Mauldin, South Carolina refusing to release police discipline record
City officials in Mauldin are refusing to release a readily available public record about police officer discipline. The Greenville News first sought the discipline record April 20, after the officer who is the subject of it was discussed during a news conference held by Upstate Black Lives Matter activists. Activists Derrick Quarles and Bruce Wilson distributed copies of a 2019 reprimand at that news conference, alleging that a police officer used a "racial slur" while at a Mauldin High School football game. Quarles and Wilson have called for the officer's firing. Quarles and Wilson receive...