Name: Cooper talks at Raleigh Juneteenth celebration
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Description: Raleigh honors Juneteenth, now a federal holiday and the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the abolition of slavery in the U.S. Gov. Roy Cooper is expected to speak at Dix Park. WRAL is a proud supporter of the Capital City Juneteenth Celebration.

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Don't you miss smiling and being able to see them. So this is going to be a fabulous program for you And it is certainly one that is all about joy and about recognizing the sacrifices of our ancestors so that we could be here. Today I read this fabulous quote from a formerly enslaved man from Galveston texas, one of 250,000 enslaved black Americans who found out On this day that they were free. And he had this quote about June 19 he said everybody went wild. We all felt like heroes, just like that. We were free. Are they not our heroes? So today I really, really want to sell to celebrate just as they did. And we're going to begin with prayer from reverend robert Hodges at ST paul A. M. E, followed by a wonderful welcome. You all have some special guests here today. You'll be hearing from Janet cowl, governor, Roy, cooper Raleigh mayor, Marianne, baldwin and Representative abe jones. Okay? Thank you. Let us play big. I'll be come before you this afternoon. We're grateful Hearts. We're so grateful for all that you have done for us and all the many blessings you have bestowed upon us. You're so grateful for the folks that have come before us. Uh pave the path and did the things that needed to be done to helped make this day a possibility. We thank you Lord for the committee that put this together. We thank you for the staff at Dick sparkle allowing us to come. But more than that lobby, thank you for the weather. Thank you for the beautiful weather you have given us. And the Lord bless this program that everything we do and say even as a celebration that we celebrate you because you are good God, great God and awesome God. And we thank you and we love you in jesus name Amen. Thank you reverend for opening us up with that prayer. Uh my name is Janet Powell, I'm the head of the Dicks Park Conservancy and I just want to welcome every single one of you here to the park this afternoon. We're glad to be hosting this event of juneteenth and we're glad that each and every one of you is here. Um, I also want to thank all the organizers because this was a group effort ST paul A. M. E. Church, the north Carolina history Museum, the city of Raleigh Museum and see historic sites, visit and see um the city of Raleigh of course. Uh And then uh there's many descendants here. The hunter family is having a family reunion. Um, descendants of the enslaved from Spring Hill Plantation, which is just here to the west of us. So thanks to all of you for being here with us. This site is very fitting for juneteenth, which is a holiday that recognized the irony of deferred freedom and celebrates freedom yet to come. Yeah, I want to share with you the story of John Hunter who was born into slavery in 1764, 28 years before Raleigh was even a city and he worked the majority of his life as a enslaved person at Spring Hill Plantation. He lived through uh, this revolutionary war as a child, the war of 1812 and was here to witness 20,000 Union soldiers camped where we are now during the waning days of the civil war. They were here when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. He was over 100 when he was freed and got to experience what it was like to be a free man. Only for those waiting years of his life. Mhm. His for those of you who haven't been to the chapel, there's a likeness that was painted of john Hunter by Christopher holt as part of the mural. His eyes are closed and his face is up, turn towards the light and he is a symbol to me of the wisdom, the peace and the hope um of freedom. And I have a quote um I mentioned again the Hunter family that's here Lynetta worthy who is a descendant of Stewart Ellison um said about john Hunter. I have a feeling that the universe through the spirit of john Hunter is bringing all of us together. He is revealing and establishing connections that I believe will lead to a story that is so much greater than what we know the ancestors are calling us, including the city of Raleigh and its public institutions to unwrap this gift. While the origins of juneteenth are very rooted in the story of the american and slavery and civil war that is very much represented at this park. The more universal concepts of emancipation also relate to the mental health history here at the site mentally ill in the early days of the american story were treated ignorantly and brutally, many of were locked in basements beaten, trying to get the demons that possess them out of them. This mental health hospital, we're still standing in the shadow of Dorothea Dix Hospital, which was built in the 1850s, was founded on the best of impulses uh to help people actually have a hope of being cured of mental illness through physical