Editor, The Commercial:
The city council’s special meeting was well attended. I was told that I shouldn’t have gotten up and said anything at the meeting because it appeared as if I was speaking against Assistant Chief Ivan Whitfield simply because I recognized the police chief as being in authority and that the city council representatives and other elected officials shouldn’t let their personal feelings about her help influence their decision.
Sometimes we get our emotions involved in our decision-making process, and we regret our decisions because we didn’t use appropriate judgment. Mayor Carl A. Redus Jr. was at his best; he had done his homework and had his actual facts together, but it was if he was speaking to people who are deaf.
All the naysayers should take heed to this quotation: “Right don’t wrong nobody.”
How can you expect the young adults to get right when you’re not right? The young adults watch us and see how we carry out and hate each other and lie about a person, and the older generation follows suit with their gossiping and lying, and we expect for them to follow that?
Independent reporting for Pine Bluff & Jefferson County since 1879.
Pine Bluff needs to straighten up; there needs to be real examples demonstrated. Thanks to the mayor again, and to Councilman Wayne Easterly.
The mayor explained the law, and told you what you could and couldn’t do. He’s been in constant contact with the Municipal League. Now that’s the mayor that I know.
He looks out for your best interest by seeking legal advice before he answers. The chief of police’s name and her children are being dragged through the gutter. Who looked at the evidence when they went into executive session? No one.
Barbara Blunt Muhammad
Pine Bluff