http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/18/1394338/-South-Carolina-still-has-no-hate-crime-law?detail=email
The Department of Justice, U.S. Attorney's office and FBI have already begun investigating the shooting in Charleston, South Carolina, as a hate crime. Some local authorities agree with that assessment.
“There is no doubt in my mind that this is a hate crime,” Charleston Police Chief Greg Mullen told the Post and Courier.
But state officials won't have the option of conducting their own hate crime investigation because South Carolina is one of only several states that still lacks a hate crimes law. Aviva Shen has the details:
County Rep. Wendell G. Gilliard, who represents the district where the targeted church is located, has fought for years to enact a hate crime law in South Carolina. But efforts to catch South Carolina up to the rest of the country have repeatedly failed.
The bill Gilliard introduced during the last legislative session would have created penalties for assault or threats committed because of a victim’s race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, color, national origin, or age, as well as boost penalties for property destruction intended to intimidate the victim. Gilliard has also pushed to define assaults on the homeless as hate crimes.
South Carolina police reported 51 hate crime incidents in 2013, the latest available year of data. [...] The state hosts 19 known hate groups, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, most of which are focused on white supremacy and racial hatred.
are you surprised there is no incentive by those who are elected to change the status quo flags, statues and plaques of southern White supremacy even though it was a failed attempt of revolt against the Union, they take pride in their hate and racist ideals
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