honest with you i was

supporting the people that were living

here what not i understand there's a lot

of people there's a lot

uh that you know they wanted their kids

to run in the grass and just be

healthy and walk and whatnot and i get

that yeah and i understand that but

during a pandemic

our most vulnerable and they had built a

community in a society where they were

trying to keep keep the place up cooked

properly for themselves

try to keep the drugs out i know that's

not gonna be possible but why what would

you have done differently

yeah so day one what we want to do is

provide compassion for the people who

are suffering

the way we do that is with three meals a

day with access to hygiene products

clean bathrooms

safety and security so people aren't

getting raped and beaten anymore on the

streets

we do that by deploying the national

guard not with

guns or to arrest people to serve

because that's what the national guard

should do to

serve our nation and that's what we're

going to do in the state of california

but what we're also going to do in the

first 60 days is we're going to build

emergency facilities 80 of them

throughout the state

2000 each that's 160 thousand we got

about 168 000

homeless so maybe 84 here you know the

conservatives go where is he getting the

money from

yeah how are you going to build 80. yeah

exactly so we start our administration

with a california transition bond

because we're going to lower taxes as

well we're gonna offset

that by legalizing gambling uh by

creating optional toll roads with a

revenue share

by reforming our few uh schooling with

future schools especially when biden

starts paying for our free colleges

uh you know if he does we'll see things

are held up in the federal government

i know right uh but anyway uh with the

california transition bond we're gonna

fill in those gaps we're gonna start

investing in california and the

ordinary californians are gonna be

unable to invest in california with a

tax preferred bond

and we're going to make this state have

its problem solved

it's going to take a lot of work but

it's going to start with homelessness

then we're going to schooling

then we're doing transportation and then

we're doing housing we're actually

starting all of those day one

yeah but uh there's some things we'll

have to do through the legislature but

we will on day one institute at least

four states of emergency

uh housing transportation schooling and

homelessness and we're gonna start work

day one i've only got one year

see if i get elected i only get one year

that's it and then i have to run again

so if i suck the first year people could

get me out

gavin newsom's been in this business for

17 years and things have only gotten

worse what's his biggest what's your

biggest uh criticism of the avenues and

what he did

and also too as well i heard you talk

about raising money by legalizing

gambling

where are you going to cut some money

funding well because you know you're

going to get that question from

conservatives

spending so those two questions we're

not coming in to try to

cut jobs or cut unions out we want to

work with everyone in california to make

california better that's why we're

starting with a transition bond

that's why we're starting by lowering

taxes so we stop having a flight of

capital and human capital out of our

state we got to work together to solve

the big problems we have in our state we

need a strong leader to do that

not a leader who's gonna say shut down

all the restaurants one third of

restaurants go bankrupt

disproportionately affecting hispanics

and

and blacks or or anyone really uh in our

state

while he's whining and dining at the

french laundry lots of issues i don't

even

look around california you don't have to

you don't even have to think too hard to

know what's wrong with california and

why people are leaving

we gotta talk about the solutions you

had you had a big push back over there

from those people over there

how are you gonna break through those

people of the community yeah you are the

activists who do the hard work in the

street you do go out and feed the

homeless people

how are you gonna break through those

people if you're having right now a

little bit of a blockade where you can't

come to a park

and answer simple questions and you get

hounded so i come here

dressed in a suit and tie i i look like

i look like the representation of our

existing institutions which have failed

the activists

that are here on day one we're not just

working with the national guard to solve

homelessness we're working with

all non-profits who are willing to work

with us and all businesses throughout

california who are willing

to help solve our problems for example

why are we spending 125 million dollars

a mile building a high-speed rail

well we could be spending 10 million

dollars a mile building strategic

tunnels

where there's a lot of congestion

imagine if the lax interchange or the 10

miles between the 10

and the 101 405 interchange imagine we

had six tunnels under there

where folks can free flow with traffic

in both directions let's start solving

traffic

that increases our gdp that increases

the strength of our economy more people

staying here less people leaving

more sales tax revenues there are a lot

of ways to solve what we got going on

gavin newsom's not the answer where do

you get your money from and

are you going to disallow certain money

coming in from dark entities

how are you going to fundraise to get

all these things done to get your name

out there oh

fundraising fundraising is probably

going to be one of our challenges

initially but we expect once folks hear

our plan they're going to

love our plans so i'm pre-funding my

campaign to make sure we can get out

get this campaign moving money well look

i haven't even gotten an offer of

corporate money my average donation

offer will you turn it down well i don't

know i

here's the thing to me it's not so much

about where the money comes from it's

how it's spent

see let me tell you this oh that's a

slippery slope no no because somebody's

gonna give you money they're gonna

expect something for it so if you take

don't

then no no because here's and here's how

i'm operating different

i'm coming in as a transparent youtuber

everything about my life is on youtube

and so we've been daily vlogging our

campaign since we started this campaign

we're going to do the same as governor

so when we get donations

people know people know that our average

donation right now is 48 dollars

and they know that we raised 84 000 in

