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Mass confusion erupted on Aug. 20 in a private Facebook group composed of North Carolina bar, tavern, brewery, nightclub and pub owners alleging orders from enforcement agencies to CLOSE ALL PRIVATE CLUBS AND BARS, even if those establishments served food. To some, this suggested a sudden and unexpected increase in enforcement of Gov. Cooper’s Executive Order 141...

6 That luminous red hair. Those piercing green eyes. No wonder MAUREEN O’HARA was called the “Queen of Technicolor.” She was a fine actress in any format, but her feisty, fiery radiance was made for color film.

7 An upper crust, GOP fundraising businessman from Greensboro is picked to be Trump’s POSTMASTER GENERAL, and before you know it, Louis DeJoy has disrupted, defunded, and demoralized the United States Postal Service just in time to set up a contested Presidential election. Kinda makes you embarrassed to say that you’re from the Triad. Speaking of which, our image can’t seem to catch a break. First there was the bathroom bill,

then ballot harvesting, then confederate monuments, then police brutality, and now one of our own flock is screwing with the mail...

12 “They said I violated the department’s social media policy, but not specifically how,” said the recently fired Greensboro police officer Jaquay Williams in a phone interview on Thursday. Williams also alleged that INTERNAL AFFAIRS TOLD HIM TO TAKE DOWN his May 27 TikTok video about the May 25 murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.

13 At last Monday night’s contentious meeting of the Graham City Council, Chair Amy Galey ordered an approved speaker making a public comment during an agenda item to be REMOVED FROM THE CHAMBER by Sheriff Terry Johnson and two officers. Galey is running for election to the North Carolina State Senate to represent District 24.

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Aug. 23 marked the Triad Abolition Project’s 40th day of #OccupyWSNC in Bailey Park, calling for their demands to be met and for justice for John Elliott Neville. Neville died in December 2019 after he was restrained in the prone position by five detention officers while the medical provider stood by for almost 20 minutes after reportedly having a seizure.

The six have since been charged with involuntary manslaughter.

Neville’s children, Tre Stubbs and Brienne Neville, hosted an event of artistic expression on Aug. 23 at #OccupyWSNC called #SilenceIsViolence. The purpose of #SilenceIsViolence was for the family to heal after the news of their father’s “avoidable death” went public, and the videos leading up to his death went viral.

It was also for the community to heal from the recent spike in gun violence in the city, in addition to the continued violence against Black and Brown people in national headlines, such as the Louisiana police-related fatal shooting on Aug. 21 of 31-year-old Trayford Pellerin. This evening of creative expression also indirectly addressed the deafening silence by city, county, and other prominent community leaders on this widespread violence. The same day, hundreds of miles away, Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old Winston-Salem native, was shot eight times by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, as three of his children reportedly watched, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down.

“Silence is violence means, if we are going to be silent about it, then you might as well be the one hurting us yourself,” Stubbs said, introducing his spoken-word piece of the same name. “There is a lot of power in silence, but there’s even more [power] in speaking up.”

His poem was a direct call to action to “Get loud, I mean scream, you’ll probably like it if you try it, there is a decision to be made, I would like to decide it.

Put my pride in and hope this gets the people excited. If you aren’t speaking, you are defeated because people, silence is violence.”

“A lot of us think of ‘silence is violence’ when it comes to racism or police brutality, but the reality is, silence is violence anytime you don’t speak up,” Neville said, introducing her monologue, “You are Pretty for a Dark Girl.” This piece focused on the disrespect Black women face as well as their feelings of being unprotected—serving a grim reminder to the crowd that the Louisville police, who shot Breonna Taylor in her home as WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM

she slept, have still not been arrested.

“Instead of tearing each other down, how about we build each other up? Stand together, arm in arm. Ain’t it enough that we have to walk in fear each day, sit down our children and teach them to pray, ‘Oh Lord, let my parents come home, and if that cop’s feeling scared lord, jam his trigger so I won’t be alone.’ Ain’t it enough that Black women have our blood spilled in the streets, and there is no protest for us still?”

Occupier and community organizer Sara Hines participated by sharing her poem that addressed the state of the nation.

“Human sex trafficking, homelessness, hunger and racial traumas—an inept white nationalist president in the White House, got me longing for my melanated Obamas. We got working people suffering; we ain’t got nearly enough cash, economic recession, sky-high unemployment, fuck the dumb shit people, put on a mask!”

Occupier Nia Sadler performed an interpretive dance with the words “tense, tough and gritty,” in mind. Other speakers included military veteran and self-proclaimed “shit-stirrer” Arnita Miles, Triad Abolition Project’s Dr. Brittany Battle, and Robin Jackson of the Dream Team Mentoring Program.

Miles spoke of the recent passing of a local 13-year-old after the car he was in crashed while being pursued by a Forsyth County Sheriff deputy, not far from Bailey Park. Miles passionately urged commu-

nity leaders, as well as city and county officials to “wake the fuck up.”

“How many times will we allow the Winston-Salem Police Department and Forsyth County Sheriff ’s Office to kill our young Black men? How many times are you going to stand by and not say a damn word? How many times are we going to allow our brothers to be murdered, in that building right over there,” she said, pointing to the Forsyth County Detention Center. Battle recounted the Triad Abolition Project’s 40 days or 480 hours of occupation. Battle also asked the crowd

to reflect on the time since John Neville’s death: 263 days or 6,312 hours. Jackson called out to members of the community, particularly Black men, to act and stand up for each other. “The only way that our communities are really going to change, the only way we are going to stop police from killing us, and us from killing us, is for us to stand up,” he said. “The us is Black men—Black women have done this since we got here. They have done this!

But we have our children and grandchildren who run around, and people are afraid of them—police are afraid of them, and we are afraid of them. I am not going to be afraid of my own children and grandchildren. What I do is, I go to the community where they need me.”

Were any community leaders, city council officials, or county officials listening? Only time will tell. As the Neville family has said before, actions speak louder than words.

On Aug. 24, after last week’s tense city council meeting in which occupiers dominated the public comment period, the Winston-Salem City Council announced there would be a special meeting for a “Winston-Salem Police Department budget community forum,” via Zoom on Aug. 31 at 6 p.m. This forum allows individuals to ask questions about the WSPD’s budget.

More information can be found online, www.cityofws.org/ccvirtual. The Forsyth County Commissioners’ next meeting with a public comment period is Aug. 27 at 2 p.m. To participate, call (336) 4221200 by 1:45 p.m. that day. !

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* Editor’s note: This article initially appeared online on Aug. 21. ass confusion erupted on Aug. 20 in a private Facebook group Katie Murawski composed of North Carolina bar, tavern, brewery, nightclub Editor and pub owners alleging orders from enforcement agencies to close all private clubs and bars, even if those establishments served food.

To some, this suggested a sudden and unexpected increase in enforcement of Gov. Cooper’s Executive Order 141, even though many private clubs and bars across the state have remained open for at least three months. This makes some question if this alleged sudden increase of enforcement is related to the return of college students, in which multiple clustered outbreaks of COVID-19 has been reported at public North Carolina universities, and the Republican National Convention in Charlotte.

According to an article from Charlotte Business Journal’s Jennifer Thomas, this week, enforcement officers from the North Carolina Department of Public Safety’s Alcohol Law Enforcement Division and the Alcoholic Beverage Commission told private clubs in Charlotte they had to close in order to comply with Executive Order 141, even though they had been operating for months with no issues.

Several Triad private bars and clubs have also been operating since at least June by finding ways to retool their businesses to serve food and act as a retail store for beer and wine.

Questions still remain unanswered, and several Triad private bar and club owners claim that there has been inconsistent information reported to them from local law enforcement agencies, ALE and ABC representatives.

In an email to Public Information Officer Erin Bean of the North Carolina Department of Public Safety—Alcohol Law Enforcement Division, YES! Weekly asked if the aforementioned allegations were true, and if so, when would this order take place, how it would be enforced and if there would be another executive order sent out by the governor. YES! Weekly also asked if it was common for representatives of the same division (in this case, the ALE sector of the

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Department of Public Safety) to allegedly disperse different/conflicting information to various North Carolina bar and club owners.

