article_snippet.sent: An Alabama mayor was arrested and a city police chief was taken to the hospital in an ambulance after a fight at city hall on Friday.
article_snippet.sent: City hall was shut down for the rest of the day and crews were changing the locks on the building, FOX6  FOX6 News reporter Melanie Posey tweeted.
article_snippet.sent: McDade was holding a letter when McDade was arrested that read: 'Dear City of Liscomb employees, a letter is to inform you that all city employees are on administrative leave with pay until further notice.
article_snippet.sent: With exceptions for city dispatch.'
article_snippet.sent: City clerk Connie Madsen said the mayor pro term, Brenda Renz, is now in charge of the city.
article_snippet.sent: a city clerk said all of all city employees were still working and no one has been put on leave.
article_snippet.sent: a city clerk said McDade has made it 'difficult' for all city employeesto function and do our jobs'.
article_snippet.sent: The mayor was also arrested in 2013, when The mayor showed up to the scene of a fire and tried to force a volunteer fire department lieutenant to leave because The mayor had recently dismissed a volunteer fire department lieutenant .
article_snippet.sent: And two years ago McDade temporarily shut down the entire city police department and laid off city employees because McDade said the city was having financial problems.
highlights_snippet.sent: Mayor was holding a letter that would have placed all city employees, with the exception of dispatch, on paid administrative leave .
  