A homeless black man from Florida who was arrested final week within the stabbing demise of a 14-year-old boy bought right into a battle with a sheriff's deputy as he was being booked into jail and made a number of statements invoking race, together with calling the officer a 'white satan.'
Semmie Williams, 39, was arrested on December 1 in Miami on first-degree homicide expenses for the November 15 slaying of Ryan Rogers, 14, whose physique was discovered alongside an Interstate 95 overpass.
In keeping with a Palm Seaside County Sheriff's Workplace incident report, as Deputy Michael McCabe was fingerprinting Williams, he requested him if he understood why he was being arrested.
Williams was quoted as saying in response, 'Yeah, homicide due to what they did to black individuals about giving them syphilis,' reported WPBF.
Though Williams, who in accordance with his protection lawyer suffers from psychological well being points, didn't elaborate on his reply, he was probably referring to the infamous Tuskegee Institute experiment, throughout which 400 black males had been denied therapy for his or her syphilis, leading to 100 deaths.
After making his syphilis comment, Deputy McCabe wrote that Williams raised his voice, pulled away from him and tried to stroll away.
'He tried to take me down by holding my proper arm and shifting his weight ahead and to his proper,' the deputy recounted within the report. 'I resisted this and shortly took him to the ground, face down.'
Williams was ultimately overpowered and handcuffed by two different deputies. He then addressed McCabe, telling him that if his colleagues didn't assist him, he was going to 'whoop his a**,' and mentioned, 'white satan.'
Williams was handled for his facial damage by a nurse after which taken to the infirmary.
He made his preliminary courtroom look the next day and was ordered held with out bond.
On Wednesday, a public defender assigned to symbolize Williams filed a movement looking for to protect proof associated to his 'extreme psychological sickness.'
Police mentioned they've found Williams' YouTube channel, the place he recurrently posted brief cellphone movies through which he ranted about being stalked by police and cults.
Courtroom data point out that Williams has an enormous prison previous spanning 12 years and three totally different states.
Williams beforehand confronted a dozen totally different expenses, together with assault with strangulation on a senior citizen, two home assaults, battery, carrying a hid digital weapon, resisting arrest and larceny.
Rogers, a 14-year-old highschool freshman from Palm Seaside Gardens, had gone out for an early night bike trip on November 15 and by no means returned residence.
His physique was discovered the subsequent day in a wooded space. Courtroom data present the teenager was stabbed quite a few occasions within the head and face.
Williams' DNA was allegedly discovered on a pair of headphones on the scene and Rogers' blood was discovered on a bandana Williams had in his backpack when he was situated.
Investigators say Williams additionally matches the outline of a person videotaped by a safety digital camera strolling towards the world the place the physique was discovered about 10 minutes earlier than the boy's cellphone stopped monitoring him.
Williams denied ever encountering Rogers, data present.
'This seems to be a totally random act. We shouldn't have a motive,' Palm Seaside Gardens Police Chief Clinton Shannon mentioned final week. 'I'd finest describe it as an harmless youngster sufferer having an opportunity encounter with a really violent prison.'
Williams pleaded responsible three years in the past in Atlanta to aggravated assault-strangulation and battery on an individual 65 or older for a random 2014 assault, courtroom data present.
Courtroom procedures had been delayed for 4 years as a result of Williams was discovered mentally incompetent to help in his protection.
A person was strolling down the road when Williams jumped out from behind a wall, ran up behind him, put him in a good chokehold and beat him on the top, transcripts of Williams' 2018 courtroom listening to present.
The sufferer testified that he couldn't breathe in the course of the assault and was about to cross out when passersby intervened. Williams threw the sufferer right into a ravine, leaving him with a everlasting arm damage, and ran away. Williams was arrested after a brief search of the world.
The sufferer mentioned that he requested Williams in the course of the assault if he wished cash.
'He mentioned no. He is aware of my sort and he's going to complete me,' the sufferer informed Decide Thomas A. Cox Jr. 'I am fortunate to be alive. The intent was to kill me.'
Williams had served 4 years in jail and a psychological hospital. Prosecutors wished a further 12 months, however Cox mentioned that since Williams had no prior felony convictions, he can be sentenced to time served and launched that day.
Cox ordered Williams to go away Georgia instantly upon launch and journey by bus to central Florida to stay together with his mom, who had agreed to take care of him. He was to serve 5 years probation in Florida.
Williams additionally has arrests within the mid-2000s in central Florida for varied misdemeanor expenses together with home violence, resisting arrest with out violence, petty theft and carrying a hid digital weapon. His mom, throughout that interval, took out a restraining order towards him.
