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Officer Clark: Damn, shit it's the wrong way.

Dispatch: This is [inaudible 00:00:47]. Still no answer.

Officer Clark: Why do I feel like I [00:01:00] have came over here before? 86, 100. [00:01:30] The [inaudible 00:01:34]. Yes.

Bob Barnett: So, me neighbor I've had problems with.

Officer Clark: Yup, I've been over here before.

Bob Barnett: Okay, so she's been ... can I talk to you in private?

Officer Clark: Go ahead.

Bob Barnett: They're coming up.

Officer Clark: Stay down there, I'm going to talk to them and then I'm going come down there and talk to you. Go ahead.

Bob Barnett: Okay, so we're out [00:02:00] here working, she had the radio, no problem. Then she turns it up to the point where I'm not able to think, you know? It's loud, so I went down with my camera to record, once again, I have over 100 videos, you've seen the online chronology of the things-

Officer Clark: No.

Bob Barnett: Okay, I broke them into different categories, this is the fourth time they've attacked me.

Officer Clark: Attacked you as in? [00:02:30] Hit you or ....

Bob Barnett: Yes, I have four videos. See that board up there? That woman there chased me with it.

Officer Clark: Okay.

Bob Barnett: See that brick right there? She chased me with that brick, I have a video of it and about a week or so ago I'm recording the noisy radio, they pull up, they open up the car and they leave the radio on for 10 or 15 minutes, no one's in it [00:03:00] and I'm recording it and that woman there, she takes it, bam!-

B. Brown mom: I have a [inaudible 00:03:06]

Tonija Baker: Momma, don't say nothing.[crosstalk 00:03:09]

Bob Barnett: Okay, no you all won't arrest them for a simple reason, have you been to my website Crowjim? Okay, I've left all the times that they've attacked me, all the times they've inconvenienced me and the reason I came up with the term crowjim, because of Jim Crow. Black policeman will not [00:03:30] arrest those people for attacking me. This is an example of the reverse pf Jim Crow.

Officer Clark: Okay, there's been several officers other than black officers that went over there, just to let you know.

Bob Barnett: Well, mostly black. Nothing gets done.

Officer Clark: Okay, where's the video where she attacked you?

Bob Barnett: I hope I know how to use this cell phone.

Officer Clark: Well, you said you got a website.

Bob Barnett: Well I just now recorded this. Let's see [00:04:00] if I know how to do this. See, I'm going to sue the city and the police department for violation of my rights under the 14th amendment of equal protection.

Officer Clark: You can do whatever you please.

Dispatch: 233 [inaudible 00:04:19]

Bob Barnett: Let's see, how does this work? I usually download them. You know, [00:04:30] I had no problem with she's listening to the problem, then she sees me out here walking and she turns it up, okay?

Officer Clark: Okay, so when she turned it up, you went onto her property?

Bob Barnett: Is that street?

Officer Clark: This street right here? That's public street.

Bob Barnett: Okay, I never went onto her property, the car is parked on public property. The fence is [00:05:00] the property line. Everything here is city. I can step there and it's still in the city. How do these things work? No, no. You want to hear something crazy about this? In the last 1960s I helped maintain the operations of one of the first two cellphones that ever existed. They were for the president to conduct war. [00:05:30] And again, if they don't aggravate me, I have no problem.

Officer Clark: This is the thing, you know aggravation is not part of the law, but what you should have done, from what I'm hearing from you, you were over there working, the music was up too loud, I assume that any other time the music has been up loud, correct? You call the police and let them know, hey, there's a loud disturbance, then we can get someone who's qualified to bring the need around.

Bob Barnett: Y'all have never ever, [00:06:00] never, ever-

Officer Clark: I'm just telling you what I know. I don't know who else you came in contact with-

Bob Barnett: At this point, you're on their side, another example of [crowjimism 00:06:11].

Officer Clark: Okay, I want to see the video.

Bob Barnett: Well, I'm going to put it online. May I have an incident card.