activity, sunlight, fresh air and treatment. While the people who pass through Dorothea Dix Hospital had very different experiences, Some good, some bad. Um, and I think we all recognize today that freedom and emancipation for many with mental illness remains a deferred dream that they still seek mm in recognition of all of the people who have passed over this land. The native americans who were here before the colonials, those who were enslaved here, the mentally ill, um, we, the city Raleigh and the Dicks Park Conservancy have joined the sites of conscience, which is an international coalition to acknowledge the history of this place and to connect those past struggles to today's movements for human rights. So it is our hope in creating this park that we can acknowledge this past and make it a place of welcome and community for all people, but a place of possibility, a place where one can truly be free with that. I want to welcome our governor Roy cooper. We are honored to have him with us today. Thank you. Yeah. What happy to and take everybody. What a wonderful day! Great day to celebrate. Congratulations to the smart people who have found all the shady spots. Is so wonderful to gather today on such an important day to remember, but also to look forward. And I thank God, I think scientific research and I think perseverance for the wonderful, safe and effective vaccines that have allowed us to gather here today. For those who have not been vaccinated. There is a spot for your shot and you too could win $1 million. All you gotta do is get your shot. You know, when I reflect on the day, I think about the emancipation proclamation, one January 1863 and how long it took Until, June 19, for troops to finally reach Galveston texas with the news that black people were free. I cannot imagine the struggles that people went through to reach that point. The brave abolitionists, the brave soldiers, and then up until more modern days, the civil rights leaders and freedom fighters. And it's a day today, two except the joy of how far we have come and to accept the challenge of how far we still have to go for racial equality in this state and in this country. Mhm. And I hope that today, as we walk around and we talked to each other hopefully about family and friends, but also about investing in education to give everybody that opportunity, investing in health care, health care is a moral issue. Everybody should be able to see a doctor as we fight for clean energy and better paying jobs in tackling the systemic racism that is still there in our education and our health care, in our economic system. We know that this pandemic has been shining a bright light on inequities that I've always been there. But we've seen people living on the margins. Often brown and black people get hit the hardest. And I want to accept the challenge with you today for making sure that we have a north Carolina that works for everyone. Let's celebrate june t. Thank you, everybody. Yeah. And I think we got the mayor of Raleigh Marianne, baldwin mayor. Mm hmm. Mhm, mm. Yeah. Happy juneteenth. Everyone today is a day of celebration. In a day of reflection. I have a proclamation that I'm going to read. But before I do, I just want to recognize city council members who are here in attendance. Council member Jonathan melton. You want to give a wave And council member David cox? Yeah. Okay, where's Corey? There's Corey. Okay, Council member Cory Branch. Thanks for being here. Okay, here's the formal proclamation for june teak. Whereas our country is made up of people from every nation on earth were declared equal not only in freedom but also injustice, both of which are essential for a healthy human civilization. And whereas our nation was conceived on July four, with the Declaration of Independence, with the classic statement being, we hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal. May I add women to that too, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And whereas on New Year's Day, January one, using his war powers as President Abraham Lincoln signed the emancipation proclamation providing that all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of the state shall be then there therefore, and forever free. The emancipation proclamation made the permanent abolition of slavery a union war aim and provided the legal framework for the emancipation of nearly all four million slaves. As the union armies advanced hearing of the proclamation, many slaves escape to union lines as the army units moved south And whereas on June 19, almost 2.5 years later, Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston texas and announced the end of both the Civil War and slavery. And whereas juneteenth, also known as National Freedom Day, marks the date that word that slavery was illegal in the United States, reached all corners of the globe, and whereas we honor the brave african american men and women who suffered under slavery and all those who have fought for freedom and equality in north Carolina and across our country. And whereas last year the city of Raleigh officially declared due