Looting and rioting would disrespect the Mayor. Update to a previous story.
Via WTOC
At an NAACP crime meeting Sunday night–one topic loomed large — the fatal shooting of a West Savannah man by a police officer on Sept. 18.
“We’re not Ferguson,” Assistant Metro Police Chief Terry Enoch told the crowd.“This is not Ferguson,” Mayor Edna Jackson said.
“I can say to you,” NAACP President Al Scott said, ‘that Savannah is no Ferguson.”
Scott– who is also chairman of the Chatham County Commission — pointing out that unlike Ferguson, Mo., a predominantly African American Community with a nearly all-white police department and city government, “We’re on our third black mayor.”
Mayor Edna Jackson pointed out that she, Scott, Metro Police Chief Julie Tolbert and Savannah City Manager Stephanie Cutter all are African-American.[…]
Leadership of the Savannah State NAACP are skeptical that the GBI’s inquiry into the shooting will be truly impartial.
“Past GBI investigations, many of them have always come out in favor of the police,” SSU Chapter President Maurice Nelson said.
That’s why some have called for federal authorities to get involved.
But local FBI Agent Gene Kowell told the crowd that his agency, “currently has no investigation pending.”
Still, the NAACP is gathering a list of names, people who say they saw Jannot shoot Smith but don’t want to talk to local or state authorities. Their plan is to give that list to the FBI if federal authorities suspect police violated Smith’s constitutional rights.