Resident urges council to act on neighborhood crime during public comment

During the public comment period at the Feb. 11 meeting, resident Floyd Carroll urged the City Council to take action on recurring safety and criminal activity in his neighborhood.

Carroll said he has lived "over there for 20 years" and raised his grandchildren in the neighborhood. He described repeated problems he attributed to certain neighbors, saying, "we've already lost 1 kid over there" and urging the council to address what he called persistent "drugs, ****, and murder." He also recounted an incident he said involved vehicle arson: "When Brad Johnson made something she hung herself on, he set Monica Rodriguez's car on fire behind 06:15 the same day," language that is transcribed as Carroll's characterization of events. Carroll also described a person he said rode a bicycle in the neighborhood carrying a handgun and fired at people. He asked the council, "Is anybody gonna do something about that?" and said, "I don't know who to tell maybe the governor can figure it out. Is there anybody on this council that can manage that?"

City staff reminded the public that miscellaneous comments are limited to three minutes and that, under the Oklahoma Open Meeting Act, council members may not engage in discussion during the public comment period. The transcript records Carroll's statements but does not show council members taking action in response during the meeting. Carroll's remarks are presented here as his account; the transcript does not provide corroborating testimony or citations of police reports in the meeting record.