Officer Clark: You can have my number with it on there, my name with it.

Bob Barnett: Sure, I want an incident card with today's date-

Officer Clark: So far I don't see anything that's going on. You told me that she [00:06:30] came over but I'm looking for the video, that's what I want to see.

Bob Barnett: Okay, you want to go over to my porch and let me download it?

Officer Clark: Yeah, sure, definitely because I have to see what's going on. You know what I mean? I'm not just going to write ... I'll append some notes on what you said so the other officers know what happened today.

Bob Barnett: So if I show you the video, you're not going to arrest her.

Officer Clark: If she's hitting on the video, yes,

Bob Barnett: Okay.

Officer Clark: If you can show me that, then yes.

Bob Barnett: All right, I hate being difficult and-

Officer Clark: No, it's not about [00:07:00] being difficult it's about evident. You're just saying and you don't have evidence, you can't show me that they hit you, then all I'm going to say to you is you and her, she has one story, you have one story. And I'm just going to say what majority's going to say, I wasn't here so, therefore you can go take the warrant on your own but if you have the video then I would love to see it to see exactly what happened.

Bob Barnett: Okay, anyway, do you recognize these flags?

Officer Clark: [00:07:30] Say it again?

Bob Barnett: Do you recognize the flags?

Officer Clark: Yeah, a few of them.

Bob Barnett: [inaudible 00:07:34]

Officer Clark: Yeah, we got three different ones.

Bob Barnett: This is apartheid South African flag, this one's the Nelson Mandela's post.

Officer Clark: Okay.

Bob Barnett: You won't find many old white men who are flying South African flags in honor of Nelson Mandela. Let's turn on some lights here. I've lived here for [00:08:00] 40 years and I did $15000 worth of improvements to the property between 2003 and 2012 and she came out one day and said I was stealing her electricity and she referred to a neighbor over here as a white bitch. I won't do anything for a racist, white or black. Then I told them I was not doing more for them and then they've gone out of their way to make my life hell. They would park the car there, I started parking my car there [00:08:30] to keep them from parking their car there. They leave the radio on and ... I just want to be left alone. [00:09:00] I'm working on a program to ... with this crime. [inaudible 00:09:17] so as to make it brighter ... [inaudible 00:09:34] [00:09:30] of course, I have heart problems and they'll do that just aggravates my heart problem. Okay, come out, come out, wherever you are.

Officer Clark: Go to [inaudible 00:09:55].

Bob Barnett: Hm?

Officer Clark: No, I'm talking to my partner that's out there with them. [00:10:00] I'm just letting you know I'm in the living room, I'm about to look at some footage, I'll be out shortly.

Bob Barnett: Come on, work. See that, says 24 and 4 [00:10:30] and back here got something about shared job time or jobless crime. We have to share the available work or we're going to have crime. I have been retired for 20 years, I retired at the age of 49, I busted my butt and I hired more minorities than I did people with my skin tone. It's my sense of historical justice, I want to die leaving the world better and these people are real racist. [00:11:00] I don't like racists. I've worked hard to not discriminate, not be ignorant and then to have these women have me treated horribly ... [inaudible 00:11:27] [00:11:30] here's the video of her swinging a board at me.

Officer Clark: Is this the video from today?

Bob Barnett: I'm coming to it. I get ... not excited but stressed out, it's hard to keep my wits. After all, it's the little things that are necessary. Hello, come out, [00:12:00] come out, wherever you are. My mouth is drying out. Sign of stress. Today's the 10th, yeah, this should be it. Hope this is it. Where are you? That's not [inaudible 00:12:55]. I'm sure that's it. [00:13:00] This is no computer, I don't want to learn any new computer stuff, I'm tired of learning computer stuff. That's a new computer-

Officer Clark: Do you all know each other's names?

Bob Barnett: My name is Bob Barnett?

Officer Clark: No, do you know your neighbor's name? Do you know her name over there?

Bob Barnett: Her name is Tonija [00:13:30] Baker, but she has a lot aliases.

