Greensboro Getting Police Foundation

WUNC | By Gurnal Scott

Published June 4, 2012 at 9:40 PM EDT

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A new non-profit group will support Greensboro law enforcement.

Greensboro city officials will announce a new law enforcement support organization tomorrow. The Greensboro Police Foundation hopes to recruit officers and promote better training as part of its mission. Foundation president Frank Mascia says there is another goal they hope to achieve. Many in the Greensboro community have not forgotten racial confrontations of the past. Officers were accused during the so-called "Greensboro Massacre" in 1979 of not acting to stop the shooting deaths of five marchers protesting a Ku Klux Klan and Nazi party rally. Mascia says those memories are still a black cloud over the city's police department. He hopes the organization's role as an advocate can help heal those old wounds.

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Gurnal Scott

Gurnal Scott joined North Carolina Public Radio in March 2012 after several stops in radio and television. After graduating from the College of Charleston in his South Carolina hometown, he began his career in radio there. He started as a sports reporter at News/Talk Radio WTMA and won five Sportscaster of the Year awards. In 1997, Gurnal moved on to television as general assignment reporter and weekend anchor for WCSC-TV in Charleston. He anchored the market's top-rated weekend newscasts until leaving Charleston for Memphis, TN in 2002. Gurnal worked at WPTY-TV for two years before returning to his roots in radio. He joined the staff of Memphis' NewsRadio 600 WREC in 2004 eventually rising to News Director. In 2006, Raleigh news radio station WPTF came calling and he became the station's chief correspondent. Gurnal’s reporting has been honored by the South Carolina Broadcasters Association, the North Carolina Associated Press, and the Radio Television Digital News Association of the Carolinas.

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