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Errol Barnes is the secondary antagonist in the 1995 crime movie Clockers.
He was portrayed by the late Thomas Jefferson Byrd.
Biography[]
A drug dealer in Brooklyn born from a preacher and the right-hand of the kingpin Rodney Little, he is also a long-time addict of heroine. This addiction eventually caused him to contract AIDS. A long time ago, he tied three people on the street for unspecified reasons. Killing two of them, he orders Rodney at gunpoint to kill the third. The reason was to hold something over Rodney if he decided to denounce him to the cops. It's also reported he murdered a child at some point.
In the present, Strike meets Barnes on the streets for money. The latter bluntly refuses and tells Strike he gets this virus because he was a junkie and because of this, he doesn’t want to see him again.
Eventually, Rodney and Stride get into conflict, and later, Little is arrested. Thinking Strike snitched on him, Rodney calls Errol and orders him to murder Strike. Errol shows up at Strike’s apartments the same day. Tyrone, seeing him, goes toward him in bicycle, takes a gun, and shoots him dead.
Personality[]
Barnes is a man with no respect for life at all. This guy is so bad-tempered, he hates humanity and even threatens Tyrone with a cigarette, by trying to stick it in his eyes. In one scene, Rodney talks about how Errol (because Errol used to be a functioning part of a crime family) used to be one of the hardest, stone hard killers in New York, until drugs made him disabled. He treats no one with respect, not even Rodney. He tries to have Strike killed, when Rodney orders it. However, it fails, when Tyrone gets word of it, and shoots him.
Another testament to his unhinged nature, is that he even forced his friend Rodney to shoot and kill a local drug dealer (despite the man being helplessly tied up and pleading for his life). This hertofore proves that Errol Barnes is the most evilest character in the movie.