Veteran TV reporter harassed with racial slurs; man arrested

CHARLESTON, S.C. —Racial slurs against a veteran TV news reporter were caught on camera by the reporter’s videographer, and the man who is accused of hurling the insults was arrested. Longtime reporter and documentarian Steve Crump, 59, of WBTV in Charlotte was in downtown Charleston on Oct. 8 working on Hurricane Matthew coverage. He and his photographer had just finished an interview and were walking to their news van on Broad Street when a man who was sitting on the sidewalk, later identified as Brian Eybers of Virginia, called Crump a racial slur, authorities said. -- More....