Officer Clark: Okay.

Bob Barnett: Her mother name is Betty Anne Brown.

Officer Clark: So who are you saying which one assaulted you? Is this the one from today?

Bob Barnett: Yeah, that's me walking down.

Officer Clark: There sound?

Bob Barnett: Not on this computer.

Officer Clark: [00:14:00] Okay, so question. Why is that you're all the way over there by their car?

Bob Barnett: Well, I'm asking them to turn the radio down.

Officer Clark: Can you not ask them from the street?

Bob Barnett: Look, let's just stop right here, I can see that you're wanting to excuse them for their attacking me. Can I have the incident card please? [crosstalk 00:14:31] [00:14:30] I go over there and ask her to turn the radio down, what am I supposed to do, get a megaphone, do it from a mile away.

Officer Clark: No, but what I'm saying is-

Bob Barnett: You want to excuse their actions.

Officer Clark: Not to go that close up to their car.

Bob Barnett: The radio's so loud she can't hear me.

Officer Clark: Okay, well when you go ... not to go up to the car, is what I'm saying. Not to go up to the car, but where you were standing at first, before you went up to the car was fine. You could have waited for her to get out-

Bob Barnett: So now I'm going to be under arrest?

Officer Clark: No, I'm telling you the [00:15:00] better way how to have done it.

Bob Barnett: I've done it that way, [crosstalk 00:15:04] the radio was so loud she didn't hear me.

Officer Clark: Okay, like I said before, still, you should have called us, as soon the radio went up, you should have called us. Hey, there's a disturbance that's loud.

Bob Barnett: That hasn't worked.

Officer Clark: Why has it not worked?

Bob Barnett: Richmond police department. You know Anne street, here? On my website Crowjim, [inaudible 00:15:24].

Officer Clark: No, I don't need to see your website, just tell me why does that not work to you? Why does that not work to [00:15:30] call us when the music is loud?

Bob Barnett: I have 100 videos, 100 videos of you all not doing anything.

Officer Clark: Okay, but why do you feel like you shouldn't call us when the music is loud? You don't think we're going to do anything? That's what you're saying?

Bob Barnett: That's right, see right now, you're not going to do anything.

Officer Clark: I can't do anything because the simple fact she didn't hit you-

Bob Barnett: Yes, she did.

Officer Clark: The simple fact is-

Bob Barnett: She hit me.

Officer Clark: You went over into their space. [Jim Crow all over again.]

Bob Barnett: No, I was on a public street.

Officer Clark: No, no, [crosstalk 00:15:58] the car is right here, [00:16:00] you went up to the car, instead of just staying where you were at first and be like, "Hey, can you lower your music?" [Officer Clark assumes I went up to the car. What is "up to the car?"]

Bob Barnett: You're doing a body cam on this right?

Officer Clark: I am.

Bob Barnett: Okay, if it's so loud that she can't hear me, how can I tell her to ask her to turn it down.

Officer Clark: So she was getting out of the car, I can't hear it on there, but she was getting out of the car and then she came towards you because, what I'm seeing, because I can't hear it.

Bob Barnett: Okay, I'm [00:16:30] in the street-

Officer Clark: Yeah, you were in the street.

Bob Barnett: I was in the street when she hit me.

Officer Clark: And then you went towards her car. You stood right in front of the car.

Bob Barnett: I don't know, I think I was maybe four, six feet away.

Officer Clark: You were close enough to the car. What I'm saying is what you should have done, and I'm just telling you.

Bob Barnett: I shouldn't have called you all.

Officer Clark: Okay.

Bob Barnett: I mean, how am I to get her attention? She's been there for too long.

Officer Clark: Wait until she get out the car, you can patiently wait. You were already [00:17:00] standing before you walked up and say, "Hey, can you keep your music down?"

Bob Barnett: I've done that, I did that, 50, 55-

Officer Clark: Then you call us as well.

Bob Barnett: Waste of time.

