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VIRUS OUTBREAK US soldier accused of plot to attack his own unit

BY WYATT OLSON Stars and Stripes A U.S. paratrooper charged with planning a “murderous am- bush” on his own unit by sending sensitive details to a satanic neo- Nazi group was serving with the 173rd Airborne Brigade, the Ar- my’s Italy-based rapid response force. Pvt. Ethan Melzer sent details about his overseas unit’s loca- tions, movements and security measures to members of an ex- tremist group named Order of the Nine Angles, intending it to be passed on to jihadi terrorists, the U.S. Justice Department said in a statement Monday. Melzer, who an indictment said operated under the alias Etil Reg- gad, was charged with conspiring and attempting to murder U.S. na- tionals, conspiring and attempt- ing to murder service members, providing and attempting to pro- vide material support to terror- ists and conspiring to murder and maim in a foreign country. JAE C. HONG/AP “We’re reacting to it like every- A man with a face mask walks past a replica of the Statue of Liberty on Monday in Los Angeles. one else,” said brigade spokesman Maj. Chris Bradley on Tuesday, after he said officials notified the unit’s 3,500 paratroopers of the arrest and indictment. Since November, Melzer had been assigned to the 1st Battal- ‘It will be when not if’ ion, 503rd Infantry Regiment of the Vicenza-based brigade, which provides forces to U.S. European, Fauci remains ‘cautiously optimistic’ COVID-19 vaccine could be ready by end of year Africa and Central commands. Army officials arrested the in- fantryman May 30 at Caserma BY LAURAN NEERGAARD Dr. Anthony Fauci returned to and Human Services. Ederle, home of U.S. Army Gar- RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR AND Capitol Hill at a fraught moment in Since Fauci’s last appearance at rison Italy and U.S. Army Africa, Associated Press the nation’s pandemic response, with a high-profile hearing more than a Bradley said. coronavirus cases rising in about The FBI subsequently arrested WASHINGTON — The govern- month ago, the U.S. has been emerg- half the states and political polar- him on June 10, the DOJ said in ment’s top infectious disease expert ing from weeks of stay-at-home or- ization competing for attention with a statement, which praised vari- told a House committee on Tuesday ders and business shutdowns. But public health recommendations. it’s being done in an uneven way, ous government agencies, includ- he believes “it will be when and not ing the U.S. Army Africa staff Fauci testified along with the with some states far less cautious if” there will be a COVID-19 vaccine heads of the Centers for Disease judge advocate’s office and the than others. A trio of states with Re- and that he remains “cautiously opti- Control and Prevention, the Food brigade, for “outstanding efforts” publican governors who are bullish mistic” that some will be ready at the and Drug Administration and a top in thwarting a potential terrorist end of the year. Fauci official at the Department of Health SEE FAUCI ON PAGE 10 attack. 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T O D A Y IN STRIPES American Roundup ..... 14 Classified ...... 13 Comics ...... 19 Crossword ...... 19 Faces ...... 15 Opinion ...... 16-17 Sports ...... 20-24 Wednesday, June 24, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 3 MILITARY Troops may leave Germany for Indo-Pacific

BY SETH ROBSON of the [Pacific] pivot announced Stars and Stripes by [President Barack Obama] back in 2011,” he said, refer- YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan ring to a policy of concentrating — Thousands of troops may be America’s military and diplomat- redeployed to the Indo-Pacific ic efforts in the Far East. under a plan to reduce U.S. forc- “What has been happening is a es in Germany, according to the lot of acceleration to deal with the White House’s national security rise of China and the attendant adviser. risks there are of tension and con- President Donald Trump an- flict in this region,” he said. nounced last week his intentions There’s a need to reinforce the of cutting troop levels in Germa- U.S. presence in the region to en- ny from 34,500 to 25,000. He said hance confidence in the U.S. and the country, where the U.S. has western allies generally, Babbage stationed troops since 1945, has said. shortchanged the United States “I don’t think we are talking on trade and defense, and that he about big numbers in short time will reduce troop numbers “until they pay” more. but it’s reasonable to include Aus- The move has been criticized tralia on a list of places where by lawmakers in Germany and in people might go,” he said, add- the United States, including mem- ing that such a move would likely bers of the Republican Party. have bipartisan political and pub- In a commentary published lic support in Australia. Monday in the Wall Street Jour- Moving more troops to Asia nal, national security adviser makes sense, said Cord Scott, a Robert O’Brien wrote that no of- University of Maryland Global ficial announcement has been Campus Asia professor who CHARLES ROSEMOND/U.S. Army teaches history, film and gov- made, details of any troop moves Soldiers with the 12th Combat Aviation Brigade march at Katterbach Army Airfield in Ansbach, Germany, ernment on U.S. bases in South remain under development and in July 2019. Thousands of troops could redeploy to the Indo-Pacific under a plan to reduce U.S. troops that military leaders are working Korea. in Germany. on options. “More of a direct threat would “The Cold War practice of gar- be toward players or actors here risoning large numbers of troops in Asia especially with what’s with their families on massive happening, tensions now rising bases in places like Germany is between India and China,” he House GOP urges Trump to not cut troops now, in part, obsolete,” he wrote. said by phone Tuesday. “While air bases and logistics A mobile force in the Far East BY DANIEL FLATLEY allies and partners to doubt the U.S. commitment hubs remain important, the Cold can respond to crisis related to Bloomberg to our collective security.” War-style garrisoning of troops sea territory disputes or the Ko- Trump announced the planned withdrawal Six Republicans on the House Foreign Affairs makes less military and fiscal rean Peninsula, Scott added. earlier this month. Committee are urging President Donald Trump sense than it did in the 1970s.” “The economic and military The GOP lawmakers wrote to Trump that the to reconsider his plan to cut the number of U.S. Several thousand troops in threat is in Asia,” he said. “It U.S. presence in Germany serves as a hub for op- troops in Germany, arguing that the move would Germany may be reassigned to makes sense to have more troops erations in the Middle East and Africa and that harm national security and weaken the deterrent other countries in Europe and here in that regard.” an Army hospital there treats American troops to Russia and China. others may return to the United However, Robert Dujarric, wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan. They said the In a letter to the president, the lawmakers said States. Thousands more may be codirector of the Institute of U.S. troops serve as a deterrent to China and Rus- Russian troops invaded Ukraine and annexed sent to the Indo-Pacific region, Contemporary Asian Studies sia and expressed dismay that U.S. allies weren’t the Crimean Peninsula after President Barack where the U.S. maintains a mili- at Temple University in Tokyo, consulted about the potential withdrawal. Obama withdrew some U.S. troops from Germa- tary presence in Japan, South said the move is a bad idea While the lawmakers commended Trump for ny in 2012. They warned Trump against taking trying to get NATO allies to spend more on de- Korea and Singapore, as well as that’s part of the president’s on- any action that would give Russia reason to ques- fense, they said withdrawing troops from Ger- rotational deployments to spots going war against institutions, tion the U.S. commitment to the North Atlantic many would harm the effort. like Australia, O’Brien wrote. such as NATO, that he views as Treaty Organization. “We fear this partial U.S. withdrawal from “In that theater, Americans and anti-American. “The U.S. forward presence in Germany serves Germany will fail to convince Berlin to spend allies face the most significant “Withdrawal of troops from as a cornerstone of NATO’s deterrent against more, while putting U.S. strategic interests at geopolitical challenge since the Germany has nothing to do with Russian aggression,” said the lawmakers, led risk,” they wrote. end of the Cold War,” he wrote. helping defend Asia,” Dujarric by Texas Rep. Michael McCaul, the committee’s In addition to McCaul and Kinzinger, the other Ross Babbage, a former Aus- said by phone Tuesday. “Trump top Republican, and Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill. signatories to the letter are Reps. Ann Wagner tralian assistant defense secre- has a problem with NATO.” tary, said in a telephone interview “This is not the time to take any action that might of Missouri, Joe Wilson of South Carolina, Brian Stars and Stripes reporter Hana cause the Putin regime to question the credibility Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania and John Curtis of Tuesday that the proposal would Kusumoto contributed to this report. be welcomed by Australians. [email protected] of the NATO deterrent or might lead our NATO Utah. “It’s putting meat on the bones Twitter: @SethRobson1 Workers go on strike against major Navy shipbuilder

BY DAVID SHARP “These are things that are The company’s final three-year to work. The company and union were deemed necessary to win a Associated Press meant to bust the union, and we contract proposal would have have not discussed returning to U.S. Coast Guard contract — and can’t let that stand,” Mike Reave- given production workers a 3% the bargaining table, spokesman save shipbuilding jobs. BATH, Maine — More than ley, an outside machinist, said raise each year. But the shipbuild- David Hench said in an email. Bath Iron Works lost that con- 4,000 shipbuilders went on strike Monday on the picket line. “It’s ers’ union objected to more than a The strike threatens to put the tract to another shipyard in 2016. against Bath Iron Works on Mon- not really about the money.” dozen changes it considered to be shipyard further behind schedule It also lost a competition for Navy day, disrupting production at one Workers wearing brightly col- concessions — especially the hir- on delivery of guided-missile de- frigates in late April. of the Navy’s biggest shipbuild- ored T-shirts formed pickets at ing of subcontractors. stroyers to the Navy at a time of The shipyard hired 1,800 work- ers at a time of growing threats both of the shipyard entrances Machinists Union Local S6, growing competition from China ers last year and expects to hire around the world. along the Kennebec River. On the which represents 4,300 workers, and Russia. Bath Iron Works was 1,000 workers this year, but sub- Angry production workers back of the shirts were the words, presented a united front with 87% already six months behind, partly contractors are still needed for voted overwhelmingly for the “Union heroes walk picket lines.” of shipbuilders voting in favor of because of the coronavirus pan- the shipyard to get back on sched- first strike in 20 years in a con- The cacophony of cheering work- a strike. The last strike, in 2000, demic, officials said. ule, the company says. tract dispute that focused more ers, honking horns and revving of lasted 55 days. Frustration had been build- Bath Iron Works is one of the on subcontracting, seniority and Harley-Davidson motorcycle en- The company said production ing among workers since the last Navy’s five largest shipbuilders work rules than on wages and gines could be heard from blocks was continuing with salaried per- contract in which the machinists and a major employer in Maine, benefits. away. sonnel and others who reported union accepted concessions that with 6,800 workers. PAGE 4 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Wednesday, June 24, 2020 MILITARY Army housing in Europe gets failing marks in survey

BY JOHN VANDIVER families feel about the accommo- Stars and Stripes dation the Army provides. “The action we take from STUTTGART, Germany — these survey results will be an- Housing at Army posts in Germa- other step to hold ourselves and ny and Italy is “very poor” and in privatized housing companies ac- need of significant improvements, countable to provide a high-qual- the results of a survey of Army ity standard of living and to earn families in the United States and back the trust of our housing resi- overseas show. dents,” Gen. Gus Perna, Army Army-owned housing in Stutt- Materiel Command chief, said in gart, Germany, and Vicenza, a statement Monday. Italy, ranked 23rd and 24th, re- Army-owned facilities in Wies- spectively, out of 26 sites where baden, Rheinland-Pfalz and most residents were asked to respond housing in Bavaria were rated as to questions about the quality of “poor” in the survey. Ansbach, in their accommodation and servic- Bavaria, was an exception, get- es, a summary published Monday ting an average score. showed. Properties leased by the Army Services provided in Stuttgart in Italy and Bavaria also got aver- were at “crisis” level, meaning age scores, and leased properties there was a “major problem” in the Benelux countries were at the property and “corrective ranked as “good,” which is the measures must be taken without highest rating for Army housing delay,” the summary said. in Europe. Although the report didn’t spec- Army housing in the Pacific ify what the problems were at any outperformed Europe, with of the low-ranking sites, Stuttgart Camp Zama in Japan earning an was grappling with a backlog of “outstanding” overall score of nearly 2,000 work orders, some 4.29 out of a possible total of five. NANCY MONTGOMERY/Stars and Stripes dating back to 2018, around the Fort A.P. Hill in Virginia received time the survey was conducted in A duplex on Villagio, U.S. Army Garrison Italy’s on-base housing. the highest marks of any facility, November and December of last scoring 4.88 out of five. Stuttgart year. and defective heating systems. Army-owned housing over the of family housing after investiga- and Vicenza scored 2.92 and 2, The backlog stemmed from an Housing in Vicenza, which past year, complaining about tions revealed poor living condi- respectively. understaffed contractor that was is home to U.S. Army Garrison everything from mold to slow tions in facilities in the U.S. and More than 2,300 households re- unable to keep up with service Italy and the 173rd Airborne responses to their requests for re- overseas. sponded to the survey, which was requests, officials said in October Brigade, also scored poorly. Like pairs or remediation. The housing surveys aim to conducted by CEL & Associates as U.S. Army Garrison Stuttgart their counterparts in Stuttgart, Last year, Army garrisons measure whether progress has Inc. launched a surge to fix issues that personnel in Vicenza have been around the world began holding been made in fixing issues indi- [email protected] included broken-down elevators vocal about dissatisfaction with town hall meetings on the state cated by residents, and gauge how Twitter: @john_vandiver House lawmakers want more oversight from NDAA

BY CAITLIN M. KENNEY vices Committee discussed their The report would include a list to Congress on how they will im- an alternative to the firefighting Stars and Stripes proposed draft for the House of government homes that have prove the collection and report- foam that contains per- and poly- version of the fiscal year 2021 lead, radon or asbestos, the miti- ing of mishap data. fluoroalkyl substances, otherwise WASHINGTON — Lawmakers National Defense Authorization gation plans for making certain The Government Accountabil- known as PFAS, which is a syn- on a House readiness subcom- Act. It included a requirement homes are safe, and the process- ity Office, a federal watchdog thetic chemical that can contami- mittee want the 2021 defense bill that there be a report to Congress es and options for families to re- agency, found that the collection nate drinking or ground water. to require the same oversight of focused on known environmental fuse to live in an overseas home of data by the military services is The subcommittee authorized hazards in government-owned hazards in government-owned that contains hazards, according not standardized, making it dif- the defense secretary to have a military housing that is now nec- family housing, including over- to the readiness subcommittee’s ficult for the military to analyze competitive program to award essary for base housing run by seas housing, “so that we can draft document. data and track trends related to up to $5 million for research and private companies, committee get a better look across the de- The markup also requires the mishaps, according to the draft development of a non-PFAS fire- aides said Monday. partment on trends and issues in Pentagon to report on how they document. fighting chemical. Last year, Congress focused on housing enterprise,” a committee would create standard of measur- The required report is so Con- The draft also requires that any improving the conditions in mili- aide said Monday during a call ing results across the services to gress “can better assess how the tary base housing operated by with reporters. evaluate the quality of the hous- department’s tracking and learn- spill or use of PFAS firefighting private companies after families The draft states that govern- ing so the Defense Department ing lessons from individual events foam at any military installation described during congressional ment-owned military family can track trends. to ensure that they don’t happen be reported to Congress within hearings and in news reports how housing makes up a small per- In response to several deadly again in the future,” a committee 48 hours of when the deputy as- they had lived in housing that had centage of homes, but it needs to vehicle and aircraft accidents aide said. sistant secretary of defense for mold and pest infestations. be scrutinized the same as hous- during military training, the The readiness subcommittee’s environment is notified. On Tuesday, the readiness sub- ing on military bases run by pri- readiness subcommittee’s draft draft also touched on the mili- [email protected] panel of the House Armed Ser- vate companies. requires the Pentagon to report tary’s continued problem finding Twitter: @caitlinmkenney Fort Bragg’s garrison commander relieved of duty amid investigation

BY RACHAEL RILEY Gen. Douglas Gabram, command- will serve as acting commander pressed concerns about lead designs similar to those in which The Fayetteville (N.C.) Observer er of Installation Management until a replacement resumes paint, mold and the timeliness of they found issues. Command, and Lt. Gen. Michael command. repairs in the installation’ homes Sounia also previously said Fort Bragg’s garrison com- “Erik” Kurilla, commander of Sounia, who enlisted in the before Sounia became the garri- the installation’s Directorate of mander has been relieved of his the 18th Airborne Corps and Fort Army in 1989 and was commis- son commander. Public Works expanded from command, Fort Bragg officials Bragg. sioned as a second lieutenant in The concerns continued in Au- one inspector to include 22 certi- confirmed in an email Monday in Officials did not say what 1995, was named the garrison gust, when Sounia previously said fied home inspectors who inspect response to a media inquiry. caused Sounia to be relieved, and commander in May 2019. the command saw a trend with homes at state-level standards. Col. Phillip Sounia was relieved said no further information would He previously served as direc- eight homes potentially having In a February interview with of the command Friday because be released because of “an ongo- tor of Commander’s Initiatives carbon monoxide issues. The Fayetteville Observer, he of a “loss of trust and confidence ing investigation.” Group in the U.S. Army Forces He instructed the installation’s said the installation’s housing in his abilities to command.” Justin Mitchell, Fort Bragg’s Command at Fort Bragg. fire and police departments to re- partner, Corvias, had fixed most The decision was made by Lt. deputy garrison commander, Fort Bragg residents had ex- move the doors of 88 homes with of the issues. Wednesday, June 24, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 5 MILITARY House panel’s NDAA proposal: 3% pay increase

