Can SC Police Justify Shooting Man In The Back 17 Times?

By Bob Owens

The original news accounts of Waltki Cermoun Williams’s death at the hands of police officers in South Carolina in December were tragic but hardly extraordinary.

The Sumter County Coroner has identified the man killed in the officer-involved shooting Saturday night in Sumter.

The coroner identified the man as 35-year-old Waltki Cermoun Williams of Sumter. An autopsy is scheduled Monday morning for Williams in Newberry.

Sumter Police’s Public Information Officer Tonyia McGirt says officers were responding to a domestic disturbance call at the Sumter Mall around 9:30 Saturday night. We are told a woman was afraid to go outside the mall after her estranged boyfriend who threatened to kill her was seen outside pointing a gun at her car. According to law enforcement records, she had been trying to end the relationship for the past two months without success.

Officers say when they got on the scene, they recognized a red SUV as the truck that was described in the 911 calls. The driver led police on a chase that ended in a collision with two other cars at the intersection of Miller Road and Guignard Drive. Officers say Williams got out of the SUV and attempted to run away.

According to McGirt, there was …Read the Rest

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