Editing Carbon Hill, Alabama (section)

===Mark Chambers controversies===
Mark Chambers was appointed to the mayoralty in 2014.<ref>{{cite news |title=Carbon Hill council names new mayor |url=https://www.wbrc.com/story/27159561/carbon-hill-council-names-new-mayor/ |access-date=June 29, 2020 |publisher=WBRC |date=October 30, 2014}}</ref> He won a full mayoral term in 2016.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Rizzo |first1=Lea |title=Incumbent facing four challengers in mayor's race |url=http://mountaineagle.com/stories/incumbent-facing-four-challengers-in-mayors-race,8160 |access-date=June 29, 2020 |work=Daily Mountain Eagle |date=August 20, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Rizzo |first1=Lea |title=Chambers, Keeton in runoff in mayoral race |url=http://mountaineagle.com/stories/chambers-keeton-in-runoff-in-mayoral-race,8209 |access-date=June 29, 2020 |work=Daily Mountain Eagle |date=August 16, 2016}}</ref> On June 5, 2019, Chambers made national news when local news outlet [[WBRC]] reported that Chambers made three public posts on [[Facebook]] with derogatory and threatening statements aimed at members of the [[LGBT]] community, including:<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/carbon-hill-alabama-mayor-mark-chambers-refuses-to-resign-kill-lgbtq-community-facebook-post-2019-06-05/|title=Alabama mayor refuses to resign after saying to "kill" LGBTQ community on Facebook|website=www.cbsnews.com|date=June 5, 2019 |access-date=June 5, 2019}}</ref>
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|text=We live in a society where homosexuals lecture us on morals, transvestites lecture us on human biology, baby killers lecture us on human rights and socialists lecture us on economics. The only way to change it would be to kill the problem out. I know it’s bad to say but without killing them out there’s no way to fix it.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/alabama-mayor-defends-facebook-post-on-killing-out-lgbtq-people-socialists-and-baby-killers-223150835.html|title=Alabama mayor defends Facebook post on 'killing out' LGBTQ people, socialists and 'baby killers'|website=www.yahoo.com|date=4 June 2019 |access-date=2019-06-05}}</ref>
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He also called immigrants "ungrateful" and initially denied writing the inflammatory social media post to a reporter.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Assunção |first1=Muri |title=Alabama mayor recommends 'killing' of LGBTQ people in Facebook post |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-alabama-mayor-killing-lgbtq-people-20190604-qax3x6iufrdzvdy7huzdzbx5em-story.html |access-date=June 29, 2020 |work=New York Daily News |date=June 4, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Alabama mayor suggested 'killing out' gay people |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48521788 |access-date=June 29, 2020 |publisher=BBC |date=June 4, 2020}}</ref>

Chambers later apologized for the posts, which were deleted,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Watts |first1=Amanda |last2=Miettinen |first2=Dylan |last3=Faulk |first3=Leanna |title=Alabama mayor apologizes for homophobic comments in social media post |url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/07/us/alabama-mayor-homophobic-facebook-comments/index.html |access-date=June 29, 2020 |publisher=CNN.com |date=June 7, 2019}}</ref> and in an interview with a local newspaper revealed having no intention to resign.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Smith |first1=Kate |title=Alabama mayor refuses to resign after saying to "kill" LGBTQ community on Facebook |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/carbon-hill-alabama-mayor-mark-chambers-refuses-to-resign-kill-lgbtq-community-facebook-post-2019-06-05/ |access-date=June 29, 2020 |work=CBS News |date=June 5, 2020}}</ref>

Following social media posts on June 25, 2020,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Casagrande |first1=Michael |title=Alabama football posts powerful video calling for racial justice |url=https://www.al.com/alabamafootball/2020/06/alabama-football-posts-powerful-video-calling-for-racial-justice.html |access-date=June 29, 2020 |work=The Birmingham News |date=June 25, 2020}}</ref> by the [[Alabama Crimson Tide football]] team supportive of the [[Black Lives Matter]] movement, Chambers commented on Facebook, "I got several Alabama pictures for sale [[Nick Saban|Nick Sabin]] (sic) and the Tide is done in my opinion... Their sorry ass political views is why their (sic) getting out of my house... When you put Black lives before all lives they can kiss my ass."<ref name="wthornton">{{cite news |last1=Thornton |first1=William |title=Carbon Hill mayor resigns after Facebook post over Black Lives Matter |url=https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2020/06/carbon-hill-mayor-resigns-after-facebook-post-over-black-lives-matter.html |access-date=June 29, 2020 |work=The Birmingham News |date=June 28, 2020}}</ref> By June 28, Chambers's comments had been deleted.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Howell |first1=Ed |title=Carbon Hill Mayor Mark Chambers resigns after Facebook posts |url=http://www.mountaineagle.com/stories/carbon-hill-mayor-mark-chambers-resigns-after-facebook-posts,26577 |access-date=June 29, 2020 |work=Daily Mountain Eagle |date=June 29, 2020}}</ref> He subsequently resigned from the mayoralty,<ref name="wthornton"/> and was replaced by councilor April Kennedy Herron.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Ring |first1=Trudy |title=Anti-LGBTQ+ Alabama Mayor Resigns After Denouncing Black Lives Matter |url=https://www.advocate.com/politics/2020/7/03/anti-lgbtq-alabama-mayor-resigns-after-denouncing-black-lives-matter |access-date=July 5, 2020 |work=New Orleans Advocate |date=July 3, 2020}}</ref>