And now that Williams has gone from the quite lowly Professional Standards Branch to the number two spot - and government is counting on him to still the raging waters of urban violence in the city - we had to ask: what if? What if he had never been transferred out of the city last June? Would lives have been saved?. We asked the Prime Minister who gave the order:
Jules Vasquez, reporter
"Perhaps all of this could have been avoided. I don't know who gave the order for the transfer of Mr. Williams from the Southside, if it's the gentleman to your far right, or first from your left Mr. Elrington or Mr. Whylie, but certainly you could have jumped in as you are now and said man the Southside is a fragile place, let us leave well enough alone. What that in hindsight now a rather critical error?"
Rt. Dean Barrow, Prime Minister
"Look, the decisions of the Commissioner are decisions for him to make. You're description of what would likely would have happened, if Mr. Williams had been left on the southside is pure speculation. Finally it's all water under the bridge. We are where we are now."
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