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Video: After KKK Photo, An Apology

"Those pictures do not represent the Roger Garrison of today or of that time," Cherokee Sheriff Roger Garrison said. "It was a stupid mistake made by a 21-year-old."

 
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Cherokee Sheriff Roger Garrison explains how he and a friend came up with the idea to go to a Halloween party in Ku Klux Klan paraphernalia.
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Cherokee Sheriff Roger Garrison explains how he and a friend came up with the idea to go to a Halloween party in Ku Klux Klan paraphernalia.
Cherokee Sheriff Roger Garrison said he didn't second guess his decision to wear a KKK hood and robe to a Halloween party nearly 30 years ago.
Cherokee Sheriff Roger Garrison apologized after photos of him in a KKK hood and robe surfaced last week.
Cherokee Sheriff Roger Garrison said no people of color were at the Halloween party in North Cherokee County. He also said that he and his friend wore the costumes for 10 minutes before removing the hoods.
Cherokee Sheriff Roger Garrison said he was with the Canton Police Department or the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office at the time the picture was taken.
Cherokee Sheriff Roger Garrison said the pictures didn't represent who he was then and they don't represent who he is now.
Cherokee Sheriff Roger Garrison said no one is perfect and that his decision to wear a KKK hood and robe was stupid. He said it happened nearly three decades ago and should not be factor when voters go to the polls on July 31. He said he would have no problem supporting someone in his position because all he is guilty of doing is committing a misguided and childish prank.
Cherokee Sheriff Roger Garrison said this is a "pitiful attempt by a desperate politician" who can't run a race based on the issues.

Four days after WSB-TV showed a nearly 30-year-old photograph of Cherokee Sheriff Roger Garrison at a Halloween costume party in a Ku Klux Klan hood and robe, the county's top law enforcement official sat down with Canton-Sixes Patch this morning to tell his side of the story.

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Shannon

9:06 pm on Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Halloween party @ 21 years old? I guess me going as Monica Lewinsky @ 23 w my date as Bill Clinton defines who I am today also right? Yawn. Back to my waffles...

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Kea

7:13 am on Wednesday, June 27, 2012

This doesn't bother me as much as the Andrew Messina fiasco.

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Mad as heck

12:11 am on Friday, June 29, 2012

Serious people, we've got a sheriffs office thats leader continues to make mistakes like he's still 21. When will you stop drinking the kool aid and cut your loses?

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Mad as heck

12:13 am on Friday, June 29, 2012

It's time to expose the truths about him and all the other elected officials that continue to act like organized crime ( mafia).

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Mad as heck

12:20 am on Friday, June 29, 2012

If its not the media playing DUI tapes about a man drunk with two prior DUI's bragging about wearing a pair of garrisons sheriff's office brown pants after being stopped. Or garrison getting agree like a spoiled child when his wife was laid of at the local community bank due to cutbacks, and garrison having patrol vehicles block all entrances going into the bank while demanding his sheriffs office account be immediately withdrawn while the bank was in the middle of a board meeting. To his wife being employed and endorsed by the very man leaving his house drunk! I just don't know what to say to convince people that enough is enough

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Mad as heck

12:28 am on Friday, June 29, 2012

How many more CHILDREN have to lose their lives to where our chief law enforcement officer admitts that HE is actively training his employees so a similar outcome would not occur. Garrison has become the epitome of big government. Ask him about the free money he got from the stimulus money from Obama, garrison has been drinking the Obama kool aid because I've never seen a money tree. That's my tax dollars being squeezed from my family!

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Mad as heck

12:31 am on Friday, June 29, 2012

More to come..... Mayor Hobgood, the dirt is coming on why you had, yes had to endorse Roger Garrison.....don't be his puppet any more

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Concerned For Cherokee

12:48 am on Friday, June 29, 2012

The Patch doesn't give me enough room to rebuttle this REDICULOUS joke! Let's start with video 8- all that video was was nothing but slander toward David Waters, yet he says in previous videos that "David" exposed this picture as a pitiful attempt by a desperate politician who can't run a race based on the issues. Hello pot?!? Next, Roger states SEVERAL times in video 5 that this was 27-30 years ago. Yet his website, http://www.sheriffrogergarrison.com/profile, says “More than 30 years in law enforcement”. Numerous posts by Roger supporters say Roger wasn't in law enforcement, so which is it- he was or wasn't in law enforcement? It can’t be both! Also, if he isn't a racist, then someone explain to me why he has promoted several men and women to his command staff without experience, yet to the best of my knowledge, the ONLY African American given the position of Captain was around 1995 and it was publicized in the local papers because at that time he was being accused of being a racist because he never had an African American Leiutenant, Captain, etc? And she had no experience, and couldn’t do the job, so she left. But he's never “found” another person of color worthy of such a distinguished title? Wake up people! This is just as ridiculous as Bill Clinton’s lies!!

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David S

2:26 pm on Monday, July 9, 2012

I did not hear the words" Apology/Apolgize" come from the lips of the Sheriff! Did I miss something?

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Concerned For Cherokee

12:41 am on Friday, July 13, 2012

David- you have to watch all the videos. It's in there as he looks down which i've always been told is a person thinking. A person looking up is remembering. But i could be wrong.

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