Bean responded that across North Carolina, “ALE has remained consistent in the enforcement of the Governor’s Executive Orders. There have been several instances recently where local ABC officers were mistaken as ALE special agents and took enforcement action on a business which did not align with ALE’s practices, therefore creating confusion. Local ABC officers are separate law enforcement entities from ALE.” She also wrote that there had been no changes to Section 8 Subsections A and B of Executive Order 141, which affects private bars and clubs during Phase 2.

Section 8 Subsection A of Executive Order 141 orders the closure of “Entertainment and Fitness Facilities,” which include bars, nightclubs, and music or dance halls “where patrons are not seated.” Subsection B cites the limitations of the order, stating it “solely directs that bars are not to serve alcoholic beverages for onsite consumption, and this Executive Order does not direct the closure of retail beverage venues that provide for the sale of beer, wine, and liquor for off-site consumption only. It also does not require the closure of production operations at breweries, wineries, or distilleries.”

Bean wrote that the ALE “focuses on a permittee’s business model and daily operation to determine if they are operating more as a restaurant or as a private bar,” and that “special agents maintain an open dialogue with the ABC Commission regarding private bars as each business is unique.”

Bean wrote that throughout Phase 1 and Phase 2 (which is scheduled to end on Sept.

11), the ALE has provided guidance and education to “private bars, and to obtain voluntary compliance from them. However, some businesses continue to operate solely as private bars against the Governor’s Executive Orders. Enforcement action taken

by ALE special agents with regards to noncompliant businesses, whether criminal or administrative, is due to the establishment not complying after training was provided on Executive Order 141 and documented warnings to adhere to the Executive Order.”

One local bar owner, who wished to remain anonymous, said in May, an ABC legal representative told them over the phone that “if they are permitted as a bar, yet if they are behaving within the guidelines, their business could reopen.”

“ALE is now coming around telling us that

those [guidelines] are out the window, if [the permit] says ‘bar’ it’s got to go—and ALE is saying that is coming from the ABC Commission,” they said. “ABC, to us, is saying yes, but now ALE is going around telling us no.”

YES! Weekly’s source shared a screenshot of an email from a representative of the ABC Commission dated May 28 that reads: Bars are closed per Executive Order 141 (EO 141).

The title on an ABC permit does not determine whether a business is a “bar” for purposes of EO141. The details about how the establishment operates and how that corresponds to EO 141 provisions do determine if an establishment will be treated as a bar per EO 141. The ABC Commission’s intent is to allow responsible business owners who are making good faith efforts to comply with EO 141 guidelines to be open for business, so they can serve their patrons safely and help their businesses survive in these difficult times.

Please review the information at https:// abc.nc.gov/PublicResources/LegalAnnouncement/274, which includes a five-step evaluation guide, and the safety guidelines at https://www.nc.gov/covid19 The ABC Commission does not make determinations whether specific locations meet EO 141 definitions. If you are unsure about your decision to open, please contact your local Alcohol Law Enforcement (ALE) Agent, who may have suggestions for safe operations.

Businesses that operate in bad faith and attempt to work around these guidelines put the health and safety of patrons, employees and the general public at risk. Action can be taken against your permits!

If you are a bar that should be closed per EO141, please stay closed to protect your fellow North Carolinians!

With regards to the statement above, YES! Weekly submitted the following questions through the ABC Commission’s online media inquiry portal on Aug. 21: Can private bars and clubs with an ABC permit legally open under Phase 2 by following the five guidelines set forth by the ABC Commission? If the ABC Commission issues permits, (citing the email given to YES! Weekly by the anonymous source), how can the title on an ABC permit not determine whether a business is a “bar” for purposes of EO141? Aren’t there certain guidelines and requirements that need to be met to get an ABC permit? And is it common/ normal for representatives of the same department to

disperse different/conflicting information?

In response, the ABC Commission’s Public Affairs Director Jeff Strickland wrote in an email on Aug. 21 that the ABC Commission serves as a regulator and resource for ABCpermitted businesses and law enforcement.

“Over recent weeks, the Commission staff has provided information to many businesses and law enforcement representatives,” Strickland wrote. “We rely on various law enforcement agencies to provide the Commission with information about violations.”

Strickland said the guidance on the ABC Commission’s website “is an effort to provide additional detail for the public, businesses, and law enforcement. While nothing in that guidance overrides the Executive Order, the guidance has not changed. There may be numerous paths forward; local law enforcement and ALE are actually in the community and are best equipped to provide businesses with recommendations about how and whether a particular business can legally sell or serve alcohol.”

Strickland noted that businesses that meet the requirements of EO 141 and have the proper ABC permits, “alcoholic beverages may be sold and served. While private bars are not allowed to have onsite consumption at this time, the Executive Order permits private bars to sell beer or wine to go in their original unopened containers.

Private bars and private clubs are separate types of permits.”

Strickland defined private bar as “an establishment that is organized and operated as a for-profit entity, and that is not open to the general public but is open only to the members of the organization and their bona fide guests for the purpose of allowing its members and their guests to socialize and engage in recreation.” He described a private club as “an establishment that qualifies under Section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code, as amended, 26 USC. § 501(c), and that has been in operation for a minimum of 12 months prior to application for an ABC permit.”

In June, YES! Weekly sent an email to Ronald Glenn, Public Information Officer for the Greensboro Police Department, asking if the GPD would be enforcing EO 141, and what repercussions violators (owners of bars, gyms, and other places that aren’t technically aren’t supposed to open up until Phase 3) would face.

“Yes we continue to enforce, but we are strictly responding to complaints,” Glenn replied. “We will respond to any complaints

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of violations of the Governor’s order and handle accordingly. GPD has followed the guidelines of education, warning, and then enforcement if necessary. Violation of the Governor’s orders is a misdemeanor where someone can either cited or arrested.”

Glenn noted that private bar or club owners are not given permission to open by the GPD, they are only “advised on the criteria we evaluate in determining if they were adhering to governors order.”

YES! Weekly then asked Glenn about the following scenario: If a food truck comes to a bar that is offering patio seating only, in the eyes of the GPD, is that technically considered a restaurant and therefore OK/safe to operate?

“According to the current executive order, bars are not allowed to operate,” Glenn wrote. “Food trucks and restaurants can operate while adhering to the guidelines provided in the Governor’s order.”

According to the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, on Aug. 21, there were 2,008 reported labconfirmed cases, which is considered the highest number of positive cases in a day since July 18’s 2,481 positive cases. There are 151, 912 total cases in the state and 2,494 total deaths so far.

This story is still developing and will be updated accordingly.

Addendum: On Aug. 24, ALE Public Information Officer Erin Bean answered follow-up questions submitted by YES! Weekly on Aug. 21 and Aug. 22.

Questions: In what ways does the ALE focus “on a permittee’s business model and daily operation to determine if they are operating more as a restaurant or as a private bar?” Is there a certain criteria that they need to meet (i.e. have a certain percentage of food sales, follow the 5 guidelines presented by ABC, etc.)

What kind of education and guidance does ALE provide these private bars?

Was this education and guidance consistent across the state?

Can you provide what guidance/education was given to these businesses?

In terms of voluntary compliance with ALE, does that mean compliance to stay closed per EO141 or to follow guidelines set forth by either ALE or the ABC Commission (via the ABC Commission website)?

If a bar is non-compliant, would ALE agents be enforcing EO 141 or the ABC Commission guidelines?

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Executive Orders and readily accessible to all ABC-permitted business owners prior to COVID-19, to determine whether a business is operating as a private bar or as an eating establishment or restaurant. All education presented to business owners has been a reiteration of North Carolina law and the Governor’s Executive Orders, not developed

by ALE. If ALE receives a complaint of a bar operating outside of the Governor’s Executive Order 141, ALE will meet with the business owner. Special agents educate with the goal of obtaining voluntary compliance, either operating within the guidelines set out in the Governor’s Executive Orders for ABC-permitted establishments or closed.

