Bernie Sanders on Monday picked up the endorsement of the lawyer representing the family of Walter Scott, the black man killed by police in North Charleston, South Carolina last April.
Justin Bamberg, who is also a state representative, initially supported Clinton in December, but said he switched his endorsement to Sanders after getting to know the Democratic presidential candidate better and taking a closer look at his criminal justice plan.
It’s one of Sanders’ most significant African-American endorsements yet, and in the first-in-the-south primary state of South Carolina, where Sanders has been trying to eat into Clinton’s prodigious lead.
“Hillary Clinton is more a representation of the status quo,” Bamberg told The New York Times, which first reported the news. “Bernie Sanders on the other hand is bold. He doesn’t think like everyone else. He is not afraid to call things as they are.”
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