TESTIMONY
Sharon Brown, Member of the Public, on Concerns Regarding Housing Requirements, the Treatment of Undercover Public Servants, and Underpayment across Professions
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Sharon Brown voices her disgust at the housing situation negatively impacting police, firefighters, and military personnel, including those working undercover who witness the unfair treatment of regular people.
- She believes housing requirements should not be so stringent
- She questions labeling people as mentally ill, as some undercover workers may be pretending for investigative purposes
- She highlights the issue of underpayment affecting various professions like teachers and housing workers across NYC and America
- She asserts that the underpayment issue is not racist but impacts people across the board
Sharon Brown
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Hello.
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My name is Sharon Brown.
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Good afternoon.
2:06:16
Good morning.
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I am very disgusted about the housing situation that affects the police, the firemen, and the military.
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A lot of policemen and military and even firemen are undercover.
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So when they are getting poor housing, it's not just affecting regular people.
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You have people that are coming into the housing situation who are undercover, and they get to see how regular people are treated.
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So they come in on normal uniform or normal clothing, not in uniform.
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And these undercover see how people are treated.
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When they file applications and things like that.
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I believe that housing should not have so many requirements.
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Mental health system forces people into nursing homes after robbing them, after taking their property, after attempting to debilitate them.
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Now I will say the Bible does not concur with mental health as existing.
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King David pretended to be mentally ill.
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You could read the story in the bible.
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Where he was with opposing king and they were sadistic in nature so he pretended to be mentally ill.
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Many of the people that are undercover are pretending or whatever to be mentally ill.
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Some of the people that are doing things in the stations and things like that, you don't know who are undercover.
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So when we are declaring people are mentally ill, you don't know if someone just saved somebody else's life who was undercover.
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So when we are declaring people mentally ill and putting them into housing, that are debilitating them.
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You have undercover in there too, and they're calling them mentally ill also, and they're trying to stop the abuses and things that are happening there.
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You have people who are are underpaid in New York City and in America.
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You have teachers, you have you have housing, different things, but they do it across the board.
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They do it to teachers, housing, students, And so it's across the board.
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There it's not racist that sorry.
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This is the last thing.
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It's not racist that minimum is being paid to everybody.
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They do it to military, to teachers, to students, and also to housing.
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So it's across the board.
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It's not racist.
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