Enfield mayor to call for state of emergency over racists letters
The mayor of one town in Halifax County said he's calling on North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper to take action after receiving racist threats.
Enfield Mayor Mondale Robinson said that letters his residents received are "domestic terror threats" and should be grounds for a state of emergency.
Residents received letters in a plastic bag with a racial slur, calling on the "white people of Enfield" to do something after someone “stomped down a piece of their white heritage.”
The letter referenced the town's decision to take down a confederate statue in a local park.
Robinson tore the monument down with a bulldozer on a Facebook livestream two weeks ago.
The threatening letter also listed a website, which doesn't exist, and a non-working phone number.
Robinson is expected to make a formal announcement calling on Cooper to declare the emergency Tuesday at 11 a.m.
According to the latest U.S. Census, Enfield has a population of just over 1,800 people. The majority of those residents are Black Americans.
