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York Co. Sheriff fires whistleblower but not officer who struck inmate
By wcnc.com - Stuart Watson
Published: 11/13/2013

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.

“I think people who have medical conditions shouldn’t be in that kind of restraint,” said his mother Jeanne Waddell. “I think epilepsy is frightening for some people because they don’t understand.” York County’s state-backed insurer paid a $930,000 settlement to Waddell’s daughter after a wrongful death lawsuit.

Last month, Joshua Grose died in the same restraint chair. He was violently mentally ill and had run over a neighbor and his own stepmother with a stolen car, killing them both.

But two days later, Grose himself died in the custody of the York County sheriff after repeatedly banging his head against a jail cell wall.

In a phone call to York County 911 recorded at 1:24 a.m., a jailer asked for Piedmont EMS to come to the Moss Justice Center jail in York because Grose was bleeding from the head. “Had a subject resist on ‘em and they had to deal with him,” the caller said.

In a three and a half hour news conference, the York County Sheriff showed hours of video of jailers struggling to control Grose as he writhed and spit at them. At one point an officer strikes Grose repeatedly in the abdomen as he resists them strapping him in the chair.

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