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Santa Ana mom catches a school cop roughing up a kid at John Adams Park

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Elvia Fernandez, a Santa Ana mom, is having trouble processing what she saw happen today at John Adams Park, in Santa Ana.  She videotaped a burly Santa Ana Unified School District Police Officer who jumped on top of a kid he caught tagging at the park.  Allegedly the cop threatened to pepper spray the kid.

According to eyewitnesses the child was perhaps fourteen years old.  You can hear him crying in the video that Elvia shot.  And the cop clearly shouts at Elvia and another bystander – demanding that they stop speaking in Spanish. They were telling the child to stop struggling and were trying to calm him down. Continue reading→

Leave no Rim Netless celebration at John Adams’ Park on Feb. 13

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Come Join Us for a Celebration!  “Leave No Rim Netless” Park Revitalization Campaign, sponsored by Netz 4 Life.

Sunday, February 13, 2011, from 10 am to 2 pm

John Adams’ Park, located at 2302 S. Raitt Street, in Santa Ana.

Contact Ray Roman, at 949-293-3662, or email him at ray@netz4life.org.

Netz 4 Life (n4L) teams up with Santa Ana, Ca Parks & Recreations Department and are currently looking for individual, corporate and team sponsors to tackle our next “Leave No Rim Netless” Basketball Court Revitalization Campaign Project at Adams Park, which consists of 4 full court and 2 half court outdoor basketball courts that are unsafe for neighboring youth and families.

Teenage girl stabbed and groped at Santa Ana’s John Adams Park

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KABC T.V. news reported on Wednesday that a teenage girl was attacked in a parking lot at John Adams Park, which is next door to John Adams Elementary School, by a man who stabbed her in the chest and grabbed her, trying to force her to kiss him.

We have been warning for some time that our parks are full of perverts.  Our blog reported that men were lurking at Santiago Park, and sure enough the SAPD arrested nine of them a few weeks ago, by using a decoy in a sting operation.

We also reported here the fact that there are over 200 registered sex offenders living in Santa Ana.

Now a teenage girl has been victimized and she might well have ended up murdered.  And here is the weird part.  The Santa Ana Police Department is NOT including this story on their online alert system, called Citizen Observer.

Why the cover-up? Continue reading→