DECATUR, Ala. — The public comment portion of Monday’s Decatur city council meeting again focused on furor directed at Mayor Tab Bowling and his response to the police shooting death last year of resident Steve Perkins.
This time, the ire is focused on a Facebook post the mayor made about an incident at the church he attends. “Last Sunday,” he Bowling wrote, “my home church received six or seven of those who frequently protest outside my home and who have participated in Council Meetings over the past year. Their presence was unsettling to [wife] Sherry and me as we came to worship.
“This morning a known civil rights activist from Huntsville who has an extensive arrest history, Garrick Rawls … arrived and sat directly behind Sherry and me,” he continues. “Rawls was wearing a badge clearly showing his was attending is support of the Perkins incident [sic].”…