to eat a holiday. Now therefore do I. Mayor Marianne baldwin, I hereby proclaim today june 19th juneteenth day in the city of Raleigh and encourage all citizens and residents to recognize the end of slavery and to celebrate the culture and achievements of african americans within our communities. Happy juneteenth. Thank you everyone. Yeah. Next we have Representative eight Jones. Mhm. Yeah. Good afternoon everybody. I'm glad to see you look good out there. Uh This spot in particular has some history for me. Uh when I was in high school I ran with the N. C. State cross country team because my high school didn't have a cross country team and they used to work us out right over there running up these hills. So that was my first introduction to dixie a little painful at times. But it's still a good memory. So um yeah the the mayor read some of what I uh intended to say but I'm just going to recover a little bit of it. Uh Juneteenth of course celebrates June 2 19 1865 when General Granger went out to texas And announced freeing the slaves in Texas. And there were 250,000 of them still left out there. The civil war as you know was fought between 1861 and 1865. And Appomattox was on nine April over here in uh in Virginia. And then uh the actual end of the fighting though didn't occur until later in June but I'm just going to read to you what the proclamation said to the black slaves in texas. It said the people of texas are informed that in accordance with a proclamation from the executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and the rights of property between former masters and slaves. And the connection hit 24 existing between them becomes that between an employer earth and hired labor. And that was a big, big deal. Well, those Quarter uh, 250,000 people. So that's the end of my reading. I just want to say a couple things to you about this day and going forward. I want to encourage all of you that when next year comes, the 2022 2, Please please go out and vote. There are some things that may be coming through the Legislature. I hope you don't make it through that are going to be uh put some new requirements on now. I can say I hope they don't make it through. But if they do there will be nothing that's passed that cannot be dealt with. So please remember tell others to register that we must vote that voting is sacred and that it is what citizenship is about. So I just want to make sure I put that plug in just in case it happens. Okay, so uh I just want to encourage all of you to keep pick your organization to work with to keep fighting the fight for civil rights and redeeming what happened on juneteenth so many years ago. Thank you and have a great day keep. Mhm. Mhm. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Mhm Give them another round of applause for those warm welcome words. So again I keep saying this is about celebrating, this is about recognizing the sacrifices of our ancestors so it's time to have a good time. Are you ready for that? Yeah you are in for such a treat. Our first musical performance from the United Strings of Color. These beautiful young people A bit about this group. They were formed in 2018 as a project to address racial disparity in classical music and to explore the intersection of societal issues and music. Give a round of applause for the United Strings of colour. Okay. Mhm. This is our dream. I dream a world that sounds like a gentle good morning like sleep tight at the end of the day like Ellis scanning a world food with a universal song. Hallelujah of Joyce reducing this moments gift of life. I dream a wooden colour where makers honest take their need. Clear blue oceans and vibrant roofs and all creatures thrive of what they need. That was a bad I dream of. Oh

Cooper talks at Raleigh Juneteenth celebration

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<p>To, to all of you and we bring you greetings. I would like to also extend gratitude to other elected officials who are joining us today. If you'll please stand. Thank you. I want to also start by expressing how thrilled we are to have you here today. We are proud of our city here in Greenville. And I think that pride is evident in this room today and why wouldn't we be proud? Greenville is a thriving hub of, of eastern North Carolina. We have a growing population, a diverse based manufacturing manufacturers, top notch educational institutions, state of the art, medical facilities and vibrant art and entertainment scenes. The people in Greenville are as friendly and as talented as they come. We all work well together and that is a tremendous, tremendous key to progress. There are so many reasons to be proud of Greenville and today I'm thrilled that our city is getting even better with all of that being said, I would like to introduce to you a Greenville native and Chief Deputy Secretary of Commerce Jordan Richard. Well, thank you so much. Uh Mayor Pro Daniels. Uh it is a beautiful day and uh uh especially great day to be back home in Greenville, North Carolina. Uh So, on behalf of uh our North Carolina Secretary of Commerce Michelle Baker