{"id":1566952,"date":"2022-07-22T17:49:05","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T21:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1566952"},"modified":"2022-07-22T17:49:13","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T21:49:13","slug":"entire-police-force-in-nc-town-resigns-in-protest-of-progressive-town-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/entire-police-force-in-nc-town-resigns-in-protest-of-progressive-town-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Entire Police Force In NC Town Resigns In Protest Of \u2018Progressive\u2019 Town Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fentire-police-force-in-nc-town-resigns-in-protest-of-progressive-town-manager%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1566952&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The entire police force in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/north-carolina\">North Carolina<\/a> town \u2013 including the veteran chief \u2013 resigned Thursday over a new town manager who calls herself \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/progressivism\">progressively responsible<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kenly Police Chief Josh Gibson wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/josh.gibson.50159\/posts\/pfbid0Px37CovD2j7ueUD5GdquqMHLKejyg3zsLz63Z4T91zcJGEfUu92DADCHk4TKCbccl\">Facebook post<\/a> he and all five of his officers as well as two other town officials quit in protest of Justine Jones. Jones, who became town manager last month, has created a \u201chostile work environment,\u201d Gibson claimed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have put in my 2 weeks notice along with the whole police dept.,\u201d wrote Gibson, who has been on Kenly\u2019s force for 21 years. \u201cThe new manager has created an environment I do not feel we can perform our duties and services to the community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-413868\" class=\"wp-image-413868 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-22-at-4.12.58-PM.png\" alt=\"Kenly, N.C., Police Chief Josh Gibson and his entire force quit in protest of new Town Manager Justine Jones.\" width=\"222\" height=\"234\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-413868\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kenly, N.C., Police Chief Josh Gibson and his entire force quit in protest of new Town Manager Justine Jones. (Town of Kenly, N.C.)<\/p>\n<p>Gibson did not specify what his beef was with Jones, who started the job on June 2 after what the town called a \u201cnationwide search.\u201d\u00a0 The news release announcing her hiring lauded her for having \u201cworked in progressively responsible positions\u201d in several states. It did not mention that Jones had sued a prior employer, Richland County, S.C., for gender and racial discrimination after she was fired in 2015, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/kenly-to-hold-emergency-meeting-after-police-force-2-clerks-resign-in-protest-over-hostile-work-environment\/20383285\/\">WRAL<\/a>. The suit was later dismissed.<\/p>\n<p>Jones has two Master\u2019s degrees, one in public policy from the Humphrey School at the University of Minnesota and a second one in public administration from the City University of New York Baruch College. Prior to taking the job in Kenly, she listed herself on LinkedIn as \u201cPrincipal CEO\u201d of her own consulting company, Word of Mouth Realtime.<\/p>\n<p>Jones declined to discuss the mass resignation, telling the station she was \u201cnot at liberty to talk because of a personnel matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gibson said in his resignation letter he would consider coming back to work if Jones was fired.<\/p>\n<p>Town Attorney Chip Hewett told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/kenly-to-hold-emergency-meeting-after-police-force-2-clerks-resign-in-protest-over-hostile-work-environment\/20383285\/\">WRAL<\/a> News that the town would hold an emergency meeting Friday night to discuss how the town would be handling public safety.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just learned about this [and] it affects the entire police department and staff members,\u201d Hewett said. \u201cWe are looking at having an emergency special meeting to figure out how to move forward with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Johnston County Sheriff Steve Bizzell said his office would patrol Kenly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will be there for the people of Kenly, and they can rest assured they will have deputies patrolling the streets,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Kenly, located about 45 miles southwest of Raleigh, has a population of just under 2,000. Its nickname is \u201cFriendly Kenly.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The entire police force in a North Carolina town \u2013 including the veteran chief \u2013 resigned Thursday over a new town manager who calls herself \u201cprogressively responsible.\u201d Kenly Police Chief Josh Gibson wrote in a Facebook post he and all five of his officers as well as two other town officials quit in protest of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1898558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1566952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1566952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1898558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1566952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1566952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1566952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}