Anniston City Councilman Arrested For Harassment Over Confederated Flag Controversy

“It was a really big misunderstanding”, Anniston Council member David Reddick

David ReddickA conversation over a Confederate flag has apparently landed an Anniston city council member in hot water.

Council member David Reddick was booked into the Calhoun County Jail Thursday, after turning himself in on a misdemeanor charge of harassment. Sheriff Larry Amerson confirms Reddick was arrested on a warrant sought through the county district attorney’s office, by Milton Ford. Amerson says Reddick was released on a $500 bond.

The arrest apparently stems from an incident a few weeks ago in which Reddick and Ford had a conversation at Ford’s Barbershop on Bynum-Leatherwood Road.
Witnesses told a local news station via email and Facebook, Reddick appeared to be warning Ford that city officials would force him to remove a Confederate flag that waves in front of Ford’s business if Ford didn’t take it down himself.

Reddick said that “it was all a big misunderstanding,” and said he was trying to gain support to kill a proposed upgrade in the city’s nuisance abatement law. Reddick has repeatedly criticized that proposed ordinance as being too broad and far reaching, and claimed he was trying to make that point to Ford.

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Ford’s Barber Shop. (Source: WBRC)

At the time the conversation was taking place, city council members were considering that nuisance ordinance as well as a resolution that would ban the Confederate flag from city property.
The Confederate flag resolution eventually passed and the nuisance ordinance is still being considered. The flag in front of Milton Ford’s barbershop is by all accounts on Ford’s private property.

No date has been set in Calhoun County District Court.

 

Information provided by Fox 6 WBRC | www.myfoxal.com

 

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