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WORLD

India using drones and fire trucks to fight its worst locust invasion in almost 30 years As India continues its battle with the coronavirus pandemic a new kind of invasion is threatening to destroy vital crops and vegetation — the worst locust swarm the country has seen in almost 30 years.

Waves of desert locusts — millions strong and stretching up to 4 miles long — crossed into India’s western state of Rajasthan from neighboring Pakistan in early May and swarms have since pushed into five different states in search of food.

The desert locust is the most destructive of all locust species because of its speed and ability to multiply rapidly, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Adult locusts can fly up to 93 miles a day and eat their own body weight — equal to 2 grams — worth of fresh vegetation in that period.

A swarm can vary from one to several hundred square kilometers — with each square kilometer containing up to 80 million adult locusts.

Gantz tells Israeli Army to step up preparations in West Bank ahead of possible annexation Israel’s Defense Minister Benny Gantz has told the army to step up preparations in parts of the West Bank, heightening the sense the government stands ready to make a possible dramatic announcement on annexation in the next few weeks.

In a statement Monday afternoon, Gantz said he had instructed the head of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) “to accelerate [its] preparations ahead of political steps on the agenda in the Palestinian arena.”

That language is widely understood as an instruction to the IDF to prepare for possible widespread violence by Palestinians, as well as other possible regional ramifications, if Israel moves to annex some of the occupied territory.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu campaigned in all three recent elections on a promise to extend the reach of Israeli sovereignty into parts of the West Bank, land captured by Israel in 1967.

Thousands are marching in cities across America, calling for justice

By Madeline Holcombe, Eric Levenson and Steve Almasy CNN

They marched by the thousands in Houston. They called for a better America in Los Angeles. They sat in the streets in Chicago and in silence in St. Paul.

Protests continued Tuesday for an eighth night across the United States, with demonstrators peacefully gathering to shout George Floyd’s name and to call for justice in the wake of his death at the hands of a now-jailed former police officer.

In Houston, where a public memorial for George Floyd will take place next week, tens of thousands of people marched to City Hall to shout his name and call for justice after his death.

The marchers, who chanted “no justice, no peace” and “Peace on the left, justice on the right,” walked or rode horses from Discovery Green park toward their destination, where organizers were scheduled to speak.

George Floyd’s brother, Philonise Floyd, addressed the crowd asking for a peaceful protest. He told them to be steadfast in the quest for police reform.

“We’re trying to break

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Terrence Floyd visits the site near where his brother George was taken in Minneapolis police custody and later died, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. the cycle right now. We got this,” he said.

There were protests in at least a dozen U.S. cities. Several re-established curfews for Tuesday night in an attempt to stop the after-hours violence and looting of businesses.

Minneapolis, where Floyd died, New York City, Philadelphia and Washington DC, are among the cities with curfews.

In New York the curfew was moved from 11 p.m.,

which it was on Monday, to 8 p.m.

“We will not tolerate violence of any kind,” said New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, who said the curfew will remain for the rest of the week. “We will not tolerate attacks on police officers. We will not tolerate hatred being created.”

The mayor urged New Yorkers to protest “in the daytime hours and then please go home because we have work to do this

NATION

Plans being discussed for Joe Biden to attend George Floyd’s funeral

Plans are being discussed for former Vice President Joe Biden to attend the funeral services for George Floyd next Tuesday in Houston, but the arrangements have not been finalized, according to a person familiar with the matter.

A Biden campaign spokesman on Tuesday declined to comment on whether there were plans to attend the funeral. An attorney for Floyd’s family, Ben Crump, said Tuesday, “We understand that Vice President Biden will be in attendance.”

CNN has reached out directly to Crump for comment.

The presumptive Democratic 2020 nominee delivered a speech on Tuesday that New Zealand set to addressed systemic racism ease coronavirus in America and empathized with those protesting across restrictions the nation in the wake of the New Zealand’s government police killing of Floyd. could ease coronavirus restrictions as early as next week, Automakers have Prime Minister Jacinda Aranother COVID-19 dern announced Tuesday.

Adern told a press conference problem: Suppliers that New Zealand was “ahead Building cars during the of schedule.” The country has not reported any new cases COVID-19 pandemic requires more than keeping workers for 11 days in a row.

She said that, while previous in auto plants safe. Hundreds advice modeling had assumed of supplier plants must stay there would be a “persistent safe and healthy, too.

