Richmond County sheriff meets with public over coffee
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - Richmond County Sheriff Eugene Brantley out to the community Wednesday at the Starbucks on Bobby Jones Expressway, allowing residents to express concerns directly to him.
Sheriff Brantley says the sheriff’s office is ramping up efforts to make sure the community is safe, especially during the summer when school is out.
“One thing about it, we need to collaborate more with everybody. With every individual in this facility here, because without communication that’s giving open communications, and we are able to meet the community with the cops, and so we can develop a unification,” said Sheriff Brantley.
He says there’s a lack of funding that could help address issues in the community.
The event comes less than a week after a shootout amongst teens forced an entire neighborhood into lockdown.
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“There’s always a possibility just because they have a uniform on that somebody’s going to try to shoot them. But, yet they do it anyway because they love their town,” said Peggy Holl, attended Coffee with the Cops.
The sheriff says, as a new istration, they are working on one problem at a time.
“Most of the has been positive, most of the people who showed up wanted to come, and just wanted to speak and say ‘Hi, keep doing what you’re doing.’ We still have a ways to go. It’s still early in our istration, and we’re trying to take bites out of the problems we have here in our community,” said Brantley.
If you didn’t make it to today’s event, you can catch the next one.
“Sheriff Brantley’s Summer Q” will be held on Saturday, June 28.
It starts at 12 p.m. at May Park.
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