In a text with the “Shadmo” group in August 2019, Griggers claimed to have used excessive force on a man in his custody.
“I beat the (expletive) out of a (racial slur) Saturday. (Expletive) tried to steal (a gun magazine) from the local gun store. ... Sheriff’s dept. said it looked like he fell,” the affidavit noted, quoting Griggers.
Griggers went on to write that the beating was for him “sweet stress relief.” “That never happened,” said Chatman, the sheriff, in an interview with The Telegraph Wednesday. “We don’t even have a gun shop here.”
Chatman, who is Black, said he concluded that Griggers’ claim was perhaps Griggers “being braggadocious.”
“I think he may have been working in the jail (at the time). ... We looked at all the cases he may have been involved in and we never had any complaints on him of any kind,” Chatman said. “We looked back and we pulled (records) of anything that he had taken a warrant for, any call that he had gone on, and we found nothing [that raised any red flags].”
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