Dear SMPD Officials:

This is to register a formal complaint that today at about 6:05 p.m. the resident manager of Village Trailer Park, Dennis Shay, drove his car, a white Dodge Caliber sedan with CA license plate number 5ZTV 468, directly at protesters standing in the parking area in front of the Park with protest signs. They jumped out of the way, so were unhurt other than psychologically. We videotape all the protests, so we have a tape of Shay’s aiming his car directly at two protesters. Incidentally, the tape also shows several other cars heading into Village Trailer Park from being eastbound on Colorado, as Shay was, and none of them having any trouble avoiding the protesters. We estimate the entrance to the Park as being about 20 feet wide, with far more than sufficient room for TWO cars to pass each other, so there was no excuse for Shay’s heading straight at protesters with his car.

Moreover, our group of residents pickets in the same place from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. every Monday through Thursday, as we have done since May 10, 2012, and we object strongly to this having happened once. Following this complaint we will be asking for a restraining order against such behavior’s being repeated, as well as criminal prosecution by the District Attorney, since the City’s attorneys, due to the City’s involvement in conspiracy with proposed developers of this property, who employ Shay and whose behavior is the impetus for the protests, obviously have a conflict of interest.

We also note herewith that since we started protesting on May 10, 2012, the number of times police cars drive into the Park or past the Park on Colorado Avenue.has easily doubled if not tripled. We do not approve of nor will we continue to allow without taking action, such attempts to chill our exercise of freedom of speech. We further note that in May 2012 two ON-DUTY police officers came to a meeting in the residents’ community room at the behest of the proposed developers, further showing the corruption in and conflict of interest of the City in dealing with us, and that uniformed police officers are a weapon being used by the proposed developers to try to intimidate us and chill our exercise of free speech.

Officially sent this 10th of July, 2012, at 7:30 p.m.

Brenda Barnes on behalf of Village Trailer Park Tenant Owners Association