05/10/2024
I’m going to share some very sensitive information here. This is to bring awareness to the injustice, discrimination, racism and systemic oppression of Black people here in America, California and the Bay Area.
I am a career social worker with no record and a lifetime of personal and professional service to every community, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender as I’ve fought hard and given support for every person facing injustice. Yet I have hardly received the same in return.
So all of you fake Advocates and Activists, move on, I am not asking for empathy, support or attention but I’m doing this so it can be passed on and those with similar stories can come forward to shine a spotlight on the system.
Hello all,
I am going to try to give a concise list of the responses I've gotten from the Alameda District Attorney's Office, Oakland Government and Police, Victims Compensation office and the Emeryville records department. This details and documents the biased application of law enforcement, social services, victims rights agencies and other government bureaucracies when dealing with an African American.
In 2017, I was responsible for ensuring the safety of my child whom I had been a stay at home father with for the first 4 years of her life. I applied for full custody, informing the Alameda Family court system that the mother suffered from alcohol and drug abuse. The judge asked me if I had proof and I informed her that the mother had been victimized due to her substance issues and had been to rehab on more than a few occasions. The judge's response was that since the mother didn't have a "drunk driving accident", she was determined to be fit and awarded her full custody.
Several months later (2017) the mother was passed out for 4 days, leaving my (4 year old daughter) alone for 4 days. Her job conducted a welfare check after she had missed several days of work. My daughter was taken to the hospital as the mother was admitted for alcohol and drug poisoning. I was contacted by the Emeryville police department informing me that I had about "45" minutes to retrieve my daughter before she was admitted to Social Services. The Police Department and the Hospital staff (Kaiser) contacted Social Services to report neglect as the law requires.
I took care of my daughter for 6 months while the mother entered into rehabilitation. On the last day of her treatment, she relapsed and arrived home completely inebriated. She had met someone at a bar and they took her keys, drove her home, left her at the door and took her car. She didn't know this person at all.
I took my daughter with me and filed for an emergency custody order. It took several weeks to process. Social Services had contacted me as they pretended to do an investigation on the neglect charges. They interviewed me at my place of employment for about 2 hours.
When the Emergency Custody order was granted, 3 1/2 weeks later, I went to retrieve my daughter and was attacked by the mother and her adult son (6'3"). I was kicked in the face/chest by the mother more than 2 dozen times. Suffering severe damage to my face, chest. This attack damaged by defibrillator implanted in my chest.
The mother was arrested and I took custody of my daughter. A custody court date was set for two weeks later and when I went to the court date my daughter was placed back in the custody of her mother.
The Alameda District Attorney's office (who recently admitted the discrimination between male/female) victims, in a phone conversation; refused to press charges on the mother who is white.
Victims Compensation denied my claim for the injuries sustained as they asked me to prove that the injuries were sustained in the attack. This included the damage to my defibrillator. Victims Compensation referenced the "welfare check" police record instead of the arrest record which detailed, pictured and documented my injuries.
In 2021, I was the victim of assault by a woman (ex fiancé) who was suffering from mental health issues and on disability leave from work. She has been in "Intense Outpatient Therapy" which entailed 6-8 hours of therapy daily. She had been extremely suicidal and abusing drugs and alcohol. After she went missing overnight, in the streets of Oakland doing drugs, abandoning her 3 children who were left home with me, she returned the next morning where she immediately barricaded herself in the bathroom.
This caused an alarm and I initiated the suicidal prevention plan developed by myself and her therapist. (I'm a 25 year career social worker/Behavioralist). When I pushed the barricaded door open, she attacked me, striking me in the head, chest as I attempted to shield myself against the wall. I refused to push her away as the bathroom floor was wet and I was conscious of her mental health state. I kicked a candle that sat on the table that was used to barricade the door. This distracted her and I escaped from the bathroom.
I left with my (9 year old daughter and dog) and returned several hours later to retrieve clothes. I found the building surrounded by police and was afraid that she had committed su***de. I entered the building where I was told that I had been accused of assault. I notified the police that I was present on the scene and waited for them to interview me. I informed them that I had been the victim and made them aware of her mental health and substance abuse issues. The children also informed them that I had been the victim of assault by her. The police ignored this and made the decision to arrest me for "pushing open a barricaded door".
I complied with the arrest, believing I would be cleared. I sat in jail for 5 days without speaking to a judge, appearing in court or speaking to a lawyer. I bailed out and remained away for the duration of the temporary restraining order.
I was later contacted by my ex fiancé who had apologized and begged me to return. I informed her that I could only support her and the children so she'd be able to go to inpatient treatment since the outpatient treatment hadn't worked. I transported her (for the third time) to the hospital where she was admitted on a 5150 hold and began her Inpatient Treatment. With me caring for her children and still waiting to be cleared of all charges, my ex-fiancé and her mental health providers all contacted the Alameda County District Attorney's office to clear my name and inform them that I had been the victim and was totally innocent.
