Sheriff Arrested on Assault Charge
Sheriff Al Cannon booked into jail on 3rd degree assault charge stemming from traffic stop.
Charleston County Sheriff Al Cannon was booked into the jail that bears his own name Tuesday on 3rd degree assault charges, according to a statement from the state's law enforcement division.
The arrest and criminal charges stem from a January incident in which Cannon admitted he slapped a handcuffed suspect following a high-speed pursuit through Mount Pleasant. The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division made the arrest today.
Cannon invited the criminal probe after the incident, and earlier on Tuesday an outside prosecutor recommended the misdemeanor charges. Cannon told the Post and Courier he would not step down because of the charge, and he would accept the appropriate punishment.
The assault charge carries a $500 fine or 30 days in jail, and since Cannon has no criminal record he can enter a pre-trial diversion program. He won't have to step down as sheriff, because the diversion will result in no criminal record.
It's a common scenario for first-time offenders charged with minor offenses.
Cannon has said almost from the outset that he regretted slapping Timothy McManus following the Jan. 30 chase. The sheriff said he lost his temper after personally pursuing the suspect at speeds near 100 mph through Mount Pleasant and into the Francis Marion National Forest.
On Monday, deputies again arrested McManus when they encountered the 31-year-old asleep behind the wheel of a running truck in Mount Pleasant. He was charged with driving without insurance, a proper tag and for operating a vehicle with a suspended license.
McManus, according to ABC News 4, was released from jail earlier Tuesday.
Terri Unknown
9:31 pm on Tuesday, August 28, 2012
So let me get this straight, Al Cannon is booked and put into jail....where? at the Al Cannon Detention Center???? Now how about that??? Pretty weird.
He shouldn't have done what he did but the criminal was a jerk and got in trouble again. Maybe the Sherriff was just defending himself against the criminal's verbal assaults.
JoSCh
10:29 pm on Tuesday, August 28, 2012
You think its justified that a sheriff hit a man while he was detained under arrest? And for a verbal assault? Really? Where do you draw the line?
Greymom
9:57 pm on Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Soooooo.... The Sherriff is in jail and the criminal is out ?? Its true, the criminal is always right . Go Figure.
Richard Watts
10:07 pm on Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Hate to see this. My hat is off to Sheriff Cannon. This man was not caught doing something wrong he did something and came forward admitting his mistake. He didn't wait for the suspect to file a complaint he stepped up and brought It to the attention of SLED who investigated the incident and took the appropriate action. This speaks volumes of the Sheriffs integrity and character and I support him 100%
Greymom
11:17 pm on Tuesday, August 28, 2012
OMG !! I cant believe this is a issue.. I don't know what makes our police and Sheriffs get up every AM and go to work. It would be a totally different story if that Jerk killed someone. The bleeding Hearts would demand to know why the Sheriff didn't stop him. LOL..
linda mcpherson
12:52 pm on Tuesday, January 8, 2013
I, ALSO SUPPORT HIM!
We have a sheriff- A SUPERIOR ONE- WHO LOOKS OUT FOR THE WELL BEING OF >THE INNOCENT BYSTANDER PUBLIC<.
We need law enforcement officers who protect us from people such as this type of person, showed that he, can be.
We have lessons at times, that all of us should hope to learn from; let's hope the guilty man, understands, when you do wrong, you will more than likely, see it catch up to you, by the law enforcement officers who put thier lives on the line to keep people- safe.
It is thier job; to serve us;that means- protect us.
IF we let a dog with rabies- get away, and he keeps on biting people, ALL law enforcement would be guilty of not doing what they could to protect the people.
THEY have to catch the dog, and keep the people- safe.
You simply never know when the dog will bite again, but you know, IT -WILL.
Different things can make it be more aggressive; and you just can not take any chances, and not catch up to it.
It could bite ten people, and who wants to be one of them!
MANY of us are grateful for the honest man that Al Cannon-IS.
He serves us- well.
JoSCh
2:45 pm on Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Serious question linda, are you developmentally disabled?
Bill O'Brien
10:19 pm on Tuesday, August 28, 2012
The sheriff showed his character in this situation. He welcomes an investigation on an error in judgement. He is by far one of the most professional law enforcement officers I have ever had the pleasure of knowing. Keep up the great work. This is merely a bump in the road of a stellar carrer. Never, never, never give up.
linda mcpherson
11:31 am on Wednesday, August 29, 2012
HE IS THE MAN.
THE FOOL that acted out- endangering lives and could have cared less, DESERVED to have been slapped silly.Al did not beat him up, he just slapped the crap out of him!SOMEONE SHOULD SLAP HIM-AGAIN.
HE DESERVES to be locked away for a year and maybe he can get his life together.
GOOD WORK AL!
YOU ARE OUR GREAT DEFENDER OF JUSTICE FOR THE PEOPLE AND WE SAY THAT MAN SHOULD HAVE BEEN SLAPPED WITH A MORE JUST VERDICT.SOMEONE, IF FOR THE CRIMINAL, WE ALL DO SEE!
OUT WITH THOSE CRIMINAL JUDGES, AND CRIMINAL BUTT KISSING PEOPLE ON JURIES AND SUCH- WHO MAKE SUCH DECISIONS- THAT ARE NOT IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE PUBLIC!
AL CANNON FOR GOVERNOR!
