Atlantic City School Superintendent/Mayor's Wife Bullies Cop Who Catches her In Wheelchair Parking Spot

I recently reported on the new pandemic ravaging America:  mayors.  At the time of that reporting I hadn't heard about Marty Small of Atlantic City or his horrible wife, Dr. La'Quetta Small.

I'm a person who uses a mobility device, and a true crime blogger.  So naturally this video upset me.  I would like to call her everything in the world other than Dr. La'Quetta Small.  My grandmother wouldn't approve though.  So I will always call her Dr. La'Quetta Small.  That might be my new code word when I want to call someone a bad name.  I'll just call them Dr. La'Quetta Small instead.  Because she's the worst.

I believe that the way you do anything is the way you do everything. That's why everything about this video seems like the tip of a corruption iceberg.

They taught me in paramedic school res ipsa loquitur, the thing speaks for itself.  Everything about this bodycam video of the superintendent of schools for Atlantic City, Dr. LaQuetta Small is a red flag about herself and her husband, Mayor Marty Small of Atlantic City.  He chose her.  He's presumably who she was on the phone with while caught red-handed.  They're both also charged with child abuse.

They both need to be booted out of office by the voters so hard that they fly 40 feet through the air as though they had been hit full speed by the Canyonero that Dr. La'Quetta Small parks in the wheelchair spots.

While researching this infuriating situation -- which I expect the judge will let her get away with -- I found the following snippet which is behind a paywall, from "The Press of Atlantic City:  ACEA President Praises La'Quetta Small amid abuse charges -- May 22, 2024 — Atlantic City Education Association President Tim Mancuso praised schools Superintendent La'Quetta Small during a Board of Education meeting ..."  I don't intend to pay them for kissing her crooked butt that way. 

So I went to the public record, the minutes of that meeting, and found this.

So the subordinate being replaced next week is praising her on his way out the door?  Sure, wear that on your hat.  Below I share reporting discussing someone else being suspended for failure of their mandatory reporting responsibilities for failure to report the abuse claims of the Smalls' daughter when she came forward.  Mandatory reporting is very serious shit for educators.  And the school that she runs didn't report the mayor and his wife to the police department that he runs.  YIKES.

Also, I searched that 76-page pdf for the praise they mentioned and didn't find it.  I found where Mancuso was voted out.  But I found no reference to either La'Quetta or Small.

Let's get back to what we can see Dr. La'Quetta Small doing in the wheelchair space in the video.  I'm going to inventory what's allegedly wrong with it.

1.  She's apparently using a government vehicle for personal errands.
2. I don't understand why the school superintendent needs to have Marge Simpson's Canyonero at the taxpayers' expense.  Really, why?  And what funds were used to pay for those red umbrellas?
3. She's allegedly using a disabled placard to park in two disabled spaces at Home Depot.
4. The disabled person the placard is issued to doesn't appear to be with her.  This is the most-obvious problem, not the issue of blocking the ramp space.
5. She doesn't have the registration for the placard which is required to remain with it when it's in use.  That would allow the police to instantly verify that she's misusing it.
   Officer:  "Especially since it's a city vehicle, we need to verify that you, specifically, have the placard."
6. At 2:32 Officer:  "Is that handicapped placard for you?" Smalls:  "Yes."
   At 4:40 Smalls:  "It would be in my mother's name.  She's the handicapped individual which I transport her.  She doesn't drive.  Okay?  So I'll send this to you." 
   It's against the law to lie to the police in New Jersey.  Smalls is not called out on the above-highlighted contradiction.  I watch a lot of bodycam videos.  Providing conflicting information to the police normally upgrades their suspicion/investigation of you and increases their likelihood of ticketing/prosecuting you rather than just warning.  That and having a bad attitude/poor accountability in general.
7. At 4:10 (presumably to her husband) "I don't understand.  I can't get a break."  She's pretending the whole problem is that she's in two spaces, and not that she has no right to be in even one of those spots.  He's handing her the mulligan about emailing him the registration later.  "This Officer Hartman is asking that I send him the registration card... I'll get it from my mom."  Between telling This Officer Hartman the placard was issued to herself, then admitting it was her mother's, Dr. La'Quetta Small dropped his name to his boss, the Mayor.  And then the little contradiction she told This Officer Hartman at 2:32 was less bothersome, if you follow me.  He's already bending over backwards, allowing her to email it to him later.  I've never seen that before in any bodycam video, anywhere.  It's a city vehicle apparently being doubly misused.
8. At 4:52 he  asks  Dr. La'Quetta Small to "do him a favor" and explains that if she's going to use the placard, her mother has to be with her.
9. According to this report, a city worker shows up to help Dr. La'Quetta Small load her vehicle.  This would explain how her husband knew what was going on and called her during the police investigation.  From the linked report:  "But officers were not the only ones who responded, Exadaktilos told BreakingAC. An Atlantic City worker also showed up.  The man helped Small pack the two red umbrellas she purchased into her vehicle and took a photo of Exadaktilos' license plate, he claimed."