Keeping the supply chain and potentially longer tail of cases” as the country moved operating is crucial, because to “level two,” risking further cars cannot be built unless spread, so far a tail or spike automakers have 100% of the parts. Last week proved in cases had not occurred.

New Zealand’s cabinet will how difficult that can be in review the alert level settings the current environment.

Thursday night, Ford’s Dearearlier than planned, on June 8, Ardern said, adding “if and born Truck plant had to stop only if there are no further production early when it ran unexpected cases over the out of the seats it needed to coming days, then we could build F-150 pickups. It rebe in a position to move to sumed work Monday, after a scheduled off day on Friday. alert level one that week.”

— From wire reports General Motors had planned

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Plans are being discussed for former Vice President Joe Biden to attend the funeral services for George Floyd next Tuesday in Houston, but the arrangements have not been finalized, according to a person familiar with the matter. to add shifts at U.S. plans last week, but it had to delay that move because it lacked sufficient parts. When it finally received enough supply, on Monday GM added a second shift at three SUV plants in the United States and Canada, and went from one to three shifts at three plants building pickup trucks.

“The situation has been so fluid,” said GM spokesman Jim Cain.

Police officers are joining protesters for prayers and hugs in several US cities Americans have been protesting the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police for days on end in dozens of cities throughout the United States.

While tensions between police and demonstrators have heated up in many places, some officers have shown solidarity with the movement by hugging protesters, praying with them, mourning with them, and taking a knee to honor Floyd.

In Atlanta, a line of police officers holding shields during a protest Monday near Centennial Olympic park kneeled in front of demonstrators.

In another image, an of-

ficer wearing a gas mask, helmet and vest was seen embracing a demonstrator in a hug on the fourth day of protests in the southern city.

The Denver Chief of Police Paul Pazen joined in with demonstrators Monday, linking arms with attendees.

In New York, Chief of Department of the New York City Police, Terence Monahan, embraced a demonstrator during a protest in his city.

On the west coast, protestor Kevin Welbeck of Cre8 The Change shook hands with a California Highway Patrol officer during a protest in the Van Nuys area of Los Angeles.

‘The new toilet paper:’ Bikes flying off shelves, overwhelming shops Eric Attayi, owner of the Urban Bicycle Gallery in Houston, Texas, has watched the pandemic transform his shop in a way most businesses can only dream of.

Bicycles are selling before he has time to assemble them for display. Attayi said he’d matched his 2019 sales by the start of May. He’s had to hire new employees to meet demand, and hasn’t taken a day off since February. Attayi said he’d given raises and started buying lunch

PEOPLE

Mark Zuckerberg tries to explain inaction on Trump posts to staff Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg sought on Tuesday to ease employee outrage over his inaction on incendiary remarks recently posted by President Donald Trump.

During a company-wide town hall, Zuckerberg struggled to explain his decisionmaking process as many of his employees, using a realtime feedback tool, reminded him of promises to remove content that calls for violence or that could lead to imminent physical harm.

“It’s crystal clear today that leadership refuses to stand with us,” Brandon Dail, an engineer at Facebook, tweeted as the town hall was taking place.

Facebook spokesman Andy Stone said in a statement to CNN Business that open and honest discussion “has always been a part of Facebook’s culture.”

“Mark had an open discussion with employees today, as he has regularly over the years,” Stone said. “He’s grateful for their feedback.”

evening to keep a peaceful city.”

Declining to go into numbers, a senior NYPD official told CNN that there will be “enhanced deployJay-Z takes out full-page ment” tonight.

“The goal is to minimize ads across the country risk to the public and maxin dedication to imize efficient use of reGeorge Floyd sources,” the official said.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s ofJay-Z has partnered with fice said Monday the numfamilies who have lost sons ber of NYPD officers on the to police violence, along with street would double from fellow activists and attorneys, 4,000 to 8,000. to take out full-page ads in newspapers across the country to honor George Floyd. for his stressed staff.

The ad is captioned, “in New customers are looking for ways to be active and out- dedication to George Floyd. doors. Bike shop owners say #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd,” that the closing of gyms and and quotes a passage from yoga studios during the pan- a speech made by Dr. Mardemic has contributed. Oth- tin Luther King Jr. in Selma, ers say customers are looking Al. in 1965.

“So we’re going to stand for a commuting alternative to public transportation. So- up amid horses. We’re gocial spacing is easiest on in- ing to stand up right here, dividual modes of transpor- amid the belly-clubs. We’re tation, like cars and bikes. going to stand up right here In March 2020, U.S. cycling amid police dogs, if they have sales increased 39% when them,” the ad quotes King. compared with March 2019, “We’re going to stand up according to the NPD Group, amid tear gas! We’re going to stand up amid anything which tracks retail sales.