BY COREY DICKSTEIN which would protect sexual-as- Stars and Stripes sault victims from facing pun- ishment over minor misconduct, WASHINGTON — A key House which experts have said often subcommittee plans to give U.S. stops them from pursuing cases troops a 3% pay boost next year against their abusers. The lan- as the lower chamber of Congress guage does not define what mis- U.S. Army drafts portions of its 2021 version conduct would be included in the of the bill that sets Pentagon pol- provision, leaving that decision Guam Army National Guard soldiers return from hooking a slingload to a UH-60 Black Hawk in Saudi icy and spending priorities, con- to the defense secretary. In past Arabia in September . gressional staffers said Monday. attempts to include such mea- The personnel subpanel for the sures in legislation, lawmakers House Armed Services Commit- have defined such infractions as tee included the pay raise in a things such as underage drink- Combat patches approved for US draft of its portion of the fiscal ing or breaking curfew. The Sen- year 2021 National Defense Au- ate Armed Services Committee thorization Act unveiled Monday, did not include a “safe to report” soldiers serving in Saudi Arabia a day before the group votes on measure in its version of the it. The proposed pay increase bill, drawing scrutiny from sev- Stars and Stripes administration pulled the U.S. out of a nuclear matches the one requested by eral Democratic members of the agreement brokered by the Obama administration, the White House and the raise committee. American soldiers have been cleared to wear com- and began a maximum pressure campaign to try to called for the Senate Armed Ser- The House Armed Services bat patches for serving in Saudi Arabia since Sep- get Tehran to engage in new negotiations. vices Committee’s version of the Committee subpanel’s draft tember’s rebel attack on oil infrastructure there. Yemen’s Houthi rebels — who U.S. and Saudi of- NDAA, which lawmakers hope would also include new measures Army Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville ap- ficials say are backed by Iran — claimed responsi- to pass by Sept. 30, the last day of meant to help the Pentagon fight proved the wearing of the shoulder sleeve insignia bility for the September attacks, which halved the fiscal year 2020. extremism in its ranks, including by soldiers who served in Saudi Arabia during the output of Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil company. This week, House Armed Ser- a requirement that the Defense period beginning Sept. 14, 2019, when a drone and Defense Secretary Mark Esper described it as vices Committee members began Department track investigations cruise missile attack hit two key Saudi oil facilities, a “significant escalation of violence” by Iran and crafting their version of the 2021 into supremacist, extremist and with no set end date. ordered a buildup of the U.S. presence in the Mid- NDAA in six subpanel hearings criminal-gang activity in its ranks Soldiers may wear the patch if they received a dle East to deter further aggression. Thousands of Monday and Tuesday. The com- and submit an annual report on combat zone tax exclusion and hostile fire or im- troops, air defense missile systems, radar, fighter mittee is expected to finalize and those issues to Congress. minent danger pay while deployed to Saudi Arabia aircraft squadrons and an air expeditionary wing vote on its version to be consid- The draft of the bill would re- during the period, with no time-in-theater require- were sent to Saudi Arabia. ered by the full House on July quire the defense secretary to ments, a June 18 memo from the Army’s uniform The new Army memo also authorizes soldiers to 1. The Senate Armed Services submit an annual report sum- policy branch said. wear the corresponding combat service identifica- Committee sent its version of the marizing the gender and race The patch, worn just below the U.S. flag on the tion badge on their service uniforms. Soldiers may $740 billion bill to the full Senate makeup of officers recommend- right sleeve of the uniform, has been a symbol of use their military orders from the open-ended peri- on June 11. Lawmakers from both ed for promotion to 0-4 — lieu- military service since World War I, the Army said in od as documentation. Retired or former troops may chambers later this year will hold tenant commander in the Navy March. It recognizes the personal sacrifice of those use those documents or discharge paperwork listing a conference to negotiate the final and major in the other services who have served in combat zones, a current list of an eligible deployment. version of the 2021 NDAA. — and all higher ranks. Defense which includes Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Iraq, Army regulations will be updated to reflect the If approved, the pay raise would officials have acknowledged re- Jordan, Syria and Djibouti. change, officials said. go into effect in January, marking cently that systemic issues for The attack on the Saudi oil infrastructure came the second consecutive year of an minorities exist within its ranks. amid escalating U.S.-Iran tensions after the Trump [email protected] at least 3% increase for troops, Among them, black officers are who received a 3.1% boost last promoted to the 0-3 level at about year. It would be the first time the same frequency as their white service members saw a back- comrades, but significantly fewer to-back 3% pay raise in about a African Americans achieve 0-4 Air Force begins fielding new 9 mm pistol decade. Other provisions in the or higher. House subpanel’s bill markup in- The House personnel subcom- BY WYATT OLSON Sauer M17 and M18 pistols as re- clude measures meant to ease life mittee draft would also require Stars and Stripes placements for its M9 9-mm pis- for troops, protect sexual-assault the Pentagon to submit to Con- tol, which it had adopted in 1985. victims, and help the military re- gress a detailed report on Space The Air Force has begun field- In making its choice of a new solve diversity issues in its ranks. Force’s overall structure. Law- ing the new Sig Sauer 9 mm hand- handgun, the Army had adopted The draft would allow the de- makers want to know precisely gun to security forces units as it a modular handgun system first fense secretary to pay a basic how many troops are to fill out begins replacing a pistol model developed by the Air Force Secu- needs allowance to certain low- the new service, including how used for the past 35 years. The Sig Sauer M18 pistol. rity Forces Center, the Air Force income service members, pro- many in each rank and the jobs The Air Force Life Cycle Man- said in the statement. vide 24-hour child care services they will perform. U.S. Air Force agement Center’s Small Arms “The USAF Small Arms Pro- at some military installations that The subpanel was expected Program Office made an initial gram Office has worked with the require overnight shift work, and to approve its draft in a hearing purchase of about 125,000 Sig Army to get these new weapons nior logistics manager at the require the defense secretary to Tuesday afternoon. The measures Sauer M18 pistols for $22.1 mil- on contract and in the hands of will then be considered by the full Small Arms Program Office. conduct a study on the perfor- lion, the Air Force said in a state- the warfighters,” said Brian Laut- mance of on-post schools run by House Armed Services Commit- The M18s are made of polymer, ment issued Monday. zenheiser, lead program manager Department of Defense Educa- tee next week. The NDAA must making it much lighter than the The sales price included test in the small arms office. “We are tion Activity. be passed and signed into law by ammunition and engineering ser- all-metal M9 handguns, Adkison a small team with a lot going on The bill would require the es- Sept. 30 to provide the Pentagon vices, the Air Force said. said. The new pistol offers a more as we work to procure and sustain tablishment of a new task force an on-time annual budget. The The handguns will be made consistent trigger pull and adjust- all small arms from pistols to .50 with military and civilian per- bill last year was not signed into available to all Air Force organi- able grips to fit any size hand, he caliber ground-mounted machine sonnel to study domestic vio- law until December as lawmak- zations that have a handgun re- said. guns.” lence, which a committee aide on ers quarreled over the inclusion quirement, the service said. It had become increasingly dif- The delivery of M18s to all air- Monday described as increasing of funding for President Donald “The Air Force bought the M9s ficult for the Air Force to sustain men is expected to be complete by recently in the civilian and mili- Trump’s wall on the U.S.-Mexico back in the 1980s, and the de- the older technology of the M9s, August 2022, the Air Force said. tary realms. border. sign has not really changed since he said. [email protected] The bill would also include a [email protected] then,” said Merrill Adkison, se- In 2017, the Army chose the Sig Twitter: @WyattWOlson so-called “safe to report” policy, Twitter: @CDicksteinDC PAGE 6 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Wednesday, June 24, 2020 MILITARY Officials lodge complaints over Okinawa hazmat fire

BY MATTHEW M. BURKE AND AYA ICHIHASHI Stars and Stripes KADENA AIR BASE, Okinawa — Japanese officials said they lodged complaints with the U.S. military Tuesday, one day after a fire tore through a hazardous ma- terials warehouse on Kadena and released chlorine gas into the air. The blaze raged from about 9 a.m. until mid-afternoon Monday /Stars and Stripes and dozens of base workers were PHOTOS BY MATT BURKE treated for exposure to the gas and A hazardous materials building at Kadena Air Base is inspected the Firefighters survey damage to a hazardous materials building at smoke. It destroyed the 18th Wing day after it caught fire. Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, on Tuesday. Hazardous Materials Pharmacy, a warehouse south of Kadena’s used on the fire was contained Kono said the blaze’s cause is to questions Monday or Tuesday. facilities and encouraged anyone airfield in the central part of the within the base. He said Kadena’s still under investigation, adding On Tuesday morning, an 18th experiencing breathing or vision base. environmental department is he was barred from saying more, Wing spokesman said a press re- problems to seek treatment. On Tuesday morning, a strong monitoring the area. unless it was agreed upon by rep- lease updating the public about “Approximately 45 individuals” chemical smell hung in the air as Earlier in the day, Defense Min- resentatives from both nations. the incident would be issued firefighters stood among debris were “affected by smoke and/or in what remained of the charred ister Taro Kono criticized the U.S. Okinawa Gov. Denny Tama- sometime that day. The release chlorine gas,” the wing announced building, a hose at the ready in military for not sharing informa- ki expressed dismay about the was later moved to Wednesday. on Monday evening. Most suffered case of a flareup. tion with the Japanese govern- incident. The fire began around 8:40 “mild symptoms” and were treat- Chemicals, including calcium ment in a timely manner while the “The fire with the chlorine gas a.m. Monday, the wing said. Thick ed and returned to duty. hypochlorite, were stored there, fire burned at the home of the Air particles caused huge concerns plumes of smoke smothered areas The defense bureau spokes- according to a spokesman for the Force’s 18th Wing. for the residents around the base near the fire and closed off roads man said none of those individu- Okinawa Defense Bureau who “I believe that during this fire as well as the people of Okinawa,” as firefighters worked to get it als were Japanese, and no injuries spoke by phone with Stars and incident, the U.S. military did not he told reporters Monday evening, under control. from chlorine gas were reported Stripes on Tuesday evening. The inform the Japanese side prop- according to the Okinawa Times. At just after 2 p.m., Kadena offi- by Kadena town residents. bureau represents Japan’s Minis- erly,” he told reporters in Tokyo. “It is very regrettable.” cials said on Facebook that the fire “I directed [my staff] to tell the Kadena officials asked Stars and was contained but chlorine gas had [email protected] try of Defense on the island. Twitter: @MatthewMBurke1 The spokesman said the bureau U.S. military to share information Stripes to submit queries about the been “released.” They canceled [email protected] was told by the wing that water promptly and rapidly.” fire via email but did not respond routine care at Kadena medical Twitter: @AyaIchihashi Disney in Japan to reopen, but will be off-limits to US troops

BY HANA KUSUMOTO fense Department civilian employees and or, in some cases, an adjacent prefecture. The Japanese government lifted its state Stars and Stripes contractors, as well as their family mem- Chiba does not fall into those categories. of emergency on May 25 and theme parks bers. A public health emergency declared The parks will implement measures to gradually resumed operation. Universal TOKYO — Tokyo Disneyland and Dis- by U.S. Forces Japan in April remains in ensure their visitors’ safety, such as limiting Studios Japan in Osaka reopened earlier neySea in Chiba prefecture, Japan, will effect until July 14, along with restric- the number of visitors entering the park, on this month, while Tokyo Disneyland and reopen on July 1 after being closed four tions imposed at U.S. bases in and around rides, and in shops and restaurants inside DisneySea remained closed. months due to the coronavirus outbreak, Tokyo. the park, Oriental Land’s statement said. Restrictions placed by the Japanese gov- the parks’ operator announced Tuesday. Although individual commanders at Some rides and facilities may be closed. ernment on travel between prefectures was “Health and safety of the guests and the Army, Air Force, Marine Corps and Navy Visitors also must buy fixed-date tickets completely lifted nationwide on Friday. The casts will be our first priority when we re- bases in the Tokyo metro area have relaxed online prior to visiting the park, it stated. sume operation of both parks,” said an Ori- some restrictions under the emergency, lei- Visitors will be asked to cooperate in country had reported 17,968 total infections ental Land statement posted on its website. sure travel to Tokyo and Chiba prefecture to temperature screening before entering the and 955 deaths as of Monday, according to However, the Japanese versions of “the the east remains prohibited. U.S. personnel parks and to wear face masks. They also Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. happiest place on Earth” will be off-limits may move around only in their local areas, must practice social distancing and disin- [email protected] initially to U.S. military personnel, De- the prefectures in which they live and work fect their hands. Twitter: @HanaKusumoto Plot: Soldier disclosed his unit’s location and security arrangements

FROM FRONT PAGE and murder of U.S. personnel, the bin Laden and other radical Is- would colonise the solar system.” and, describing his willingness “As the indictment lays out, statement said. lamic jihadis. Melzer sent encrypted mes- to die, wrote ‘who gives a [exple- Ethan Melzer plotted a deadly am- The soldier voluntarily told Originating in the United sages to members of the Order of tive] ... it would be another war ... I bush on his fellow soldiers in the military investigators and the FBI Kingdom several decades ago, Nine Angles, disclosing his unit’s would’ve died successfully ... [be- service of a diabolical cocktail of that he had plotted an attack with the group is “the most extreme location and security arrange- cause] another 10 year war in the the intent of killing as many of Satanist group in the world,” the ments, after he and other mem- ideologies laced with hate and vio- Middle East would definitely leave his fellow soldiers as possible, the London-based advocacy group bers of the unit were told in April lence,” John C. Demers, assistant a mark,’ ” the statement said. DOJ said. Hope Not Hate said in its “State of that they would deploy from Italy attorney general for national secu- “Melzer also declared himself Hate 2020” report, calling for it to to guard a military base in an un- He also passed on information rity, said in the statement. to be a traitor against the United be designated a terrorist group. named foreign country, the indict- to a purported member of the ter- Melzer, 22, of Louisville, Ky., States and described his conduct It encourages extreme vio- ment said. rorist organization al-Qaida, in- was “motivated by racism and ha- as tantamount to treason,” the lence, including rape and mur- “Melzer and his co-conspirators cluding a promise to pass on more tred as he attempted to carry out statement said. der, the report said, and “seeks planned what they referred to as information once he was deployed this ultimate act of betrayal,” said Melzer joined the Army in 2018, to harness supernatural forces a ‘jihadi attack’ during the deploy- overseas, the statement said. Audrey Strauss, acting U.S. attor- and the following year joined the and overthrow the alleged ‘Naza- ment, with the objective of causing The charges carry a maximum ney for the Southern District of Order of the Nine Angles, which rene/Magian’ (Jewish) influence a ‘mass casualty’ event victimiz- jail sentence of 20 years. New York, where the indictment has espoused violent, white su- on society, reduce the population ing his fellow service members,” was filed. premacist, anti-Semitic and sa- of ‘mundanes’ through acts of ex- the statement said. Stars and Stripes reporters Nancy Montgomery and Chad Garland con- FBI agents found Melzer was tanic beliefs, the statement said. It treme barbarism, and usher in a “Melzer acknowledged in elec- tributed to this report. in possession of Islamic State pro- has expressed admiration for fig- new imperial aeon (age) ruled by tronic communications that he [email protected] paganda that described the attack ures such as Adolf Hitler, Osama a race of Satanic supermen who could be killed during the attack, Twitter: @WyattWOlson Wednesday, June 24, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 7 MILITARY Bolton memoir shows Trump’s frustrations with Afghan War