ABC law defines a restaurant, an eating establishment, a private bar and a private club as: Restaurant. - An establishment substantially engaged in the business of preparing and serving meals. To qualify as a restaurant, an establishment’s gross receipts from food and nonalcoholic beverages shall be not less than thirty percent (30%) of the total gross receipts from food, nonalcoholic beverages, and alcoholic beverages. A restaurant shall also have a kitchen and an inside dining area with seating for at least 36 people.

Eating establishment. - An establishment engaged in the business of regularly and customarily selling food, primarily to be eaten on the premises. Eating establishments shall include businesses that are referred to as restaurants, cafeterias, or cafes, but that do not qualify under subdivision (6) [of this section]. Eating establishments shall also include lunch stands, grills, snack bars, fastfood businesses, and other establishments, such as drugstores, which have a lunch counter or other section where food is sold to be eaten on the premises.

Private bar. - An establishment that is organized and operated as a for-profit entity and that is not open to the general public but is open only to the members of the organization and their bona fide guests for the purpose of allowing its members and their guests to socialize and engage in recreation.

Private club. - An establishment that qualifies under Section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code, as amended, 26 U.S.C. § 501(c), and that has been in operation for a minimum of 12 months prior to application for an ABC permit.

ALE enforces the Executive Order and existing laws. The guidance from the ABC Commission provides an explanation of the Executive Order from an ABC permitting perspective. !

KATIE MURAWSKI is the editor of YES! Weekly. She is from Mooresville, North Carolina and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in journalism with a minor in film studies from Appalachian State University in 2017.

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No wonder Maureen O’Hara was called the “Queen of Technicolor.” She was a fine actress in any format, but her Mark Burger feisty, fiery radiance was made for color film. And, despite Contributor eschewing bimbo/ sexpot roles, she was a knockout, as much for the intelligence and spirit she brought to her roles as her striking beauty.

This month marked what would have been O’Hara’s 100th birthday (she died in 2015), and the University Press of Kentucky is reissuing Aubrey Malone’s 2013 biography in paperback as part of its justifiably popular “Screen Classics” series, which recently included the splendid Lady Triumphant: Olivia de Havilland by Victoria Amador.

Born Maureen FitzSimons in Dublin, O’Hara’s acting career was meteoric, scoring her first screen lead at age 18 opposite no less than Charles Laughton and directed by no less than Alfred Hitchcock, in the 1939 adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s Jamaica Inn. Never mind that the film was one of Hitchock’s worst and that du Maurier petitioned to have her name removed from the credits – the newly christened Maureen O’Hara was a movie star. What’s more, she was off to Hollywood immediately thereafter.

O’Hara was also very much her own person. If she didn’t possess the proverbial “Irish temper,” she nevertheless had a backbone of steel. Maureen O’Hara may

have been many things, but a shrinking violet was not among them. More than seven decades before #MeToo, she could be considered a pioneer in the movement.

She did not tolerate sexual harassment or untoward advances of any kind, once screaming so loud on set when George Jessel – yes, the self-proclaimed “Toastmaster General of the United States,” himself!—made a rude move that the entire soundstage went quiet. “Georgie” behaved impeccably after that.

O’Hara’s screen persona was in many ways determined, even defined, by her own personality: Forthright, self-assured, and strong-willed. In a “man’s world,” she held her own – and then some. Yet by speaking her mind, she might have limited her career. In certain circles, she was considered difficult.

O’Hara’s legacy isn’t as celebrated as those of her contemporaries. She never won an Oscar, nor was she ever nominated (which became a point of contention with her), and there’s also the matter that, even in her classic films, her performance – no matter how strong – isn’t what lingers in the memory.

When one thinks of How Green Was My Valley (1941), O’Hara’s (admittedly wonderful) performance doesn’t jump out at you. With Miracle on 34th Street (1947), another classic, it’s Edmund Gwenn’s Oscar-winning Kris Kringle who dominates. Sitting Pretty (1948) was a big hit,with Clifton Webb’s Oscar-nominated turn as the unflappable “Mr. Belvedere” outshining one and all. Ditto Hayley Mills’s double-act in the original Parent Trap (1961). Consider even her first big Hollywood production: 1939’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame. She’s an impassioned and beautiful Esmerelda, but all due respect, it’s Charles Laughton’s superb turn as

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Nevertheless, she elevated many an inferior film, and although miscast in some, she tried in all. Her tried-and-true philosophy was to do her best – period.

That, ironically, would include her first two (failed) marriages, to George Brown, then Will Price (father of her only child, Bronwyn). Her luck was better with aviation pioneer Charles Blair, although that marriage was tragically cut short when he died in a plane crash in 1978.

Much is made of O’Hara’s relationship John Ford, with whom she made several films. The master filmmaker appeared to alternate between loathing and lusting for O’Hara, and her reaction vacillated from respect to revulsion.

(After her death, a parcel of letters Ford wrote to O’Hara were uncovered and caused no little controversy given their contents.)

It was all respect when it came to John Wayne, with whom she made five films.

Many speculated there was romance between them, but it’s extremely unlikely, although undoubtedly they were great friends, right up to the end. Anthony Quinn, another frequent co-star, was possibly a more likely paramour, although she steadfastly denied it. Quinn, in his memoirs, did not deny it – and wrote glowingly of her.

O’Hara’s own memoir, ‘Tis Herself (published in 2004), was a best-seller, but seemed surprisingly gossipy, and even self-aggrandizing, for someone who supposedly resented such behavior.

Maureen O’Hara: The Biography is, without question, entertaining, informative, and respectful. The author is an admirer, understandably. It’s an engaging and informative read, but also contains some errors that could easily be rectified, especially in a reprinting.

When listing notable actresses who never received an Oscar nomination, Lauren Bacall is mentioned, despite being nominated for Best Supporting Actress in 1996 (The Mirror Has Two Faces).

Malone writes that Ford won his second (Oscar) statuette for The Quiet Man, which would be accurate had the sentence added “directing Maureen O’Hara” – as he’d also won for directing How Green Was My Valley. But, as is common knowledge among film fans, John Ford won an unprecedented four Oscars as Best Director. What’s more, or less: O’Hara’s first husband, George Brown produced an obscure 1972 espionage thriller Innocent Bystanders starring Oliver Reed. Obscure, yes, but it starred Stanley Baker.

Still and all, the good far outweighs the bad in this affectionate show-biz biography. Perfect would have been better, but good is good enough. !

MAUREEN O’HARA: THE BIOGRAPHY by Aubrey Malone. Published by University Press of Kentucky. 312 pages. $19.95 retail The official University of Kentucky Press website is, www.kentuckypress.com/.

See MARK BURGER’s reviews of current movies on Burgervideo.com. © 2020, Mark Burger.

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Then on Aug. 18, DeJoy backed down and announced he was suspending his hare-brained policy changes until after the November election. However, his flip flop could be a PR stunt, because there’s no guarantee that the Senate or the President will approve Pelosi’s bill to immediately infuse the USPS with extra funds. Meanwhile, the Postal Service Inspector General is looking into DeJoy’s possible ethics violations and conflicts of interest. For one thing, according to CNN, DeJoy’s company, New Breed Logistics, which had been providing supply chain services to USPS for a quarter century, was purchased by XPO Logistics in 2014, with DeJoy occupying a seat on the new Board ever since. That in itself concerns the IG. Despite the controversies, allegations, and investigations, Mr. DeJoy seems almost tone deaf to the effect his mis-management of the Postal service has had on the delivery of mail now, and to the potential damage his so-called reforms could have had on the integrity of our electoral process this Fall. In that regard, he shares the President’s proclivity for apathetic denial.

According to a recent study by Catawba College, there have been eight times the requests for absentee ballots in North Carolina this year, than at the same time four years ago. As of August 1, a total of 200,000 people have requested ballots, 48% of who are registered Democrats, and 18% are registered Republicans. In 2016, that breakout was 37% for each party.

That should tell you why Trump is panicked, and was seemingly determined to do whatever he could to impede or obstruct the tally of mail-in ballots. DeJoy may not have been the architect of Trump’s twisted strategy, but he was the project manager who carried it out. !

