Anguish, Again, in Streets SEE AFN on PAGE 3 Dismay Over Decision Not to Charge Officers in Woman’S Death Pours Into Protests
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MOVIES: Filmmakers struggle with slavery films Page 19 FOOD: Oishi Sushi a catch in Stuttgart Page 25 COLLEGE FOOTBALL TRAVEL: Snow monkeys Coronavirus reins in traditions fun in any weather Page 28 Back page stripes.com Volume 79, No. 115 ©SS 2020 Fr iday, Sept ember 25, 2020 $1.00 Free AFN TV BREONNA TAYLOR ends Sunday at Army housing in Germany BY JENNIFER H. SVAN Stars and Stripes Free American Forces Network television broadcast via cable ends this weekend for U.S. soldiers and their families living on Army posts in Germany. The end of the automatic AFN programming, which includes college and professional sports as well as popular stateside shows, comes after the Army in Europe decided this year not to renew a contract for the service in Ger- many, officials said. Individual commands will evaluate whether they’ll continue funding the service in the bar- racks for their soldiers, the Army said this year. As of Thursday, officials could not say whether any units planned to do so or how such a funding mechanism would work. Many units are working through the process, a U.S. Army Europe spokeswoman said. Programming should end sometime Sunday, said Mark Heeter, a spokesman for Instal- lation Management Command- Europe. That coincides with the end of a five-year, $7.3 million contract between IMCOM-Eu- rope and cable service provider TKS to pay for AFN television programming on post. Anguish, again, in streets SEE AFN ON PAGE 3 Dismay over decision not to charge officers in woman’s death pours into protests BY DYLAN LOVAN, PIPER HUDSPETH BLACKBURN A woman speaks home during a narcotics investigation in March. The AND JOHN MINCHILLO during a protest officers had a no-knock warrant but the investigation Associated Press Wednesday showed they announced themselves before entering, in Louisville, said state Attorney General Daniel Cameron, a Repub- LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Anger, frustration and sadness Ky. A grand lican and the state’s first Black top prosecutor. over the decision not to charge Kentucky police officers jury indicted A grand jury returned three charges of wanton en- for Breonna Taylor’s death poured into U.S. streets as one officer on dangerment Wednesday against fired Officer Brett protesters lashed out at a criminal justice system they charges of wanton say is stacked against Black people. Violence seized the endangerment Hankison over shooting into a home next to Taylor’s Soldiers and families living on demonstrations in Taylor’s hometown of Louisville as six months after with people inside. U.S. Army bases in Germany gunfire rang out and wounded two police officers. Breonna Taylor Hundreds of demonstrators chanted Taylor’s name will stop receiving free American Activists, celebrities and everyday Americans have was fatally shot and marched in cities including New York, Washing- Forces Network television been calling for charges since Taylor, an emergency by police. ton, Philadelphia, Las Vegas and Portland, Ore. services as of Sunday. medical worker, was shot multiple times by white offi- U.S. Army cers after one of them was shot while bursting into her JOHN MINCHILLO/AP SEE ANGUISH ON PAGE 9 PAGE 2 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, September 25, 2020 BUSINESS/WEATHER EUROPE GAS PRICES EXCHANGE RATES Country Super E10 Super unleaded Super plus Diesel Military rates Switzerland (Franc)............................0.9263 Germany $2.443 $2.857 $3.111 $2.679 Azores -- -- $3.001 -- Euro costs (Sept. 25) ............................$1.14 Thailand (Baht) ..................................... 31.61 Change in price -2.8 cents -1.8 cents -1.5 cents -1.8 cents Change in price -- -- -1.5 cents -- Dollar buys (Sept. 25) ......................€0.8366 Turkey (Lira) .........................................7.6338 British pound (Sept. 25) ......................$1.24 (Military exchange rates are those Netherlands -- $3.320 $3.538 $3.089 Belgium -- $2.258 $2.531 $2.341 Japanese yen (Sept. 25) ....................102.00 Change in price -- +3.7 cents -4.0 cents -3.4 cents Change in price -- No change No change No change available to customers at military banking South Korean won (Sept. 25) ........1,140.00 facilities in the country of issuance U.K. -- $2.756 $3.010 $2.578 Turkey -- -- $2.913 $3.419* Commercial rates for Japan, South Korea, Germany, the Change in price -- -1.8 cents -1.5 cents -1.8 cents Change in price -- -- No change No change Bahrain (Dinar) ....................................0.3771 Netherlands and the United Kingdom. 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All figures are foreign currencies Change in price -- -2.0 cents -- -2.0 cents Change in price -1.0 cents -- -1.0 cents -2.0 cents Hungary (Forint) .................................312.55 to one dollar, except for the British pound, which is represented in dollars-to-pound, Okinawa $2.229 -- -- $2.469 Guam $2.239** $2.659 $2.909 -- Israel (Shekel) .....................................3.4835 Change in price -2.0 cents -- -- -2.0 cents Change in price -2.0 cents -2.0 cents -2.0 cents -- Japan (Yen) ........................................... 105.47 and the euro, which is dollars-to-euro.) 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T O D A Y IN STRIPES American Roundup ............42 Classified .........................43 Comics ..................38, 44-45 Crossword .............38, 44-45 Faces ............................... 39 Opinion .......................40-41 Sports .........................46-56 Weekend ..................... 17-38 Friday, September 25, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 3 MILITARY Duckworth’s bill would ban use of camo by feds BY STEVE BEYNON Stars and Stripes WASHINGTON — Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., introduced a bill Wednesday that would ban the use of camouflage uniforms by federal law enforcement fol- lowing criticism during the sum- mer that federal agents assigned ANDREW HARNIK/AP to control racial protests looked CHRISTOPHER LANGE/U.S. Navy like National Guard troops. Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., Army Lt. Col. Jason Hughes, commander of Urban Augmentation Medical Task Force-627, pins an award “The Trump administration’s has been critical of militarized to a soldier under his command at Baptist Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas, Sept. 3. The task force decision to deploy federal law response to protests. is made up of soldiers with various medical specialties from the 627th Hospital Center at Fort Carson, enforcement officers outfitted in Colo., and deployed to support San Antonio hospitals during the coronavirus pandemic. camouflage uniforms in response Acting Deputy Homeland Se- to those protesting the death of curity Secretary Ken Cuccinelli George Floyd and other Black told Congress that the agents in Americans blurred the lines be- Portland eventually were ordered tween military service members to stop wearing camouflage. Hundreds of military personnel and law enforcement officers Officers using uniforms virtu- while causing even more fear and ally identical to the Army also division,” Duckworth said in a raised eyebrows at the Pentagon. return home after battling virus statement. Defense Secretary Mark Esper The Clear Visual Distinction said in July that he was worried BY ROSE L. THAYER tor coronavirus conditions in Sept. 12. Between Military and Law En- federal agents could be confused Stars and Stripes Texas and California. The last to leave were 100 Army forcement Act would essentially with military personnel. “As demand for federal mili- and Navy