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City’s second black police chief takes oath
Barry Rountree, the city’s first black male police chief, was sworn-in Sunday at City Hall. Rountree, a Winston-Salem State University and UNC-Greensboro alumnus and 25 year veteran of the WSPD, took the oath before a standing-room-only crowd of friends, family members, colleagues and supporters. Sylvia Rountree balanced the bible for her husband and the couple’s […]