GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP)  — A federal jury that must decide whether a South Carolina state trooper deliberately rammed a fleeing suspect with his patrol car watched a video of the incident Tuesday, and heard the officer bragging about the collision. “Yeah, I hit him. I was trying to hit him,” Lance Cpl. Steven Garren was heard on the video speaking to a sheriff’s deputy. Despite Garren’s boasting, his lawyer argued that the trooper tried to avoid hitting Marvin Grant, who was running from police after trying to elude officers in his car in June 2007. Garren is charged with using unreasonable force and depriving Grant of his civil rights. Garren is white; Grant is black. —-
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