Hampton, Virginia City Council Meeting 02082012 Ottofaro v. City of Hampton-Part 1

This is a video showing my father-Frank J. Ottofaro Sr. at his last Hampton Council Meeting before he passed on March 14, 2012. My father fought the city for over 12 years when they had aggressively misused the power of Eminent Domain to seize his property from him back in 2000. My father's case is now being used to change the Virginia Eminent Domain laws, and is also being used across the country in law schools and other Eminent Domain cases. On the night of March 14th, 2012 when he passed, it had also been the night of the March Hampton Council Meeting. My father knowing this, attempted to get out of his hospital bed while on life support systems and go to this meeting to continue his fight. Our family and the nurses in the ICU had to restrain my father by tying down his hands and feet, to include sedating him again. He fought until he could not fight anymore. In the video it shows him wearing shorts on this evening, and it was due to him putting on over 50 pounds of fluid weight in less than 8 weeks that he could not get off his body. He was admitted to the hospital ER with congestive heart failure on February 29th, 2012, and fought for his life. Unfortunately the City of Hampton Council members, Mayor Molly Ward, Councilman George Wallace, Councilman Chris Stuart, Councilman Will Moffett, and Councilman Joe Spencer, could not see their way to correct the severe wrong done to my father knowing that it would have been the right and human thing to do for him and our <b>…</b>