On Friday, June 27, 2014, at about 11am, a Richmond Police Department (RPD) Officer Jackson pulled his car up to my garden at 3600 Anne Street and asked if I was Robert Barnett. He said that he had a letter to Veterans Administration dated May 28, 2014, in which I had threatened harm to others and to myself. Another officer, Hoonsan, appeared and continued the questioning. A number troubling questions need to be answered. I would like these questions answered in numeric order and so labeled. I am preparing a civil lawsuit against the Veterans Administration which the RPD can avoid answering in court by honoring my FOIA request.

A question that will be repeated: If I am a threat to others and myself, why did it take a month (30 days) to initiate an evaluation of my intentions?

1. If I was viewed as a threat, who is responsible for a lapse which could have been fatal to others or myself. I was viewed as a threat because two police officers showed up in different cars to inquire and assess. (Office Hoonsan) said she did not consider me a threat. I considered the whole event a joke and harassment.)
2. Is this how the RPD handles reported threats--that is, taking 30 days to inititate an assessment response.
3. I would like a copy of the letter in which I supposedly threatened others. If no letter is produced, I would like the RPD records to show that the officers acted on false information.
4. I am troubled by Officer Jackson not offering me a card with his name, date and time as a record of the visit. Officer Hoonsan did. Citizens, voters and taxpayers have a right to memorialize visits by police.
5. I would like to know who at the Veterans Administration contacted the Richmond Police Department. Did the V.A. person or a RPD person state that I was threatening others? This constitutes slander or libel of my person. If the RPD cannot produce the V.A. person, or a record thereof, this is very unprofessional to accuse a person of threatening others without proof.
6. How did the RPD verify that it was the Veterans Administration that requested the assessment?
7. If there is or was any written communication (fax, email, letter, etc.), I would like a copy mailed with the answers to these questions.
8. When did the RPD receive this communication, that is, the date and the time?

I truly doubt if any proof exists of my threatening others for one simple reason: Why did it take 30 days for the V.A. and RPD to respond to my purported threatening others? If I truly was viewed as a threat to others, a more immediate response would have taken place in hours or days, not weeks or a month.

I do believe that V.A. staffers instead of addressing and correcting my complaints, they are trying to trigger a response by me that will make me a medical burden not for the federal V.A. system but the state penal system. Knowing that this is not only a possibility but a growing probablity, it stands to reason that for this reason alone (as well as many others) I am not a physical threat to V.A. personnel. (Unless one views my bad jokes as criminal which, when I was in the Navy, prompted some shipmates to petition the captain for hazzardous duty pay.)

I consider the actions by the V.A. to be a continuation of its marginalizing and gulagizing me because of my complaints of mistreatments--see timism.com/VA.htm. Each time I have complained of mistreatment, I have been mistreated more.