A Black man was detained while jogging for fitting a suspect description and later offered a job with the sheriff's department

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CNN) — A Black man jogging in the predominantly white neighborhood of Deltona, Florida, last month found himself handcuffed and detained when police said he matched the description of a suspect in a nearby burglary. 

 

Video shared by the Volusia County Sheriff's Office showed how the incident unfolded.

On August 27, Volusia County Sheriff's officers were on the lookout for a man suspected of stealing a weed eater/leaf blower from a shed behind a home, according to the sheriff's report on the incident. One deputy came upon 28-year-old Joseph Griffin, who was jogging and who matched the description of the burglary suspect.

 

“Hey Buddy, you're not in any trouble or anything. There's a burglary that happened -- you kind of fit the description," an officer is heard saying on body camera footage released by VSO as he gets out of his vehicle and approaches a sweaty Griffin. "Let me just make sure that you're not him," the officer says.

 

Griffin looks surprised when he responds saying, "Really?" and says he has his ID.

As Griffin pulls out his ID, the officer points to Griffin's attire and says, "Literally they said, white tank top, black shorts and they said that you had a beard."

 

"So, I'm not saying it's you, but it was a Black male -- again -- not saying it's you, buddy," the officer reiterates.

 

The officer steps back and radios his colleagues while Griffin is seen on body cam footage repeatedly looking down at his phone. He started a Facebook Live and was recording the encounter.

 

In what appears to be an edited video of the Facebook Live posted on Griffin's Facebook timeline, he's seen breathing heavily and the officer can be heard telling him, "Listen, just bear with me OK? Because, you fit the description -- I'm not saying you're guilty."

Griffin responds saying, "I know," and then looks at the Facebook livestream.

 

"But my sergeant is telling me to detain you. That's my sergeant," the officer says.

Holding his phone up higher Griffin says, "I just had a daughter born two days ago so just have this on Live."

 

"It's live?" the officer asks. On the officer's bodycam video, he says, "Do you mind setting it down here?" pointing to the ground.

Griffin then attempts to put his phone on the ground when the officer interrupts him and says he'll put it on the ground for him.

 

"For now I'm going to detain you. But you're not under arrest -- I'm detaining you right now because you fit the description," the officer is heard saying on body camera footage.

 

Several police sirens are heard approaching in the background as Griffin is handcuffed and then seen looking down at his phone on the ground repeatedly saying, "If something happens to me, you all better raise hell."

"By the way, I'm live too, I even got a recording," the detaining officer says. 

 

Griffin was eventually released once officers cleared him of any involvement in the crime. Police ultimately determined that Griffin was detained in error and the real burglary suspect was later identified and arrested. But VSO says this case may yet yield a positive outcome.

 

"We knew we were going to get beat up, criticized, a bit because there were several officers there. It never looks good. But then I was shown the body camera video," Sheriff Mike Chitwood told CNN. "I watched the video. Mr. Griffin was great with my deputies. And my deputies were extremely professional. I called each and every one of them to thank them for their professionalism. I called Mr. Griffin, too, and thanked him for how he handled the situation. When you get stopped by police this is how to act. This really is a teachable moment. We can learn from each other."

 

"I learned that Mr. Griffin was a former military police officer. I asked if he would come in and do trainings with our entire staff. He was surprised about it and agreed. Due to Covid-19 we can only train 20 people at a time. We will start trainings early October and keep doing it," Sheriff Chitwood added. "I also offered him a job. We have 40 openings now. But he declined that offer saying he had a job in healthcare."

 

No stranger to policing amid controversial race relations issues, Sheriff Chitwood has participated in several roundtables, discussions and meetings in attempt to ease and racial tensions in Volusia County.

 

CNN made several attempts to reach Griffin, but was unable to make contact.

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[Mr. Impossible 407]

So do you have a "black man cop" google alert or something? 

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6 minutes ago, Liquid said:

So do you have a "black man cop" google alert or something? 

It’s on CNN’s front page. 

[Mr. Impossible 407]

Just now, ghostz life matters said:

It’s on CNN’s front page. 

And were you alerted to it by a Google? 

