High Point Enterprise reports city human relations director Al Heggins has been place on paid administrative leave after the HPE obtained an email making allegations of institutional racism:
Heggins said her department is required by the city’s ordinance to deal with issues of race, and she’s tried to take a proactive position.
“I’ve been systematically attacked as an individual and the department has been publicly maligned, along with my name,” she wrote in the email. “Please understand that black people are being killed. I am a black woman.
Other allegations include police refusing to take action after she reported being assaulted and “unnamed City Council member” bringing her “literature about the history of the Confederacy that included a picture of the Confederate flag.”
Stay tuned.
