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Triad law enforcement officers killed 25 people in the last decade.

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EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK

Jerry, at the end

Against all odds, Jerry died in his sleep Friday night. I haven’t seen him in years and I already miss him.

I wouldn’t call

by Brian Clarey Jerry a mentor, exactly, though he did spend a decade on the graveyard shift at Igor’s before I took over in 1995. He wasn’t a father figure either, though he is the same exact age as my father. He was definitely a close friend, although I didn’t know his last name until he joined Facebook a few years ago. And I admired the hell out of him then — a guy who answered his own call in life, gained a deep understanding of human nature through unique points of entry, danced to the very edge of the abyss and made it back whole — and I admire him still.

He was a genuine Okie from Muskogee, though he left that part of Oklahoma when he was still a teenager to become a carny. He criss-crossed the country for years in caravans and freight trains. And when he got to New Orleans, like so many before and after him, he decided to stick around awhile.

He read a lot of books and devoured the newspaper each day. Later, when he was driving a cab, he became a conduit for great intel — sometimes stuff that I could pitch to my editors but more often dirt I could spread along the avenue. He spoke like an academic. He drank like a workingman, slow and steady. He carried himself like a lesser duke — barroom gentility.

He had been manning the bar at Igor’s on St. Charles from 2-10 a.m. for years by the time I met him, when I was still in college just starting to savor the pleasures of the wee hours.

His time there was legendary: He broke up fights and foiled robberies. He made the bloody marys for Spyro Gyra the morning they became inspired to write their 1993 song “Breakfast at Igor’s.” One morning, around sunrise, he helped deliver a severely underweight and undernourished baby on one of the downstairs pool tables.

It was there he met his wife, Kerryn, and together they danced through the city for 30 years — laughing, laughing, laughing.

Oh, I saw Jerry laugh. I also saw him stagger, saw him fall, saw him bleed. But Jerry always carried on. And I know he stuck around a lot longer than he thought he was owed.

I admired the hell out of him then and I admire him still.

BUSINESS PUBLISHER/EXECUTIVE EDITOR Brian Clarey brian@triad-city-beat.com

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CITY LIFE Oct. 8-11

by Michaela Ratliff

THURSDAY Oct. 8

COVID-Relief Christmas Assistance Registration @ the Salvation Army (HP) 8:30 a.m.

FRIDAY Oct. 9

SATURDAY Oct. 10

Pitchin’ Kitchen at Truist Point invites you to enjoy “great food with a great view.” To learn more, visit Pitchin’ Kitchen’s Instagram page.

Brookhaven Mill Farm is excited to announce FallFest 2020 will feature more than 30 vendors offering handcrafted items, services and more. There will be food, a petting zoo and music at this family fun event. Admission is only $5 per vehicle with all activities at the festival free.

Dine at the Diamond @ High Point Rockers Baseball (HP) 11 a.m.

FallFest 2020 @ Brookhaven Mill Farm & Charlie’s Farm Store (GSO) 9 a.m.

SUNDAY Oct. 11

Art in the Arboretum Virtual Event @ Greensboro Beautiful, Inc. (GSO) 2 p.m.

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Registration is now open for families affected by COVID-19 and in need of assistance. Visit the event page to view application requirements.

Black Mental Health Matters Protest @ Black Lives Matter Mural on South Elm Street (GSO) 2 p.m.

New Orleans Jazz @ Radar Brewing Company (W-S) 3 p.m.

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High Clouds & Haze Can Release @ Wise Man Brewing (W-S) 2 p.m.

Wise Man Brewing invites you to welcome back this New England style IPA. The nature-inspired beverage is marked with scents of hemlock and herbs. Tangerine and mint flavors complement each other to create a smooth drink.

In addition to showcasing art by local artists, this event is made of musical performances and the garden’s curators highlighting its special areas. To view a catalog of participating artists, visit Greensboro Beautiful’s website.

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Ties that Bind: Selections from the Collection @ Weatherspoon Art Museum (GSO) 10 a.m.

Chunky Knit Pumpkins @ AR Workshop (GSO) 6:30 p.m.

This exhibition was created from the museum’s collections to examine the relationships we experience every day — familial, romantic and platonic. It is available to view until Feb. 14, 2021. Both admission and parking are free.

AR Workshop is offering a step-by-step lesson of making chunky knit pumpkins.

No needles or knitting experience is required. To register and view upcoming DIY events, visit the workshop’s website.

Marty Peters and the Party Meters are bringing authentic Jazz to Radar Brewing.

Enjoy the sounds of New Orleans while choosing from a wide variety of beer, wine and ciders.

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Truck & Treat BOOsted Tickets Online @ Kaleideum North (W-S) All Day Tickets for the Kaleideum’s Halloween celebration are available online until the 31st at 10 a.m. Afterwards, they will be available at the door. The event will feature food trucks, animal encounters and more. Get registered on the event page.

Karen Ní Bhroin Debut @ UNCSA (Livestream) 7:30 p.m.