Due to myself and my fiancé, both being employed by Hayward Unified School District, who had been aware of her mental health struggles and my role in caring for her; my employer waited several weeks before terminating me. Executives and Administrators of our employer resided in our building and were neighbors.
The District Attorney's office refused to enter this information into the court records and instead kept looking for ways to prosecute me for a crime they knew I was innocent of. A gun had been found in my car that they illegally searched. I had informed them that I had built the gun and planned to register it on my next payday as we had just moved weeks before and I changed residences from Contra Costa County to Alwmeda County. I had gone to retrieve paperwork from the Contra Costa Sheriff's office weeks prior to register the gun and apply for a concealed carry license.
I informed the officers that I had taken the gun when I left the apartment because of her suicidal behavior. I may have told them that I had left the gun at my other apartment when questioned or that I had thrown it away as I was in crisis response mode due to the assault and arrest.
The medical facility treating my ex fiancé allowed her leave to attend the court dates to tell the judge of my innocence as it was imperative since I was transporting her children to and from school in the same district we worked for. My caring for her children is what was necessary for her to be able to commit to treatment as I was a major part of her treatment plan. However, The Alameda County District Attorney's office refused to admit the testimony of my fiancé and her mental health and medical staff. My job fired me several weeks after the incident as the case was simply continued.
This amazed me as the same District Attorney office was so nonchalant and noncommittal when it came to me (a black man being assaulted with proof, injuries and an admittance from my assailant) yet they were very intent on finding a way to prosecute me in spite of them being informed of my innocence. Thus confirming the bias that was admitted to me on the phone in (April 2024).
I had been in contact with the same District Attorneys office before the incident as my job was to ensure the welfare of the students of (8 schools) in Hayward School District and I had contacted the office to collaborate on a plan to ensure that children returned to school following the pandemic. I spoke with the secretary on December 22, 2021, the day before the incident.
Upon my bailing out in January 2022, I contacted them again and informed them of what was taking place. I only spoke with the secretary. Yet, each month I attended court, with my fiancé also in attendance, on a pass from her medical treatment facility, the case was simply continued.
I had been told by the Victims Compensation board to await the dropping of the charges before I could submit my application for loss of wages. So when the case was finally dropped in the end of May 2022, I resubmitted the application and later saw it approved.
My ex fiancé had relapsed while in treatment and went awol from the facility. She had been afraid that I was going to leave her after having the charges dropped as I was hesitant to give her a relationship commitment. When she absconded from the facility, she was the victim of a robbery that took place at 11am in Oakland at a gas station. She received extensive damage to her leg as she was drug by the robbers and their getaway car. I responded to the scene and sat with her while the investigation went on. I took her to the hospital immediately after where she was admitted.
She was unable to tell the doctors what had taken place and I had to inform them of the robbery and how she got her injuries. I informed them that she may have a concussion and had recently left mental health and substance abuse treatment. Cautioning them against prescribing "Opiods", both for her own medication and especially because it was highly sought out by the people she had befriended in treatment.
Within days of the incident, she began spiraling back into a manic state and disappeared for several days. Her phone records indicated she had been holed up in an industrial area where drug addicts were known to frequent.
She returned and immediately began moving her property out of our apartment. I remained isolated from her to shield myself against any further contact, especially any other false allegations. My building staff and security supported me, escorting me to and from the apartment and making sure to serve as witnesses.
A week after moving out, my ex fiancé returned to the apartment seeking to gain entry. I had an internal lock placed to prevent her from gaining access to me. She appears ragged and disheveled. I watched her through the peephole, refusing to alert her to my presence. After failing to get in, she stomped away, while speaking to someone on the phone who was advising her.
An hour later, the police knocked on my door and I immediately opened it, again being more concerned about if something happened to her. I knew I was innocent and that the District Attorney had known I was innocent so I opened the door and was immediately arrested for "making a terrorist threat". The building staff protested my arrest and informed the arresting officers of the ploy being executed by my ex fiancé as they had heard her scheming on how to gain access to my apartment to sell my valuables. They informed the officers that she had already moved out a week prior, with me giving her uninterrupted access over the course of a week.
The officers, again ignored all witnesses testimony and accounts and arrested me, giving her full access to my apartment and belongings. Her drug addict friends arrived in a van and pillaged my apartment of over 100k in valuables as I sat in police vehicle, watching while in handcuffs. The police stood by to make sure they had taken everything they wanted.
I was detained for 38 hours and released then next night at 12am. I arrived home to find all of my stuff had been taken and sold on the streets for drugs.
