MORNING HEADLINES | Charleston County Council on Tuesday night failed to pass an ordinance penalizing hate or bias-based intimidation, despite 20 S.C. cities and two counties having similar ordinances.

Voting against the proposal were Republicans Joe Boykin, Jenny Honeycutt, Larry Kobrovsky, Brantley Moody, Herb Sass and voted against the ordinance. Voting in favor were Democrats Henry Darby, Kylon Middleton, Teddie Pryor and Rob Wehrman.

South Carolina is one of only two U.S. states without a hate crimes law. One proposal called Clementia C. Pinckney Hate Crimes Act, which is named after the former state senator who was one of nine killed in 2015 in a mass shooting at Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, has been introduced several times in the General Assembly, but never been pass

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