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SPORTS | B1 LOCAL | A3 LOCAL MAJOR EUSTIS THEATER LEAGUERS COULD ANNOUNCES HAVE AN IMPACT LINEUP FOR ON PLAYOFF RACES 45TH SEASON Tuesday, July 16, 2019 YOUR LOCAL SOURCE FOR LAKE & SUMTER COUNTIES @dailycommercial Facebook.com/daily.commercial $1 Probe ordered at Lake prison Offi cers caught Correctional Institution in on a contraband cellphone The inmates narrating the witnesses from watching on video beating Clermont shows at least five by inmates who said it was recording said the beating had what’s going on,” one of the inmate correctional officers huddled recorded on July 8. It prompted been going on for five minutes men recording the video said. over a prisoner taking turns an immediate investigation before the video started. “They don’t know they’re being By Ben Conarck punching him as hard as they by the Florida Department of About four minutes in, offi- recorded. This is why we’re in GateHouse Florida can. Corrections. cers can be seen shouting at fear for our life.” The video, uploaded to You- The footage lasts for about the dorm where the video was The YouTube video drew CLERMONT — A video tube on Saturday afternoon five minutes, with the inmate being recorded through an open a quick response from that appears to have been by a user named “Sir Trap,” being beaten by several officers window. recorded by inmates at a Lake appears to have been taken for nearly the entire duration. “They’re trying to get the See PROBE, A5 Hitting the bingo jackpot LOCAL | A3 LEESBURG FACILITY FACING A DEADLINE Trump moves to end asylum at border with Mexico By Colleen Long The Associated Press Big Mama performs during drag queen bingo at 1884 Restaurant and Bar in Eustis. [CINDY SHARP/CORRESPONDENT] WASHINGTON — The Trump administration said Monday it will end asylum 1884 in Eustis they will be rolling out Aug. protections for most migrants connects with 1, they have introduced who arrive at the U.S.-Mexico LGBTQ community themed nights featuring the border in a major escalation of all-inclusive — and adult- the president’s battle to tamp By Roxanne Brown only — drag queen bingo down immigration. roxanne.brown night that comes complete According to a new rule @dailycommercial.com with five rounds of bingo, published in the Federal Reg- musical entertainment by ister , asylum seekers who EUSTIS — The 1884 Res- Ocala-based drag queens pass through another coun- taurant and Bar in Eustis Big Mama and Porsha Ross, try first will be ineligible for may have a 19th century drink specials, and a taco asylum at the U.S. southern namesake, but the mindset bar from 7–10 p.m. every border. The rule, expected to of new owners Ken Hardy Wednesday. go into effect Tuesday, also and Kendra Hutchinson The two purchased the applies to children who have have hurled it well into the establishment, located at 12 crossed the border alone. 21st century. E. Magnolia Ave., on May 20. The rule applies to anyone That’s because in addi- Bingo players look over their cards during drag queen bingo at arriving at the U.S.-Mexico tion to changes to the menu See 1884, A5 1884 Restaurant and Bar in Eustis. [CINDY SHARP/CORRESPONDENT] border. Sometimes asylum seekers from Africa , Cuba or Haiti and other continents arrive there, but the vast majority of migrants arriving recently come from Central Accusers plead with judge: Keep Epstein in jail America . There are some excep- tions, including for victims He’s ‘a scary person,’ judge not to at his Palm Beach mansion while Epstein looked on of human trafficking and woman says of Palm release the beginning when she was 14 impassively. “He’s a scary asylum-seekers who were Beach fi nancier politically capped a two-hour hear- person.” denied protection in a coun- accused of sex connected ing on the 66-year-old Wild's comments echoed try. If the country the migrant traffi cking money man- multi-millionaire's request concerns expressed minutes passed through did not sign ager from jail to be allowed to return to earlier by Annie Farmer, who one of the major international By Jane Musgrave Epstein while he is his $77 million New York said she first met Epstein at The Palm Beach Post waiting trial townhouse. his New York apartment See TRUMP, A5 on two child sex trafficking “I would ask there be no when she was 16 and later NEW YORK — The most charges. bond for the safety of the was ferried to his ranch in More inside powerful evidence against The testimony from a other girls, like me, who New Mexico where he con- Jeffrey Epstein on Monday former Palm Beach County were sexually abused,” tinued to molest her. Trump defends go-home tweet came when two of his accus- woman who said she was Courtney Wild told U.S. Dis- against Democrats. Page A2. ers pleaded with a federal sexually assaulted by Epstein trict Judge Richard Berman See EPSTEIN, A6 Volume 143, Issue 197 Local&State ................. A3 Sports...........................B1 © 2019 GateHouse Media Opinion .......................A9 Comics ........................ B6 Home delivery: 352-787-0600 Weather ......................A10 Classified ..................... B7 A2 Tuesday, July 16, 2019 | DailyCommercial.com NATION&WORLD IN BRIEF Trump won’t back down on tweets; BALTIMORE Police: 2 dead, offi cer and woman hurt at clinic says lawmakers hate US, ‘can leave’ Two people are dead and a police sergeant and a woman are injured following a shoot- President called on four ing at a methadone clinic Democratic women in Baltimore, police said of color, three of them Monday. US-born, to go back to Baltimore Police Commis- their ‘broken’ countries sioner Michael Harrison said at a news conference that the By Jill Colvin, sergeant is in stable condition Jonathan Lemire and had gone into surgery. and Calvin Woodward Harrison said the suspect The Associated Press who fired at the sergeant is dead as well as another person WASHINGTON — who was found inside the Unbowed by searing criticism, clinic. The woman who was President Donald Trump injured is expected to survive. on Monday emphatically Harrison said the shooting defended his tweet calling on was reported shortly after four Democratic congress- 7 a.m. and was captured on women of color to go back video by the body cameras of to their “broken and crime the officers who responded to infested” countries. Con- the clinic. demnation of his comments “doesn’t concern me because SALT LAKE CITY many people agree with me,” Man charged in Utah student’s he declared. death appears in court Trump responded to ques- tions at the White House after President Donald Trump speaks during a Made in America showcase on the South Lawn of the White A tech worker charged in his Sunday tweet assailing House in Washington on Monday. [ANDREW HARNIK/ASSOCIATED PRESS] the death of a Utah college the lawmakers, all of whom student made his first court are U.S. citizens and three Rashida Tlaib of Michigan. appearance Monday as friends of whom were born here. He “I don’t think that the of the slain woman held hands has been roundly criticized president’s intent any way in the front row. by Democrats who labeled his is racist,” said Short, point- Ayoola A. Ajayi appeared remarks racist and divisive. A ing to Trump’s decision to by video from jail alongside smattering of Republicans also choose Elaine Chao, who was a court-appointed attor- have objected, though most born outside the country, as ney during a quick hearing leading Republicans have been his transportation secretary. Monday to set a future court silent. Chao is one of the few date. He did not speak or enter Trump, resurrecting lan- In this combination image from left;: Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich.; minorities working among a plea to murder, kidnapping guage not prevalent in the U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn.; Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the largely white and male and other charges. for decades, said Monday that D-N.Y.; and Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass. In tweets Sunday, aides in high-profile roles in Prosecutors say Ajayi if the lawmakers “hate our President Donald Trump portrays the lawmakers as foreign-born Trump’s administration. She killed 23-year-old Mackenzie country,” they “can leave” it. troublemakers who should go back to their home countries. In fact, is the wife of Senate Republi- Lueck, who died from blunt “If you’re not happy in the the lawmakers, except one, were born in the U.S. [ASSOCIATED PRESS] can leader Mitch McConnell, force trauma to the head. U.S., if you’re complaining all who had made no comment Police say her body was found the time, you can leave, you Earlier Monday, Trump defended Trump, tell- on Trump’s attacks as of with her arms bound behind can leave right now,” he said. made clear he had no inten- ing reporters he had been midday Monday. her in a canyon 85 miles from The lawmakers’ criticism has tion of backing down, asking responding to “very specific” Omar ignited a bipartisan Ajayi’s home. been largely aimed at Trump on Twitter when “the Radical comments made by Rep. uproar in Washington several They have not discussed the and his administration’s poli- Left Congresswomen” would Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, months ago when she sug- motive or how they knew each cies and actions. “apologize to our Country, the who was born in Somalia, and gested that some members other. It was yet another sign people of Israel and even to the was not making a “universal of Congress support Israel that Trump, who won the Office of the President, for the statement.” because of money, while CHICAGO presidency in 2016 in part foul language they have used, But Trump didn’t make that Tlaib riled up a supportive Florida expert fl ies to Chicago by energizing disaffected and the terrible things they distinction in his tweets.