Welcome to Pine Lake (2020) - full transcript
Documentary reveals how a small Georgia city's history of overpolicing belies its liberal image
- Mayor, if you go up to
the top right of the screen,
you can switch to gallery
view instead of speaker view.
- Can't hear you Valerie,
I mean get Brandy.
We are going to move
through our agenda
as quickly as possible, and
as effectively as possible,
if there is room
at the end of this
we are going to attempt some
time for public comments.
If we do not have time at
the end for public comments,
our email addresses are
on the city website.
My email address is
my name Melanie Hammet
Each meeting,
each of our weekly meetings
is primarily to make sure
that we are all updated
on the circumstances
of this pandemic.
Do I have a motion
to adopt the agenda?
- I move that we
adopt this agenda?
- Do we have a second?
And Brandy Hall indicates a
second by rising your hand.
All right, all in favor.
Raise your hands.
And the agenda is passed.
- It's moments that bother you.
- Is this your size?
- Yes. Hold your
napkin to the side
Honey, do you need
any turkey sausage?
- No.
- They're in fun summer.
They're out and about right now.
That's what I love about
here
- They have a friend, they
are up at a friend's house
- We have a recording
and we had some
burlesque dancers
- oh wow!
What type is that?
- Warren Zevon, fifteen dollars
- That's eight to 10.
- Did I never show you the
mermaid on my fireplace?
This artist guy made,
he knew that I was into
mermaid and he made this hat
with a mermaid on top and
then he turned it over.
- The mayor, the city council,
everyone is,
everything's run by a woman.
That's impressive. I love that.
- And what
would you expect at a place
all run by women?
- This,
this right here.
- Come to join the Pet Parade.
Pet Parade.
Pet parade.
I got little hu hu
In my hu hu
A little hu hu
In my hu hu
I got little hu hu
It was piece, summer thing
Right here in Pine Lake
- How are you?
- Good. Fired up.
- I know
- You got your pants on fire.
- Hi
- I'm literally
and figuratively and
as far as my couture.
- Yeah. Those are great pants.
those are great pants.
Where's she?
- Hello,
- Hi Baby.
- How are you?
- I'm good
- Is it happening?
Happening soon.
I know.
Soon, Soon, Soon
- I like your show.
- I know like in the
next nine to 15 minutes.
Yeah, you better say close.
- This show is about to start.
- Stick around,
we've got more light music
in about five minutes.
Enjoy.
- We are cosmic gospel hour.
- Here we are.
- Hymns for this America.
Yes. America.
Ah! Thank you guys
for listening to us.
This is a kind of hymn.
It is a kind of protest
and it is unexpected
to call it both.
We dedicate this
song to two people,
a professor and a judge.
The professor is
Christine Blassey Ford.
The judge is our
local municipal judge.
Judge L'Erin Barnes Wiggins.
- It is awesome.
- If you know anything
about our local judge,
then you will not lose heart.
Christine Blassey
Ford, Dr. Ford.
Judge Wiggins this is for you.
Oh beautiful, for
spacious skies
For amber waves of grain
For purple
mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain
America!
America!
God shed His grace on thee.
- There we go. we're not
even put together yet.
- Oh!
- All right.
- All right.
- Hey man, thank you
so much. Appreciate it.
All right.
- Bye now.
- Bye. Thank you.
See you on the other side.
We didn't even get wet.
- Not yet
- Unbelievable.
- Honey, it is still early.
This is a great
photo op, everyone.
Just to let you know.
- Thank you.
See you around the Lake.
- Yin yang. Seven o'clock.
Boom, boom.
All right. Here we go.
Call the meeting to order.
- I pledge allegiance
to the flag of the
United States of America,
and to the republic
for which is stands,
one nation under
God, indivisible,
with liberty and
justice for all.
- Thank you. That was awesome.
What did she do?
- Right in there?
- And she scored.
- Headcount, headcount
- Look out, look out.
It's a run for Pine
Lake city council.
All right.
Announcements and communication.
Who would like to start?
- You should have the
check engine light.
- We had to check engine
light, it's still long
- Okay.
We trying
say something
he say, there's something
going on in the electrical
Nobody can tell me
what's going on.
- Well let me scan
it for us real quick.
And then I'll see.
- All right.
- I just call it like a little
sleepy, little quaint town.
At the time, when
I first came here,
the Pine Lake police
department was 100% white.
And at that time they
had 10 police cars.
They patrolled 24/7,
seven days a week.
- My mom, my
dad moved out out here,
not too far from here right
down the street of Rockbridge.
And we, we will finding
ourselves journeying,
just getting out
with the basketball,
walking around the neighborhood.
Find ourself
wandering off too far.
And we weren't
wondering into Pine Lake
- Pine Lake is
predominantly white
and, but the surrounding
area is 90% black.
20,000 cars a day come up
and down Rockbridge road.
Somebody is gonna
get pulled over.
- And God forbid, if you had
to come through Pine Lake
and you still had to go
through, a Stone Mountain,
'cause you'd get a
ticket in Pine Lake
and harassed like crazy
and get locked up
in Stone Mountain,
like dude, how's that possible!
But it always
happened like that.
And so we always try
to avoid this area.
- There were complaints made,
against the force about
profiling black drivers
in this area.
- Pine Lake's
chief of police Matt McGlamory
says he can't apologize
for writing those tickets.
He says nearly all the
tickets are written
for expired tags, no proof
of insurance suspended
or revoked licenses.
$830,000 generated by
tickets and court calls.
They involve themselves in
what I call predatory policing.
Some say the police stop
you for no reason at all.
- The judge, the
prosecutor or the clerk
everybody was waiting like.
- After the situation,
they got diverse.
And Chief Green was the first
black officer they hired
and she was a female.
So I guess she
fitted two quotas.
- Took me 30
minutes running late,
going from gas station
to gas station,
just to find the place.
I'm like you know, it's like,
this little place
with this huge name.
This little place is
what y'all talking about.
It was like, what the
hell did I just walk into?
- No
more your body,
only thing that's
really moving is,
your arms.
- You come into work and
want to do a great job.
And every time you
hear it, it's like,
Pine Lake.
I was kinda like, just
trying to pick up the pieces
from a department that was
basically almost shattered.
People of Pine
Lake, almost aloof,
like what did we do?
Hey, Roger, how was the funeral?
- It was cool.
- You didn't call me.
- It was cool.
A lot of crying going on.
- Yeah.
- A lot of police
officers are assholes
and they act a certain way.
She trains all her guys
to be cordial and stuff
because you know back in the day,
the hammer was
getting brought down.
You pull through, boom ticket.
You might not even
have a ticket.
You're gonna have a ticket.
- You know, whatever
issues and concerns,
have on some level
been addressed.
So now you have the name.
Unfortunately, we carry bad
a lot further than good.
- When you got a
name that people recognize
and they gonna respect
you, no matter what,
that aren't bad.
They built that name
and people respect it.
You don't mess with Pine Lake.
They just living a life
that's calm and you
don't mess with them.
- Prior to being
the judge in Pine Lake,
I was the solicitor.
That was my first
introduction to Pine Lake.
It started to dawn on
me that the makeup of
the defendants seemed to
reflect quite differently
from residents.
And so you think, why is this?
Or do you think,
why is this, right?
Is this just the norm?
- You mentioned a question
they were thinking about.
- They had been thinking
about parking tickets
which I'm really
totally against.
I just don't think it's, I
don't think it's going to issue
you know, get a
lot of people in.
Maybe for court, maybe
throughout the summer.
- You know, it looks bad to me.
- So sign this for me.
27 of September at 2 O'clock,
you're gonna come back and
bring your license with you,
Okay?
- Yes your honor.
- You can always
talk to the solicitor
and see if you can
work out a plea deal.
- I don't know.
I'm just, I don't know.
- Okay.
Why don't you put you
talk to the solicitor.
So just have a seat for me
and she'll call
you up in a minute.
Hi, your last name.
- All Rise.
The Municipal Court for
the City of Pine Lake
is now in session.
The Honorable Judge
Wiggins presiding.
- Good afternoon
everyone. Please be seated.
Welcome to the
city of Pine Lake.
Today is an arraignment day
and we have two calendars.
Shortly we'll have some
inmates coming over
from the DeKalb County,
but for the rest of
you that are here,
it's your arraignment day.
This is your first
opportunity to respond
to the charges that are
pending against you.
This court has the
jurisdiction to sentence you
up to 12 months in jail
and a fine of up to $1000,
if you charged with
a traffic citation.
And it doesn't bother me
but if the other people
can't hear the rights
do you, are you the
one with the ticket?
You are, okay.
She's up front,
Miss Harris, this is not your
first following, too closely.
- All of a sudden it was a,
they stopped short, very short.
- You might have to keep
to call it away from
the car in front of
you to avoid that.
- I was doing
a good deed for somebody.
I was wrong
understood. Understood,
- But I was trying to
be a good Samaritan.
- Raise
your right hand.
Do you swear or affirm
to tell the truth
under the penalties
of perjury, sir?
- Yes. Ma'am.
- Mr. Smith,
you were charged with
suspended registration.
That's being amended to
an expired registration
based on your conversation
with the solicitor.
Is that correct?
- Yes Ma'am.
- Then you're charged with
one count of expired tag.
How do you wish to plead?
- Guilty?
- Guilty?
You have one kind
of expired tag,
how you pleading to it?
- Guilty.
I'm just, I'm trying, and...
- What kind of
business do you have?
- I do eyelashes.
- Okay.
- Only
eyelashes, eyelashes only.
- Awesome.
That's a new happening thing,
- It is.
- for which I take part in.
- You do.
- I do.
- Can I
give you my advertising.
- Let's finish your case first.
- Okay.
- So what happened?
Why did you fail to report?
- Because I moved to the
other side of town in Duluth,
with my new job
and I lost my job,
my mother, and my brother died.
I mean, life just
happened to me.
I mean, I had no way of getting
back on this side of town.
I mean, you know,
my means of working
was to pay for
where I am staying,
I mean I'm homeless,
so, motel fees is like
500 dollars a week,
I mean 498. If I
don't play it then,
me, my wife, my granddaughter
out on the streets.
So that's why I didn't report.
I mean, you know, I mean,
I'm just being as
honest as I can.
- So let me just say,
to say this to you,
you understand that,
even if you can't pay,
try to make contact.
should you find yourself
in this position again.
Try to at least make contact
with the probation officer say
"Hey,"
Exactly what you told me,
"Life has happened to me,
and I'm having a hard time.
What can I do?"
Cause I know that this is
a responsibility out there
that I got to take care of.
But given the circumstances
I don't know how I'm able to.
But just disappearing
is not an option.
You understand?
- Yes Ma'am. Yes your honor.
But if you just
gave me till Monday
- You gonna get out today.
I time served you.
- Oh thank Jesus!
Gone are the dark
clouds
That had me blind
- You sound pretty good.
You're, listen to her
a little bit more.
Listen to the guitar
for your pitch.
And you're feeling like
you're dragging a little bit.
Watch me keep, the energy up.
Keep with, we're
lift, lift lift.
Everything tonight is lifting
up, lifting up, lifting up.
Nothing but blue skies
Ah
Ah
Ah
Ah
Ah
Ah
First song we're gonna
sing is called "Humble."
And it really much
embraces the idea
of how important it is
for us to understand
that we're in relationship
with the earth.
And if, if there's a
place to live in the world
where you can experience
that it's Pine Lake, right?
Yes?
- Yes. We really can.
We really are gifted
and blessed in that way.
Humble yourself to
the first of the sun.
Get out and send
down low and
Humble yourself to
the force of the sun
You gotta see what he shows
And we will lift each up
- Now we need everything done.
This is the shorter
nicer one that I like.
- Goes on the porch.
- Here you can help hold it.
- I don't think it really
matters for female or male
if you do the job well.
That's what we elect
people who do the job well.
I didn't even really notice that
everybody was female.
- Until you mentioned it
- I think most of the men
out here are enlightened.
That's the reason we're cooking.
- I don't think anybody
thinks about that.
- You know what?
You're so comfortable with?
- I know, exactly.
- It's not an issue.
- That's right, 'cause
you're a man, I'm a woman.
- It's wrong.
- That's what it is.
It's so binary, but it's
not binary anymore because
This is this is 2,000 and
some year or something.
Bring us a thing of
hotdogs and some hamburgers
- ] I've been
asked that question a lot.
Why are most of the people
in the courtroom Black
and most of the people
in Pine Lake are white?
I'm gonna give you
the logistical answer.
Rockbridge Road within
Pine Lake's city limits
and who's driving up there.
All kinds of folks
were up there.
And that's where the majority
of the traffic stops come from.
- Unfortunately,
you can go in
just about any
courtroom in America
and you'll see
those same optics.
