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Friday, July 22, 2016
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Black therapist says police
shot him with his hands raised
AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite
Ivanka Trump, daughter of Republican Presidential
Nominee Donald J. Trump, speaks during the inal day
of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.
Ivanka Trump raises issues
father rarely mentions
“Perfect.”
Associated Press
CLEVELAND — Donald
Trump’s daughter promised
Thursday that her father
will ight for equal pay
for women and affordable
childcare for parents, issues
the Republican nominee has
rarely if ever addressed on
the campaign trail.
Ivanka Trump got an
enthusiastic welcome at
the Republican National
Convention. Her primetime
speech elicited repeated
applause and much praise
from delegates in the arena.
Touting a side of her father
rarely seen on the campaign
trail, Ivanka Trump cast her
father as a leader who would
ight to address the student
debt problem and would be
a champion for equal pay for
mothers and single women.
“As president, my father
will change the labor laws
that were put in place at a
time when women weren’t
a signiicant portion of the
workplace, and he will focus
on making quality childcare
affordable and accessible for
all,” Ivanka Trump said.
Trump has not addressed
childcare costs or the gender
pay gap so far in his 2016
presidential bid — issues
usually touted by Democrats.
Trump’s past statements
on women in the workplace
have included calling preg-
nancy “an inconvenience”
and telling a voter in New
Hampshire last year that
women will receive the same
pay as men “if they do as
good a job.”
— Kathy Kiernan,
Wisconsin delegate,
on Ivanka’s speech
On Thursday, Ivanka
Trump said her father “will
ight for equal pay for equal
work.”
Ivanka Trump vowed that
her father would “focus on
making affordable childcare
affordable and accessible for
all” if elected.
Ivanka Trump was a big
hit among the delegates.
“She is showing the softer
side” of Trump, said Chris
Herrod, state director for
Ted Cruz in Utah. “She hit
the gender pay issue which
is very important. And she
talked about the family. I
think she’s done very, very
well.”
Wisconsin delegate Kathy
Kiernan called Ivanka’s
speech “perfect.”
“I think she’s amazing.
I think that looking at his
children and how great they
all are and how much they all
love their father tells you a lot
about the man as a parent,”
Kiernan said. “I think she’s
one of his best assets.”
California delegate Shawn
Steel said Ivanka Trump’s
speech was “the high point
of the entire convention for
me.”
“He does the blue collar,
she does the millennials. It’s
a powerful combination,”
Steel said. “This woman I’ve
been saying for some time
is the greatest asset Donald
trump has.”
NORTH MIAMI, Fla. (AP) — A
black therapist who was trying to calm
an autistic man in the middle of the
street says he was shot by police even
though he had his hands in the air and
repeatedly told them that no one was
armed.
The moments before the shooting
were recorded on cellphone video
and show Charles Kinsey lying on the
ground with his arms raised, talking to
his patient and police throughout the
standoff with oficers, who appeared to
have them surrounded.
“As long as I’ve got my hands up,
they’re not going to shoot me. This is
what I’m thinking. They’re not going
to shoot me,” he told WSVN-TV from
his hospital bed, where he was recov-
ering from a gunshot wound to his leg.
“Wow, was I wrong.”
The shooting comes amid weeks of
violence involving police. Five oficers
were killed in Dallas two weeks ago and
three law enforcement oficers were
gunned down Sunday in Baton Rouge,
Louisiana. Before those shootings,
a black man, Alton Sterling, 37, was
fatally shot during a scufle with two
white oficers at a convenience store.
In Minnesota, 32-year-old Philando
Castile, who was also black, was shot
to death during a trafic stop. Cellphone
videos captured Sterling’s killing
and aftermath of Castile’s shooting,
prompting nationwide protests over the
treatment of blacks by police.
At a news conference Thursday,
North Miami Police Chief Gary
Eugene said the investigation had been
turned over to the Florida Department
of Law Enforcement and the local state
attorney. He called it a “very sensitive
matter” and promised a transparent
investigation, but he refused to iden-
tify the oficer or answer reporters’
questions. Eugene, a Haitian-American
with 30 years of South Florida police
experience, became chief last week.
“I realize there are many questions
about what happened on Monday
night. You have questions, the commu-
nity has questions, we as a city, we as a
member of this police department and I
also have questions,” he said. “I assure
you we will get all the answers.”
The chief said oficers responded
after getting a 911 call about a man
with a gun threatening to kill himself,
and the oficers arrived “with that threat
in mind” — but no gun was recovered.
The video does not show the
moment of the shooting. Kinsey’s
attorney, Hilton Napoleon II, said
there was about a two-minute gap in
which the person who shot the video
WSVN via AP
In this Wednesday frame from video, Charles Kinsey explains in an inter-
view from his hospital bed in Miami what happened when he was shot
by police on Monday.
had switched off, thinking nothing
more noteworthy would happen. It
then briely shows the aftermath of the
shooting. He would not say who gave
him the video.
Kinsey, 47, said he was trying to
coax his 27-year-old patient back to a
nearby facility that he had wandered
from. Police ordered Kinsey and the
patient, who was sitting in the street
playing with a toy truck, to lie on the
ground.
