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To truly understand the rage people in this city felt as they watched a video of George

Floyd begging, gasping and slowly suc-cumbing beneath the weight of a police officer’s knee, it’s necessary to step back in time.

Seven years before Floyd’s cheek was smashed against the pavement, Terrance “Mookie” Franklin cowered behind a water heater in a dark basement after fleeing police who were trying to con-front him about a burglary. With flash-lights mounted on their guns and a police dog leading the way, they thumped down the stairs and soon found him hiding.

Fourteen minutes later, the 22-year-old African American was lying in a puddle of his own blood. Seven bullet holes pock-marked his head and neck, and three more pierced his upper torso.

As with so many allegations of police brutality in Minnesota, exactly what hap-pened in that basement on May 10, 2013, may never be known.

The official account said two officers were shot and wounded after Frank-lin grabbed a police gun. But no gunshot residue testing was conducted and an examination of defense evidence suggests friendly fire may have been to blame. A $795,000 settlement reached with Frank-lin’s family last year kept those details out of court.

What’s clear is this: The deaths of Floyd, Franklin and other black men at the hands of Minneapolis police have exacerbated

the corrosive relationship between people of color and a criminal justice system they feel is stacked against them. At every step along the way, they feel choked.

An AP review of Minneapolis Police Department data found force has been used 11,000 times in the past five years. Black people accounted for 60% of those cases, even though they rep-resent only 19% of the city’s popula-tion. Body pins were most commonly used, followed by punching, kicking and shoving.

In 2015, the U.S. Justice Department released a report addressing ways to

prevent police misconduct, provide more transparency and improve community relations following a request from Min-neapolis’ then-police chief. It found there were no clear criteria on the use of force and de-escalation tactics, and that law enforcement agencies either lacked the will or the authority to remove bad offi-cers.

Incidents that have drawn national attention since then include the shoot-ing of Philando Castile, 32, during a 2016 traffic stop in nearby Falcon Heights as his girlfriend live-streamed the aftermath on Facebook. The Latino officer was acquit-ted..

And the death of Jamar Clark, 25, shot in 2015, when police responded to a report of an assault on a woman at a birth-day party. Police said Clark struggled with two police, and that his DNA was found on an officer’s gun. But witnesses gave accounts that conflicted with that narra-tive. No charges were brought against the white officers involved.

Mohamed Noor, a black Somali-Amer-ican, is the only officer known to face murder charges in an on-duty killing, and his victim was white. Justine Ruszc-zyk Damond was shot in 2017 as she approached his car to report a possible rape behind her home. Noor was sen-tenced to 12½ years in prison, and the woman’s family received a record $20 million settlement.

Castile’s family settled for $3 million. Clark’s family accepted $200,000.

“There it is, right there, in those numbers,” said Kevin Reese, founder of the Minneapolis activist group Until We Are All Free. “It is a prime example of how, here, white life is valued more than black lives.”

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Protesters gather at a memorial for George Floyd where he died outside Cup Foods on East 38th Street and Chicago Av-enue, on Monday, June 1, 2020, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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NATIONAL: In Minneapolis, rage over George Floyd extends beyond cops

STATE: Farm workers union sues Washington over housing rules

FINANCIAL LITERACY: What’s the best way to pay for an unplanned expense?

POLITICS: Virus, protests force Trump campaign to recalibrate

NORTHWEST: Portland police chief resigns amid protests

LATIN AMERICA: Storm season adds to pandemic worries for Mexico, Central America

NATIONAL: Officer charged in Floyd’s death has 1st court appearance

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OLYMPIA, Washington (AP)

A farm workers union has sued two Washington state agen-cies over rules that would allow

workers to sleep in close quarters on bunk beds during the ongoing coronavirus pan-demic.

The lawsuit filed last week by Famil-ias Unidas por la Justicia seeks to repeal parts of rules adopted by the Department of Labor & Industries and the Depart-ment of Health, Tri-City Herald reported Sunday.

Temporary farm workers typically reside in dormitory-style housing with several hundred workers, the lawsuit said.

The state’s emergency heath rules that took effect May 18 allow workers who are not related to sleep on the upper and lower levels of bunk beds if farm opera-tors assign them to groups of up to 15 who remain separate from other workers. The practice is referred to as group shelters or cohorts.

The union said the state regulations are “contrary to scientific evidence.”

“We will keep fighting until the agen-cies pass rules that actually protect farm workers from COVID-19,” said Ramon Torres, president of Familias Unidas por la Justicia.

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plan to bring about 30,000 farm workers from rural areas of Mexico under non-immigrant, temporary H-2A work visas.

Rosalinda Guillen of farm worker support organization Community to Community Development said the rules

are offensive.“What they are saying is that our indi-

vidual lives are worth sacrificing for indus-try profits. It’s acceptable to them to lump us together and subject us to the disease because those getting sick, and who may die, are poor brown people,” Guillen said.

Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee said May 28 that proper adherence to the cohort model “can tremendously reduce the risk to agri-cultural workers because they are only exposed to a smaller group of people that can reside and travel and work together.”

Inslee spokesman Mike Faulk said the governor’s office legal counsel is review-ing the lawsuit. State Department of Health spokeswoman Jessica Baggett said the agency could not comment on the lawsuit.

For most people, the coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough that clear up in two to three weeks. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia and death. The vast majority of people recover.

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WASHINGTON (AP)

Less than five months before voters will decide his fate, Presi-dent Donald Trump is confront-

ing a vastly different political reality than he once envisioned. For starters, if the election were held today, he’d likely lose.

The president, West Wing advisers and campaign aides have grown increasingly concerned about his reelection chances as they’ve watched Trump’s standing take a pummeling first on his handling of the coronavirus pandemic and now during a nationwide wave of protests against racial injustice. His allies worry the president has achieved something his November foe had been unable to do: igniting enthu-siasm in a Democratic Party base that’s been lukewarm to former Vice President Joe Biden.

Trump was facing tougher political prospects even before the death of George Floyd, the black man who died after a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee for almost nine minutes into Floyd’s neck last month.

COVID-19’s mount-ing human and eco-nomic tolls — and the president’s defiant response — cost him support among con-stituencies his cam-paign believes are key to victory in November. His signature rallies had been frozen for months, and his cash advan-tage over Biden, while vast, wasn’t growing as quickly as hoped because the pandemic put a halt to high-dollar fundraisers.

Internal campaign surveys and public polling showed a steady erosion in support for Trump among older people and in battleground states once believed to be leaning deci-sively in the president’s direction, accord-ing to six current and former campaign officials not authorized to speak publicly about private conversations. The cam-

paign recently launched a television ad blitz in Ohio, a state the president carried by 8 percentage points four years ago, and it sees trouble in Arizona and warning signs in once-deep-red Georgia.

Trump aides have warned the president that the renewed national conversation about racial injustice and the president’s big “law and order” push have animated parts of the Democratic base — black and younger voters — whose lagging enthu-siasm for Hillary Clinton in 2016 cleared the way for Trump’s narrow victory.

“I have polls,” Trump told Fox News Radio on Thursday, dismissing a spate of public surveys showing him trailing Biden in key states. “Just like last time, I was losing to Hillary in every state, and I won every state.”

Though outwardly confident, Trump has complained to advisers in their roughly weekly White House meetings about the perception that he is losing to Biden and has pressed his aides for strategies to improve his standing. Late

last month, the Trump cam-paign moved two veteran polit-ical aides into senior leadership roles, reflective of an effort to bring more experience to the campaign team. And on Friday, the campaign brought on board former communications chief Jason Miller as a senior adviser as well.

The White House seized on better-than-expected economic news Friday — the nation added 2.5 million jobs in May and the unemployment rate fell — with an over-the-top victory lap, selling it as a sign of a post-pan-demic economic comeback that the president’s advisers believe

will be the single most important factor in victory in November.

The campaign’s plan had been to spend the spring of 2020 trying to negatively define Biden, a strategy that went out the window when COVID-19 reached Amer-ican shores. Trump’s aides have been frus-trated that the pandemic has allowed Biden to largely stay out of public sight; they believe the gaffe-prone Democrat often damages himself when speaking in public settings.

Now discussions are underway for a renewed effort to attack Biden on several fronts, according to the officials. Among the lines of attack: his ties to China, which the White House blames for the spread of the pandemic; Hunter Biden, the vice president’s son, whom aides believe can be painted as a symbol of corruption; and Biden’s support for a 1994 crime bill, which Trump says helped create condi-tions that have led to the unrest in Ameri-can cities.

POLITICSVirus, protests force Trump campaign to recalibrate

In this June 1, 2020 file photo, U.S. President Donald Trump speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington.




PORTLAND, Oregon (AP)

Portland’s police chief resigned on Monday, just six months into her job, amid criticism of her depart-

ment’s handling of protests in Oregon’s largest city. An African American lieuten-ant on the force replaced her.

The shakeup came as police have been sharply criticized for using what has been called inappropriate force against some protesters as huge demonstrations con-tinue in Portland.

“To say this was unexpected would be an understatement,” new Police Chief Chuck Lovell said at a news conference. “I’m humbled. I’m going to listen. I’m going to care about the community, and I’m looking forward to this journey.”

He and community leaders of color credited Jami Resch, a white woman, for stepping down as George Floyd protests roiled the city.

Resch told the news conference that Lovell is “the exact right person at the exact right moment” to head the police department.

Resch had replaced Danielle Outlaw, who was Portland’s first African Ameri-can female police chief and who became Philadelphia police commissioner in Feb-ruary.

Resch said she suggested the shakeup

to Mayor Ted Wheeler, who said he sup-ported Lovell to lead the department as it moves through needed reforms.

