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Back when I was getting my journalism degree, I got an invaluable piece of advice from a working journalist named Allen Johnson —

by Brian Clarey not the guy from the News & Record — who taught our reporting class.

This Johnson was also the cops-andcourts reporter for the Louisiana Weekly at the time, a statewide African-American newspaper with a reputation for pulling no punches.

In covering the New Orleans Police Department, one of the most corrupt in the world, he had no shortage of material.

“But you’ve got to be fair to them,” he said to me back then, “and you’ve got to write about the good stuff, too.”

I’ve been thinking a lot about cops lately.

Probably we all have.

In November, the state’s seven largest counties, Guilford and Forsyth among them, elected new, black sheriffs. Not everyone is happy about it, but I believe that more black folks in leadership positions is exactly what American law enforcement needs.

Pivoting to the city of Greensboro, I want to take my old professor’s advice and talk about the incident at Smith High School, where a man carrying a couple guns and a buttload of ammunition was neutralized before anything happened.

But it’s hard to see the good after watching the body-camera video of Greensboro

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police officers and a couple of EMTS standing by while Marcus Smith, hogtied, died on the street in front of them and they rushed to cover their asses.

I’ve known a lot of cops over the years.

I met dozens of detectives and other plainclothes guys when I tended bar near the Nassau County Courthouse on Long Island. One of them drank perfect Manhattans — the only person for whom I ever made one.

There were always uniformed cops in the New Orleans bars I worked in, some on the payroll some not; all of them drank for free. One of them was the former sergeant of an officer named Antionette Frank, who became the first woman on Louisiana’s death row after she robbed a restaurant one night, in the process shooting and killing her patrol partner, who was working detail at the restaurant.

As we grew up, some of my friends became cops. I admire them all for the choice they made — I would never do it — and for the officers they’ve become.

I’ve also been arrested a bunch of times.

It’s not important how many, or why, but it’s noteworthy that most of those interactions were cordial and professional, though not always.

And it’s true that I credit the GPD for saving my life, because I never would have quit drinking if they hadn’t pulled me over so many times.

Like my former professor said, police departments are not monolithic. They do good and they do bad, occasionally at the same time.

But it’s important that we look at all of it.

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Canadian Brass @ Wake Forest University (W-S), 6:30 p.m.

Faces of Diversity reveal @ Greensboro Cultural Center, 6 p.m.

Head to Wait Chapel for Canadian Brass, a group with international popularity and more than 100 recordings. A talk by Brian French, principal trombone for the Winston-Salem and Greensboro symphonies, precedes the show. Learn more on Facebook.

Witness the unveiling of the Greensboro installment of artist Edwin Gil’s Faces of Diversity project. Hundreds of fingerprints were compiled through October to create three portraits of Greensboro residents.

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The Nutcracker @ Stevens Center (W-S), 7:30 p.m.

Repeal Day celebration @ Dram & Draught (GSO), 8 p.m.

Commemorate Repeal Day with a bartending competition and drink specials. Bulleit Bourbon and Botanist Gin face off with handcrafted cocktails, and wrap up the evening with a toast. Find out more on Facebook.

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The wintertime tradition for UNC School of the Arts returns, running for over a week.

With a colorful set and whimsical costumes, the show features both talent and a touch of holiday magic. Buy tickets and learn more at uncsa.edu.

Be the first to taste this new brew, and grab a bite to eat for breakfast before the first beer is poured. Mama Crockett provides the donuts, and 83 Custom Coffee joins for any caffeine needs. Learn more on Facebook.

An Old Salem Christmas Carol @ SECCA (W-S), 7:30 p.m.

This adaptation by Stephen P. Scott and the Little Theater puts a Winston-Salem twist on A Christmas Carol. Friday night opens the show that runs during weekends until Dec. 22. Find tickets and learn more on Facebook.

Winterfest @ Allen Jay Rec Center (HP), 11 a.m.

This free event offers multiple interactive activities for the whole family. Create a house out of gingerbread, decorate holiday cookies or even make a scene for your own handmade snow globe. Find the event on Facebook.

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Ssalefish Comics and Geeksboro team up to offer a mini comicon for a cause. Issues are only a dollar each, and a small market of artists will also set up shop. Proceeds go towards the Kids Read Comics Initiative.

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Parmalee @ the Blind Tiger (GSO), 8 p.m.

Country music and small towns inspire North Carolina quartet Parmalee, who take the stage for a show with Kasey Tyndall.

Taking their name from a town of fewer than 300 people, the band performs a set testing the limits of modern country. Find out more on Facebook.

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Enjoy a night of felines, saxophone and piano with this performance by Adam Doyle. Grab some tea, coffee or wine and listen to jazz with a few holiday tunes mixed in. Find the event on Facebook.

Sarah Potenza displays the range and power of her voice in this intimate concert. Her compelling sound finds its roots in blues, with a jolt of guitar adding some rock riffs.

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More than 10 acts led and supported by female artists fill this daylong show that illustrates the power of women in music. The 5th annual concert benefits a local women’s shelter and sheds light on domestic violence. For more information, check it out on Facebook.

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Winter Art Mart @ Wherehouse Art Hotel (W-S), 12 p.m.

Both artists currently on show in the hotel and local artists are showcased as Wherehouse puts on its first biannual art mart.

Photographers, painters and sculptors alike display their work in this two-day public event. Learn more on Facebook.

Holiday Market @ Café at Revolution (GSO), 12 p.m.

This café hosts an annual shopping opportunity, featuring 50 vendors sporting handmade and unique items. The marketplace provides a cozy spot for some gift shopping or to browse local craftsmanship.