“Lay down on your stomach,”
Kinsey says to his patient in the video,
which was shot from about 30 feet away
and provided to the Miami Herald.
“Shut up!” responds the patient, who is
sitting cross-legged in the road.
Kinsey said he was more worried
about his patient than himself.
“I’m telling them again, ‘Sir, there is
no need for irearms. I’m unarmed, he’s
an autistic guy. He got a toy truck in his
hand,” Kinsey said.
An oficer later ired three times,
striking Kinsey in the leg, assistant
police chief Neal Cuevas told the
newspaper.
After the shooting, Kinsey said
he asked an oficer why he was shot
and the oficer said “‘I don’t know.”’
Napoleon said oficers handcuffed
Kinsey and left him lying in the street
on his stomach for 20 minutes without
rendering irst aid.
North Miami has a population of
about 62,000 people, nearly 60 percent
African-American. The shooting took
place in a racially mixed, lower-income
area of the city.
Witnesses told The Associated Press
on Thursday that at least four North
Miami oficers aimed riles at Kinsey
and the autistic man. Two can be seen
in the video, peering from behind
utility poles about 75 feet away. The
Kaine emerges as favorite in Clinton VP search
BRIEFLY
Truck attacker
had accomplices,
planned for
months
Associated Press
STERLING, Virginia — Virginia
Sen. Tim Kaine has emerged as
the leading contender to join the
Democratic ticket as Hillary Clinton’s
running mate, according to two Demo-
crats, who both cautioned that Clinton
has not made a inal decision and could
yet change directions.
The announcement of Clinton’s
pick could come as early as Friday
afternoon in Florida, a crucial general
election battleground state. The timing
is aimed at shifting attention away from
the end of Donald Trump’s Republican
convention and generating excitement
before the start of Clinton’s own
convention next week in Philadelphia.
Kaine, 58, has been a favorite for
the vice presidential slot since the start
of Clinton’s search process. He has
been active in the Senate on foreign
relations and military affairs and built a
reputation for working across the aisle
as Virginia’s governor and mayor of
Richmond.
“I’m glad the waiting game is nearly
over,” Kaine told reporters Thursday
after an event in northern Virginia,
delecting questions about whether he
was about to join the ticket.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack,
a longtime friend of Hillary and Bill
Clinton, is still in the mix, according to
one of the two Democrats, who is close
to the Clintons. Both Democrats are
familiar with the selection process and
spoke on the condition of anonymity
because they were not authorized to
discuss it publicly.
Clinton’s campaign declined to
comment.
Kaine’s selection would not be
without complication. Liberals have
expressed wariness of Kaine for his
support of putting the Trans-Paciic
Partnership trade agreement on a “fast
track” to approval, which both Clinton
and primary rival Bernie Sanders
oppose. They also note that Kaine
recently signed onto a letter asking for
less burdensome regulation of regional
banks.
But President Barack Obama has
told the campaign he believes Kaine
would be a strong choice, according to
a Democratic familiar with the search.
If Kaine was selected for the ticket,
Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a
Democrat and ally of the Clintons,
would choose a temporary replace-
ment, but the race for the remainder of
Kaine’s term would take place in 2017,
raising the possibility that Republicans
other two, witnesses said, were on the
opposite side of Kinsey, off camera,
standing behind a car in an apartment
parking lot, about 150 away.
Thomas Matthews, 73, said he
watched the lead up to the shooting
through binoculars. He said he tried to
tell an oficer that the autistic man had
a toy truck but she told him to get back.
“If she would have told the other ofi-
cers, maybe they wouldn’t have shot,”
said Matthews, an African-American.
He ran a North Miami lower shop
before retiring and has lived in the area
for years. He said he has never had a
problem with North Miami police.
“But I guess with all the shootings
that are going on, they are nervous and
shook up,” Matthews said.
Nancy Abudu, the American Civil
Liberties Union’s legal director in
Florida, said her group hasn’t received
any brutality complaints about the
North Miami police or about any ques-
tionable shootings before this week’s.
Napoleon, Kinsey’s attorney, said he
is already talking to North Miami city
oficials about a monetary settlement
for his client, who is married with ive
children. City oficials did not return a
phone call seeking conirmation.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch
told reporters the Justice Department
is aware of the shooting and working
with local law enforcement to gather
all of the facts and to decide how to
proceed.
U.S. Rep. Frederica Wilson said she
was in shock.
“From what I saw, he was lying on
the ground with his hands up. Freezing.
But he was still shot,” said Wilson, a
Democrat.
“This is not typical of North Miami,”
she said. “We’re not accustomed to this
tension. ... This cannot happen again.”
AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta
Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., listens to community leaders at a roundtable dis-
cussion on religious freedom with the regional interfaith community at
All Dulles Area Muslim Society Mosque in Sterling, Va., Thursday.
could win the seat. He was scheduled to
attend fundraisers Friday and Saturday
in Massachusetts.
Vilsack is the longest-serving
member of Obama’s Cabinet and has
known Clinton for years. He irst met
her through his late brother-in-law,
who worked with Clinton on the Water-
gate Committee in the 1970s, and she
campaigned for Vilsack in 1998 during
his surprise victory as Iowa governor.
