‘Kill the problem’: Alabama mayor sorry for Facebook post accused of ‘inciting violence’ against gays
By Allyson Chiu June 5 at 5:27 AM
An all-caps post appeared on Mark Chambers’ personal Facebook page last week that was reportedly critical of gays, transgender people, abortion rights advocates and socialists. When a friend commented that a “revolution” was needed for change, Chambers wrote back that “with out [sic] killing them out there’s no way to fix it.”
Chambers would later claim he thought that response was a private message. But as the mayor of Carbon Hill, Ala., a city of about 2,000 people roughly 60 miles northwest of Birmingham, learned this week, his words reached a far wider audience than originally intended.
The exchange has since sparked widespread backlash from many who accused the mayor of “inciting violence.” On Tuesday, Chambers issued a lengthy apology expressing “regret” for his comment, but argued that his sentiments — which many interpreted as a direct call to kill LGBTQ people — had been “taken out of context.”
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/06/05/kill-problem-out-alabama-mayor-sorry-facebook-post-accused-inciting-violence-against-gays/?utm_term=.f166fc657285
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