Elliot Williams
speaker
443 appearances
4 recordings
4 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 26 Jun
Elliot Williams’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They were certainly doing pull-ups on the bars, walking around, asking people for cigarettes or for matches or whatever else.
So the train has stopped on the tracks in the darkness somewhere between 14th Street and Chamber Street in lower Manhattan.
Now, at that moment, Goetz appeared calm to passengers and appeared almost poised.
But he ultimately, knowing that the train would be swarmed with police in a matter of moments, just fled.
jumped off the train, ran through the subway platform with his gun, took a cab home, rented a car, and fled to New Hampshire.
Before Bernard Getz was identified, the New York Post started calling him the, quote, death wish vigilante.
That's the nickname they gave him.
And they started running graphics about the death wish vigilante after Charles Bronson
the protagonist of the movie Death Wish.
And it's not just the use of the sharpened screwdrivers, but the use of the term armed, the narrative that...
the four young men were armed with screwdrivers is itself a fiction.
There was never any screwdriver shown to brandish or made available to Bernard Goetz at any time.
It is simply not true.
Every major paper ran with this notion that the screwdrivers were sharpened.
All you knew it was a white guy that had shot four black teenagers who were armed with sharpened screwdrivers.
And that stuck and it taps into a long running narrative in the United States over lifting up vigilantes and vigilante behaviors.
Barry Slotnick couldn't have been more out of central casting.
When you think of the kind of glitzy showbiz type attorney, Barry Slotnick was it.
He had tailored Italian suits.
He had jewelry, the tie tack.
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