If he was added to the ticket, Vilsack
could help Clinton in Iowa and connect
with rural America. He also has a
compelling personal story: He was
orphaned at birth in Pittsburgh and
his mother struggled with alcohol and
drug addiction. He was set to discuss
the perils of drug abuse and the opioid
epidemic on Friday in Missouri.
Clinton has also considered
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren,
a favorite of liberals; Colorado Gov.
John Hickenlooper; Labor Secretary
Tom Perez; and Housing and Urban
Development Secretary Julian Castro.
Clinton opens a two-day campaign
swing Friday in Florida. She’s expected
to unveil her running mate at either
a Friday afternoon rally at the state
fairgrounds in Tampa or at a Saturday
event at Florida International Univer-
sity in Miami, where two-thirds of the
student body is Hispanic.
The two locations give Clinton’s
campaign the lexibility to make the
announcement at the most optimal
time. The campaign is expected to irst
inform donors, volunteers and activists
by text message and has been encour-
aging supporters to sign up for such an
update.
Kaine is a former chairman of the
Democratic National Committee and
worked as a lawyer on fair housing
and civil rights issues. He has been
considered a leading vice presidential
contender for weeks based on his broad
political experience in Virginia, another
presidential battleground.
“One of the main reasons that
I’m being considered is because of
Virginia,” Kaine said. “It’s not neces-
sarily just because of me. It’s because
Virginia is really important.”
The Virginian is seen as a safe
choice against Trump and his running
mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence. Kaine
could help Clinton woo moderate
voters who have been turned off by
Trump’s provocative rhetoric.
Kaine campaigned with Clinton last
week in northern Virginia, where he
spoke briely in Spanish and argued
that Trump was unqualiied, untested
and untrustworthy.
“Do you want a ‘you’re ired’
president or a ‘you’re hired’ president,”
Kaine said in Annandale, Virginia, as
Clinton nodded. “Do you want a trash-
talking president or a bridge-building
president?”
Kaine took a year off from law
school as a young man to work with
Jesuit missionaries at a vocational
school in Honduras. His wife, Anne
Holton, currently serves as Virginia’s
secretary of education and is the
daughter of former Virginia Gov. A.
Linwood Holton Jr., a Republican.
PARIS (AP) — The truck
driver who killed 84 people
on a Nice beachfront had
accomplices and appears
to have been plotting his
attack for months, the Paris
prosecutor said Thursday,
citing text messages, more
than 1,000 phone calls and
video of the attack scene
on the phone of one of ive
people facing terror charges.
The Paris prosecutor’s
ofice said ive people
were handed preliminary
terrorism charges Thursday
night for their alleged roles
in helping 31-year-old
Mohamed Lahouaiej
Bouhlel in the July 14 attack
in the southern French city.
Prosecutor Francois
Molins’ ofice, which
oversees terrorism
investigations, opened a
judicial inquiry Thursday
into a battery of charges
for the suspects, including
complicity to murder and
possessing weapons tied to a
terrorist enterprise.
Details about the
investigation came as
France’s interior minister
faced criticism that a
faulty security plan may
have opened the way for
the truck attack and as
France extended its state of
emergency for six months.
The prosecutor said the
investigation made “notable
advances” since the Bastille
Day attack by Bouhlel, a
Tunisian who had been
living legally in Nice for
years. Bouhlel was killed
by police after barreling
his 19-ton truck down
Nice’s famed Promenade
des Anglais, mowing down
those who had come to see
holiday ireworks.
The detained suspects
are four men - identiied as
Franco-Tunisians Ramzi A.
and Mohamed Oualid G.,
a Tunisian named Chokri
C., and an Albanian named
Artan - and a woman of dual
French-Albanian nationality
identiied as Enkeldja,
Molins said. Ramzi had
previous convictions for
drugs and petty crime.
All were locked
up pending further
investigation.
People close to Bouhlel
said he had shown no signs
of radicalization until very
recently. But Molins said
information from Bouhlel’s
phone suggested he could
have been preparing an
attack as far back as May
2015. One photo in his
phone, taken May 25, 2015,
was an article on Captagon,
a drug said to be used by
some jihadis before attacks.
Houston police
release videos from
deadly shooting
HOUSTON (AP) —
Oficials in Houston released
video Thursday showing
police oficers shooting a
black man who police said
had been holding a gun
while standing in a street.
The footage from the
July 9 incident included
the recording from
a convenience store
surveillance camera that
shows Alva Braziel, 38, in
the distance. The video is
dark and it’s dificult to see
clearly what Braziel has in
his hand and what happened
in the moments before
oficers ired.
The surveillance video
showed Braziel falling to
the ground 10 seconds after
a police vehicle pulls up.
The oficers thought Braziel
was lagging them down
for assistance and only
realized he was armed when
they lashed a light on him,
authorities said.
That recording is
followed by the body-cam
videos from the two
responding oficers, which
shows only the aftermath
of the shooting: An oficer
removed a handgun from
Braziel’s right hand.