“Bikes are like the new they can muster up, letting toilet paper,” Attayi said. “If the world know that we are determined to be free!” it’s available, buy it.”

Along with Jay-Z, the letter is signed by the parents of Same-sex weddings Botham Jean, DJ Henry and have boosted Antwon Rose II, young black economies by $3.8B men all tragically killed by police, as well as Van Jones, Same-sex weddings have Charlamagne tha God, Angela been a boon for the wedding Rye, an attorney for the Floyd industry since gay marriage family, and several activists. was legalized in 2015 — and in the years since, it’s boosted Carole Baskin awarded state and local economies by $3.8 billion, a study estimates. the zoo once owned by The same-sex wedding in- ‘Tiger King’ Joe Exotic dustry also supported at least Carole Baskin, whose long45,000 jobs and generated more than $244.1 million standing feud with Joe Exotic in state and local sales tax was chronicled in the hit Netsince June 2015, according flix docuseries “Tiger King,” to the report from the UCLA has been awarded the zoo School of Law’s Williams once owned by her nemesis.

A judge ruled in favor of Institute on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Baskin’s Big Cat Rescue Corporation Monday in a lawLaw and Public Policy.

More than half of all wed- suit against the Greater Wynded same-sex couples in the newood Development Group, United States got married af- LLC. The latter company once ter the Supreme Court made was owned by Exotic, whose the landmark decision in real name is Joseph Allen Obergefell v. Hodges, which Maldonado-Passage.

The order gives Baskin conguaranteed same-sex couples the same rights to marry as trol of about 16 acres of land in Garvin County, Oklahoma, heterosexual couples.

Now, the researchers es- that is home to an animal timate, there are 513,000 park with an array of big cats.

GWDC must “vacate the married same-sex couples in the United States, and Zoo Land premises within 293,000 of them got mar- 120 days of service of this Order,” the court order said. ried after June 2015.

— From wire reports — From wire reports

Scientists say they have discovered the cleanest air on earth in study

By Amy Woodyatt CNN

Scientists believe they have identified the world’s cleanest air, free from particles caused by human activity, located over the Southern Ocean, which surrounds Antarctica.

In a first-of-its-kind study of the bioaerosol composition of the Southern Ocean, researchers from Colorado State University identified an atmospheric region which remains unchanged by human activity.

Weather and climate are closely linked, connecting each part of the

MUST READ world with other regions. As the climate changes rapidly because of human activity, scientists and researchers struggle to find a corner of the Earth unaffected by people.

However, Professor Sonia Kreidenweis and her team suspected that the air over the Southern Ocean would be least affected by humans and dust from the world’s continents.

Researchers found that the boundary layer air, which feeds the lower clouds over the Southern Ocean,

was free from aerosol particles produced by human activity — including burning fossil fuels, planting certain crops, fertilizer production, and wastewater disposal — or transported from other countries around the world.

Air pollution is caused by aerosols, which are solid and liquid particles and gases that are suspended in the air.

Researchers decided to study what was in the air, and where it Kathryn moore/colorado state university came from, using bacteria in the air as a diagnostic tool to infer the Aerosol filter samplers probe the air over the Southern Ocean on the properties of the lower atmosphere. Australian Marine National Facility’s R/V Investigator ship.

A4 ♦ Wednesday, June 3, 2020 ♦ gWinnettdailypost.com COLUMNIST I KEITH ROACH

Are all puzzles created equally?

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EAR DR. ROACH: Are all puzzles created equal in terms of their value in keeping the mind sharp? I enjoy Sudoku and word-finding puzzles, with an occasional crossword puzzle thrown in. I also play games requiring puzzle solving on my computer or handheld deRoach vice. My partner primarily enjoys crossword puzzles. This has been something I’ve wondered about for a while, but in this day of health crisis with more people engaging in puzzle solving, I thought I would ask.

— T.M.H. ANSWER: Puzzles are fun and keep the mind active. Although there is no evidence supporting the idea that doing puzzles of any kind can prevent Alzheimer’s dementia, there is strong evidence that interventions — an action done to improve a certain problem — taken targeting specific cognitive abilities can lead to long-lasting improvements in those abilities. A particularly well-done trial showed that interventions designed to improve performance in three areas (memory, reasoning and speed of processing) improved function in that specific area for five years.

