2UrbanGirls isn’t afraid to tell you the truth. Inglewood Mayor James Butts is a liar who publicly threatens women and probably does so behind closed doors too. 2UrbanGirls also believes Mayor Butts is intimidating female city employees who fit the same profile: Black single mothers.
Mayor Butts sits on the council dais in an arrogant and cocky manner and he has no qualms about issuing thinly veiled threats to members of the public while his all male Councilmates sit by on mute.
Diane Sambrano is faithfully in attendance for EVERY council meeting and it was during one of these meetings that the mayor told her to “choke herself”.
Apparently he intimidated the Social Media Manager Thomas Bunn into removing the meeting from the city’s taxpayer-funded Facebook and YouTube pages. Bunn’s supervisor is Yakema Decatur, a single mother who appears to have been coerced into signing legal documents pertaining to Successor Agency land transfer documents that were scheduled to be signed by City Manager Artie Fields. Fields’ secretary, Tunisia Johnson, another single mother, who has her name on many Successor Agency land documents in the capacity of notary.
Related: Cover Up in Inglewood City
Mayor Butts regularly holds your job over your head to force city employees into kowtowing to his illegal and unethical demands.
Mayor Butts embarrassed himself and the city by suing long time Inglewood residents Joe Texeira, who used city council meeting videos to point out blatant lies being told by the mayor. His arrogance cost taxpayers over $100k.
At the last regular council meeting Mayor Butts was asked point blank if he told Sambrano to “choke herself” to which he replied no.
Here is Texeira’s video showing the Mayor lying again.
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An important update to the story is this. On August 21st, 2018, James Butts was desperately frightened that the public would hear a recording of him making his despicable comment to Ms. Sombrano. James Butts was afraid that the public would hear the comment, not only because the comment itself was despicable, but also because James Butts had lied to the public in a council meeting and denied that he had ever made the comment.
That being the case, at the August 21st council meeting, James Butts not only refused to allow me to play a recording of his statement to Ms. Sombrano during my public comments, even though there is no city council meeting rule that bars the public playing audio tapes, but he also facilitated and sanctioned my being assaulted and battered when I tried to play that recording after the meeting was over, as the audience was leaving.
After the meeting was over, the Sergeant at Arms and a man James Butts has described as his bodyguard, Emery Ward, rushed over to me, pinned me in my chair and physically tried to take from me the electronic device I was using to play the comment. In fact, the mayor’s so-called bodyguard used great force trying to wrestle the device out of my hand.
As frequent council meeting goers know, James Butts will lie, violate meeting rules, violate the Law and resident’s Civil Rights, including using intimidation and illegal force, to hide his misconduct.
Anybody but James Butts for anything in 2018.