the first week we're transparent

about our campaign and we're transparent

about the growth of it so every dollar

we get we're also going to be

transparent with how we spend it that's

what we don't get right now

we get mark zuckerberg donating three

million dollars and facebook donating 27

million dollars

on behalf of governor newsom to get

people to elect newsome at 2020

that's what gets shady are you going to

defund the police are you what are you

going to do with the police situation a

lot of people want

a lot of fat cut out of the police

department all the money that's spent

over there

are you going to demilitarize it you're

going to take these weapons off the

street that are being used

against our citizens here's your plan to

attack the police so our plan

starts with community policing and the

way we do that is

by taking non-violent folks who are in

our jails and prisons and taking guards

who are working with them

and getting them on our streets rather

than in our jails we're cleaning up

graffiti we're cleaning up trash and

we're being a presence in communities

in a non-militaristic way that's how we

start we don't need guns to do community

service

we need to be present and that's how we

start there are a lot more things to do

but we've got a big plan coming for that

are you going to hold the policeman

accountable

for what's been going on because you

know they investigate themselves

to solve that problem transparency is

key i'm tired of hearing instances and

then oh well we can't release this

footage for 60 days and all this crap

we just need transparency the people

deserve to know exactly what's going on

i'm gonna watch your youtube channel

study up and have you on the show

and then really come at you hard that

was the softball good luck today thank

you

what's up man come on in come on in i

don't want to come in too much i just

want to figure out how you don't solve

homelessness

all right so so here's our plan so i'm

running for governor

the first problem you know well

did you did you like my idea i liked

your idea when you said that you were

going to come in and end homelessness

yeah i'm i'm tired of seeing people die

and get beaten on the streets

brutalizing er

the government is failing we need

somebody at the top who's going to fix

it here's exactly how i think we do that

first you gotta show compassion people

are dying on the streets man it's the

fifth largest economy people are dying

on the streets

it's unacceptable so first thing is we

gotta show compassion for anybody who's

living on the street

government doesn't show compassion today

government's a disaster and we need

three meals a day

people need food to survive we need

clean bathrooms

hygiene showers so people can have

dignity

that's our government's not doing any of

that right now and that's the basic

that's a basic need the government

should be providing day one

that's what i start with is providing

those services for

everybody who is homeless after that

we build at least 80

high quality places of shelter where

people if they want

have access to education doctors

mental health support whatever they need

we do that

in one place so no more of this go over

there they'll help you with that go over

there you'll get this go over there

it's the programs in the state are trash

because they're all over the place

so we're gonna put them in one place

we're gonna copy that 80 times

throughout the state

so we could finally start addressing

people dying on our streets

but homelessness is so much more than

that it's our failed school systems

people should be able to graduate at 18

and get a job

like a career our schools teach us

geometry and geography that's not going

to help me get a real job

that's a big problem too people go to

college they graduate with a bunch of

debt

they don't go to college they can't even

get a job yeah those are big problems we

have a lot of problems

housing affordability tell me what do

you think what what do you think this

government should do because they're

failing right now

i think what you've just told me is

consistent with what the politicians

been saying for the last 50 years in

this city

in the city right and and the whole

state

you're running for governor i don't see

that that's the solution to you know

you know how we so how we do it you know

the reason why i say that

because for one the numbers are all

wrong i agree with you on that

right the city is talking about about 60

000 people

way more than that i see stevie wonder

can count better than that

you know one or two come on man yeah

right yep yep you're right another

situation you ain't counting

the people that's in jail you don't care

about the people that's

in the hospitals well you don't count

the people that's getting out of prison

accounts are broken yeah you don't count

none of that yep and then on top of that

uh a lot of the that the city has

been doing

but look at uh for us the homeless

crisis where

we see it right now it's not a crisis

it's a disaster

it's an emergency you don't get

california leads the nation

and homelessness that means you're the

worst and you're the meanest

bingo how to you get passed worse

than a confederate states

georgia mississippi alabama you know

it's going to be etc and so on

right you know tell you how if i

continue to do the same thing you're

just talking about well let me ask you

use my shelter invested in shelters and

invested in policing you know what's

different

the last i've been doing this work la

can i've been working

all right as a human and civil rights

organizat

i'm also appointment on our community

watch team perfect that's been

documenting the homeless crisis

for the last 15 years oh you got to talk

about being involved with three major

lawsuits

right that the city's been involved with

uh jones versus the city of los angeles

tony levanne versus the city lawsuit

which i personally organized tony the

van they hit him just to carl sobel

who fought the suit against the city

that lawsuit went all the way

to the supreme court you know where they

went to dot deny homeless people the

right

to possess property in this city the

supreme court didn't even hear it they

shot it down

just months later we was involved in

another lawsuit

called mitchell versus the city of los

angeles right which is another property

rights lawsuit where the city was again

found

guilty in federal court right they

didn't get it then

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currently the city just months later the