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5by Sayaka questions for comedian Krish Mohan Matsuoka Krish Mohan is a socially-conscious, Indian stand-up comedian who has been performing for 13 years. His latest show is called Empathy on Sale and he performed it at the Idiot Box in Greensboro at the end of November. Mohan also produces a podcast called Fork Full of Noodles. More info on show dates and his podcast can be found at ramannoodlescomedy.com.

Where did you find the inspiration for your recent stand-up routine?

A lot of it came from reactions people were having from the 2016 election and everything leading up to it. People were talking about the lesser of two evils and I was watching the reactions from both sides of aisle. People woke up to all the problems all at once and didn’t react to it very well.

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You talk a lot about the importance of stepping out of bubbles and talking to people you don’t agree with.

What advice do you have for people looking to do that?

I think patience is the biggest key. I don’t particularly agree with everything my dad has to say or even my father-in-law or Uncle Marv, and not everything I say they agree with because we’re coming from different perspectives. You have to understand where you’re coming from and how it affects your belief systems and your politics. It’s not gonna change with one conversation; it will change from both sides listening. Real change doesn’t happen overnight; it’s incremental and it’s slow. You probably won’t notice that it’s happening.

You mentioned in your stand-up that you’ve been threatened for your comedy.

How do you respond to that?

I don’t give in to it. If this was five years ago and someone was threatening to pull a gun on me, I might have said, “Do it.” But a year ago, someone threatened to pull an AR-15 on me and I just said, “Hey man, thanks for sticking around,” and the room turned on him. It’s a kill them with kindness kind of thing. There was this other guy who threatened to rip my head off with his bare hands and I told him, “I’m not against you. I’m against the system that keeps both of us down.” I don’t think he heard it because he was too busy being angry and me adding more anger to that situation won’t be productive in any way. I just try to stay as calm as possible.

You’ve been doing comedy for 13 years. Did you notice anything different after the 2016 election?

People who look to comedy for escapism don’t want to listen about healthcare or immigration. It’s a challenging show, I think. They want to escape from day-to-day life.

When they come, they get really upset because I’m forcing them to do something they don’t want to do. I’ve also had quite a bit of conservatives come to shows since early 2016.

I think it’s a sign that we’re changing the definition of what conservative means. The ones that come to my show are fiscal conservatives and care about how economy is run. It’s like we’re on same side street just on the different sides. We’re close enough that we can have mutual conversations.

The ending line in your show is, “Patriotism is expensive but empathy will always be on sale.” What did you mean by that? Can someone be patriotic and still be empathetic?

I think you can be patriotic and empathetic, I just don’t think we are as a country; they’ve become different things. We have overcomplicated just being good to each other.

The logical answer to me, is to just take care of each other. If you want to be all about “America first,” you have to care about the people in your country and I think we’ve drifted away from what it means to be American. Being American is the “melting pot.” We’ve lost our way in that and making sure everyone is taken care and gets equal opportunities.

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and feeling the scowls of Carolina fans as I run my errands. I love the black and gold colors, the classic logo, the songs their fans write about them — find Shamarr Allen’s “Hit the Sean Peyton” on YouTube to see what I mean.

And I love them even when they’re not playing well — though right now they’re playing quite well, indeed.

Though we lost last week, we won 10 in a row and barring some late-season heroics by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers or the Carolina Panthers, we should be in good shape for the playoffs.

But then, we were looking pretty great last season until a last-second reception in Minneapolis knocked the Saints out of Superbowl contention. It was perhaps the worst ending to a football game I’ve ever seen — though it’s not the worst thing ever to happen to the New Orleans Saints, not by a longshot.

And as a Saints fan, I can appreciate that.

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I am living my best football life these days. My new college team, the Appalachian State Mountaineers, just won their conference and sealed a bowl bid in New Orleans. Meanwhile, the Superdome’s regular tenants, the New Orleans Saints, are having one of the best seasons in their history, and mine.

I started going to Saints games in the 1980s, when they were so bad some of the fans still wore bags on their heads.

I suffered through Bobby Hebert and John Fourcade and Bubby Brister and every forgettable arm we ever fielded before current quarterback Drew Brees brought us from out the malaise.

Brees gave us a Superbowl victory at the end of the 2009 season and we love him for it, but we would have loved him anyway. That’s how Saints fans do.

I love being a Saints fan, even — no, especially — in Carolina Panthers country, where the division rivalry has become heated over the years.

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City officials are still scrambling to figure out what to do less than a week after the state medical examiner classified the death of a man hog-tied by Greensboro police officers as a homicide.

Just two days before the release of the autopsy and medical examiner’s investigative report into the death of 38-year-old Marcus Smith, Chief Wayne Scott told Triad City Beat that he believes the Ripp Hobble technique, also known as “hog-tying,” is safer than alternatives such as flexicuffs. Shortly after the homicide finding, Mayor Nancy Vaughan announced that Chief Scott “had issued a special order that the maximum restraint method called the Ripp Hobble, commonly referred to as hog-tying, is no longer being used to tie the feet and hands together. This method had been in place for the last 15 years. The device will only be used to bind feet. The Greensboro Police Department will be exploring new methods for maximum restraint.”

Commenting for a Nov. 20 story in City Beat, Vaughan said she thought city council would likely review the police-body camera video capturing the incident, but said they would probably wait for the release of a report the State Bureau of Investigation, while also encouraging Smith’s family to file a complaint with the Police Community Review Board. Ten days later, after learning about the homicide finding, Chief Scott obtained a court order to release the video. City council members watched it, and the city publicly posted the video online all in the same day.

On Tuesday, Irving Allen, a member of the Police Community Review Committee, said he was glad the video was released before a complaint on the incident came before the committee.

“We were tasked to work with the council, and so far we’ve failed to develop a process that will properly even intake these processes that we’ve been dealing with for several years,” Allen said.

