- An Alabama man was charged Monday with setting fire to a Mississippi police department that has faced months of protests following an officer's fatal shooting of a 1-year-old boy.

Dig deeper: Garrick Rawls faces an arson charge - a federal offense - in connection with a Halloween day fire that damaged the Senatobia police headquarters.

Rawls describes himself on social media as a civil rights activist based in Huntsville, Alabama, more than 220 miles (354 kilometers) east of the small town of Senatobia, Mississippi.