city was hit with another lost city

lawsuit garcia versus the city of los

angeles so

in the last like 20 years i've been

doing the work 15 to 16 of that 20 years

the city has been sued seven times seven

times they've been found guilty in

federal court yeah

right of denied directly denying

the property rights of homeless people

or just straight out eighth amendment

crude

unusual punishments right and so that

was me

yeah you know sent me i'd have been

struck out in the penitentiary on my

third strike

but now here is this the city you know

on a seven strike

you know they mean they still governing

over the homeless crisis

you know what's going to be like they

know what they're doing you mean fail

over the homeless

man that's right

what were you doing it was politicians

y'all they got a synagogue

that's in this situation matter of fact

it was the federal government back in

the 80s

hud when they cut the budget in housing

remember when the federal government got

out of housing

they say we don't want to do it no more

right because america is one of the only

countries

that's a member of the united nations

but don't believe in none of the damn

decorations wow

like housing is a human right man water

is a human right they don't believe in

none of that

so how it triggered down from the 80s we

told them

when hud started cutting the budget from

billions of dollars got out of it

and left the housing up to the city for

these slumlords and corporations to

decide

who build hogs and who get houses and

you don't yeah so we already know from

the 80s

we saw skid row starting to build up

you know everybody know about the judge

all right and he just gave the city

these new orders of what they got to do

right well let me tell you about judge

carter judge carl is fully

just like the city judges are

politicians too

because you know where his office is at

his office is right on skid row

surrounded by encampments you know what

exactly so how do you drive past this

every day

go in the federal building and talk

about you and the civil rights and

constitutional rights that you don't say

about the violations outside your window

not until the case file hit your desk

yeah you know it's gonna be so it's

awful for me

that's the reason why i come like george

floyd you know

rebellion and all the other rebellions

people take it to the streets yep

and so that's what it's going to take

for this to to really

repeat really good justice because when

you look at it homelessness is going to

triple up at the end of this month

because the covet 19 evictions oh yeah

yeah we're saying 500 000

right now that the city got to deal with

yeah and so you put that

on top of what's already going down then

if you did get a million dollars or a

billion dollars right now today

yeah you ain't gonna be wrong wasn't

built in one night

so what are you gonna do with the with

the folks that's on the streets

everybody ain't gonna go in the shelters

no folks over there right now he's

telling you 50 million reasons

why they ain't yeah i mean listen to

people quit building

without the people you know that's the

reason why come people they say oh

oh we built all these they don't want to

come no they didn't come because you

didn't invite them to the table

exactly when you don't invite them to

the table don't accept it then you say

they show the resistance bingo no we're

resisting

you don't understand let me ask you this

so so you work

uh in advocacy on this if you were

governor tomorrow

what would you do what would shane

chavera do

i would destroy the system i would

destroy the books because this

ain't working for us it ain't working

that's right america got one problem she

needs to deal with

and that's race because when you look at

the homeless crisis right here

i would agree with judge carter say it's

an institutional racism

that roots that's deeply embedded

because when you look on skid row you

only see black folks

that's dominantly on the ground you know

it ain't by coincidence

that homelessness is down for white

folks in the valley 32

but on skid row it's up for black folks

so if you're gonna

solve homelessness for 60 days you need

to go to skid row and start working with

the black folks

particularly the sisters too because

they're the ones that suffering the most

i couldn't agree with you more all right

thank you for that power to the people

yeah

the police let me ask you this

if if the government with a governor who

cared

brought those three meals a day and

worked with the community

do you think the governor can make a

change no the only way the government

said i was telling i want to hear you i

was telling you

years ago yeah right the number one well

we ran for a homeless bill of rights in

the state of california

ten years ago the state shot it down it

didn't it didn't get past corporations

past assembly i spoke for it

you know at the assembly yeah but it

didn't get past preparation that's to

decide who going to pay for it who's

going to appropriate

what you was just talking about it's all

money man never get past corporations

our issues yeah right and so i mean