I informed Victims Compensation
A couple of months later, someone had kicked in my front door to my apartment. I was out and had been contacted by the building security to inform me as my emotional support dog had escaped and the frame to my apartment door had been damaged. The police were notified by the security team and arrived to take a report. I had gone in to file for a restraining order and was denied by the Family Justice Center and the Family courts. A week later I was contacted by a former girlfriend notifying me that the police had gone to her house in search of me. I took the number and called the officer to realize he was looking to serve me with papers as my ex-fiancé had filed a restraining order, accusing me of the injuries she received in the robbery. I was flabbergasted as the Oakland Police Department and District Attorney's office had video of the robbery, were investigating it and had documentation and pictures of the same injuries.
I was then sent to court to battle this restraining order for a full year. I notified my Public Defender who refused to ask for police records that would prove my innocence and I informed the judge by providing police records of the robbery and the injuries. Yet I was in court every month from June 2022 until the charges were finally dropped in June 2023. I had received several lucrative offers for employment, and had even accepted several only to lose them due to the continued false allegations and Alameda County District Attorney's office refusal to input the information in their possession that would have cleared me of all charges and accusations and also prevented me from receiving victims compensation. The same tactics used in the 2017 attack, just in converse.
I was then attacked by a group of drug addicts at Lake Merritt as they followed me for 2 miles trying to provoke me and assaulted me while accusing me of hitting a woman. I ran to escape so as not to be forced to defend myself. I filed a police report to make certain that I wouldn't be falsely accused again of assaulting someone.
Victims Compensation had already approved my application by August/September of 2022. The Lake Merritt assault occurred in November 2022. I notified them to see if I could be compensated for the property lost as it was the last wristwatch of an extensive collection as the rest had been stolen and sold already.
Victim's compensation had awarded me mental health services and sent me a relocation packet that I had turned over to my building staff as I was seeking to be relocated to another facility and apartment. They had requested wage compensation information such as pay stubs and tax records. I sent those in and patiently awaited the pay out so I could move.
After several months without a check or response, I received a letter notifying me of the denial as they reported that I wasn't working during the assault. I informed them that they had mistaken the incidents in the application and informed them that they had already approved my case and were requesting wage information. I contacted several government agencies (senators and congress members) for assistance and Gabriel Sandoval of Senator Nancy Skinner's office began assisting me. He contacted Victims Compensation on my behalf and even had me send him the information to submit to them.
A year after not hearing from them, I contacted them again, as well as the District Attorney, Oakland Mayor, City Council, City Attorneys office, Oakland Police Internal affairs, Department of Justice, Attorney General office, the White House and anyone that would listen as I had submitted a claim with the city. This application for the claim is what was accessed in the Ransomware attack and my information stolen and used to purchase homes and open fraudulent bank accounts across the globe.
I was featured on the ABC News in January of 2024 as I and my daughter have continued to spiral medically, physically, mentally, emotionally, financially and have been evicted, had my car in repossession, lost my business and business license, my nonprofit for at risk youth was closed and my life and that of my daughter and those that depend on me have been completely ruined.
I was contacted by Victims Compensation months ago as it took them a full year and a half to realize they'd mistaken the incidents in making the wage compensation decision. I informed them that the former application had been deleted when the November 2022 incident was included. The decision was solely based on the latter incident. When they realized this, they spent months sending it through legal, the appeals board and finally issued a denial. This is absurd as the claim had already been approved and I've been waiting on the delivery of wage compensation since fall of 2022.
I had to submit correspondence (from August 2022) to show the acceptance and request for wage information preceding the November 2022 incident. I even warned them against making another decision in the series of mistakes, without confirming the information.
Sadly they keep issuing denials based on the exclusion of vital information. As I've discovered that the waiting period for compensation was still active for the 2017 incident, I again asked them to resubmit my claim since I was wrongly denied as I'm still having to undergo treatment from those injuries (having had over 50k in emergency dental services/surgeries, 3 heart surgeries, and over 10 emergency room visits between (September 2017-February 2018).
Today I was finally contacted by the Emeryville Records department for my request of the arrest records from September 2017. I was told that there is a mandate to erase all records over 7 years old and that they no longer had the records. I accepted this as my life is in a continued state of flux to the impact of all of the disservices, bias, mistreatment, perpetuation of my victimization, the prejudice, disregard, apathy, racism and discrimination. I sat back and contemplated the long line of events, only to realize that the 7 year periods I was informed of hadn't been reached yet.
The records should still be on file but they will do anything not to help a black man who has been regularly victimized.
These are the same people who will go above and beyond to criminalize, prosecute or seek to convict a black man for any possible crime, even if one hasn't been committed, yet they will do everything they can from prosecuting a white person for committing a crime against a black person.
The racism and discrimination is evident, here in the Bay Area of California, in the year 2024.
So this is a smidget of the corruption and discrimination taking place here in America which I have been a victim of at every turn.
Sincerely,
Dedrick Warmack
