Family of man killed by police in Georgetown County will hold ‘Stop Killing Us March’
Community organizers plan to hold a “Stop Killing Us March” in honor of a man who was shot and killed by a police officer in Georgetown County this month.
The march will be held this weekend, the day after the funeral of Robert Langley, 46, according to a press release from the STROM law firm in Columbia.
Langley’s funeral will be held at noon Friday at Hopewell AME Church in Hemingway, where Langley was from.
The “Stop Killing Us March” will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Boys and Girls Club on 51 Lewis Road in Hemingway, according to the press release.
Former Hemingway Police Department officer Cassandra Dollard was charged with shooting and killing Langley, who was unarmed. Dollard, who is Black, shot Langley in the chest more than eight miles outside her jurisdiction after he lead her on a police chase, according to Dollard’s arrest warrant from the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED).
The police chase began in Williamsburg County after Langley ran a stop sign. The chase ended after Langley’s car crashed in Georgetown County, according to Dollard’s warrants.
Dollard, 52, was charged with voluntary manslaughter and booked into Georgetown County jail Feb. 9, just three days after the shooting. She was released on a $150,000 bond the following day.
State Senator Gerald Malloy, who represents the Langley family, said the case was one of the worst police shootings he had seen in more than 30 years of experience.
“I’ve seen a lot of police shootings. This is one of the most egregious. Unarmed man, eight miles plus out of your jurisdiction,” Malloy said at Dollard’s bond hearing.
Civil Rights attorney Bakari Sellers, representing the Langley family, implied that Dollard should not have been a police officer, citing her previous firings from two law enforcement agencies in South Carolina.
“This was a failure by the entire criminal justice system,” Sellers said at the bond hearing. “[Dollard] should not have been on the road.”
Dollard was fired in 1993 from Williamsburg County Detention Center for poor performance, according to records from the South Carolina Criminal Justice Academy.
Dollard also was terminated Sept. 11, 2014 from her job with the South Carolina Department of Public Safety as a corporal for the State Transport Police, according to documents filed in a federal lawsuit.
This story was originally published February 17, 2022 at 12:51 PM.
