City Councilor Wes Bellamy talks Aug. 11 and 12, local politics with Jefferson Society
By Geremia Di Maro | April 3, 2018During the talk, Bellamy revealed that he was planning on requesting later this year that the City transfer to a mayoral system in which the mayor is directly elected by the voters of Charlottesville.





!["The hunch that they [officers] are going off of is skin color," Charlottesville Mayor Nikuyah Walker said. "We need to have a conversation about what that means in Charlottesville … it's happening for the same reasons that it's always happened — because of of racism.” ](https://snworksceo.imgix.net/cav/0ac17071-329d-4e70-810f-28f452c84d90.sized-1000x1000.jpg?w=1000&ar=4%3A3&fit=crop&crop=faces&facepad=3&auto=format)