Officer Clark: All right.

Bob Barnett: 214, what's my last four?

Dispatch: 0160-0160.

Bob Barnett: I just don't understand it. They aggravate me, they turn up this radio. I mean I had no problem for the first hour she was cleaning [00:17:30] her car, she wasn't getting out of her car. She was cleaning her car and I walked over and she apparently was doing something and I finally get her attention and then she comes at me.

Officer Clark: Because you walked up on the car, that's probably why. [crosstalk 00:17:45] you guys don't get along as it is, we know this already from the officers that already came. I know you guys don't get along, so I would not advise you as an officer to talk anywhere on her property, not even close to her car.

Bob Barnett: I wasn't on her property, why do you keep saying on her property?

Officer Clark: Not [00:18:00] even close to her car.

Bob Barnett: No, public street I am going to go up and ask someone to-

Officer Clark: That makes a further issue because now this is her vehicle, you have came in front of the vehicle instead of stopping over here, like, "Hey, can you please cut the music down a little bit? We're trying to work over here."

Bob Barnett: Whoa, the radio full out, she didn't hear me when I was asking.

Officer Clark: Okay, well then, if I want her to turn the radio off, just stand right there and try to get her attention, then she may come up, [00:18:30] may not.

Bob Barnett: I can't believe what you're saying [crosstalk 00:18:32].

Officer Clark: That doesn't help, that wouldn't have worked?

Bob Barnett: First of all, I've done it, I've done it, I've done it. How many times do I have to tell, you I've done it, I've done it, I've done it.

Officer Clark: Okay, then we'll stick to the first thing I said, you should have called us before you walked down there.

Bob Barnett: Okay. You know what, I have a title for this, and I have a list for the all times, not all the times, but the times that they have called me, "White motherfucking faggot who sticks your dick up little boy's asses". Do you like that? Do you like that that?

Officer Clark: No.

Bob Barnett: [00:19:00] Okay, and they say out of the blue that my wife is a bitch, if you look at the tapes that I recorded, I'm constantly saying, "You're breaking the law."

Officer Clark: Why don't you just take them to court then? You know their names, you can go to the magistrate yourself, if you have this on video, that's even more in your defense, I mean you don't believe in us doing our job-

Bob Barnett: Because you're not doing your job.

Officer Clark: Since you have all the evidence, you can skip us and just go to 1701 Fairfield, [crosstalk 00:19:31] [00:19:30] the Justice center yourself.

Bob Barnett: Is there still a court down here in Manchester?

Officer Clark: Yeah, but that's not where you go to get a warrant for somebody. You go to the Justice center, which is across the street from Juvenile court center. It's the new jail, the magistrate is in that building.[crosstalk 00:19:46]

Bob Barnett: Okay, well, that's what I'll do. I apologize.

Officer Clark: You just tell them your story, you let them know you have video, they will let you know if you have enough evidence to take this warrant out. If you [00:20:00] feel like we're not doing it. I'm not, by all means, I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm not saying they're wrong, what I'm saying is ...

Bob Barnett: Okay, I wasn't quite aware of that.

Officer Clark: But if you have that evidence then you got their names, you have their address, that's all you have to do. Take your story to the magistrate and let the magistrate decide on whether you have enough for a warrant. All right?

Bob Barnett: That's what I'm going to do.

Officer Clark: If any other time they have music, honestly, call us first [00:20:30] and ask do we have, what is this? The people with the meters. [crosstalk 00:20:35] because you have to [crosstalk 00:20:35]. Ask if they can send somebody with ... no it can't be you, it gotta be them.

Bob Barnett: I recorded 89 to the low 90 decibels and if you look at the charts, that's considered harmful to your ears. I sit here and, again, I work on how to have a better world, these are my heroes, chocolate and vanilla, I tell people I'm no [00:21:00] chocolate man. I'm an old vanilla man, happy and proud to have a chocolate family in the white house. I try to promote and you see all the flags that have been here and there but when I stopped helping them, they then went out of their way just to make my life hell. Those [inaudible 00:21:17], that concrete walkway, the terrace in our backyard, the 18 inches of clay I scraped away from the bottom of our house, I get that. Why did I do it? She's a widow. My great-grandmother, a widow, [00:21:30] she raised me and I was repaying them, my great-grandmother, by helping another widow. Anyway.

