News & Commentary

A white North Charleston police officer was arrested on a murder charge after a video surfaced Tuesday of the lawman shooting eight times at a 50-year-old black man as the man ran away.

December 8, 2014. Charleston, SC. Post & Courier. Editorial. Outfitting police officers with body cameras could resolve many disputes about their actions. That sounds particularly inviting considering the continuing, divisive debate about the details of Ferguson (Mo.) Police Officer Darren Wilson's fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown in August.

December 2, 2014. Charleston, SC. By Andrew Knapp. President Barack Obama's push Monday to outfit more of the nation's police officers with video cameras in the wake of the disputed shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown came as no surprise to Charleston-area law enforcement officials, but some of the authorities doubted whether the move would make the technology any closer to reality.

October 13, 2014. Charleston Currents. By Susan Dunn, Legal Director of the ACLU of SC. In his column [9/29/14: "Don't contribute to panhandling problem"], Andy Brack was wise to remind us that our treatment of the poor is important. We need solutions to the problem of homelessness that do not violate the constitutional rights of people who are poor. But police control of panhandlers raises issues larger than the criminalization of the homeless.

October 13, 2014. Greenville News Online. By Victoria Middleton, Executive Director. When T.L. was 16 years old, he was expelled from high school for skipping school. After leaving school, T.L. started getting into more trouble and ended up getting arrested for stealing. The judge sent him to a locked “evaluation center” in Union where he was incarcerated for weeks just to have a social worker interview him.

October 12, 2014. Charleston Post & Courier. By Glenn Smith. This man, who did not want his name used, was hoping for money from drivers making the left turn from Spring Street onto Lockwood Drive on Wednesday.  

New Law Raises Constitutional Eyebrows

Suspicious Minds

May 14, 2014. Columbia. The State. By Millicent Brown & Victoria Middleton. On this week’s 60th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Brown vs. Board of Education decision striking down de jursegregation, the school-to-prison pipeline once again is teaching children of color that they are indeed separate and that they are certainly not equal.