WDBJ Interview with Danville Mayor Julian Stinson
(WDBJ Television, Roanoke, VA)

Danville Mayor Julian Stinson argued that the city had "leaned over backwards" to help "our colored bretheren" in the midst of the demonstrations. Stinson considered the organizers of the protests "criminals" and suggested that white citizens were the ones receiving unequal treatment from law enforcement because they were required to go around the demonstrators and were denied access to certain parts of the city on account of them. Stinson emphasized that the more stringent law enforcement against blacks was a measure to equalize or make up for the inconvience that white citizens were experiencing.