Officer Clark: Well, you guys just ... I'm going to tell her the same thing, try and keep her music low and just don't-

Bob Barnett: She says I have no right to tell her what music to play. I don't care what music you play, actually earlier when it was loud, it sounded pretty good, but anyway, [inaudible 00:21:54] my abilities to think and working on this project down here, and it's too noisy.

Officer Clark: [00:22:00] Okay, I'll speak to her about her music.

Male Officer: [crosstalk 00:22:02] I'm coming in to the end of it, I was just speaking to her. Just so that you're all aware, she's going to speak to her again as well, but also, there's no trespassing signs posted on her property, as I'm sure you're aware of, you know the law and you know what's going on with that. If there is a sign, and you're not allowed and you're not invited to be on her property, [00:22:30] I know there's a difference between city and property, but if you are on her property and she didn't invite you and she can also fill out and take out a warrant for trespassing. It sounds like it's just an ongoing issues that you have to steer away from each other. She wanted me to advise you on that. You're advised, you know not to be on her property.

Bob Barnett: [inaudible 00:22:56]

Male Officer: I don't know [inaudible 00:22:57].

Bob Barnett: There's [00:23:00] my car, the car's on public property [inaudible 00:23:25].

Officer Clark: All right. Good morning.

Tonija Baker: Good morning.

Officer Clark: All right. I'm no stranger to y'all issues [crosstalk 00:23:31], [00:23:30] so I already know. I saw the video, I told him, because he says that your music was loud. He says first it was low and then you cut it up. I said if that was the case you should have called us. You don't go over to anybody's property, standing, trying to record. He could have got your attention from over here, instead he went right in front of your car, so I understand-

Tonija Baker: I didn't know he was standing there at first, so I told him get the [crosstalk 00:23:52]

Officer Clark: I told him that's not the way that you do it, if I have an issue, you call us. Apparently [00:24:00] this is where we're at right now, so I just told him ...

Tonija Baker: Why don't he just leave me alone? I don't ... look, where I he's parked his car right now, that's where I used to park it, right? He asked the city to put no parking signs on both sides of the street and the city assumed that's what we wanted. [Lie]When the city found out that's not what we wanted, they took them down except for the one by the stop sign.

Officer Clark: I remember you told me that.

Tonija Baker: My thing is, if you don't want no parking on your side of the street, you kept your sign, so why would you park where I [Lie, Illogical] ... everybody around here, all the neighbors knows this is where I park at. When [00:24:30] I moved my car at the front, because I'm not going to play switcheroo with you. He's never parked that car there in the whole 29 years, but if that's where he want to park his car, fine, just leave me alone. I don't park on the side anymore, try to avoid him, but when I got a lot of groceries, I park there because I'm not going to come from here and walk all the way up to the back, or walk up all these steps take groceries to the car. I live here, I should be able-

B. Brown mom: I'm 70 years old, I can't [crosstalk 00:24:53] that's why I park here.

Tonija Baker: You're 71. My brother-in-law, uncle, cousin, nephew, anybody [00:25:00] come over here, a man, he don't bother with them. [Because they don't keep their radio blasting except grandsons.] He just ... I don't know what it is, he just need to keep nagging at me. First of all, he startled me as well because I really didn't know he was there. When I looked up I lost it, it's too much. [crosstalk 00:25:14] and I really hate to do that because I have to.

Officer Clark: Yeah, you guys know each others' names so same thing. He got stories from y'all before I could but he advised him, [00:25:30] stay from over here, stalk your property.

