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From:Paulsen, Shaina
To:Ramsey, Michael; Hatcher, Casey; Stephens, Brad J.
Cc:Reaster, Kayla; Valencia, Shyanne; Cook, Robin; Cook, Holly; Hironimus, Patrizia; Sweeney, Kathleen
Subject:Board Correspondence - FW: hate crime
Date:Thursday, August 11, 2022 12:13:07 PM
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Shaina Paulsen
Associate Clerk of The Board
Butte County Administration
25 County Center Drive, Suite 200, Oroville, CA 95965
T: 530.552.3304 | F: 530.538.7120
From: Benjamin Greenleaf <bgreenleaf2018@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 9, 2022 4:04 PM
To: Connelly, Bill <BConnelly@buttecounty.net>; Lucero, Debra <DLucero@buttecounty.net>; Ritter,
Tami <TRitter@buttecounty.net>; Kimmelshue, Tod <TKimmelshue@buttecounty.net>; Teeter,
Doug <DTeeter@buttecounty.net>
Subject: hate crime
Honorable county supervisors,
My name is Benjamin Greenleaf, Iam 46 year plus resident of butte county and Chico is my
hometown. I bought my first house in Magalia California, to become a Campfire survivor, and
forced to move to Oroville area for cheaper housing to buy, to only become involved in the
Bear/North complex wildfire and became a evacuee. Currently, I have
and renting out my house to my
In May 2020, my immediate family decided it was not safe for them to live in
Chico due discrimnation towards people with mental illness and out of control Chico police
officers that seem overzealous and non communicative towards family
members. Chico policers caused recklessness that was unnecessary; by pointing six guns at
heads for nothing and when my oldest went to court on suspicion of drunk
driving, (the test came back negative for drunkenness), her attorney told her not to make it
worse for herself, by challenging the six officers who pointed guns at her. If she was to fight
this she had to get another attorney. said, the police camcorders were off at one
point and her civil rights were violated after a male police officer would not allow my
daughter to take care of herself, at the hospital, as she has a bleeding tumor and the male
officer was insensitive and hostile towards her. I talked with the interim Chief Madden he said
I wasn't there and I couldn't make a complaint because of hearsay and that is what you are
more worried about than six guns pointed at your daughters heads, he laughed. I said this is a
cultural matter. Police need to treat women in custody with respect of medical health issues.
Mathew Madden was the Chico Police interim and I made a complaint and today, he is the
Chico police Chief. No consequences for the officers or Mathew Madden words and non
actions towards a concerned parent. He was rewarded to be Chicos Police Chief. Don't the city
of Chico employees have any integrity? And Chico council members? Instead, The Chico city
council's attitude and actions allow insensitivity and discrimnatiion on the basis of mental
illness,skin color, latin based names in our metropolitan city. The message Chico says, it is ok
for community members to berate, discriminate in the open on how a person looks or acts. At
one time and at many different coffee shops, came out of a Mondos coffee shop to not
be served. Because of the way he looks. Many businesses have discriminated on the physical
appearance of what they think is a homeless person and not serving a potential customer.
Respectfully,
Ben Greenleaf