Racist massacre survivor urges hate crimes law in S Carolina

FILE - Polly Sheppard leaves the Federal Court House in Charleston, S.C., Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017, after the death sentence hearing for Dylann Roof .Polly was one of the two survivors of the Emanuel AME massacre. With the opportunity to make South Carolina the 49th state to pass a hate crimes law nearly gone, supporters turned to one of the survivors of the most heinous racist attack in modern America to make their case Wednesday, April 27, 2022. They showed a two minute video of Polly Sheppard in the Senate chamber where the bill has been stuck for months with eight Republicans senators objecting to it and only eight more legislative days to take action.(Leroy Burnell/The Post And Courier via AP, File)