Dozens gather at S.C. State House for ‘Liberty and Justice Rally’
Columbia, SC (WOLO) —- Local community leaders and politicians met at the state house to hold what they’re calling a “Liberty and Justice Rally.”
Speakers say they’re pushing the legislature to support laws that provide living wages, women’s freedoms, common sense gun laws, and summer food programs for children.
Supporters are also calling for lawmakers to move forward with a hate-crime bill, with South Carolina being one of two states in the country without one. Conway residents Shawn and Monica Williams spoke on the need for this law after they say their white neighbors burned a cross near their home and called them racial slurs during an incident this past December.
The proposed bill was named in honor of State Senator and Pastor Clementa Pinckney who was killed by a white supremacist during the Mother Emanuel Church shooting in Charleston in 2015.
