Myrtle Beach/ Horry County Officers expose themselves in public
I'm a bit late with this story, but last month Charles Dean of the Horry County Police Department and David Gaither of the Myrtle Beach Police Department lost their jobs over an incident where they were accused of getting drunk and exposing themselves on the waterway. Apparently, Dean resigned and Gaither was fired. I don't know if they've been charged - the county website is down at the moment, but I'll check later.
Norman Balderson says, “Two of the guys on their boat took their bathing suits off and went out in the intercoastal waterway naked and they kept doing it. As a matter of fact, one of them came out shaking his privates at our boat which included our children.”“My seven-year-old come up to me and said ‘hey I saw his privates.’ We hollered at them they need to knock it off. There’s children over here,” said Sarah Delossantos.
James Styron also witnessed the incident. “I saw them take their bathing suits off and wave them. A pair of black bathing suits go through the air. Some of them were wearing their girlfriend’s tops,” said Styron.
Dean was the subject of controversy earlier in the year when he severely beat a man who had taken his taser:
On May 18, a video from an officer's dashboard-mounted camera shows Dean punching Krishmer Shamar Bessent, 30, several times in the face and kicking him once in the abdomen, just minutes after the man had taken the officer's Taser and fired it. An internal investigation cleared Dean of wrongdoing.
