Tuesday’s panel discussion will tackle race relations, policing


A panel discussion on “Race Relations and the Local Police” is scheduled to take place from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Tuesday (April 14), in the Union’s Phoenix Room. The free public event will feature panelists including Green Bay Police Chief Tom Molitor, Mayor Jim Schmitt, UW-Green Bay Public Safety Director Tom Kujawa, Public Safety Training Coordinator Michael Molnar of NWTC, and Pastors Paul Davis of Kingdom Agenda Church and L.C. Green of Divine Temple Church. Organizer and moderator Justin Mallett, director of diversity, says he appreciates that police and members of the local community already have experience in maintaining an ongoing dialog. “The event isn’t intended to criticize the police or their efforts,” Mallett says. “It’s to ask questions and help more people understand what our community is doing to continue to make sure these events (in Madison and Ferguson, Mo., for example) don’t happen in Green Bay.”