BY J.P. LAWRENCE “endless wars,” Bolton said. Bolton himself opposed nego- Stars and Stripes The book recounts a Nov. 8, tiations, arguing that there was 2018, conversation in which no way to trust that the Taliban NATO KABUL, Afghanistan — Presi- Trump said to Mattis: “I gave you would follow the conditions of the dent Donald Trump viewed a U.S. what you asked for. Unlimited au- deal. President Donald Trump and then-national security adviser John troop increase in Afghanistan as thority, no holds barred. You’re Andrew Watkins, a senior Af- Bolton give a press conference at the NATO summit in Brussels in a failure and sought to withdraw losing. You’re getting your ass ghanistan analyst at Interna- July 2018. from the country early in his kicked. You failed.” tional Crisis Group, a nonprofit term, former national security ad- Trump also told advisers that think tank based in Brussels, said press coverage on Afghanistan to simply get out (a tactical and viser John Bolton wrote in a book the Massive Ordnance Air Blast that throughout his career, Bolton and the fallout of the canceled strategic mistake) are on full dis- released to the public Tuesday. bomb, or MOAB, dropped in east- has been dismissive of diplomacy Camp David meeting, the book play,” Stavridis said. Bolton’s book, “The Room ern Afghanistan in 2017 did not with America’s adversaries. said. The White House sued unsuc- Where It Happened,” about have the effect on the war that he “With that in mind, it is not sur- “The long, tortured history of cessfully to prevent the book’s his 17 months as a member of desired, the book said. prising that Bolton’s account of U.S. involvement in Afghanistan release. Trump said on Twitter Trump’s Cabinet, has been criti- U.S. troop levels in Afghani- talking with the Taliban carries is on full display in Bolton’s mem- that Bolton “broke the law by re- cized by Republican officials who stan have dropped since 2017 to a degree of contempt,” Watkins oir,” retired Adm. James Stavri- leasing Classified Information (in have alleged that he is reveal- 8,600, as part of a withdrawal said. dis said in an email Monday night massive amounts)” in his book. ing classified information, and deal with the Taliban concluded Near the end of the book, Bolton after reading passages of the The tweets came after a fed- by Democratic lawmakers who in February. recounted a meeting on Aug. 30, book, which was distributed to se- eral judge said publication of the have chided him for not testify- As the U.S. worked on its peace 2019, in which Trump surprised lect media outlets in advance. memoir could continue, as thou- ing about Trump’s actions before Confusion between agencies is agreement, State Department and his staff by suggesting he meet sands of copies had already been the House during last year’s im- Pentagon officials often clashed with Taliban leaders on U.S. soil. not unique to the Trump admin- distributed online, The New York peachment proceedings. due to leaks, information hoard- The book describes dread with- istration, but the book reveals Times reported Saturday. Trump sought to pull troops ing and mutual distrust, Bolton in the White House as staff pre- key aspects of how the president from Afghanistan before his said. pared for the meeting, scheduled approached Afghanistan, said The judge suggested that Bolton second year in office, but was During meetings about the to be held at Camp David three Stavridis, who, as NATO’s su- is at risk of prosecution and for- persuaded by then-Defense Sec- deal’s progress, Trump called days before the anniversary of preme commander from 2009 to feiting his $2 million advance for retary Jim Mattis and others to America’s chief negotiator Zal- 9/11. The meeting was canceled 2013, oversaw operations there. the book due to going forward send more troops, Bolton said. may Khalilzad a “con man,” after a Taliban attack in Kabul on “The President’s confusion with its publication before com- Trump grew to regret the troop and would often confuse Afghan Sept. 7 killed a U.S. soldier, a Ro- over who is leading Afghanistan, pletion of a review to scrub classi- increase, which he said went President Ashraf Ghani with his manian soldier and 10 civilians. his tendency to jump erratically fied information, the report said. against his instincts and his cam- predecessor, Hamid Karzai, the Bolton resigned days later after from topic-to-topic without reso- [email protected] paign promises to withdraw from book said. Trump chided him for negative lution and his overarching desire Twitter: @jplawrence3 PAGE 8 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Wednesday, June 24, 2020 PACIFIC Daughter of South Korean immigrants Honoring Korean War vets maps memorials for the forgotten war

BY SETH ROBSON Stars and Stripes Hannah Kim has met 1,200 Ko- rean War heroes and visited me- morials in all 50 states as well as those in U.S. territories and for- eign countries that participated in the conflict. “Many people ask me how I ended up being almost obsessed with Korean War veterans,” Kim, 37, of Washington, D.C., said in a recent telephone interview. As the daughter of South Kore- an immigrants, her interesty was sparked by a visit to the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Wash- ington as a 22-year-old graduate student in 2007. “It’s extremely humbling,” she said of her trip to the memo- rial, which features 19 sculptures of troops from all four service branches standing, as if on patrol through a Korean rice paddy. “For some reason it really struck me,” Kim said. “That’s where I fell in love with these veterans.” Kim felt embarrassed that she knew almost nothing about the war at the time, she said. “More than 36,000 Americans died,” she said. “I wanted to do something to honor them.” In 2008, she campaigned to make July 27 National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day, Hannah Kim which was established by Presi- dent Barack Obama in 2009. Hannah Kim is seen with Korean War veteran and former congressman Charlie Rangel at the New York Korean War Veterans Memorial. “The reason why I’m free and why South Koreans and Koreans around the world are free is 100 ‘ The reason why I’m free and why South Koreans and Koreans Korean War at 70 percent because of the sacrifices around the world are free is 100 percent because of the of the veterans,” she said. This is the second in a three- Kim, who describes herself as sacrifices of the veterans. part series commemorating the ’ 70th anniversary of the Korean “a child of an immigrant family Hannah Kim from a war-torn country,” said War. Coming: she wants to collect veterans’ sto- Thursday: Korean War vets ries before it’s too late. share their memories Her travels have taken her to Stories about veterans focus on erans Memorial Foundation. He interview June 4. “That was ex- Online: stripes.com/korea70 180 Korean War memorials in- the past but the Korean War has said he had worked with Kim on citing for me because you could cluding those in all 50 states and never ended, she said. projects involving veterans. never do enough to thank veter- U.S. overseas territories. She’s Hostilities ended in an armi- “She’s a very personable young ans of the forgotten war.” many are in quarantine,” she mapped the memorials on a web- stice signed by the combatants in lady,” he said in a recent telephone Rangel said Kim’s visits to vet- said. “Probably half of the veter- July 27, 1953, but there has never interview. “Her heart is in the erans brought them a sense of site koreanwarmemorials.com. ans live alone. Their spouses have been a formal peace treaty. right place. She has a very strong joy. Kim estimates she has met passed on and they look forward 1,200 veterans. “Every veteran knows they feeling for Korean War vets.” “There’s no Korean veteran “They’re extremely proud but were called to service or they Kim spent several years work- that I know of that hasn’t found to these gatherings and meeting at the same time they hope the en- volunteered for the cause of free- ing as communications director this lady to be a remarkable repre- of old comrades.” tire peninsula would be free and dom,” she said. “Every veteran and chief of staff for Korean War sentative of the love and affection People should use the anniver- the Korean people united,” she will tell you war should never hap- veteran and former congressman that Korean Americans have for sary of the war to reflect on vet- said. pen, and we need to work harder Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y. those who sacrificed themselves erans’ service and continue their She’s traveled to all of the for peace.” Soon after she started in his in the Korean War,” he said. legacy, she said. countries that participated in the World War II, Korean War and office, Kim approached Rangel, Big events had been planned for “We need to still remember to war including Russia, China and Vietnam War veteran William seeking help working with other the war’s 70th anniversary on Fri- fight for the peace because the North Korea. Weber, 95, served on the Korean veterans. day but the coronavirus stopped “What’s important is to honor War Veterans Memorial Foun- “She hoped she could spend that from happening. That’s sad war never ended,” she said. the veterans and remember dation Advisory Board and was some time working with Korean for the veterans, Kim said. [email protected] them,” she said. president of the Korean War Vet- veterans,” he said in a telephone “They are all nearing 90 and Twitter: @SethRobson1 Smaller ceremony marks Battle of Okinawa’s 75th anniversary

BY MATTHEW M. BURKE and maintaining social distance to ward War II did turn out to pay their respects. 1945, and lasted 82 days. More than 14,000 AND AYA ICHIHASHI off the coronavirus gathered at Okinawa “It has been 75 years since the war Americans, about 110,000 Japanese troops Stars and Stripes Peace Memorial Park in Itoman. No U.S. has ended; however, the sorrow from los- and at least 140,000 Okinawan civilians military members or government repre- ing beloved friends and family has never were killed during or after the fighting, CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — Japan sent at ives at tended, a nd Japa nese V I Ps l i ke healed, it has only got stronger,” Okinawa though the total number of civilian deaths marked the 75th anniversary of the Battle may never be known. of Okinawa on Tuesday with a scaled- Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivered their Gov. Denny Tamaki said in his opening re- The battle rendered large swaths of Oki- down, pandemic version of the annual Irei remarks via recorded video message. marks. “It is our duty to keep sending the nawa a scorched hellscape, more closely no Hi ceremony that drew less than a tenth The general public was told to stay home, message of the terror of war and the im- of the attendees of years past. though handfuls of locals who lost family in portance of peace to the world.” resembling the surface of the moon than About 200 people wearing face masks the battle during the final stages of World The Battle of Okinawa began on April 1, SEE BATTLE ON PAGE 9 Wednesday, June 24, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 9 PACIFIC Battle: About 180,000 US Marines, Army soldiers fought on Okinawa

FROM PAGE 8 down in October. The landmark was a key- the tropical landscape it is today. Rever- stone in the Japanese line of defense and berations are still evident in the island’s fell on June 1, 1945, according to Encyclo- passionate anti-war movement. pedia Britannica. For the allies, the battle was pivotal. “Over 200,000 innocent people were From airfields on Okinawa, U.S. troops killed during the war and beautiful ocean began their final assault on the Japanese and forest was also destroyed,” he said via homeland. The war ended, however, with video message. “My heart is heavy think- atomic bombings several months after the ing of those lost lives — young people with dreams and future and the parents that Battle of Okinawa. died worrying about their children … we The program for this year’s ceremony re- must pay the deepest respect for those lost mained mostly the same as in prior years. lives.” Local officials, dressed in black funeral at- Tamaki asked everyone who could not tire, sat in the Okinawa heat, underneath be at Tuesday’s ceremony due to the coro- expansive white sunshades, flanked by navirus to pause at noon for a minute of si- food offerings for the deceased. A select lence. Marine officials said that they would group, including Tamaki, gave speeches. be observing the request at bases across AYA ICHIHASHI/Stars and Stripe Then they each offered a single white flow- the island Tuesday. A woman prays for loved ones lost in the Battle of Okinawa during the annual Irei no Hi er at center stage. “This battle was the largest amphibious ceremony at Peace Memorial Park in Okinawa, Japan, on June 23, 2019. This year’s Tamaki, elected in 2018 on an anti-base assault undertaken by the U.S. Navy and ceremony was scaled down because of coronavirus concerns. platform, used his remarks to highlight Marine Corps in the Pacific theater and the number of U.S. military forces on the signaled the end of the massive island-hop- Army Col. Theodore White, commander by our common goal — peace and prosper- island. Okinawa, an area roughly the same ping campaign by U.S. military forces,” III of the 10th Support Group headquartered ity,” he said. “We were bitter enemies that size as metropolitan Tokyo, hosts approxi- Marine Expeditionary Force commander on Torii Station, said the alliance between mately half of the 50,000 troops stationed Lt. Gen. H. Stacy Clardy III said in a state- waged a brutal battle leaving scars on this in Japan. ment to the force Monday on Facebook. Japan and the U.S. is the strongest in the island still visible today and while time will “There are accidents and crime cases “The harrowing battle that ensued was region and can be traced back to an end of heal the wounds from war, the scars will caused by the U.S. force personnel and ci- among the fiercest of the war. We owe hostilities on Okinawa on June 22, 1945. remain as a reminder what was … Let us vilian personnel, noise from the military those who struggled on this soil, military “So much has changed in the 75 years find strength and comfort in our combined airplanes, water contamination from the and civilian, especially the Okinawan peo- since the last shots fired in anger occurred commitment to each other for a peaceful PFOS affecting the everyday life of people ple who endured so much during the battle, on this island,” White said in a statement and prosperous future.” of Okinawa,” he said. a great debt of gratitude.” emailed to Stars and Stripes on Tuesday. [email protected] Abe vowed in his remarks to reduce Oki- Four U.S. Army divisions and two Ma- “The strength of the relationship be- Twitter: @MatthewMBurke1 nawa’s “huge burden” and to support the rine Corps divisions, a total of about tween the United States and Japan is a [email protected] rebuilding of Shuri Castle, which burned 180,000 troops, fought on Okinawa. testament to the unifying principles driven Twitter: @AyaIchihashi PAGE 10 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Wednesday, June 24, 2020 VIRUS OUTBREAK The battle is not over: Rising cases seen worldwide

Associated Press in a statement released Tuesday. In Britain, Prime Minister BERLIN — Renewed lockdown measures in a German region Boris Johnson announced a major where hundreds of coronavirus rollback of lockdown measures cases sprung up at a slaughter- that will let millions in England house and news that the world’s back into pubs, cinemas, church- top-ranked tennis player has also es and hair salons starting July been infected provided a stark 4. The move came amid strong reminder to Europeans on Tues- pressure from businesses to ease day that the pandemic is far from social distancing rules. gone. Although gyms, pools, spas and Meanwhile, Britain, which has tattoo parlors will remain shut, recorded the most coronavirus- Johnson told lawmakers that “our related deaths in Europe, pressed long national hibernation” was on with its easing of the lockdown coming to an end. by confirming that restaurants, Pubs and restaurants wanted bars, hair salons and cinemas can the government to cut its so- reopen on July 4. By contrast, Germany was re- cial distancing requirements in imposing some lockdown restric- half to 3 feet between people in- tions in North Rhine-Westphalia doors, and said many businesses state after more than 1,550 people wouldn’t be able to survive with- have tested positive for the virus out the change. at the Toennies slaughterhouse in But some scientists worried

Rheda-Wiedenbrueck and thou- MARTIN MEISSNER/AP the move is too hasty, especially sands more workers and family since measures like a track-and- members were put into quaran- Medical staff take COVID-19 tests of Toennies employees and their families who are quarantined behind trace system to stamp out any tine to try to halt the outbreak. fences in Verl, Germany, on Tuesday . outbreaks isn’t yet in place. On Tuesday, North Rhine- “This is far too premature,” Westphalia Gov. Armin Laschet at the company’s handling of the fection again illustrated that titles, has put into question the said David King, a former chief said people in Guetersloh and outbreak, saying that authorities there’s little room for compla- wisdom of a full-fledged return of scientific adviser to the govern- parts of a neighboring county will had to order Toennies to release cency in doing what’s necessary tennis, including the U.S. Open in ment. “To come out of (lockdown) now face the same restrictions the names of its employees. to beat back the disease. The August. too early is extremely risky.” that Germany saw in March and “The readiness to cooper- world’s number one tennis player, The Serb tennis star is the The World Health Organiza- April, including curbs on social ate could have been greater,” he said he and his wife contracted fourth player to test positive for gatherings and bar closures. said. the coronavirus after he played in the illness after participating in tion says the pandemic is still in “The purpose is to calm the Union officials have blamed a series of exhibition matches he the matches held in Belgrade and its ascendancy. situation, to expand testing to es- poor working and living con- organized in Serbia and Croatia Zadar, Croatia. “The epidemic is now peak- tablish whether or not the virus ditions that migrant workers with zero social distancing. “Unfortunately, this virus is ing or moving toward a peak in a has spread beyond the employees faced under a loosely regulated The announcement by Djokov- still present, and it is a new re- number of large countries,” said of Toennies,” Laschet said. sub contractor. ic, who stands third in men’s ten- ality that we are still learning to Dr. Michael Ryan, WHO’s emer- Laschet expressed frustration Word of Novak Djokovic’s in- nis history with 17 Grand Slam cope and live with,“ Djokovic said gencies chief. Medicare data: Blacks more likely to be hospitalized for virus

