Bodycam shows arrest of Alabama woman wearing penis costume at protest: 'This is a family town'

[groundloop]

Source: AL.com

Newly released bodycam footage shows a Fairhope police colonel confronting and arresting a 61-year-old grandmother dressed in an inflatable penis costume during a protest last month.

The footage, provided to AL.com by Renea Gamble’s legal team, captures Col. Andrew Babb telling Gamble her costume would not be tolerated in a “town that has values.”

“I’m not going to sit here and argue with you,” Babb says in the video. “If my kids came by here to see this, how would I explain this?”

[snip]

Babb replies, “How would you explain to my children what you are supposed to be? This is a family town. I’m not going to have someone out here dressed like this. It’s abusive.” He later adds, “I would hate for her grandkids to see her like this.”

Read more: https://www.al.com/news/2025/11/bodycam-shows-arrest-of-alabama-woman-wearing-penis-costume-at-protest-this-is-a-family-town.html

[Ocelot II]

1. How can you get a family without a penis?

[Mr.Bee]

2. Yes, We Must Save The Children

Actually, they are seeing and commenting much worse on social media!

[GreenWave]

3. Let her have this dork.

As they get bigger they are not correctly called "penises".

[msongs]

4. his town is crawling with penises including his

[twodogsbarking]

5. I am guessing his kids are on the honor roll.

[1WorldHope]

6. She better get off and she better sue him!

What a prissy snowflake!
I about died when I heard her say, "Ow you are hurting my hands, I'm am ASL interpreter".
I was and interpreter for 35 years! Solidarity sister!

[pfitz59]

7. Sue the prick

Its on you, dick, if your kids can't recognize satire.

[moniss]

8. One prick accosting another. nt

[Bayard]

9. Cop has penis envy

Wouldn't her costume fall under free speech protection?

[bluestarone]

10. The president of the united states can say Democrats should be hanged or murdered but a

Citizen cannot wear a penis costume? Oh that's great.

[PatrickforB]

11. Remind me to NEVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER go to Alabama, spend any money in Alabama EVER, or buy

anything from any vendor in Alabama.

It used to be the butthole of the US, but I'm thinking Abbott in TX is giving AL a run for its money.

[Ursus Rex]

12. That's one of the strangest towns in AL.

It's in a mostly arch-conservative area with some very liberal types in the mix, there are lots of extremely rich/wealthy old families with big old estates on the water, lots of artsy-weirdo types (who may or may not have some of that money), white flighters who still rely on Mobile across for the bay of their income etc, out of state retirees, and good old rednecks. It's a beautiful town and it's no surprise that this kind of thing would come to a head there (so to speak). One thing it's never been exclusively is a "family town" - that's A part of it, but holy cow I have seen and heard of WILD stuff going on. I'm glad to see the resistance is still alive down there.

[OldBaldy1701E]

13. I cannot speak for today.

I did live in Mobile for a year back in the early eighties.

Fairhope was just like this at the time. A town of cliques and greed pretending to be moral.

Typical southern enclave. Smile to your face and then lay into you behind your back.

[Grins]

14. Family town? What's that? Like your town was once a "Sundown Town?"

And what would a non-family town be…? The Villages? No one under 55 allowed?

[FakeNoose]

15. Well the cop does have a point, some residents might have taken offense at her costume

Yeah, I'm kind of liberal so I think it's cute and clever. But if a guy were to walk around Pittsburgh wearing a costume depicting female genitalia, maybe it wouldn't seem so funny. I don't know.

Maybe this lady needs to read the room, and have a little more respect for the local mores. Save the cute and provocative costumes for a private party atmosphere where you're among friends who get the joke, and everyone plays along.

[moonshinegnomie]

17. she did nothing wrong

if someone is offended thats on them.

[NotHardly]

18. Ever heard about "freedom of speech?"...a costume is speech, just like burning the US flag.

[SamuelTheThird]

20. S T O P

[Wiz Imp]

29. It's not illegal to wear a costume just because someone else finds it offensive

He had no right to do what he did to her. I hope she sues.

[moonshinegnomie]

16. sue the cop for depravation of rights under color of law

[ReRe]

33. #1 Call ACLU. #2 Sue the town of Fairhope

#3 As soon as the case is won, get the fuck out of the South!

Personally, I loved the costume! But can you imagine the hilarity that's going to erupt in that court room?
I'd do anything to be on that jury.

[Harker]

19. They had no reason to be hard on her.

[IcyPeas]

23. 🤣 😲 🤭

[Polybius]

24. Hopefully there will be a discharge soon

[Harker]

25. And stiff penalties for the cops.

[IcyPeas]

21. But... Arnold Palmer penis... microphone blowjob... BDE (big dick energy)

And Marge traitor greene rubbing crotch of cardboard cutout of trump.....

What about the children!!??!

[3catwoman3]

22. If any of his kids are boys over about 10 years of age, they'd probably...

...find it hysterically funny.

[RockCreek]

26. The "president" simulated giving a microphone a blow job

And it was on TV, broadcast to countless numbers of people them. And millions more on video after. No age restrictions.
And the cop is upset about a penis costume...

[FakeNoose]

31. Damn, people have been electrocuted doing that

Why is he still living?

[Bread and Circuses]

27. It looks like a thumb. That's what she should have said.

first amendment !w

[RockRaven]

28. That lady's protest and costume are less obscene than the average sermon preached in that town,

and exhibits better values than the average cop has.

[Ohioboy]

30. Must not be much crime in that city...

if the police have the time to go after people wearing penis costumes.

Everybody is safer now?

[ReRe]

34. Fairhope isn't a very big town.

Did you see the number of cops that was on the scene? All over a cute costume.

[travelingthrulife]

37. Cowards, every one of them.

[Kablooie]

32. You tell your kids...

That you think it’s rude and inappropriate and you don’t think she should have done it.
Then move on. That’s the parent’s job, not the police’s.

[Timeflyer]

35. Way to make penis costumes go viral and show up everywhere, Col. Babb.

[travelingthrulife]

36. A family town where they wrestle peaceful protestors down to the ground. Right.

Assholes.

[GiqueCee]

38. Regarding the quote from Babb...

... please, Colonel, tell us how you would explain to your kids why you're doing what YOU are doing? YOU are the evil one, not the grannie in a funny costume.