The World Around You

Marshall County Sheriff Mac Holcomb is reluctantly moving his letter from a county website, as so many of us thought he should have done in the first place. Thank you to Mac for taking the action. Oh and by the way, any lawsuit brought by a homosexual citizen who felt he/she was treated unfairly would not have been “frivolous”, it would have been right on point.

State Rep. Mike Hill has some compelling evidence that a trooper who killed a citizen his first month on the job should not have been hired in the first place.

State Rep. Mike Hill, R-Columbiana, has given the state Department of Public Safety court records dealing with Trooper Michael Braswell Roberts’ driving history, including five speeding convictions from 1996 through 2001, and his 2001 divorce, in which Roberts acknowledged threatening his wife and agreed to undergo anger management counseling.

“I was not ugly about it, but I just asked how someone with that history got to be a state trooper,” Hill said. He is awaiting a response, he said.

Roberts was hired as a trooper last year.

The FBI and the Alabama Bureau of Investigation are looking into the Dec. 17 death of Chris Lindley, 29, who was shot following an altercation with Roberts a few hundred yards from Lindley’s home near Alabaster.

Authorities say a trooper stopped when he saw a pickup truck apparently stuck on railroad tracks south of Alabaster on U.S. 31. The altercation followed an attempted arrest, they say. Shots were fired and Lindley, the driver of the truck, was pronounced dead on the scene.