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Video shows officer firing on man eight times as he runs away.

At about 9:30 a.m., North Charleston police officer Michael Slager, who is white, pulled Scott over near the auto store for allegedly driving with a broken tail light. Within minutes, a routine traffic stop had escalated into a pursuit.

Attempting to restore trust in law enforcement after the fatal shooting of Walter Scott by a North Charleston police officer, a state Senate panel on Thursday affirmed the right to record police activity in public and called for independent investigations of police shootings.

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.

Does the GOP want to run back the clock on civil rights?

Democratic lawmakers are proposing protections to prevent discrimination against gays in South Carolina in the wake of controversies in other states over their religious freedom laws.

March 18, 2015. Greenville News. By Lyn Riddle. South Carolina's marriage license application has been changed to add spouse and spouse.

March 11, 2015. Columbia. Free Times. By Eva Moore.  With police violence against citizens getting more attention, the South Carolina Senate is considering a bill that would require police to wear body cameras.

March 11, 2015. Greenville News. By Michael Burns. Though he's issued them to his patrolling officers for the protection of the public and the police, Greer Police Chief Dan Reynolds, who serves as president of the South Carolina Police Chiefs Association, is not in favor of state legislation that would require all state and local law enforcement officers to wear body cameras.