The Walker County Commission has adopted new rules for the public to make comments after a man used a racial slur multiple times during a meeting two weeks ago.
At the end of the Jan. 28 Walker County Commission meeting, a man dressed as The Lone Ranger introduced himself as Ray C. Burnfin. Burnfin used his time to advocate for the Confederate flag, said there was no such thing as white supremacy and condoned the use of racial slurs.
Burnfin then used the N-word multiple times during his public comment.
None of the five commissioners stopped Burnfin from finishing his comments, even though the comments were later called objectively offensive by the commission.
Following the meeting, the county took down a video of the meeting, deleted the portion with Burnfin’s comments and reuploaded the meeting without the offensive comments.