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Macon County Sheriff Tony Brown announced his retirement Friday. The announcement caps two-and-a-half years of legal battles and confusion after a razor-thin race for the position in the 2018 elections.
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The judge immediately revoked Chauvin s bail and he was remanded to jail in handcuffs.Â
To reach its guilty verdicts the jury had to find the actions of the disgraced former Minneapolis police officer were a âsubstantial causal factorâ in Floydâs death and that the use of such force was unreasonable.
Tony Taylor, of Decatur, talks about the conviction of Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd. I hope this verdict sends a message to the politicians, I hope it sends a message to the whole world, added Taylor, who also hoped he would see no more cases of excessive use of force under color of authority. Just be fair with people, all people, he said. We ve got to change because we can t keep doing this, we can t afford to keep doing this to each other; it s crazy. Â
DECATUR â Corrections staff at the Macon County Jail said theyâve had to deal with a recent spike on COVID-19 infections, but expressed relief that no prisoners became seriously ill.
The jail, which divides inmates up among 27 different housing units, said that 19 out of 22 people in one unit had caught the virus.
âWe quarantined them for 14 days and they just came off quarantine Saturday,â said Sgt. Scott Flannery, the assistant jail superintendent.
âAnd we have zero cases currently.â
Flannery said one of the infected inmates had complained of feeling sick but no one had needed treatment in the jailâs medical isolation units.