Some more situational.
some are unfortunately
purposeful.
I mean,
that's just the truth.
But here in our city court,
like I said, the optics
kind of suck for me sometime.
But I have confidence
in our officers
and their ethics.
- I think we have
three full time officers
and some part time
and mostly reserves.
Traffic sort of pays for
the police department-ish.
It's like a break even, there.
- For those of you that
have decided to move forward
with your bench trial,
I will take those next
so we can get our officers
back on the street, okay?
All right, so that fine is $600,
which is reduced from $750
because you have
solved the problem.
It's good that she got it fixed
because I'll reduce
your fine, okay?
- Yes ma'am.
- That fine would be $150 ma'am,
do you need time to pay that?
- Yes ma'am, give
me till Friday.
- I'll reduce that
fine to $600 sir.
Did you need time to pay that?
- Yes ma'am.
- Can I do community service,
I cannot afford $600.
- Ma'am, I will place your
probation for 12 months,
to pay a fine of $600
or complete the equivalent
in community service hours.
So does that mean you
want to plead not guilty
and have a trial that
you're challenging
what you were charged with?
I can't hear you.
- Why do you need a trial for...
- Well I don't need
one, do you need one?
- No.
- Okay, so you want to enter a
plea of guilty to the charge?
- Yes, I'm trying
to get it over with
- I know, but you've gotta
know what your rights are,
before we just get it over with.
- You asking me, do I want
on to get it over with?
- That's not what I asked you.
- You don't what a trial?
- Yeah.
- How do you wanna
plead to the charge
of posting signs
on poles and trees?
- Not guilty.
- Not guilty.
- Yeah.
- That mean you want a trial
- I was just
trying to get over it.
- I understand.
But you got rights.
- Yes.
- Welcome.
Thank you for coming tonight.
- Let's adopt to the agenda.
We have the consent agenda,
do you have a motion to adapt?
- We are a strong
mayor form of government,
which means the mayor is the
CEO, the boss of everybody.
The mayor is at the
top of the flowchart.
- They have come before you
with an informal
request to subdivide.
My recommendation is that before
you can formally subdivide it,
they would have to
meet those requirements
in terms of recordable plat.
- We are in the
position to informally,
that was the word
you used Laurel,
approve this subdivision
or in the position
to wait for the platting
to formally approve
this subdivision.
Is that our. Those
are our options?
- Those are your options,
and if you have specimen trees,
then you're going
to have to replace
trees on the lot that are
removed in other fashions.
So they will be younger trees
or certainly not going
to be mature oak trees.
- That actually
doesn't really do much
in terms of ecological value,
because the
relationship that it has
with forest is not really
replaced by small caliber trees.
- You can't build anything on it
without destroying all
three of those trees,
whether, directly
cutting them down
or putting them in a point where
they're not going
to be preserved.
- Public Comments.
Yes, come to the podium, please.
- My comment simply is
that I would request
that the city or the
council consider this,
but not vote on it tonight until
we've had some
opportunity to find out
what it really is
gonna look like
and the impact that it may have
on the immediate neighbors as
well as on the town itself.
- Thank you.
- These are things
that are very important
to not just, the ethos of
the residents of the city,
but these are things that
actually make the city survive
and make the lake clean.
Trees are really part
of the equipment here.
If you want to kind of
make it very unphilosophic
and unpoetic, I think
we need to wait on
a document that has
more information
before we do take any action.
- Yeah, I agree.
- I agree.
- Okay All right. All in favor.
- I
- I.
- Boom.
- I'm a part time mayor.
I make 3600 bucks a year.
- All right, I don't have...
Our council makes $599 a year.
That is not their main gig.
It may be in their
heart and soul,
but it is not in
their bank accounts.
- Would you welcome
the next Governor
of the great state of
Georgia, Stacey Abrams.
- I have the opportunity, yes,
to be the first black woman
to be governor in the
history of the United States.
But I don't want anyone to
elect me because I'm Black.
I don't want anyone to
hire me for this job
because I'm a woman.
But I want them to know
that as a Black woman,
if I can get this job,
I can get anything done
in the state of Georgia.
That's why I'm running.
- And after that,
you hear a bloop.
The bloop us to notify you
that someone is on the line
at that point, you will
start with our script.
Hi, my name is. I'll be Beyoncé.
Hi. My name is Beyoncé
and I'm volunteering
on behalf of Stacey
Abrams for Governor.
Sara Riggs Amico or
the city Governor.
John Barrow for
secretary of state
and other Democrats
across Georgia.
- Yes, hi.
My name is August Woods
and I am a volunteer
on behalf of Stacey
Abrams for Governor...
- Hi, my name is Melanie Hammet.
I'm volunteering on behalf
of Stacey Abrams for Governor
and Sarah Riggs Amico
for Lieutenant Governor,
and John Barrow for
Secretary of State
and Democrats across Georgia.
How's your evening going?
Hello.
- Your voting for?
Your a supporter,
great. That's going...
- Hello, I'm volunteering
on behalf of Stacey Abrams
and Sarah Riggs Amico
for Governor and
Lieutenant Governor.
How's everything going?
Hello.
- Hello my name is Viola Davis
and I'm volunteering on
behalf of Stacey Abrams.
- Hi, I'm volunteering
on behalf of...
- Hello hi, how are
you this evening?
I'm Augusta Woods and I'm
a volunteer on behalf of
Stacey Abrams for Governor
and Sarah Riggs Amico
for Lieutenant Governor
and John Barrow for
secretary of state.
- I am killing it. I'm
killing something here.
- First hung up.
- She got a hung up.
- Okay, Ive gotten one
Republican, six hang ups,
a fax and a woman that
said "I'm sleeping."
- All right everybody
go ahead and wrap it up.
- All right Miss
One hangup
- I can't believe it.
- How did that
that happen.
- I'm just in the process of
getting my license re-instated
and I haven't been
financially able,
to just go to the DMV
and give them $1200.
- Yes. It's gonna be,
it's gonna be costly.
- How long do you need?
- To bring proof for the
re-instatement papers?
- No. To bring the license.
- Put me on the
calendar for next month.
- You sure? Be realistic.
Now $1200 don't just jump up.
- Yeah.
And if it does, tell me
where I need to go.
- Is it too much to ask
for a couple of months?
- No, it is not.
Thank you, thank you.
- There's nothing more
fun than riding unicycle.
- Welcome
to Pine Lake Reads
Pine Lake Reads is
our podcast series
as a part of our public
library book booths.
I'm Melanie Hammet, your host
and the mayor of the
City of Pine Lake.
- You're gonna read and then
you and I are gonna do
a little bit of talking.
So that'll be a
part of the podcast.
So I'll ask you some questions.
- Did you guys realize that
this weekend is my birthday?
- Oh yes.
And same day as your son
getting a bar mitzvah.
- Yes.
- Right?
- Or having his bar
mitzvah, I guess that's...
- I don't know.
- Oh but ah!
- Saturday. Saturday
is your birthday?
- Yeah.
- She will be 30 years old.
- You know it.
- You're doing great,
you're doing perfect.
- The Pine Lake Police
Department, a good day.
The Pine Lake Police
Department is comprised
of a number of individuals,
all of whom, sworn
to serve and protect
the residents of Pine Lake,
the Dekalb County and
the state of Georgia.
- You never, ever
can park that close
to the corner, okay?
- Yes ma'am.
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
- That is not
deemed a legal sign.
We don't do flag signs.
- Okay. So I'm new over here.
- That's okay, that's okay.
This one is cool.
This one is fine.
It's that?
That wavy one
- Okay.
- See another thing
about signs too,
as you want to think
about driver right away.
You see, if I was
backing through here...
- We encounter many
things in the course of a day.
Some seem almost routine,
but others not so routine.
Hey, let me ask you a question.
What are you guys doing?
- We on the gas line.
- Gas line, I just saw...
What you have Georgia
power on your thing?
- What do y'all do?
You're filming?
- we are.
- An episode of cops?
- No, actually we're
doing a 2019 calendar.
We're looking for
guys in hard hats
that maybe have
shovels
- Are we gonna be on TV?
We're thinking we gonna just..
- If we are gonna be
in a calendar year.
We'll all take our shirts off.
- That's what I'm talking about.
- Go, go get some
other underwear on
we'll come out here
and work with vests on.
Just vest.
- Oh, I liked that.
- Somebody
got a water hose?
No, I'm just teasing.
No, I knew I was asking you
because I wanted to know
but I'm sorry, I'm Chief Green.
So I do some of the
code compliance too.
- Okay.
- And I don't know if
y'all know what y'all doing.
Cause every time y'all
start damn digging
we ended up evacuating people
- Today you will not,
- Oh!
- we know what we're doing.
- Oh!
- I promise you today.
- Next time I'm gonna
look for the guy
with the orange hat on.
- See you later, baby
- Thank you guys.
Have a good one.
You know where everybody
lives, you actually engage.
You're not necessarily jumping
from call to call to call.
So, when you're not
jumping from call to call,
it allows you to do
the kitten in the tree,
crossing the old lady
across the street.
It allows you to do
those types of things.
What's today, blue day,
you got the blue hat.
They got the blue shirts and
you got the blue stairwell.
So nobody sent me a memo.
I didn't get the memo
- You need a memo?
- What's your name ma'am?
- Chief Green.
- Chief Green
- Yes sir.
- You the chief?
- Yeah.
- Would you want to
eat this morning?
- Oh, I'm good.
- May I buy you some breakfast?
- I'm on a diet.
- My car is giving me hell.
- You gotta tire issue.
Mr. Collin is gonna hook you up.
Each person that has
made the life decision
to put on this uniform
has a love for humanity.
A desire to serve, protect,
and be a part of something
greater than themselves.
- I remembered that as a poem,
it felt to me like a poem.
Did you send it to me,
because it was your way of
also saying to the new mayor
I want you to see us.
- This is who you
have and you are employed.
This is who we are.
And I wanted it to be a certain
level of comfortability too.
- Chief Y'hudah Green.
It's an honor, and a pleasure
to continue working with you.
And thank you for
agreeing to do this.
- I'm definitely humbled.
I thank you for allowing
me the opportunity
to even open up and
show that other side.
- I pledge allegiance
to the flag
of the United States of America
and to the republic
for which it stands,
one nation, indivisible, with
liberty and justice for all.
- Announcements, communications.
- Hi, how are you?
- Hi.
- Very good.
- Hi there.
- Hey
- Hey.
- I didn't know where folks
were coming from with milkweed
and the different
times there are
and how rigid folks
are sticking to
just the kind of the three
native American milkweed.
The one that we
used in Florida...
- Seed is the Stewards
for Environmental
Education and Design.
And they wanted to
do a summer project.
And Jennifer said, "What
about a Monarch way station?"
- The idea behind the
Monarch way station
is to provide a
little bit of respite
on the annual migratory path
of the Monarch butterflies.
- You damn dog.
- This is really how things
start to grow literally
and figuratively in a
city our size, especially.
- What kind of a
place are we making?
The three main things, right?
That's kind of the real
kind of a thematic.
And whenever we talk about
Pine Lake it's arts, our arts
or environment
and our community,
also the relationship
with the larger community.
And how do we not be
this little enclave.
And how do we not be exclusive.
- You know the Mayor?
- You know the
Mayor for Pine Lake?
Have you seen the mayor?
- Who?
- The mayor for Pine
Lake, yeah.
- You have a business district
that is predominantly black
in a city that's
predominantly white
and as long as there
is that separation
that's going to
create some issues.
- And you don't have any
conversation with us.
You know we don't
know any future plans.
How we can help.
I'm sure you're talking
about how we play
a negative role in situations.
- We really don't have
a lot to work with
as far as good,
attractive businesses.
And I'm not discounting
the wonderful people
making a living up there.
- Right?
- The older ones want
it peaceful and quiet.
They want to be
tucked away, hidden.
They don't want to be bothered.
But then you got some
newer, younger ones
that got little kids.
They come in and, hey,
we need a Starbucks.
We need a Whole Foods,
we need, you know...
- The problem is, is
that right now Rockbridge
doesn't have any elements
of Pine Lake, Rockbridge,
to put the colloquialism
that our past mayor put on
it is Rockbridge is
a freaking armpit.
- You have to look at
what's gonna make us sustainable
and what's gonna be able
to keep our city going
without out taxing our citizens.
And I think that
all leads back into
developing our business area
because we've got to have
some other sources of income.
- One of the things that works
is our socio economic diversity.
And somehow we also
have affordable,
still affordable
properties to buy.
If we eradicate our
socioeconomic diversity,
I will fall into
the pit of despair.
Pine Lake is at an
economic anomaly.
How many cities with
less than a third
of people have a
police department.