Associated Press Medicare administrator Seema From Jan. 1 to May 16, more  The rate for Hispanic people out dialysis or a transplant had a Verma, adding that “race and than 325,000 Medicare recipients was 258 per 100,000, or about hospitalization rate of 1,341 per WASHINGTON — Black peo- ethnicity are far from the only were diagnosed with COVID-19, twice the rate of white people. 100,000, or nearly three times ple were nearly four times more likely than white people to be hos- story.” and nearly 110,000 were hospital- Asian people were about one- higher than the rates for low-in- pitalized with COVID-19 among Medicare’s analysis confirms ized, according to the analysis of and-a-half times more likely than come beneficiaries and African people with Medicare, the gov- what The Associated Press and claims data. Medicare spent $1.9 white people to be hospitalized Americans. ernment said Monday. other media organizations have billion for hospital care, an av- for COVID-19. Verma said this may reflect the  The analysis from the federal previously reported about Afri- erage of about $23,000 per case There were fewer cases and fact that people with advanced Centers for Medicare and Medic- can Americans and Latinos bear- for people enrolled in the tradi- hospitalizations among Medicare kidney disease generally also suf- aid Services also found that hav- ing the brunt of the pandemic, tional fee-for-service part of the recipients in rural areas, when fer from other medical problems ing advanced kidney disease was while adding new details. program. compared to cities and suburbs. that worsen COVID-19 outcomes, an even more severe risk indica- The group covered by Medicare The analysis found that: But all in all, having advanced such as diabetes. Patients typi- tor for hospitalization than race, is considered the most vulnerable  Black people with Medicare kidney disease was by far the cally have to travel to a special ethnicity or being poor. to the virus. Most of its 60 million were hospitalized at a rate of 465 biggest risk factor, the study facility to get dialysis, and the “It reconfirms long-standing enrollees are age 65 and older. per 100,000 enrollees, or nearly found. People whose kidneys treatment can bring them to- issues around disparities and Also covered are younger people four times the rate for white peo- have stopped working to the gether with others who may have vulnerable populations,” said who qualify due to disabilities. ple, which was 123 per 100,000. point where they can’t live with- been exposed. Fauci: Continued infection risks are still present despite progress toward vaccine

FROM FRONT PAGE many positive cases are turn- the president’s pattern of ignor- cases before they turn into full The FDA has since withdrawn its on reopening — Arizona, Florida ing up. Many rally goers did not ing the advice of his own public outbreaks in a given community. emergency use authorization for and Texas — are among those wear masks, which was an act of health experts.” Fauci, who heads the National hydroxychloroquine. seeing worrisome increases in defiance for some against what Fauci has recently warned that Institute of Allergy and Infectious “There have been a lot of un- they have seen as government the U.S. is still in the first wave of Diseases, was joined by CDC di- fortunate missteps in the Trump cases. intrusion. White House officials the pandemic and has continued rector Dr. Robert Redfield, FDA administration’s response to the Last week, Vice President Mike later tried to walk back Trump’s to urge the American public to chief Dr. Stephen Hahn and the COVID-19 pandemic,” Pallone Pence published an opinion article comment on testing, suggest- practice social distancing. And, head of the U.S. Public Health said. “As communities across the in The Wall Street Journal saying ing it wasn’t meant to be taken in a recent ABC News interview, Service, Adm. Brett Giroir. country ease social distancing the administration’s efforts have literally. he said political demonstrations Giroir was tapped by the White guidance and reopen their econo- strengthened the nation’s ability House Energy and Commerce such as protests against racial in- House to oversee the expansion of mies, it is critically important that to counter the virus and should Committee Chairman Frank Pal- justice are “risky” to all involved. coronavirus testing. But he gained both the administration and Con- be “a cause for celebration.” lone of New Jersey said during Asked if that applied to Trump notoriety after a whistleblower gress remain focused on contain- Then Trump said at his week- Tuesday’s hearing that Trump’s rallies, he said it did. complaint flagged him for trying ing the spread of the coronavirus end rally in Tulsa that he had testing comment at the rally “was Fauci continues to recognize to push a malaria drug touted by and providing the resources and asked administration officials to an extremely reckless action, widespread testing as critical for Trump to treat COVID-19 with- support Americans need during slow down testing, because too and unfortunately it continues catching clusters of COVID-19 out conclusive scientific evidence. this time of crisis.” Wednesday, June 24, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 11 NATION Dems denounce GOP police bill, demand talks

Associated Press proposal, which mandates many of the changes. WASHINGTON — Top Sen- The standoff does not end the ate Democrats said Tuesday the debate. Democrats are trying to Republican policing bill is “not force Republicans to the negoti- salvageable,” as they demand ne- ating table to build a more robust gotiations on a new, more biparti- package more aligned with their san package with more extensive own bill, set to be approved by law enforcement changes and the House later this week. The accountability in response to the House and Senate versions would killing of Black Americans. ultimately need to be the same to /AP ANDREW HARNIK Senate Democratic leader become law. Chuck Schumer signaled the Senate Majority Leader Mitch Anthony Davis of Upper Marlboro, Md., left, speaks to his son Jonathan, 13, as they look at a statue Democrats intend to block the of President Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Park, Tuesday, in Washington, with the word “Killer” spray McConnell is pushing ahead GOP package, which Democrats painted on its base. Protesters tried to topple the statue Monday night. with the Justice Act in a test say does not go far enough to meet vote Wednesday, but without the moment that has galvanized Democratic backing the bill is the nation with massive demon- not expected to reach the 60-vote Trump says he’ll soon issue strations over police procedures. threshold needed to advance. “We don’t need to study the “We’re ready to make a law, problem of police misconduct not just make a point,” McCon- and violence, we need to solve it,“ nell said as he opened the Senate order to protect monuments Schumer said on the Senate floor. on Tuesday. He said Americans The Democratic opposition is “deserve better than a partisan being backed by the nation’s lead- stalemate.” Associated Press zona, Trump said, “I will have an the street from the White House ing civil rights organizations and McConnell said, “We’ll find executive order very shortly, and faced 10 years in prison under the the lawyer, Benjamin Crump, rep- out whether our Democratic col- WASHINGTON — President all it’s really going to do is rein- Veterans Memorial Preservation resenting the families of George leagues share our ambition or Donald Trump said Tuesday he’ll force what’s already there, but in Act. Floyd and Breonna Taylor, two whether they chose to duck the issue an executive order to pro- a more uniform way.” “Beware,” he tweeted. African Americans whose deaths issue and leave the country in the tect monuments that are coming At a time of nationwide protests Jackson is one of Trump’s fa- in police interactions sparked lurch.” under new scrutiny as America over racial injustice and inequal- vorite presidents. worldwide protests over racial Schumer and the co-authors wrestles with racism during the ity, Trump has aligned himself The federal statute Trump cites bias in policing. of the Democrats’ proposed unrest sparked by the police kill- squarely on the side of those who subjects anyone who willfully in- “The Black community is tired package, Sen. Kamala Harris, ing of George Floyd. argue that the pendulum has jures or destroys, or attempts to of the lip service,” Crump said in D-Calif., and Sen. Cory Booker, Trump has been clear that he swung too far in the direction of injure or destroy, any structure, a statement. D-N.J., wrote in a letter to Mc- opposes the removal of monu- eliminating reminders of hated plaque, statue or other monument The Republican legislation Connell that the Republican bill ments of leaders of the Confed- aspects of American history. on public property commemorat- would create a national database is “not salvageable and we need eracy or other distasteful aspects Trump had tweeted late Mon- ing the service of any person or of police use-of-force incidents, bipartisan talks to get to a con- of American history. day that those who tried to topple persons in the armed forces of restrict police chokeholds and set structive starting point.” Commenting as he departed a statue of President Andrew the United States to fines, up to 10 up new training procedures. It is They called the GOP effort the White House for a trip to Ari- Jackson in Lafayette Park across years’ imprisonment or both. not as sweeping as a Democratic “threadbare and lacking.” Seattle will move to dismantle protest zone, mayor says

Associated Press ing policing in cooperation with The victims were taken to a community leaders, and push- hospital by volunteer medics in SEATTLE — Faced with grow- ing for accountability measures private cars, and police said they ing pressure to crack down on an and statewide reform of police were met by a hostile crowd that “occupied” protest zone following two weekend shootings, Seattle’s unions. prevented them from immediate- mayor said Monday that officials The mayor did not give an im- ly getting to the scene. will move to wind down the block- mediate timeline for clearing out It was not apparent if the shoot- s long span of city streets taken the occupation but said “addi- ings had anything to do with the over two weeks ago that President tional steps” would be examined protest — gunfire sometimes oc- Donald Trump asserted is run by if people don’t leave voluntarily. curs in the neighborhood, espe- “anarchists.“ With scores of people camping in cially on warm summer nights. Mayor Jenny Durkan said the a park in the protest zone, Dur- Protesters cordoned off the violence was distracting from kan said peaceful demonstrations several-block area near the po- changes sought by thousands of could continue, but nighttime dis- lice’s East Precinct after Seattle peaceful protesters opposing ra- order had to stop. riot squads unleashed tear gas, cial inequity and police brutal- “The cumulative impacts of pepper spray and flash-bangs on ity. She said at a news conference the gatherings and protests and large crowds of mostly peaceful TED S. WARREN/AP that the city is working with the the nighttime atmosphere and protesters, drawing condemna- community to bring the “Capitol violence has led to increasingly A sign welcomes visitors Monday near an entrance to what has tion from many city leaders and Hill Occupied Protest” zone, or difficult circumstances for our been named the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest zone in Seattle. a federal court order temporarily CHOP, to an end and that police businesses and residents,” Dur- Mayor Jenny Durkan said Monday that the city is working with the banning the use of the weapons soon would move back into a pre- kan said. “The impacts have community to bring the CHOP zone to an end. on demonstrators. cinct building they had largely increased and the safety has After police largely abandoned abandoned in the area. decreased.” borhood near downtown Seattle was shot in the arm and declined the building, protesters took over Durkan also vowed to address A shooting Sunday night was and emerged during nationwide to speak with detectives, police the area. Its existence incensed some of the protesters’ demands, the second in less than 48 hours protests over the killing of George said. Gunfire early Saturday left Trump, who criticized Durkan including investing more in at the edge of the zone, which is Floyd at the hands of Minneapo- a 19-year-old man dead and an- and Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, Black communities, reimagin- named for the Capitol Hill neigh- lis police. The 17-year-old victim other person critically wounded. both Democrats. PAGE 12 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Wednesday, June 24, 2020 NATION Spate of shootings raises fear of violent summer

BY LISA MARIE PANE said. AND KATHLEEN FOODY “Now is the time to hold them Associated Press accountable and step up as a peo- ple to say we can hold our com- CHICAGO — A spate of shoot- munities together without more ings over the past several days policing,” said 20-year-old Jai has law enforcement on edge, Simpson, a member of Good Kids with some warning that a turbu- Mad City who grew up on the lent brew of a pandemic, racial city’s South side. unrest, historic surges in gun Chicago Police Superintendent sales and a rancorous election David Brown, who took over the year could make it an especially department in April, is encour- deadly summer. aged by police partnerships with Although mass shootings are community outreach groups, so- down sharply this year, other cial services and other govern- non-suicidal gun deaths are on ment agencies. pace to exceed last year, accord- “Police can’t do it alone,” ing to incidents tracked by the Brown said. “We need partners Gun Violence Archive. to be effective and protect this That increase came before the city. We’re just asking for a little start of summer, when there is bit of help now. You give this de- traditionally a spike during the partment a little bit of help and warmer months as people ven- this city will be safer from violent ture outside more, and before offenders.” Independence Day, which histori- There is perhaps one silver lin- cally has been one of the deadli- JOHN J. KIM, CHICAGO TRIBUNE/AP ing: This year is on pace to have est days each year. Two people walk past as police guard an SUV wherein a 3-year-old boy was fatally shot while riding in half as many mass shootings as Gun experts have said that the the vehicle with his father outside West Suburban Medical Center on Saturday in Chicago. the record-breaking 2019. A big statistics reflect an American reason is the “contagion” effect, public increasingly stressed by while riding in the back seat of as CHOP, for “Capitol Hill Oc- their departments by shifting said James Alan Fox, a criminol- the coronavirus which has roiled a car with his father. Police said cupied Protest,” a day after a money from law enforcement to ogist at Northeastern University the economy and kept them the boy’s father was the intended 19-year-old man was fatally shot social services and other commu- who, along with The Associated cooped up at home, deep divisions victim. and a 33-year-old man critically nity investment. Press and USA Today, has been over justice and policing and the In North Carolina, three peo- injured in there. “If you invest in healing and tracking mass killings back to political divides of a presidential ple were killed and six were Densley said the pace of gun restorative justice and bring the 2006. election year. wounded early Monday when violence may be a harbinger of a community to the table to heal With people focused more on “There’s something going on unknown gunmen opened fire rough summer ahead. and solve its own problems, you a deadly virus and other woes, at the moment, these underlying during an impromptu block party “You’ve got people who are will see more and more that you mass shootings no longer get the tensions,” said James Densley, in Charlotte. A birthday party in frustrated, angry, struggling in don’t need police intervention,” attention that can end up inad- professor of law enforcement and Syracuse, N.Y., over the weekend life and have been at home dur- said Kofi Ademola, an adult men- vertently spurring such crimes. criminal justice at Metropolitan was marred by gun violence that ing this time processing all this tor to the anti-violence organi- A similar effect happened in the State University. “Everyone’s wounded nine people. and often processing this alone, zation Good Kids Mad City in aftermath of the 9/11 terror at- been cooped up for so long with In Minneapolis, people fled a maybe with the help with the in- Chicago. tacks, he said. the pandemic, and then we had popular nightlife and retail area ternet,” he said. “Once the door Millions of dollars which are “We’ve been distracted. We are this sort of explosion of anger as a shooter killed one man and starts to open, there could well be now funding Chicago’s police no longer obsessing about mass and grief after George Floyd’s injured 11 others early Sunday. an uptick in violence.” department could be more effec- shootings like we were in the killing.” And for the second time in less The scattered weekend shoot- tive fueling programs for men- past couple of years,” Fox said. In just the past few days, more than 48 hours, there was a shoot- ings come as police face a back- tal health, housing, support for “the less we have obsessed about than 100 people were wounded in ing in Seattle’s protest zone. A lash, accused of using excessive victims of gun violence and en- it and talked about it and being shootings in Chicago, including 17-year-old victim was shot late force against Blacks and other couraging the creation or growth scared of it, the less we fuel the a 3-year-old boy who was killed Sunday night in the area known minorities, and calls to “defund” of neighborhood businesses, he contagion.” Documents: Mother called children ‘zombies’ before their deaths

