Protest attracts handful who want Danville Mayor Mike Perros out

A community meeting last week attended by more than 30 people resulted in a smaller protest of Danville Mayor Mike Perros outside city hall Monday evening.

“We’re not as tightly organized yet as we plan to be, because we just met for the first time last week,” said Elaine Wilson-Reddy, one of those who showed up around 4:30 p.m. Monday to hold protest signs while a special called meeting of the city commission was going on inside. “… It’s not as cohesive yet as we’d like.”

The group was about five strong, with others stopping by now and then to talk. Those protesting discussed “white male privilege” they said is rampant throughout Danville government. One protester was heard saying City Commissioner J.H. Atkins, who is African American, is “out of touch” with the local black community because he hasn’t more strongly condemned comments made by Perros to a city employee, Joyce Collins.

Collins filed a grievance earlier this year against Perros after he made a comment to a new city worker about Collins’ skin color and the fact she wore wigs when she was undergoing chemotherapy treatments.

Read more: https://www.amnews.com/2019/10/14/protest-attracts-handful-who-want-danville-mayor-mike-perros-out/
(Danville Advocate-Messenger)