I mean, how many how
many you have a beach?
- we're running a country
club on shoestring budget.
- We're running a country
club on a shoestring budget.
- You sit and look at the pumps
and watch up to who's
pulling up at the pumps.
They are not supporting
their own community
The shell gas station
is in the heart of,
the heart of the neighborhood
- mm-mmh.
- Must be another gas
station back there.
Or something, in Pine Lake
- My interest is,
what happens in our
commercial district.
And can we build to a
bigger, bigger Pine Lake?
And I don't mean
that geographically.
- We all kind of have this,
ewwwwmthing about
the Rockbridge Road.
I mean, the businesses
up there are not
businesses that we necessarily
are very interested in
in frequenting, but we need
to change that attitude.
We need, we need to
support those businesses.
And we need to build that.
- we're working
to roll out steps
to have visible results
on Rockbridge road.
- This could be one
of the small little cities
to show other cities how
to conduct themselves
and how to do things.
You know what I'm saying?
But they haven't, we don't
have that relationship yet.
They haven't coming out
here to speak to us.
- Make a right, man
You are gonna hit the
curb, make a right.
Ow! Ow!
- The, the only thing
that they could work on is,
is trying to push, you
know, Pine Lake forward.
- Okay.
Just tell me when to start
or how they fit, okay?
- Okay.
Thank you.
I feel a little bit protected.
I felt a little bit
like they are handling
their business in Pine Lake.
And I when I come to work, I
feel good to come to Pine Lake.
- I don't have a
problem, I feel good.
You know, I don't have to
travel out of my neighborhood,
I'm right here.
I'm around good people.
You know what I'm talking about,
getting cuts like this.
We out here, we been out here.
You know what I'm saying?
That's the world
we live in, man.
- Men lie, women
lie, the pumps don't.
- The pumps don't.
- I pledge
allegiance to the flag
of the united states of
America and to the republic
for which it stands, one
nation, under God, indivisible.
with liberty and justice for all
- It's
easy to use slogans,
it's easy to offer gimmicks.
But you can put your money
and your words
where your mouth is.
- Yeah.
- You got to tell folks
where you plan to lead them.
If you want them to follow.
I will be the first black
woman to be a governor
in the history of our country.
But that history only matters,
if we make Georgia the
state that everyone follows.
If we use our platform and
our position and opportunity,
to create real change,
to lift up those
who are vulnerable,
to protect those who are lost,
and to see those who believe
no one understands their needs.
- Do you guys want to
get started with
something to eat
or do you want me to
just jump right in?
You see, I'm trying to watch
this girlish figure I have.
That's rapidly transforming.
I'd just like to balance
it out, you know,
have some fruits and vegetables.
I need some sugar.
We pray for the
city of Pine Lake
that it will continue
to strive, and be what
the people there would
like to have it to be.
We ask all these things
in Jesus' name, Amen.
- Amen.
- And we have Chief Green,
is the Chief of Police of
Pine Lake is gonna come
and talk to us
and we are glad to
you all with us today
So, I'm gonna turn
it over to her.
- Good morning.
When I was asked to come here,
I said, these guys know
just about every dagone
hing there is,
so what do I like to
come and share with them.
So today I'd like to
share with you guys about,
Senior Safety.
You need to be safe
inside your house
as well as when
you're out and about.
When I say senior safety,
what do you think about?
- Telephone calls, that
seniors are getting.
They're pretending to
be your grandchildren.
- Oh yes! Oh
that's a good one.
- And the IRS is gonna come
- Oh yeah,
and get you right
now and
- This is a circle,
this is why I love
my SALT group,
with Seniors in law
enforcement together.
So you tell me we
put it in the bank.
We process it out,
we get information,
we share it with you guys.
And we're educated,
and we're safe.
We are really
not, you know, living
up to our potential.
But by shelving,
this whole population
in our society.
I don't like to see
people left behind.
So with regard to seniors,
I'm just kind of
crazy about them.
We talk about the
fraudulent aging cream.
You guys look great a season.
It's a little salt
and pepper on it.
Deal with it.
Like I said, you guys
are living longer
and that's a blessing.
Don't fall for it.
Don't fall for the
banana in the tailpipe.
I like to say, I
waw a Kroger bag,
hanging from the mirror
with the phone right here.
No, ma'am,
that's not hands free.
I mean, technically
your hands is free
but I'm just thinking that's,
that's pretty creative.
- WE are going,
- to get you a job someplace
629 fatalities with 64% being
because of seat
belts and phones.
It's so not acceptable.
It's a waste.
It's hard to get here.
Hard to stay.
So easy to go.
And you guys,
you guys are original gangsters
of y'all gotta been
there, done that.
We want to keep you around
a little while longer.
So thank you.
This was the diet chocolate
that you were telling me about.
Oh, I love it.
Thank you so much.
I appreciate it.
Thank you so much.
I appreciate it.
- It is Kroger candy coating,
- mmh.
- And vanila candy coating
and dry roasted peanuts.
- I like it, wow!
- And I eat three or four
of those things every day.
- Okay, well, that's the
secret to your success.
I'm gonna try it.
I don't know if
it's gonna work out,
but I'm definitely
willing to give it a try.
- Hello,
- We have a tiny
budget to match our tiny beach,
to match our tiny Lake.
So what we have is we have,
we have police officers
and there's a little,
there's some dissonance,
I think in that.
You have this sort
of police presence
at the beach intermittently,
sending a signal of
behave on the beach.
- Going down there, I
never really had no problems,
but I've had officers
slow down and ride
and just sit there and
watch me while I swim.
And definitely if
you see me out there
with my four year old
daughter in the water,
I can't be doing too much hard.
You know?
And then, I mean, I'm
obviously not armed.
I got on swimming trunks.
It's a beautiful site.
They got the trails on
each side of the Lake.
You know, you got turtles.
You can see you're swimming
with turtle and fish.
I'm just a nature person.
So I love nature in general.
- We also have wildlife
that we're really protective of.
All of these things,
all the ecosystems
literal and figurative
have to be kept in balance.
The lake full signs should be
before people get out their
cars, get all the kids together,
whatever stops them
as soon as possible,
because if I got a whole
car, all my stuff out,
I got all the kids and I
get all the way up here,
and I see lake full, oh my gosh!
I would be like, kah!
- You
haven't been drinking?
- No, ma'am, I need
something to drink.
I'm sorry.
Did you get it that,
thank you card I sent?
- I did.
I was gonna get to that,
to thank you for the thank you.
- Get used to them
because,
and I'm a giver,
but if you can just,
I can stay on probation.
I want to do my probation
here in Pine Lake
but I couldn't be lifting stuff.
I couldn't lift stuff.
- Understood.
- So, I went to the Tupac center
and they wrote the letters
and me and the probation
we been getting along, but.
- But I'm glad to hear that
you haven't been drinking.
- Oh yes Ma'am.
- And don't
you feel better?
- Yes Ma'am.
- You do. You look better.
I know I see you got
your good suit on.
- I borrowed.
- But I'm telling you,
you'll be much better off.
- On probation?
- No, no sober.
- Sober.
- Well, it sounds as
if you have completed
all the conditions
of your probation,
is that, is that
your understanding?
- Yes ma'am.
- Alright, so
we're gonna close it out.
You're off probation, Okay?
Alright. Good luck to you.
- Oh, excuse me.
- Yes.
- I got a sense of humor.
You think I didn't get a
couple of 20s from you?
I'm just joking.
- See you later sir.
Take care, okay?
- What would a vibrant
and well-supported
Rockbridge Road
do for a strong future city?
22,000 cars a day
and not a single one of
them has had any indication
that the residents
or government of Pine
Lake exists or cares.
- In the past,
people who live here
wanted to keep it
their little secret.
And they really didn't want to
encourage others to come in.
And I think they're going to
run across that same attitude
in a lot of people.
- And if you're
African-American,
there's a history.
Am I gonna be...
...gonna be arrested?
Am I gonna be OK.
- Every African-American
friend I have,
that's the first comment
out of their mouth.
You live in Pine Lake?
I'm not gonna come visit.
- When we talk
about economic development,
my first question really is
what, what does that mean?
I don't have a problem with
what Rockbridge Road looks like.
What I have a problem with is,
you don't know
you're in Pine Lake.
- Hi. How are you?
- Hi.
I'm well, how are you?
- How can I help you with?
- I came to pay off
a warrant and the ticket?
- You Ms. Gomes?
- Yes.
That was so scary, I've
never been to jail.
- I won't put you in jail.
$392.
- Never felt so good
to give so much money away.
- I swear.
- That was horrible.
They made me take a mugshot
and they wouldn't let me like
look in the mirror first.
- No, they don't.
They don't let you
look in the mirror.
- They laughed at me
when I asked for a bottle
of water and a blanket.
They was like, "Do you
want to go to population?"
I was like, yeah, so
send me to population.
If I get a blanket in
there, they're like,
"No, sweetie."
- You don't
wanna go to population.
- I Know nothing about jail.
- You don't
wanna go to population.
- I was like Yes.
I mean, do I get botttles
of water in there too?
- No baby.
- I don't eat meat.
And they told me that they
don't recognize pescatarian.
So they kept on trying to
give me a ham sandwich.
- [Jennifer Yeah.
They don't rec...
They don't recognize
anything in jail,
especially in the
Clayton County jail.
- Yeah. It wasn't
friendly or kind.
I don't like it.
- I'm sorry.
- I'm never going back.
- This
is your receipt.
You're all paid in full.
- I'm free Free.
- She's free?
- I'm free free.
I'm not just free.
I'm free free.
- Alright.
- Today's the 30
- 30th.
- Halloween's tomorrow.
- Yeah. Halloween is tomorrow.
- Okay.
So you're done.
Unless you want to
come back to court
for some reason, that's tough.
- No.
- This was
a great interaction.
I fully enjoyed it, but I
think this is all I needed.
All right, you're done.
You don't have to
come back to court.
This ticket's paid.
You're finished.
- Even with Clayton
County and stuff.
- Well Clayton
County that's different.
That's a whole
different situation.
Wait about two weeks
and then start calling.
- Okay.
- I used to
live in Clayton County.
So I Understood. Okay.
- I appreciate your help.
- That's some extra
words of advice right there.
- oh, trust me.
I'll take whatever, I
ain't going back to jail.
- Just make
sure start calling,
Douglas, Clayton County state
court in about two weeks.
- Thank you very much.
- No problem.
Be safe. Be careful.
- Have a good one.
- I'm a free women.
- You have to
kind of school them, because
they really don't know.
They don't know any better.
They don't know any better.
- Did you read your ticket?
No.
- Nope.
You don't get to tell them
what you want to eat in jail.
- What they do send round
a menu for you to choose.
- Like your in the hospital.
Make sure you call
downstairs to room service.
- I don't know what
they're thinking
- That means she would
probably have to live
off of bread and water.
- Pescatarians will eat
anything but red meat.
Pescatarians will
eat fish and seafood,
but you know they don't.
They might have fish
stick night at the jail.
- Oh my goodness!
Isn't that funny?
Wow!
- They might have
fish stickes in jail.
- They don't get it.
Young people just don't get it.
- They don't.
- I feel sorry for our
future leaders of America.
If they're gonna be
leading us, we're doomed.
- But these are our
future leaders of America.
- So they say, Ooh!
- Molly said there
would be an extension cord
and ideally I would
put it into the lawn
and hook it up, and plug it in.
I brought it down at
Charlotte's request.
I think just to symbolize
we got some love going on.
And yes.
Tah Dah
Wait till it gets dark.
It'll be beautiful.
- No matter what kind
of stressful day I have,
when I start down the
roads towards the Lake,
you just take a deep breath.
And it's like,
all is well, you know,
it's just it really.
So the parties are always,
just delightful.
I think it's the, the
diversity of all the neighbors.
And then you have
like-minded neighbors.
So, people who have
lived here you know,
they move in and then, they're
like they never move out.
Oh, I think we have
our first guests.
- Hi there
- I got Mavis's vest!
Well-behaved women,
rarely make history.
I love it.
Everybody this is Claire
with the Enchanting Vineyard.
Oh my God!
You should go check it out.
- There are still
grapes on the vine.
- And she makes
all these outfits.
- When I first came here
I was like, I had just
camped with my friend.
We went to the Grand Canyon,
and we camped the
whole way there.
And I came back
and I was like, I just wanna
camp for the rest of my life.
Like I could just
live in a campground.
And then I saw this
place and I was like,
"Oh, I can camp for
the rest of my life."
But with a really
good bed and toilet.
- You guys live in Pine Lake?
- Yeah we do.
- We live on the other
side of the lake, on Dahlia
Do you know my Melanie,
the mayor lives?
- No, she lives over there?
