Chickasaw Police Chief Keith Miller Under Fire for Racism

CHICKASAW, Ala. — Keith Miller, the disgraced former Chickasaw Police Chief fired in 2023 amid a mountain of corruption allegations, has a long-documented history of racism that city leaders and the public have ignored for years. A review of his social media activity reveals a man who proudly displayed the Confederate battle flag, and multiple individuals have come forward with disturbing allegations of racist conduct during his time in law enforcement.

A screenshot obtained from Miller’s Facebook page shows a post dated July 6, 2015, featuring an image of the Confederate battle flag flying alongside the American flag. The post received four reactions. For a man who would later be entrusted with the safety and well-being of all Chickasaw residents—Black, white, and every shade in between—this was not a harmless display of “heritage.” It was a statement.

The Confederate battle flag is not a neutral symbol. It is the flag of the Lost Cause, of slavery, of white supremacy. For a police chief to have displayed it on his personal social media is not merely a lapse in judgment—it is a window into his character.

But the flag is not the only evidence. According to Dale Dorsey, a constable in 2016, Miller—then a deputy with the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office—interviewed him about another constable, a South Asian man who was born and raised in Mobile, Alabama. Throughout the interview, Miller repeatedly insinuated that the South Asian constable did not belong in the role, asking questions like, “Do you know where he’s from?” despite the man having spent his entire life in Mobile.

The implication was clear: in Keith Miller’s mind, being born and raised in Alabama was not enough. If your skin was brown, if your family came from somewhere else, you were not a real Alabamian. You were not one of “us.”

This pattern of behavior has not gone unnoticed. A Substack post from a user named Amie B. described someone named Miller’s “ridiculous quotas which are made up due to his hateful mentality and lack of respect for good decent people,” adding that his “weak self feels threatened by any person whose color does not match his own.” It’s unclear if the post was specifically about Chickasaw Police Chief Keith Miller.

This is the same man who, in 2007, allegedly crashed a sheriff’s office vehicle into a citizen, leaving the victim hospitalized with over $50,000 in medical bills, then fought the victim in court and refused to pay a dime. This is the same man who, in 2014, sued a citizen for a mere $600 after they bumped into his car—while still refusing to pay the man he had hospitalized. One standard for Keith Miller. Another standard for everyone else.

And it is the same man who was fired from his position as Chickasaw’s police chief in July 2023 after a 4-to-1 city council vote, following ethics complaints that he used county-owned vehicles and property for personal gain, pocketed outside pay for security work, and stole property during search warrants—giving it to his own family members.

The racism allegations fit neatly into this pattern. A man who believes he is above the law is a man who believes he is above the basic tenets of human decency. A man who uses his badge for personal profit is a man who sees others—particularly those who look different from him—as less than human.

Keith Miller’s defenders might argue that the Confederate flag post is old, that the Dorsey allegation is unverified. But the pattern is clear. A man who displays the Confederate flag on his Facebook page, who questions whether a South Asian man born and raised in Alabama belongs in law enforcement, and who is accused of targeting people of color through “ridiculous quotas”—this is not a man who should ever have worn a badge.

The people of Chickasaw deserve a police force that serves and protects all residents equally. They deserved a chief who saw them as human beings, not as targets. Keith Miller was neither of those things. His firing was a start. But the full reckoning for his conduct—both the corruption and the racism—has yet to come.