Over a month after the incident occurred on Dec. 28, 2023, and almost two weeks after the Rhino Times broke the story, the Greensboro City Council is exhibiting interest in the domestic violence incident involving Greensboro City Manager Tai Jaiyeoba and two of his daughters.
Both the News & Record and the City of Greensboro have reportedly requested police officer body-worn camera videos of the incident be released.
According to the News & Record, the City of Greensboro is requesting that the police body-worn camera footage of the incident on Dec. 28 at the home of Jaiyeoba at 10 Postbridge Court be released only to the City Council and city staff.
Police body-worn camera videos are not public records and can only be released by an order from a Superior Court judge. However, in cases where police conduct has been questioned, the request has been made to release the police body-worn camera videos to the public.
But this request is in keeping with the city’s response to this incident at the home of Jaiyeoba, which so far has been to keep information from the public. Along with watching the police body-worn camera videos, the City Council should also be asking why the police report on this incident was hand written and not placed on the police website where reports are made available to the public. In that police report that was only made available after several public records request were made, Tai Jaiyeoba and two of his daughters, Ileri Jaiyeoba and Moyo Jaiyeoba, were all listed as victims.
It is not listed on the police report, but according to those familiar with the incident, Tai Jaiyeoba had his shoulder dislocated as a result of the incident.
The female caller in one of the 911 calls released by the city states, “I hit him and pushed him and his arm is broken.”
The police report lists the “Crime incident(s)” as “Assault – Simple Physical.”
But no charges were filed.
What do you expect, they are all democrats. They are trying to just make it go away. He should be canned. If it would have been a republican against the city council, he would already been off the job and arrested for abuse.
I know I cannot see through a brick wall to know what happen in the home of the city manager. I have no idea, nor am I assuming what happen at 10 Postbridge Court on Decemer 28, 2023. I want to understand why this city manager should be canned. Yet the citizens of Greensboro has judged, convicted, and ruled the punishment for him to be canned.
I don’t hear anyone on this platform saying anything about the Director of the IRC (Not-for Profit which the City of Greensboro just donated 200K last Fall) being canned for stealing from two Targets Dec 14th -Dec 19th 2023. If the Director would have been African-American, City Council, and the Mayor would have fired the Director on Dec 19th exposed to News 2. Why would this Director steal from a store when her salary is 94K? The sad part the Director of IRC stole items that a check from the agency would have paid to give to the homeless population. With that being said, let me assume as a citzen that money is being embezzled from the foundation. The Director has taken a sabbatical. Oh my!
I do think she should have been terminated just like most other employees should if charged with shoplifting. The board of the IRC wants to make it seem like a mental health thing-the get out of jail free card. I agree with everything you said. They got some “poor white woman” story and are rolling with it. The IRC is a separate non profit and the city just gives them money. The board are the ones that tried to make all the excuses. But let’s not pretend that our City Council couldn’t put pressure on them.
$94,000 a year to “help the homeless”! And… it’s a “non-profit”!
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PS
Anytime you see the term non-profit, please understand that it really means non-taxpaying.
This is hardly a democrat decision; any person, regardless of political party, needs to do the right thing and let the public know why there was a coverup and information not entered as protocol requires. Before you start slinging mud at political parties you need to take a look back at when lying Trump represented you and your fellow republicans. Simply embarrassingly.
Oh please. . .enough already on Tump hatred.
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“…. after the Rhino Times broke the story”.
“…..AFTER THE RHINO TIMES BROKE THE STORY”.
Got that? Thank God we still have some journalists in this city.
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Do not let this die and go away. This man should not be in charge of anything and should be fired with NO compensation due to his actions. There is no excuse, none!!
Different strokes for different folks….Shame on all involved in this blatant coverup.
And he’s still employed? I wonder why.
Proud of the Rhino for breaking this critical story of cover up and polical privilege run amok.
This is why small local news coverage is so critical. Great job!!
Yes indeed, the Rhino Times has been the ONLY one objective media outlet in Guilford County for YEARS. And that includes the two puppet parrot press TV stations. Keep up the great work exposing the demoncrat thugs in control of local government.
Y’all are acting like a murder was covered up. Or even that he was the one being violent. The man has 7 daughters. Of course there is going to be some drama. Perhaps one has some mental health struggles, and her father doesn’t want to send her to jail. In North Carolina, victims of assault can choose whether or not to press charges. I understand being upset about the City being slow to respond to the PIRT requests and the whole paper vs. digital report debacle. But is it really that hard to understand that a father wants to protect his daughter? I bet that if Tai was white and/or republican, you all would be screaming WITCH HUNT instead. Tsk tsk.
Nice of you to throw in the “race card” . . . .which tells us all we need to know.
No PP, this is egregiously inappropriate for a prominent public servant, regardless of their race.
Nice try with the race card though. Shame it failed.
We don’t know what is “covered up” because they have not released all of the public records. You sound like someone well versed in the situation so tell us what went on.
Looks to me like the cover up for this is even more serious than a shoving match between the city manager and his daughter. Transparency is so hard lately to come by in our local government that I hope the Rhino can stay on this. If the buck stops at the mayor’s desk I’m looking for Vaughan to take the fall on this one regardless of in whose interest the cover up was best served.
I don’t care for this gents as the City Manager but this is a personal matter. However folks in his position need to set the example (maybe he is 🙂