Dr. La'Quetta Small, after explaining that it's actually her mother's placard, walks away from This Officer Hartman that she's just talked to the mayor about.  This Officer Hartman finishes explaining how disabled placards work to Dr. La'Quetta Small's butt.

She then walks back up to This Officer Hartman and says, "I wish the person who complained had complained about the person next to me," blah blah about why it's that other lady's fault she had to take two wheelchair spaces and not just one.  She firmly refuses to acknowledge her apparent misuse of the placard in the first place.  There's no discussion of why she's in a city vehicle.  Someone else wonders if she paid for the umbrellas, because she raised a big fuss when she came out.  The police turn off their body cams to discuss the possible shoplifting.

I still wonder who paid for the umbrellas and where they're going, why the mayor sent the school superintendent in a Canyonero to buy them and a municipal employee to load them.  But all of that is well beyond the many other shady problems here.

In other words, in my opinion and understanding of the laws regarding disabled placards, the judge needs to permanently revoke that placard and let Dr. La'Quetta Small's mother go fuck herself from now on. 

That's how it works when you allow family members to abuse your parking placard.  They're supposed to take it away.  In real life, those placards are almost always a hall pass for every parking scofflaw in America who knows an old person.  Calling the cops so rarely works anyway.  I don't even use them when I can use a regular spot, and I have a permanent plate.  It's hard to get the cops there fast enough to catch them.  And when they do, it's this bullshit.

Will the judge do anything about Dr. La'Quetta Small at all?  Will she be charged with intimidating this police officer as she appears to do in this video?  Probably not.  Totally infuriating.

From NJ Spotlight News:

"Micah Rasmussen, the director of the Rebovich Institute for New Jersey Politics at Rider University, spoke with NJ Spotlight News about the city’s long history and what could be in store for the resort’s political future.

The news certainly raises questions over what comes next for the leadership of city government and school administration. Mayor Small can be removed from office if convicted, according to New Jersey law, but a trial and verdict are likely months away. Superintendent Small, meanwhile, could be removed by the Atlantic City Board of Education, but it is unclear if the politically connected board would make such a move."

What do they mean by "politically connected?"  Well,  according to CBS Philadelphia, the Atlantic City School Board declined to discuss the child abuse allegations against Dr. La'Quetta Small.

Like Judge Christina Peterson, who still went on the news with her lawyer crying foul after being arrested in a melee with her titty hanging out after being charged with 50 counts of judicial misconduct herself, Dr. La'Quetta Small has the audacity to want the complainant addressed by police when caught dead to rights misusing a wheelchair placard in TWO spots, while already under investigation for child abuse. 

Some people truly believe everything they do is F-I-N-E.

And the also-under-investigation mayor apparently helps her bully This Officer Hartman about it, and has an employee photograph the complainant's license plate.  The fact that it looks that way to me, means that it's irrelevant who was on the other end of the line.  Because if I got it, for sure This Officer Hartman smelled what she was stepping in.

From DownbeachBuzz.com, there's a letter from the Mayor and Board of Education of Ventnor City about the child abuse allegations of the Smalls' child and how they were allegedly swept under the rug.

"The wife of Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small is AC school district superintendent, LaQuetta Small. Both she and her husband have been accused of allegedly abusing their own daughter.The Small’s young teen is a student at AC High where she allegedly reported the abuse to the ACHS principal.

Principal Mandy Days Chapman did not, by law, report that abuse. She’s now suspended.

Ventnor, a ‘sending district’ to ACHS now asking why AC school boss LaQuetta Small isn’t suspended as well?

The letter goes on to stand up in a good way and demands action against the Smalls.

Me of little faith does not expect the judge to do the following:

1. Permanently revoke that disabled placard
2. Fine Dr. La'Quetta Small for illegally parking in two disabled spaces as shown in the video
3.  Punish Dr. La'Quetta Small for lying to the police during the investigation and initially saying the placard was issued to her.
4. Pursue charges of intimidation of This Officer Hartman as shown in the video.  She totally played the "do you know who I am?" card.  And she was allowed to get away with a thick stack of bullshit.

As a crime blogger who loves children, I have zero faith that the Smalls will go to prison for child abuse and thus lose their jobs.  I don't see the American justice system working that well against empowered sociopaths on average, especially with child victims.

The local community does seem to be on to them, though, for example the citizen who called This Officer Hartman.  I hope the voters rock these two out of office so hard they can't find their asses with both hands.  I hope Dr. La'Quetta Small spends the rest of her life asking people if they want fries with that.  I can only dream of her walking at least one mile from wherever she has to park, to wherever she has to go, forever.