[Tears of the Cows 1,208]

Just now, Liquid said:

And were you alerted to it by a Google? 

No. I saw it on CNN’s homepage. 

[Kitad 95]

I'm glad they didn't shoot him to death before claiming he was being aggressive for asking what's going on

[roflpwnedz 289]

At least he didn't start screaming that he couldn't breathe before he was even detained

[Kitad 95]

12 minutes ago, roflpwnedz said:

At least he didn't start screaming that he couldn't breathe before he was even detained

I don't get it

[GeorgeW1000 118]

I don't know why people are against "racism" but talk about race all the time. Isn't that an oxymoron? lol 

[Kitad 95]

13 minutes ago, GeorgeW1000 said:

I don't know why people are against "racism" but talk about race all the time. Isn't that an oxymoron? lol 

Well if racism exists it won't go away if you stop talking about it lol

[GeorgeW1000 118]

2 hours ago, Kitad said:

Well if racism exists it won't go away if you stop talking about it lol

Racism can’t go away, it’s ingrained into our biology. Where do you think it comes from? It’s psychology. 

[Kitad 95]

9 hours ago, GeorgeW1000 said:

Racism can’t go away, it’s ingrained into our biology. Where do you think it comes from? It’s psychology. 

Here I was thinking it came from learned social norms

 

Never met a racist 3 year old refusing to play with black 3 year olds

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9 minutes ago, Kitad said:

Here I was thinking it came from learned social norms

 

Never met a racist 3 year old refusing to play with black 3 year olds

racism is just a majority. If you were to be surrounded by any race that you weren’t a part of you’d see racism. If I walk down the streets of Chicago or Compton at 2 am as a white person I’ll also see racism. 
 

if 5 little children (4 white, 1 black) want to play a game, and the 4 whites choose hide and seek, and the black chooses tag, the game being played is hide and seek. 
 

is that racist?

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[Kitad 95]

6 hours ago, ghostz life matters said:

racism is just a majority. If you were to be surrounded by any race that you weren’t a part of you’d see racism. If I walk down the streets of Chicago or Compton at 2 am as a white person I’ll also see racism. 
 

if 5 little children (4 white, 1 black) want to play a game, and the 4 whites choose hide and seek, and the black chooses tag, the game being played is hide and seek. 
 

is that racist?

 

Well humanity may never stop being racist. That's true. But at least we can try to make our institutions as fair as possible.

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8 minutes ago, Kitad said:

 

Well humanity may never stop being racist. That's true. But at least we can try to make our institutions as fair as possible.

Can’t disagree with that. 

[GeorgeW1000 118]

6 hours ago, Kitad said:

Here I was thinking it came from learned social norms

 

Never met a racist 3 year old refusing to play with black 3 year olds

Here's an article explaining that "racial bias" begins at 6 months. 

https://www.utoronto.ca/news/racial-bias-may-begin-babies-six-months-u-t-research-reveals

 

Here's another article talking about the same thing.

https://www.parents.com/baby/all-about-babies/science-says-everyones-a-little-bit-racist-even-babies/

 

 

[Kitad 95]

1 hour ago, GeorgeW1000 said:

Here's an article explaining that "racial bias" begins at 6 months. 

https://www.utoronto.ca/news/racial-bias-may-begin-babies-six-months-u-t-research-reveals

 

Here's another article talking about the same thing.

https://www.parents.com/baby/all-about-babies/science-says-everyones-a-little-bit-racist-even-babies/

 

 

Wow. Cancel babies

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13 hours ago, ghostz life matters said:

racism is just a majority. If you were to be surrounded by any race that you weren’t a part of you’d see racism. If I walk down the streets of Chicago or Compton at 2 am as a white person I’ll also see racism. 
 

if 5 little children (4 white, 1 black) want to play a game, and the 4 whites choose hide and seek, and the black chooses tag, the game being played is hide and seek. 
 

is that racist?

Lmfao this is the best post you have ever made. 

[Twinblade★ 3,908]

What a surprise. You listen to law enforcement and follow their very basic directions and nothing bad happens to you. If only more people had that level of sense....