Tabitha Isner, vice chair of the Alabama Democratic Party, has a unique view on the recent mass shooting in Dadeville that killed four people and wounded 32 others at a Sweet 16 party.
Isner said charging the alleged Dadeville shooters as adults is “hypocrisy.” In a tweet Thursday she posted about her views.
Alabama Law Enforcement: These teens are our children, damn it! They are only children and we must take extra care to protect them. No one messes with our children!
Also, we will be charging these teenagers as adults. #Hypocrisy #Dadeville— Tabitha Isner (@TabithaK) April 20, 2023
Jay Town, former U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, was among those not pleased with the tweet and responded to Isner.
“Your advocacy to give a ‘second chance’ to killers that killed at least four and shot 32 is why nobody can take you or your ideas seriously,” said Town.
Isner invoked religion in her response to Town.
“When someone you love makes a mistake and is locked away in an Alabama prison to be tortured for the rest of their life, maybe your heart will grow a couple sizes,” she said. “For me, all it took was Jesus’s promise of redemption for all. But I know that doesn’t convince everyone.”
Town, who has a 20-plus year legal career, was having none of it.
“Yeah, please educate me on the criminal justice system, Alabama prisons, and the Eighth Amendment. Do tell,” said Town.
Austen Shipley is a staff writer for Yellowhammer News.
