South Carolina House Democrats Urge Passage of Hate Crime Bill
by Murjani Rawls from on (#5VRPF)
House Bill 3620, also known as the Clementa C. Pinckney Hate Crimes Act, in honor of the late state senator who was killed along with eight others in a racially motivated shooting at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston 2015, passed in the South Carolina House last year. Democratic members of the house held a press...