Video: After KKK Photo, An Apology

"Those pictures do not represent the Roger Garrison of today or of that time," Cherokee Sheriff Roger Garrison said. "It was a stupid mistake made by a 21-year-old."

Posted Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 9:32 pm ET|Updated Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 9:51 pm ET

Four days after WSB-TV showed a nearly 30-year-old photograph of Cherokee Sheriff Roger Garrison at a Halloween costume party in a Ku Klux Klan hood and robe, the county's top law enforcement official sat down with Canton-Sixes Patch this morning to tell his side of the story.

Take a listen.

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