One of Ireland’s leading young conductors Karen Ní Bhroin will make her debut conducting the UNCSA student ensembles during this live performance. The students will be performing music by George Walker, Belá Bartók, Edvard Grieg and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Registration is free and can be done on the event page.

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Soulflower Wellness in partnership with April Parker is hosting a yoga protest designed to emphasize the positive effects yoga can have on Black and brown people’s physical and mental health when dealing with systemic racism. Check out the event page for more info.

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Coronavirus in the Triad:

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(as of Wednesday, Oct. 7, compared to last week)

Documented COVID-19 diagnoses NC

216,943 (+11,240)

Forsyth

7,382 (+285)

Guilford County

9,234 (+498)

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COVID-19 deaths NC

3,675 (+136)

Forsyth

104 (+1)

Guilford

188 (+3)

Documented recoveries NC

192,644 (+8,222)

Forsyth

6,670 (+178)

Guilford

5,385 (+274)

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1,028 (+72)

Forsyth

21 (+4)

Guilford

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Triad law enforcement officers killed 25 people in the last decade

by Sayaka Matsuoka In the past 10 years, 25 people have been killed by law enforcement officers in Guilford and Forsyth counties.

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According to North Carolina General Statute 15A-401(d), officers are justified in using force when “the officer reasonably believes the force is necessary” and “to the extent the officer reasonably believes the force is necessary.”

In the 25 cases analyzed by TCB, the situations in which officers were called to the scene ranged from domestic disturbance calls, mental health crises, traffic stops and crime calls.

In Forsyth County, most of the situations involving the victims were criminal in nature, while in Guilford County, mental health-related issues and domestic calls made up the majority of instances that led to the deaths.

A 2016 article published in the Ameri-

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by TCB found that men and African Americans were overrepresented as victims of law enforcement violence in the last decade.

who called the police, said her husband had a history of mental illness and questioned why they didn’t call in a mediator from a mental-health association.

“He may not have been on his medication,” Moore said. “I don’t think it was necessary to do that to him. It’s wrong.

It’s just wrong.”

The article goes on to say that many of Moore’s relatives believed excessive force was used during the incident. In the months that followed, the city hired a contractor to repair Moore’s house.

Five years later in Greensboro, Christopher Michael Tokazowski, a 43-yearold white man, died after being shot by Greensboro police officers. Tokazowski’s wife filed involuntary commitment papers for her husband, who she said was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and ADD. When police showed up at the house to serve Tokazowski the papers, he armed himself with a shotgun and stayed inside the house. Special-response and hostage-negotiation teams were called, according to a News & Record report, and Tokazowski called 911 to complain that officers were surrounding his home. A short while later, Tokazowski came outside with the shotgun and pointed it at officers, according to then-police Chief Wayne Scott. At that point, officers shot and killed at Tokazowski. Officers also shot out the lights around the house and the rear tires of Tokazowski’s Jeep Wrangler. Tokazowski’s wife said in an interview with the N&R that if she knew that the police were going to kill him, she never would have called them.

The 2016 article from the American Journal of Preventive Medicine states that law enforcement frequently serve as the first responders in mental health emergencies and that officers in a study from three US cities reported responding to an average of 6.4 calls per month involving mental-health crises. The article also cited multiple scholarly articles in which officers reported feeling inadequately trained to assess and respond effectively to these types of calls. The 2016 article’s findings indicated that one in five of the deaths were directly related to issues with the victim’s mental health or substanceinduced disruptive behaviors.

The Greensboro Police Department directives states that “agency personnel

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can Journal of Preventive Medicine analyzed 812 deaths at the hands of law enforcement in 17 states from 2009 to 2012 and found the largest category of incident involved “mental health or substanceinduced disruptive behaviors” which accounted for 22 percent of cases. The next most prevalent type was categorized as what the report calls “suicide by cop” in which victims exhibit suicidal behavior directed at law enforcement to elicit use of lethal force. The report explains that suicidal intent could include suicidal threats during the incident, a suicide note or prior expression of desire to be killed by law enforcement. These accounted for 18 percent of deaths. Intimate partner violence made up 14 percent of incidents and 6 percent was categorized as “unintentional deaths due to law enforcement action.” The article also found that in 94 percent of cases, the primary cause of death was a firearm.

The incidents in Guilford and Forsyth counties analyzed by TCB from the last decade found that in 18 of the 25 cases — or in 72 percent of cases — individuals died after being shot by officers.

On May 25, 2011, Deborah Moore called 911 and told the dispatcher that her husband, Donald Ray Moore, was acting erratically. When police arrived at their home in Winston-Salem, they found Moore, a 64-year-old Black man, barricaded inside. Police exchanged gunfire with him for almost three hours. In an effort to get Moore out of the house, police used an armored vehicle to knock out the windows in the living room and two bedrooms of the house. The vehicle also broke down the garage door. In the end, Moore was shot and killed by a sniper. In an article by the Winston-Salem Journal from June 2011, Moore’s wife,

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Edward Van McCrae was riding in the backseat of an older-model Toyota Camry on March 30, 2018 when the car was pulled over by a Winston-Salem police officer.

