Black man targeted in racist attack says South Carolina needs hate crime law | South Carolina
A black man from Southern Carolina wants a racist attack in the United States, which is only one of the two states in the United States, asks for hate crime laws to come into force.
Jarvis McKenzie, while waiting to go to work on July 17, a white man in the car He took a rifleHe fired on his head and said, “You’d better run!” He shouted. Associated publication. McKenzie fled behind a brick wall and then arrested the 34 -year -old Jonathan Felkel during the shooting. According to Wis 10.
Wyoming is the only state that does not have hate crime laws. Richland County, where McKenzie lives, has its own hate crime legislation like more than 20 local government in South Carolina, but local regulations are limited to misdemeanors with a maximum monthly sentence.
This law was used to blame Felkel and it reported The first person was arrested under the district’s hate crime regulation. Felkel was also accused of high and aggravated attack and battery during a violent crime.
The Sheriff Department of Richland district claimed that Felkel had admitted that Felkel had fired because of the race of the man. “That’s why I went there and I saw a man standing in the bushes,” he said.
“He was a black man on a white shirt, I was just standing there at 4 in the morning and I saw him there, and he was on his own, so I was really going to do something at first… Well, I will shoot him. I will shoot him.”
He could not be reached immediately to comment on his lawyer.
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Many places, including Richland County, put forward his own hate crime laws to push the proposed legislation to vote for the perpetrators of the crimes motivated by the breed of victims, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation of the victims of the Southern Carolina Senate.
The draft law, which may result in years of prison, was supported by the survivors of South Carolina, Charleston, the church massacre of the nine -person. Southern Carolina business leaders also forced the legislation that screamed in the United States after George Floyd was killed by 2020 by Minneapolis police and demanded to end systemic racism.
South Carolina’s house approved the bill in 2021, but since then, he refused to vote in the State Senate, led by the Republic.
