The Mobile County Sheriff’s Department has deleted from its Facebook page a photo of a Christmas tree with mugshot ornaments on it that had been posted as part of its weekly “Thug Thursday” social media campaign.
On Thursdays, the sheriff’s office typically posts photos of people wanted on outstanding warrants.
Lori Myles, spokeswoman with the Mobile County Sheriff’s Department, on Friday said the ornaments were photoshopped onto the tree within the social media post, and that there is not an actual tree with those same ornaments on display within the Sheriff’s Department’s administrative offices near downtown Mobile.
Myles told AL.com the tree’s underlying message was getting lost by people who “are out of town” and posting on the Team Sheriff Facebook page. Myles at the time said that the Sheriff’s Department is not removing the negative comments nor is it altering the post.
However, mynbc15.com on Sunday reported the photo had been removed. The sheriff’s office told the TV station they received death threats and threats that people would burn down their building.
Bernard Simelton, president of the Alabama NAACP, had said the post demonstrated “despicable behavior by the Mobile County Sheriff’s Department,” and the ACLU of Alabama also blasted the department for utilizing a symbol of the Christmas season to “disparage people with future harm.”
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