Allen described a non-disclosure agreement that committee members are required to sign before reviewing cases that carries a penalty of up to 20 days in

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Questions multiply about the city’s handling of the police-involved death of Marcus Deon Smith in the wake of a medical examiner’s finding of homicide and the city’s release of police body-camera video.

jail for violation.

“We’ve spoken to lawyers who describe it as one of the harshest nondisclosure agreements that they’ve seen,” Allen said. “You’re essentially asking for volunteer citizens to stand up and put their freedom on the line and sign away their right to speak when on the other side we’ve seen false information that would have been presented to us in the same way it was presented to you by the police department.”

In late November, Vaughan refused to respond to a letter from Graham Holt, the family’s lawyer, describing the circumstances of Smith’s death and requesting that council review the video, telling City Beat she wasn’t “going to comment on something Graham described,” adding, “I don’t know that his descriptions are accurate.”

On Tuesday, Vaughan publicly apologized to Holt.

“I understand that that has led to a great deal of frustration, which I regret,” Vaughan said.

The day Smith died, the Greensboro Police Department issued a press release describing him as “a disoriented suicidal subject running in and out of traffic,” adding that he “became combative and collapsed.” The press release made no mention of the officers applying restraints to Smith. During a community meeting on Monday that was attended

by Vaughan, along with city council members Michelle Kennedy and Sharon Hightower, Smith’s family members expressed anger and hurt at the characterization, which they said was compounded by the headline generated from the press release, which ran in the News & Record.

“I have concerns about that first press release that was put out,” Vaughan told Smith’s family. “I want answers on why it was said that he was suicidal and dropped to the ground. That obviously was a lie. And I think that has to be answered, too.”

The characterization of Smith as “suicidal” is at least partially supported by the video, which shows Smith running in an out of slow-moving traffic on Church Street. While repeatedly pleading for help and requesting an ambulance, he also says, “I’ll kill myself ” and, “I’m gonna kill myself.” Yet, he doesn’t express any motive or means for taking his own life, and also says he fears that

Greensboro Mayor Nancy Vaughan addresses a community meeting as Marcus Smith’s parents listen.

others are going to kill him, creating an overall impression of someone profoundly distressed and disoriented.

The word “collapsed” is more contentious, and it’s not clear whether the author of the press release intended for it to describe the moment Smith become unresponsive after being restrained.

Chief Scott used the word in a different context in his narration of the compilation video posted online by the city on Nov. 30.

Referencing Smith’s voluntary decision to sit in the backseat of a patrol car, and later attempting to break out the windows, Scott described officers opening the car door.

“When we do,” Scott said, “[Smith] flees from the car and directly into the arms of an officer, where he collapsed into the roadway.”

Two of the videos posted by the city appear to contradict Scott’s description.

One shows an officer taking Smith to the ground after he bursts out of the car. Another shows Smith attempting to stand as a different officer grabs his legs and assists in taking Smith to the ground.

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Perry-Garnette told city council members on Tuesday. “He didn’t flee. He didn’t collapse. Watch the video.”

Official narratives describing Smith’s death after the application of the restraints suggest the officers acted responsibly by quickly rolling Smith on to his side after applying the restraint to him face down. Scott Williams, the special agent in charge of the State Bureau of Investigation for the Northern Piedmont District — who is overseeing the outside investigation of the matter — told City Beat in a Nov. 27 email: “Seconds after the restraint was applied, they rolled him over on his side. As they rolled him over, they asked him if he was okay, and he didn’t respond. They [his] checked pulse, it was faint. They removed the restraint.”

Chief Scott provided a similar narrative in the compilation video.

“You’ll see the officers following our procedures immediately rolling him on his side, where they would adjust the Ripp Hobble and check his condition,” Scott said. “At that time it became readily apparent that he is not responsive.”

Perry-Garnette said in her remarks to city council: “A blatant lie. Watch the video. The man was never rolled on his side until after he quit breathing.”

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“I really can’t judge in this that the officers did wrong,” she said.

Abuzuaiter’s remarks drew angry interruptions.

“They murdered someone,” one woman in the audience protested.

Marcus Smith’s mother, Mary, used the same word.

“Greensboro Police Department murdered my son,” she said on Monday. “He was the most compassionate, loving, kind person — smart, intelligent — person that you will ever, ever meet. And if anybody in here’s a school teacher, if he was your student, you would love him.

Mary Smith said her son will be particularly missed at the Interactive Resource Center.

“A lot of those guys over there depended on Marcus for smiles, a haircut, a conversation, a joke, whatever,” she said. “If Marcus had it, you had it. He will truly be missed in our lives. Not only was he special in Greensboro, he was special in our community. At school, he was a superstar basketball player, a poet, a writer, kind son. Any mother would loved for him to be her son.”

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against the police, Mayor Vaughan and some of her colleagues said they believe the outcome might have been different if the city had better mental-health resources.

Vaughan watched the video on Nov. 30 with fellow city council members Michelle Kennedy, Sharon Hightower and Nancy Hoffmann. Kennedy is the executive director of the Interactive Resource Center, a homeless day center, and knew Smith personally. Due to her professional background, Kennedy has experience working with people experiencing mental health and substance abuse challenges. Based on Kennedy’s experience, the mayor said, “The city is going to embed mental-health workers in our police department. These professionals will be new hires who will be specially trained to assist police with their encounters with people suffering from mental-health or drug-addiction issues to help defuse and deescalate negative interactions. They will also provide follow up and treatment options.”

Councilman Justin Outling questioned the cost of the initiative.

“What is a life worth?” Vaughan responded.

