Bodycam Shows Cop Dragged by Car After Traffic Stop

Desensitisation · #11 ● 05-19-2015, 10:10 AM

He handed himself in?
More like he got so many death threats from folks who recognized him, he thinks he'll be safer in jail than on the streets.

RealityUnfolding · #12 ● 06-23-2017, 03:03 PM

Just in case anyone bops in here wandering or random searching, dude is dead. Eighteen months after this incident, he was out and about.

He had been indicted 3 months after dragging the cop.

A Savannah man was indicted on assault charges after he allegedly dragged a local police officer with his car at a southside gas station in May.

A Chatham County grand jury on Wednesday charged 23-year-old Brandon Christopher Adams with two counts of aggravated assault on a peace officer and one count of obstruction for the May 9 incident at the Shell station in the 12000 block of Abercorn Street.

Jurors said Adams “knowingly” assaulted Savannah-Chatham police officer Robert Micheli with a car, which, “when used offensively against a person is likely to result in serious bodily injury” while Micheli was performing law enforcement duties. The obstruction charge was for lying about his name.

Police, at the time, said Adams nearly ran Micheli over — that Adams refused to follow Micheli’s instructions, got into his Ford Focus and speed away while the officer’s arm was trapped between the seat and seat belt. The officer had been responding to a shoplifting call at the gas station, and a manager there told him that Adams had cashed a fake check a few months beforehand.

I can't find any followup of charges in the case or offender search, so my only speculation is charges were dropped entirely. No bail hearings, no intake, no sentencing.

Which may also be the reason no news stories referenced the earlier case. So I included a similar side by side. It would be an extreme coincidence for a man in an identical city, with an identical age and nearly identical looks to be different people...

Which makes me wonder - how in the hell did he get off this charge?!?

Autopsy: Man may have shot himself during police foot chase

Published November 17, 2016 Associated Press

SAVANNAH, Ga. – Georgia authorities say an autopsy found a man who was fatally shot during a foot chase with a Savannah police officer may have killed himself.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said in a news release that 24-year-old Brandon Christopher Adams died early Wednesday. The GBI said autopsy results showed the fatal injury was "consistent with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest." However, the agency said it's still investigating the death.

Savannah-Chatham County police say an officer stopped Adams on the street at about 3:30 a.m. and he fled on foot. Police say that during the chase, the officer heard a shot and saw Adams fall, but the officer never fired his gun.

Police recovered a handgun at the scene, but authorities have not said whether it belonged to Adams.

Here's his darling obituary where he made his "transition".

Photos from obit.