Tonija Baker: I don't bother him.[Lie: Spitballing bubblegum ... 90db radio at all hours of the day]

Officer Clark: I just told him next time if I feels like he needs somebody to come and talk to y'all then don't assume he's going to take things into his own hands, call us first. Let us be the middle man.

Tonija Baker: I try to ignore him, god knows I do, I'm only human, I can't take this, you're going to threaten my that you got a gun and you don't mind popping me through the leg, I take that very seriously. That's a threat to me, [Lie, never happened.] and I'm trying to not cause a lot [00:26:00] of issues, but me personally, I can't take no more. It's over my head, I just can't take it no more. I do feel threatened, because you walked over to me, it's not the first time he's done that. One time I was getting groceries out the trunk of the car and he was walking down the street and he walked up to my face, when he said, "When I get finished with you're going to have to live with your sister because you're going to lose everything". Out of nowhere. [Not out of nowhere: her car was 90db radio] I can see if I'm messing with you or saying some ... If you look at his camera, you don't ever see me saying something to him first. You see him come out with a camera. [00:26:30] I got him recorded. And you going to call my job, you're trying to get me fired, yeah I work for the veteran. I work at the VA hospital, [Lie] I'm a driver for the veterans, and yes you are a veteran. I don't see him when he come there because I don't get the chance to see everybody, but in a day he'll go threaten to have me fired. You don't write letters to my job and call people and have me fired from my job because you don't like my music.[Have not called. Not music. It is the 90db volume.] There's just some things he do that's just uncalled for and I feel like I'm trapped and there's nothing [00:27:00] I can do about it.

Officer Clark: Definitely next time, he advised him don't come on your property[was not on property, was on public street], for some reason I'm not sure if he thinks this is part of the street or what.

B. Brown mom: I'm going to call the city Monday, find out what my property line is. [crosstalk 00:27:16] [Betty Ann Brown knows her property lines--has fences on them.]

Officer Clark: Yeah, find that out, that would be best for you and-

Tonija Baker: [crosstalk 00:27:18] card or something, you all came out today.

Officer Clark: Yeah, that would be best for you.

B. Brown mom: I'll do that Monday, that's what I'll do Monday.

Officer Clark: Maybe they can either put the little stick down to mark it for you.

B. Brown mom: I'm going to call them Monday.

Tonija Baker: [inaudible 00:27:32] [00:27:30] ask you today, the last time I did-[crosstalk 00:27:37]

Officer Clark: Who was the last [inaudible 00:27:39]. 0160.

Male Officer: [inaudible 00:27:58] someone harassing you [00:28:00] for how long. They ask you all that, again, if you have enough for it, they'll provide it. If not, they'll advise you what you should you do you should get that evidence and come back to them.

B. Brown mom: [inaudible 00:28:12] it's sad when we can't come outside.

Officer Clark: [crosstalk 00:28:20] and what's your name?

Tonija Baker: T-O-N-I-J-A Baker.

Male Officer: At least you can-

Officer Clark: What was his last name?

Tonija Baker: Barnett.

Officer Clark: Barnett.

Male Officer: Try to get [00:28:30] a protective order, [inaudible 00:28:33] that's something you can try to get yourself for him to stay away from you for 72 hours.

Tonija Baker: What's it called?

Male Officer: Emergency protective order. Yeah.

Tonija Baker: Okay.

Officer Clark: To extend it you have to go to court and they'll extend it for a year or two. Whatever you see fit.

Tonija Baker: [crosstalk 00:28:52] I have to do something, if I just keep on just talking to you all, then you all leave and then another week or two happens again. It's just repetitive, it's just [00:29:00] every chance you get. He keeps everything, I think he has some issues, really, upstairs. I'm not sure.

Male Officer: It sounds like he might have some mental issues, but doesn't give him the right to harass you, but if you do all that, hopefully it all works out for you.

Tonija Baker: Thanks you [crosstalk 00:29:21] so much.

Officer Clark: All right, thanks.

Bob Barnett: [inaudible 00:29:28] have a great day.

Officer Clark: [00:29:30] All right.