"Jarvis McKenzie said that on 17 July, while waiting to go to work, a white man in a car picked up a rifle, fired over his head and shouted you better get running, boy!, according to the Associated Press. McKenzie reportedly escaped behind a brick wall and police later arrested Jonathan Felkel, 34, in the shooting, according to WIS 10."
"So I went down there and I seen a man standing in the bushes, he reportedly said. It was a Black man in a white shirt, just standing out there at 4 in the morning, and I saw him there and he was by himself so I was really going to do something at first Well, I was going to shoot at him. I was. I was going to shoot at him."
Jarvis McKenzie was targeted in a racist attack on 17 July while waiting to go to work when a white man in a car fired a rifle over his head and shouted a racial threat. McKenzie escaped behind a brick wall and police later arrested Jonathan Felkel, 34, who was charged with assault, possession of a weapon during a violent crime, and under Richland county's misdemeanor hate-crime ordinance. The sheriff's department alleged Felkel admitted the shooting was racially motivated. South Carolina and Wyoming remain the only states without statewide hate-crime laws, prompting local ordinances and calls for state legislation.
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