The officer turned his attention to McCrae, asked him what he was holding in his hands and then told McCrae to get out of the car. A few minutes later, McCrae was shot and killed by the officer.

Less than six months later, Marcus Deon Smith was hogtied and killed by police in Greensboro.

While McCrae and Smith’s deaths took places within a few months of each other, a review of data by Triad City Beat found that at least 25 people have been killed by police or sheriff’s department officers from 2010 to 2020 in Guilford and Forsyth counties.

As the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police reinvigorated the Black Lives Matter movement this past spring, law enforcement killings have garnered renewed interest across the Triad, and indeed across the nation.

A domestic-disturbance call involving a suicidal individual; a suspect wielding a knife; a traffic stop with a “suspicious” backseat passenger. These are just a few examples of situations that led to people being killed by law enforcement officers in the Triad since 2010.

For the purposes of this article, TCB reviewed data compiled through Fatal Encounters, an online database of killings by law enforcement officers that was compiled by journalist D. Brian Burghart. TCB focused on incidents from the past 10 years and only included incidents in which law enforcement officers were directly involved in the deaths of individuals. For example, incidents in which individuals fled police in a vehicle and died by collision are not included.

The 25 instances logged and analyzed

by TCB found that both men and people of color, particularly African Americans, were overrepresented as victims of law enforcement violence. TCB’s data parallels national data which shows that Black people are killed at a significantly higher rate than whites. According to a report by the Washington Post, Black people are

killed by law enforcement at more than twice the rate of white Americans.

Despite making up 28 percent of the population of Forsyth County, Black people accounted for 67 percent of deaths at the hands of law enforcement.

In Guilford County, Black people made up 44 percent of the deaths, despite accounting for only 35 percent of the population.

In both counties, white individuals were disproportionately underrepresented in police killings. In Guilford County, white individuals made up 38 percent of the deaths despite making up 56 percent of the population, and in Forsyth county, 22 percent of deaths involved white people despite the same demographic making up 67 percent of the population.

Analysis by TCB also found that a majority of the officers involved in the fatalities were white males. A number of officers’ race could not be identified. Two officers were Black females and one was a Black male.

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shall afford people with mental illnesses the same rights and access to police… as are provided to all citizens.” The manual also states that agency personnel receive training on how to interact with individuals with mental illnesses and that refresher training is provided to all appropriate personnel on an annual basis.

The training, according to the directives, includes strategies for recognizing mental illness behaviors, methods for accessing community resources and guidelines for responding to situations.

Kami Chavis, a professor of law and the director of the criminal justice program at Wake Forest University, said she doesn’t believe law enforcement should be the first responders for mental health crises.

“I think in general, there is widespread consensus that we don’t need an armed first responder in every situation,” Chavis said in an interview. “We can’t assume that every officer is going to be the best person to respond to a mental health crisis or deescalate a mental health crisis…. If an officer is called to transport someone who is having a mental health crisis and this person is not a danger to themselves or others, we need to be prepared to wait to bring that person peacefully to where they need to be.”

Many law enforcement departments enroll officers in crisis-intervention training, or CIT, to help reduce arrests for non-violent offenders with mental health concerns and to reduce use of force injuries. The Winston-Salem Police Department, Forsyth County Sheriff’s Department, Greensboro Police Department and Guilford County Sheriff’s Department have officers who have completed CIT training. However a 2019

article from the Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law stated that CIT trainings can increase “officer satisfaction and self-perception of a reduction in the use of force” but that “no measurable difference in the use of force between officers with CIT training and those without it.”

In December 2019, Greensboro City Council approved a plan to create a separate response team for mental health crises. The idea for the Behavioral Health Response Program began after the death of Marcus Deon Smith and consists of a team of mental health professionals. In the case of 911 calls, dispatchers would send police, and the team could be called for backup by the responding officers or could be sent by dispatchers simultaneously.

Councilwoman Michelle Kennedy told TCB that the response team, which is comprised of less than a dozen mental health professionals who are not employed by the police department, has assisted on 355 crisis calls since implementation in March.

Kennedy said the average response time of the team is about 19 minutes and they spend about 48 minutes at each engagement.

“You can’t arrest your way through mental illness,” said Kennedy, who has been a proponent of the program for years. “The way a trained mental health clinician is going to interact is going to

look different than how a police officer will react.”

Kennedy said she believes most of the time police officers call the team when they arrive on the scene, but she hopes that in the future there won’t be a need for police to respond at all in certain cases.

“I want them to come out without officers because the presence of officers can be triggering a lot of the time,” she said. “We’re not there yet, but that’s the end game.”

While cases in which mental health played a factor in the deaths were prevalent among the 25 incidents, at least two occurrences involved a fatal shooting resulting from a traffic stop.

