Yes! Weekly’s Jordan Green re-writes a little history in his article on the GPD recordings:
In April 2006, following the controversial resignation of police Chief David Wray, the Greensboro Police Department issued a press release stating that “a non-sworn police employee attended some meetings with members of the community, and recorded those meetings without their knowledge.”
…The disclosure sent shockwaves through Greensboro, and added to an atmosphere of racial tension and distrust already on low boil with recent allegations of racial profiling within the police force and with the refusal of the white majority on city council to embrace a truth process to look into the 1979 killings of antiracist labor activists by Klansmen and Nazis.
Uh, Jordan, how about reading Virgil Griffin’s NYT obit? Those “antiracist labor activists” were members of the Communist Workers Party, staging a “Death to the Klan” rally. Not exactly what you’d call peaceful protest.
Disappointing that a reporter actually believes Greensboro citizens are too stupid to catch his little spin on an ugly incident with which we’re very familiar.