- Ah OK. She's catty corner.
- Yeah.
- So you guys are
very close to her.
There's a purple iridescent
with like sequins,
- Oh my God.
- They were so stunning.
- It's always been that like,
you know, men are the leaders.
You know, that's not true.
That's really not.
Anyone can be a leader.
And I'm not saying that
men aren't good leaders.
And I'm not saying that
women are better than men,
but I feel like we're all equal.
That we shouldn't judge people.
Women can run this place,
and we do a good job.
- The loose dog
situation is ridiculous.
We have too many loose dogs.
This is not a dogs
run free zone.
We are not on a farm, right?
This is not the Sound of Music
where the dog comes
running up over the Hill,
like Julie Andrews.
So please spread the word.
Call animal control on loose
dogs and fill out a citation.
Let's get this handled.
- I hate the
whole color scheme.
I just want to be clear.
- To me it's not an accent wall,
if it's the same, same
color as the bottom.
And if you're really going
to make it pop or something.
It needs to be even
on third color, right?
- You got to have eyelashes
just to make it look good.
See.
- They would never know
that anything got changed,
if we don't...
- If we don't change something.
- I don't know.
- Ew.
- I just realized that
it was on number two.
- You are the analyst I'm the
indecisive one, all right?
- Do we need to
get together again?
- Hell no.
- Thank you, Marty.
Oh, Charlotte, sir.
- Get 12 people, you get
12 different opinions.
You need two people
make a decision.
Women are gonna
discuss it to death.
- It'll all be good in the end.
- I grew up in this town, I'm
in the house I grew up in.
I liked the lake back like
it was when I was a kid.
Back when we were private,
had fence around it
and if you were a child, you
were registered, you go in.
Everybody knew the policemen
they were just
down on the beach.
You know, "I know your
Momma" if you get in trouble.
They knew about it
for you got home.
We used to be one of
the safest cities.
I think we are
still way up there.
I think probably the
thing that keeps us safe
and keeps people liking
it is the police force.
If we didn't have our
police force and our mayor,
making good decisions for us.
It might not be a sweet
little town like it is.
We're left back
here by ourselves.
It could turn into, a
spooky place, I think.
I like
I like,
I like,
Yeah,
I like.
- I see you.
- Do that again.
Oh, I love it.
- Ew.
- Oh my God.!
My staff was like, can
we leave early today?
- I know
- I'm like what the fuck
is this, Thanksgiving?
- I see you, I see you.
- Happy Halloween.
- I'm gonna get her. Gotcha you.
- I like it, I like it.
Oh yeah, that's awesome.
- Happy Halloween officer.
- Happy Halloween.
- Happy Halloween.
- Happy Halloween.
We got some candy.
We got some candy.
We got some candy.
We got some candy,
We got some candy,
We got some candy,
We got some candy,
We got some candy, candy,
candy, candy, candy, candy.
I got
Candy on the foot,
Candy on the foot,
Candy on the foot,
Candy on the foot.
Candy on the foot.
Candy on the foot.
Candy on the foot.
Candy, I got some
candy on the foot.
Look who we got
into the witches.
We got some candy,
We got some candy,
candy candy, candy,
candy, candy,
candy, candy, candy.
We got some....
We got some candy,
I got some candy.
- Can we get some?
Candy, candy.
- My opponent in this race
is an architect of
voter oppression.
Who has done
everything in his power
to scare people out of voting.
He said, look, he is concerned
that if everyone who is
eligible to vote in Georgia
casts a ballot,
that he won't win.
Let's prove him right.
Let's prove it him right.
Let's prove him right.
- The whole climate of
Georgia is at stake today.
We going to either stay
the same or be worse
or we're gonna have
some major changes
and have a brighter future
for Georgia as a state.
Nobody in Pine Lake
should have an excuse
not to go vote when it's like
walking distance and no line.
I've tried to hold my
excitement for tonight.
So when I hold up
my sigh I scream.
"Stacey, the Governor"
I still have a voice.
- Stacey, Stacey,
Stacey, Stacey, Stacey, Stacey,
Stacey, Stacey, Stacey,
Stacey, Stacey, Stacey, Stacey.
- You can do better than that.
How's everybody doing tonight?
- Stacey's
campaign has injected a sense
of, a greater sense of hope
in the State of Georgia.
- In some cases, there were
too few machines in some
cases the touch screens
didn't seem to work well.
In some places there
was a problem getting
power into machines.
Riding on this has been
the governor's race
it has been a nasty affair,
Democrat Stacey Abrams has
accused Republican Brian Kemp
The states, secretary of
state, of voter suppression
Particularly in
minority communities
- We can
win, and we must win.
Be hopeful, be optimistic.
And keep your eyes on the prize.
- It's going to still
be a long night.
This is not ending soon.
And we're unlikely to
have anything definitive
to say until the morning.
- Tonight we have closed the gap
between yesterday and tomorrow.
But we still have a
few more miles to go.
We are still on the
verge of history
and the best is yet to come.
- We are Georgia.
- We are Georgia.
- We are Georgia.
- We are Georgia.
- So let's get it done,
thank you so much.
- I would have
preferred a clean decision
but I understand that you
don't always get what you want.
My responsibilities
is to keep going
until we get what we need.
- Once we pay these,
then once you pay this.
- Once you pay this, I'll send
a message to Dekalb County.
This says this money has
been paid
his bond today and
he can be released.
Okay cool.
- Okay? .
- Okay, I will be right back.
- Okay, yes ma'am.
- Okay, it's 50 dollars,
you get your case reset.
Let me get your receipt.
A lot of times you
don't know what person comes in
and you don't know if they're
upset or if they need help.
A lot of times
people come in upset
because he missed a court date.
So you have to kind of calm
him down and talk to him
and tell him it's
going to be okay.
But I like interacting
with people.
I'm a people person.
- Bring all that with you.
Bring your tag,
bring your VIN number.
Bring everything with you okay?
Sign out there where
it says defendant.
- The business
district is critical
to the growth of the
city of Pine Lake.
That's the only
direction we can grow in.
Moving City Hall up
on Rockbridge Road
will be a big first
step in signaling that
the city of Pine
Lake is an entirety,
not just a residential block.
You just putting your
money where your mouth is.
- These are what y'all
are gonna use today.
They're labeled,
address and the name.
- Okay.
- When you walk, this
is the postmaster's.
She's out of town and
she's on vacation.
- Okay.
If you won't take it out of
there after Tuesday, it's ready.
- Okay.
- Okay, here's reliable tire.
So it's that way. Here's RCB
- Some of them, the property
owner is the business owner,
but a lot of times it's not.
- Right.
- So we may wanna
check those out
and invite some of
the owners by mail.
- Okay, so you've
got Collins up next.
- I do.
- Bringing you a imitation to,
you probably already
got it in an email,
but the grand
opening at City Hall.
- Thanks ma'am that's me.
I'll try. I will, I will.
- We have donuts.
- I will, I will.
- I'm Mayor Hammet,
I wanted to come
and personally invite you to
the grand opening of City Hall,
the new city hall up
here on Rockbridge Road
on October 31st.
- Where, where is
going to be at?
- It is gonna be right behind
the Texaco station on Allgood.
- What time?
- Nine to 11.
- A little flex.
- We're gonna have a
light breakfast buffet
right down the street,
it will be great.
- Why don't we do do
the across the street
and then we can hit Family
Dollar and the gap tooth.
- There's a barbershop in there?
- Yeah, right here.
- I am looking to
deliver an invitation
to the grand opening of the
Pine Lake City Hall up here
in the business district.
- Okay.
- October 31st is your
hand delivered invitation.
Woo, woo, woo,
woo, woo, woo, woo.
- Not during my work
hour, of course.
- Ah, nine to 11.
Right up the street,
and this is hand delivered
invitation for you.
I'm Mayor Hammet by the way.
- Hello, nice to meet you.
- How you doing, nice
to meet you also.
- I'm the mayor of Pine Lake.
I'm Jean Bordeaux.
- Nice to meet you.
- Nice to meet you.
We haven't been involved
with the commercial area.
- A lot of people don't
know you are back there.
- We wanna do more to
get to know you guys
and help out with where we can.
- So we'd love it
if you could come
and want to make sure that you
guys got a hand delivered--
- Okay.
- invitation to
the grand opening.
- Okay.
- If you wouldn't
mind giving it to her.
- I'll pass it on to her.
- Thank you.
- Good to meet you.
- I'm glad to meet you.
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
- Thanks, Thanks.
We appreciate it.
- Thank you, I'm
shaking your hand?
Sure.
- Oh it not a new new City Hall.
It's an old building, new use.
- Okay.
- Thank you.
- Hey, good morning,
how are you?
Good evening. How are you?
- Good how are you?
and
you better come.
- Mayor you wanna
be in the center.
So you council
people by the mayor.
- Okay.
- All the dignitaries,
to the side, and chief.
- Jean drove the train
on this building,
a part of the city of Pine Lake.
And I'm so grateful to her
because we are now part
of our business district
and we are delighted to be here.
One, two, three. Here we go.
Let's let's get inside.
Pine Lake, Pine
Lake, Pine Lake.
We like to dance
in the streets
- I keep getting
asked these questions,
what is female leadership?
What are police to the society?
What are...Good Lord!
I'm just a simple country
guitar player.
- Every time I can do a human
to human, to human, to human,
I feel like now I'm in
my range when it becomes
system to system to
system to system.
Now we're kind of
outside of what I'm...
I'm almost able to address.
All right, here
we go, here we go.
- I have to be effective
or attempt to be effective
in the judicial system
that was created
by white Americans to
oppress people of color.
Otherwise, I can't say
I'm upholding the oath.
And even the personal oath
that I take to do what's right.
- Miss Evans are you ready?
Good, come on up.
How are you today ma'am?
- I'm fine.
- I just
needs you to raise
your right hand, please.
Do you swear or affirm
to tell the truth
under the penalties of perjury?
- I do.
- Okay, Ms. Evans, you're
here for a petition
to revoke your probation, okay?
You're entitled to a lawyer,
though, in these proceedings.
Do you want one?
- Yes.
- You do?
- What other choice do I have?
- To go forward
without a lawyer.
- And if I go forward
without a lawyer?
- Then you'll be going
forward without a lawyer.
- I'll take my chances and
go forward without a lawyer.
- You want to go forward
without a lawyer.
Do you wanna have
an explanation?
- During that time,
I was homeless.
I was calling to let you know
that I was having problems
as far as my place to stay
and I was going through
something with my job.
I actually lost my job.
Then my dad got diagnosed
with prostate cancer.
So, like a whole lot going on.
At that point, I just lost it.
- I didn't know what
to do after than.
- Are you back on your feet now?
- Yes. I have a place to
stay, I live with my sister
I'm actually in school.
I don't work, but I'm
in college right now
trying to turn my life around
in some positive or constructive
other than drifting
like I used to.
- Well, I do not violate
people for not paying.
But for not appearing, it's
a different story, right?
But I hear you about
your living situation.
And I hear you when
you say that you have
attempted to make
a change so that
you can get on with your life
and be a productive citizen.
We all should be
given a second chance.
I hear that.
You have been in jail
about seven days.
I'm gonna give you credit for
those days that you have done,
I'm going to revoke 10 days.
And so that means you have
three days remaining to serve.
And then this case will close.
You will not have to pay
the outstanding balance.
You will just serve total 10
days and this case will close.
You have any questions?
- No ma'am.
- If you just have a seat,
you'll go back with
the officer shortly.
- Let's get to the latest
on the coronavirus.
The CDC issuing some guideline
on how various institutions
can safely reopen
amid the governor.
- Brian Kemp is allowing more
businesses to reopen today.
- So in today gatherings
of more than 25 people
will be allowed as
long as you keep...
- Mayor,
Council, Section two,
the mayor and the council
hereby declare the playground,
the beach, the lake, the
beach house and a clubhouse
are closed to the public
until further notice.
- Do you have a public
comment you like to make
about the beach?
- Although it bums
me out personally not to be able
to use the beach, I
think y'all are making
a very wise decision.
- I think it is
the best decision
to keep the beach closed
for this one summer.
- I am in full support
of total closure.
- I totally, completely
support the resolution.
I want to thank Mayor, you
and the Council commission.
for making these very difficult
and courageous decisions.
- Okay, thank you.
- You welcome, thank you.
Have you been sick?
- No dear.
- The list is on the left side.
- Okay, okay.
They all feel
comfortable though.
- All Rise
- The municipal court
of the city of Pine Lake
is now in session.
The Honorable Judge
Wiggins presiding.-
Good
afternoon everybody.
Welcome to the
City of Pine Lake.
- All
right, all in favor.
We are adjourned.
Thank you guys for
coming tonight.