Sanders, uh Good afternoon. Uh Today really is not only the celebration of an incredible partnership uh with the city of Greenville, Pitt County, uh the Greenville Eastern North Carolina Alliance, the Department of Commerce, our, our partners across the state. Uh But it's also calls to celebrate uh some really exciting news and the first uh such announcement this year in Pitt County across the state in North Carolina, we are uh already ahead of our pace from last year. Uh Having a wonderful year in terms of economic development. Today is a wonderful announcement of that. Since January across the state, we've announced uh 39 projects and this will be our 40th, more than 3600 jobs across North Carolina and over $2.5 billion in economic development investment statewide. And today's news uh is also great as we celebrate the 250th anniversary of Greenville, North Carolina. Over those 250 years, we've seen Greenville change and evolve and the evolution of Greenville as a community is parallel to what we've seen across the state from an economy once dependent on agriculture and tobacco. Pitt County and Greenville is transformed into an economy that's supported by medicine uh and advanced manufacturing and clean energy jobs like we're here to talk about today. Uh having grown up here and watch that evolution and watch Downtown and Dickinson Avenue evolve and having gone to school across the street at CMXS Middle School, it's especially gratifying to be back and to be working on wonderful announcements like this. Uh And today, it's also an incredible honor to introduce uh someone who I've had the great pleasure of working for in Raleigh for the past 7.5 years. Uh He's been working to build a stronger North Carolina uh where everyone has as an opportunity to live in safe communities, get a quality education, uh have good access to great jobs and great health care. Uh And where everybody has a chance to live lives of purpose and abundance. And today he'll share with the Greenville community some outstanding news. Uh that'll help get us closer to North Carolina, North Carolina. That's more diverse, more inclusive works uh even more for all the people of this great state. Uh So it's my honor now to introduce to you the 75th governor of North Carolina Roy Cooper. Thank you so much, Greenville, aren't you proud of Jordan Witcher? Let me just say, Chief Deputy Secretary of the Department of Commerce. And uh you might notice that I have a lot of people in my administration who are from Eastern North Carolina. It's because I grew up here and I know the kind of people that they are. So I am so happy to be here. With you today, seeing so many friends and familiar faces uh and to celebrate what's gonna happen today. Uh Thank you Marquita for being here, Representative reader. Thank you for, for, for being here. Thank you representative for you. Uh Thank you, appreciate all of you guys candy. Thank you for coming. Very grateful for you coming and being part of this. Um II, I wanna thank Mayor Pro TEM Daniels and say thank you very much for your hard work here. But it's great to join with you today with an outstanding announcement for the city of Greenville, Pitt County, eastern North Carolina and I am our entire state. I am so proud to announce that Bovi at Solar, an international renewable energy company has selected North Carolina for its first North American solar panel manufacturing facility that will create 900 jobs and invest $294 million right here in Greenville, North Carolina. Our economists predict that this project will lift North Carolina's economy by more than $2.9 billion over the next 12 years. This economic development. When shows us how teamwork, teamwork and that's a fitting word here in front of Dowdy Ficklin Stadium, teamwork and our amazing workforce. Keep bringing advanced manufacturing jobs to our state here in Pitt County. You have a great legacy of manufacturing, making everything from life saving pharmaceuticals to packaging personal care products and now comes important components for clean renewable energy. North Carolina is becoming an epicenter for clean energy that's putting money in the pockets of North Carolina families and small businesses. And as we've learned in North Carolina the last few years, a clean energy economy is a strong economy, providing American security. North Carolina is a leader in that 19 billion in capital investments and nearly 16,000 good paying manufacturing jobs created here since 2021 with the fourth largest producer of solar energy in the country. And with our bipartisan clean power plan that will get us producing zero emission clean energy by 2050. That means a lot more solar panels need to be made right here in North Carolina. This announcement means that they're going to be made right here. And North Carolina's emergence as a clean energy leader has fueled our growth and helped set us apart as the number one state to do business in the country for two years in a row, we all get to celebrate that recognition and much of the credit goes to our well trained, dedicated and diverse workforce, the people of North