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ometimes newspaper headlines can be misleading, even inaccurate. Sometimes they can be confusing or taken out of context. Sometimes, though, you can Jim Longworth glean a lot about an on-going story by simply stringing the Longworth headlines together. at Large For example: “Biden Leads Trump by Double Digits”; “COVID Spurs Increase in Mail-in Ballots”; “Democratic Voters Requesting Ballots 2 to 1 Over GOP Voters”; “Trump Opposes Funding Post Office Because of Mail-in Voting”; “Postmaster was Major Fundraiser for Trump”; “Postmaster Cuts Over Time, Eliminates Mail Boxes”; “Greensboro’s Mail Center Flagged for Late Trips”; “USPS Warns 46 States that Some Mail-In Ballots will Not Arrive in Time to be Counted for November Election”; “DeJoy Says He is Not Beholden to Trump”; “Inspector General Reviewing DeJoy’s Policy Changes and Potential Ethics Conflicts”.

So there you have it. An upper crust, GOP fundraising businessman from Greensboro is picked to be Trump’s Postmaster General, and before you know it, Louis DeJoy has disrupted, defunded, and demoralized the United States Postal Service just in time to set up a contested Presidential election. Kinda makes you embarrassed to say that you’re from the Triad. Speaking of which, our image can’t seem to catch a break. First there was the bathroom bill, then ballot harvesting, then confederate monuments, then police brutality, and now one of our own flock is screwing with the mail, and allegedly tried to systematically suppress votes.

As I began writing this column, Congress was poised to deal with DeJoy and, hopefully, block some of his counter-productive reform measures, which, in addition to

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AGE: 39 WHERE ARE YOU FROM? Rockford, Illinois, originally; but I lived in the middle of nowhere in North Illinois for my teen years, in Germany for a few years, and in Savannah, Georgia, for about five years before ending up in Greensboro.

HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN BARTENDING? On and off for about 19 years—took breaks to have my kids, worked a few office jobs, managed a smoothie shop at a gym for a bit, managed a hair salon for a couple of years. But I always seem to come back to serving and bartending.

WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE DRINK TO DRINK? Lately, it’s been Birddog Blackberry Whiskey— whiskey in general. When I’m being “diet conscious” Sutlers or Emulsion Gin and soda with a twist of lime, or craft beer.

HOW DID YOU BECOME A BARTENDER? My ex boyfriend’s mom bought a dive bar in the little town I was living in, across the street from my apartment. I had just turned 21, and I stopped in to say hi, and she offered me a job. I was single and working days at an insurance company and needed some excitement. Lol. WHAT DO YOU ENJOY ABOUT BARTENDING? Every shift is different. You constantly meet new people, and I’m rarely bored.

Your coworkers become like family, you can’t say that about many other industries like you can about bars and restaurants.

WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE DRINK TO MAKE? I love an Old Fashioned. I have fun making classic cocktails. For a couple of years, I was bartending at a restaurant that was next to a golf course, and a lot of my regulars were into Dirty Martinis, Manhattans, Gimlets, Old Fashioneds. I’m also the

odd one out who doesn’t mind making mojitos as long as I’m not crazy busy, and I’m not low on mint.

WHAT WOULD YOU RECOMMEND AS AN AFTER-DINNER DRINK? Can’t go wrong with a glass of red wine or an Old Fashioned. I grew up around supper clubs in the Midwest, though where “after dinner” drinks were grasshoppers and brandy alexanders!

WHAT’S THE CRAZIEST THING YOU’VE SEEN WHILE BARTENDING? I had a guy sit down already hammered, set a Kool-Aid Burst on the bar, and try to convince me to serve him straight vodka. I politely turned him down; he tried to pick a fight with a customer who was trying to eat. We had to kick him out. He left his Kool-Aid Burst on the bar—I think it was cherry.

WHAT’S THE BEST TIP YOU’VE EVER GOTTEN? I don’t know if this was the biggest but the most memorable bigger tip. I was cocktail serving and got $100 for bringing a guy a bottle of water and asking him how his day was going and stopping to check on him a few times. He said I was the only person who was nice to him that day—never hurts to be kind.

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Government restrictions aimed at slowing the spread of COVID-19 have had no effect on a growing trend on the island of Okinawa, Japan, called “rojoChuck Shepherd ne” (literally, sleeping on the road), which local authorities blame on the island’s balmy weather and people’s habit of overindulging in “awamori,” a traditional rice-based liquor. Okinawa police have fielded more than 2,700 reports of rojo-ne in just the first six months of 2020, The Guardian reported, putting the island on pace to match last year’s 7,000 reported incidents, which resulted in 16 accidents and three deaths. Tadataka Miyazawa, the police chief, said he “didn’t even know the term ‘rojo-ne’ before coming to Okinawa.”

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Organizers of Philadelphia’s 12th Annual Naked Bike Ride have canceled the event, scheduled for Aug. 29, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Associated Press reported. Ride organizer Maria Serrahima said she hopes people will be able to return next year and that riders are “taking advantage of the emptier streets and riding — masks up.” The Philly Naked Bike Ride attracts thousands of riders and covers a 10-mile course taking in the city’s landmarks such as Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell.

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— People living around Olten, Switzerland, got a surprise on Aug. 14 when it began snowing cocoa powder. Strong winds that morning distributed the cocoa dust from a malfunctioning ventilation system at the Lindt & Spruengli chocolate factory nearby, delivering enough to cover at least one car, the Associated Press reported.

The company offered cleaning services, but no one took them up on the offer. The ventilation system has been repaired.

— The very last Blockbuster store, in Bend, Oregon, is offering Deschutes County residents three one-night sleepovers through Airbnb on Sept. 18, 19 and 20 for $4 — about the cost of a video rental, Oddee reported. Lucky movie lovers will have a pull-out couch, bean bags and pillows for their viewing comfort, plus 2-liter bottles of Pepsi and snacks to enjoy during a marathon of “new releases” from the ‘90s. “Nothing can replace going to the store with loved ones to browse the

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shelves and find a movie that suits whatever mood you’re in,” said Sandi Harding, the store manager.

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A mystery unfolded in the Mystery section of the Walla Walla (Washington) Public Library in late July when workers performing renovations during the COVID-19 shutdown demolished a section of shelves and discovered a disintegrated paper bag with five full cans of Hamm’s beer and an opened bag of Godzilla Heads gum. Library staff determined the hidden snacks dated back to the 1980s, CNN reported. Library director Erin Wells posited that “somebody had stashed it there and maybe thought they could get it later ... but there was no way to get it out.”

FINE POINTS OF THE LAW

Utica (New York) City Court Judge Ralph Eannace was outraged, but did not set bail for defendant Anthony Walker on Aug. 13, which surprised even Walker, who had been arrested for the second time in two days for leading police on a high-speed chase. “Because, I guess, of the new bail reform law,” Walker said, Judge Eannace said he had no choice but to let Walker go.

On Aug. 9, Walker had hit another car while driving a Maserati that had been reported stolen. “I plan to do the right thing this time, man. I’m tired of this,” he told WKTV, apologizing if anyone was hurt. Utica police noted that Walker made the same pledge after his first arrest. “Yeah,” said Walker, “I did take them on a high-speed chase ... nobody’s perfect.”

HAPPY ENDING

Residents of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, have been cheered recently by the unexpected presence of a corn stalk growing up through a crack in the pavement at a busy intersection. Dubbed the 57th Street Corn, the stalk had its own Twitter account and was hailed as a symbol of resiliency and hope in hard times; Mayor Paul TenHaken called it “amaizing.” But on Aug. 19, the Argus Leader reported, neighbors found the plant had been ripped from the ground overnight, prompting sorrow on social media and a flower memorial. “I didn’t want to see her story end like that,” said resident Chad Theisen. Together with his children, Theisen rescued the corn stalk, renamed it Cornelia and is nursing it back to health in a 5-gallon bucket. He hopes to find a permanent home for Cornelia, now a local celebrity, with the city’s help. !

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lmost six months into the COVID-19 pandemic and over 170,000 dead, it seems like the United States still can’t get the virus under control. For the majorKatie Murawski ity of working-class citizens, the same goes for making ends Editor meet. Rent is due in one week, utilities need to be paid soon, the Paycheck Protection Program loan has ended, unemployment benefits have been cut drastically, the one-time stimulus payment of $1,200 is long gone, and despite many recent reopening, there still aren’t enough jobs to go around.