On Feb. 10, 2017, Carlos Keith Blackman was stopped by Greensboro police officers, who said he fled on foot. According to the police department’s press release, Blackman, who was Black, and the officers exchanged gunfire; Blackman was shot and killed by police. The press release and news reports from the time did not state why Blackman was pulled over or whether Blackman or the officers shot first. One officer, JR LaBarre, was shot and taken to the hospital but was said to be in stable condition at the time.

About a year later, in March 2018, in Winston-Salem, Edward Van McCrae, a 60-year-old Black man, was shot and killed after a police officer stopped a car that McCrae was riding in because of

Two incidents in which people were killed by officers resulted from a traffic stop.

an expired registration sticker. According to the officer, McCrae was “acting suspicious” in the backseat and the officer, Dalton McGuire, asked McCrae what was in his hand. McGuire then told McCrae to exit the vehicle and lie on the ground. In body camera footage analyzed by TCB, McGuire then repeatedly tells McCrae to “stop reaching” for a gun and then yells, “Gun. Gun… don’t reach for the gun!” McGuire then fires four shots at McCrae, three which hit and kill him. The grainy footage makes it difficult to see the gun referenced

by McGuire but in a presentation by District Attorney Jim O’Neill, McCrae could be seen lying on the ground while reaching for his back pocket. In a later frame, a small pistol is shown lying in the grass near a storm drain. O’Neill determined McGuire acted lawfully during the incident. In December 2018, the city settled a wrongful death claim with McCrae’s family for $20,000.

Other incidents that led to civilian deaths could be categorized as crime calls.

On Sept. 20, 2012, Danny David Ferguson, a 60-year-old Black man, was shot and killed after police were called onto the scene in response to a stabbing in High Point. Officers told Ferguson to drop the knife. After Ferguson ignored their commands and approached the officers, police shot and killed him. Less than two years later, on May 25, 2014, Montez Dewayne Hambric, a 26-yearold Black man, was killed by WintonSalem police officer David Walsh after Walsh chased Hambric while responding to a stolen car report. According to a report by the Winston-Salem Journal, Hambric and Walsh became engaged in a physical altercation after Walsh Tased

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Hambric. Hambric grabbed the baton and initially walked toward Walsh before running away. At this point, Walsh drew his pistol and started pursuing Hambric, who came within five feet of Walsh and ignored Walsh’ commands to get on the ground, according to the police department’s news release. Walsh then fired one shot to the chest that killed Hambric.

In instances like these, in which suspects are armed, the situations get trickier, said Chavis, the professor at Wake Forest University. Because the law allows officers to use deadly force if they feel threatened, oftentimes they resort to violence if they see a firearm, whether it is used or not. But Chavis states that in North Carolina, civilians are allowed to carry both concealed and non-concealed weapons.

“Just because someone has a firearm doesn’t mean they are wanting to harm someone,” Chavis said. “Just because someone has a firearm doesn’t mean they should be shot on sight. It very much matters what they are doing with that firearm.”

Chavis also brought up instances in which white suspects who have killed others like Dylann Roof in South Carolina in 2015, and more recently Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha, Wis. in August, were both apprehended by police peacefully after killing multiple people.

“It’s not often the same for others who may be carrying,” Chavis said.

What happens to the officers involved?

In the 25 cases that led to the deaths of individuals analyzed by TCB, only one officer — JR LaBarre, who was shot during the Carlos Keith Blackman

case — was injured. None of the officers involved in the incidents were killed.

According to records kept by Officer Down Memorial Page, a website that tracks when law enforcement officers are killed, three officers have been killed in the last 10 years in Guilford and Forsyth counties. All were killed in automobile accidents; none were killed by suspects.

Public record requests obtained by TCB found that after law enforcement officers were involved in the death of an individual, more often than not, the officers did not face any disciplinary consequences and were found to be justified in their actions by the attorney general or district court judges.

In March 2014, Greensboro police Officer Tim Bloch shot and killed Chieu-di Thi Vo after she approached him with a knife during a domestic dispute call. Bloch was found to have been “justified in the level of force that he used that day,” according to then-Chief Wayne Scott. Bloch did not face any disciplinary charges and defended his use of force after the event in news reports.

Public records requests by TCB found a majority of the officers responsible for the deaths in the 25 cases remain employed by the same law enforcement departments and have even been promoted or have received annual raises since the incidents. Bloch resigned in December,

about nine months after he killed Vo. Guilford County sheriff’s deputies involved in a June 22, 2014 case in which Ray Junior Barber, a man who appeared suicidal during a domestic dispute call, was shot and killed, remained on the force and were subsequently promoted.

Deputy SM Burns was promoted to lieutenant in 2019 and makes $72,252 in an annual salary while Deputy JR Stevens was promoted to sergeant in March of this year and makes $72,298 annually.