Carolina, they make up the best workforce in the country. And Bovi at solar is gonna find out about that. And our university Chancellor Rogers, thank you for hosting this today. Our university and community college systems including East Carolina Pitt community College and our research institutions and workforce partnerships help North Carolina stay first in talent coupled with our central east location, East coast location and includes easy access to transportation infrastructure by land, plain sea. And of course our excellent quality of life. North Carolina continues to be a top choice and we don't take opportunities and announcement like these for granted because we know that companies like Bovi at solar can choose to locate anywhere in the world, but they chose us. And that's why we must continue to increase our investments in education, workforce training in our public schools and in early childhood education, that is absolutely critical. This announcement is the result of strong collaboration by company executives, elected officials across both aisles and economic development professionals. In addition to Secretary Sanders and the Department of Commerce, I'd like to thank our Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina that works so well led by Chris Chung works so well with our Department of Commerce, our North Carolina General Assembly. Those members are here today, our Golden Leaf Foundation, our Greenville Eastern North Carolina Alliance, Pitt County Electric Cities, Greenville Utilities Commission and the city of Greenville. At this time, I would like to, to welcome to the podium, the CEO of Bovi at Solar, Jimmy Shea. And I'd like to present him with a gift on behalf of the people of North Carolina, Jimmy. If you could come forward, Jimmy, this is a piece of pottery made one of our, by one of our famous artists uh Ben Owen. And on it has the great seal of the state of North Carolina and it has a part of it. Our, our motto, Si Quam Beri, which means to be rather than to seem, we want you to know in North Carolina we are who we say we are. And we look forward to this partnership for years and decades to come. Congratulations. Thank you for being here. Uh This is uh cup of the Chinese tea. Oh, outstanding. Thank you very much. Well, on behalf of the people of North Carolina, we accept this gift and hopefully we can sit and drink some tea and talk about the great success of this company. Thank you, Jimmy very much. Thank you. Mm Let uh let me begin to say uh by saying, thank you to the press, our partners and everyone who took the time to join us at today's event. Uh We are around to be receiving this investment grade and uh we are excited uh for how it uh will enable us to get our first us solar panel manufacturer facility up to and running and uh created, created uh economic uh uh our opportunities for the pul air. Yeah, for those who uh who aren't familiar. Let me introduce the about the poet founded in 2013 poet, solar head office in Unite, unite us Germany and our group uh headquarters in Vietnam. We have a proven track record of successful working with many of the industrial leading players. And our PV module are known for their power performance. And quality. This is evident because Bo has uh maintained its uh pos uh position at a Bloomberg new energy financing T one solar module manufacturers. Since 2017, we have been written at the top performance on people's PV module reliability uh score card since 2019 BB. Successfully completed. And in the independent e estimate of bo uh uh water solar manufacturers facility in 2022 the US uh solar industrial had been in K for water solar since we first uh entered the uh in 20 17 as of 2020 f uh three world solar PV sales and the PV models manufacturing capacity is more than three gigawatts and it's a shar a total of more than 6.6 gigawatt since uh in fabric, manually operating in us. Marketing. We are dedicated uh to helping to build uh American solar manufacturers uh with our new facility and uh filing, you know, cutting power in uh petit county, North Carolina and the, the natural. Uh let me tell you more about our plan for the manufacture plant. First one of the project, we use the building to manufacture our solar modules per to will including contracting uh start uh start off the art 500,000 to 60 thou uh 100,000 square foot factory on 34 acres to manufacture of PV cells which are used to build the solar panels. The location is expected to output the two gigawatts of solar and the two gigawatt uh PV cells since the future, uh uh will help bring our top performance PV modules to our variable clients to foster stronger connections with the independent uh power products. EP CS product uh developers, solar in, in installs and the contractors. We will have product uh they need uh in increase the deve deployment of uh uh U utilities, commercial industrial and uh dangerous solar project. We will require a strong workforce to product pro produce these solar panels so we will hearing about uh 900 employees uh over the next five years, job are expect expected to increase engineers, product