What would you think about
having our next meeting outside,
in a big circle,
for some fresh air?
the top right of the screen,
you can switch to gallery
view instead of speaker view.
- Can't hear you Valerie,
I mean get Brandy.
We are going to move
through our agenda
as quickly as possible, and
as effectively as possible,
if there is room
at the end of this
we are going to attempt some
time for public comments.
If we do not have time at
the end for public comments,
our email addresses are
on the city website.
My email address is
my name Melanie Hammet
Each meeting,
each of our weekly meetings
is primarily to make sure
that we are all updated
on the circumstances
of this pandemic.
Do I have a motion
to adopt the agenda?
- I move that we
adopt this agenda?
- Do we have a second?
And Brandy Hall indicates a
second by rising your hand.
All right, all in favor.
Raise your hands.
And the agenda is passed.
- It's moments that bother you.
- Is this your size?
- Yes. Hold your
napkin to the side
Honey, do you need
any turkey sausage?
- No.
- They're in fun summer.
They're out and about right now.
That's what I love about
here
- They have a friend, they
are up at a friend's house
- We have a recording
and we had some
burlesque dancers
- oh wow!
What type is that?
- Warren Zevon, fifteen dollars
- That's eight to 10.
- Did I never show you the
mermaid on my fireplace?
This artist guy made,
he knew that I was into
mermaid and he made this hat
with a mermaid on top and
then he turned it over.
- The mayor, the city council,
everyone is,
everything's run by a woman.
That's impressive. I love that.
- And what
would you expect at a place
all run by women?
- This,
this right here.
- Come to join the Pet Parade.
Pet Parade.
Pet parade.
I got little hu hu
In my hu hu
A little hu hu
In my hu hu
I got little hu hu
It was piece, summer thing
Right here in Pine Lake
- How are you?
- Good. Fired up.
- I know
- You got your pants on fire.
- Hi
- I'm literally
and figuratively and
as far as my couture.
- Yeah. Those are great pants.
those are great pants.
Where's she?
- Hello,
- Hi Baby.
- How are you?
- I'm good
- Is it happening?
Happening soon.
I know.
Soon, Soon, Soon
- I like your show.
- I know like in the
next nine to 15 minutes.
Yeah, you better say close.
- This show is about to start.
- Stick around,
we've got more light music
in about five minutes.
Enjoy.
- We are cosmic gospel hour.
- Here we are.
- Hymns for this America.
Yes. America.
Ah! Thank you guys
for listening to us.
This is a kind of hymn.
It is a kind of protest
and it is unexpected
to call it both.
We dedicate this
song to two people,
a professor and a judge.
The professor is
Christine Blassey Ford.
The judge is our
local municipal judge.
Judge L'Erin Barnes Wiggins.
- It is awesome.
- If you know anything
about our local judge,
then you will not lose heart.
Christine Blassey
Ford, Dr. Ford.
Judge Wiggins this is for you.
Oh beautiful, for
spacious skies
For amber waves of grain
For purple
mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain
America!
America!
God shed His grace on thee.
- There we go. we're not
even put together yet.
- Oh!
- All right.
- All right.
- Hey man, thank you
so much. Appreciate it.
All right.
- Bye now.
- Bye. Thank you.
See you on the other side.
We didn't even get wet.
- Not yet
- Unbelievable.
- Honey, it is still early.
This is a great
photo op, everyone.
Just to let you know.
- Thank you.
See you around the Lake.
- Yin yang. Seven o'clock.
Boom, boom.
All right. Here we go.
Call the meeting to order.
- I pledge allegiance
to the flag of the
United States of America,
and to the republic
for which is stands,
one nation under
God, indivisible,
with liberty and
justice for all.
- Thank you. That was awesome.
What did she do?
- Right in there?
- And she scored.
- Headcount, headcount
- Look out, look out.
It's a run for Pine
Lake city council.
All right.
Announcements and communication.
Who would like to start?
- You should have the
check engine light.
- We had to check engine
light, it's still long
- Okay.
We trying
say something
he say, there's something
going on in the electrical
Nobody can tell me
what's going on.
- Well let me scan
it for us real quick.
And then I'll see.
- All right.
- I just call it like a little
sleepy, little quaint town.
At the time, when
I first came here,
the Pine Lake police
department was 100% white.
And at that time they
had 10 police cars.
They patrolled 24/7,
seven days a week.
- My mom, my
dad moved out out here,
not too far from here right
down the street of Rockbridge.
And we, we will finding
ourselves journeying,
just getting out
with the basketball,
walking around the neighborhood.
Find ourself
wandering off too far.
And we weren't
wondering into Pine Lake
- Pine Lake is
predominantly white
and, but the surrounding
area is 90% black.
20,000 cars a day come up
and down Rockbridge road.
Somebody is gonna
get pulled over.
- And God forbid, if you had
to come through Pine Lake
and you still had to go
through, a Stone Mountain,
'cause you'd get a
ticket in Pine Lake
and harassed like crazy
and get locked up
in Stone Mountain,
like dude, how's that possible!
But it always
happened like that.
And so we always try
to avoid this area.
- There were complaints made,
against the force about
profiling black drivers
in this area.
- Pine Lake's
chief of police Matt McGlamory
says he can't apologize
for writing those tickets.
He says nearly all the
tickets are written
for expired tags, no proof
of insurance suspended
or revoked licenses.
$830,000 generated by
tickets and court calls.
They involve themselves in
what I call predatory policing.
Some say the police stop
you for no reason at all.
- The judge, the
prosecutor or the clerk
everybody was waiting like.
- After the situation,
they got diverse.
And Chief Green was the first
black officer they hired
and she was a female.
So I guess she
fitted two quotas.
- Took me 30
minutes running late,
going from gas station
to gas station,
just to find the place.
I'm like you know, it's like,
this little place
with this huge name.
This little place is
what y'all talking about.
It was like, what the
hell did I just walk into?
- No
more your body,
only thing that's
really moving is,
your arms.
- You come into work and
want to do a great job.
And every time you
hear it, it's like,
Pine Lake.
I was kinda like, just
trying to pick up the pieces
from a department that was
basically almost shattered.
People of Pine
Lake, almost aloof,
like what did we do?
Hey, Roger, how was the funeral?
- It was cool.
- You didn't call me.
- It was cool.
A lot of crying going on.
- Yeah.
- A lot of police
officers are assholes
and they act a certain way.
She trains all her guys
to be cordial and stuff
because you know back in the day,
the hammer was
getting brought down.
You pull through, boom ticket.
You might not even
have a ticket.
You're gonna have a ticket.
- You know, whatever
issues and concerns,
have on some level
been addressed.
So now you have the name.
Unfortunately, we carry bad
a lot further than good.
- When you got a
name that people recognize
and they gonna respect
you, no matter what,
that aren't bad.
They built that name
and people respect it.
You don't mess with Pine Lake.
They just living a life
that's calm and you
don't mess with them.
- Prior to being
the judge in Pine Lake,
I was the solicitor.
That was my first
introduction to Pine Lake.
It started to dawn on
me that the makeup of
the defendants seemed to
reflect quite differently
from residents.
And so you think, why is this?
Or do you think,
why is this, right?
Is this just the norm?
- You mentioned a question
they were thinking about.
- They had been thinking
about parking tickets
which I'm really
totally against.
I just don't think it's, I
don't think it's going to issue
you know, get a
lot of people in.
Maybe for court, maybe
throughout the summer.
- You know, it looks bad to me.
- So sign this for me.
27 of September at 2 O'clock,
you're gonna come back and
bring your license with you,
Okay?
- Yes your honor.
- You can always
talk to the solicitor
and see if you can
work out a plea deal.
- I don't know.
I'm just, I don't know.
- Okay.
Why don't you put you
talk to the solicitor.
So just have a seat for me
and she'll call
you up in a minute.
Hi, your last name.
- All Rise.
The Municipal Court for
the City of Pine Lake
is now in session.
The Honorable Judge
Wiggins presiding.
- Good afternoon
everyone. Please be seated.
Welcome to the
city of Pine Lake.
Today is an arraignment day
and we have two calendars.
Shortly we'll have some
inmates coming over
from the DeKalb County,
but for the rest of
you that are here,
it's your arraignment day.
This is your first
opportunity to respond
to the charges that are
pending against you.
This court has the
jurisdiction to sentence you
up to 12 months in jail
and a fine of up to $1000,
if you charged with
a traffic citation.
And it doesn't bother me
but if the other people
can't hear the rights
do you, are you the
one with the ticket?
You are, okay.
She's up front,
Miss Harris, this is not your
first following, too closely.
- All of a sudden it was a,
they stopped short, very short.
- You might have to keep
to call it away from
the car in front of
you to avoid that.
- I was doing
a good deed for somebody.
I was wrong
understood. Understood,
- But I was trying to
be a good Samaritan.
- Raise
your right hand.
Do you swear or affirm
to tell the truth
under the penalties
of perjury, sir?
- Yes. Ma'am.
- Mr. Smith,
you were charged with
suspended registration.
That's being amended to
an expired registration
based on your conversation
with the solicitor.
Is that correct?
- Yes Ma'am.
- Then you're charged with
one count of expired tag.
How do you wish to plead?
- Guilty?
- Guilty?
You have one kind
of expired tag,
how you pleading to it?
- Guilty.
I'm just, I'm trying, and...
- What kind of
business do you have?
- I do eyelashes.
- Okay.
- Only
eyelashes, eyelashes only.
- Awesome.
That's a new happening thing,
- It is.
- for which I take part in.
- You do.
- I do.
- Can I
give you my advertising.
- Let's finish your case first.
- Okay.
- So what happened?
Why did you fail to report?
- Because I moved to the
other side of town in Duluth,
with my new job
and I lost my job,
my mother, and my brother died.
I mean, life just
happened to me.
I mean, I had no way of getting
back on this side of town.
I mean, you know,
my means of working
was to pay for
where I am staying,
I mean I'm homeless,
so, motel fees is like
500 dollars a week,
I mean 498. If I
don't play it then,
me, my wife, my granddaughter
out on the streets.
So that's why I didn't report.
I mean, you know, I mean,
I'm just being as
honest as I can.
- So let me just say,
to say this to you,
you understand that,
even if you can't pay,
try to make contact.
should you find yourself
in this position again.
Try to at least make contact
with the probation officer say
"Hey,"
Exactly what you told me,
"Life has happened to me,
and I'm having a hard time.
What can I do?"
Cause I know that this is
a responsibility out there
that I got to take care of.
But given the circumstances
I don't know how I'm able to.
But just disappearing
is not an option.
You understand?
- Yes Ma'am. Yes your honor.
But if you just
gave me till Monday
- You gonna get out today.
I time served you.
- Oh thank Jesus!
Gone are the dark
clouds
That had me blind
- You sound pretty good.
You're, listen to her
a little bit more.
Listen to the guitar
for your pitch.
And you're feeling like
you're dragging a little bit.
Watch me keep, the energy up.
Keep with, we're
lift, lift lift.
Everything tonight is lifting
up, lifting up, lifting up.
Nothing but blue skies
Ah
Ah
Ah
Ah
Ah
Ah
First song we're gonna
sing is called "Humble."
And it really much
embraces the idea
of how important it is
for us to understand
that we're in relationship
with the earth.
And if, if there's a
place to live in the world
where you can experience
that it's Pine Lake, right?
Yes?
- Yes. We really can.
We really are gifted
and blessed in that way.
Humble yourself to
the first of the sun.
Get out and send
down low and
Humble yourself to
the force of the sun
You gotta see what he shows
And we will lift each up
- Now we need everything done.
This is the shorter
nicer one that I like.
- Goes on the porch.
- Here you can help hold it.
- I don't think it really
matters for female or male
if you do the job well.
That's what we elect
people who do the job well.
I didn't even really notice that
everybody was female.
- Until you mentioned it
- I think most of the men
out here are enlightened.
That's the reason we're cooking.
- I don't think anybody
thinks about that.
- You know what?
You're so comfortable with?
- I know, exactly.
- It's not an issue.
- That's right, 'cause
you're a man, I'm a woman.
- It's wrong.
- That's what it is.
It's so binary, but it's
not binary anymore because
This is this is 2,000 and
some year or something.
Bring us a thing of
hotdogs and some hamburgers
- ] I've been
asked that question a lot.
Why are most of the people
in the courtroom Black
and most of the people
in Pine Lake are white?
I'm gonna give you
the logistical answer.
Rockbridge Road within
Pine Lake's city limits
and who's driving up there.
All kinds of folks
were up there.
And that's where the majority
of the traffic stops come from.
- Unfortunately,
you can go in
just about any
courtroom in America
and you'll see
those same optics.
Some more situational.
some are unfortunately
purposeful.
