Nov 1, 2023
WATCH: Property Manager Uses Bullhorn To Harass, Mock Locals For Cleaning Stream
WATCH: Property Manager Uses Bullhorn To Harass, Mock Locals For Cleaning Stream
- 4 minutes
I'm telling you this is private property.
If you leave through this trail,
there will be a cop that [INAUDIBLE] you.
>> Speaker 2: That's fine and
I will accept the citation easily.
Let's [INAUDIBLE].
Call them!
You're gonna call them for
me taking care of the?
You're strange.
[00:00:15]
[FOREIGN]
>> Speaker 1: No,
it's because you were told
not to turn [INAUDIBLE].
>> Speaker 2: No, you cannot stop us-
>> [CROSSTALK]
>> [FOREIGN]
[00:00:30]
>> [FOREIGN]
>> Speaker 1: Wow!
>> Wow!
>> The arrogance.
>> Speaker 1: That's crazy.
>> Speaker 1: The arrogance.
How about you come down here and
clean with us?
You fuck off.
How about you come down here and
clean with us?
You fuck off.
>> Speaker 1: Okay, so
this is all the trash that we collected.
[00:00:49]
>> Speaker 4: Wow,
here's the background on this incident.
The one acre property in Kalihi Valley
is home to numerous streams and
ponds that people like to visit.
The incident was caught on camera.
In the video, it appears to show a
property manager using a bullhorn to tell
a group of people,
we should say a group of native people,
[00:01:08]
that were trespassing on private property.
The group says they were
cleaning up the area.
And they started yelling
back in Olelo Hawaii.
Landowner, Mike Strata said he was not on
the property at the time of the incident.
[00:01:24]
It does sadden him,
according to the owner.
He said Strata took ownership of the land
in 2015 and had been working for
years to clean up the area.
He said the reason access has
been limited is due to safety.
[00:01:40]
We had some people or someone die because
of the rocks, the rocks are slippery.
Okay, I get that.
He said the police even came and
told them they need to do something about
this because neighbors are complaining.
This is according to the owner.
In response to the safety concern,
Strata said,
[00:01:56]
walls were put up to make
control access points.
He also said he instructed the property
managers to stop using the bullhorns.
How's that going for you?
I understand that this is truly
their land, [LAUGH] said Strada,
who also wanted to thank the people in the
video for their work to clean up the area.
[00:02:12]
The owner says he would like to partner
with a Native Hawaiian group to help with
stewardship of the land and coordinate
access to this area and cleanups.
This is Eddie Doe,
according to Hawaiian News Now.
Dina, I am so frustrated.
You said something about
land in the last segment and
[00:02:28]
I think we should remember
that these people are Native,
this space has been sacred to them,
is sacred to them.
And they're cleaning up waterways,
waterways.
And because of some Western idea of
ownership of something that was put here
for all of us,
not to be exploited by the rich and few.
[00:02:46]
Been yelled at by a person
with a bullhorn and
being made fun of when
they speak the language
that's Native to the land that they're
cleaning up and trying to protect.
What say you?
>> Speaker 3: I say unfortunately,
we do this way too much.
[00:03:02]
We could get like an A plus if
this were a course because there's
Western belief that we somehow
kind of were better than.
I think I don't know how anyway to put it,
but
we were better than the people that
were in the land to begin with.
[00:03:19]
And we've created so
many problems around the world with
this idea of giving away land,
or drawing borders, or here,
like just killing
Native Americans there in Hawaii.
Just disrespecting and
treating somebody again,
[00:03:36]
like this other like we've talked about.
I think that there is at least
an awareness now than there for
sure was a few hundred years
ago that this was even wrong.
But we still have a long way to go and
why can't we just be
equal to other people?
[00:03:55]
Why do we have to feel like
we're better than other people?
I don't know.
>> Yeah, I think that's a perfect point.
And I think that's what's at the core of,
I feel like,
any occupying that's taking place.
You think someone's way of life does
not rank on par or more than yours.
[00:04:14]
And it shows up in how you erase culture.
We saw it here in America with so many of
the Native cultures being completely or
almost completely wiped out.
And being forced to say you can't speak,
we refuse for
you to learn your language,
you must focus on what we teach you.
[00:04:31]
And I think that is a real sentiment
that we need to deal with.
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