A black man from South Carolina calls for the enactment of hate crime laws in the state, only two states in the United States that she does not have, after being targeted in a racist attack.
Garvis McKenzi said that on July 17, while waiting to go to work, a white man in a car Pick a rifleShe called his head and shouted, “It is better to run, boy!” , According to Associated Press. According to McKenzi’s fly behind a brick wall and the police later arrested Jonathan Felckel, at fire, According to Wis 10.
Wyoming is the only country that does not have hate crime laws. In the Rachels County, where McKenzi lives its hate legislation, as well as more than 20 local governments in South Carolina, but local laws are limited to misdemeanors, with a maximum sentence of one month prison sentence.
This law was used to accuse Felkel, and make it It is said The first person was arrested under the Crime Crime Law in the province. Felkal was also accused of assault, a high -nature and dispersed battery, and possession of a weapon during a violent crime.
The Ministry of Rachelfand County Sherif claimed that Welkel had confessed after his arrest that he had shot because of the man’s race. He said: “So I went there and saw a man standing in the bushes.”
“He was a black man in a white shirt, standing there at four in the morning, and I saw him there and was alone, so I was going to do something at the beginning … Well, I would have shot him. I was going to shoot him.”
His lawyer could not have immediately accessed for comment.
“It is surprising that I know that I wake up every morning. I stand there. I don’t know if he had seen me before,” McKenzi said.
Many areas, including Rachelland Province, have developed their hate crime laws in order to push the Senate in South Carolina to vote on proposed legislation that would impose more serious penalties on the perpetrators of crimes stimulated by the sweat of victims, ethnic, religion, sex, or sexual orientation.
The draft law, which could lead to the extra time for imprisonment, was supported by Charleston survivors, South Carolina, the church massacre of nine people. South Carolina’s business leaders also prompted legislation after the killing of George Floyd in 2020 by the Minneapolis Police, prompting anger throughout the United States and demanding the end of regular racism.
The South Carolina Council approved the draft law in 2021, but has since suffered the Republican Senate, which is refused to vote on it.