Associated Press new husband. The case gained at- abandonment and obstructing “Gibb reports that when she 2019 when the teen didn’t want to tention for the couple’s doomsday an investigation. Chad Daybell arrived in Rexburg, Lori Vallow baby sit her little brother and that BOISE, Idaho — The case of informed her that JJ Vallow had Lori Daybell had first learned the two kids who were missing for beliefs and the mysterious deaths has pleaded not guilty to destroy- months before they were found of their former spouses, and court ing or concealing the children’s become a ‘zombie,’” Ball wrote. concept from Chad Daybell at the dead in rural Idaho has taken documents released late last week bodies. “Gibb further reports that the start of that year. another bizarre twist, with new detail more about the strange Lori Daybell’s longtime best term ‘zombie’ refers to an indi- Gibb said the couple believed court documents alleging that worldview that detectives think friend, Melanie Gibb, has been vidual whose mortal spirit has that when a zombie takes over their mother believed they were may have influenced Lori Vallow cooperating with authorities for left their body and that their body a person’s body, “the person’s zombies and that she was on a Daybell and Chad Daybell. months, according to the docu- is now the host of another spirit. true spirit goes into ‘limbo’ and mission to rid the world of such So far, no one has been charged ments written by Rexburg po- The new spirit in a ‘zombie’ is al- is stuck there until the host body creatures. with killing the kids, who had not lice Lt. Ron Ball. Gibb is the last ways considered a ‘dark spirit.’” is physically killed,” the court Police discovered the remains been seen since September, but known person to have seen JJ It wasn’t the first time Gibb said document said. “As such, death of 17-year-old Tylee Ryan and the Daybells are behind bars. alive, according to police, when she heard her friend talk about of the physical body is seen as the her 7-year-old brother, Joshua Lori Daybell’s attorney has in- she was visiting Lori Daybell at zombies, according to the state- mechanism by which the body’s “JJ” Vallow, on June 9 at prop- dicated that she intends to defend her apartment in the small Idaho ment. Gibb said Lori Daybell had original spirit can be released erty belonging to their mother’s herself against charges of child town last September. called Tylee a zombie in spring from limbo.” Wednesday, June 24, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 13 WORLD South Korean activists float Saudi Arabia to limit hajj Associated Press global virus outbreak. “The number, God willing, DUBAI, United Arab Emirates may be in the thousands. We are — A Saudi official said Tuesday leaflets to North amid tensions in the process of reviewing so it that the hajj pilgrimage, which usually draws up to 2.5 million could be 1,000 or less, or a little more,” Benten said in a virtual Associated Press Muslims from all over the world, it as a potential safety threat to will only see at the most a few press conference. SEOUL, South Korea — A border residents. Seoul’s Unifica- thousand pilgrims next month While the decision to drasti- South Korean group launched tion Ministry, which handles re- due to concerns over the spread cally curb this year’s hajj was hundreds of thousands of leaflets lations with North Korea, issued of the coronavirus. largely expected, it remains un- by balloon across the border with a separate statement expressing The kingdom’s Hajj Minister precedented in Saudi Arabia’s North Korea overnight, an activist “deep regret” over Park’s attempt Muhammad Benten said a “small nearly 90-year history and effec- said Tuesday, despite Pyongyang to send leaflets. and very limited” number of peo- tively bars all Muslims from out- repeatedly warning that it will re- Calling North Korean leader ple — even as low as just 1,000 side the kingdom from traveling there to performing the pilgrim- taliate against such actions. Kim Jong Un “an evil” and his from inside the kingdom — will be allowed to perform the pil- age. The Saudi government wait- Activist Park Sang-hak said rule “barbarism,” Park said he’ll grimage to ensure social distanc- ed until just five weeks before the his organization floated 20 huge keep sending anti-Kim leaflets. balloons carrying 500,000 leaf- ing and crowd control amid the hajj to announce its decision. “Though North Korean resi- lets, 2,000 one-dollar bills and small books on North Korea from dents have become modern-day the border town of Paju Monday slaves with no basic rights, don’t Suicide bomber kills 2 at Turkish base in Somalia night. they have the rights to know the truth?” he said. Park, formerly a North Korean NAIROBI, Kenya — A suicide said the attack occurred as new who fled to South Korea, said in South Korean officials have bomber detonated inside a Turk- military cadets were doing their a statement his leafleting is “a vowed to ban leafleting and said ish military training base in morning drills. Col. Ahmednor struggle for justice for the sake of they would press charges against Somalia’s capital and killed two Abdulle, a Somali military offi- liberation of” North Koreans. /AP Park and other anti-Pyongyang people, police said Tuesday. cer, said authorities were investi- The move is certain to inten- YANG JI-WOONG, YONHAP activists for allegedly raising ani- It was the first time Turkey’s gating how the bomber managed sify already high tensions be- Police officers collect a balloon mosities and potentially endan- largest overseas military base to sneak into the base. tween the Koreas. North Korea released by Fighters For Free gering border residents. has been attacked by the al- The Turkish Defense Minis- recently abruptly raised its rheto- North Korea, in Hongcheon, Qaida-linked al-Shabab extremist In 2014, North Korean troops try in a statement said a Somali ric against South Korean civilian South Korea, on Tuesday. group. The Somalia-based group citizen was killed and one other leafleting, destroyed an empty, opened fire at propaganda bal- quickly claimed responsibility, Seoul-built liaison office on its the South. loons flying toward their territo- according to its Radio al-Furqan person was wounded. It said no territory and pushed to resume South Korean officials said ry, triggering an exchange of fire affiliate. Turkish personnel were hurt. its psychological warfare against they may ask police to investigate that caused no known casual ties. Police Capt. Mohamed Hussein From The Associated Press PAGE 14 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Wednesday, June 24, 2020 AMERICAN ROUNDUP Small boy safe after thieves ditch stolen car

ST. LOUIS — A 4- MO year-old boy is un- harmed and back with his family following a harrowing experience early Monday, when the child was in the back seat of a car stolen at a gas station in St. Louis. KMOV-TV reported that Di- ontre Evans was asleep around 12:30 a.m. when his father went inside a Moto Mart and left the child in his gray Pontiac G8. A group of men jumped in the car and drove off . The car was found parked about five miles from the gas sta- tion around 4 a.m., with Diontre safe inside . Plane makes emergency landing on highway

FORKS — A small WA plane made an emer- gency landing Sunday on U.S. Highway 101 on the Olympic Peninsula, the Washington State Patrol reported. According to early reports, the small fixed-wing experimental plane was able to land safely on the road, 8 miles north of Forks. The pilot was uninjured, and was able to maneuver the aircraft off the main roadway so that it was not blocking traffic. JEFF CHIU/AP It is unknown if the aircraft suffered mechanical or electrical failure at this time. WSP reported that everyone onboard was safe. Getting ahead of traffic Bridge project leads A bicyclist rides on the Embarcadero in San Francisco on Saturday . to historical finds eligible. THE CENSUS Bea the giraffe gives To have a judge officiate at a FARMINGTON — A virtual wedding, couples must The number of states where Publix sold a type of salad that has birth to baby boy team of archaeologists ME call the county clerk’s office to set now been recalled. has unearthed artifacts from the One of the South’s largest grocery stores an- up an appointment to apply for a nounced that it would be voluntarily recalling a limited quantity of TALLAHASSEE — It’s 17th-century Abenaki village marriage license and then visit FL a boy for Bea, a giraffe along the Sandy River. 11 the 11.5-ounce Southwest Chopped Kit. Publix said the problem the clerk of the local circuit court is that wheat, soy, cashews and coconut might be in some of the at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay Archaeologists from the Maine to pay $10 in cash on the day the who gave birth Friday. Historic Preservation Commis- salad kits, but aren’t listed on the labels. That could cause allergic reactions that license is issued. The Busch Gardens zoological sion are leading an effort that has could be life-threatening for some people. team made the announcement on been underway since the summer City council bans guns of 2018, when the Maine Depart- Sunday, a couple days late, but on ment of Transportation deemed on city property suspect tried to flee, but got stuck nited rubbish in the backyard. an appropriate day: World Giraffe the bridge connecting Chester- in traffic. Cintrone said that no one in the Day. ville and Farmington Falls to be ALEXANDRIA — The The officer was trying to turn building was injured in the fire, Bea is a 14-year-old reticulated in need of replacement. VA governing body of off the vehicle but the suspect but at least a dozen firefighters giraffe, an endangered species The team has been surveying northern Virginia’s largest city rolled up the driver’s side win- suffered non-life-threatening in- with only about 15,000 remaining the land around the Farmington voted unanimously to ban fire- dow, trapping the officer’s arm juries while battling it. in the wild, according to park of- Falls and Chesterville bridge on arms on all public property. and dragging the officer as the He called the building a total ficials. Their numbers have been Routes 41 and 156 ever since, the The Alexandria City Council vehicle moved forward, officials loss and said it might have to be declining because of hunting and Sun Journal reported. passed the ordinance after a pub- said. torn down. encroaching development. Finding the Abenaki glass lic hearing Saturday. The new Police eventually stopped the Bea gave birth twice before, to law takes effect July 1 and bars trade and shell beads was the vehicle and arrested the suspect. State sees rise in gun Binty in 2014 and Amani a year firearms and ammunition from most memorable feature of his Officials said that the officer was background checks later. team’s dig, project archaeologist all city facilities and parks. not seriously injured. The city had a similar ordi- John Mosher said. ST. PETERSBURG nance in the 1990s, but a state law Fight at Olive Garden Fireworks likely led — More Floridians are passed in 2002 barred localities FL County restarts considering buying guns, accord- leaves officer injured from regulating firearms in their to destructive blaze ing to state records that show a weddings, virtually facilities. That law was over- YONKERS — Fire- dramatic rise in the number of HENDERSON — A turned by the General Assembly background checks it has pro- NV Henderson police offi- WAUKEGAN — You this year. NY works may have started IL can’t use the coronavirus a fire that destroyed a three-story cessed since the killing of George cer suffered minor injuries after Alexandria said that it is the Floyd in Minnesota. responding to an altercation in- pandemic as an excuse not to get first city Virginia to ban firearms apartment building in Yonkers, The Tampa Bay Times report- volving a worker at an Olive Gar- married any more — at least not under the new law. injured 12 firefighters and left six in Lake County. families homeless, a fire depart- ed that Florida processed 30,657 den restaurant. The 19th Judicial Circuit Court Driver arrested after ment official said Sunday. background checks in the week KVVU-TV reported that the suspended marriages and civil The Journal News reported after Floyd’s May 25 death, when incident happened Sunday after- unions in March to protect the officer dragged that more than 100 firefighters a police officer pressed his knee noon when a man allegedly bat- health of the public, but it start- responded to the fire shortly after against the Black man’s neck. tered an employee. ed officiating weddings and civil SIOUX FALLS — A 9:30 p.m. Saturday. The number of background Police said officers attempted checks was twice the number for unions — virtually — on Monday. SD juvenile driver is ac- The cause of the fire is under in- to take the man into custody, and The only requirement for the cused of dragging a Sioux Falls vestigation, but Deputy Chief Jo- the same period last year. a struggle occurred. general public is that at least police officer who was investigat- seph Cintrone of the Yonkers fire A week after Floyd’s death, The suspect and one officer one member of the couple get- ing a reported assault. department said the blaze was June 1, the state processed 8,597 ting married must be a resident The officer found the suspect “possibly started by fireworks background checks that day, more were both taken to a hospital with of Lake County. All active-duty in a vehicle at about 3 a.m. Sat- and poor housekeeping outside.” than four times higher than the minor injuries. members of the military are also urday, according to police. The He said fireworks may have ig- first Monday in June last year. From wire reports Wednesday, June 24, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 15 FACES Joel Schumacher, director of ’90s Legend: Grammys supplied Batman films, dies

