Alabama Councilman Uses Racial Slur To Refer To Black Colleague, Stuns Colleagues

Tarrant, Alabama Councilman Tommy Bryant stunned the room at a City Council meeting when he referred to his Black colleague, Veronica Freeman, as a racial slur. Directly afterwards, Freeman is heard sobbing into her hands before excusing herself from the meeting. Bryant has since claimed that he only used the slur to quote a phrase that the city's Black mayor, Wayman Newton, used to reference Freeman earlier that day. Read more: https://bit.ly/36Uwdlj

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