June 11, 2025

Mobile Sheriff Warns Protestors That Force Will Be Met With Force

By Rick McCann
Blue RAM Media/Gulf Coast News

June 11, 2025

MOBILE Ala. Before any thoughts of staging anti-ICE protests in Mobile County, the sheriff has a word of advice for anyone attending, protest peacefully or you will be arrested.

Force will be met with force Mobile County Sheriff Paul Burch said regarding the potential for out-of-hand protests coming to Mobile, similar to what is underway in Los Angeles.

During his monthly appearance on Mobile radio FM Talk 106.5’s “Midday Mobile,” Burch said decisive action would be taken in response to any deadly threats against a law enforcement presence, if necessary.

As with other violent protests that have torn communities apart and left behind billions of dollars of destruction during the past year, this time police chiefs and county sheriffs have been sending out strong warnings about what will occur if they bring violence and destruction to their communities.

The sheriff said that they have received some intel that there may be some protests in Mobile this weekend, and we’re preparing for it,” he said that he has had frequent conversations with the Mobile Police Chief but did not go into any details.
But let me say that I watch the things that happen around the country, and not just in LA, but some of the other unrest that’s been going on. And it’s not protesting. It’s rioting. But it angers me when I see these rioters trying to pull barricades out of the hands of police officers and shoving police officers to try to grab the barricades and break the perimeter.”

Nationwide police have been preparing for violent protests to come to their areas and some police chiefs have not ruled out National Guardsmen activations if things were to get out of hand.

During the radio show Burch added, “I can tell you they do that in Mobile, Alabama — the orthopedic hand surgeons are going to have one hell of a weekend to start fixing barricades out of hand. That barricade can become a weapon. And one thing I will say too, and I saw some of the firebombs being thrown — that’s deadly force. And our policy is you meet deadly force with deadly force. And I’ll leave that at that.”

Other major Alabama cities including Birmingham and Huntsville have not publicly addressed the possibility of protests coming to their city as of yet.