of inspector nellie gordon, her statement was incomplete, and it did not state all the facts. therefore, i don't -- i think she should have been here. in the statement it does not say i had sold cigarettes to a minor. she actually feel bad for me when it happened. i just need to make sure that, you know, that we know that we've been in business so long. i have children. i'm a mom. we don't smoke at home. you know, i have no cigarettes praphernalia or anything in my neighborhood. i don't sell 24 ounce beer. i run a very respectable business and if you've been there, you've seen it. and to be honest with you, i made a mistake, but it was a human error. and i feel that the penalty of 25 days is extremely excessive which also brings me to my next point. when we all went to the department of health briefing, there were about 30 arabs and chinese people who owned weisses -- businesses. there wasn't one person who was caucasian. and i found it very odd that all of us were caught on the same day. i know the girl who came in was the decoy, she was the doctor of an officer because i did

and that's why i wish nellie had been here, nellie gordon, because she will testify to that. thank you. >> dr. ocho, you also have a rebuttal? nonen? then commissioners, the matter is submitted. >> i'm going to start. for the record, i am a bernel heights resident and have gone into the store. i would -- i could vouch for the fact i didn't know they sold cigarettes either. and i've gone in the store maybe twice to buy things other than cigarettes. but i think, and i have the same question that my co-commissioner peterson had about the odd look and shape of the new card and why it wouldn't cause someone to pause. and normally i'm very inclined to impose the department's recommendation on a suspension, but under these circumstances, i think many of the facts that compel me to think the situation is unique in that the child, or the decoy was associating with children -- i mean not children, but young adults, and the distractions and the effort that i believe the appellant made in trying to do that while running the store , to do the calculation of math, i can see that under thes