Joel Schumacher, the eclec- tic and brazen filmmaker who secret sauce in new album dressed New York department store windows before shepherd- BY MESFIN FEKADU Khaled and others. “I remember how emo- ing the Brat Pack to the big Associated Press tional I was the day of the Grammys when screen in “St. Elmo’s Fire” and Kobe passed away. It was such a crazy steering the Batman franchise t the 2020 Grammy Awards, time.” into its most baroque territory in John Legend excitedly walked Legend said Rapsody wrote two verses “Batman Forever” and “Batman around with “a special se- for his song, asking him which he preferred. & Robin,” has died. He was 80. cret,” as he puts it: He had just “This was the one that just immediately hit A representative for Schum- finished recording a batch me. I loved her referring to Kobe and Nipsey acher said the of songs and felt like his new and Biggie and some of the other artists we director died Aalbum was near done. Monday in New lost, but also some artists that are still with Although he performed and won his 11th us that made records that were important to York after a gramophone at the show, he productively us.” yearlong battle used the week where most of the music in- Legend’s album also features collabora- with cancer. dustry flocks to Los Angeles to add new fla- tions with Jhene Aiko and Gary Clark Jr., A native New vor to his album. while a pack of all-star producers and song- Yorker, Schum- At the Grammys he met Koffee, who made writers also help on the project, including acher was a Schumacher history when she became the youngest art- sensation in the ist to win the best reggae album Grammy, Charlie Puth, Anderson Paak, Ryan Tedder, Ester Dean, Teddy Geiger, Tayla Parx and fashion world after attending Par- eventually collaborating with her on a song sons School of Design and deco- for “Bigger Love,” his seventh album, which Raphael Saadiq, who executive produced the album. rating Henri Bendel’s windows. was released June 19. And a day before the His entry to film came first as a awards show at the white-hot annual Roc Na- Legend, 41, said the some of the songs on “Bigger Love” have a strong and resilient im- costume designer. He also penned tion brunch, he sought out rapper Rapsody the screenplays to two musicals: pact in a similar vein of “Higher.” Although — who is signed to Jay-Z’s company — and “The Wiz” and “Sparkle.” he created the album before the coronavi- asked her to rap on one of his songs. He established himself as a rus pandemic and the protests advocating Legend said listening to Rapsody’s verse filmmaker of great flair, if not for black lives that have erupted around the on “Remember Us” brings him to tears, often good reviews, in a string of world, he said the songs still resonate. especially when the skilled lyricist name- mainstream films in the ’80s and drops Kobe Bryant, who died on the day of “It wasn’t written in response to exactly ’90s. To the frustration of crit- the Grammys, and Nipsey Hussle, who Leg- what’s happening in this moment, but I feel ics but the delight of audiences, end won his most recent Grammy with for like it could be a lift for people who are ex- REBECCA CABAGE, INVISION/AP Schumacher favored entertain- their song “Higher.” periencing the uncertainty and the turmoil ment over tastefulness — includ- “It’s so epic. It makes me cry. I listen to it of this time,” he said. “Some of those songs Singer-songwriter John Legend made good ing those infamous Batman and sometimes and it makes me tear up,” said feel more poignant now than they would use of this year’s Grammy week to line up Robin suits with visible nipples Legend, who performed “Higher” at the have were we not going through these crises collaborators for his new album, “Bigger — and he did so proudly. Grammys in tribute to Hussle alongside DJ in America.” Love,” which was released June 19. His first hit, “St. Elmo’s Fire,” with Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, Emilio Estevez and Ally Sheedy, not only helped make a name for New this week: BET Awards, Haim, ‘Clemency’ the Brat Pack but made Schum- acher in-demand in Hollywood. Next came 1987’s “The Lost Associated Press Television Boys,” with Jason Patric, Corey Here’s a collection curated by The Asso- Haim, Kiefer Sutherland and Amid America’s wrenching self-examina- ciated Press’ entertainment journalists of Corey Feldman. A vampire hor- tion of racial attitudes and inequities, BET is ror comedy, it gave a darker, con- what’s arriving on TV, streaming services touting its annual BET Awards as a much- and music platforms this week. temporary view of the perpetual needed celebration of black excellence in adolescence of “Peter Pan.” Movies music, film, TV, sports and philanthropy. In the mid-’90s, Schumacher Actor-comedian Amanda Seales hosts the inherited the DC universe from “Clemency”: Alfre Woodard gives a career virtual ceremony airing 8 p.m. EDT Sunday, Tim Burton. Batman received a performance as death row prison warden on with performers set to include Alicia Keys, garish overhaul that resulted in DaBaby, Jennifer Hudson, John Legend, Lil Music the eve of another execution in this shatter- two of the franchise’s most car- Wayne and Usher. Drake, Megan Thee Stal- toonish movies in 1995’s “Batman ing drama about the psychological trauma Grey Daze: Chester Bennington fans will lion and Roddy Ricch are the leading nomi- Forever” and 1997’s “Batman & of the job, which began streaming Monday get to hear the screeching, Grammy-winning nees in the music categories, with LeBron Robin.” The first was a box-office on Hulu. Written and directed by Chinonye rock singer one more time. More than two de- James, Serena Williams and Simon Biles smash but the second fizzled and Chukwu, “Clemency” was well-reviewed but cades after he left Grey Daze for Linkin Park among those up for top athlete honors. remains remembered for its infa- got unjustly overshadowed by some of the comes the release of “Amends” (above left), Showtime’s “Black Monday” is back to mous suits. higher profile awards contenders when it finish up season two after the coronavirus featuring tracks from Grey Daze’s mid-’90s was released in December. catalog rerecorded last year with Benning- “Doctor Sleep: The Director’s Cut”: forced a pause in post-production. The com- 2021 Golden Globes This edy, which pivots around the October 1987 ton’s remastered vocals. The album comes Danny Torrance-focused sequel to “The worldwide stock market crash that gives the out Friday, three years after Bennington’s move to Feb. 28 Shining” was a little divisive upon release, series its name, returns 8 p.m. EDT Sunday death. With the COVID-19 pandemic which wasn’t all that surprising. Anyone who with four new weekly episodes starring Don Haim: It’s been three years since sister upending Hollywood traditions, plays with Stanley Kubrick’s iconography Cheadle, Andrew Rannells and Regina Hall. trio Haim have released a new album. On the Hollywood Foreign Press As- is bound to push some buttons. But director Viewers who want to refresh their memory Friday, they will drop “Women In Music Pt. sociation announced Monday that Mike Flanagan did manage the impossible of the season’s first six episodes, or just savor III” (above right), their third studio release, next year’s Golden Globe Awards task of pleasing both Stephen King and the anew Cheadle’s powerhouse performance, which finds middle sis Danielle in the co- would be held on Feb. 28, the date Kubrick estate. And the film does have some can head to Showtime’s streaming service. producer chair (along with frequent collabo- originally slated for the Oscars. undeniable pleasures, including Rebecca The late writer Michelle McNamara’s rators Ariel Rechtshaid and former Vampire Tina Fey and Amy Poehler will Ferguson’s turn as the villain. His three-hour investigation of a serial killer-rapist is ex- Weekender Rostam Batmanglij). The album host for the fourth time at the director’s cut will be available on HBOMax plored in HBO’s “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark,” was supposed to be released in April but got 78th awards ceremony from the starting Friday. a six-part docuseries debuting 10 p.m. EDT pushed back — like most things in the world Beverly Hilton. Further informa- “Athlete A”: Maggie Nichols, aka Athlete Sunday. McNamara, the wife of comedian — because of the coronavirus pandemic. tion around eligibility, voting and A, was the first to bring a sexual abuse alle- Patton Oswalt, had immersed herself in the Jessie Ware: English singer Jessie Ware is revised nominations will be an- gation against former USA Gymnastics team crimes of the so-called Golden State Killer in the sultry love doctor on her fourth album, nounced in the coming weeks. doctor Larry Nassar. More than 500 women the 1970s and ’80s in California. Her posthu- “What’s Your Pleasure?” The project, origi- Last week, the Academy of Mo- would follow. This new Netflix documen- mously published book is the basis of the se- nally to be released on Juneteenth, was tary from filmmakers Bonni Cohen and Jon ries that includes interviews with detectives, moved to Friday in deference to the holiday tion Picture Arts and Sciences Shenk focuses on the survivors, the journal- family members of victims and those who to commemorate the emancipation of slaves announced that it would push ists who broke the story and the failings of survived their attacker. In 2018, a former po- in the U.S. Associated Press critic Cristina back the date of the 93rd Acade- the USAG to protect its young athletes from lice officer was arrested in the case — two Jaleru says the album “delivers on every my Awards from Feb. 28 to April a predator. It’s available Wednesday. months after McNamara’s book. level.” 25 due to coronavirus concerns. — Film Writer Lindsey Bahr — Television Writer Lynn Elber — Music Editor Mesfin Fekadu From wire reports PAGE 16 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Wednesday, June 24, 2020 OPINION Max D. Lederer Jr., Publisher Lt. Col. Marci Hoffman, Europe commander Nuclear micro reactors: A powerful military tool Lt. Col. Richard McClintic, Pacific commander Caroline E. Miller, Europe Business Operations BY NORMAN SEIP homeland, remote control of unmanned erations, we should be concerned that mul- Pacific Chief of Staff Joshua M. Lashbrook, Special to Stars and Stripes aircraft, and maintaining awareness of tilevel crises, including hostile attacks, can emerging threats. These rapid advances in compromise mission assurance. We know EDITORIAL s technological change acceler- technology both enable and threaten these that America’s strategic opponents will ates, the United States military missions. New weapons platforms like directly target these resources in a crisis. Terry Leonard, Editor must undergo a rapid change in electromagnetic railguns, directed energy Cyber attacks against the electricity grid [email protected] Apriorities as competitor nations weapons, drones and networked warfight- could cut power at critical times. But, in an Robert H. Reid, Senior Managing Editor rise, counterinsurgency missions wane, ers will enhance the Air Force’s ability to international crisis, we know that always- [email protected] and threats grow. From my three decades protect the homeland and take the fight to on reactors would add an additional layer in the Air Force, I know that our military the enemy. However, new threats, particu- of protection. Tina Croley, Managing Editor for Content is a global leader in technology, but the rise larly from cyber warfare and space, could One example of a micro reactor that [email protected] of new powers using asymmetric technolo- allow enemies to deny air power to our could support such operations is an innova- gies could threaten that lead. Sean Moores, Managing Editor for Presentation force at mission-critical times. tive new design by Oklo, a nuclear startup [email protected] Just like the shock from the coronavirus The key enabler of these new technologi- that has applied to the Nuclear Regulatory has changed how our American leaders cal advances and threats is energy. These Commission for a commercial power per- Joe Gromelski, Managing Editor for Digital and policymakers view risks from disease technologies all require large amounts of mit to build a small, 1.5 megawatt reactor. [email protected] and pandemics, we must make sure that a energy and power available at a moment’s At only about 15% of the power supplied different, though similarly unanticipated, notice. That means, without new strategic by current-generation commercial power shock does not threaten American military forethought, energy vulnerability for the plants, these small-scale reactors are ap- BUREAU STAFF primacy. Today’s threats include the rising force will only grow as its energy footprint propriate for a remote, always-on opera- power of peer competitors like China and Europe/Mideast grows. The Air Force needs innovation in tion. They are purposely designed to be Erik Slavin, Europe & Mideast Bureau Chief Russia, as well as smaller, unpredictable “passively safe” — meaning that there is [email protected] energy and resilience to ensure it is able to states like Iran or North Korea — which no possibility of a meltdown. Other compa- +49(0)631.3615.9350; DSN (314)583.9350 cannot stand on the same battlefield as the meet its mission. Perhaps the most exciting area of ener- nies are pursuing similar-scale designs. Pacific American military, but can deploy asym- Too often planners have overlooked, metric threats to deal devastating dam- gy innovation that the Air Force can take Aaron Kidd, Pacific Bureau Chief advantage of is in new, advanced nuclear in planning and force protection, access [email protected] age to American power. I saw how our +81.42.552.2511 ext. 88380; DSN (315)227.7380 power. Although the Air Force tested fly- to energy. So many of the advanced tech- military performed under fire and quickly nologies that will be critical to fighting and developed, then employed the strategies of ing nuclear reactors in the 1950s, today’s winning future wars are extremely ener- Washington counterinsurgency in the conflicts of the applications would enable continuous on- Joseph Cacchioli, Washington Bureau Chief gy-intensive; that means winning the wars last two decades; we must work now to en- demand power. [email protected] of the future will require concentrated sure that we are prepared for the contests Earlier this year, the Strategic Capabili- (+1)(202)886-0033 sources of always-on, assured energy. Brian Bowers, Assistant Managing Editor, News of the 21st century. ties Office announced an initiative that will The U.S. military has evolved during [email protected] Technology in the hands of our soldiers, build mobile micro nuclear reactors able to previous periods of near-peer competition sailors, Marines and airmen will determine support their deployed forces. These reac- CIRCULATION who wins those wars of the future. The Na- tors will be designed to provide passively by taking advantage of American techno- safe, but always available, power to our sol- logical leadership in other sectors, whether Mideast tional Defense Strategy, published in 2018, was correct to highlight that “rapid tech- diers. The Air Force can similarly support it was microchips or aircraft design, to en- Robert Reismann, Mideast Circulation Manager sure our nation’s security. 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And ginia and Ohio road trip, a region where American society, namely a vacuum of purchase, use or patronage without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, physical by no means is it only Donald Trump sup- otherwise mask-wearing was very low. trust and moral authority across many do- handicap, political affiliation or any other nonmerit factor porters who are failing to respect appro- Of course, compelling workers to wear mains. As a nation, we desperately need to of the purchaser, user or patron. priate mask norms — Fairfax County went masks is one thing; asking customers to realize that we are failing this test. heavily for Hillary Clinton in 2016. do so is quite another. AMC movie the- © Stars and Stripes 2020 Bloomberg Opinion columnist Tyler Cowen is If public health authorities have not been aters will be reopening in mid-July, and a professor of economics at George Mason stripes.com able to encourage mask-wearing among they now have decided all customers will University . Wednesday, June 24, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 17 OPINION Anti-statue movement has taken an absurd turn BY HENRY OLSEN Deal by citing its promise. The greatest one can turn for intellectual sustenance if The Washington Post speech of the 1960s civil rights revolution, one desires a political regime dedicated the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a to freedom and equality. Just about every he United States’ frenzy of statu- Dream” speech, is a masterful disquisition pre-modern political regime was predi- ary iconoclasm has taken a turn on that immortal principle. It is America’s cated upon the idea that its purported su- into the theater of the absurd. gift to the world. periority justified treating outsiders over TKnocking down or defacing stat- Protesters who tear down statues to whom it ruled as if those people were not ues of national founders or heroes not only brave warriors who fought to more fully human beings. Aztecs murdered their war displays ignorance of history but also as- implement that principle mock and dis- captives as human sacrifices to their gods. saults the principles of Western civilization honor the idea that enables us to become Many Black Africans did not see other that allow for racial progress to continue. a more perfect union. George Washington Black Africans as fellow human beings to Destroying statues is often a part of owned slaves, but he also founded a nation be protected against white slave traders; revolutionary movements. Patriots tore dedicated to the idea whose incompatibil- instead, they simply captured them and down a statue of King George III as the ity with slavery made its eradication inevi- sold them to profit themselves. Mongol American Revolution gained steam, and table. Defacing or toppling his monuments conquest of Russia and China was brutal those seeking freedom from communism’s dishonors the country. More than any man and tyrannical as the warrior clan ruled on vile yoke pulled down the monuments to save Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant destroyed its own and for its own benefit. Almost all their oppressors, Lenin and Stalin. It’s no the Confederacy with his magisterial gen- civilization has been based on inequality surprise, therefore, that the protests over eralship. As president, he tried to extend and tyranny regardless of the color of the the killing of George Floyd have targeted the Civil War’s purpose by presiding over masters’ skin. edifices honoring the heroes of the Confed- the Reconstruction of the South, an effort Modern Western civilization and its rev- eracy. As the Confederacy’s vice president, that was abandoned only after he left of- olutionary ideals, however, have allowed Alexander Stephens, said in his “corner- fice. Toppling his statue — as protesters for the peaceful, pan-racial democracies stone speech,” the Confederacy rested on did in San Francisco, citing a slave whom protesters say they want. The West’s ide- “the great truth, that the negro is not equal Grant was gifted and later freed before the als of universal freedom and human equal- to the white man; that slavery — subordi- war — is ahistorically ludicrous. ity permit it to reform itself peacefully nation to the superior race — is his natu- There are those who say that Western and extend the reality of freedom to fit ral and normal condition.” Monuments to civilization itself ought to be undone — that this revolting sentiment have no place in monuments to people such as these ought the reality of human diversity. We take a a United States that is dedicated to the op- to be destroyed because of their participa- multiethnic, free state for granted, but no posite principle — that all men are created tion in an endeavor that included global such thing had ever existed before modern equal. colonialism and racism. This fever has times. That is the achievement that statues That principle was first politically enun- extended elsewhere, as statues to the Eng- to people such as Washington and Grant ciated in the Declaration of Independence, lish sailor Capt. James Cook, the man who honor, an achievement that makes today’s and it has been America’s cornerstone ever brought knowledge of Australia and New protesters possible. KATHY WILLENS/AP since. All reasonable people acknowledge Zealand to Europe, have been defaced It is easy to destroy; it is hard to build. that it has been inconsistently applied A statue of Theodore Roosevelt on in both countries by people who believe The American edifice that imperfect men throughout our nation’s history, but that horseback guided by a Native American he paved the way for colonialism and the and women have built over the past two principle has been the fuel of every move- man, left, and an African man, right, oppression of indigenous people. British centuries is a solid foundation for the just ment that brought further emancipation. sits in front of the American Museum of Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s cour- nation in which we live and seek to im- The early suffragists explicitly appealed to Natural History on Monday in New York. age saved the world from Nazi barbarism, prove. We must not burn it down in the it at the first women’s rights meeting, the The statue, which was installed in 1940, but his statue in London has also been van- vain hope that a better future can emerge Seneca Falls Convention of 1848. Abraham will be taken down after objections that it dalized for racist statements he once said. from its bonfire. Lincoln opposed slavery under its banner, symbolized colonial expansion and racial It is here that sober minds must pause Henry Olsen is a Washington Post columnist and a and Franklin D. Roosevelt created the New discrimination. and reflect. There is no pure past to which senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. What Democrats get wrong about the 2016 election