However, a local Winston-Salem man has beaten the odds and started his own business that’s thriving in an industry perhaps most affected by coronavirus.

Clyde Singleton is the owner and head chef of The Ollie Llama, a new small-bite eatery coming soon to the interior of Bull’s Tavern, located at 408 W. 4th St. in downtown Winston-Salem.

Singleton grew up in Jacksonville, Florida, and was a professional skateboarder for 18 years. He has lived all over, but he said he was drawn back to the City of Arts and Innovation after attending numerous skateboarding contests.

“I just had a weird connection with this place,” he said.

“I didn’t grow up here; I came back here three years ago from Asheville. I was a chef there for a while and just ended up really liking it and staying. This is my home now.”

He remembers Winston-Salem fondly as a hub for skateboarders in the early ‘90s, and where he drank his first 40-ounce beer. Winston-Salem is also the place he started as a pop-up chef with his first business venture, Cooking With Clyde. Singleton said he started Cooking With Clyde a month after Gov. Roy Cooper issued a state of emergency and closed the state with the “Stay-at-Home” executive order.

“I was completely running out of money and had no luck with getting my unemployment like everyone else,” he said.

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Photo by Jerry Cooper of owner/chef Clyde Singleton wearing an Ollie Llama T-shirt, available exculseively at House of Rodan So he asked his roommate (who is the manager of Hoots Beer Co.) if he could set up his food cart and sell to-go sliders while people waited for their to-go beer and wine orders. “It completely took off from there.

I can’t explain the rest,” Singleton added. “If someone were to ask how I did it, I started with one slider.”

In addition to starting his own business during a pandemic, he also conquered his addiction to alcohol.

“I had a terrible drinking problem for years, and then just recently became sober, and after that, it seemed like everything started making sense,” he said. “It’s the most incredible thing in the world.”

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Quitting drinking and staying sober, despite a global pandemic that has caused others to relapse, wasn’t tough as he originally thought.

“It was actually easier,” Singleton said. “I was more of a social drinker if I wasn’t just like a functioning alcoholic at work. When the pandemic hit, there was nowhere to go and no one to drink with, and I was not about to spend my last few dollars getting drunk by myself. “ He said he decided to quit on March 4, right after a trip to Florida for the Tampa Pro Skateboarding Contest. While celebrating the re-release of one of his boards from 20 years ago, Singleton said he “probably got a little too drunk” and decided to quit after that weekend.

“I was just over it,” he said. “And now, I feel great.”

After overcoming addiction, Singleton said he took a leap of faith with his Cooking With Clyde business, which has been working well for him the past four months.

“I took the last bit of my money, bought some mise en place, and it just took off,” he said. “I guess people were hungry and just liked the food. The concept is really good and quick, where people can just come in, get a small bite, and get it to go.”

That leap of faith turned into a huge opportunity, when Singleton met Danielle Bull, owner of Bull’s Tavern.

“I’ve spent all this time bringing the space up to code so that we could start providing food and doing things the right way to get back open,” Bull said. “The PPP is gone—money is gone and rent is due. We have to start some way to make income. Meeting Clyde was a coincidence.”

When restaurants and bars closed on March 17, Bull made sure to take care of her staff by helping them file for unemployment benefits.

“I ended up helping a lot of other service industry workers downtown file their unemployment, and fill it out properly,” she said. “I helped what felt like several hundred people. Clyde was having trouble with his unemployment, and someone had told him to call me, and a couple of days later, we bumped into each other at Hoots.”

She saw his pop-up there, and the two started talking about him coming to Bull’s with his food cart.

“We started talking about when we reopened doing a taco truck because we couldn’t reopen in May,” she explained.

“That is when I decided to just gut the place and redo it from the subfloor up and make sure everything met code to be able to sell food out of there.”

Bull plans on reopening on Sept. 11, when North Carolina is supposed to enter Phase 3. But with the recent uncertainty surrounding alleged conflicting information from ALE and ABC agents, Bull’s reopening plans are still up in the air.

However, she said Singleton didn’t have to wait for Bull’s to completely reopen to start operations at Ollie Llama. Additionally, Bull plans to sell to-go beer and wine while she waits for the OK to fully reopen.

With rent coming up soon, Bull has plans to hold a gift card drive so that Bull’s Tavern can reopen and stay open.

“I’ve got a hundred gift cards, so I am

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just going to do a gift card drive asking people to prepay their future tab, and chip into the rent pile since the landlord wants his money,” she said. “The bills haven’t stopped just because the business stopped with only one round of funding, that was never intended to last five months,” she added. “I have enough left to restock the bar, and that’s it.”

The concept of Singleton’s new venture is similar to Cooking With Clyde, except that The Ollie Llama will be stable at Bull’s Tavern while Cooking With Clyde travels. Singleton said he would be making small-bite snack foods to stock at Bull’s Tavern (when they can reopen) throughout the week, and he will make special appearances there on the weekends to whip up his specialties.

The name “The Ollie Llama” comes from a joke Singleton and his friends came up with while sitting outside one evening. He said they were brainstorming witty Instagram handles for Singleton’s side-gig as a writer for skateboarding magazines. He said it’s a play on words with Dalai Lama, and an ‘ollie’ is a popular skateboarding trick, and he adopted the llama as the company’s mascot.

Immediately, The Ollie Llama’s menu stands out in the downtown dining scene as Singleton said half of it would include plant-based foods—filling a void for the city’s vegan and vegetarian diners.

“That is kind of the first thing I really wanted to do and bring into downtown because there is not a lot of plant-based stuff,” he said. “Everything you can get to hold in your one hand and your drink or phone in the other, that was my complete idea when I wanted to do the food, and that is also what I wanted to do with the pop-ups.”

Singleton’s vision of The Ollie Llama is offering a “very simple, moderately priced” menu with “a piece of North Carolina and Winston-Salem in everything.” He said The Ollie Llama’s menu includes items such as “Camel City Churros,” which are filled with either Black Mountain Chocolate or peanut butter and jelly, and “Camel City Pups,” which are hushpuppies loaded with ricotta, Swiss and mozzarella cheeses. The menu also has a Texas Pete pico-de-gallo and other local Winston-Salem and North Carolina staples.

“I will be using Doc Brown’s barbecue, and Cheerwine barbecue sauce—I am using Slappy’s Chicken and turning that into chicken salad,” he said. “I am just working with a lot of different purveyors, and I want to work with North Carolina names. I think it’s kind of important.”

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“Camel City Churro” garnished with peanut butter and jelly is one of The Ollie Llama’s menu items has predominantly worked in restaurants.

“No one really knew that I cook, which is funny,” he said. “I always knew how to cook; I could always put something together. I think skateboarding actually helps in that sense because skateboarders are very creative.”

As a new business owner in a time of uncertainty and limited resources, Singleton has also had to juggle being a business owner, chef, and a his own marketing team. Singleton released The Ollie Llama logo and announced his new venture on Aug. 17. The logo is an Afro-pick, with the City of Winston-Salem’s skyline between its metal rods. Singleton came up with the concept, which pays homage to one of his favorite music groups, Digable Planets, and their album Blowout Comb, and Eric Swaim of Marquee Studios made the finished product happen.

“I wanted to go with a logo rather than a name and font because from skateboarding, what I have learned, people recognize symbols more than they do words and letters,” Singleton said. “I think the branding and the logo are really useful going into it and getting the name out there a lot. Being able to work with different skateboard-

ing magazines has really helped, as well.”

Singleton said once upon a time, almost 20 years ago, he was a professional skateboard dreaming of being a chef.

“What really got me into cooking was, I used to read the New York Times a lot,” he said. “I’d get the Sunday paper and do the crossword, and always take the recipes out of that section. I had a book of them.”

Then he started working in restaurants in Asheville, as a dishwasher.

“I made the mistake of being able to pop some oysters really quickly, and I wished I was washing dishes again,” he said jokingly. “That is all how this started, popping an oyster.”

