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Incumbent sheriff of Bibb County called KKK member by candidate

The photocopy on the left is included in court documents in a lawsuit in which Timothy Rivers claims Bibb County Sheriff David Davis is part of the Ku Klux Klan. Davis provided the picture on the right. He said candid photos were being taken and drug investigators did not want to be photographed. He said he jokingly passed out paper towels as masks and held up one with two eyes cut out to cover his face (Credit: The Telegraph).
The photocopy on the left is included in court documents in a lawsuit in which Timothy Rivers claims Bibb County Sheriff David Davis is part of the Ku Klux Klan. Davis provided the picture on the right. He said candid photos were being taken and drug investigators did not want to be photographed. He said he jokingly passed out paper towels as masks and held up one with two eyes cut out to cover his face (Credit: The Telegraph).
By Ellen Eldridge
March 10, 2016

A former Bibb County sheriff's deputy who announced his candidacy for sheriff this week has two pending lawsuits against his former employer, according to The Telegraph.

In one of them, he alleges that incumbent Sheriff David Davis is a member of the Ku Klux Klan.

Davis, who is white, denies the allegation.

“That is as far from the truth as it could absolutely be. … I think my record speaks for itself,” Davis told The Telegraph Wednesday. “I am offended by it, and it concerns me that someone would think that of me.”

At the heart of one of the suits, both filed in federal court last year, Timothy Rivers alleges that he was demoted due to his race and in retaliation for writing traffic tickets to “the wrong segment of peoples.”

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