Remarks by Rafael Cabrera
221 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 4 of 9
- Play at 2:06:18
“Overruled. Answer the question. Did he receive from you an updated version?”
Civil Service Board · Jun 23, 2026
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“Board members, any questions for the supervisor? I'm going to ask you, from what I see here, in the Employees Exhibit Fours, there's two emails that come from you, one on July 15, one on July 23. It looks the emails are exactly the same. The only difference is you altered a date in it. Why did you do that?”
Civil Service Board · Jun 23, 2026
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“Maybe I forget about the day, and I put it on the day. You sent two separate emails. Do you want to look at it to see it? You sent both those emails, right? Nobody sent that on your behalf? Those emails that say from you, they're from you?”
Civil Service Board · Jun 23, 2026
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“Well, I don't know. Read it. I mean, you're the one that wrote it, not me. I'm here now. I have to sit here.”
Civil Service Board · Jun 23, 2026
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“I don't think he does. Do you want to help him with maybe giving him a packet? Does he have access to the employee's exhibit?”
Civil Service Board · Jun 23, 2026
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“I can give him mine. He has one up there?”
Civil Service Board · Jun 23, 2026
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“Take it so we can do it. So do you have employee exhibit four in front of you now? No. Do you have employee exhibit four in front of you now?”
Civil Service Board · Jun 23, 2026
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“That's what you have. Okay. Are you on the third page? The third page of that exhibit? Oh, over here. It should be an email. At the top it says Jennifer Ramirez, and then it says from Hector Macias, and it says sent July 15, 2025 at 4.23 p.m. Are you looking at that page?”
Civil Service Board · Jun 23, 2026
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“You have page three open in front of you. You see that it's an email written from you. On the top, on the second line it says from Hector Macias. You see that?”
Civil Service Board · Jun 23, 2026
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“You see where it says you sent it July 15 at 2025 at 4.23 p.m.? uh say 7 11 25 and 6 23 23rd okay yeah okay so you see that email that's an email that you wrote on july yeah yeah right okay you see where it's highlighted there in the second paragraph where it says furthermore on 6 23 20 25 yeah okay if you want a second to review it review that email if you turn to the next page the next page is another email sent from you on July 23rd, 2025, at 2.37 p.m. The email, if you want, you can review it, compare between page three and page four. The only difference is the date that you sent it, and…”
Civil Service Board · Jun 23, 2026
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“I'm trying to understand. What I'm asking you is you sent two separate emails.”
Civil Service Board · Jun 23, 2026
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“Eight days apart. Why did you send two emails? The only difference I see is a change of date. I'm asking you. I don't know. I'm trying to understand.”
Civil Service Board · Jun 23, 2026
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“You made a mistake in the date? Yeah. And so you wanted to send another email with... Clarifying that date? That's something that you realized, you had sent the email, you were going through your emails eight days later, and you said, oh man, I sent the wrong date, I want to send it, or how did this come about? Why did you send two separate emails?”
Civil Service Board · Jun 23, 2026
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“You did send both those emails, right? Those emails were from you, both those emails, page three and page four?”
Civil Service Board · Jun 23, 2026
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“But I don't want to say somebody sit down there and I'm doing shit. Do you recall writing both those emails? Maybe a mistake. Maybe I sit down there and I send it out with a different date. So right now your sworn testimony is you're not really sure why you sent both those emails or what you meant to do. You don't, you're having a, you can't recall why you sent these emails or if you sent the emails.”
Civil Service Board · Jun 23, 2026
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“Sir, in your position, you're the nighttime supervisor? Yes, sir. And how long have you been the nighttime supervisor? Ten years. Ten years? What time do you come into work? 1.30. 1 o'clock. 9.30 p.m. 1.30 p.m. to 9.00. Got it. And so then it's your short testimony that you did send those two emails and you don't recall right now why you decided one or not. You're looking at it and it seems to change that date. That's the best of your ability. Yeah. No further questions.”
Civil Service Board · Jun 23, 2026
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“Hold on a second. Council, is this proper?”
Civil Service Board · Jun 23, 2026
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“Oh, wait. Okay, time out. Let's just order here a second. So we have a board member. A board member is asking a question. What it is. So we're not following the... I want the legal opinion of our panel.”
Civil Service Board · Jun 23, 2026
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“Just one second, just for the point of clarification here. So we'll ask the board member, do you want to just like retract what you did? Do you have a further question? Because I don't want to, we're not going to get into a back and forth of objecting on board members being able to speak.”
Civil Service Board · Jun 23, 2026
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“Even if we were just from my limited experience up here, even if he has an opinion on it, it's going to be hearsay and a speculative and all the objections are just flying through the air, firing off. So right away, this is why we're doing this. This is why we're doing this. We can come up. That's why we're aboard. They can come to us. They couldn't come to an equally unsatisfactory resolution on their own. So that's why we're here. And then now we're taking all this information and we have five minds of our own with our own opinions and objective and we're looking and we're seeing the…”
Civil Service Board · Jun 23, 2026
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“Do you have any other questions you'd like to ask?”
Civil Service Board · Jun 23, 2026
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“Does that answer your question? Yes. Thank you. His requested time was July 7th to the 11th. The first email came in July 15th. The second email came in July 23rd. Absolutely.”
Civil Service Board · Jun 23, 2026
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“Good afternoon. If you can please state your name and position into the mic.”
Civil Service Board · Jun 23, 2026
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“Sir, if you can raise your right hand. Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God? All right. City, proceed.”
Civil Service Board · Jun 23, 2026
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“So in the department, excuse me, I'm sorry, not to interrupt your thing. Can we, for the sake of time and for following the proper procedure, can you stick to an ask answered? I don't want like a testimony back, just ask him whatever questions you want on a more.”
Civil Service Board · Jun 23, 2026