Singleton said he did not want a restaurant, but that the opportunity fell in his lap.

“I want my food there every day, but I don’t want to be there in the same place every day that is not my brand,” he explained. “What I really wanted to do was take it back to skateboarding, kind of tour skate shops. Lots of skate shops have direct and meaningful communication and relationships with bars and things like that because we are all older. I wanted to kind of flip that and do The Ollie Llama,

not as a restaurant, per se—That is something I have really wanted to do anyways, become a food supplier. [The Ollie Llama] is a way to test the market.”

Singleton attributes finding success in an industry doomed by COVID to keeping it simple, and consistent.

“I didn’t really have a set goal—I think that’s what probably was one of my reasons for being successful,” he said. “When I became more successful, it became a lot easier because I didn’t add more things to it. I kept it simple. I did exactly the same thing this entire time.”

He also attributes his popularity to his strong work ethic, and to the people that want his food.

“I was hustling—in the beginning, I was doing three or four pop-ups a week with no kind of transportation,” he said.

“I didn’t ask for a lot, and that is what I think was my key to my success.”

In addition to The Ollie Llama, Singleton said he would still take his Cooking With Clyde cart to local hot spots around Winston-Salem, such as Hoots and Monstercade, and even out of town.

Since bars are still technically closed, Singleton plans to pick up other catering jobs in addition to managing The Ollie Llama and other Cooking With Clyde gigs.

“No one wants to be in one place all the time every day, and I am lucky enough to have other business ventures,” he said.

“And right now, you can’t really fit a lot of people into one place.”

Singleton describes having the “best of both worlds” with his one-man cooking show. The perks, he said, is that his hours are shorter, his paychecks are bigger, and he gets to stay creative while also challenging himself.

“It is doing what I have been doing, and also doing what I have wanted to do in other kitchens,” he said. “In skateboarding, you just have to have that mentality of just like, you have to do it as you do it every day. The first day is going to be like every day—just go in, make the food good and make it right, and make sure everyone is happy. That is the biggest thing out of everything.” !

KATIE MURAWSKI is the editor of YES! Weekly. She is from Mooresville, North Carolina and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in journalism with a minor in film studies from Appalachian State University in 2017.

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You can catch Cooking With Clyde at Hoots, and on Wednesdays at Monstercade. The Ollie Llama, located inside Bull’s Tavern at 408 W. 4th St. in Winston-Salem, will open sometime in the near future from Friday-Sunday.

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Fired GPD officer alleges he was told to remove video about George Floyd *Editor’s note: This story originally appeared online on Aug. 21 “They said I violated the department’s social media policy, but not specifically how,” said the recently fired Greensboro Ian McDowell police officer Jaquay Williams in a phone Contributor interview on Thursday. Williams also alleged that Internal Affairs told him to take down his May 27 TikTok video about the May 25 murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.

In that video, which has been reposted multiple times to YouTube, he is identified only as “Officer Williams.” He wears his uniform and sits in his police car, but his badge and name tag are obscured and nothing associates him with Greensboro. In the course of the 59 second video, he makes the following statements.

I am disgusted with the things that happened in Minneapolis. Pure and point-blank, things could have went way different. At the end of the day, let’s talk facts: Guy’s on the ground. He’s laying on his stomach. He had handcuffs on. It’s four of y’all, one of him.

Four of y’all, one of him. Who has control of the situation? It’s not much one person could do against four people.

Now, let’s get deeper, right? As an officer, you are a first responder, right? So, if in the midst of you trying to gain compliance, someone is hurt, you have to render aid.

So, if somebody is saying, ‘I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe,’ you don’t think to yourself, ‘Oh, my gosh, this guy can’t breathe, he might die? Let me render aid?’

Right? Officers — other officers — if you’re going to be standing there and not help when things go wrong, come on! Like, you don’t see that? Like, that’s the reason I got behind this badge, right? Because them officers that’s afraid to step up, I want to be the one to step up. If I see wrong happening, wrong is not happening in my presence. I’m going to check it.

On TikTok, the video received over 5.4 million views, over 1.6 million Likes, and over 46,000 comments. Williams told YES! Weekly that those comments were overwhelmingly positive. “All I got was a good response, even from cops. To the GPD, I say, the ball was in your court, you could have YES! WEEKLY

made a chess move and done this differently. You were afraid of the publicity, but now you have too much publicity that you can’t handle.”

He also said that, within hours of the video going viral, he received a phone call from Internal Affairs.

“I went down to talk to them. They were like, you should not be posting in your uniform. They put an email in front of me from the chief that was super vague. It said don’t do anything to hinder or stop the police, which of course I did not do. They said ‘we are opening an investigation into your social media’ and ‘you should remove the video’.”

Williams told YES! Weekly that the department had been aware of his TikTok videos when they hired him on March 1, 2019.

“They already knew I’d been posting my thoughts and opinions and stuff. Also, I do music. They’d seen that before I was even hired. I talk about thoughtprovoking things, depression, anxiety, racial equality. I didn’t attack white people or cops. I didn’t say anything to break the directive.”

He said that, per departmental policy, his social media was monitored weekly, and that he had been doing videos in uniform for a month before this one went viral, and the department seemed to have no problem with that. “Then the George Floyd thing happened. It affected me. Being human and being upset, I went on TikTok and spoke about it.”

He said he was put on Administrative Leave while Internal Affairs conducted a two-month long investigation into his social media. Over the course of the investigation, Williams alleged, he was repeatedly questioned on three topics. “I posted a song, ‘Hello America,” in which I said the only way to be safe is to have blonde hair and blue eyes. They had a problem with that. They also talked about an interview I did on the Tamron Hall show.”

The June 12 episode of that Disney/ABC daily talk show featured a panel of six police officers from across the nation who had appeared in social media videos wearing their uniforms, and in which they called George Floyd’s death “murder.”

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In the episode, he was identified as “Ta’Quay”, a 32-year-old police officer from Georgia. He is actually 29. “That was their guess based on my social media,” said Williams. An ABC11.com article posted on June 12 about the broadcast was later updated to give his real name and department.

On the show, Williams said “We work in a predominantly black neighborhood. It’s imperative for the white officers to empathize with the black people of the neighborhood, because the trauma that black person is dealing with when you go to a call with them is not the trauma from that day. This is trauma from before.”

According to Williams, Internal Affairs questioned him thoroughly about that statement.

“They talked about it, and the Hello, America video, and the George Floyd thing.

They told me maybe a white person would think they wouldn’t get a fair shake from me.”

According to a press release from Greensboro Police Department, Williams’ termination was “not related to his comments over the George Floyd incident.”

Williams disputes that.

“If they didn’t fire me for the video, ask them ‘why did you fire me? My social media, which you’ve been monitoring constantly for a year, hasn’t changed.

Why is it an issue now? Is it because I got a platform?”

On Thursday afternoon, GPD public information officer Ronald Glenn emailed YES! Weekly the following statement: “We cannot release any additional information about Mr. Williams. The statement that was released yesterday is the only information that we can release at this time.”

Williams said that the reason he was given for his firing was “violation of social media and general conduct, without any specifics.”

Chapter 16.8.5, page 579-80, of the GPD Directives Manual concerns personal use of social media. It states that “Department personnel are free to express themselves as private citizens on social media sites to the degree that their speech does not impair working relationships of this department for which loyalty and confidentiality are

important, impede the performance of duties, impair discipline and harmony among coworkers, or negatively affect the public perception of the department.”

It also states speech that “owes its existence to the employee’s professional duties and responsibilities” is not protected by the first amendment and “may form the basis for discipline if deemed detrimental to the department.”

Williams challenged the implication that he’d done any of those things. “They said I violated the department’s social media policy, but not specifically how.”

He said he does believe that Chief Brian James “stands with me” about what he said on his TikTok. “Any officer in his right mind would understand that guy did wrong.” But, Williams added “what about that other stuff?” referring to his statement on the Tamron Hall show that, he alleged, Internal Affairs seemed very concerned about. Williams told YES! Weekly that he was born in Orange, New Jersey, and did not move to Greensboro until August of 2018.

