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Suspicious Minds

July 15, 2014. Charleston, SC. WCIV News 4. The attorney for the family of a teenager who died at the Bridgeview Village Apartments last month questioned the culture of the city's police department after hearing the details of the shooting and the police chief's reaction.

July 15, 2014. Charleston. Post and Courier. By Andrew Knapp If a Charleston police officer had not confronted him for wearing a hoodie in the summertime heat, Denzel Curnell's death last month might have been avoided, civil liberties advocates and experts said Tuesday.

July 15, 2014. Charleston, S.C. WCIV Channel 4. Charleston police during Tuesday night's council meeting got the approval to buy new body cameras.

Greenville, S.C. July 3, 2014. USA Today. By Rudolph Bell (Greenville News). Greenville has joined a movement of local governments installing plaques bearing the national motto, "In God We Trust."

Civil liberties group says current districts lack population balance, undermining right to vote

June 12, 2014. Charleston. Post & Courier. By Diane Knich.Charleston police officers soon could be wearing body cameras to record all of their interactions with citizens, a practice that has sparked privacy concerns with the American Civil Liberties Union.

June 6, 2014. Think Progress. By Tara Culp-Ressler. As harsh abortion clinic restrictions spread across the South, threatening to leave a large swath of the country without access to reproductive health services, one state is bucking the trend. Lawmakers in South Carolina concluded their legislative session this week without passing measures to further restrict abortion rights.

April 15, 2014. Columbia. WMBF News. By Michael Turner. A group that represents South Carolina's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community partnered with ACLU of South Carolina to protest what they say are unfair marriage and tax laws.