Columbia City Council candidate accuses SC police dept of racial profiling

Christa Williams, a candidate for city council in Columbia, has filed a lawsuit against the Cayce police department over what she referred to as racial profiling during a routine traffic stop.

In a complaint filed with the Lexington County Magistrate Court, Williams accused Cayce police officer J. Nancarvis of pulling her over because her brake light was out and then subsequently charging her with speeding. Williams maintained that her brake light was out, but that she wasn’t speeding.

“I locked eyes with J. Nancarvis in passing, saw that I was an African American woman, pulled behind me, saw that I had a defective taillight, stopped me and stated that I passed him at 40 mph. … A broken taillight should be escalated to speeding infractions that I did not commit,” Williams wrote in her complaint filed Oct. 7…

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