“I have a brother who lives here. We tried out for GPD at same time. He didn’t get on, I did, and was hired March 1, 2018. All my immediate family are police officers, every last one of them. Most of them are in New Jersey.”

Williams also said that he had never heard of Marcus Deon Smith, whose fatal hogtying by eight GPD officers at the 2018 North Carolina Folk Festival has been compared to the deaths of George Floyd and John Neville, until he was undergoing his GPD training.

“Maybe they’re trying to cool things down because of that. Although I never saw the videos of his death, they did mention it in training, which was the first I’d heard of him. They told they had taken away the old restraints used before I was hired, the ones that attached the subject’s ankles to their handcuffs, putting them in a hogtie position. They said they didn’t use RIPP Hobbles any more, after that man died.”

He also had a message for YES! Weekly’s readers: “I did not do this to lash out at the Greensboro or any police department. I was just being a human and speaking up on things I felt were wrong. That’s what I got into this line of work for, to stand on what’s right and do away with what’s wrong.” !

IAN MCDOWELL is the author of two published novels, numerous anthologized short stories, and a whole lot of nonfiction and journalism, some of which he’s proud of and none of which he’s ashamed of.

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Sheriff drags speaker at Alamance County public hearing from podium for asking question *Editor’s note: This story originally appeared online on Aug. 23. It has been edited to fit in the print edition.

At last Monday night’s contentious meeting of the Graham City Council, Ian McDowell Chair Amy Galey ordered an approved Contributor speaker making a public comment during an agenda item to be removed from the chamber by Sheriff Terry Johnson and two officers. Galey is running for election to the North Carolina State Senate to represent District 24.

The Board’s Public Comment Policy was revised in January of 2019, and is even more strict than the controversial one that Greensboro’s mayor and city attorney unsuccessfully attempted to impose on speakers before the Greensboro City Council last year. Under the Alamance policy, speakers are forbidden to address individual members of the board or anyone else in the room.

That policy, however, is for the public comments section of the agenda, which limits comments to three minutes each, with no more than three speakers allowed on the same topic. Williams was speaking during the public hearing part of the agenda, during which speakers are allotted five minutes, and there are no posted rules forbidding speakers to address anyone but the board as a whole during public hearings. The public hearing was on whether the county should offer United Parcel Service incentives to build a plant in the North Carolina Commerce Park.

Meg Williams was the first speaker from the public on the agenda item. She began by stating her name and that she did not feel safe giving her address due to threats she has received from neoConfederates in the city streets “who are emboldened by that monument and your continued silence.”

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for Change, whom, she said, “are all here to address our UPS representative.”

“Your comments need to be directed toward the board,” Galey interrupted.

“They actually have to do with their end—,” Williams said.

“I’m sorry, I’m still speaking,” Galey said.

“I was speaking first, actually,” Williams replied, “you don’t get to talk over me, it’s my five minutes. This is a public meeting and I’m asking them about their incentive package.”

“I’m asking you to return to your seat,” Galey said.

Williams replied: “If you are not going to listen to your constituents, why should I—...”

“This is disorderly conduct in the course of a public meeting,” said Galey before Williams finished that sentence. “You’re not being courteous in your language and presentation.”

“My language is plenty courteous,” Williams said, “we are here to address UPS, because as a company committed to racial equity and to the principles outlined in the UPS foundation—” “You are not permitted to address UPS,” continued Galey, again talking over Williams. “Sheriff, please take steps, Ms. Williams is disrupting a public meeting.”

Sheriff Terry Johnson stood up and approached Williams from her right, while the bailiff approached her from behind. The sheriff made a hooked thumb gesture at Galey, then motioned for a deputy, as did the bailiff.

“I get five minutes to speak, and I have four left,” Williams said.

“You forfeited your right,” said the sheriff, motioning to the deputy, who grabbed Williams’ arms from behind and yanked her away from the podium. The bailiff then shoved and the deputy dragged her off camera. “Get your hands off me!” shouted Williams as she disappeared from view on the county video.

“She’s in trouble,” Sheriff Johnson said.

“We told you to be civil.”

“Best thing to do is move on out the door, lady” said Commissioner Eddie Boswell, laughing. Commissioners Bill Lashley and Tim Sutton joined him in the laughter, nodding in approval.

The incident can be viewed in the video Excerpt: 8-17-2020 Alamance CC Meeting: Meg Williams Silenced (Agenda speaker on UPS Incentives), which is one the Alamance County Watch YouTube channel.

“They threatened to detain me and

attempted to intimidate me by surrounding me with six deputies,” Williams later told YES! Weekly. She said that, ultimately, she was not arrested, but issued a citation for disruption of a public meeting. “But Chairwoman Galey is the one who caused the disruption by speaking over me and interrupting my allotted five minutes.”

Williams also provided YES! Weekly with the Appeal to UPS that she was cut off from reading at the podium.

Williams described being physically dragged from the podium as an “assault.”

An assault also occurred before the meeting in the street outside, when a neo-Confederate protester put her hands on one of the evening’s public speakers.

That speaker was Carey Kirk Griffin, who was not silenced at the County Commissioners Meeting as she repeatedly was at the previous week’s meeting of the Graham City Council.

At 6 p.m. on Monday, an hour before the county meeting, a rally was held outside the county courthouse by the same groups that issued the statement that Williams was forcibly prevented from reading.

The rally was to announce the result of the People’s Referendum, a symbolic vote conducted by Down Home NC, Siembra NC and Forward Motion Alamance on whether to move the city’s Confederate monument and repeal Sheriff Terry Johnson’s new 287g agreement with ICE. While the rally was being livestreamed by Siembra NC, one neo-Confederate repeatedly attempted to block the camera with his Confederate flag, while another, standing on the courthouse steps, repeatedly held a flag-shaped 2nd Amendment banner above a speaker’s head, then made physical threats and dared protesters to stop him.

The only physical assault was when a neo-Confederate counter-protester making a video of the rally suddenly put her hand on Griffin and shoved her. As can be seen in this video, Griffin did not touch her assailant or retaliate, but both women were cited for “Simple Assault.”

Activists allege this is part of a pattern and practice by Sheriff Terry Johnson and the Graham Police, claiming that, while activists are immediately arrested if they initiate a confrontation with a neo-Confederate, that when a neo-Confederate assaults a Black Lives Matter activist, officers do not respond unless other activists are making videos and shout for the officers to intervene. At which point, the activists

allege, officers arrest or cite both parties.

At the meeting, Griffin presented the commissioners with the results of the symbolic referendum. Before she took the podium, Chair Amy Galey remarked on the sounds of the protest outside. As can be seen in this YouTube video, Sheriff Johnson asked her “you want me to shut them up?,” to which Galey stated, “they are not allowed to use amplified speech,” and “when many people chant together, that is in itself amplified speech.” She asked the other board members is they felt the meeting was being disrupted by the noise from outside. While several expressed disapproval of the protest, they indicated it was “OK for now.”

In her speech, Griffin told the commissioners that the organizations she spoke for had, on Aug. 3, called on them to hold a public vote on the relocation of the confederate monument from the courthouse and the repeal of the 287g Warrant Service Officer Program in the Alamance County Sheriff’s Office, and to respond by end of business day on Aug. 10.

She then said, “not only have you failed to respond, but to this day you have failed to acknowledge the legitimate concerns of our community in regards to these issues,” and that they had demonstrated their “unwillingness to listen to all your constituents and your refusal to provide any real oversight to a sheriff who went behind your back (and against the expertise of the county attorney) to sign an agreement with ICE without a proper vote.”

Shen then stated that’s why the People’s Referendum was held on Aug. 15.

“We wanted to give residents (tax payers) in Alamance County an opportunity to be heard. There were 1,051 legitimate online votes and 840 legitimate in person votes: In total, 1,798 voted, of which 1,339 people voted that the County Commission should move the monument, while 462 voted against its relocation. And 1,289 people voted that the Commission should repeal the sheriff’s 287(g) program with ICE, while 450 voted against a repeal.” !

IAN MCDOWELL is the author of two published novels, numerous anthologized short stories, and a whole lot of nonfiction and journalism, some of which he’s proud of and none of which he’s ashamed of.