I mean,
that's just the truth.
But here in our city court,
like I said, the optics
kind of suck for me sometime.
But I have confidence
in our officers
and their ethics.
- I think we have
three full time officers
and some part time
and mostly reserves.
Traffic sort of pays for
the police department-ish.
It's like a break even, there.
- For those of you that
have decided to move forward
with your bench trial,
I will take those next
so we can get our officers
back on the street, okay?
All right, so that fine is $600,
which is reduced from $750
because you have
solved the problem.
It's good that she got it fixed
because I'll reduce
your fine, okay?
- Yes ma'am.
- That fine would be $150 ma'am,
do you need time to pay that?
- Yes ma'am, give
me till Friday.
- I'll reduce that
fine to $600 sir.
Did you need time to pay that?
- Yes ma'am.
- Can I do community service,
I cannot afford $600.
- Ma'am, I will place your
probation for 12 months,
to pay a fine of $600
or complete the equivalent
in community service hours.
So does that mean you
want to plead not guilty
and have a trial that
you're challenging
what you were charged with?
I can't hear you.
- Why do you need a trial for...
- Well I don't need
one, do you need one?
- No.
- Okay, so you want to enter a
plea of guilty to the charge?
- Yes, I'm trying
to get it over with
- I know, but you've gotta
know what your rights are,
before we just get it over with.
- You asking me, do I want
on to get it over with?
- That's not what I asked you.
- You don't what a trial?
- Yeah.
- How do you wanna
plead to the charge
of posting signs
on poles and trees?
- Not guilty.
- Not guilty.
- Yeah.
- That mean you want a trial
- I was just
trying to get over it.
- I understand.
But you got rights.
- Yes.
- Welcome.
Thank you for coming tonight.
- Let's adopt to the agenda.
We have the consent agenda,
do you have a motion to adapt?
- We are a strong
mayor form of government,
which means the mayor is the
CEO, the boss of everybody.
The mayor is at the
top of the flowchart.
- They have come before you
with an informal
request to subdivide.
My recommendation is that before
you can formally subdivide it,
they would have to
meet those requirements
in terms of recordable plat.
- We are in the
position to informally,
that was the word
you used Laurel,
approve this subdivision
or in the position
to wait for the platting
to formally approve
this subdivision.
Is that our. Those
are our options?
- Those are your options,
and if you have specimen trees,
then you're going
to have to replace
trees on the lot that are
removed in other fashions.
So they will be younger trees
or certainly not going
to be mature oak trees.
- That actually
doesn't really do much
in terms of ecological value,
because the
relationship that it has
with forest is not really
replaced by small caliber trees.
- You can't build anything on it
without destroying all
three of those trees,
whether, directly
cutting them down
or putting them in a point where
they're not going
to be preserved.
- Public Comments.
Yes, come to the podium, please.
- My comment simply is
that I would request
that the city or the
council consider this,
but not vote on it tonight until
we've had some
opportunity to find out
what it really is
gonna look like
and the impact that it may have
on the immediate neighbors as
well as on the town itself.
- Thank you.
- These are things
that are very important
to not just, the ethos of
the residents of the city,
but these are things that
actually make the city survive
and make the lake clean.
Trees are really part
of the equipment here.
If you want to kind of
make it very unphilosophic
and unpoetic, I think
we need to wait on
a document that has
more information
before we do take any action.
- Yeah, I agree.
- I agree.
- Okay All right. All in favor.
- I
- I.
- Boom.
- I'm a part time mayor.
I make 3600 bucks a year.
- All right, I don't have...
Our council makes $599 a year.
That is not their main gig.
It may be in their
heart and soul,
but it is not in
their bank accounts.
- Would you welcome
the next Governor
of the great state of
Georgia, Stacey Abrams.
- I have the opportunity, yes,
to be the first black woman
to be governor in the
history of the United States.
But I don't want anyone to
elect me because I'm Black.
I don't want anyone to
hire me for this job
because I'm a woman.
But I want them to know
that as a Black woman,
if I can get this job,
I can get anything done
in the state of Georgia.
That's why I'm running.
- And after that,
you hear a bloop.
The bloop us to notify you
that someone is on the line
at that point, you will
start with our script.
Hi, my name is. I'll be Beyoncé.
Hi. My name is Beyoncé
and I'm volunteering
on behalf of Stacey
Abrams for Governor.
Sara Riggs Amico or
the city Governor.
John Barrow for
secretary of state
and other Democrats
across Georgia.
- Yes, hi.
My name is August Woods
and I am a volunteer
on behalf of Stacey
Abrams for Governor...
- Hi, my name is Melanie Hammet.
I'm volunteering on behalf
of Stacey Abrams for Governor
and Sarah Riggs Amico
for Lieutenant Governor,
and John Barrow for
Secretary of State
and Democrats across Georgia.
How's your evening going?
Hello.
- Your voting for?
Your a supporter,
great. That's going...
- Hello, I'm volunteering
on behalf of Stacey Abrams
and Sarah Riggs Amico
for Governor and
Lieutenant Governor.
How's everything going?
Hello.
- Hello my name is Viola Davis
and I'm volunteering on
behalf of Stacey Abrams.
- Hi, I'm volunteering
on behalf of...
- Hello hi, how are
you this evening?
I'm Augusta Woods and I'm
a volunteer on behalf of
Stacey Abrams for Governor
and Sarah Riggs Amico
for Lieutenant Governor
and John Barrow for
secretary of state.
- I am killing it. I'm
killing something here.
- First hung up.
- She got a hung up.
- Okay, Ive gotten one
Republican, six hang ups,
a fax and a woman that
said "I'm sleeping."
- All right everybody
go ahead and wrap it up.
- All right Miss
One hangup
- I can't believe it.
- How did that
that happen.
- I'm just in the process of
getting my license re-instated
and I haven't been
financially able,
to just go to the DMV
and give them $1200.
- Yes. It's gonna be,
it's gonna be costly.
- How long do you need?
- To bring proof for the
re-instatement papers?
- No. To bring the license.
- Put me on the
calendar for next month.
- You sure? Be realistic.
Now $1200 don't just jump up.
- Yeah.
And if it does, tell me
where I need to go.
- Is it too much to ask
for a couple of months?
- No, it is not.
Thank you, thank you.
- There's nothing more
fun than riding unicycle.
- Welcome
to Pine Lake Reads
Pine Lake Reads is
our podcast series
as a part of our public
library book booths.
I'm Melanie Hammet, your host
and the mayor of the
City of Pine Lake.
- You're gonna read and then
you and I are gonna do
a little bit of talking.
So that'll be a
part of the podcast.
So I'll ask you some questions.
- Did you guys realize that
this weekend is my birthday?
- Oh yes.
And same day as your son
getting a bar mitzvah.
- Yes.
- Right?
- Or having his bar
mitzvah, I guess that's...
- I don't know.
- Oh but ah!
- Saturday. Saturday
is your birthday?
- Yeah.
- She will be 30 years old.
- You know it.
- You're doing great,
you're doing perfect.
- The Pine Lake Police
Department, a good day.
The Pine Lake Police
Department is comprised
of a number of individuals,
all of whom, sworn
to serve and protect
the residents of Pine Lake,
the Dekalb County and
the state of Georgia.
- You never, ever
can park that close
to the corner, okay?
- Yes ma'am.
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
- That is not
deemed a legal sign.
We don't do flag signs.
- Okay. So I'm new over here.
- That's okay, that's okay.
This one is cool.
This one is fine.
It's that?
That wavy one
- Okay.
- See another thing
about signs too,
as you want to think
about driver right away.
You see, if I was
backing through here...
- We encounter many
things in the course of a day.
Some seem almost routine,
but others not so routine.
Hey, let me ask you a question.
What are you guys doing?
- We on the gas line.
- Gas line, I just saw...
What you have Georgia
power on your thing?
- What do y'all do?
You're filming?
- we are.
- An episode of cops?
- No, actually we're
doing a 2019 calendar.
We're looking for
guys in hard hats
that maybe have
shovels
- Are we gonna be on TV?
We're thinking we gonna just..
- If we are gonna be
in a calendar year.
We'll all take our shirts off.
- That's what I'm talking about.
- Go, go get some
other underwear on
we'll come out here
and work with vests on.
Just vest.
- Oh, I liked that.
- Somebody
got a water hose?
No, I'm just teasing.
No, I knew I was asking you
because I wanted to know
but I'm sorry, I'm Chief Green.
So I do some of the
code compliance too.
- Okay.
- And I don't know if
y'all know what y'all doing.
Cause every time y'all
start damn digging
we ended up evacuating people
- Today you will not,
- Oh!
- we know what we're doing.
- Oh!
- I promise you today.
- Next time I'm gonna
look for the guy
with the orange hat on.
- See you later, baby
- Thank you guys.
Have a good one.
You know where everybody
lives, you actually engage.
You're not necessarily jumping
from call to call to call.
So, when you're not
jumping from call to call,
it allows you to do
the kitten in the tree,
crossing the old lady
across the street.
It allows you to do
those types of things.
What's today, blue day,
you got the blue hat.
They got the blue shirts and
you got the blue stairwell.
So nobody sent me a memo.
I didn't get the memo
- You need a memo?
- What's your name ma'am?
- Chief Green.
- Chief Green
- Yes sir.
- You the chief?
- Yeah.
- Would you want to
eat this morning?
- Oh, I'm good.
- May I buy you some breakfast?
- I'm on a diet.
- My car is giving me hell.
- You gotta tire issue.
Mr. Collin is gonna hook you up.
Each person that has
made the life decision
to put on this uniform
has a love for humanity.
A desire to serve, protect,
and be a part of something
greater than themselves.
- I remembered that as a poem,
it felt to me like a poem.
Did you send it to me,
because it was your way of
also saying to the new mayor
I want you to see us.
- This is who you
have and you are employed.
This is who we are.
And I wanted it to be a certain
level of comfortability too.
- Chief Y'hudah Green.
It's an honor, and a pleasure
to continue working with you.
And thank you for
agreeing to do this.
- I'm definitely humbled.
I thank you for allowing
me the opportunity
to even open up and
show that other side.
- I pledge allegiance
to the flag
of the United States of America
and to the republic
for which it stands,
one nation, indivisible, with
liberty and justice for all.
- Announcements, communications.
- Hi, how are you?
- Hi.
- Very good.
- Hi there.
- Hey
- Hey.
- I didn't know where folks
were coming from with milkweed
and the different
times there are
and how rigid folks
are sticking to
just the kind of the three
native American milkweed.
The one that we
used in Florida...
- Seed is the Stewards
for Environmental
Education and Design.
And they wanted to
do a summer project.
And Jennifer said, "What
about a Monarch way station?"
- The idea behind the
Monarch way station
is to provide a
little bit of respite
on the annual migratory path
of the Monarch butterflies.
- You damn dog.
- This is really how things
start to grow literally
and figuratively in a
city our size, especially.
- What kind of a
place are we making?
The three main things, right?
That's kind of the real
kind of a thematic.
And whenever we talk about
Pine Lake it's arts, our arts
or environment
and our community,
also the relationship
with the larger community.
And how do we not be
this little enclave.
And how do we not be exclusive.
- You know the Mayor?
- You know the
Mayor for Pine Lake?
Have you seen the mayor?
- Who?
- The mayor for Pine
Lake, yeah.
- You have a business district
that is predominantly black
in a city that's
predominantly white
and as long as there
is that separation
that's going to
create some issues.
- And you don't have any
conversation with us.
You know we don't
know any future plans.
How we can help.
I'm sure you're talking
about how we play
a negative role in situations.
- We really don't have
a lot to work with
as far as good,
attractive businesses.
And I'm not discounting
the wonderful people
making a living up there.
- Right?
- The older ones want
it peaceful and quiet.
They want to be
tucked away, hidden.
They don't want to be bothered.
But then you got some
newer, younger ones
that got little kids.
They come in and, hey,
we need a Starbucks.
We need a Whole Foods,
we need, you know...
- The problem is, is
that right now Rockbridge
doesn't have any elements
of Pine Lake, Rockbridge,
to put the colloquialism
that our past mayor put on
it is Rockbridge is
a freaking armpit.
- You have to look at
what's gonna make us sustainable
and what's gonna be able
to keep our city going
without out taxing our citizens.
And I think that
all leads back into
developing our business area
because we've got to have
some other sources of income.
- One of the things that works
is our socio economic diversity.
And somehow we also
have affordable,
still affordable
properties to buy.
If we eradicate our
socioeconomic diversity,
I will fall into
the pit of despair.
Pine Lake is at an
economic anomaly.
How many cities with
less than a third
of people have a
police department.
I mean, how many how
many you have a beach?
- we're running a country
club on shoestring budget.
