Man stomped by police glad for bodycam, honest officer

Bamberg, who has lawsuits against police for excessive force all across the state, said Polidore did exactly what people want police to do — calm things down and tell the truth.

“She deserves a commendation,” Bamberg said.

A lawyer for Dukes, 38, said at his bond hearing last week that the former officer is fully cooperating with state police in what he called a difficult and unfortunate situation.

Dukes was fired from the Calhoun County Sheriff’s Office for insubordination in October, according to personnel records obtained by The Times and Democrat of Orangeburg. They didn’t give details.

Bamberg said the attack on Gailyard is part of a disturbing trend of three years of increasing use-of-force cases in Orangeburg, where 75% of the 13,000 residents are Black. Gailyard is Black and Dukes is white.

“Attitude reflects leadership,” Bamberg said.

Police and city officials didn’t respond to emails or phone calls Tuesday but held a news conference last week to announce Dukes’ firing.

“We value the trust the community has placed in us as leaders and as law enforcement officers. We cannot tolerate anything that will diminish that trust,” Orangeburg City Administrator Sidney Evering II said.

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