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eremy Squires sees new waves in his latest album, Many Moons, coming out on Aug. 28 via Blackbird Record Label.

On Many Moons, Squires continues Katei Cranford spinning yarns from the heart, and the Contributor earth, adding a touch of electronics to an array of sonic textures. The work remains drawn to heavier realms, led by a bipolar existence—surrounded by perils of addiction and loss— grounded by music as a way of dealing and turning things around.

The 10th studio release from the alternative-folk artist spans new realms in old territory. Imagery of darkness and dreams weave through timeless (and timely) topics surrounding grief, stress, mental illness, and change.

Though his songs share salted, wounded experiences. But Squires, himself, remains far from salty. “I just try to keep living day by day, spending time with my loved ones,” he noted optimistically of pandemic life, ”I keep writing and recording music, with hopes to play in front of crowds again one day.”

“Music is probably more important now than ever,” he added. “Not being able to tour or play shows has made life more difficult, but I love the fact that I can release a lot of music during this time and more people will hear it and connect.”

Connections carry as he’s been using the time wisely, having just wrapped production on the video for “Swan Dive,” his third off the record; and shot in Greensboro by Griffin Hart Davis Productions. The track features Whit Wright on pedal steel, adding a familiar touch to the decidedly lessfolky record. For Squires, Wright’s addition brings depth, drawing more emotion from the song, inspired by memories of his late mother.

The first single, “Cast Spells,” finds Squires on his own—fluid and almost dream-poppy. The result contrasts origins of an acoustic duet he’d envisioned with his wife, Shelley Ann. Concepts around the changing of the familiar runs through Many Moons, spilling into the second single, “Labyrinth.” An ode to hometown blues, “it’s a song about living in the same place where you grew up and watching YES! WEEKLY

everything change around you,” Squires noted.

He revisits the concept in the video for the synth-laden track, “Hazy,” which features New Bern haunts, coastal forests and county fair scenes. Home and family remain close to the heart for Squires, even as the tides of Many Moons steer him in a new sonic territory.

The record remains anchored to his catalog by source material—an experience of expressing other styles more so than a new working direction. Using songwriting as a sort of catharsis and therapy, Many Moons revisits familiar themes, freshly coated in keyboard tones—echoing the air of the abandoned church in which part of the album was recorded.

“I try to write in a way that the listener can relate, and take something meaningful from the song,” he said. “It’s definitely cathartic for me as a songwriter once the song is finished and I can play it for people. It’s like therapy. I love to experience the listener’s reactions and interpretations of my songs.”

The outlook typically lends his sounds into the folkier end of the shelf, with Many Moons drifting between Jason Molina and Choir Boy, as opposed to the Gillian Welch or Sharon Van Etten vibes from his most-recently released work, Eastern Glow.

“I was listening to a lot of the Cure, Mazzy Star, and the Replacements,” Squires explained of Many Moons’ artistic influences, also listing acts like Soft Kill, Tom Petty, Jets to Brazil, and True Widow. But he’s quick to note inspirative works beyond music. Movies, poetry, and experiences find their way into his songbook, a notion which carries interest into varied pursuits.

And those pursuits are plenty as plans for books of photography and poetry linger on his horizon, with Many Moons marking his third release since March. “It was a way to keep music in people’s ears,” he explained of using a back-catalogue of

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unreleased covers and demos to generate support for his latest release. He also recently appeared on Assertion’s “Isolation Collaboration” project, for which he wrote and performed his song, “Burst,” with drums from William Goldsmith (Sunny Day Real Estate, the Foo Fighters and the Fire Theft).

Spinning toward the future, Squires isn’t slowing down, with another record

underway. Tentatively titled “Unravel,” he’ll continue exploring ways his own emotions relate to the world at large. “I feel like it covers a lot of very important topics brought on by the pandemic and social movements,” he noted, highlighting their effects on mental health.

For now, the focus remains on haunting cycles of artistry—the ebb and flow of emotion in a world that keeps spinning under Squires’ new album, Many Moons, coming out on Aug. 28 via Blackbird Record Label. !

KATEI CRANFORD is a Triad music nerd who hosts the Tuesday Tour Report, a radio show on hiatus until tours return.

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My girlfriend got a dog six weeks ago — a Chihuahua. I don’t hate the dog, but I’m not wild about him. I’ve almost stepped on him twice in the kitchen, Amy Alkon and my snuggle time on the couch Advice with my girlfriend Goddess has now become me watching him sit in her lap while they cootchie-coo it out. She hasn’t had the dog sleep in bed with us, but I know that’s next. Is this the end of our relationship?

—Annoyed It’s pretty depressing when doing risky stuff in bed means sleeping without a flea collar.

Though the interspecies bed-sharing you fear has yet to become a reality, chances are it’s next, especially if you stick with your current strategy: resenting that the dog’s getting all the attention but saying nothing to try to change that.

As humiliating as it is to have your top-dog status usurped by an actual dog, coming to understand the evolved function of jealousy could help you shift your focus — to see whether you can get your needs met or whether you need to blow this particular doghouse.

Jealousy often gets confused with envy, but evolutionary psychologist David Buss explains that they are “distinct

emotions” that motivate “distinctly different” behaviors in line with the differing problems they were “designed” by evolution to solve. Buss’ research finds jealousy is activated “when there is a threat to a valued social relationship.”

Envy, on the other hand, is triggered “when someone else has something that you desire or covet but currently lack.”

So, while envy mainly sparks longing (for the things, partner, or relationship someone else has), jealousy mainly arouses fear (of losing one’s own partner or friend to someone else). Accordingly, a woman envious of the promotion her co-worker got basically “plays offense”: perhaps working harder and sucking up more to the boss in hopes of getting a promotion of her own. A woman experiencing jealousy over her hubby’s coziness with his hot female co-worker “plays defense”: possibly dressing sexier to compete with her rival in hopes of protecting her relationship against infidelity or “mate-poaching” (the other woman stealing her man).

Though jealousy is seen as maladaptive and toxic, it actually protects our interests, both by flagging threats to a “valued social relationship” — romantic or platonic — and by motivating us to fend them off. Research by evolutionary social psychologist Jaimie Arona Krems and her colleagues suggests jealousy is an “overlooked tool” for “friendship maintenance.” The loss of a friendship if, say, our friend moves away makes us feel sad, but if we seem to be losing the friendship because our best friend is hanging out with some new person, we

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feel jealous. The threat of being replaced, not the mere loss of the friendship, triggers jealousy in us, motivating us to put effort into shoring up our friendship.

Researchers have yet to explore the dog-as-mate-poacher angle, but it likely triggers jealousy for the same reasons human mate-poaching does: to alert you to a threat to a valued relationship so you can take steps to get the affection and commitment nozzle turned back in your direction.

For your best chance at getting your girlfriend to scratch behind your ears (or whatever!) at the rate she used to, evoke her empathy while giving her the sense your unhappiness could send you out the door. For example, say, “It’s great how happy Cujo’s making you, but when we’re on the couch, I feel embarrassingly left out.” You two might then brainstorm how you each can get enough of what you want. (A possible solution might be to get a little furry “cup” bed so he can curl up by her shoulder on the corner of the couch.)

By making your feelings known, you’ll likely give her the sense the dog-in-bed thing is something to ask you about, not

just surprise you with when a paw goes up your nose at 3 a.m. By the way, I have a possible solution with something for both of you: Have the dog next to the bed, in his own little bed, when you stay over. Dogs have an extremely powerful sense of smell, and I discovered while potty training mine that she would cry if she had to sleep in her little area in the living room but was calm and content when I put her bed next to mine in a giant Tupperware container. (She is a tiny Chinese crested, not a Great Dane.)

Whatever you two decide, it’ll come out of your using your jealousy productively: to see whether it’s possible to redirect enough of her attention and affection your way and to set some dog boundaries going forward. If something furry comes between you and your woman, you’d like it to be a mink bikini and not a small, growling four-legged thing that hates you and chews up your $200 sneakers. !

GOT A problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or e-mail AdviceAmy@aol. com (www.advicegoddess.com) © 2020 Amy Alkon Distributed by Creators.Com.

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