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S.C. Highway Patrol focus of investigation into racial profiling

By: James | February 28, 2013

COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) - By. Jody Barr

Nearly five years after federal indictments uprooted the South Carolina Highway Patrol's leadership, newevidence is uncovered that a former high-ranking patrol official says shows the problem of racial discrimination still exists.

WIS started investigating complaints of racial discrimination by patrolmen after we uncovered video of the patrol's internal affairs chief from January. In the traffic stop, a trooper cuffed Bobby Collins on suspected DUI, but let him go after the chief passed all the roadside sobriety tests.

It was the information in those cases former the DPS Chief said explains the way he acted during the January traffic stop. Collins, whose job was to investigate every complaint mad...

Category: Police

Tags: racial profiling, unlawful arrest

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