Democrat Sanders Courts Black Voters In South Carolina

[Purveyor]

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders brought his progressive populism to deeply Republican South Carolina, and made a pitch to connect with the black voters that provide most of the Democratic support in the early primary state.

It was the Vermont senator's first visit to the state since announcing his candidacy in late April, in a challenge to Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton.

Sanders had canceled a planned appearance in Charleston in June in the wake of the massacre at the city's Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church that left nine dead.

In North Charleston, the last of five stops in the state, he invoked the names of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray and Walter Scott, all unarmed black men who died in the hands of police officers in a little over a year.

"We are going to end institutional racism and we are going to transform and make changes in the criminal justice system that isn't working," he said to loud cheering from a crowd of about 3,100. "When a police officer breaks the law, that police officer must be held accountable. We need new rules on the use of force."

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/23/us-usa-election-sanders-idUSKCN0QS03420150823

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1. new rules perhaps, dumping the bad cops first of all. will there be any left then? to me a bad cop

also includes ones who know about fellows engaging in illegal behavior while on the job and failing to report it./

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2. He should try a southern accent.

[Juicy_Bellows]

3. They're swapping actors for Colonel Sanders like crazy.

Darrell Hammond, Norm McDonald and now Bernie 'The Colonel' Sanders. The commercial would be a little odd as he veers off talking about giving all of his employees 15 an hour and not talking about the shitty food. Cheers!