X-Mozilla-Status: 0003 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00800000 X-Mozilla-Keys: Message-ID: <5335AE43.2010502@sbcglobal.net> Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 10:15:47 -0700 From: Richard Childers User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD i386; rv:10.0.3) Gecko/20120327 Thunderbird/10.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: krobinson@co.humboldt.ca.us Subject: Regarding RICHARD DANIEL KLAMMES, CDCR#: 479600 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To whom it may concern, I am writing in regards to the case of RICHARD DANIEL KLAMMES, CDCR#: 479600. Richard lived across the hall from me. It was Richard whom asked me to call the Fortuna Police Department, yesterday. From this, I inferred that he was not being allowed access to the telephone, by his sons, and his wife. I called the police. I asked not to be mentioned in the report - I didn't want to be contacted - but I also told the dispatcher that an older gentleman was being beaten upon by a younger gentleman. Not vice versa. It's not clear to me why the police arrested the victim - Richard Klammes - instead of the aggressor. I suspect the police were not told the truth by other participants they interviewed. There is a history of growing conflict within that apartment. If I am any judge, it's time for those young men to move out on their own. Sources of conflict that I know of included: 1) His son's dog pooping in front of the apartment 2) His wife's sister's son's dog pooping in front of the apartment 3) People complaining to the manager about the poop 4) The manager complaining to the maintenance man, Richard Klammes 5) Richard Klammes complaining to the boys - his son, and his nephew - about their dogs 6) The conflict with his son escalating to verbal and then physical violence Everything I have said above about dog poop can ALSO be said about EXTREMELY LOUD MUSIC - the kind that makes walls and floors shake. My daughter (whom is a member of the Scotia Jazz Band) composed a note, which we thought about, but didn't, post, outside, asking them to stop playing the music so loud that the walls and floor shook. We still have it. My communications with the manager about the dog poop were via SMS text messaging - and I still have them. My one attempt to speak to the young gentlemen directly about the volume was met by extreme hostility, from his son - and so I know, first hand, what Richard Klammes was probably dealing with, on a daily basis. Everything I have said can be substantiated by the people whom live above Richard, as well, if they so care to. My wife and four daughters can attest to events, as well. Although Richard was arrested yesterday - Thursday - he looked as if he had been beaten up, Wednesday. I saw him afterwards and he had swollen fingers. He said he had been pinned down with a broom - presumably, across his throat. I think he was also beaten up Tuesday - his shirt was nearly torn off him in some sort of conflict. Perhaps the shirt still exists, as evidence. His wife has been browbeating him with threats of divorce for about a week now. That would provide a motive to lie - by getting him arrested, she is fast-tracking her own agenda. I've overheard his son berating him for being a mere groundskeeper and cutter of grass. If I had to put up with that I'd be ordering my son to leave the house, too. And it's not like his son doesn't have a place to go - Richard's wife's sister lives in another apartment, a hundred feet away ... where the other puppy that was a source of poop, also lives. Richard shouldn't have lost his job over this. He just did what he was told to do. The Fortuna Police are imposing an impossible burden upon parents if they are holding them responsible for their childrens' conduct, and yet are refusing them the right to exercise the same level of power and control within their own household, that the police assert, every day, in their daily contacts with citizenry. Also, the Fortuna PD is heavily salted with younger officers - children, barely old enough to shave, some of them - who may not have the wisdom or experience to recognize the true sources of aggravation. One of the bystanders - a young man - commented to me about how he thought he remembered a time when police first counselled, and told people to shake hands. No doubt it has something to do with a mandatory arrest policy and a search for a primary aggressor ... but the world isn't always black and white, and kids fresh out of the academy sometimes need older, wiser heads to guide them. I recommend turning Richard Klammes loose with an O. R. bond, and helping him find a place to stay - so the jail has room for other, more important violators. He's not violent. And he's not an aggressor, either, if I'm any judge of matters. Regards, ~richard Richard Childers 707-725-7995