In June 2021 Glynn County Police Chief Jacques Battiste took over a department racked with controversy and plagued by a yawning gap of trust with the community it was sworn to serve.
Eighteen months later, the county’s first-ever Black police chief has resigned, telling The Current he was tired of being “beaten up every day” both within his ranks and outside the department for trying to institute more accountability and reforms.
“(I was) tired of being beaten up every day, internally and externally, for what I’m trying to accomplish,” Battiste said, “Because it’s slow turning the ship when that ship is always on the same course.”
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