GREENSBORO, N.C. — City leaders and law enforcement addressed both the peaceful and also, destructive demonstrations from Saturday in Greensboro.
Mayor Nancy Vaughn said, “We had a few very difficult hours but that's not the way Greensboro should be defined.”
“I too feel that Black Lives Matter and people have to be able to say that and be out in our community, and it's very important to hear those words. But there were people in those groups yesterday that came to our community to start trouble,” Vaughn said.
“We are not going to let a few interlopers take apart what we have spent a long time building. We are Greensboro strong,” Vaughn stated.
Both Greensboro Police Chief Brian James and Guilford County Sheriff Danny Rogers spoke during the news conference.
“The people who came into our county last night and brought the destruction with them, we will not tolerate that,” said Guilford County Sheriff Danny Rogers.
Greensboro Police Chief Brian James said, “Yesterday, I saw the best in law enforcement. I saw patience, tolerance and corporation with our citizens in an effort to provide a peaceful environment for people to express their first amendment rights. Unfortunately, that was disrupted by people that wanted to destroy.”
Chief James said, the destruction doesn’t make us better.
“That’s not productive, that doesn’t honor the memory of George Floyd, that doesn’t make us better. That doesn’t get us to move past this point and build upon it.”
As far as how the International Civil Rights Center and Museum’s window was broken, law enforcement does not have that answer at this time.k here for moire
“We don’t know who broke it at this point. We’re investigating a lot of different things. But the fact is a beacon of light was damaged last night. It will be repaired, and we’ll move on, and it will still be a beacon of light. But my point is this: that was not produ