Winston-Salem police officials say the interval between the time a gun is fired and when the police find out about it can spell the difference between life and death for
Newly-elected Winston-Salem City Council Member Kevin Mundy has issued a video apology for comments he made asking members of groups that have advocated for reduced police spending to tone down their remarks to the city council.
Mundy, a Democrat, participated in a Zoom meeting on Thursday with three members of the group Forsyth County Police Accountability and Reallocation Coalition. In the meeting, Mundy and members of the group discussed demands that the city move money away from policing and spend it on efforts to address mental health and other concerns.
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Mundy told the three women on the Zoom call that he felt the critics of police spending were taking too harsh a tone in making their demands to the council.
Sitting here on the eve of the eve of New Yearâs Eve, reminiscing on the collective shit show this year has been for everyone in the country, state, and Triad is definitely a bummer. But things certainly could have been a lot worse for both Ian and me. That is the thing about our white, cisgender privilege, just the acknowledgment of this truth is something that a lot of those who are Black, Indigenous, People of Color, differently-abled, and of a different gender identity donât have the luxury of doing.
With the senseless murders of Black people by police this year, especially that of Breonna Taylor, many white folks like Ian and myself have (finally) started to wake up and realize that Black women in this country have been consistently dealt a bad hand and deserve better. As Megan Thee Stallion artfully put it in her recent