Crime

Winston-Salem and Forsyth County law enforcement leaders to hold 'Trust Talk' on police violence

By Paul Garber, Turner Jones

Published February 16, 2023 at 4:56 PM EST

Forsyth County Sheriff Bobby Kimbrough and Winston-Salem Police Chief William Penn Jr. will hold a public forum next week to discuss how law enforcement and the community can work together to combat police brutality.

The discussion comes in the wake of the death of Tyre Nicols at the hands of Memphis police officers early last month. Six officers have been fired and five are facing second-degree murder charges in connection.

The forum is co-sponsored by the city’s Human Relations Department and Leadership Winston-Salem.

The forum will be held Tuesday, February 21, on the campus of Forsyth Technical Community College. The event is free and open to the public, but registration is encouraged.

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Paul Garber

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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Winston-Salem and Forsyth County law enforcement leaders to hold 'Trust Talk' on police violence

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