The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office is taking to the basketball court to persuade teens and young adults to settle quarrels or feuds with words - not guns. The next games will take place on Aug. 5 at City Walk.
The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office is taking to the basketball court to persuade teens and young adults to settle quarrels or feuds with words - not guns.
will take place on Aug. 5 at City Walk. The winners of each event will be invited to the Tournament of Champions taking place the following weekend on Aug. 12 at Railroad Park, where winners will be awarded $3,000.Under a clear sunny sky and a blanket of heat, in a parking lot behind the Met, young men practiced their layups and ran drills.
“We want you to understand that violence is not the way to resolve conflict. If you have to, just walk away. That way you stay alive, and the other person stays alive,” Pettway said. “We don’t want to lose anyone to violence. We want y’all to respect one another” “It’s a really good opportunity to interact with young people that typically are hard to reach,” Birmingham City Councilor Clinton Woods said. “It gives us an opportunity just to talk about conflict resolution.”
One Birmingham mother, whose son was playing in the youngest division, said she was grateful to attend the basketball tournament because there are no public places in their neighborhood for her son, who loves basketball, to play a pick-up game with other young people. Just because the tournament is coming to an end, doesn’t mean Pettway is finished spreading his message about conflict resolution.
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