SC beach town police chief texted explicit and racist messages to women, lawsuit says
8 October 2021
8 October 2021
Two Richland County women are suing the police chief of a small South Carolina beach town, accusing the Sullivan’s Island police chief of sending them a stream of sexually explicit, racist and inappropriate images while he attended a law enforcement conference about leadership. Emily Lide Ward and Latane Gooding filed the lawsuit in Charleston County on Wednesday against both Police Chief Chris Griffin and the Town of Sullivan’s Island. Attorney Clay Hopkins, of the Hopkins Law Firm in Charleston, is representing the women in the suit. Hopkins did not immediately return a request for comment Friday, but he told Charleston ...