This shouldn’t have happened.

In the early morning hours of Sunday, September 29, 2019, my brother Antonio Williams waited outside a friend’s house for a ride home.

He had just finished watching a boxing match.

He was on his phone when he was approached by men dressed in everyday clothes.

It was dark. They had just jumped out of an unmarked vehicle.

Antonio ran from the strangers.

Within minutes, he was dead.

Three thousand miles away, I got the devastating confirmation of my brother’s murder. I watched the information flood in via Citizen, NY Post, and other sources.

The men who murdered my brother were police officers. They murdered one of their own at the same time.

Most of the information that came in during this time was inaccurate. Much of it remains uncorrected.

Many early news stories claimed my brother shot the officer that lost his life that night, Brian Mulkeen.

Some sources even said my brother did so by wrestling Mulkeen’s gun from him.

We have since confirmed this is not true.

We now know that the only thing Antonio did during all of this was run for his life.

We demand answers and justice.

There is still so much more we do not know about that night.

 

We don’t know why my brother was approached that evening.

We don’t know if the police—who approached my brother on a dark street, in plainclothes, after jumping from an unmarked vehicle—ever identified themselves as police officers.

We have not seen the entirety of the body cam footage captured by present and responding officers that evening.

We have so many questions.

The NYPD has stalled for almost a year and a half on giving us answers.