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Church leaders demand Alabama sheriff apologize for ‘thug’ Christmas tree
Updated Dec 10, 2020;
Posted Dec 10, 2020
Representatives with the Faith in Action Alabama coalition gather in front of the Mobile County Sheriff s administrative building on Thursday, December 10, 2020, near downtown Mobile, Ala. (John Sharp/jsharp@al.com).
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A group of church leaders in Mobile requested on Thursday that Sheriff Sam Cochran’s office apologize for a since-removed “Thug Thursday” Christmas tree post on Facebook and implement cultural sensitivity training within the department.
Faith in Action Alabama, a faith-based organization with of a mission statement of battling systemic racism, gathered along the Royal Street entrance to the Mobile County Sheriff’s Department to demonstrate against the image of place inmate photographs on a Christmas tree and using the word “thug” to promote the social media initiative. Seventeen people participated in the approximately
Alabama sheriff’s mugshot Christmas tree stirs debate over the word ‘thug’
Updated Dec 10, 2020;
Posted Dec 10, 2020
Mugshots of arrested suspects in Mobile County don a Christmas tree in this picture that has been posted on the Sheriff s Department s Team Sheriff Facebook page. The post has stirred divisive reaction, some of it directed at law enforcement. (snapshot from Facebook)
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The posting has since been taken down, and Sheriff Sam Cochran has said he was unaware about the racial sensitivity of the word, “thug.” He said that many of the inmates photoshopped to the tree were white, and that his administration had no idea what they were doing would trigger widespread rebuke.