While officers don’t appear to have faced disciplinary charges in these cases, some have resigned in recent years after being involved in the death of a civilian.

Lee Andrews, a Greensboro police officer who was involved in the Marcus Deon Smith case, was given two pay raises before resigning in December 2019. The rest of the officers remain on the Greensboro police force with the exception of Robert Montalvo, who changed positions within the department and then retired in April of this year.

Most of the incidents in Forsyth County in which a civilian was killed by officers involved officers with the Winston-Salem Police Department. A public records request found similar trends to officers in Greensboro in which Winston-Salem police officers were given yearly raises and promoted after the incidents. In many of the Winston-

TCB found that after law enforcement officers were involved in the death of an individual, more often than not, officers did not face disciplinary actions.

Salem cases, Forsyth County District Attorney Jim O’Neill — who is running for attorney general against Democratic incumbent Josh Stein — ruled that officers acted appropriately in each case.

In addition to the Edward Van McCrae case in which O’Neill ruled that officer Dalton McGuire “acted appropriately and lawfully,” O’Neill cleared officer David Walsh after the death of Montez Dewayne Hambric was classified as homicide by law enforcement in May 2014.

A letter by the Forsyth County District Attorney’s Office released at the time states that the office determined that Officer Walsh’s use of force was justified and demonstrates that Walsh acted to protect his life and the lives of others in Winston-Salem.

According to data tracked by the Washington Post and Bowling Green University’s Philip M. Stinson, law enforcement officers kill about 1,000 people across the country per year, but since the beginning of 2005, only 121 officers have been arrested on charges of murder or manslaughter in on-duty killings. Of the 95 officers whose cases have concluded, 44 were convicted, but often of a lesser charge. One of the most recent and glaring examples was the decision by the Kentucky attorney general to charge one of the officers involved in the shooting of Breonna Taylor with wanton endangerment for shooting into a neighboring apartment. None of the officers involved were charged for Taylor’s death.

Only one case could be found by TCB in which a police officer was found guilty of a crime in which a civilian died. In November 2015, Winston-Salem police officer John William Leone Jr. pleaded guilty to misdemeanor death by motor vehicle after he ran a red light while

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manence. It’s purely performative from GPD and can be changed at any time.

This is unacceptable. When there is no check on police behavior, they are able to abuse citizens without impunity. We need civilian oversight independent from police. We will continue to push for legislation that ends physical violence and aggression by police when they engage citizens.”

Chavis of Wake Forest University said that she wants to see a national database that tracks police misconduct and that the data should be tracked at the state and local levels too.

“Having this data will help us better understand this police violence when it happens,” Chavis said. “It will be able to show us in what kind of situations and what kind of officers are using lethal force. Whether it’s only happening in larger cities like Raleigh or Charlotte or happening in smaller towns too.

We need this info. Not having it really hinders us.”

Battle echoed Chavis’ sentiments and said that there needs to be more data to keep officers with multiple disciplinary issues accountable. Battle pointed to officer Derek Chauvin, who knelt on George Floyd’s neck, killing him in May. According to multiple news reports, Chauvin had 18 complaints on his official record and had been disciplined twice.

“He never should have been on the police force,” Battle said.

One of the other findings that came out of TCB’s investigation is that most of the law enforcement officers in Forsyth and Guilford counties involved in a case in which an individual was killed were white men.

Battle said that it’s not surprising that this was the case.

“Those disparities that we see are productions of the original law enforcement system,” Battle said. “In the South, it was slave patrols to police the movement of Black people to return runaway enslaved people back to plantations.

That mentality and the white supremacist ideology underlies the system of policing now.

“Some people think this is about freeing people who are viewed as criminals, but it’s about appreciating the humanity of everyone and understanding that the punitive carceral system doesn’t serve any of us,” Battle continued. “Reallocating funds away from police departments will keep us all safer.”

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oriented response units for situations that regularly involve police.

Brittany Battle, a Wake Forest University sociology professor and a founding member of Triad Abolition Project told TCB that she wants to see the abolition of the police in the future.

“We know that abolition is a long-term project,” she said. “Part of abolition is developing a community of compassion and care that looks at justice in terms of accountability and not punishment. We want to create a community that is about transformation and restoration.”

Battle, who helped lead a 49-day occupation of Bailey Park in Winston-Salem to protest police brutality, said the first step to abolishing the police is defunding law enforcement departments.

“We have police doing jobs that they are not trained for,” Battle said.

“We need to create services that actually function in a way that will help people will their issues.”

Activists with Greensboro Rising sent TCB a statement that outlined the ways they want to see law enforcement change in their city and county. In addition to a public apology for Marcus Smith’s family, the grassroots group also calls for the reallocation and defunding of the Greensboro police department to fund community programs, services and professional crisis de-escalators. The group also called for the city council to more permanently codify their resolution on use of force for the Greensboro Police Department. The resolution, which was initially discussed at a September council meeting, calls for the Greensboro Police Department to “revisit their use of force policies and form deep, meaningful, year-round relationships with local communities and their leaders….”

