twonpoo Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 prove it. see i can disagree too, but i got paperwork you got anger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nastynix Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 to be continued........,god bless and have a nice day! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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PreOne Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 i got respect for all yall and your opinions..no disrespect intended against anyone i dont even know who im talking to , so that wouldnt be a smart move on my part .. i just felt the need to step in for "boy" snow..truth be told..nobody ever had my back nor do i think snow would ever jump in for me ..is he a snitch ? well i ask ...whos in jail because of his testimony? who is eating pork and beans out of a can in a homeless shelter because they got a felony on there record because of snow? --- i dont fuckin know..i knew him in the 90s so maybe it was ill advised for me to vouch for him.. i only know the dude i used to paint/roll with .. everyones got an opinion and your entitled to it..just be careful what you believe is the lesson here ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PreOne Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 http://nograffiti.com/grafnews/Graf%20in%20the%20news24.htm http://www.paterson-education.org/documents/Votersguide08_001.pdf scroll down !!!!!!!! not trying to fuel any fires , but interesting reading...a few simple google searches some real black and white shit there ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twonpoo Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 Graffiti convictions got Santiago fired from a public-works job and kicked out of the police academy. Yet he has also been lauded for setting up programs to help troubled youth and once led a group of convicted graffiti vandals in a cleanup program. The small "Mitch" -- his "tag" -- is one of the few remaining signs that this 33-year-old father of five was the city's graffiti king in the 1980s and early 1990s. But the telltale tag is also a sign of the struggle Santiago faces as he makes the transition from a vandal and high school dropout to a city inspector and school trustee with children whose ages range from 4 to 15. u dumb niggaz cant even get your stories right. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nastynix Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 Item 001 Monday, May 17, 1999 OWNTOWN -- The 11th Annual Great Graffiti Paint Out and Community CLEAN Up Day took place Saturday. The event, sponsored by the Glendale CLEAN Committee, the Glendale Glendale Association of Realtors and City of Glendale-Neighborhood Services, involved community residents spending a few hours painting out graffiti and picking up trash from the city's streets and alleys. The clean up began after a 9:30 a.m. rally in Perkins Plaza, behind City Hall. Work teams led by city staff were dispatched throughout the community. After the clean up, participants came back to City Hall for a barbecue. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Item 002 School trustee wants to erase his image as Paterson's grafitti king Thursday, May 13, 1999 By MICHAEL CASEY Staff Writer Driving along Memorial Drive in Paterson, Juan "Mitch" Santiago pulls up to an abandoned building and points to a battered doorway scarred by his graffiti signature. The small "Mitch" -- his "tag" -- is one of the few remaining signs that this 33-year-old father of five was the city's graffiti king in the 1980s and early 1990s. But the telltale tag is also a sign of the struggle Santiago faces as he makes the transition from a vandal and high school dropout to a city inspector and school trustee with children whose ages range from 4 to 15. Despite his election to a three-year term on the school board this month, Santiago said, many voters judged him by his graffiti exploits rather than on his educational platform. "I've changed, and all that garbage is behind me now," Santiago said. "When I'm 50 years old, are they still going to call me a graffiti artist? People don't forget. But I have better things to do than worry about people criticizing me." Item 001 Monday, May 17, 1999 OWNTOWN -- The 11th Annual Great Graffiti Paint Out and Community CLEAN Up Day took place Saturday. The event, sponsored by the Glendale CLEAN Committee, the Glendale Glendale Association of Realtors and City of Glendale-Neighborhood Services, involved community residents spending a few hours painting out graffiti and picking up trash from the city's streets and alleys. The clean up began after a 9:30 a.m. rally in Perkins Plaza, behind City Hall. Work teams led by city staff were dispatched throughout the community. After the clean up, participants came back to City Hall for a barbecue. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Item 002 School trustee wants to erase his image as Paterson's grafitti king Thursday, May 13, 1999 By MICHAEL CASEY Staff Writer Driving along Memorial Drive in Paterson, Juan "Mitch" Santiago pulls up to an abandoned building and points to a battered doorway scarred by his graffiti signature. The small "Mitch" -- his "tag" -- is one of the few remaining signs that this 33-year-old father of five was the city's graffiti king in the 1980s and early 1990s. But the telltale tag is also a sign of the struggle Santiago faces as he makes the transition from a vandal and high school dropout to a city inspector and school trustee with children whose ages range from 4 to 15. Despite his election to a three-year term on the school board this month, Santiago said, many voters judged him by his graffiti exploits rather than on his educational platform. "I've changed, and all that garbage is behind me now," Santiago said. "When I'm 50 years old, are they still going to call me a graffiti artist? People don't forget. But I have better things to do than worry about people criticizing me." Santiago's victory in the school board elections is the latest chapter in the life of man who has been the city's version of Jekyll and Hyde for almost 20 years. To some, Santiago is a reformed criminal using past mistakes to help others; to others, he's a flashy self-promoter who talks a good game but will never change. Local teens lionized him for his graffiti exploits; police and the late Mayor Frank X. Graves Jr. reviled him. Graffiti convictions got Santiago fired from a public-works job and kicked out of the police academy. Yet he has also been lauded for setting up programs to help troubled youth and once led a group of convicted graffiti vandals in a cleanup program. "Mitch is a renegade," said Mayor Martin G. Barnes, who endorsed Santiago's election bid. "He's a street kid who lived the street life. He's starting to see the error of his ways and really wants to do some good." Councilman Thomas C. Rooney Jr., however, said Santiago's school board victory cannot erase the damage he did to public buildings, highway overpasses, and semi-trailer trucks. "Mitch is still Mitch," said Rooney, one of numerous elected officials whom Santiago unsuccessfully sued over the years for slander. "He is still the graffiti king and all that implies. . . . It is shameful that this man is on the school board. He's been arrested, tried, and has paid fines for spraying paint on St. Joseph's Hospital and the Salvation Army." Santiago, whom the city has since rehired as a public-works inspector, said he is not hiding from his past. He said people should be willing to consider his views about schools and the reforms he wants to make in the next three years. He talks of cracking down on speeders around schools, of involving more parents in the system, and of serving as a role model for troubled youngsters. "There are a lot of kids out there who are lost," said Santiago, whose shaved head, icy glare, and tattooed forearms make him an imposing figure still. "I'll tell them, 'Fellas, you can change. You can become somebody.' " Born in the Bronx, Santiago retains the accent and bravado from his days on the streets. He said he joined a gang, the Fifth Dimension, when he was 13. He graduated to spray-painting subway trains. At 15, Santiago said, he ran away from home after years of physical abuse at the hands of his drunken father. He moved in with his mother in Paterson and attended John F. Kennedy High School. He was forced to transfer to Eastside High School after repeated fights with other students. He continued his fighting ways at Eastside and then dropped out. "When I was younger, I didn't care about anybody," Santiago said, showing off scars on his lip, hand, and nose that he said are the results of numerous fistfights. "I was a real wild guy. I had a fight almost every day." Santiago's mother, Aida Ojeda, recalled how her boy's antics would make her cry out of frustration. She said she tried to lecture him about setting a good example for his four younger siblings. She also hauled him into church in hopes of getting some divine intervention. "He was a bad boy -- my goodness!" she said with a smile. "Every single day, he gave me a headache. I really thought he would end up in jail, the hospital, or be killed." When Santiago wasn't fighting, he was spray-painting the city with his tag. He also painted brightly colored abstract murals that featured his name in bold three-dimensional letters. He did murals of dead friends and original cartoon characters, such as one called "Bone Head," who looked like E.T. Santiago said that at the height of his graffiti reign, in the early 1980s, his tag was plastered in as many as 150 places around Paterson. His fame caught the eye of other graffiti vandals and he started traveling with a gang known as TMD, or Toys Must Die. He also gained national and international recognition, painting murals as far away as Italy and Puerto Rico. He even did the backdrop for the movie "Lean On Me," about former Eastside Principal Joe Clark. "When you heard about Mitch, you thought of Paterson's graffiti artists," said Jason Goyco, a former graffiti vandal who worked with Santiago in the mid-Eighties. "Everything he did was original. He never copied other people's artwork. . . . He made everything look so real." With the fame came intense scrutiny, however, as local authorities stepped up their war on graffiti. Figuring that Santiago could be a negative influence on other graffiti vandals, police and politicians implored him to stop. Santiago said he agreed and took a job in the Department of Public