![]() ![]() Williams began to struggle to get away from officers. He was stopped and escorted to the hood of the vehicle. The report went on: “Williams continued to attempt to walk away stating that he did not have to comply with us. It was determined that he no longer had the knife in his hand.” Officers physically stopped him but he refused to cooperate. orders to stop and he attempted to walk away around the front of the vehicle. When Williams came back out of the vehicle he had a black handled knife in his right hand. concern was that he was reaching for a weapon. “He looked up as I approached and then quickly leaned into the front driver’s window," the officer wrote. The officer’s report said Williams was standing on the driver’s side of the car. The Seattle police report tells a different story. He said he had no intention of reaching for one of the woodcarving knives, which were located in the car’s center console. “I wanted to shut the car off and they assumed I was going for a knife,” Eagleson Williams said. ![]() Officers grabbed him and Thunderheart Williams, and roughly forced them to put their hands on the hood of Bonneville’s car, the three said. Eagleson Williams said he reached into Bonneville’s car to turn off the ignition. The Williams brother and Bonneville did not take any real part in the fight, all three said.Īfter the fighting stopped, police, who had apparently been summoned by an onlooker, arrived. The police report said five people ultimately participated in the fight, including Eagleson Williams. The fighting stopped with the participants and several onlookers standing around. The woman and her boyfriend each ended up punching or kicking the first man who intervened, the police report said. Two more people, who the Williams brothers and Bonneville also knew, got involved in the fight and a short, confused melee occurred next to Bonneville’s car, the three said. A young woman hit her boyfriend and he pushed her back, according to the police report. Then a minor street brawl erupted around Bonneville’s car among some of their acquaintances, the trio said. The Williams brothers said they left their woodcarving knives in the car Bonneville, who is learning the craft from Eagleson, had seven woodcarving knives but they were in his pockets, he said. They left Bonneville’s car running with the key in the ignition. On Monday, Eagleson Williams, his brother Thunderheart Williams, 24, and friend Tristen Bonneville, 21, finished work for the day as woodcarvers and went to Victor Steinbrueck Park in Bonneville’s car about mid-evening to check in with a family member. Later, the city paid $1.5 million to the Williams family, who belong to the Ditidaht First Nation, a tribe with roots in Vancouver Island. The officer resigned before the department formally fired him. The officer told Williams, who was hard of hearing, to drop the knife before fatally shooting him, and the department’s firearms review board ruled the shooting unjustified. Williams, 50, who was carrying a closed woodcarving knife. 30, 2010, when a Seattle police officer said he felt threatened by John T. The tragedy involving his uncle occurred on Aug. Police arrested Williams on suspicion of obstructing officers on Monday. “I’m just a number and a paycheck for them.”Įagleson Williams spoke to Crosscut on Wednesday in Seattle Center before he, his brother and two friends paid respects to the slain woodcarver at a nearby totem pole erected in the uncle’s memory. “Seven years and we are still getting by the police,” said Eagleson Williams, who is 23. The young woodcarver: Williams’ nephew, Eagleson Williams.īystanders, surprised at the sudden arrest of a man who appeared to have little or nothing to do with the brawl, captured video of Eagleson Williams being grabbed by officers and held against a car. Williams’ death by Seattle police - an event that helped spur a federal civil rights investigation into the department’s use of force - a young woodcarver said he was roughly and wrongly arrested after a brawl broke out near Pike Place Market. Virtually on the eve of the seventh anniversary of Native-American woodcarver John T. ![]()
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