Activists with Greensboro Rising said it’s not enough.

“The city council isn’t voting on making any changes to how they hold officers accountable for using excessive force on residents,” they said in a written statement. “They are voting on congratulating themselves for the chief making a series of regulatory changes….

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Department updated its policy for prone restraint in July, adding that those who put in prone restraint “have to be placed in a sitting position as soon as possible.”

The FiveThirtyEight article goes on to describe other barriers to charging and convicting police including the fact that prosecutors work closely with police departments, which means they may be reluctant to jeopardize their relationship by pursuing cases against officers.

“Police officers are sympathetic in the eyes of the jury,” Chavis added. “They give officers the benefit of the doubt.”

One other way in which victims’ families sometimes seek justice is through civil lawsuits and settlements. In the case of Marcus Deon Smith, the Smith family filed a federal lawsuit against the city of Greensboro in April 2019 for wrongful death under civil rights law. The case is ongoing. So far, according to a report by the News & Record, the city has spent more than $213,000 in legal costs and attorney fees defending the city in the lawsuit.

However, the FiveThirtyEight article stated that police misconduct settlements are not effective in keeping police accountable because police almost never pay out of pocket.

Instead, the money comes from the cities or the police departments themselves.

The article also states that it’s difficult to successfully sue a police officer because courts have granted them broad protections from legal liability for actions they take on the job, otherwise known as qualified immunity.

Still, Chavis said it’s concerning that in the 25 cases, no officers were disciplined, charged or convicted.

“I mean, what’s going on with the DAs?,” Chavis asked. “It could be that these 25 officers were justified, but it strikes me as odd that not one has resulted in a prosecution or charge.”

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on duty and crashed into Alan Edward Dunnagan’s truck in May 2015. Dunnagan died 10 days after the accident.

A judge deferred judgment and ordered Leon to perform 200 hours of community service and by the end of March 2016 the officer was back on active duty. In a similar October 2014 case in Greensboro, Florence White, a 51-yearold Black woman, was killed after being hit by Guilford County Sheriff’s Deputy Philip Lowe’s patrol car. Lowe was not charged.

According to an article by the website FiveThirtyEight, prosecuting police is difficult because many instances of use of excessive force or lethal force is considered legal.

“If a civilian is displaying a weapon, it’s hard to charge a police officer if [the officer] with murder for taking action against that civilian,” said Kate Levine, a professor of law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. “And even if a civilian doesn’t have a weapon, it’s hard to charge a police officer if the [officer] can credibly say they feared for their life.”

Most law enforcement departments cite case law which set precedents for when police can use lethal force.

The Greensboro Police departmental directives allow officers to use deadly force “when the officer believes the deadly force is necessary.” This includes instances to defend the themselves from what they perceive to be “use or imminent use of deadly physical force” or to prevent the escape or attempt to arrest those who present imminent threats of death or serious physical injury to others.

The directives for the Winston-Salem Police Department read similarly to Greensboro’s. The Greensboro directives attempt to clarify the definition of “reasonable belief ” by describing them as a “set of facts or circumstances that would cause a reasonable person in the officer’s position to believe it was actually or apparently necessary to use the force which was actually used.”

However, a number of use of force changes have taken place within the Greensboro police department in recent months including the banning of shooting at moving cars unless there are no other means to stop an imminent deadly threat, directing officers to use minimal amount of force necessary to arrest individuals, banning chokeholds absent the need to use deadly force, directing officers to verbally and physically intervene in any use of force that violates policy and finally, warning an individual before using force. The Forsyth County Sheriff’s

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We had what was shaping up to be a It’s already an incredibly expensive race pretty nice Senate race in North Carolina — Cunningham has raised a little more until one candidate got sick with the virus than $15 million, Tillis a little less. And they and another got sick in the head. will be spending a few more million each Sen. Thom Tillis is the Republican on advertising designed to wash the taste incumbent who has tied his fate to Presiof political filth from the mouths of the dent Trump ever since he backtracked on electorate. the Washington Post editorial he wrote in All Cunningham had to do was keep February 2019, claiming he wouldn’t vote cool while Tillis scrambled to justify his with the president to declare a national bout with the coronavirus. And he couldn’t emergency for the “mieven do that. grant caravan” that never On every issue Cunseemed to get to our ningham is the superior In any other year, borders. Then, two weeks candidate and Democratic Cunningham’s texts control of the Senate is later, he did.

We’re not sure what his vastly more preferable would have been a plan is now, after the presito the Mitch McConnell devstating October dent gave him COVID-19. regime, but also it cannot Cal Cunningham, the be stressed enough how surprise. But that Democrat challenger, was badly Cal is screwing this was before Trump. supposed to be everything up. Every day that he fails Tillis wasn’t. He’s a military to look the voters in the veteran who hasn’t spent eye and explain his breach a lot of time in elected office, a family of trust, the odds of him beating Tillis man and lawyer who seemed committed become ever more remote. to reason. And then a series of texts surIn any other year, Cunningham’s texts faced – vanilla in tone but very definitely would have been a devastating October romantic in nature, sent to a woman who surprise. But that was before Trump. is not his wife.

