Reinstatement Process Begins for Trooper Steve Garren
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Staff Reports / Associated Press
Published: October 6, 2008
Trooper Steve Garren was found not guilty of intentionally hitting a suspect on Friday. Now the state Department of Public Safety has started the reinstatement process. Sid Gaulden, spokesman for the agency says the process should take a matter of days. Unless Garren asks for a transfer, he will be reinstated in Greenwood, where whe was working before the trial began.
Garren insisted during his four-day trial that the crash was an accident, even though he could be heard bragging about striking the suspect in a video made by a camera in his cruiser.
The jury saw the video of the June 2007 collision dozens of times. It shows Marvin Grant running from Garren’s patrol car, then suddenly cutting in front of it. Grant was hit and rolled off the hood. Grant was later caught and arrested.
According to the Associated Press, the president of South Carolina’s NAACP describes the acquittal as a miscarriage of justice.
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