“We need Chief Lovell’s leadership,” Wheeler said at the news conference. “We must re-imagine reform and rebuild what

public safety looks like.”Lovell served as Outlaw’s executive

assistant. Under Resch, he led a new Com-munity Services Division that included the Behavioral Health Unit, the Orego-nian/OregonLive reported. The unit’s mission, according to its web page, is to aid people in crisis resulting from mental illness and/or drug and alcohol addiction.

Resch said she will stay with the depart-ment in a different role.

Demonstrators held two peaceful George Floyd protests in Portland but a third one that lasted until the early hours of Monday resulted in at least 20 arrests, with some demonstrators throwing objects at police, who fired tear gas and sponge-tipped projectiles.

The ACLU of Oregon has called on Portland police to end the use of tear gas, impact weapons and flash bang devices.

“We join the protesters in calling for a new approach in our community, and demanding that we uphold the rights of people who have historically had their rights and humanity denied,” the rights group said Sunday.

NORTHWESTPortland police chief resigns amid protests

In this January 23, 2020, file photo, Portland Police Chief Jami Resch speaks during an interview in Portland, Oregon.

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Weeks ago, civil defense offi-cials in Mexico’s Tabasco state, one of the hardest

hit by the coronavirus pandemic and now Tropical Storm Cristobal, asked health authorities for daily lists of infections in vulnerable communities.

State civil defense chief Jorge Mier y Terán designated a shelter in each town-ship for people infected with the virus, but not hospitalized. His office advised Tabasco residents that during this hurricane season they should try to stay with relatives if rising waters forced them to leave their homes so as to avoid big gatherings in shelters, a rec-ommendation shared by the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Now authorities from Mexico’s Gulf coast to El Salvador in Central America are putting their storm season plans into action as the temporarily weakened Cristobal drops dangerous heavy rains while the pan-demic reaches new heights in Mexico. The virus poses an additional risk for rescuers

and evacuees and will make it harder to persuade people to leave their homes, experts say.

When Cristobal made landfall Wednesday as a tropical storm, Mier y Terán preventively evacuated 75 people from two communities. Their tem-peratures were checked and they were screened for symptoms of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.

The mix of the pandemic and what is expected to be a busy hurricane season has officials throughout the region worried about simultaneously manag-ing multiple emergencies.

“COVID without a doubt complicates the operational logistics,” Mier y Terán said.

Cristobal weakened to a tropical depres-sion Thursday with sustained winds of 35 mph (55 kph) after it moved inland. The storm emerged this week in the Bay of Campeche from the remnants of Tropical Storm Amanda, which had formed in the Pacific and pounded El Salvador, Guate-mala and Honduras.

Together the storms have caused at least 30 deaths in El Salvador, Guatemala and Mexico.

Late Thursday, the storm was moving east at 3 mph (5 kph), about 145 miles (235 kilometers) south of the Gulf coast city of Campeche, capital of the state of the same name.

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El Salvador has reported 27 deaths from the two storms and more than 11,000 people evacuated to more than 200 shelters.

“The development of the storm emer-gency in some way is going to influence the development of the illness,” said the country’s health minister, Francisco Alabí. He said infections could rise because people are more exposed when their homes are destroyed or damaged.

Many people in the poorer parts of Central America and southern Mexico often resist evacuations because they fear their belongings will be stolen, a situa-tion aggravated now because of fears of the virus. The pandemic also increases risks for rescue crews like the one working to save a family from the rubble of their home on the outskirts of San Salvador on Thursday.

LATIN AMERICAStorm season adds to pandemic worries for Mexico, Central America

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MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (AP)

The Minneapolis police officer charged with second-degree murder in George Floyd’s death

was scheduled to make his first court appearance Monday.

Derek Chauvin, 44, is also charged with third-degree murder and s e cond-deg re e m a n s l a u g h t e r in Floyd’s May 25 death. Floyd, a handcuffed black man, died after the white police officer pressed his knee into his neck for several minutes even after Floyd stopped moving and pleading for air.

Floyd’s death set off protests, some violent, in Minneapolis that swiftly spread to cities around the U.S. and the globe. Chauvin and three other offi-cers on the scene were fired the day after Floyd’s death.

Chauvin is being held at a state prison in Oakdale. The other three officers — J. Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao — are charged with aiding and abetting. They remain in the Hennepin County jail on $750,000 bond.

Lane’s family has set up a website seeking donations to help him post bond. The site highlights Lane’s relative lack of experience — he had only recently com-pleted his probationary period — and his questions to Chauvin about whether Floyd should be rolled onto his side. It also noted his volunteer work.

Floyd’s death has ignited calls to reform the Minneapolis Police Depart-ment, which community activists have long accused of entrenched racial dis-crimination and brutality. A majority of Minneapolis City Council members said Sunday that they favor disbanding the department entirely, though they have yet to offer concrete plans for what would replace it.

NATIONALOfficer charged in

Floyd’s death has 1st court appearance

This May 31, 2020 photo provided by the Hennepin

County Sheriff shows Derek Chauvin, who was

arrested on Friday, May 29, in the Memorial Day death

of George Floyd.

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