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Sanford Wants Former Trooper on Security Detail to be Reassigned
posted 1:27 pm Tue April 01, 2008 - Columbia, SC
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(AP) Governor Mark Sanford (web|news) wants a member of his security detail to be reassigned after the emergence of a video showing the former state trooper punching a suspect in the face.
The 2006 video was one of three released Monday by the South Carolina Department of Public Safety.
Officials say Lance Corporal E.J. Burton was ordered to undergo counseling and was later assigned to Sanford's detail.
Sanford spokesman Joel Sayer says the governor will ask that Burton be reassigned.
Highway Patrol Colonel Russell Roark and Public Safety Director James Schweitzer resigned earlier this year after a video surfaced showing a trooper use a racial slur while chasing a black suspect.
Sanford has said that trooper should have been fired.
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