Black people in racist attacks say South Carolina needs hate crime laws | South Carolina

A black man South Carolina Calls for a hate crime law in the state, one of the United States’ targets in racist attacks.

Jarvis McKenzie said on July 17, a white man was in the car while waiting for work Pick up the rifleshot according to his head, shouting, “You’d better run, boy!” Associated Press. According to reports According to WIS 10.

Wyoming is the only country without a hate crime law. Richland County, where McKenzie lives, does have its own hate crime legislation, as do more than 20 local governments in South Carolina, but local regulations are limited to misdemeanors and a maximum sentence of one month.

The law was used to accuse Fell of the law of making him It is said that The first person was arrested under the county’s hate crimes ordinance. Fairkel has also been charged with high and serious assault and assault and possesses weapons in violent crimes.

After his arrest, Fickel admitted he was fired for the man’s race, the Richland County Sheriff’s Department said. “So I went there and saw a guy standing in the bushes,” he said.

“It was a black man in a white shirt, standing there at 4 am, and I saw him there, he was alone, so I really had to do something at the beginning… Well, I’m going to shoot him. I’m. I’m. I’m going to shoot him.”

His attorney could not be contacted immediately for comment.

“I know I get up every morning. I stand there and don’t know if he’s seen me before,” Mackenzie said.

Many districts, including Richland County, have proposed their own hate crime laws to prompt the South Carolina Senate to vote on proposed legislation that would impose more severe penalties on offenders of victims of race, race, religion, gender, or sexual orientation.

The bill could result in years of additional incarceration, which was a church massacre of Charleston, South Carolina survivors, nine people. South Carolina business leaders have also pushed for the legislation following the Minneapolis police killing George Floyd in 2020, prompting outcry across the United States and demanding an end to systemic racism.

South Carolina’s House of Representatives approved the bill in 2021 but has since struggled in the Republican-led state Senate to refuse to vote on it.