The South Carolina deputy who addressed reporters Tuesday afternoon doesn't believe resource officer Ben Fields is racist because of his romantic relationship with a Black woman.

Soon after the video was uploaded and gained national attention, Fields was placed on administrative leave. On Tuesday afternoon, Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott announced that Fields was suspended without pay.

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On Tuesday, Roland Martin, former Virginia Governor L. Douglas Wilder, and the NewsOne Now panel discussed Comey's comments and his explanation that increasing crime rates are a result of cops being afraid to do their jobs because they don't want to be video taped.

What has been revealed is that Ben Fields has been sued twice in federal court, with a one case going to jury trial at the top of next year.

Video footage of a South Carolina police officer picking up, throwing, and dragging a student while inside a classroom surfaced online Monday afternoon.

Seven inmates were given a combined total punishment of 7,150 days, or 19.75 years, of solitary confinement at the South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC).

https://twitter.com/ElidaGorny/status/651717424694202368 A South Carolina man was arrested for calling 911 on his girlfriend after she refused to have consensual sex with him. The incident happened shortly after midnight on Tuesday, when Patrick Doggett, 53, began drinking outside of his home in Spartanburg, the New York Daily News reports. His girlfriend and her grandchild were in the home. When Doggett came […]

Al Roker apologized after tweeting a smiling selfie during the historic flooding in South Carolina over the weekend.

Historic South Carolina flooding has now taken the lives of 11 people, wiped out homes, and left many more without power.

At least seven people are dead due to record-breaking rain and floods in South Carolina that also cut power to 20,000 homes.

A friend of Dylann Roof, the gunman who killed nine African-Americans at the Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, South Carolina in June, has been arrested by the FBI for allegedly having prior knowledge of the gunman’s plans a week before the shooting took place. According to The State, Joseph “Joey” Meek Jr. was arrested on Thursday after receiving a […]

A day care in South Carolina is being investigated after a teenager shared a photo of her foot inside the mouth of a 7-month-old baby.