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AUGUST 1 – AUGUST 7, 2014

VOLUME 22 NO. 31

SEE YOU IN COURT Barack Obama will become the first president of the United States to be personally sued by another branch of government.

BY MICHAEL A. MEMOLI TRIBUNE WASHINGTON BUREAU / MCT

WASHINGTON – The House’s vote to sue President Barack Obama is the first such legal challenge by a chamber of Congress against a president, and a historic foray in the fight over constituPOOL PHOTO BY ALEX WONG/GETTY IMAGES/ABACA PRESS/MCT tional checks and balances.

In February, President Obama met with Speaker of the House Rep. John Boehner at the White House to discuss legislative priorities.

Ex-cop knowingly spreads HIV

Never done before Wednesday’s nearly party-line

vote followed a feisty floor debate and offered a fresh example of how the capital’s hyper-partisanship has led both parties into unprecedented territory, going to new and greater lengths to confront one another. Two years ago, the Republican-led House became the first to hold a sitting Cabinet secretary in contempt of Congress, after lawmakers accused Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. of defying their request to turn over records

about the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ “Fast and Furious” gun-running operation. Last year, the Democratic-controlled Senate changed the body’s long-standing filibuster rules in response to what they said was blatant obstruction by the minority GOP of presidential nominations, including the first-ever filibuster of a nominee for Defense secretary. November’s elections could further exacerbate tensions in Washington, especially if Republicans – who already hold the See COURT, Page A2

FLORIDA COURIER / OUT AND ABOUT

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Charged with infecting woman COMPILED FROM WIRE REPORTS

RIVIERA BEACH – A former police officer is accused of knowingly infecting a woman with HIV and investigators are concerned there may be more women who have been infected with the potentially deadly virus, Riviera Beach police said. Dexter Richardson has been charged with having uninformed HIV-infected sexual intercourse, police said Tuesday. On May 1, a woman informed Riviera Beach police that she had been infected with HIV by Richardson. She said that when she confronted him, he first denied but then admitted that he was HIV-positive, officials said. Investigators determined that Richardson had been aware that he had tested positive for HIV for several years. They also learned that he had not revealed that information to the woman with whom he had been in a long-term relationship, detectives said. An agent with the U.S. Marshals Task Force arrested Richardson on Sunday. Police officers take an oath to serve and protect, and that serve and protect is the entire person,” Rose Anne Brown, spokeswoman with the Riviera Beach Police Department, told WPTV-TV. “So you would think that someone who is a police officer would have higher standards than most.”

Not the first According to the Palm Beach Post newspaper, this is the second time this year that a current or former Palm Beach County law en-

CHARLES W. CHERRY II / FLORIDA COURIER

Cole Williams and Chayla Cherry review an exhibit at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta. See a related ‘No Chaser’ column on Page A4.

See HIV, Page A2

SNAPSHOTS FLORIDA | A3

Some Florida doctors won’t accept Obamacare NATION | A6

Why your meat prices are going up

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Zimmerman volunteered as gun store security guard BY RENE STUTZMAN ORLANDO SENTINEL / MCT

For a time, George Zimmerman helped a friend who owns a DeLand gun store by acting as a volunteer security guard, an employee reported Tuesday. Orlando-area news organizations Tuesday morning reported that Zimmerman was working at Pompano Pat’s, a DeLand gun and motorcycle shop. If true, that would have been his first job in two years, since he killed Trayvon Martin, a Black 17-year-old who was walking through Zimmerman’s Sanford neighborhood in 2012. Zimmerman, a Neighborhood Watch volunteer, claimed self-defense and was acquitted

of second-degree murder, but the homicide and his acquittal resulted in protest marches.

‘Good heart’ Sam Porter, an employee at Pompano Pat’s, said Tuesday that Zimmerman is not an employee. “George has a good heart,” Porter said. “We were broken into about two and a half weeks ago and had some guns stolen, so I think he took it upon himself to try to help the owner.” After hours, Zimmerman watched over the store from his pickup, Porter said. A police officer on routine patrol recently spotted him, Porter FILE PHOTO said, and Zimmerman said he was acting as a security guard. George Zimmerman continues his pattern of volunteer ‘help.’

COMMENTARY: CHARLES W. CHERRY II: RANDOM THOUGHTS OF A FREE BLACK MIND | A4 COMMENTARY: DR. VINCENT POLITE: HOMEBOY, WE DON’T KNOW YOU | A5


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