The mayor probably supports Stokes. Read up on that guy, he is trouble.
I think you’re thinking of the dead Communist/African Supremacist ex-Mayor “Choke-Me” Lumumba. They have a new Mayor now, Tony Yerber.
Fellow council members don’t support him.
http://www.msnewsnow.com/story/30870945/jackson-city-council-rejects-councilman-stokes-statement-to-throw-rocks-at-police?clienttype=generic