New Police Chief Gerald Smith has been at the helm less than one month.
http://richmondfreepress.com/news/2020/jul/02/new-police-chief-gerald-smith-greeted-eventful-fir/
New Police Chief Gerald Smith greeted with eventful first day
7/2/2020
For Gerald M. Smith, the first day as Richmond’s new police chief was anything but routine.
Along with the regular calls for service on Wednesday, Chief Smith, who was tapped for the job late last Friday, found the department caught up in a whirl of events typical of the upheaval that has gripped the city since late May following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
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Chief Smith, 51, is the city’s 20th police chief and the fourth person to hold the top position during Mayor Stoney’s first term. The chief’s starting salary: $185,000 a year, the city reported. That’s roughly $10,000 more than his predecessor.
To the mayor, the new chief’s willingness to leave at a moment’s notice the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department in North Carolina where he has served for 29 years was a strong point in his favor, given that Mayor Stoney considered it a priority to fill the job.
Mayor Stoney has declared Chief Smith is “who Richmond needs right now — a reform-minded leader with deep experience in community police and de-escalation.” However, Mayor Stoney could not point to any specifics in Chief Smith’s record in North Carolina to indicate reform leadership.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu7Dxp73y40
Richmond Mayor blames white supremecists (Title)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx8llaGd3RI
8-26 news conference. (Richmond mayor and police)
Police chief mentions Antifa at about 40 seconds in. Indicates that the individuals are from “outside Richmond.”
At about 4:05 someone in the media asks about white supremacists marching under a BLM banner. Someone, the mayor, indicates that all the people arrested are White People, but not all people in the “protest” were white. The police chief indicates groups identified were boogaloo and antifa. Continuing to investigate and bring to justice etc.
(Of course the Antifa people are identifying themselves as Boogaloo...false flag. (Boogaloo A term I have not heard until about a month ago...)
That’s because when he was here in Charlotte, he presided over a muddled mess of a law enforcement scheme that couldn’t handle the job.