Compared to the president’s dalliances, Now we’re forced to choose between a which include sex with porn stars, prostipolitical hack who failed his way upwards tutes and the nude model he eventually all the way to the US Senate, and a guy married, as well as multiple allegations of who is cheating on his wife. rape and his admitted penchant for grabAnd it’s no small exaggeration to bing women by their genitals, Cunningsay control of the Senate hangs in the ham is practically a Boy Scout. balance: Of the seats most likely to flip You’d think the choice would be harder. in November, the Post ranked this one But it’s not. fourth.

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hey look like the real thing.

In the latest exhibit at the the Reynolda House Museum of American Art, forgeries are embraced and scrutinized.

Tiffany Glass: Painting with Color and Light is organized by the Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass in Queens, NY — a traveling exhibition that has made stops in Cincinnati and Kalamazoo, Mich on its way to Winston-Salem, where the exhibit will reside until Nov. 29. The forgeries show viewers how to differentiate between authentic Tiffany lamps and imitations.

“They’re just not as delicate or the colors don’t mesh as well as the real Tiffany lamps,” says Curator Alison Slaby.

Another way to determine a forgery is to carefully examine the individual pieces of glass, its texture and overall craftsmanship.

The bases of some Tiffany lamps are designed to look like tree trunks, emphasizing flower petals that commonly appear in the shades. The lines representing the roots on the forged lamps appear chunky and rushed, not as soft as the authentic ones. The colors of the glass also appear streaky and uneven.

Louis Comfort Tiffany, son of Tiffany & Co. founder Charles Lewis Tiffany, began his art career as a painter and became interested in glassmaking in the late 18th Century. He dominated the Gilded Age by founding his own glassmaking studio to create objects for the home and average consumer. His use of opalescent glass — glass that is already PHOTO CREDIT The radiance of the lamps and windows in the gallery at the Reynolda House Museum gives the room a warm colored rather than stained — and his glow. lavish craftsmanship made his products sought after by the wealthy.

After sketching a watercolor design, the artist would etch to influence her designs. This is apparent when viewing the “They were very much luxury objects,” the design into a wooden mold, then cut and fit individual star of the exhibit, “Grape Vine and Lemon Tree with Trellis”.

Slaby says. “They were expensive, but pieces of glass into it, wrapping each with copper foil. Finally, It’s the largest window in the exhibit and is made from leaded they were handcrafted in this really the artist would solder the pieces together with heat against glass. The foliage is saturated with more than 20 shades of renowned studio.” the mold, and seal it with a bronze or gold finish. green, making the yellow lemons combined with the purple In addition to The radiance of the lamps and windows grapes stand out against the trellis and tangled vines. lamps, Tiffany made through the dim lighting in the Mary and Clara Driscoll was the overseer of the women’s glass-cutting windows featurCharlie Babcock Wing Gallery give the department. She created a blue and green dragonfly lampTickets to the exhibit can ing nature scenes. room a warm glow. shade made from leaded glass and metal filigree that appears Another Tiffany be purchased on Reynolda “I like to say it’s Autumn aglow at Reynin the exhibit.

Studios designer, olda House,” says Slaby.

“We have these wonderful iridescent wings of the dragonHouse Museum of American Frederick Wilson, The gallery is adorned with portraits flies,” Slaby says.

Art’s website. created windows and brief biographies of contributing The wings appear silver but seem to change colors as they with ecclesiastical designers, including Agnes Northrop, are viewed from different angles. subjects. the most well-known woman in Tiffany A portrait of Louis Comfort Tiffany hangs on the wall perIn the center of the exhibition lies a Studios. pendicular to a row of lamps lined in the center of the gallery, leaded glass lampshade-making dem“She was renowned at Tiffany Studios for having her own almost as if he is admiring the work produced by his company. onstration. Although the materials are studio,” Slaby says. “Most of the people who worked at Tiffany The craftsman ruled the home decor industry by creating reproduced, the tools are similar to the Studios worked in these big, collective workspaces.” quality items for those dying to live in the lap of luxury. A ones used at Tiffany Studios.

Northrop shared a love of nature with Tiffany and used it forgery could never compete.

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ome weeks Mike Roach eats fast food for four or five days.

He usually likes to get burgers but not from McDonald’s or Wendy’s. In fact, Mike’s burgers are not even made from meat.

Roach is the owner of Mike’s Vegan Cookout, a popular food truck that has been making the rounds in the Triad and beyond since April.

“I’ve been vegan for years because of my fiancé,” says Roach, who chops yellow onions in a commissary kitchen while on FaceTime. “I’m Latino so I’m used to carne asada but I was like, ‘We can give it a shot,’ and she made me this Gardein chicken with rice and it turned out excellent so I was converted to a vegan from her.”