workers. And so on, on behalf of uh B solar, I would like to thank everyone in involved in making this uh weight of product uh possible. The first is the governor uh Rio Cooper and uh and the secu uh secondary security Sanders and the North Korea development of the commerce tr uh territory uh D feature and the e economy uh economic uh developer partners of the North Korea Carolina, North Carolina General and Een North Korea uh communi Community College System, Go Goen Le found uh Foundation, Yanda down uh and the team at the Greenville East, North Carolina Islands, Kelly Andrew and the Peter County developer office, as well as the Pitter county government, Kathy Howard and the leadership team at the Greenville Utilities Commission City of the Greenville Electricity of the North Carolina and our advances today, our dream are coming true. We are upon the to begin pro product in our pe models in the US, bring our manufacturers exciting excellence to our most important uh solar market, creating jobs and the ma uh making up in impact. Solar energy in the United States is a bombing driving by its many benefits. Solar is an economic engine, a source of clean cheap um produce energy set and make a electricity affordable for customers and improve the air quality for health uh communities. We are surrendered to help uh future wills rep reputation for the green. I I can economic and uh manufacturing. We look forward to working with all of our partners, our path towards a cleaning future in the United. Thank you. I wanted to make sure I recognized Senator Candy Smith and Representative Glory Steam Brown and Representative reader, the legislature helped us a lot with this too. So, thank you very much for. Ok. Mhm. Good afternoon. My name is Anne Lord Huggins and I serve on the Pitt County Board of Commissioners. In conclusion of this momentous announcement, we must emphasize how truly honored we are that Pitt County was chosen over the many communities that were under consideration for this project. We are not only announcing the selection of Pitt County for a new industry that will bring strong economic growth to our community, but we are celebrating the collaboration that have developed and will continue to develop among Pitt County. Our partners and this esteem company. This announcement is the culmination of shared vision. This company's vision for its first us manufacturing facility in a business friendly asset, rich and welcoming community and Pitt County's vision for growth through strong industry partners that create highly skilled high paying jobs for our citizens. This vision will come to life in the, in the gr in the green corporate park and we look forward to our continued partnership to make this project successful. Beyond expectation. On behalf of Pitt County and the Board of commissioners, we extend our appreciation to each and every individual who has contributed their time, expertise and passion to make today possible. Most importantly, we extend heartfelt thanks to Bovier Sola for choosing us to communicate, to commemorate. Excuse me, this day, we would like to present a sculpture crafted by local artist Jordan Pera titled Connecting the Links May this day be a continuation of connections that will ensure your continued success. We are honored to be your partners and your chosen community. Welcome to your new home, Pitt County. OK. And I accept this on behalf of pick him and now and welcome to the podium, Thomas Taft Junior Board of Directors of Greenville, NENC Alliance for a toast. That's good. Not a force of guys. II, I had a prepared speech, but I'm gonna take this in a slightly different direction because II I, everyone has, has talked so much about the relationships and everything else. That got us to this point. But all I can say on behalf of Pitt County and on behalf of the Greenville NC Alliance is we won. We have won, we have beat out other communities, phobia technologies to come here. It's everything that we've all been working for, for years and years and years. I look at so many of you out here that uh were participants in that. And again, all I want to say is we won. Pitt County won North Carolina won. Thank you, Governor Cooper. Cheers, everyone. Cheers. Thank you. I don't mind. That's fine. No, no, no, no. Well, I would just add that this is the single largest jobs announcement in Pitt County's history. Uh, I don't believe we've had a governor here in, uh, about 15 years to announce anything, uh, economic development, a new, a new, uh, I'm sorry. But, uh, but either way we're proud to have you here. We're proud to have you guys here. Cheers again to a victory for Pitt County here here. Thank you. Thank you very much. Ok. Thank you so much. I'm ready to provide. Yeah. Yeah. Ok. They see. All right. Right. Yes. That's first. He said going across the way, come back in time.</p>