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Two of the videos released by the city show the officers continue to adjust the restraints for about 27 seconds after Smith’s groans subside. Then an officer addresses Smith: “My man, you okay?

You still with us?” Another six seconds elapse before the officers turn Smith on his side.

“This chief has stood and publicly lied to you and to this community and to a family,” Perry-Garnette said. “The highest sworn officer in this city has lied. You have to take action.”

The Greensboro Police Department could not be reached for comment for this story.

Among the chorus of people calling for the police chief ’s firing on Tuesday, Ed Whitfield gave additional reasons.

“We’re in a situation right now where the chief of police has endorsed activities clearly in violation of the police department’s policy and clearly in violation of the sanctity of life,” Whitfield said.

“By lying about it, by not even waiting until the SBI report is complete before returning the officers to duty, I want to say very bluntly that such a person who exercises that poor a judgment has absolutely no business being the chief of police.”

Special Agent in Charge Williams said he hopes to be able to hand over the SBI report on Smith’s death to the Guilford County District Attorney’s office by the end of the week.

Stephen W. Cole, an assistant district attorney, notified Chief Scott in an Oct. 15 letter — six weeks prior to the homicide finding by the state medical examiner: “Based on the information available, and pending the completion of the investigation by the investigation by the SBI, there is no evidence of any criminal liability on the part of the named officers.” The letter was referenced in a Nov. 14 press release from the city issued two hours after a press conference in which Holt first publicly described how Smith was hogtied and his family laid responsibility for his death at the feet of the officers.

On Monday, during a community meeting at Shiloh Baptist Church, Vaughan suggested there was a possibility that the district attorney’s office might revisit the decision. Noting that the initial determination was “pending” completion of the SBI investigation, Vaughan said she believes the district attorney will conduct a “final review.”

Assistant District Attorney Cole could not be reached for this story.

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Kimbrough pledges unity as he takes office as Forsyth sheriff

by Jordan Green Bobby Kimbrough, Forsyth County’s first black sheriff, pledges to “leave no one behind on this journey” as he takes the oath of office.

Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr. took the oath of office on Monday to become Forsyth County’s first black sheriff, pledging an inclusive administration.

“We won’t leave no one behind on this journey,” he said. “We’ll go back and get everybody, because everyone will have a say.”

The courtroom on the sixth floor of the Forsyth County Hall of Justice was filled to capacity, with people standing in the back in the lobby, as local dignitaries, including judges, prosecutors, pastors, members of Winston-Salem City Council and the Forsyth County Commission, and Kimbrough’s former basketball coach at North Forsyth High School lauded the new sheriff and wished him well.

Kimbrough received a standing ovation when he thanked the staff of the sheriff’s office.

“I love how you received me,” he said.

“And as I said on the campaign trail — and you can hold me to it — I won’t harm or hurt you. I won’t fire you. We’re a family now. And that’s how we’re going to move forward — as a family. We’re going to move forward as a county.

We’re going to move forward and build some bridges.”

Kimbrough likened his vision for the sheriff’s office to what he experienced as a federal agent assigned to the Greensboro office.

“We disagreed on politics every morning,” he said. “We had our spats with politics. But one thing remained true in all of it: At the end of the day we loved each other. We knew that at the end of the day, if need be, we’d die for each other. What I say to you is this: I’m

humbled by this experience. I’m grateful to all of you who have helped me get to this place.”

Kimbrough struck a gracious note towards his predecessor and opponent, Republican Bill Schatzman, who served 16 years.

“This is the office of the people,” Kimbrough said. “All I want to do is enhance what Sheriff Schatzman has done.

I want to build some bridges. I want to enhance what he has started. I want to thank him for the words of wisdom that he gave me when we sat and chatted on Thursday. What he told me is this: ‘Remember that if you work hard and treat people fairly in this office, you can get ahead.’”

Dave Plyler, the Republican chair of the county commission — which is responsible for funding the sheriff’s office — pledged “full, unequivocal support.”

“He is the kind of person who wants to learn,” Plyer said. “He knows a lot about drug enforcement. He knows a lot about the problems of the county.

I hope over the next several years he’s going to get to know a lot about you. But the best thing we can do is make our law enforcement work, and I think Bobby Kimbrough is going to get there.”

Michael Grace, a private criminaldefense lawyer, noted that Kimbrough is one of seven sheriffs who will be the first African American to serve in the office across the state, including in neighboring Guilford County.

“It was not an orchestrated campaign,” Grace said. “Individuals and communities were like-minded, and didn’t like what the prior sheriffs had been doing. Most of them were good men; they did a good job. Our sheriff certainly did a good job, I can tell you from experience. What these sheriffs failed to do was hire and promote from within their ranks people who looked other than they.”

Cedric Russell, a funeral director who worked on Kimbrough’s campaign team, said the candidate’s appeal began with a base in East Winston, but translated across the county.

“Team Kimbrough got started in this county, and this county responded in a resounding manner,” Russell said. “It started in East Winston and worked out to the perimeter.”

Russell referenced a brother-in-law in law enforcement who was in the audience. Russell quipped, “I want to say to all the po-po here: ‘If you ever pull me

Bobby Kimbrough, Forsyth County’s first black sheriff, hugs his parents at his swearing-in ceremony.

over…” Without finishing the sentence, Russell made a gesture of an officer waving a motorist off, eliciting laughter from the audience.

Russell dismissed criticism of the candidate during the campaign.

“Lots of us tried to be judgmental of my brother,” he said. “They really did….

A person with a forest in their eye trying to give advice to Bobby, with a toothpick in his eye. He will be sheriff of all the citizens of Forsyth County. No special favors. He will uphold the law.”

Grace, who as a lawyer has enlisted Kimbrough as an investigator, cautioned his friends against seeking favor from the new sheriff.