That was four years ago.

Since then, Roach had been eating

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what vegan dishes he could find at restaurants and cooking Mike’s Vegan Cookout, expanding the menu to include burgers with his fiancé, India Dillard, at home until he realized he and more. These days the truck makes a number of stops each missed eating comfort food. week in Burlington, Durham, Cary, Winston-Salem, Greens“I missed the kind of stuff I used to eat when I got drunk,” boro and High Point.

Roach says.

On a recent Friday evening, the black In 2019, Mike’s Vegan Hot Dogs was and lime green truck sits in the parkborn. Roach, who’s from Burlington, ing lot at Natty Greene’s Brewhouse on Learn more about Mike’s rented out a trailer in Chapel Hill and Gate City Boulevard in Greensboro. A began selling a version of the hot dogs line of about dozen people has formed Vegan Cookout including the he sells on his truck now. in front of the window where Joel, one menu and the schedule for “Business was going pretty good, but of the truck’s main employees, is taking I didn’t know anything about inventory, people’s orders for the new pulled “pork” the future on Instagram at @ I didn’t know anything about business sandwich. Inside, Rob, the cook, moves mikesvegancookout and on taxes,” Roach says. “I was failing. I was in sync with the beats from the long, not making any money. I didn’t know tubular speaker that sits on shelf, spitFacebook. what my profits were; I didn’t know ting out tracks by Ghostface Killah and anything.”

Notorious BIG. He moves swiftly, throwThat’s when his friend decided to ing Beyond meat patties and barbecue secretly stop by his truck and try his food. He loved it and Delight Soy pulled-pork piles on the grill before drenching the reached out to Roach to become business partners. A few latter in sauce. Nearby, Roach’s aunt, Lizbeth, preps the burgmonths later, they got a brand-new truck and rebranded as ers that Rob makes by wrapping them in foil and putting them

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and laid back.

“When you go to a brewery you want to have a beer with a burger and fries,” Roach says. “I put myself in that situation. If I’m going to a brewery, there’s usually no option for me to eat, especially in this town.”

Soon, because of the business’ popularity, Roach says they’ll be rolling out two new food trucks — one specifically for the Charlotte area and the other designated for the Triangle. The original truck will stay in the Triad. But his dreams go beyond just North Carolina, Roach says.

“I’d like to go above and beyond and open up nationwide and have a franchise,” Roach says. “I want to go on Shark Tank and see if they want to take this thing nationwide. That’s my ultimate goal.”

And with the number he’s doing now, it doesn’t seem like an unrealistic plan. Roach says he rakes in about 150 to 200 orders per day.

“People tell me all the time: ‘This is the best damn burger I’ve ever had,’” Roach says. “Those make me really happy…. It’s amazing to see how customers react and to see them come back.”

And since starting his journey four years ago, Roach says he’s completely committed to the vegan lifestyle. The business’s Instagram regularly posts the health benefits of moving to an all-plant based diet and the truck features a slogan that reads, “Animals are our friends. We don’t eat our friends.”

For those that remain skeptical, Dillard gestures to the customers around her.

“When it’s in this form, fast food, it’s easy,” she says. “But you can’t get this at McDonald’s…. The line speaks for itself.”

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in a box. Behind her, Lindsay finishes off the orders by adding fries and sauces and calls them out the window. It’s a tight, greasy, delicious, well-oiled machine.

Half an hour later, the line has doubled in length.

Mike Robinson and Christy Newman have been to the food truck a few times before and return because of the quality of the food.

“It tastes like the real thing,” says Robinson, who ordered a couple of hot dogs.

They arrived early because they know the line gets out of hand if people wait too long.

“You know you gotta get here early because the line gets ridiculous,” says Newman, who got the Carolina burger which comes topped with chili, cheese, slaw, diced onions and a special sauce — all of it vegan.

Both Robinson and Newman say that they wish there were more options like Mike’s for vegans in the area. They point to Boba House, which has been open since 2003, as one of the only options for plant-based meals in the city. Another is the Well Café, which is housed in Sonder Mind and Body in downtown and is temporarily closed.

Roach, who stands in line with his fiancé, India Dillard, to order food for dinner, says he crafted the menu and infuses some of his Latino roots into the flavors. They use the popular Beyond meat patty, but employ a special blend of spices to add a little extra flavor. The Colombiana burger features pineapples, crushed potato chips, pepperjack cheese and special sauce while the Lo Maximo has black beans, diced onions, bacon bits, jalapeños, mustard and special sauce. The Hola Amigo has guacamole, sour cream, jalapeños, banana peppers and nacho cheese. All of the burgers are offered as hot dogs too, with the same toppings. Roach’s favorite is the Carolina burger.

He says he wanted to create a cookout food truck because he thinks the cuisine is fun

The Carolina burger, topped with slaw, diced onions, chili and cheese, is a favorite amongst customers.

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