Handcuffed Ga. man shot, killed by police

[Jazzy]

An autopsy is planned for Friday after a handcuffed man was shot and killed by police in Savannah, authorities said.

Police arrested Charles Smith, 29, on outstanding warrants and placed him in a patrol car Thursday on the city's west side, Georgia Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman Sherry Lang said.

Smith was arrested and handcuffed with his hands behind his back, Lang said. After being placed inside the patrol car, he was able to move his hands to the front of his body and also kicked out a window of the car, she said.

"The officers said as Smith attempted to exit the patrol car, they saw that he had a firearm," Land said in a statement.

He was then shot by an officer.

A gun was found under Smith's body during the crime scene investigation, Lang said, and the "arrest encounter" was captured on video.

It was not immediately clear whether video recorded what happened outside the patrol car, inside it, or both. None of the video has been released.

The police officer, 10-year veteran David Jannot, has been placed on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation, Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police spokesman Julian Miller said in a statement.

Police have not said how many shots were fired, nor have they explained how Smith was handcuffed and placed inside the patrol car when they say he had a gun.

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Seem strange to me he wasn't searched before he got in the police car.

Your thoughts?

 

[Nebulous]

Lazy police work there, the gun should have been found during a pat down before hand.

 

[Dee]

I'm in the same mindset that these police didn't do their job well enough. A gun is typically too big to hide anywhere on your body, especially through a pat down. Unless he had it strategically strapped to his dick somehow or lodged up his ass. I'm not quite sure how they would have managed to miss that one.

 

[DrLeftover]

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I am not saying he had one of these. But you don't have to be packing a .45 govt or something last seen being carried by Dirty Harry to 'have a gun'.

A pistol chambered for .22 shorts is very small, easy to hide, and can be deadly.

 

[Webster]

But you don't have to be packing a .45 govt or something last seen being carried by Dirty Harry to 'have a gun'.

Tell that to the San Bernadino Co. Sheriff's Dept. back in late 2003...quoting the relevant section of the Snopes page:

The circumstances behind this video took place on 19 December 2003, when 47-year-old Ricardo Alfonso Cerna was stopped for a traffic violation at about 9:30 A.M. in Muscoy (a residential suburb of San Bernardino County, about 60 miles east of Los Angeles). Cerna fled the scene (in his car and then on foot) before shooting the pursuing officer, sheriff's deputy Michael Parham, twice in the abdomen. (Deputy Parham survived the shooting.) Cerna was soon arrested by San Bernardino police and taken to sheriff's headquarters on Third Street, where he was placed in an interview room just before 11 A.M. in preparation for questioning by Bobby Dean, head of the San Bernardino County sheriff's homicide unit.

When Dean stepped out of the room briefly to speak with a detective in the hallway, Cerna pulled the .45-caliber handgun out of his pants and shot himself in the head. Evidently a chain of mistakes led to Cerna, a shooting suspect, being taken into custody without either the arresting officers or the booking officers discovering he had a large, heavy handgun concealed on his person:

[Sheriff Gary] Penrod said deputies failed to adequately search Cerna before he was put in a car, and again when he was transferred to the homicide division office. Each receiving deputy may have wrongly assumed the previous officer adequately searched the man, he said...

 

[Dee]

Regardless of how small the gun was, they should have quite obviously done a better job of searching him. Yes, I agree he shouldn't have been packing and hiding the heat in the first place, but when you're dealing with people who could kill you, you'd think you'd want to make sure you do a thorough job checking.