HomeMy WebLinkAboutcc - Potter (protests) 7-27-2020City of San Luis Obispo
Attn: Mayor and City Council
990 Palm Street
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401
July 22, 2020
Dear Mayor Harmon,
RECEIVED
JUL 2 7 2020
SLO CITY CLERK
First off, I want to say I appreciate law, order and everyone who serves our city to make it a place where
citizens can lawfully conduct business and live peaceable lives. I am a law abiding, tax paying citizen as
well as a property owner who invests in this community. I have lived in this community raising my family
since June 1993 and have been a homeowner since 1997.
I am appalled at the leniency the city officials have had with the political organization Black Lives Matter
BLM) and all protests in our city/county. This organization does not represent the vast majority of
citizens in this city. I have thoroughly reviewed their website and their strategies, and I resolutely reject
what they stand. Being a simple person who loves everyone no matter what the color of their skin or
who they are or what defeat they have; I do not see any kindness coming from this group. Life is hard
enough without the hate mongering going on by this group. In fact, they are adding to the difficulty of
life since the covid virus.
This latest protest on July 21 which had this group on our freeway and destroying a vehicle with a child
in it is outrageous. In the past couple months, I have also heard many times helicopter/plane flying
around the city because this group is marching around. They have no right to disturb the peace of our
community with their threat of possible violence and costing our city budget and law enforcement all
the maintenance to follow them around.
Why are our city officials allowing any group to protest by marching through town? If Mitchell Park was
the protest location, why aren't they sequestered to the park. Why are we being subjected to their
threat of violence.
A couple of weeks ago my husband and I were driving to visit my ailing father who has Parkinson's
disease. We were driving on Santa Rosa heading downtown from Foothill and a huge mob of angry
screaming BLM protesters were walking down the other side of Santa Rose in the middle of the road in
the opposite direction next to us!!! It was horrible. I was shaking with shock when I arrived to visit my
father.
I beg you, please consider the wellbeing of all your citizens in this city and put a stop to this. We should
have a voice too. Allowing this group to disrespectfully usurp the city is not prudent, we would like to
feel like you care about us too.
qai
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269 Los Cerros Drive
San Luis Obispo, CA 93405
805.540.8758
S-CEIVED
JUL 27
SLO CITY CLERK
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