- We're running a country
club on a shoestring budget.
- You sit and look at the pumps
and watch up to who's
pulling up at the pumps.
They are not supporting
their own community
The shell gas station
is in the heart of,
the heart of the neighborhood
- mm-mmh.
- Must be another gas
station back there.
Or something, in Pine Lake
- My interest is,
what happens in our
commercial district.
And can we build to a
bigger, bigger Pine Lake?
And I don't mean
that geographically.
- We all kind of have this,
ewwwwmthing about
the Rockbridge Road.
I mean, the businesses
up there are not
businesses that we necessarily
are very interested in
in frequenting, but we need
to change that attitude.
We need, we need to
support those businesses.
And we need to build that.
- we're working
to roll out steps
to have visible results
on Rockbridge road.
- This could be one
of the small little cities
to show other cities how
to conduct themselves
and how to do things.
You know what I'm saying?
But they haven't, we don't
have that relationship yet.
They haven't coming out
here to speak to us.
- Make a right, man
You are gonna hit the
curb, make a right.
Ow! Ow!
- The, the only thing
that they could work on is,
is trying to push, you
know, Pine Lake forward.
- Okay.
Just tell me when to start
or how they fit, okay?
- Okay.
Thank you.
I feel a little bit protected.
I felt a little bit
like they are handling
their business in Pine Lake.
And I when I come to work, I
feel good to come to Pine Lake.
- I don't have a
problem, I feel good.
You know, I don't have to
travel out of my neighborhood,
I'm right here.
I'm around good people.
You know what I'm talking about,
getting cuts like this.
We out here, we been out here.
You know what I'm saying?
That's the world
we live in, man.
- Men lie, women
lie, the pumps don't.
- The pumps don't.
- I pledge
allegiance to the flag
of the united states of
America and to the republic
for which it stands, one
nation, under God, indivisible.
with liberty and justice for all
- It's
easy to use slogans,
it's easy to offer gimmicks.
But you can put your money
and your words
where your mouth is.
- Yeah.
- You got to tell folks
where you plan to lead them.
If you want them to follow.
I will be the first black
woman to be a governor
in the history of our country.
But that history only matters,
if we make Georgia the
state that everyone follows.
If we use our platform and
our position and opportunity,
to create real change,
to lift up those
who are vulnerable,
to protect those who are lost,
and to see those who believe
no one understands their needs.
- Do you guys want to
get started with
something to eat
or do you want me to
just jump right in?
You see, I'm trying to watch
this girlish figure I have.
That's rapidly transforming.
I'd just like to balance
it out, you know,
have some fruits and vegetables.
I need some sugar.
We pray for the
city of Pine Lake
that it will continue
to strive, and be what
the people there would
like to have it to be.
We ask all these things
in Jesus' name, Amen.
- Amen.
- And we have Chief Green,
is the Chief of Police of
Pine Lake is gonna come
and talk to us
and we are glad to
you all with us today
So, I'm gonna turn
it over to her.
- Good morning.
When I was asked to come here,
I said, these guys know
just about every dagone
hing there is,
so what do I like to
come and share with them.
So today I'd like to
share with you guys about,
Senior Safety.
You need to be safe
inside your house
as well as when
you're out and about.
When I say senior safety,
what do you think about?
- Telephone calls, that
seniors are getting.
They're pretending to
be your grandchildren.
- Oh yes! Oh
that's a good one.
- And the IRS is gonna come
- Oh yeah,
and get you right
now and
- This is a circle,
this is why I love
my SALT group,
with Seniors in law
enforcement together.
So you tell me we
put it in the bank.
We process it out,
we get information,
we share it with you guys.
And we're educated,
and we're safe.
We are really
not, you know, living
up to our potential.
But by shelving,
this whole population
in our society.
I don't like to see
people left behind.
So with regard to seniors,
I'm just kind of
crazy about them.
We talk about the
fraudulent aging cream.
You guys look great a season.
It's a little salt
and pepper on it.
Deal with it.
Like I said, you guys
are living longer
and that's a blessing.
Don't fall for it.
Don't fall for the
banana in the tailpipe.
I like to say, I
waw a Kroger bag,
hanging from the mirror
with the phone right here.
No, ma'am,
that's not hands free.
I mean, technically
your hands is free
but I'm just thinking that's,
that's pretty creative.
- WE are going,
- to get you a job someplace
629 fatalities with 64% being
because of seat
belts and phones.
It's so not acceptable.
It's a waste.
It's hard to get here.
Hard to stay.
So easy to go.
And you guys,
you guys are original gangsters
of y'all gotta been
there, done that.
We want to keep you around
a little while longer.
So thank you.
This was the diet chocolate
that you were telling me about.
Oh, I love it.
Thank you so much.
I appreciate it.
Thank you so much.
I appreciate it.
- It is Kroger candy coating,
- mmh.
- And vanila candy coating
and dry roasted peanuts.
- I like it, wow!
- And I eat three or four
of those things every day.
- Okay, well, that's the
secret to your success.
I'm gonna try it.
I don't know if
it's gonna work out,
but I'm definitely
willing to give it a try.
- Hello,
- We have a tiny
budget to match our tiny beach,
to match our tiny Lake.
So what we have is we have,
we have police officers
and there's a little,
there's some dissonance,
I think in that.
You have this sort
of police presence
at the beach intermittently,
sending a signal of
behave on the beach.
- Going down there, I
never really had no problems,
but I've had officers
slow down and ride
and just sit there and
watch me while I swim.
And definitely if
you see me out there
with my four year old
daughter in the water,
I can't be doing too much hard.
You know?
And then, I mean, I'm
obviously not armed.
I got on swimming trunks.
It's a beautiful site.
They got the trails on
each side of the Lake.
You know, you got turtles.
You can see you're swimming
with turtle and fish.
I'm just a nature person.
So I love nature in general.
- We also have wildlife
that we're really protective of.
All of these things,
all the ecosystems
literal and figurative
have to be kept in balance.
The lake full signs should be
before people get out their
cars, get all the kids together,
whatever stops them
as soon as possible,
because if I got a whole
car, all my stuff out,
I got all the kids and I
get all the way up here,
and I see lake full, oh my gosh!
I would be like, kah!
- You
haven't been drinking?
- No, ma'am, I need
something to drink.
I'm sorry.
Did you get it that,
thank you card I sent?
- I did.
I was gonna get to that,
to thank you for the thank you.
- Get used to them
because,
and I'm a giver,
but if you can just,
I can stay on probation.
I want to do my probation
here in Pine Lake
but I couldn't be lifting stuff.
I couldn't lift stuff.
- Understood.
- So, I went to the Tupac center
and they wrote the letters
and me and the probation
we been getting along, but.
- But I'm glad to hear that
you haven't been drinking.
- Oh yes Ma'am.
- And don't
you feel better?
- Yes Ma'am.
- You do. You look better.
I know I see you got
your good suit on.
- I borrowed.
- But I'm telling you,
you'll be much better off.
- On probation?
- No, no sober.
- Sober.
- Well, it sounds as
if you have completed
all the conditions
of your probation,
is that, is that
your understanding?
- Yes ma'am.
- Alright, so
we're gonna close it out.
You're off probation, Okay?
Alright. Good luck to you.
- Oh, excuse me.
- Yes.
- I got a sense of humor.
You think I didn't get a
couple of 20s from you?
I'm just joking.
- See you later sir.
Take care, okay?
- What would a vibrant
and well-supported
Rockbridge Road
do for a strong future city?
22,000 cars a day
and not a single one of
them has had any indication
that the residents
or government of Pine
Lake exists or cares.
- In the past,
people who live here
wanted to keep it
their little secret.
And they really didn't want to
encourage others to come in.
And I think they're going to
run across that same attitude
in a lot of people.
- And if you're
African-American,
there's a history.
Am I gonna be...
...gonna be arrested?
Am I gonna be OK.
- Every African-American
friend I have,
that's the first comment
out of their mouth.
You live in Pine Lake?
I'm not gonna come visit.
- When we talk
about economic development,
my first question really is
what, what does that mean?
I don't have a problem with
what Rockbridge Road looks like.
What I have a problem with is,
you don't know
you're in Pine Lake.
- Hi. How are you?
- Hi.
I'm well, how are you?
- How can I help you with?
- I came to pay off
a warrant and the ticket?
- You Ms. Gomes?
- Yes.
That was so scary, I've
never been to jail.
- I won't put you in jail.
$392.
- Never felt so good
to give so much money away.
- I swear.
- That was horrible.
They made me take a mugshot
and they wouldn't let me like
look in the mirror first.
- No, they don't.
They don't let you
look in the mirror.
- They laughed at me
when I asked for a bottle
of water and a blanket.
They was like, "Do you
want to go to population?"
I was like, yeah, so
send me to population.
If I get a blanket in
there, they're like,
"No, sweetie."
- You don't
wanna go to population.
- I Know nothing about jail.
- You don't
wanna go to population.
- I was like Yes.
I mean, do I get botttles
of water in there too?
- No baby.
- I don't eat meat.
And they told me that they
don't recognize pescatarian.
So they kept on trying to
give me a ham sandwich.
- [Jennifer Yeah.
They don't rec...
They don't recognize
anything in jail,
especially in the
Clayton County jail.
- Yeah. It wasn't
friendly or kind.
I don't like it.
- I'm sorry.
- I'm never going back.
- This
is your receipt.
You're all paid in full.
- I'm free Free.
- She's free?
- I'm free free.
I'm not just free.
I'm free free.
- Alright.
- Today's the 30
- 30th.
- Halloween's tomorrow.
- Yeah. Halloween is tomorrow.
- Okay.
So you're done.
Unless you want to
come back to court
for some reason, that's tough.
- No.
- This was
a great interaction.
I fully enjoyed it, but I
think this is all I needed.
All right, you're done.
You don't have to
come back to court.
This ticket's paid.
You're finished.
- Even with Clayton
County and stuff.
- Well Clayton
County that's different.
That's a whole
different situation.
Wait about two weeks
and then start calling.
- Okay.
- I used to
live in Clayton County.
So I Understood. Okay.
- I appreciate your help.
- That's some extra
words of advice right there.
- oh, trust me.
I'll take whatever, I
ain't going back to jail.
- Just make
sure start calling,
Douglas, Clayton County state
court in about two weeks.
- Thank you very much.
- No problem.
Be safe. Be careful.
- Have a good one.
- I'm a free women.
- You have to
kind of school them, because
they really don't know.
They don't know any better.
They don't know any better.
- Did you read your ticket?
No.
- Nope.
You don't get to tell them
what you want to eat in jail.
- What they do send round
a menu for you to choose.
- Like your in the hospital.
Make sure you call
downstairs to room service.
- I don't know what
they're thinking
- That means she would
probably have to live
off of bread and water.
- Pescatarians will eat
anything but red meat.
Pescatarians will
eat fish and seafood,
but you know they don't.
They might have fish
stick night at the jail.
- Oh my goodness!
Isn't that funny?
Wow!
- They might have
fish stickes in jail.
- They don't get it.
Young people just don't get it.
- They don't.
- I feel sorry for our
future leaders of America.
If they're gonna be
leading us, we're doomed.
- But these are our
future leaders of America.
- So they say, Ooh!
- Molly said there
would be an extension cord
and ideally I would
put it into the lawn
and hook it up, and plug it in.
I brought it down at
Charlotte's request.
I think just to symbolize
we got some love going on.
And yes.
Tah Dah
Wait till it gets dark.
It'll be beautiful.
- No matter what kind
of stressful day I have,
when I start down the
roads towards the Lake,
you just take a deep breath.
And it's like,
all is well, you know,
it's just it really.
So the parties are always,
just delightful.
I think it's the, the
diversity of all the neighbors.
And then you have
like-minded neighbors.
So, people who have
lived here you know,
they move in and then, they're
like they never move out.
Oh, I think we have
our first guests.
- Hi there
- I got Mavis's vest!
Well-behaved women,
rarely make history.
I love it.
Everybody this is Claire
with the Enchanting Vineyard.
Oh my God!
You should go check it out.
- There are still
grapes on the vine.
- And she makes
all these outfits.
- When I first came here
I was like, I had just
camped with my friend.
We went to the Grand Canyon,
and we camped the
whole way there.
And I came back
and I was like, I just wanna
camp for the rest of my life.
Like I could just
live in a campground.
And then I saw this
place and I was like,
"Oh, I can camp for
the rest of my life."
But with a really
good bed and toilet.
- You guys live in Pine Lake?
- Yeah we do.
- We live on the other
side of the lake, on Dahlia
Do you know my Melanie,
the mayor lives?
- No, she lives over there?
- Ah OK. She's catty corner.
- Yeah.
- So you guys are
very close to her.