BY MATT BAI four years ago soundly rejected Trump’s triggered by his opponent. In the end, len those ranks. Special to The Washington Post anti-immigrant agenda and anti-inclusive some critical slice of voters who thought According to everything we know about message. Only 13% said immigration was Clinton eminently more qualified for the politics, Trump should lose in November. y any conventional measure — the most pressing issue in the country. job couldn’t bring themselves to vote for And he will — unless Democrats, failing election polls, approval ratings, Only 41% bought into his idea of a wall on her. And they decided their only option to learn the right lessons from 2016, insist economic trends, pandemic death the U.S.-Mexico border. was to take a flyer on a guy who seemed on cornering those same disaffected voters rates — President Donald Trump B Fully 70% said Trump’s treatment of manifestly unfit for the job — and destined into backing him again. should be headed for a sound beating in women bothered them “some” or “a lot.” to lose in any event. Joe Biden isn’t Hillary Clinton. He’s a November. More than 6 in 10 said Trump was unqual- There are myriad explanations for the more naturally gifted politician, and what- Point this out to any nervous liberal, ified to be president and lacked the right astounding depth of this anti-Clinton senti- ever his weaknesses, phoniness and elitism though, and you’ll probably hear this re- temperament. Clear majorities thought ment; let’s not relitigate them here. What’s joinder: “But 2016!” Pervasive thinking on Hillary Clinton met both tests. clear is that a lot of white voters thought have never been among them. I thought the left and right holds that Trump surged So what happened? Well, here’s where it Clinton didn’t like them very much — and Biden would have beaten Trump walking four years ago on a wave of invisible sup- gets interesting. her describing them as “deplorables” away had he been the nominee four years port that the pundits completely missed, so Of the 47% of voters who said Clinton didn’t help. ago. of course we’re prone to miss it again. wasn’t qualified to serve, only 5% voted What’s happened since? Certainly noth- There’s really only one way for Trump It’s a fundamental misreading of what for her. That’s about what you’d expect. Of ing to suggest that Trump has managed to to win this election — which is for Demo- happened in 2016. And the problem with the 61% of voters who said the same thing convert his accidental victory into a bur- crats to hand him the all-out culture war misreading elections is that it makes you about Trump, however, 17% ignored their geoning movement. he desperately wants. Biden and his team more likely to repeat your mistakes. judgment and voted for him anyway. The independent voters who narrowly are too smart to fall into that trap. But the There’s something validating, on both In Florida, where Trump won by just went for Trump in 2016 deserted him al- same might not be said for the party’s loud- sides, about the popular narrative of the over a single percentage point, more than most immediately, once they saw their est activists, such as the types who want to 2016 election, this idea that Trump has half the electorate found him unqualified, worst suspicions confirmed. Trump’s ap- abolish police departments and who be- some kind of magnetic, undetected hold on and yet 16% of those voters cast a ballot proval ratings have hovered just over 40% lieve that everyone who voted for Trump is wide swaths of the American electorate. for him. In Pennsylvania, where he won for most of his presidency, which is basi- a closet Confederate. Liberal activists have long suspected by an even slimmer margin, a stunning cally like a football team that goes 6-and- If the fall campaign feels like another that a huge part of white, rural America is 21% of voters who said Trump didn’t have 10 every year. condescending, “us vs. them” indictment irredeemably racist and misogynist — that the right temperament for the job voted to In the only national referendum on of the so-called deplorables, then the same Barack Obama’s two convincing election send him to the White House. Trumpism since 2016 — the midterm cycle wins were an aberration and social prog- In other words, on the night that marked two years later — the president’s party was people who felt trapped into voting for ress mostly an illusion. And Trump sup- his apex in political life, Trump’s margin resoundingly rejected. Trump in 2016 may do it again. And the re- porters love to promote the idea that his of victory came from reluctant voters who Trump is not Ronald Reagan, standing sult, despite all the evidence of his political following is vast and ascendant. They’d almost certainly thought they were voting on the shoulders of a resurgent, main- anemia, could look the same. have you believe Trump ignited some kind for the losing candidate, and who felt confi- stream conservatism. He’s a fringe figure To borrow from the philosopher George of powerful ideological movement in the dent he’d make a terrible president. preaching to a loud minority that can’t fill Santayana: Those who misread elections nation’s overlooked white communities. There was never anything like a ground- an arena in Oklahoma, a state he won by are often bound to relive them. In fact, exit polls from 2016 tell a very swell for Trumpism. In fact, the election more than 35 points in 2016. He emboldens Matt Bai, a Washington Post contributing different story. had strikingly little to do with him at all. an ugly strain of American extremism, but columnist, is a nationally known journalist, Nationally, a clear majority of voters It was mostly about the intense emotions there’s no evidence to suggest he has swol- author and screenwriter. 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Monday’s transactions Associated Press Zadar and said Monday he has also tested positive. BASEBALL BELGRADE, Serbia — Novak Major League Baseball There were no social distancing Djokovic tested positive for the American League measures observed at the match- CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Signed LHP coronavirus on Tuesday after Garrett Crochet to a minor league con- es in either country and Djokovic tract. taking part in a tennis exhibition and other players were seen hug- National League series he organized in Serbia and CHICAGO CUBS — Signed SS Ed How- ging each other and partying in ard. Croatia. BASKETBALL night clubs and restaurants after National Basketball Association The top-ranked Serb is the the matches. NBA — Named both Malik Rose and fourth player to test positive for David Booth Vice President, Basketball “Everything we did in the past Operations. the virus after first playing in month, we did with a pure heart FOOTBALL Belgrade and then again last National Football League and sincere intentions,” Djokovic DALLAS COWBOYS — Announced QB weekend in Zadar, Croatia. His said. “Our tournament meant to Dak Prescott signed franchise tender. SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Signed T wife also tested positive. unite and share a message of soli- Colton McKivitz to a four-year contract. “The moment we arrived in DARKO VOJINOVIC/AP NEW YORK JETS — Signed WR Denzel darity and compassion through- Mims. Belgrade we went to be tested. My out the region.” Serbia’s Novak Djokovic, center, poses on June 14 with volunteers TENNESSEE TITANS — Agreed to terms result is positive, just as Jelena’s, Djokovic, who has previously with QB Cole McDonald on a four-year and players after the Adria Tour charity tournament in Belgrade, contract. while the results of our children said he was against taking a vac- Serbia. The top-ranked Serb is the fourth player to test positive for SOCCER are negative,” Djokovic said in a cine for the virus even if it be- Major League Soccer the virus after first playing in Belgrade and then again last weekend PORTLAND TIMBERS — Signed D Zac statement. came mandatory to travel, was McGraw to a one-year contract. Djokovic has been criticized for in Zadar, Croatia. His wife Jelena also tested positive. National Women’s Soccer League the face behind the Adria Tour, SKY BLUE FC — Signed M Sabrina organizing the tournament and a series of exhibition events that Flores to a two-year contract. Signed D thropic idea, to direct all raised still present, and it is a new re- Chantelle Swaby to a short term contract bringing in players from other started in the Serbian capital and for the NWSL Challenge Cup. countries amid the coronavirus then moved to Zadar. funds towards people in need and ality that we are still learning to pandemic. He left Croatia after the final it warmed my heart to see how cope and live with.” Viktor Troicki said Tuesday was canceled and was tested everybody strongly responded Djokovic said he will remain in that he and his pregnant wife in Belgrade. The statement to this,” Djokovic said. “We or- self-isolation for 14 days and also Orlando Pride have both been diagnosed with said Djokovic was showing no ganized the tournament at the apologized to anyone who became the virus, while Grigor Dimitrov, symptoms. moment when the virus has infected as a result of the series. a three-time Grand Slam semifi- Despite the positive test, weakened, believing that the con- Organizers of the Adria Tour pull out from nalist from Bulgaria, said Sunday Djokovic defended the exhibition ditions for hosting the Tour had said the third stage of the event, he tested positive. Borna Coric series. been met. scheduled to held next week in NWSL event played Dimitrov on Saturday in “It was all born with a philan- “Unfortunately, this virus is Bosnia, has been canceled. Associated Press The Orlando Pride have with- drawn from the upcoming Na- Briefl y tional Women’s Soccer League tournament after six players and four staff members tested posi- tive for COVID-19. Prescott signs $31.4 million franchise tender The NWSL is the first U.S. pro- fessional team sport scheduled Wire reports this most unusual year won’t have FSU president asks Oklahoma State would return to to return amid the coronavirus spectators. its past success. DALLAS — Dallas Cowboys pandemic. The month-long Chal- The PGA Championship, origi- to review name change quarterback Dak Prescott has of- lenge Cup tournament is set to nally scheduled for May 14-17 in ficially gone from being the best The president of Florida State University of Cincinnati start Saturday in Utah. San Francisco, now is set for Aug. bargain in the NFL to having the University is asking the school to removing Schott’s name Another round of testing will richest one-year contract in fran- 6-9 and will be the first of three conduct an internal review amid take place to confirm the results, chise history. majors this year. The U.S. Open growing support to change the The University of Cincinnati is the league said in announcing the That much is guaranteed after moved from June to Sept. 17-20 name of its football stadium. removing Marge Schott’s name positive tests Monday. Because Prescott signed the exclusive in New York, with the Masters “I’ve been following with great from its baseball stadium and a of the number of positive results franchise tender of $31.4 mil- moving to November two weeks interest the petitions circulat- library archive in light of her rac- and the short time before the lion on Monday, as had been before Thanksgiving. The British ing on social media that Doak ist comments while owner of the start of the tournament, the Pride expected. Open was canceled. S. Campbell, FSU’s president in Cincinnati Reds. withdrew. Prescott and the Cowboys 1947 during its transition from the The school’s board of trustees The names of the players and could still reach a long-term ar- Liberty football players Florida State College for Women, unanimously approved the move staffers who tested positive were rangement that would make him enter transfer portal resisted integration and asking Tuesday, 12 days after a Catholic not released. the richest player in NFL history; that his name be removed from high school also decided to re- Among those on the Pride’s ros- however, such a deal would need LYNCHBURG, Va. — Three the stadium that bears his name,” move references to Schott from ter are U.S. national team players to be executed by July 15. football players at Liberty Uni- FSU president John Thrasher its facilities. Ali Krieger, Ashlyn Harris and The Cowboys placed the tag versity say they have entered the said in a statement on Twitter. “Marge Schott’s record of rac- Emily Sonnett, as well as Brazil- transfer portal, with two of them on Prescott on March 18. He ism and bigotry stands at stark ian star Marta. citing “racial insensitivity” by the had refused to sign the tag and Top recruit says he’ll odds with our university’s core The players who tested positive boycotted the Cowboys’ virtual university’s leadership or similar commitment to dignity, equity were asymptomatic. They will offseason program, which ended reasons for their decisions. stay at Oklahoma State and inclusion,” said school Presi- be isolated for 14 days and those last week, as leverage in contin- Kei’Trel Clark and Tayvion Cade Cunningham, one of the dent Neville G. Pinto, who recom- they’ve come in contact with will ued negotiations.. Land, both sophomore defen- nation’s top basketball recruits, mended the change. be monitored. sive backs, and senior linebacker has chosen to remain at Okla- A person with knowledge of PGA Championship Waylen Cozad all announced homa State despite the program Mavs guard Lee out the situation said Monday that a confirms no fans their intentions on Twitter. Clark being banned from the 2021 group of Orlando players had not and Land, who are Black, cited postseason. with calf injury maintained social distancing pro- Brooks Koepka will try to racial or cultural concerns with Cunningham won the Naismith tocols and went to a bar or night- become the first player to win the leadership at the evangelical High School Trophy given to the Veteran guard Courtney Lee club. It is not clear if that was tied the PGA Championship three school. nation’s best player. He is No. 1 in will be sidelined when the Dal- to the positive tests. The person straight times in stroke play, and Nine players, including three the Rivals and 247Sports recruit- las Mavericks are scheduled to spoke to The Associated Press there won’t be anyone at Harding on scholarship, have transferred ing rankings for his class and No. resume organized workouts next on the condition of anonymity Park to cheer him on. or had their names removed from 2 in the ESPN 100. The 6-foot-7 week. T he Mavericks said Mon- because the information was not The PGA of America con- the roster shortly after players point guard was the key piece of day night that Lee hurt his left made public. firmed Monday the first major of returned to campus on June 1. a class that gave fans hope that calf during the NBA hiatus. Wednesday, June 24, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 21 MLB/COLLEGE BASEBALL Plan: Owners set July 1 as date to begin training

FROM BACK PAGE 12, two weeks ahead of scheduled openers, with the 60-game schedule in ballparks and the sides have reverted to the familiar without fans if the final arrangements can financial infighting that fractured the sport be put in place, a person familiar with the in the past. An initial deal March 26 called decision told The Associated Press. The for players to receive prorated salaries and person spoke on the condition of anonymity gave Manfred power to set the schedule, because no announcement had been made. but that agreement did not require MLB to MLB asked the union to respond by 5 play in ballparks without fans. p.m. EDT Tuesday as to whether players Teams sought additional salary conces- can report to training by July 1 and wheth- sions, claiming they would lose $640,000 er the players’ association will agree on the for each additional regular-season game. operating manual of health and safety pro- The union was skeptical, requested ad- tocols. The schedule would be the shortest ditional documents and said it did not re- since the National League’s third season. ceive enough to evaluate the true financial Given the need for three days of virus picture. Players refused to budge from their in- testing and 21 days of workouts, opening ALICIA DEVINE, TALLAHASSEE DEMOCRAT/AP day likely would be during the final week sistence on prorated salaries, and MLB of July. MLB already has started to in- finally agreed to that last week during the Florida State outfielder Elijah Cabell bats against Cincinnati on Feb. 21 in Tallahassee, vestigate charter flights that could bring one-on-one meeting between Manfred and Fla. If all had gone as he hoped, Cabell and his Florida State teammates would be players back from Latin America, another Clark. While Manfred called it a frame- playing for the College World Series championship this week. person told the AP, also on the condition work for an agreement, Clark said it was of anonymity because no announcements merely a proposal and further angered were made. MLB. The union announced its rejection, and At that point, the sides remained about the vote total was confirmed by a person $275 million apart after weeks of talks. MLB offered 60 games and $1.48 billion College players find it familiar with that meeting who spoke to the AP on the condition of anonymity from salaries that originally totaled $4 bil- because the balloting was not made pub- lion, plus a $25 million postseason players’ lic. The decision likely will provoke what pool. The union wanted 70 games and $1.73 figures to be lengthy and costly litigation billion plus a $50 million pool. over the impact of the coronavirus on the Players are expected to file a grievance, difficult to stay sharp sport, similar to the collusion cases that claiming MLB violated a provision in the March agreement requiring both sides to sent baseball spiraling to a spring training BY ERIC OLSON “work in good faith to as soon as is prac- demic. Ramping up should not be a quick lockout in 1990 and a 7 ½-month strike in Associated Press process, Lee said, because dormant play- 1994-95 that wiped out the World Series for ticable commence play, and complete the fullest 2020 championship season and ers are estimated to expend less than half the first time in nine decades. f all had gone as he hoped, Elijah Ca- the energy they normally would each day It also eliminates a $25 million postsea- postseason that is economically feasible” bell and his Florida State teammates consistent with several provisions. MLB is because of pandemic restrictions keeping son players’ pool, meaning players will not would have been playing for the Col- them at home. get paid anything above meal money dur- expected to file a grievance accusing the lege World Series championship this union of negotiating in bad faith. I Lee said Clemson probably will spend ing the playoffs and World Series, and the week. Arbitrator Mark Irvings would hear the eight weeks this fall simply reintroducing clubs’ offer to forgive $33 million in sal- Instead, Cabell treks to a ballfield in his the fundamentals of practicing and pro- ary advanced to 769 players at the bottom case. If the union proves a longer schedule neighborhood in Winter Park, Fla., most had been feasible, each game on the sched- ceed slowly in weight training. of the salary scale with lower rates of pay days to work on his game in solitude. “We’re basically going to start from while in the minors: $16,500, $30,000 or ule would be worth $25 million in salary He hits baseballs off a tee into a net. He across the 30 teams. ground zero,” he said. “We’ll make sure $60,000 for each of them. plays long toss by himself, throwing balls they’re ready to play baseball before we “It’s absolute death for this industry to out to a fence until his bucket is empty, start playing baseball. Everybody is going keep acting as it has been. Both sides,” picking them up and doing it again. Some- to be gung-ho about getting right back in Cincinnati pitcher Trevor Bauer tweeted times his grandpa throws batting practice and playing baseball again, but if we do in a rare instance of a player criticizing the and they play catch. Other times, guys he that, I’m afraid we’re going to have a spike union. “We’re driving the bus straight off a grew up with stop by and hit him flyballs in injuries.” cliff. How is this good for anyone involved? and grounders. Meanwhile, some of the nation’s top play- Covid 19 already presented a lose lose lose “You have to improvise,” the Seminoles ers do their best to stay sharp. situation and we’ve somehow found a way outfielder said. “That’s what I’ve been Oregon State second baseman Jake Du- to make it worse. Incredible.” doing, staying socially distanced and hav- kart and his brother, Thomas, who will join Teams lose what would have been a new ing fun doing my own thing.” the Beavers as an outfielder in the fall, lift right to sell advertising patches on uni- College players across the country have and do baseball drills together and their forms, broadcast enhancements such as been mostly idle since their seasons abrupt- dad throws batting practice at a field near having players wear microphones during ly ended in mid-March as the nation began their house. games and a 2020 suspension of the luxury feeling the full impact of COVID-19. Minnesota second baseman Zack Raabe tax that for a 60-game season projected They went home, took their classes on- works out at a family friend’s home gym in to save the New York Yankees $8.5 mil- line and were left to their own devices for Forest Lake, Minn., and has his dad throw lion, Houston $3 million, the Los Angeles strength and conditioning and baseball BP in a cage set up in another friend’s pole Dodgers $434,000 and the Chicago Cubs training. Though coaches stay in contact barn. $116,000. and give them programs to follow, players Florida outfielder Jud Fabian takes BP Manfred loses what would have been an might not get the full benefit because gyms in a cage in his family’s attic and catches additional $60 million to the commission- in their hometowns have been closed. Op- fly balls in a vacant lot behind his house er’s discretionary fund. portunities to get live at-bats or to face live in Ocala, Fla., prompting neighbors to call The union said in a statement that the batters are limited because most summer the Fabians “the sandlot family.” “board reaffirmed the players’ eagerness leagues are shut down. Ohio State pitcher Seth Lonsway splits to return to work as soon and as safely as Clemson coach Monte Lee said his staff’s his time between Columbus and his home- possible.” primary concern has been figuring out town of Celina, Ohio, and drives to a Cin- “To that end we anticipate finalizing a how to reintroduce the rhythm of baseball cinnati-area training facility twice a week. comprehensive set of health and safety pro- life to players when they return to campus, He also goes back to his high school to do tocols with Major League Baseball in the hopefully in August. additional work. Lonsway said the down coming days, and we await word from the Players have said they expect fall prac- time is not entirely a negative thing. league on the resumption of spring train- tices to be more intense and competitive “A lot of guys, myself included, save a ing camps and a proposed 2020 schedule,” because everyone will be eager to go after year of wear and tear on the body,” he said. JULIO CORTEZ/AP the union said. the layoff. “Pro teams and college teams are looking While the framework had included the Nationals pitcher Sean Doolittle delivers Not so fast, Lee said. at it like, ‘OK, we missed the whole season, expanded playoffs for both 2020 and 2021, during the fifth inning of a spring training Lee has studied how NFL and Major but players can use this time to get their Manfred offered to drop it from the second game against the Yankees on March 12 League Baseball teams have prepared bodies back to 100% and not tear up their season if players feared it would decrease in West Palm Beach, Fla. Spring training their players to return after seasons have bodies like they would in a regular season.’ their future bargaining leverage. was shut down later that day due to the been paused because of labor disputes, the You can attack things you want to work Spring training was suspended on March coronavirus pandemic. closest comparison he can find to the pan- on.” PAGE 22 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Wednesday, June 24, 2020 BASKETBALL Raptors arrive in Florida

Toronto is first team to start preparing for NBA restart next month

BY TIM REYNOLDS tional Women’s Soccer League this initial level of access will take Associated Press tournament on Monday after six place in a safe, controlled, and players and four staff members healthy way,” the Raptors said in MIAMI — The Toronto Rap- tested positive for COVID-19. a team statement. tors arrived in southwest Florida What awaits the Raptors is a All group workouts and the of- on Monday, set to begin their different setup than what will ficial start of training camp for preparations for next month’s re- be the case for the other 21 NBA the resumed season will occur start of the NBA season. teams that will be participating at Disney. Individual voluntary If the Raptors return to the NBA in the restart at Disney. Other workouts are resuming this week, Finals, they could be in Florida teams will be working out at their and Tuesday is the start of NBA- for nearly four full months. home facilities, but as the NBA’s mandated coronavirus testing for The reigning NBA champions lone team from outside the U.S., players and essential staff of all will start training for the season the Raptors would have had some 22 of the Disney-bound teams. restart later this week at Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort logistical difficulties in having The Raptors were 46-18 when Myers, making that school their players gather in Toronto to pre- the season was halted on March home base until they head north pare for the trip to Disney. 11 because of the coronavirus to the Disney complex near Or- Under Canadian rules, Raptors pandemic. When play resumes lando, Fl a., around July 7. They players who have been in the U.S. July 30, they will hold a three- landed in Fort Myers on Monday would have had to quarantine for game lead over Boston in the race afternoon, then boarded buses for 14 days upon their return to To- for the No. 2 seed in the Eastern JOHN LOCHER/AP ronto, so the team decided to hold Conference playoffs. the team hotel. The Mystics’ Natasha Cloud and her WNBA colleagues continue Toronto’s arrival comes as its pre-camp workouts in the U.S. If the Raptors were to make the It’ll all take place with very strict NBA Finals and if that series went to be active in the fight against social injustice and police brutality. Florida is dealing with a signifi- Cloud has opted not to participate in the WNBA season. cant spike in positive coronavirus rules to keep players safe, with the full seven games, they would test results over the past week. access to workouts strictly lim- be playing in Florida as late as The Disney complex, about a 2 ½- ited to essential team personnel. Oct. 13, according to the league’s hour drive from the Fort Myers “In keeping with NBA and team current proposed plan for the re- 2 Mystics opt out area, is set to play host to both the safety protocols, there will be no started season. The league and NBA and MLS next month. group workouts during this phase the National Basketball Players And the Orlando Pride with- of return to play, and strict proto- Association are working this week drew from the upcoming Na- cols have been designed to ensure to finalize remaining details. of WNBA season

