SC trooper expected in court today
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Clean, edited dashcam video from Garren
A man is seen being run over in this State Trooper dash cam video.
Still image of video from the dash camera of South Carolina State Trooper Steve Garren’s patrol car as he hits a suspect who is running after jumping from his car.
Published: August 27, 2008
Updated: August 28, 2008
A South Carolina trooper caught on tape using his patrol car to ram a fleeing suspect is expected in court for a hearing on his federal civil rights charges.
Steven C. Garren’s trial on charges he deprived a man of his right to be free from unreasonable force by police is scheduled to begin next month.
Garren’s attorneys are expected Wednesday to argue several requests before a federal judge in Columbia, including a request that prosecutors turn over dashboard camera videos from other
officers at the scene.
In a 2007 dashboard video from Garren’s patrol car released earlier this year, Garren drives after a running man, striking the man when he crosses in front of the cruiser. The man flips over the
hood and into grass on the side of the road.
Garren has been suspended.
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