“The fact that Bobby is African American is obvious; we don’t need to state the obvious,” Grace said. “What we do need to know is that going forward he will be the sheriff; he won’t be our Bobby anymore. So when your first inclination after your son gets a ticket is to call Bobby, you need not do that. When you get pulled over on the street by a deputy you need to be polite. You need not invoke his name. He’s the lord high sheriff of our entire county.

“As a community we have to allow him, we have to enable him, we have to support him, we have to insist that he do his job,” Grace continued. “Some of us need to delete that number from our phone. Go through the channels when we need something from the sheriff’s

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office or we need something from the sheriff. That’s the only way he can be successful. And he will be successful with our help. He will fail if we pull him down, if we mire him in pettiness and tedium, in matters that he doesn’t have the time and inclination to be involved in.

So when we leave this place today, know that we let our bird go; he is the lord high sheriff. He must be the sheriff for all…. In my office, our fallback is, ‘Call Bobby.’ We can’t do that anymore.”

Bishop Todd Fulton, a member of the Ministers Conference of Winston-Salem & Vicinity, noted that law enforcement has historically, as often as not, undermined rather than upheld the rights of black people. Fulton invoked Bloody Sunday, when police brutally attacked civil rights marchers in Selma, Ala. in 1965.

“The folks who were marching were beaten, sprayed with water hoses by sheriffs, by highway patrol, by police officers,” Fulton said. “Two days later President Lyndon Baines Johnson of the United States declared the promise of America. Sheriff Kimbrough, you’re not here because of your DEA [experience], all of your skills that everybody talks about. You’re not here because of Team Kimbrough. You’re here because blacks, browns, whites, Christians, Jews and Muslims stood on that bridge and refused to go home.”

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community, we welcome you and congratulate you on achieving this position,” Jarrell continued. “And my commitment to you is that we will work with you in addressing these and many other challenges that our county will face.”

Jarrell said residents should know that Rogers loves people.

“Danny Rogers is in this job because of his love for people and the fact that he is a humanitarian,” the chief judge said. “He’ll be a wonderful role model for our community. He’ll be the kind of person that’s approachable. He’s also an excellent communicator. He’s the kind of person that will listen, because really, isn’t that what communication’s all about?”

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1989 or so. And I’ve been hooked on that sort of thing ever since. I get in the car and I’m like, ‘Hey man, turn on the siren. Let’s roll! I think there’s some emergency traffic down the road. We gotta go.’ It’s kind of your fault, Danny.”

Jarrell said Rogers holds a unique opportunity as the county’s first black sheriff.

“Times are challenging now for law enforcement,” Jarrell said. “There are those in our community who, for one reason or another, don’t feel that they have the benefit of that service and protection. You now have the opportunity to give all of us — every citizen of Guilford County — that safety feeling, that sense of public service.

“We in the court system and in the

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Danny Rogers, the first black sheriff of Guilford County — among six other first black sheriffs across the state — took the oath of office in a crowded courtroom in High Point. Administering the oath was Henry Frye Jr., the state’s first African American to serve as justice and chief justice on the state Supreme Court.

“Today is the day we officially begin a new chapter within the sheriff’s department in Guilford County,” said County Commissioner J. Carlvena Foster, like Rogers, a Democrat from High Point. “It is a day that all people across this great county should be bigger than our differences, regardless of historical rights and wrongs, and work together for the good of all citizens.”

Alan Branson, the Republican chairman of the county commission, attended the swearing-in ceremony, but did not make remarks.

“It is significant in this county that he is the first African American to be elected to this position, but it is more important that he was elected on his campaign promise to bring a positive change,” Foster said.

Addressing judges, prosecutors, elected officials, law enforcement, family and a scrum of media personnel reminiscent of a US Supreme Court confirmation hearing, Frye said, “To see this great audience, and to know that we have a good election and that we live in a good country, we live in a good state county.

Now, we’re not perfect. Everybody that’s perfect, I’d like to see you raise your hand.”

Frye also administered the oath of office to Edward Melvin, who was sworn in as the chief deputy, and Steve Parr, as third in command. Parr unsuccessfully challenged incumbent BJ Barnes in the Republican primary.

Afterwards, Rogers administered an office code of conduct to Catherine Netter, who worked on Rogers’ campaign and will serve as his executive administrative officer.

Tom Jarrell, the chief district court judge for Guilford County, said he’s known Rogers for almost four decades.

The two men graduated from high school a year apart. Jarrell said he was a newly-minted assistant district attorney when Rogers was employed by the High Point Police Department.

“I was impressed with Danny’s people skills,” Jarrell said. “In fact, he’s the first law enforcement officer that I ever did a ride-along with. We’re talking about

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“There’s somebody within five miles of where we stand today that’s fantasizing about taking over the body-count record for our country, which stands at 53,” says Sgt. Kory Flowers, standing before a group of about 35 civilians in a meeting room on the third floor

by Jordan Green of the Greensboro Police Department headquarters. “And the easiest way to do it, as terrifying as it sounds, is to drive a car down Elm Street on any given Friday night, jump the curb and kill a hundred people.”

“All the citizens that are not here are living in denial that that’s not going to happen,” Flowers adds during the presentation on active assailant response on a recent Thursday evening. “But you guys came. Your mindset’s not the same.

It’s good to face these realities.”

It can’t happen here is not a sentiment that fits Greensboro.