you're a governor the mustang

homelessness is the number one platform

not even in this state but in this

this country yeah right yeah and so i

mean you got to think of solutions for

housing you got to build housing man

when you look at it i'm going to tell

you this and i'm leaving when you look

at here we are in the year

2021. don't you know the oscillopithecus

the zing antra lopez

those are all pre-men back in caveman

before caveman days

right yet he was in his barbaric state

he had enough intelligence to know

that he needed a house right

his house came before his name caveman

yeah right yeah if he got enough

conscience to know that we should have

do

then on top of that look around mother

nature

you can't show me not one animal instead

of bug that's homeless

right don't even think ones you see

that's homeless is the ones

that they've been domesticated by us you

know what they mean

kicked out the house yeah you know what

does that mean but other than that

the rats got a house the roaches got a

house the birds got penthouses

and so everybody got a house but man you

only see

man here in the year 2021 sleeping

bareback sleeping wilder than the

xenantro lopez

he had enough sense to go in the cage

you want to see me so brother

get the house let's fix it man and

you'll be the man we'll get that we'll

do it man

remember my name kevin remember kevin

paffroth okay

meet kevin all right nice to meet you

man we're gonna do it man kevin go

do it we're gonna do it man if you don't

you gotta answer to the people

yeah here's the thing you know this

recall election coming up

if i get in i only get a year and then i

gotta get voted in again

this is the only time the governor gets

just one year so i get in i gotta prove

myself the first gear

shot hi i'm a shot all you need is a

shot right i'm gonna find you we're

gonna talk can i do everything

can i text you oh my gosh man

that was one of my best videos man

chicago

i you know what's good about detroit

though is it's getting really nice

downtown and that's spreading

it's getting really nice man yeah

i my body and i we were this close to

buying up there

we don't like being far away because

it's hard to alert with people you know

but uh we were really close to buying up

there because we just

it's it's gonna come around again for

sure but hey thanks man thank you

brother

appreciate it thank you appreciate it

let's go so we're standing outside of

wheel fun rentals here in echo park you

worked here before

the park was shut down what was it like

before and how did it affect business

the way it was before what's different

and what was it like being out of work

for the last few months

it was uh it was a little challenging

i'm one of those folks that has a hard

time sitting still which is why i like

working here

um but i do like the improvements that

they have made

they've laid down a lot of grass they

repainted our boathouse

they're also wiring us up with some

cameras to you know help with security

you've also seen the police presence

here so that's really reassuring as well

and it just looks a lot cleaner you know

and i think everybody can appreciate

that i remember there was a time

i was working another gig a few days ago

i was about to litter

and there was nothing else on the street

i put my trash in my pocket so

if you can you know catch what i'm

getting at with that i think other

people will catch on to that too

so because it's clean other people want

to be more clean keep it clean

did it get out of hand before how was it

before in your experience and did it

affect business

it did um honest there were a lot of

custom we had a handful of customers

that had let us know

hey i just don't feel too comfortable

bringing my kids to the park with the

the folks that are living in the park

and

the conditions around the park and we

would respond you know

and say yes we understand how you feel

about it but

there's not much that we can do about

that we have forwarded this on to the

city

um and then the city did what they did

so

sure of uh or before what happened did

the city try to help at all

was there a lot of city involvement or

did it kind of just slowly get worse and

worse and worse

i there was a time i remember

they the folks would come in and

it was honestly it was gut-wrenching i

would look at it and from the outside

looking in

it didn't seem like they were cleaning

up the park when they came in with the

trucks and stuff and moving everybody

out it seemed like they were evicting

homeless people

wow and so that was something that was

just like really hard day when they

finally came

well uh before like long before um when

everything

before uh corona had really heated

everything up and we got a lot more

people in

yeah they would do these park cleanups

and so i think they've done them also in

like skid row and

other parts that are kind of really

populated with the homeless folks and it

seemed like they were just evicting

people

yeah and so that was really hard to

watch and see and it was

yeah it got your blood boiling but and

then also being

