Personal Account: A Matter of Public Record, written by a well-meaning citizen and an eye-witness to crime

In the month of November, 2021, around the thirteenth (it might have been the day before or after; I was under duress at the time) I was involved in a violent altercation on the corner of Riverside and Barson in Santa Cruz CA. The responding officer was Alec Ganzel of the Santa Cruz police department. After reporting the fight to Alec Ganzel, who took the report from within my home and photographed the blood as well that covered my body, I was given his business card and a copy of “Marsy’s Law,” which are my rights as a victim of crime under the constitution of California. I also offered the story of what happened to the Santa Cruz Sentinel as an extension of these rights but they did not respond. The story is as follows: An assailant approached me on the street, purposefully, in a way that didn’t make sense to me due to his determination to speak with me; he then struck me in the face which scratched my lip. He then kicked me in the stomach. After then dodging perhaps five or six more purposeful blows and back peddling nearly twenty yards, I struck him on the nose which drew perhaps an ounce of blood from what appeared to be an easy cut to open up on the end of a person’s nose (I had never really fought anyone in the street until then and I, like most people, did not know how easy it was to harm someone; I was, however, a boxer in high school and I did know how to fight someone in the ring). He then tried to dictate his reasons for assaulting me while we were still fighting, with blood everywhere at this point, and I struck him another time while he spoke which discouraged him and he walked away. I reported this fight to the police department in Santa Cruz which makes it a matter of public record; my point is this, am I afraid to talk about the fight through the public record? In other words, do I pantomime things I’m aloud to talk about?

Furthermore, if you, O reader, would like to know, the individual was about 6’1″ and maybe two-hundred to two-hundred and ten pounds with sandy blonde hair, blue eyes and an athletic build. He was also likely to be in his late thirties or early forties from what I could tell. He might have a small scar on the end of his nose due to the altercation.