A 40-page booklet with a DVD, a special report from the Southern Poverty Law Center entitled Age of the Wolf: A Study of the Rise of Lone Wolf and Leaderless Resistance Terrorism lays on the table in front of each participant. One of the profiles in the booklet should be familiar. In his memoir, Frazier Glenn Miller acknowledged his presence in a Klan-Nazi caravan that fatally gunned down five antiracist, labor organizers in a Greensboro public-housing community in 1979. As detailed in the SPLC booklet, Miller, a retired Army veteran and Green Beret who organized the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and White Patriot Party militias, went underground in 1987. Almost three decades later, in 2014, he resurfaced and fatally shot three people at a Jewish community center and retirement community in a Kansas City suburb.

Flowers and his co-presenter, Lt. Dan Moore, have an origin story about how they came to be experts on active assailants. It begins with responding to a disturbance call for a man smashing up his apartment on Chapman Street, and then finding themselves pinned down behind a police car for five and a half hours as the man shot at them from an improvised sniper’s nest until a SWAT team successfully extracted them.

But they’re not here to talk about police tactics. This presentation is about what civilians can do to respond if a bad actor walks into school or synagogue with a gun intent on killing as many people as possible, or, as the case may be, drives a car into a crowded public space. The average police response time in Greensboro is six-minutes, Moore notes, and the duration of the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting that resulted in 32 deaths was nine minutes. There’s no ambiguity in the message from the two officers: Although it’s a deeply personal decision, civilians should feel empowered to intervene to stop someone from committing mass murder. As one of the slides in their presentation says, “You are the only one liable for your action or inaction. If you do something… there will be an outcome. If you do nothing… there will be an outcome.”

The body count at Virginia Tech is particularly troubling to Flowers.

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“We kind of live with an ethos that there are things in life worse than dying,” Flowers says. “I stand here before you with that ethos. And one of those is, if you’re in a position to change some of these dynamics, and you don’t, you have to live with that. Honestly, guys, I think most normal human beings, if you’re in a position to change these dynamics and you choose not to, I don’t think you can psychologically rehabilitate yourself in this lifetime.”

The hour-long presentation emphasizes planning. Three basic responses are fundamental: 1) “Run: Escape the area if you can… distance is survival.” 2) “Hide: Seek ballistic cover or visual concealment when possible. Barricade points of entry to prevent or slow the assault.” And, 3) “Fight: When cornered by a mass murderer, why submit peaceably to your own bodily harm or death?”

Flowers asks people to think about what they might do to prevent blood loss. Short of having a tourniquet handy, or even applying a shirt as a makeshift compress, he says you can even kneel on someone’s arterial wound and potentially save a life. And when you experience extreme stress and stop thinking clearly, you can turn to autogenic breathing — a four-count nasal inhale and a four-count oral exhale, or as Flowers puts it, “Smell the rose… Enjoy the rose… Blow out the birthday candle.”

A woman seated in the front row mentions that the survivors of the Charleston Massacre recalled that they could hear Dylann Roof stop to reload, and asks whether an interlude like that presents an opportunity to intervene.

“Yes, ma’am,” Lt. Moore responds. “I would submit to you that it is a window. And again, you just have to determine, What am I capable of? What am I willing to do? Again, total judgment call, and there’s not a wrong answer…. Your mind is in the right spot, because you’re looking for an opportunity to change the dynamic of whatever situation you’re in.”

An older man who looks like he might be in his early sixties chimes in.

“One thing, everybody has to be on the same page,” he says. “If an active shooter comes into our church, we’ve got a team of members that have set up certain situations to attack that person. And one thing that you can do is grab the end of a gun barrel, and press down on it so there’s no way he can raise it up, and everybody else pile on.”

A plan is a plan.

“General Patton famously said, ‘The second best plan will generally defeat the first best plan if it’s executed decisively,’” Lt. Moore says. “That’s the key. Y’all have a plan.”

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Turns out, despite many, many arguwith the election results. ments to the contrary made in this very And once again, North Carolina’s space, there actually was some largeparticular brand of dysfunctional politics scale election fraud in North Carolina. becomes a national punchline.

It’s been blasted all over the national We have shown, in the last eight media: In North Carolina’s 9th Congresyears, an inability to draw fair districts; a sional District, an extraordinary number willingness to disenfranchise our black, of irregularities occurred concerning Latinx and LGBT citizens; a determinaabsentee ballots, each one in the end tion to politicize the UNC System, once favoring the GOP candidate, Mark the envy of the rest of the nation; a funHarris, who at last count was ahead by damental ignorance of the concept of just 905 votes over Democrat candidate sea rise, and the effects of coal-ash and Dan McCready. hog waste on our environment; and…

Among the irregulariwhat else… oh yes, an ties: In Bladen County, effort to hijack our state hundreds of absentee constitution by voter refAnd once again, ballots went missing. erendum — which mostly North Carolina’s Some were never turned worked, by the way. in. Some were collected And now we demparticular brand by operatives from the onstrate that we are no of dysfunctional Harris campaign. longer able to hold fair The NC Board of elections — though, repolitics becomes Elections will not name a ally, everybody knew that winner in the race until its a national punchwhen we were forced, investigation is through; this year, to vote on line. the board’s Democratic Congressional districts chairman, Andy Penry, that had already been has resigned. declared illegal.

Predictably, state GOP operaThe whole thing forces one to wonder tives are pushing to seat Harris, chief about the North Carolina Republicans’ among them Executive Director Dallas clarion call against voter fraud, which Woodhouse, who told the Washington they claimed was rampant enough to Post that “hundreds of thousands of warrant a voter ID law — though this legal voters would be disenfranchised sort of voter fraud would not have been and 750,000 people would be denied thwarted by the new law. representation in Congress” were Harris One might also think that the GOP to be denied. would feel vindicated at actually finding But Democrats in the House, who some voter fraud. That they are not is now have a majority, have said they will the most disturbing piece of it all. not seat Harris until they are satisfied

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CULTURE Cocktails and Converse collide at Collector’s Choice

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Bryant Holsenbeck’s jackrabbits keep watch as partygoers mingle at Greenhill’s Collector’s Choice fundraiser.

