As a citizen of Greensboro, something that’s always bothered me about City Manager Mitchell Johnson are his flashes of arrogance and unprofessionalism. I remember Johnson’s looks of utter disgust when playing the Brady-Sanders tapes for the City Council, as if he was telling the council (and the public) how they should feel about information that had no real context or meaning behind the true issues surrounding the David Wray controversy.

Now comes this passage in his response to the controversy surrounding the black book memo:

From my very first press conference until today I have never said that the “black book” was definitively a profiling document. In fact, even though I have been constantly goaded by the media to say more, I have stated that it may have been an appropriate investigative document but that I could not say for sure because it depended on the outcome of the various investigations. The issue of the “black book” has always been one of truthfulness on the part of the former Chief regarding the existence of the document. I stand by that position today and, in fact, the memo in question is another nail in that coffin!!! It is documented evidence outside of the RMA interview that Brady knew about the document.

Note the sentence in bold. Is that a very professional way for the city manager to state his position?