Ed Walker and Clementa Pinckney Bust
Clementa Carlos "Clem" Pinckney served as a Democratic politician and Methodist Episcopal pastor in South Carolina. In 1996, he gained the distinction of being the youngest African-American man elected to the South Carolina General Assembly at the age of twenty-three. In April of 2015, he pushed for laws requiring law enforcement officials to wear body cameras. However, on June 17, 2015, Pinckney and 8 other attendees at a Bible study at his church were murdered by a white supremacist neo-Nazi.
In order to honor the victims of the shooting, Marion County, SC commissioned a bust and outdoor memorial in the Amazing Grace Park. Ed Walker worked to capture his likeness in the memorial bust that stands in the memorial park.
Senator Pinckney Memorial
Pinckney Memorial Bust