CHARLESTON — A prominent attorney who this week announced his Democratic campaign for governor shouted incoherently about his political aspirations and spoke in disparaging terms about rivals as he sat handcuffed and shirtless in the back of a police patrol car following his arrest this spring.

William “Mullins” McLeod spent about 30 minutes yelling a rambling and sometimes incomprehensible string of comments while he was transported from The Battery area to the county jail, according to dash camera footage the Charleston Police Department released to The Post and Courier on Aug. 12.

The newspaper submitted a public information request for the police footage after McLeod announced his candidacy.

Officers found McLeod, 53, around 9:30 p.m. on May 14 “yelling at the top of his lungs,”

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