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eyond the imitation evergreens near coat check and the “runway” photographer’s backdrop, the distinctive smell of cooking sherry wafts above the merry crowd and the cold drizzling night slips into the mind’s recesses.

On the first evening of December, Collector’s Choice fundraiser attendees mix with exhibiting Winter Show artists over hors d’oeuvre, wine and spirits.

The exhibit at Greensboro’s GreenHill Gallery is an annual collection of more than 120 North Carolina artists working in sculpture, photography, painting, jewelry, glass, ceramics, fabric and fiber.

Artist statements and curriculum vitae are tidied in a white, three-ring binder near the purchasing table where four staffers bustle ceaselessly, but the main gallery space is the watering hole.

Ribbons fixed to clip-on name tags distinguish some guests as committee members or donor-level patrons;

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gold-star stickers denote supporters. The few who paid at the sherry — that’s where the smell comes from. They silently coldoor pen their names in black Sharpie. Staff and interns weave lect deserted plates and empty glasses, or parade garlic-licked through strolling loners and packs of glamorous couples shrimp. Specialty cocktails are up-for-grabs on the dessert to place pill-sized red stickers on sold pieces’ descriptions. table just beyond Luis Ardillo’s trio of oil paintings.

They’re going fast.

The green-eyed queen wears a skyscraper crown in the A woman clutches Bryant Holsenbeck’s “Jack Rabbit #2” indigo-drenched “Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg in Mamixed-media sculpture by the neck and turns it in her wrist as condo’s World.” Golden butterflies, though inspecting a Ferragamo heel an iguana and a dark tropical bird join under consideration. It stands more her alongside the visage of Gabriel than a foot tall on its hind legs, ears Learn more at greenhillnc.org and García Márquez who wrote local myat attention, serving as the lookout visit at 200 N. Davie St. (GSO). thologies, magic and fantasy into the for the other three jackrabbits on laws of nature in Macondo, the fictive display. The artist wrapped polychroColumbian town in his celebrated matic, heavy-knit yarns taut around novel One Thousand Years of Solitude. an unseen, realistic carriage. She reMárquez and now Ardillo toy with places “#2” in a slipshod manner, its buttermilk-colored belly past, present and future as infinite and inseparable, our expeprotruding toward new indoor vistas. A few yards away, a man rienced realities as highly subjective narratives that are not as sets a glass of merlot on a contemporary sculpture as though irreconcilable as some might think. it’s the granite island in his kitchen.

Alongside descendants of generational wealth — the ones All the while, food runners charge through this tipsy sea of who sit on the board of this or that and subsidize the arts shoppers and socialites with hot beds of Santorini-style turkey — there are couples who splurged on this holiday outing, meatballs basking in lemon-infused prosecco velouté, and hungry for an excuse to spruce up, and who could be seen Chianti-braised lamb, root vegetables, sliced toasted almonds, clumsily kissing cheeks after the second glass, feeling a little shredded manchego, saffron, whole mushrooms seared in

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Visitors admire paintings and pottery from the Winter Show.

Collectors and board members alike engage in conversation while portraits look on.

ing these fucking amazing shoes and this hat, so I said, ‘I wanna take a picture of you.’… It wasn’t two days after I took this picture… the big tornado destroyed his house and I haven’t seen him since, I don’t know what happened to him. I want to get in touch with him; I sold this painting, so I owe him some money.”

Washington is a lithe, older black man who wore Converse high-tops, a white long-sleeve shirt, light jeans and an unassuming ballcap that day. As he did in front of Wade’s camera, he now manspreads in a wooden chair, hands folded in his lap, from the gallery

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wall. The look on his face says he’s got nothing to prove.

Not to the old eyes inspecting new works through the lenses of fashionable eyewear, or the men adjusting bowties in the windows’ reflection before turning back to sophisticated finger-foods or making their way to the purchaser’s table.

Despite all the diplomas, the power, curiosity and good intentions gathered here tonight, nobody knows what’s happened to Washington.

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closer than they had in weeks, maybe longer. There are exhibiting artists who span generations, identities and creative perspectives. There are young artists not (yet) on display and who abide their own dress code, and the children of new money playing it safe in 2016 J. Crew.

Sam Wade, a 31-year-old Greensboro artist, stands beside two of his paintings: one, a study of his younger brother and the other, a striking portrait of a local man named Ernest Washington.

“He was the custodian in the building where I have my studio,” Wade says. “He walked in and he was wear-

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CULTURE Classics meet mid-century modern at new Campus Gas bar

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he gas pumps sat ready, shiny and chromed, as rain misted over them, but those that gathered at Campus Gas last Saturday hadn’t come to fill up their tanks. Instead, they came to fill pint glasses and stomachs at the grand opening of the new Campus Gas taproom.

The iconic building marked by a red batwing canopy sits off Polo Road next to Wake Forest University in WinstonSalem and recently celebrated its transformation from a ’60s service station to a mid-century modern barroom.

The venture is headed by three Wake Forest University alumni who saw the building as an opportunity to fill a need in the area. Ben Ingold and his partners, John Clowney and Will Volker, met at Wake Forest in the early 2000s during their undergraduate years. Ingold remembers how there wasn’t anything like the taproom around campus when they attended the school.

“I don’t think it existed,” Ingold said.

“That’s the primary reason why we did it. There wasn’t anything like this around. It’s an underserved area.”

Now, the transformed business features 20 rotating taps with local beers, including four house taps from Asheboro-based Four Saints Brewing.

It also serves Bull City Ciderworks — which Ingold and Clowney helped found in 2015 — and a small food menu. Ingold says Campus Gas serves those in the area and is close enough for students and faculty to walk from campus.

