Communities Forward Fest in Tupelo

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TUPELO, Miss. (WCBI) — For ten years the city of the Tupelo has set aside a day for the community to get to know the police department and understand that officers have an important job to do.

It starts with the annual parade down Front Street to Gum Tree Park…And then the welcoming by Tupelo Councilwoman Nettie Davis who started the Communities Forward Festival as a way to get the community to understand that the police are there to protect them.

“If you think about it what would you do if you didn’t have police in the community to protect us?,” Davis asks. “I think sometimes the image has been that the policemen are mean and they’re not caring people but they’re very caring people and I have learned to be a friend of many of them so I think that activities such as this and other activities in this community will unify us and make us a leader in unifying to work together in the community,” Davis concludes.

“This event means a whole lot especially to Tupelo and to this community,” says Police Chief Bart Aguirre. “What we’re trying to do is bridge that gap between the police and the community,”

This is the tenth year that the Communities Forward festival has taken place here at Gumtree Park in Tupelo. And Davis says it’s all about setting an example that the rest of the country should look at.

“It’s really strange that we’ve been doing this for ten years and it’s very much needed all over the United States to have it.”

“This country needs healing,” Aguirre notes. “And we are looking to the Lord to help heal this land and it’s events like this that bring us together.”

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