Mayor Allen Joines | Mayor Allen Joines Official Website
Mayor Allen Joines | Mayor Allen Joines Official Website
Vandals last night or early this morning slashed the Pride Month banner in front of City Hall. Mayor Allen Joines today issued the following statement: “I view this act as an apparent hate crime. I want to state in the strongest terms that the City of Winston-Salem and the City Council fully support Pride Winston-Salem, their upcoming events, and Pride Month. The city is acting swiftly to repair the banner in the interim and replace it with a new banner as soon as possible.”
Wanda Allen-Abraha, the city’s director of human relations/diversity, equity and inclusion, said that the replacement banner is scheduled to be installed on Monday. “We want to assure the members of the LGBTQIA+ community that we empathize with and are sensitive to their concerns about such incidents,” Allen-Abraha said. “I have asked Police Chief William Penn to investigate this as a potential hate crime.”
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