Civil rights group Empower SC has issued a 13-page list of demands.

The group was created by leaders of the former I Can’t Breathe SC.

The demands are:

Eliminate Excessive Force

• End violent policing practices.

• Develop a crisis intervention team.

• Require police, not cities, to be liable for misconduct and violence settlements.

• Establish civilian oversight.

• Take the profit out of policing.

• Make fines and fees proportional to ability to pay.

• Prevent police from taking the money or property of innocent people.

• End cash bail.

• End discriminatory sentencing.

• Enact a Racial Justice Act.

• Abolish the death penalty.

• Pass HB 3919 to end life without parole sentences for children.

• Decriminalize misdemeanors.

• Re-fund the community.

• Reallocate funds from law enforcement to under-resourced communities of color.

• Fund social programs that provide affordable housing, food, water, healthcare, transportation, and community spaces for all.

• Invest in schools, mental health resources and minority-owned businesses.

“We live in the legal shadow of racist generations who are long past,” Empower SC Co-Founder Rye Martinez said.

“But now we are in the middle of a new era for civil rights, and we will right the wrongs of yesterday.”

Empower SC said it worked with activists, organizers, and legal professionals to make sure their policies undo centuries of institutionalized racism on the city, county, and state levels.

Lawmakers have 30 days to create and publish an action plan that would detail how they would meet the demands, Martinez said.