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Sanders in North Charleston Caps South Carolina Tour

Press Release

Date: Aug. 22, 2015
Location: North Charleston, SC
Issues: Civil Liberties and Civil Rights Criminal Justice

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Saturday capped a two-day swing through South Carolina with a rally here that drew 3,150 supporters to the North Charleston Convention Center.

In this city where a white gunman in June killed nine people inside a historically black church, Sanders discussed the need for racial justice reforms. "Racism still remains a much too real part of American society. No one can deny it," Sanders said. He spoke of "the sickness of a man who can walk into a Bible study class in Charleston and then take out a gun and kill nine people."

"As president of the United States," Sanders told the North Charleston audience, "nobody will fight harder to end institutional racism and to reform our broken criminal justice system."

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