JoSCh
3:12 pm on Wednesday, August 29, 2012
You said
"SOMEONE, IF FOR THE CRIMINAL, WE ALL DO SEE!"
What does that mean and why are you shouting?
Greymom
11:10 pm on Tuesday, August 28, 2012
I wouldn't want to be in law inforcement. You are damned if you do and damned if you dont. I can see where the sherriff is so pissed that this criminal could have killed law abiding citizens that he did what any caring person would react to and now he is the bad guy and now come the bleeding hearts to defend that worthless criminal..
josch.... We'll answer that question when that guy kills one of you family. Until then, if you need help.. Don't call the sheriff.!
Jeff Davis
11:49 pm on Tuesday, August 28, 2012
It is actually "damned if you do and DEAD if you don't." My hats off to Sheriff Cannon.
JoSCh
9:55 am on Wednesday, August 29, 2012
So caring people strike defenseless people? Got it.
Nobody is defending the criminals actions. We're defending his rights. Even the sheriff agrees. Only regressives believe that not all people have basic human rights. Much to the detriment of the GOP.
linda mcpherson
11:32 am on Wednesday, August 29, 2012
AMEN!
ANYONE NOT FOR AL- DEFEND YOUR OWN SELVES!
Greymom
12:54 am on Wednesday, August 29, 2012
I stand corrected !! You are totally right .. Thanks
Greymom
11:58 am on Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Yes you are defending criminals.. When you choose to be a criminal you don't have any rights. Why don't you take him home with you maybe you can change him.
JoSCh
2:16 pm on Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Interesting take. Here in America even criminals have rights.
JoSCh
2:26 pm on Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Also, I said nobody is defending the criminals actions, I didn't say nobody is defending the criminal. Huge difference.
Wounded Warrior
11:05 am on Wednesday, August 29, 2012
He never saw the inside of a jail. He was bonded out.
I respect him for admitting that he let his passion for his job be compromised for a moment by a utter degenerate who probably deserved more than a slap. I stand behind him.
I hope it was at least a b**ch slap.
JoSCh
2:23 pm on Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Tim McManus did get punished... after a hearing.
If a cop pulls you over for "endangering people" do you deserve to be slapped by said officer? Draw a line. Us Americans drew one a long time ago.
Greymom
12:00 pm on Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Al Cannon for President !!!
JW
6:11 am on Tuesday, January 8, 2013
greymom....you are stupid.....when people choose to be a criminal they have no rights?? I well tell you who should have no rights. The police, I am glad they arrested Al Cannon, if you ask me they should make him serve a 30 day sentence in his detention center. So he can feel what the system will actually do to a person, they should have denied him bail and made him sit there until his trial so he can feel what it is like to be treated like you are guilty before you even get a trial. He had no right to lay a hand on that man, watch the video and show me where that guy resisted or acted in a threatening manner after he finally pulled over, his hands were up. They should round up every person that was there from the sheriffs office and arrest them, and then fire them.
Terri Unknown
2:04 pm on Tuesday, January 8, 2013
I'd like to venture that 99.9% of the ones in jail are guilty of the crime arrested on and then many more! JW you must be one of the 99.9% ers or related to one. Jails aren't for innocent people. We know how to stay out of them.
JoSCh
2:42 pm on Tuesday, January 8, 2013
In a race to the bottom both Terri and JW are quite literally 6 months behind Greymom. Way to go?
linda mcpherson
3:34 pm on Tuesday, January 8, 2013
JoSCH...WHY would you conclude this, of me.
CONSIDER THIS.
You are crossing the street, and from around a corner, a driver is racing to the airport, he looks down for only a second/ HE is moving to quickly/you can't escape- he runs over you, crushing your bones/puts out one eye; you, are left, with paralysis, in that your brain function, is , abnormal.
Your life, as you knew it, is over.
One person saw the hit/run car; the driver kept on going, he had to get to the airport, catch his flight to a interview for, FINALLY, SO- he just said the heck wth you, and left you, bloody/ broken up, in the street.
ONE PERSON saw the car/called 911 for help/gave the discription of what happened and Al Cannon heard it.
He was not far away.
He spotted a car, as described/ caught up to it.
Now, the driver just wants to get away from it all/ he intends to do that.
Al Cannon, is determined : ' THIS DRIVER- LEFT YOU, A INNOCENT PERSON, FOR DEAD', AND HE- WILL NOT LET HIM GET AWAY WITH THIS '.
WHO would have brought justice for you; WHO would have known who did this to you?
ANYONE would have become so angry,as this guy, left you lying in the street.
THEN, catching up to him, the man- STILL- KEEPS GOING.
THAT, is like a 'SO WHAT' attitude.
THAT is enough to make caring people VERY ANGRY, and, in the spur of the moment, a good hard slap! in the face, to the man- was not near as bad as what he, had given to you, forevermore.
JoSCh
3:52 pm on Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Because of the way you type. You capitalize and punctuate randomly. It's like reading Tourette Syndrome theater.
Police aren't judges nor are they the executors of punishment. In this case Al Cannon acted as if he were, he admitted that he did and apologized because he's knows that what he did was fundamentally wrong and opposed to what America stands for.
The situation you're advocating for is an authoritarian dystopia. It's like a GOP wet dream except it doesn't have enough citizen hero lynch mobs pursuing the accused, sorry; the we think he's guilty so he's guilty party with machine guns and performing the summary execution themselves.