ACKERMAN, Miss. (WCBI) – “We are here because of the injustice that is being brought upon the chief of Police.”

Shocked

“I want to know why you want someone different from Martha.”

And confused, are the emotions of several Ackerman residents after learning that Police Chief Martha Caradine could lose her position.

The Choctaw County town elected a new mayor one month ago. Now, it appears Mayor Lauren Carson wants to bring in another police chief.

“What is really going on?” said Adreial Hickman, Ackerman resident. “You just became a mayor in a month, and this is the decision that you are trying to make without the people knowing, you are not really trying to be a mayor, you are trying to be a dictator.”

Dozens of people gathered outside the town hall on Friday morning, August 8, to vo

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