A Halloween display depicting an ICE raid in the front yard of Mobile County Sheriff Paul Burch’s home has prompted social media backlash and raised concerns by a local advocate for the Hispanic community.

In a post Tuesday morning that has drawn a lot of comments both condemning and supporting Burch’s taste in Halloween decorations, Mobile resident Whitney Newman wrote she was “disappointed” to see an elected law-enforcement official “mock and dehumanize a group of people,” calling the display “a public statement about who deserves dignity.”

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