South Carolina Mayor Charges Racism After Car Defaced, Then Police Find the Facts

Darnell Byrd McPherson, mayor of Lamar, South Carolina, quickly assumed she had been the victim of a hate crime after finding a yellow “sticky substance” painted over her and her husband’s cars recently, according to Newsweek. McPherson told the media that the substance “got in all of the grooves” of the autos that were sitting outside the couple’s home. -- More.