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Good afternoon. My name is Lieutenant Jason with the Public Information Office of the Raleigh Police Department. Deputy Chief Boyce is going to provide an update on the incident that happened at a high school today. Uh Good morning, uh Deputy Chief Rico Boyce of the Raleigh Police Department. I want to provide an update of the incident that occurred here at in low high school this morning. I'm joined here with Major Harrison of the Field Operations Division as well as major latour of the field operations division. I want to begin by saying that everything and everyone is safe at Inlow High School. There's no students, no staff that has been injured as a result of this. Obviously with uh with the allegation of a firearm on campus, it really has an effect on the students and staff, but I want to alert the public that everything is ok. Uh Wake County schools have been very helpful in investigating this matter with the Raleigh Police Department. So what happened just after 10 a.m. this morning, a student approached the principal and made the principal aware that there is a subject on campus with a firearm. The principal immediately placed a school on code red lockdown and with the assistance of the school resource officer, additional officers were called to the scene. Once officers arrived on scene, they began to do a systematic search of the entire school interior and exterior of the school to determine that there was no one on campus with the firearm. Obviously, when you talk about a firearm on campus, it has a very large impact in our community and that's why we had a very large presence of law enforcement. But I will say Raleigh PD working with the Wake County public schools, we have determined that there is no threat on campus. We took this matter very seriously. We're going to continue to investigate and see how this all originated. But at this time, I just want to let the community know that this threat is unfounded, right? There's no threat, there's no firearm, there's no one injured at in high school. So we're going to continue to make sure that the message get out and Wake County public schools will put out an update of how the rest of the school day is going to go as far as any potential early release. I cannot say that right now, what I can say is a student made the principal aware that there is a potential of someone on campus with a firearm. The principal took that information very seriously and placed the school on a code grade lockdown and we began to investigate from there. So at this time, I can't determine if it was a hoax or not. Are you looking for anyone else? I mean, there have been a report that there was a student who said her boyfriend was with a gun. Are you looking for that person? Since no one was found in the school with a gun? We're investigating right now, like say this originated from a student and the information was shared with the principal. So we're still trying to determine what exactly was shared with the principal to lead to the core lockdown. So right now that is like say under investigation, did you guys do a systematic room by room search? Yes, we did. Like I say with this being a school and the threat of a firearm on campus, the Raleigh Police Department's selective enforcement unit, state capital PD County Sheriff's office, they all responded to help us do a systematic search of the entire campus, not only inside the school but it outside school in the surrounding neighborhoods is the lockdown lifted currently. No, it's still code red lockdown right now. We're just finishing up like say some last minute details with Wake County public schools and they will update us when they're going to lift that code red. One more question. I just want to make sure I'm clarifying this correctly. A call from the principle that a student had reported this. Are you still on the lookout for someone who might have been on campus and then left or are you investigating this in a different way? We're investigating this in a different way that this was a alleged threat of someone with a gun on campus. So right now, there's nobody on campus, but we're trying to get the exact details. Like what else was involved in this communication with the student and the principal. Can you really quickly just talk about the response? I mean, this is a massive response to something like this and the impact that has on officers, parents, students out there actually has a huge toll, a huge effect on our officers responding to any school with the potential of a firearm b on a campus. That's why you saw the response to get today. Uh We work very well with our law enforcement partners and we're very thankful for them helping us to clear the school. Uh And obviously with parents, of course, this is going to have a huge impact on parents as well as student and staff. Anytime you see a large police presence on a, on a school campus, but it's all to make sure that everyone is safe. Uh And then we're quickly, we'll try to get the school back to normal operators uh operating as soon as possible. So yes, we came with a lot of resources if there was a threat or would someone would have gone, we wanted to quickly mitigate that. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you all. Thank you.

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