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Via WTOC
A Chatham County Commissioner led a march on a Savannah convenience store on Tuesday after surveillance video was released of Charles Smith being arrested on an auto theft by receiving warrant minutes before he was shot to death on Augusta Avenue.
That surveillance video was shot inside a convenience store. On Wednesday, the mayor of Savannah said that the store’s role in the incident was limited to releasing the video to the Georgia Bureau of Investigations, as required by law.
The store is located near the intersection of Augusta Avenue and Eagle Street and isn’t County Commissioner Yusuf Shabazz’s district. But in the wake of that arrest video being released, he led a march on the convenience store, blaming the store’s owners for Smith’s death.
“We are holding you responsible for this,” Shabazz said into a megaphone.
Shabazz is accusing the store’s owner of tipping off police that Charles Smith was inside the store.
“How did the police officers know that he was inside of that store?” Shabazz said. “How did they know that? Because he called the police officers on him. That could’ve been your son, my son, any of our sons.”
According to the owner, the store has been there for three decades. He tried to defend himself but was met by calls from Shabazz to boycott the store.
“He had not respect for our brother,” said Shabazz.
Mayor Jackson said that when she came to the protest on Tuesday, West Savannah residents pleaded with her to help restore the calm.