Works in 1982. He then joined the National Guard and, soon after, received his GED. But in 1985, Santiago and some friends were caught painting graffiti in Clifton -- the second of his three convictions. It cost him his public-works job. It also led to a six-year battle in which he publicly portrayed himself as a do-gooder but continued his spray-painting ways. Finally, in 1992, Santiago announced in typical dramatic fashion that he was going to retire for good and called on 80 other graffiti vandals to follow his lead. Tired of being targeted every time graffiti appeared on buildings, he turned his attention to more legitimate art forms. He organized graffiti art shows and played host to "graffiti-thons," where students spray-painted canvasses. Nevertheless, his past continued to haunt him. In a highly publicized case, Santiago was kicked out of the police academy in 1994 after he was found guilty of five counts of criminal mischief for painting four buildings and a statue. To this day, Santiago insists the charges were trumped up. He has vowed to get his record expunged and become a state prison guard in the future. As Santiago drives along Paterson's streets, people seem to be impressed. A crossing guard gushes with compliments about what the new board member will do for young people. Santiago's DPW boss said he has dubbed him "Top Gun," in part because Santiago writes 800 tickets a month. The former graffiti king's mother, sitting in the family's modest two-family home on George Street, said her son is a changed man. Surrounded by a roomful of family photos on the cramped living room wall, she said he finally took her advice. "I had faith that perhaps he would change, but I didn't think he would," she said. "He is not the person he was before. He now works and talks to the younger kids. He shaves, gets haircuts, and talks to people decently." Santiago insists that the toned-down life suits him just fine. Talking like the angry citizens who used to frown on his work, he calls graffiti "garbage" and said it should be painted over. "I've grown out of that stuff," Santiago said as he waded through piles of newspapers glorifying his graffiti art. "You look at that now and it brings back bad memories. I just wish I could erase all the bad things I've done." what agraf crusader...we must defend him!! LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twonpoo Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 Nevertheless, his past continued to haunt him. In a highly publicized case, Santiago was kicked out of the police academy in 1994 after he was found guilty of five counts of criminal mischief for painting four buildings and a statue. there's your outcome, based on the interaction of the 3 witnesses just sucks your boy was one of the witnesses who took the stand Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PreOne Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 Juan Santiago, “Mitch,” E-mail:Mitch-world@hotmail.com; Employment: Passaic County Sheriff's Department Sheriff's Investigator and deputy chef inspector of Department of Public Works; Lived in Paterson: 27 years; 2nd link , pdf file ... employment status .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PreOne Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 case closed end of story lets move on please Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nastynix Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 he calls graffiti "garbage" and said it should be painted over. I especially enjoyed this part Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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twonpoo Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 he calls graffiti "garbage" and said it should be painted over. I especially enjoyed this part of course u would cus u tell stories in ur favor u fraud Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southpaw Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 this used to be my favorite thread Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nastynix Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 who got anger now, as soon as u dont like what u here, u start name callin...frankly, I respected ur intelligent agruments ....understandable that ur angry now....alotta fraudulent paperwork circulated in the BX a few years back as well...s all good tho, maybe niggas got guilty consciences thats why theyre on the attack...I got more 'paperwork' comin...not tryin to clog this thread ne more Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ReignInBlood Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 The truth always finds it way to the light. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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PreOne Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 ^^ lol .... i apologize to everyone on here .. i hate this shit myself, so i know how bad it sucks .. somebody post some pics or ill start dropping old some old shit in here to get it movin .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PreOne Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 Heres some perspective on life for everyone... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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