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“I was told, ‘This is political, so someone has to go,’” said Ms. A camera system in the interview room, she said, was not working properly. She said that two patrol officers who had been sitting outside the interview room for 40 minutes and did not check on Mr. Harvey’s death she was 15 minutes from headquarters at a hospital checking on a victim and that Mr. Leuschner said in an email on Tuesday night that at the time of Mr. Kerr had breached his responsibilities as a supervisor. Leuschner had breached the department’s conduct policy and had failed to turn on cameras during the encounter. Michael Kerr - were fired over their response to the situation, the Savannah Police Department said. William Harvey in a photo provided by his family. Harvey had been in distress, failed to activate all of the cameras that were in the room and later made light of the tragedy in a group text message exchange.
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They said the police had neglected the warning signs that Mr. His death was ruled a suicide by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.īut his family has faulted the police over the actions of officers leading up to and after his death. Harvey, 60, was found unresponsive in an interview room where he had been left alone. That same day the city’s police chief and mayor met with the family of William Harvey, who officers said hanged himself with his shoelaces on April 3 after officers questioned him at police headquarters as part of an investigation into an aggravated assault. The officers’ dismissal was announced by the Savannah Police Department on Monday. Five police officers in Savannah, Ga., have been fired after a Black man hanged himself while in custody in April, a death that three of them mocked in a text message exchange that contained a crude GIF, officials said this week.