you know being here and being uh

for a while you know you make

connections and relationships with

people

and so like roger up here in the yellow

explorer you know he's

a great guy jose and the uh the bmw with

his two chihuahuas

um i've like made friends and so to see

them going through what they're going

through and then

the heartlessness that they get treated

with is

it's it's hard to watch but what i did

read

and what was also uh reassuring was that

the city did house a good bit of the

folks that were here

um i think it was something like just

over 200 cases and i got about a

180 or so of them squared away and into

some sort of uh

housing that's that's sort of what they

told you they were doing yeah well i had

kind of like dug it up online but you

can put anything on the internet i guess

i probably shouldn't be repeating that

who knows yeah so

now obviously things are cleaned out

you're reopening again

how do you make up for all the lost

revenues i mean how much revenue did you

guys lose

that one i don't have my hands into what

i mean how many days were you closed

uh let's say

almost two months yeah yeah yeah and

that's

zero ever did the city compensate you at

all uh well

uh most of our folks had filed for

unemployment i guess i have a hard time

sitting still so i had

found some construction work to do and

then i also jumped back on with a micro

mobility company

um so you'll probably see me out there

running around swapping batteries

yeah but i just it's a

it's good to be back you know and it's

good to see a lot of more smiling faces

and

you know people seem happier too are you

seeing

these same faces come back talk to you

about their experience the last two

months what have you felt there yeah

actually gil is a good friend of mine he

walks around the park i just caught up

with him

um my uh we've had one of our our

vendors

um they're no their truck is up there

but they're not

of course they're not selling anything

right now because the police are here

yeah which is another thing that uh

we've been thinking about um because i

also have you know

all pretty much all of our staff here

have relationships with the vendors we

go over by lunch or something from them

um and so it's you know it's kind of

hard

to not have them here you know do the

police just kick them out or

well today is our first day back open i

haven't seen them like actually kick

anybody out but i don't think anybody's

actually trying to vent right now

um either but i've never actually seen

the the folks

like kick any vendors out okay um

yeah it's an improvement but what do you

think about the homelessness problem

though where were they all gonna come

back uh where do they go is the

government helping them what do you

think

last question we're calling i honestly i

i think there was measure h from way

back when we pumped a whole lot of money

into

and again what i read online i hate to

repeat it but

um it seemed like we put we were

building these

structures that were you know at grand

scale you know and i get that there's

uh you don't want to give somebody just

a shack to live in but you also don't

want to give them a two-story condo

sure you know but there's you know maybe

there's some sort of happy medium just

ask folks what they want you know

we'll a web a one bedroom and one bath

suffice

maybe there's a way to do that with

these rvs that i've seen them pumping

out too

are you seeing that outreach now or not

really i

can say that being like moving around

los angeles i have seen a lot more

services for the homeless population and

then from non-profits or is the

government helping

that one i can't put myself no i just i

see them you know somebody's

working with the population yeah but it

seems like homelessness is getting worse

yeah it's well rent is crazy i mean i'm

paying 1400 for a one bedroom

i think it's not affordable yeah um so

and it's like literally

that'll put you paycheck to paycheck so

um

it's it's a tough one but

and well i was just gonna say thank you

yeah for for taking the time and

uh especially away from from your job

here so shout out to wheel fund rentals

and what can people do here in case they

want to come so we're at echo park wheel

fund rentals

should they should people reserve first

what should it be yes we do need you to

make a reservation online before you

come down and see us that website is

wheelfunrentals.com forward slash pay

that will take you right to the booking

website has all of the details

we'll need you to make your payment

online and then show up with an id

card and then we'll use that to sign you

up with a safety waiver

we'll get you on a boat thank you so

much no problem no problem thank you

guys thank you man seriously

that's awesome well there you have it

folks echo park

is reopened we got a whole lot of

different perspectives and there's one

thing we know with certainty

gavin newsom's gotta go go to meet

kevin.com to learn about the plan

and campaign go to meetkevin.com donate

to donate to support the campaign

and we'll see you next time

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you