There's a purple iridescent
with like sequins,
- Oh my God.
- They were so stunning.
- It's always been that like,
you know, men are the leaders.
You know, that's not true.
That's really not.
Anyone can be a leader.
And I'm not saying that
men aren't good leaders.
And I'm not saying that
women are better than men,
but I feel like we're all equal.
That we shouldn't judge people.
Women can run this place,
and we do a good job.
- The loose dog
situation is ridiculous.
We have too many loose dogs.
This is not a dogs
run free zone.
We are not on a farm, right?
This is not the Sound of Music
where the dog comes
running up over the Hill,
like Julie Andrews.
So please spread the word.
Call animal control on loose
dogs and fill out a citation.
Let's get this handled.
- I hate the
whole color scheme.
I just want to be clear.
- To me it's not an accent wall,
if it's the same, same
color as the bottom.
And if you're really going
to make it pop or something.
It needs to be even
on third color, right?
- You got to have eyelashes
just to make it look good.
See.
- They would never know
that anything got changed,
if we don't...
- If we don't change something.
- I don't know.
- Ew.
- I just realized that
it was on number two.
- You are the analyst I'm the
indecisive one, all right?
- Do we need to
get together again?
- Hell no.
- Thank you, Marty.
Oh, Charlotte, sir.
- Get 12 people, you get
12 different opinions.
You need two people
make a decision.
Women are gonna
discuss it to death.
- It'll all be good in the end.
- I grew up in this town, I'm
in the house I grew up in.
I liked the lake back like
it was when I was a kid.
Back when we were private,
had fence around it
and if you were a child, you
were registered, you go in.
Everybody knew the policemen
they were just
down on the beach.
You know, "I know your
Momma" if you get in trouble.
They knew about it
for you got home.
We used to be one of
the safest cities.
I think we are
still way up there.
I think probably the
thing that keeps us safe
and keeps people liking
it is the police force.
If we didn't have our
police force and our mayor,
making good decisions for us.
It might not be a sweet
little town like it is.
We're left back
here by ourselves.
It could turn into, a
spooky place, I think.
I like
I like,
I like,
Yeah,
I like.
- I see you.
- Do that again.
Oh, I love it.
- Ew.
- Oh my God.!
My staff was like, can
we leave early today?
- I know
- I'm like what the fuck
is this, Thanksgiving?
- I see you, I see you.
- Happy Halloween.
- I'm gonna get her. Gotcha you.
- I like it, I like it.
Oh yeah, that's awesome.
- Happy Halloween officer.
- Happy Halloween.
- Happy Halloween.
- Happy Halloween.
We got some candy.
We got some candy.
We got some candy.
We got some candy,
We got some candy,
We got some candy,
We got some candy,
We got some candy, candy,
candy, candy, candy, candy.
I got
Candy on the foot,
Candy on the foot,
Candy on the foot,
Candy on the foot.
Candy on the foot.
Candy on the foot.
Candy on the foot.
Candy, I got some
candy on the foot.
Look who we got
into the witches.
We got some candy,
We got some candy,
candy candy, candy,
candy, candy,
candy, candy, candy.
We got some....
We got some candy,
I got some candy.
- Can we get some?
Candy, candy.
- My opponent in this race
is an architect of
voter oppression.
Who has done
everything in his power
to scare people out of voting.
He said, look, he is concerned
that if everyone who is
eligible to vote in Georgia
casts a ballot,
that he won't win.
Let's prove him right.
Let's prove it him right.
Let's prove him right.
- The whole climate of
Georgia is at stake today.
We going to either stay
the same or be worse
or we're gonna have
some major changes
and have a brighter future
for Georgia as a state.
Nobody in Pine Lake
should have an excuse
not to go vote when it's like
walking distance and no line.
I've tried to hold my
excitement for tonight.
So when I hold up
my sigh I scream.
"Stacey, the Governor"
I still have a voice.
- Stacey, Stacey,
Stacey, Stacey, Stacey, Stacey,
Stacey, Stacey, Stacey,
Stacey, Stacey, Stacey, Stacey.
- You can do better than that.
How's everybody doing tonight?
- Stacey's
campaign has injected a sense
of, a greater sense of hope
in the State of Georgia.
- In some cases, there were
too few machines in some
cases the touch screens
didn't seem to work well.
In some places there
was a problem getting
power into machines.
Riding on this has been
the governor's race
it has been a nasty affair,
Democrat Stacey Abrams has
accused Republican Brian Kemp
The states, secretary of
state, of voter suppression
Particularly in
minority communities
- We can
win, and we must win.
Be hopeful, be optimistic.
And keep your eyes on the prize.
- It's going to still
be a long night.
This is not ending soon.
And we're unlikely to
have anything definitive
to say until the morning.
- Tonight we have closed the gap
between yesterday and tomorrow.
But we still have a
few more miles to go.
We are still on the
verge of history
and the best is yet to come.
- We are Georgia.
- We are Georgia.
- We are Georgia.
- We are Georgia.
- So let's get it done,
thank you so much.
- I would have
preferred a clean decision
but I understand that you
don't always get what you want.
My responsibilities
is to keep going
until we get what we need.
- Once we pay these,
then once you pay this.
- Once you pay this, I'll send
a message to Dekalb County.
This says this money has
been paid
his bond today and
he can be released.
Okay cool.
- Okay? .
- Okay, I will be right back.
- Okay, yes ma'am.
- Okay, it's 50 dollars,
you get your case reset.
Let me get your receipt.
A lot of times you
don't know what person comes in
and you don't know if they're
upset or if they need help.
A lot of times
people come in upset
because he missed a court date.
So you have to kind of calm
him down and talk to him
and tell him it's
going to be okay.
But I like interacting
with people.
I'm a people person.
- Bring all that with you.
Bring your tag,
bring your VIN number.
Bring everything with you okay?
Sign out there where
it says defendant.
- The business
district is critical
to the growth of the
city of Pine Lake.
That's the only
direction we can grow in.
Moving City Hall up
on Rockbridge Road
will be a big first
step in signaling that
the city of Pine
Lake is an entirety,
not just a residential block.
You just putting your
money where your mouth is.
- These are what y'all
are gonna use today.
They're labeled,
address and the name.
- Okay.
- When you walk, this
is the postmaster's.
She's out of town and
she's on vacation.
- Okay.
If you won't take it out of
there after Tuesday, it's ready.
- Okay.
- Okay, here's reliable tire.
So it's that way. Here's RCB
- Some of them, the property
owner is the business owner,
but a lot of times it's not.
- Right.
- So we may wanna
check those out
and invite some of
the owners by mail.
- Okay, so you've
got Collins up next.
- I do.
- Bringing you a imitation to,
you probably already
got it in an email,
but the grand
opening at City Hall.
- Thanks ma'am that's me.
I'll try. I will, I will.
- We have donuts.
- I will, I will.
- I'm Mayor Hammet,
I wanted to come
and personally invite you to
the grand opening of City Hall,
the new city hall up
here on Rockbridge Road
on October 31st.
- Where, where is
going to be at?
- It is gonna be right behind
the Texaco station on Allgood.
- What time?
- Nine to 11.
- A little flex.
- We're gonna have a
light breakfast buffet
right down the street,
it will be great.
- Why don't we do do
the across the street
and then we can hit Family
Dollar and the gap tooth.
- There's a barbershop in there?
- Yeah, right here.
- I am looking to
deliver an invitation
to the grand opening of the
Pine Lake City Hall up here
in the business district.
- Okay.
- October 31st is your
hand delivered invitation.
Woo, woo, woo,
woo, woo, woo, woo.
- Not during my work
hour, of course.
- Ah, nine to 11.
Right up the street,
and this is hand delivered
invitation for you.
I'm Mayor Hammet by the way.
- Hello, nice to meet you.
- How you doing, nice
to meet you also.
- I'm the mayor of Pine Lake.
I'm Jean Bordeaux.
- Nice to meet you.
- Nice to meet you.
We haven't been involved
with the commercial area.
- A lot of people don't
know you are back there.
- We wanna do more to
get to know you guys
and help out with where we can.
- So we'd love it
if you could come
and want to make sure that you
guys got a hand delivered--
- Okay.
- invitation to
the grand opening.
- Okay.
- If you wouldn't
mind giving it to her.
- I'll pass it on to her.
- Thank you.
- Good to meet you.
- I'm glad to meet you.
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
- Thanks, Thanks.
We appreciate it.
- Thank you, I'm
shaking your hand?
Sure.
- Oh it not a new new City Hall.
It's an old building, new use.
- Okay.
- Thank you.
- Hey, good morning,
how are you?
Good evening. How are you?
- Good how are you?
and
you better come.
- Mayor you wanna
be in the center.
So you council
people by the mayor.
- Okay.
- All the dignitaries,
to the side, and chief.
- Jean drove the train
on this building,
a part of the city of Pine Lake.
And I'm so grateful to her
because we are now part
of our business district
and we are delighted to be here.
One, two, three. Here we go.
Let's let's get inside.
Pine Lake, Pine
Lake, Pine Lake.
We like to dance
in the streets
- I keep getting
asked these questions,
what is female leadership?
What are police to the society?
What are...Good Lord!
I'm just a simple country
guitar player.
- Every time I can do a human
to human, to human, to human,
I feel like now I'm in
my range when it becomes
system to system to
system to system.
Now we're kind of
outside of what I'm...
I'm almost able to address.
All right, here
we go, here we go.
- I have to be effective
or attempt to be effective
in the judicial system
that was created
by white Americans to
oppress people of color.
Otherwise, I can't say
I'm upholding the oath.
And even the personal oath
that I take to do what's right.
- Miss Evans are you ready?
Good, come on up.
How are you today ma'am?
- I'm fine.
- I just
needs you to raise
your right hand, please.
Do you swear or affirm
to tell the truth
under the penalties of perjury?
- I do.
- Okay, Ms. Evans, you're
here for a petition
to revoke your probation, okay?
You're entitled to a lawyer,
though, in these proceedings.
Do you want one?
- Yes.
- You do?
- What other choice do I have?
- To go forward
without a lawyer.
- And if I go forward
without a lawyer?
- Then you'll be going
forward without a lawyer.
- I'll take my chances and
go forward without a lawyer.
- You want to go forward
without a lawyer.
Do you wanna have
an explanation?
- During that time,
I was homeless.
I was calling to let you know
that I was having problems
as far as my place to stay
and I was going through
something with my job.
I actually lost my job.
Then my dad got diagnosed
with prostate cancer.
So, like a whole lot going on.
At that point, I just lost it.
- I didn't know what
to do after than.
- Are you back on your feet now?
- Yes. I have a place to
stay, I live with my sister
I'm actually in school.
I don't work, but I'm
in college right now
trying to turn my life around
in some positive or constructive
other than drifting
like I used to.
- Well, I do not violate
people for not paying.
But for not appearing, it's
a different story, right?
But I hear you about
your living situation.
And I hear you when
you say that you have
attempted to make
a change so that
you can get on with your life
and be a productive citizen.
We all should be
given a second chance.
I hear that.
You have been in jail
about seven days.
I'm gonna give you credit for
those days that you have done,
I'm going to revoke 10 days.
And so that means you have
three days remaining to serve.
And then this case will close.
You will not have to pay
the outstanding balance.
You will just serve total 10
days and this case will close.
You have any questions?
- No ma'am.
- If you just have a seat,
you'll go back with
the officer shortly.
- Let's get to the latest
on the coronavirus.
The CDC issuing some guideline
on how various institutions
can safely reopen
amid the governor.
- Brian Kemp is allowing more
businesses to reopen today.
- So in today gatherings
of more than 25 people
will be allowed as
long as you keep...
- Mayor,
Council, Section two,
the mayor and the council
hereby declare the playground,
the beach, the lake, the
beach house and a clubhouse
are closed to the public
until further notice.
- Do you have a public
comment you like to make
about the beach?
- Although it bums
me out personally not to be able
to use the beach, I
think y'all are making
a very wise decision.
- I think it is
the best decision
to keep the beach closed
for this one summer.
- I am in full support
of total closure.
- I totally, completely
support the resolution.
I want to thank Mayor, you
and the Council commission.
for making these very difficult
and courageous decisions.
- Okay, thank you.
- You welcome, thank you.
Have you been sick?
- No dear.
- The list is on the left side.
- Okay, okay.
They all feel
comfortable though.
- All Rise
- The municipal court
of the city of Pine Lake
is now in session.
The Honorable Judge
Wiggins presiding.-
Good
afternoon everybody.
Welcome to the
City of Pine Lake.
- All
right, all in favor.
We are adjourned.
Thank you guys for
coming tonight.
What would you think about
having our next meeting outside,
in a big circle,
for some fresh air?