A longtime Tuscaloosa County commissioner was involved in a struggle with police at a Tuscaloosa elementary school Tuesday.

Commissioner Reginald Murray, who has served District 4 for 29 years, was trying to attend an awards program at Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School.

Murray, according to police, arrived after the 9 a.m. program began. Per school policy, all external doors of the school are locked once a program begins.

Several people were able to enter the lobby when another person exited, and Murray, who was not publicly identified by police, began knocking on the locked door to the auditorium where the program was taking place.

A Tuscaloosa officer who was inside the auditorium cracked the door and told Murray he could not enter.

Murray continued to knock on the glass wind

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