By Stuart Watson
NBC Charlotte
ROCK HILL, S.C. — York County Sheriff Bruce Bryant fired the jailer who blew the whistle on an officer who repeatedly struck a detainee as he was being restrained in a chair. That detainee, Joshua Grose, later died after banging his head repeatedly against a cell wall.
Grose is one of two detainees to die in the same restraint chair in the same jail – York County’s Moss Justice Center in York, S.C. But Sheriff Bryant says his staff has done nothing wrong. “I worked jail deaths as a SLED (State Law Enforcement Division) agent, and I can tell you this – I have not found any wrongdoing on any officer’s part,” said Bryant.
In May 2006, Jeff Waddell had epileptic seizures in the restraint chair, where jailers had placed him because they say he was “disruptive” on a ride back from Piedmont Medical Center.
Full story: York Co. Sheriff fires whistleblower but not officer who struck inmate