âMy past has come back to bite me in the butt,â 19-year-old Decatur Councilman apologizes for controversial post from 2018 Councilman Pepper addresses his controversial Facebook post form the past By Anna Mahan | March 6, 2021 at 5:26 PM CST - Updated March 6 at 5:50 PM HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) - Decatur City Councilman, 19-year-old Hunter Pepper, apologized today for a controversial Facebook post he made when he was 16-years-old. The first-term Councilman held a news conference on March 6 apologizing, saying he was âextremely sorryâ for making a post on social media in 2018 that implied he thought Black protesters at the Galleria Mall in Hoover should be run over.