A community conversation with local law enforcement in effort to improve community and police relations will be held at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at Greenville County Square. Watch here or on The Greenville News Facebook page for a livestream broadcast of the event. In an effort to be proactive, we have decided to meet and engage the community and local law enforcement in a town hall format conversation to create more interaction between the community, especially the black and brown community in the Upstate, a news release from Rev. U.A. Thompson reads.
The event comes days after former police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty on all counts in the murder of George Floyd in Minnesota.
The Greenville County deputy who shot an armed man who was on the roof of an apartment complex March 6 has been cleared of wrongdoing after an internal investigation, Sheriff Hobart Lewis said in a video posted Tuesday.
One deputy fired a single shot at the man, later identified by the Greenville County Sheriff s Office as 32-year-old Tyson Devlin Moody. Moody was on a roof at Pelham Village Apartments on Toscano Court just after 2 a.m. the day of the shooting. The identity of the deputy who fired the shot has not been disclosed by the Sheriff s Office.
The deputy was investigated internally by the agency s Office of Professional Standards, Lewis said.
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A woman accused of assault spent 20 days in the Greenville County Detention Center before investigators reviewed evidence that proved her innocence and her charges were dismissed, according to a new lawsuit filed against the Greenville County Sheriff s Office.
Virginia King, of Greenville, was charged with armed robbery and attempted murder on April 3, 2019, in connection to events on Feb. 22, 2019. A victim was injured after two unnamed and unknown African American individuals had robbed and beaten him, according to the lawsuit.
An arrest warrant claimed King used a meat cleaver type knife to hit the victim on the top of victim s head multiple times.
The Greenville County Republican Party is embroiled in a power struggle that will likely be decided during a virtual convention Tuesday night when delegates choose from a slate of candidates vowing to provide fresh leadership and a rival group that has sought to align itself with former President Donald Trump.
The week leading up the convention was marked by allegations of cheating and a shouting match between two women that led to a call to the Greenville County Sheriff s Office. There also was picketing outside the county party headquarters and the current chairman s place of employment.
Friday s announcement that the convention would be held virtually has sparked complaints from both sets of candidates vying to lead South Carolina s largest GOP county party.