After seven murders in seven days, Greensboro Police Chief Brian James held a press conference on Tuesday, July 7 to ask for help from the people of Greensboro.
He said, “I stand before you today asking for the community’s help in reducing and solving these senseless acts of violence.”
James said, “As of today, we have had 29 homicides in the City of Greensboro. Of the 29 homicides, 26 victims are African American, two are Hispanic and one is white. We have never had this may homicides at this point in the year. One of our latest victims was a young man who was 16 years old. As I stand before you, I’m asking those that would resolve their issues with a gun to put the gun down. Please, put the gun down.”
James said that the Police Department would be looking at ways to adjust resources in neighborhoods and finding ways to improve relationships in the communities that have been most affected.
James said, “So I stand here before you as plea for help. I’m asking you to work within your communities and work with us to solve and prevent these violent crimes. I heard someone say, ‘Every crime that occurs, someone knows who did it.’ I believe that to be true. If you are that person I ask you to come forward and do it anonymously if you must but please come forward.”
James asked the people of Greensboro to hold the police accountable, but also to hold each other accountable and do what was necessary to stop the senseless violence.
James noted that Greensboro had never had 29 murders at this point in the year and at the current rate the city will set a new record for homicides in 2020 a record that nobody wanted to set.
James said, “As a city, my hope is that we can partner together to make Greensboro safe for all people.”
I think there were five shootings last night after the big speech. I don’t think the shooters are into keeping up with local news.
The bad guys know that the police are under assault from the left and are in retreat.
That is to be expected with a mayor and city council who DO NOT support the local law enforcement in Greensboro….
The fact that he thinks he can reason and plead and the problem will go away disqualifies him and shows he is incompetent. He and those like him in government are the problem.
These are black-on-black murders, which the LEFT continues to ignore. The reason for the spike in murders is a lack of respect for the City Police Dept. The CPD has neither the will nor the means to work on crime prevention, and swift prosecution of perps. We can all thank the LEFT in general and the city council in particular. Not the Chief.
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The members of Black Lives Matter should forget about protesting in the streets and stores of Greensboro, and other cities.
They need to concentrate their message to the black communities and their leaders.
They are waging a campaign of genocide on their own race, by killing each other, especially the children, who are their future. Protest against the genocide.
When you see people getting killed every day, especially children in the black community,
BLM needs to take their message to where it matters most, and to let these communities know that their black lives matter, and to stop the killings.
The police can just do so much, and by the time they are called, it’s too late.
Change begins within a community and those that live there.
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You are right! When the police show up, it IS too late. They might find the shooter. But it’s too late to stop the shooter. The LEFT wants confiscation, so that you can no longer resist those in power, and aggressors. So Big Brother will tell you what to do, and you will like it. Then Big Brother becomes the aggressor. You don’t like what some people say now? Wait ’till Big Brother doesn’t like what you say. What will stop the LEFT is a free press, and thefreedom of self-defense. Our media is not reporting the truth, but only their truth as they want you to see it. The press is really letting us down. They are not doing their job.
Apparently black lives DO NOT matter to other blacks. What the Chief’s report failed to mention was how many of the deaths were BY blacks. Of course, we can assume the killers were black because God knows had the killers been white that news would be front and center. Yeah, let’s keep that info to ourselves.
“James said that the Police Department would be looking at ways to adjust resources in neighborhoods and finding ways to improve relationships in the communities that have been most affected.”
Does that mean he’s going to target the black community? Is this a form of profiling? Hasn’t the black community told us to defund the police? But the chief is right about someone knowing who did the murders. That’s almost always the case, but if no one tells who did it, that’s a sign that black lives don’t really matter. The biggest problem in the black community is not the police, not racism, and not white people, whether dead for centuries or still alive. Their biggest problem is their culture that mocks education (too white) and glorifies violence. Actually, that’s the second worst problem. The first is growing up with no father in the home.
The next time the mayor asks you to have 4 men in silent prayer , flatly refuse . The next time the mayor tries to close down a gun show costing many thousands dollars to the Coliseum and restaurants and hotels , say NO!!! And all the other nonsense police have done , like patrol a ham store with patrol cars on the embankment on Battleground .. the police are to serve and protect . Not create negative images of themselves with those kinds of public displays .. who didn’t see all this coming ?? EVERY ONE , except the people in charge
Greensboro is going down the road of liberal murder capitals in the US. Our Mayor and city leaders want gun stores closed and gun shows banned on city property. They won’t release footage of all city police misconduct and homicides. They refuse any citizen review board with any power. They allow rampant vandalism with extremely few arrests. They pepper spray and drop curfews regularly. They spent tens of millions of dollars on Opera houses for the oligarchy that want to squeeze all “less fortunate “away from their investment corridor. They allow unpunished police homicide like the hoggtying death of Marcus Smith who only asked to go to hospital.
Heavyhanded nanny state elite can’t even protect their investments downtown without putting taxpayers on the hook for repairing damage that occurred right in front of their entire police force.
I thought the city of Greensboro established listening devices in areas around the downtown so that when a weapon was fired, the police would be able to respond to it immediately.
Was it not a city councilwoman who stated she did not want more police in her district? Ms. Hightower? Which communities are the most homicides are occurring?
Where is the 500,000 dollars the city willing gave to councilwoman Johnson? Where is her group that is being funded by our tax dollars? Has anyone seen results? Anyone? Obviously NOT working!
Why do we see Black lives matter protest against the police but do not see black lives matters protesting when a black live is taken by non police?
The community needs to stop protecting those who are killing ! The killings will continue until the community starts to work with the police or take their community back.
Defund the police is what we hear from councilwoman Kennedy. City council should reconsider and demand councilwoman Johnson give back to the city our tax payers $500k so the city can hire more police.
BLM has specifically stated that they do not represent anything related to black on black crime. They only protest “police” on black and white on black violence and actively want to abolish the police and many aspects of capitalism that they label as “violence” against minorities. It is too convoluted to get into here, but essentially anything the group does not like is labeled as “violence against minorities” and is opposed. Black on black violence does not qualify.
What do we expect from a police chief who was under scrutiny from SEVERAL federal drug agencies years ago: does the name “Pettiford” ring a bell! He was even seen entering and leaving a known drug suspect’s car during that time. Yep, let’s hire the BEST we can find!!!