Wizards’ Bertans to sit out restart BY HOWARD FENDRICH Associated Press ‘ I have a responsibility to myself, to my BY HOWARD FENDRICH AND TIM REYNOLDS WASHINGTON — Washington Associated Press Mystics players Natasha Cloud community, and to my and LaToya Sanders are opting future children to fight WASHINGTON — Washington Wizards forward out of participating in the 2020 Davis Bertans will skip the Disney-based resump- WNBA season for the league’s for something that tion of the NBA season, making him the first known reigning champions. is much bigger than example of a healthy, eligible player sitting out. In a social media posting Mon- Bertans can become an unrestricted free agent day, Cloud cited a desire to “fight myself and the game this offseason and is expected to command a big con- on the front lines for social re- of basketball. tract as one of the league’s top three-point shooters. form,” while Sanders explained ’ Washington general manager Tommy Sheppard in a statement issued by the club Natasha Cloud Mystics player told The Associated Press on Monday that Bertans that taking the season off “is had informed the team of his decision. The Wizards what’s best for my health and are allowed to sign a replacement player for Ber- family.” tans as early as Tuesday, and Sheppard said the club Their announcements follow “We’re trying to do our best “will look at it closely.” those of other WNBA players who to make sure we have an action Bertans’ plan to miss the remaining games was have said they won’t be a part of plan for this week, next month, first reported by ESPN. plans for a 22-game schedule that two months from now, six months In his first season with Washington after being would begin in late July in Flori- from now,” Cloud said recently. acquired from the San Antonio Spurs as part of a da without spectators because of “I hate when they are a fad. Once three-team deal in July 2019, the 6-foot-10, 225- the coronavirus pandemic. it fades away, people don’t talk pound forward from Latvia was averaging 3.7 made Jonquel Jones, the star center about it. This is the life of every threes per game, tied for fourth in the NBA when who helped the Connecticut Sun black American in this country play was suspended because of the coronavirus out- reach last season’s WNBA Fi- that doesn’t go away. break. He was shooting 42.4% from beyond the arc. nals, is going to sit out because “We can’t take off the color of His 200 total threes in 2019-20 rank seventh in of concerns about the COVID-19 our skin. ... It’s extremely impor- the NBA and — in just 54 games — put him 23 from NICK WASS/AP outbreak, while Atlanta Dream tant we use our platform and give tying Bradley Beal’s Wizards franchise record for guard Renee Montgomery is Wizards forward Davis Bertans will skip the back to our people. Do what we makes in a season. missing the season to focus on so- can so that change does happen.” Orlando-based resumption of the NBA season. He cial justice issues. The 27-year-old was averaging 15.4 points, 4.5 re- Mystics coach and general bounds and 1.7 assists as a reserve for Washington is the first known example of a healthy, eligible “There’s a lot of factors that manager Mike Thibault said when the season was halted in March. player sitting out. led to this decision, but the big- the team respects both players’ The league intends to resume its season in late gest being that I am more than decisions. July with 22 of 30 teams playing eight games apiece to any disciplinary action from the league for choos- an athlete. I have a responsibil- in a “bubble” set up at Disney’s ESPN Wide World of ing not to play. ity to myself, to my community, Cloud and Sanders each has Sports complex near Orlando, Fla., before the play- The National Basketball Players Association and and to my future children to fight been with Washington for five offs begin there in mid-August. the NBA have been in agreement for some time that for something that is much big- seasons. Bertans is in the second season of a $14.5 million, any player who does not feel safe being part of the ger than myself and the game of “Her commitment to social two-year contract he signed when he was with the restart would not have to participate. basketball,” Cloud, Washington’s justice issues is of utmost impor- Spurs, and based on his $7 million salary this sea- The Wizards are 24-40 and in ninth place in the career leader in assists, wrote on tance to her and, therefore, to the son, he would be forfeiting around $600,000 in gross Eastern Conference. That puts them 5 ½ games social media. “I will instead, con- Mystics organization,” Thibault salary for the eight games that he definitely would behind the Orlando Magic, who currently hold the tinue the fight on the front lines said of Cloud. “We will continue be missing. eighth and final playoff spot in the East. for social reform, because until to be partners with her and all of If the Wizards were to reach the playoffs, the total But the NBA’s format for the restart of the season black lives matter, all lives can’t our players on their commitment lost salary could rise to as much as approximately gives Washington some more playoff hope, because matter.” to social justice reform as we $900,000, depending on how many games Washing- it only will need to shave 1 ½ games off that gap to She added four hashtags to the go forward into this season and ton plays. reach a play-in series that will determine the No. 8 message, including “#Togeth- beyond.” Bertans would be classified as an “excused play- seed in the East. erWeStand,” “#illbeback” and Players have until Thursday to er,” which means he forfeits salary but is not subject Reynolds reported from Miami. “#2021.” opt out of the season. Wednesday, June 24, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 23 AUTO RACING Display is a shift from sport’s checkered past Blaney’s second consecutive win at Talladega overshadowed by drivers’ pre-race show of support for Wallace BY JOHN ZENOR Scoreboard Associated Press TALLADEGA, Ala. — Even in victory, Ryan Blaney thought GEICO 500 about what happened to close Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series friend Bubba Wallace over the Monday At Talladega Superspeedway weekend. And what happened Talladega, Ala. afterward. Lap length: 2.66 miles (Start position in parentheses) Blaney held onto the lead after 1. (12) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 191 laps, 54 a restart with two laps to go Mon- points. 2. (20) Ricky Stenhouse Jr, Chevrolet, day, earning his second straight 191, 45. win at Talladega Superspeedway 3. (15) Aric Almirola, Ford, 191, 34. 4. (2) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 191, 33. on a day that began with NAS- 5. (18) Erik Jones, Toyota, 191, 32. CAR drivers throwing their sup- 6. (21) Chris Buescher, Ford, 191, 33. 7. (8) Alex Bowman, Chevrolet, 191, port behind Wallace. 39. “I think it’s great that every- 8. (22) John H. Nemechek, Ford, 191, 29. body really came together,” 9. (7) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 191, 31. Blaney said. “I don’t want it to be 10. (5) Kevin Harvick, Ford, 191, 27. 11. (19) William Byron, Chevrolet, 191, remembered as a terrible day or a 28. bad day in NASCAR. 12. (33) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet, 191, 25. 13. (4) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 191, “I want it to be remembered as 31. 14. (24) Bubba Wallace, Chevrolet, 191, there was an incident and we all 27. overcame it together and showed 15. (31) Ryan Preece, Chevrolet, 191, 22. that we’re not going to take it any 16. (25) Corey Lajoie, Ford, 191, 21. more.” 17. (9) Joey Logano, Ford, 191, 33. 18. (26) Michael McDowell, Ford, 191, It was that kind of bittersweet 19. day and weekend. 19. (6) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 191, 29. 20. (16) Tyler Reddick, Chevrolet, 191, Blaney nipped Ricky Stenhouse 27. Jr. at the finish line by .007 sec- 21. (39) Brendan Gaughan, Chevrolet, 191, 16. onds for his fourth win and first 22. (28) Cole Custer, Ford, 191, 18. since Talladega in October, albeit 23. (1) Martin Truex Jr, Toyota, 191, 14. this time before a mostly empty 24. (14) Ryan Newman, Ford, 191, 13. PHOTOS BY JOHN BAZEMORE/AP 25. (10) Clint Bowyer, Ford, 190, 12. venue. It was a race marked by 26. (23) Matt DiBenedetto, Ford, 190, 11. support for Wallace instead of Driver Bubba Wallace, left, is overcome with emotion as team owner Richard Petty comforts him as he 27. (32) Quin Houff, Chevrolet, 190, 10. another Big One at Talladega, arrives at his car in the pits Monday at the Talladega Superspeedway in Talladega Ala. 28. (37) Daniel Suarez, Toyota, 190, 9. 29. (35) Christopher Bell, Toyota, 190, though there was mayhem be- 14. hind Blaney on the final lap and watched all the people jump up — a move NASCAR President 30. (29) Gray Gaulding, Ford, 190, 0. 31. (30) BJ McLeod, Chevrolet, 190, 0. he also pushed Erik Jones into and cheer,” he said. “That was Steve Phelps insisted would hap- 32. (3) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 189, 19. the wall near the finish. pretty cool.” pen should they be caught. 33. (38) Timmy Hill, Toyota, 185, 0. 34. (40) Garrett Smithley, Ford, 185, 0. “Just trying to block, block The stock car series was left The race began with Martin 35. (27) Brennan Poole, Chevrolet, ac- the best we could,” Blaney said. reeling and angered by the racist Truex Jr. on the pole, and Tyler cident, 178, 2. 36. (34) JJ Yeley, Chevrolet, 178, 0. “Block the top, block the bottom act that came less than two weeks Reddick won the first stage, 37. (36) Joey Gase, Chevrolet, acci- ... just beating and banging to the after it banned the Confederate which ended in a weather caution dent, 141, 0. 38. (11) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, acci- line.” flag on its properties at Wallace’s that lasted 58-plus minutes. dent, 135, 3. Aric Almirola spun at the urging. It has vowed to perma- The crowd had dwindled sig- 39. (17) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, acci- dent, 133, 1. end and crossed the line almost nently bar the person respon- nificantly from Sunday, when up 40. (13) Matt Kenseth, Chevrolet, ga- backward. sible, but the investigation was in to 5,000 fans were allowed into rage, 127, 1. Race statistics Ford has now won nine of the its early stages. Talladega — only the second Race winner’s average speed: 146.936 last 10 Cup races at Talladega, The 26-year-old Wallace was race with fans since NASCAR re- mph. Race time: 3 hours, 27 minutes, 28 sec- and all three Team Penske driv- surrounded by all 39 other driv- turned from the pandemic-forced onds. ers have won this season. ers in the moments before the shutdown. Workers painted Margin of victory: 0.007 seconds. Caution flags: 8 for 33 laps. The racing was overshadowed race and they were joined by their “#IStandWithBubbaWallace” on Lead changes: 57 among 19 drivers. Lap leaders: M.Truex 0-4; D.Hamlin by an extraordinary act of soli- crews in a march down pit road as the infield grass before the race . 5-7; J.Logano 8-10; D.Hamlin 11-14; darity with NASCAR’s only Black they pushed his No. 43 to the front In the stands, fan Luke John- J.Logano 15-17; D.Hamlin 18-22; J.Logano 23-26; M.DiBenedetto 27; J.Logano 28-35; driver. Dozens of drivers pushed of the line. Wallace climbed out of son said he is against the flag ban, Ky.Busch 36; J.Logano 37-39; W.Byron 40; Wallace’s car to the front of the his car and wept. saying: “All the NASCAR tracks D.Hamlin 41-42; J.Logano 43; D.Hamlin 44-45; A.Bowman 46; J.Logano 47-49; field before Monday’s race as FBI It was a stirring move to sup- need to keep on flying them.” A.Bowman 50; J.Logano 51; T.Reddick agents tried to find out who left a port Wallace at a track in the As for the noose left for Wal- 52; J.Logano 53-55; T.Reddick 56-60; R.Newman 61; A.Bowman 62-64; R.Blaney noose in his garage stall over the Ryan Blaney celebrates heart of the South where Confed- lace, he said: “I thought it was 65; J.Johnson 66; Ky.Busch 67; R.Blaney weekend. winning Monday’s NASCAR erate flags have flown for decades funny myself.” 68-69; Ky.Busch 70-71; R.Blaney 72-73; Ky.Busch 74; R.Blaney 75-96; B.Poole He was emotional after spend- Cup Series race at Talladega and were seen outside the super- Another fan, Robert Chaisson, 97; R.Blaney 98-105; R.Stenhouse 106; ing time in the top five before Superspeedway. speedway all weekend long. said he didn’t have a strong opin- R.Blaney 107-111; R.Stenhouse 112; R.Blaney 113-118; R.Stenhouse 119- running short on fuel and finish- Standing alongside Wallace for ion on the ban. He certainly did 121; C.Buescher 122-125; K.Harvick 126; ing 14th, slapping hands with a going to take away my smile. I am the national anthem was Rich- on what happened to Wallace. R.Preece 127; C.Elliott 128-130; D.Hamlin 131; R.Blaney 132-142; C.Bell 143-146; group of mostly African-Ameri- going to keep on going.” ard Petty, the 82-year-old Hall “That was messed up. I hope D.Hamlin 147; J.Logano 148-150; W.Byron can fans. Wallace took the lead for a lap of Fame driver known as “The they charge that guy with a hate 151-160; B.Wallace 161; J.Logano 162; R.Preece 163-164; A.Bowman 165-171; “I’m proud to stand where I’m at one point, and Stenhouse said King.” Wallace drives for Petty, crime,” Chaisson, who lives in T.Reddick 172-184; R.Blaney 185-189; at. ... This sport is changing,” he noticed the fan reaction, along who issued a scathing rebuke Alabaster, Ala. , said. “It doesn’t K.Harvick 190; R.Blaney 191 Leaders summary (driver, times led, Wallace said. “The deal that hap- with the chants of “Bubba” at the after the noose was found that matter what your opinion is, it’s laps led): R.Blaney, 10 times for 63 laps; pened (Saturday) I wanted to start. called for the “sick person” to be when you cross that line, then J.Logano, 11 times for 33 laps; T.Reddick, 3 times for 19 laps; D.Hamlin, 7 times for show whoever it was, you are not “I looked at the stands and expelled from NASCAR forever your opinion no longer matters. ” 18 laps; A.Bowman, 4 times for 12 laps; W.Byron, 2 times for 11 laps; R.Stenhouse, 3 times for 5 laps; Ky.Busch, 4 times for 5 laps; C.Buescher, 1 time for 4 laps; Sonoma Raceway president says noose found in tree M.Truex, 2 times for 4 laps; C.Bell, 1 time for 4 laps; R.Preece, 2 times for 3 laps; C.Elliott, 1 time for 3 laps; K.Harvick, 2 times for 2 laps; J.Johnson, 1 time for 1 lap; Associated Press B.Wallace, 1 time for 1 lap; R.Newman, 1 hind a former administrative office, news out- The discovery at Sonoma, the biggest auto time for 1 lap; M.DiBenedetto, 1 time for lets reported. racing venue in the Bay Area, came before 1 lap; B.Poole, 1 time for 1 lap. SONOMA, Calif. — A makeshift noose was Wins: D.Hamlin, 3; K.Harvick, 2; Page said the incident was under investiga- a noose was found in the garage of NASCAR J.Logano, 2; B.Keselowski, 2; R.Blaney, 1; found hanging from a tree at the Sonoma tion by the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Depart- driver Bubba Wallace on Sunday at Talladega C.Elliott, 1; M.Truex, 1; A.Bowman, 1. Raceway in California and officials said they Top 16 in points: 1. K.Harvick, 490; 2. ment. He also said he has asked staff and Superspeedway in Alabama. Wallace is the J.Logano, 467; 3. R.Blaney, 465; 4. C.Elliott, are investigating the incident. on-site business tenants to share any informa- only full-time Black driver in NASCAR. 458; 5. B.Keselowski, 441; 6. D.Hamlin, 428; 7. M.Truex, 424; 8. A.Bowman, 419; Raceway President Steve Page said a “piece tion or “any possible alternative explanation.” Wallace has been a prominent activist in the 9. Ky.Busch, 378; 10. Ku.Busch, 369; 11. of twine tied in what appeared to be a noose” J.Johnson, 353; 12. A.Almirola, 337; 13. Sonoma was closed over the weekend due sport and was instrumental in calling on NAS- C.Bowyer, 328; 14. W.Byron, 319; 15. was found hanging from a tree Saturday be- the coronavirus pandemic. CAR to ban Confederate flags at its events. M.DiBenedetto, 312; 16. T.Reddick, 306. S TARS AND STRIPES Wednesday, June 24, 2020 F3HIJKLM Backing Bubba Wallace overcome as NASCAR SPORTS stands behind him » Page 23

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