Maddie Barbee and Larry Brett, who are both seniors at Wake Forest and live on campus, sat at the end of the bar during the grand opening, sipping on ciders. They were both excited to have a place to hang out within walking distance from school.

“It’s really great that they decided to do something with the space,” Barbee said.

“It’s a good place for college kids,” continued Brett. “Most locations like this are downtown. I like the environment and the vibe.”

And that’s on purpose. As for the look and design of the business, Ingold said that taking over the historic building was a conscious and thought-out decision.

“We wanted to keep everything about it on the outside,” Ingold said. “We wanted to keep the building substantially the same way. It was really important

The iconic batwing canopy and restored gas pumps mark the outside of Campus Gas taproom in WinstonSalem.

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for us to do that and for the community as well.” whenever it needed fixing.

The building, which is part of the Oak Crest Historic District “I took my car there for at least 20 years; even my motherin the city, is on the National Register of Historic Places and in-law used them,” Price said. “They were very community formerly served as a country store before it became a Phillips oriented, so I was sad when they retired. They were a good 66 gas station, then a service station before it became Camneighborhood resource for all of us that lived there.” pus Gas. While she no longer lives in the area, Price said she’s opti“The outside remains the same, but we remodeled the mistic about the new business. inside,” Ingold said. “We’re bringing the history back to life. I “I thought they did a nice job of preserving the original can’t imagine it without those things.” building,” she said.

Comparing old photographs Inside, long live-edge wooden to its current edition, the striktables and metal chairs seat a ing structure retains most of its couple dozen patrons comfortFind out more about the new taproom on original form. The long, trianguably as they sip on their beers the Campus Gas Facebook page. lar, overhanging roof still marks and milkshakes. The whole the building while the vibrant place has a rustic Jetsons feel red paint maintains its retrowith its floor-to-ceiling garage cool vibe. Two recently restored door windows and Edison bulbs. gas pumps, no longer operable, It’s clean and modern but comalso help to preserve the building’s history. fortable and classic. Even the menu has nods to old-school Debbie Price, who lived in Winston-Salem for decades, said comforts like BLTs and pimiento cheese sandwiches as well as she remembers visiting the service station in the ’70s as a a few hot dogs. teenager.

Ingold says the idea is to maintain a neighborhood feel by “I remember one time I was on a date and a rock hit the offering great food and beer. truck and made a dent,” Price recalled. “We went there to get “This is something new for the neighborhood and Wake it fixed before his parents found out.”

Forest,” Ingold said. “It’s a community gathering place.”

Years later Price said she continued to take her car to there

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CULTURE Poets expound on the theme of female experience

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“That part of my body became clinical,” she explained.

As a graduate student, Bolden was instructed to stop writBased on a connection between the decision-making ing about the body so often but had trouble breaking away. process to undergo a radical hysterectomy and a house she A poem explores the scene of a deer getting shot, but the spotted while driving between appointments, Bolden’s book clearing, deer’s mouth and even the rifle became metaphors deals with the comparisons between a house and a body. She for the body. kept driving by a certain house, When asked if it were possible always thinking that it looked to write too much poetry about angry. Then, during her time in one thing, Bolden laughed.

Learn more about Karen Meadows and medical offices, she noticed a “If it is, I’m gonna find out,” Emma Bolden at karenumeadows.com parallel in how doctors tended Bolden joked. to say that her body “could not It’s taken both Bolden and and emmabolden.com. house a fetus.”

Meadows many poems and a “House is not a metaphor,” she lot of patience to work through recited from the titular poem. a subject. Meadows hopes the As she read from her book, the news cycle became dogs, readers do, too. and grief became a small creature in need of nurturing. The “I hope they come back,” Meadows said. “I hope they take motifs carried a distinctly Southern aesthetic — blackberry time with the poems. I just hope people can find beauty jam and sweet tea, the word “ma’am” alongside a coarse there.” word. Yet, the images returned to the body, with the dogs being housed in lungs and the body itself being a blaze of light.

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oems require patience.

As Emma Bolden and Karen Meadows read excerpts from their latest collections at Scuppernong Books in Greensboro on Sunday, they displayed the results of that virtue. Both women have parsed the English language, hoping to find words that match their personal experiences.

The process takes pages and, for the authors, years. Though the poets use different themes, they both hope for readers to return to their books — which aim to describe a bit of what it’s like to be a woman — more than once.

“If I can make one person feel less alone,” said Bolden, “then that will be worth it for me.”

Karen Meadow’s debut full-length collection, almond eyeless, explores relationships both with the self and others and the difficulties that come with them.

“As I see it, we’re basically all freaks looking for someone to love and understand us,” Meadows said to the audience.

The title came from a work about recalling dreams, but zoological and earthly scenes root the otherwise abstract book in reality.

She stepped out from behind the podium and stood in front of one of the shelves of used books that lined the reading space. She flipped pages sporting lime green sticky notes as she talked about the death of someone else’s pet snake in a poem she described as one of her “greatest hits.”

The theme of the female experience appeared as Meadows quoteed US senators from Anita Hill’s testimony, and as she connected the events of the hearing to Brett Kavanaugh’s recent confirmation. She related the male gaze to a farmer shearing a sheep or to why barns are painted red.

Meadows described poetry as if it was a possession, with the writer being unaware of the meaning as they create. It’s fitting that outside forces such as these inspire her to write even more.

“I’m really fascinated by how the world acts on us,” Meadows said.

Emma Bolden’s latest full-length collection, House is an Enigma, stems from an experience somewhat out of her control. The poems follow her personal journey with endometriosis since her teenage years and the medical view of the female body.

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