A South Carolina fire chief resigned after causing controversy with an offensive Facebook post saying police should stop responding to Black neighborhoods. According to the Associated Press, Lancaster County administrator Steve Willis told The State newspaper that Francis “Butch” Ghent quit on Friday as chief of the McDonald Green Volunteer Fire Department. Following an internal
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A White restaurant manager who beat, tortured and enslaved a mentally disabled Black employee for several years has now been ordered to pay him $546,000. In November of 2019, Bobby Paul Edwards was sentenced to 10 years in prison for the abuse and “forced labor” of John Christopher Smith, who worked extensive hours at the