ABBEVILLE, La. (KLFY) — The battle over Abbeville’s district map continues. This comes amid a years-long federal lawsuit filed against the city council. The lawsuit, filed by the Vermilion NAACP and Southern Poverty Law Center, claims the city’s current map does not give white and black voters equal voting powers.
The city council planned to adopt either their own proposed map, or a map proposed by the Vermilion NAACP Tuesday evening. Instead, the council voted to table the vote until the next meeting to rework their own map.
“Before I get upset, I’m going to walk out of here because what you are saying is a lie,” one Abbeville resident said, storming out of the meeting, upset by the mayor’s comments after a presentation by the NAACP attorney…