Wednesday headlines: Emanuel AME shooting survivors again push for state hate crimes bill - Charleston City Paper

Charleston church shooting survivors confront SC senators to urge passage of hate crimes bill

“South Carolina is a great state, so we should act like a great state,” said Polly Sheppard, one of two 2015 Charleston church shooting survivors who urged senators on Tuesday to act on hate crimes legislation.

Charleston church shooting survivors confront SC senators to urge passage of hate crimes bill

“South Carolina is a great state, so we should act like a great state,” said Polly Sheppard, one of two 2015 Charleston church shooting survivors who urged senators on Tuesday to act on hate crimes legislation.

Charleston church shooting survivors confront SC senators to urge passage of hate crimes bill

“South Carolina is a great state, so we should act like a great state,” said Polly Sheppard, one of two 2015 Charleston church shooting survivors who urged senators on Tuesday to act on hate crimes legislation.

Wednesday headlines: Emanuel AME shooting survivors again push for state hate crimes bill - Charleston City Paper

Two survivors of the 2015 racist massacre at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston that killed nine told a group of state senators Tuesday that South Carolina’s lack of a hate crimes law is an insult to their suffering. The post Wednesday headlines: Emanuel AME shooting survivors again push for state hate crimes bill appeared first on Charleston City Paper.

Survivors of Emanuel AME shooting plead to state senators to pass Hate Crimes Bill

With a majority vote of 15 to 8 in the South Carolina Senate Judiciary Committee, the Hate Crimes Bill is now on its way to the South Carolina Senate floor, a m