In the published study, the interventions were intensive.

However, I think it’s reasonable to extrapolate that different types of puzzles are likely to have their own individual benefits. So, Sudoku or other number puzzles are likely to have separate benefits from crosswords. I would recommend doing multiple types of cognitive games and puzzles to keep your mind sharp.

I should note that regular physical activity has strong evidence to support it as a means of preventing or delaying Alzheimer’s, and a healthy diet probably has benefit as well.

Adding all together is best.

DEAR DR. ROACH: I was diagnosed with a hernia on my lower right side. I sometimes have slight burning and it bulges out. My doctor told me to press on it, and when I do, it goes right back in. I was also told not to lift anything heavy, which now I don’t. I am 87. Will I need surgery? Should I consider a truss? My doctor didn’t say.

— L.M. ANSWER: Hernias in the groin are very common. They are a defect in the abdominal wall, and if they are big enough, abdominal contents can come through the defect.

If the contents can be pushed easily back in, it is called a reducible hernia. If the contents cannot be pushed back in, the hernia is said to be “incarcerated.”

Any incarcerated hernia or those with symptoms such as pain or inability to do activities of daily life without discomfort are usually recommended for surgery. However, surgery in an 87-year-old is a prospect that should be thoroughly discussed by both patient and doctor. Your overall health condition and the severity of your symptoms need to be carefully considered before a referral to a surgeon, who must also exercise discretion before making a recommendation about whether to proceed.

If you elect not to get surgery — and the symptoms sound mild, as you have briefly described them — a truss is sometimes prescribed. This device puts pressure on the hernia defect to keep the abdominal contents from coming out. I seldom prescribe them, and there is no clear evidence they work, though they do seem to help some individuals. If you get one, you need to be taught how to use it properly.

WEATHER WATCH TODAY

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MAJOR ......................... 11:39 a.m.-1:39 p.m.

MINOR 4:52-5:52 a.m............. 6:32-7:32 p.m.

POLLEN COUNTS trees: moderate Weeds: low grass: High

LOTTERY Tuesday cash 3 midday: 7-4-4 cash 4 midday: 0-9-1-8 ga. 5 midday: 7-5-5-5-1 Monday cash 3 midday: 0-8-7 cash 3 evening: 7-7-2 cash 3 night: 6-2-9 cash 4 midday: 1-2-4-2 cash 4 evening: 6-8-5-4 cash 4 night: 1-2-9-2 ga. 5 midday: 2-7-6-7-4 ga. 5 evening: 9-9-9-4-1 Fantasy 5: 6-9-16-34-36

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LAKE LEVELS

Lake Full Yesterday allatoona ............(840.0) .... 840.83 Blackshear ......... (237.0) .... 236.95 Blue Ridge........(1690.0) ...1687.65 Burton..............(1865.0) ...1865.13 carters.............(1072.0) ...1074.20 chatuge ........... (1927.0) ...1926.18 Harding .............. (521.0) .... 520.34 Hartwell .............(660.0) .... 660.61 Jackson..............(530.0) .... 528.57

Lake Full Yesterday lanier............... (1071.0) ... 1071.41 nottely..............(1779.0) ... 1777.41 oconee ..............(435.0) .... 434.86 seminole...............(77.5) ....... 77.01 sinclair ...............(339.8) .... 338.44 thurmond ..........(330.0) .....331.22 tugalo ................ (891.5) .... 890.33 Walter F. george.(188.0) .... 188.94 West point..........(635.0) .... 635.42

TODAY IN HISTORY TODAY’S HISTORY: in 1916, president Woodrow Wilson signed into law the national defense act, expanding the size and scope of the u.s. national guard. in 1965, edward H. White ii, an astronaut on gemini iV, became the first american to “walk” in space. in 1979, the ixtoc i oil well in the gulf of mexico blew out, spilling more than 600,000 tons of oil over an area of 1,100 square miles. in 2017, eight people were killed and dozens were injured when terrorists crashed a van into pedestrians on london Bridge and attacked the crowd with knives.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Jefferson davis (1808-1889), president of the confederate states of america; Raoul dufy (1877-1953), artist; tony curtis (1925-2010), actor; allen ginsberg (1926-1997), poet; chuck

Barris (1929-2017), game show host; Raul castro (1931- ), president of cuba; larry mcmurtry (1936- ), author; curtis mayfield (1942-1999), singer-songwriter/musician; anderson cooper (1967- ), tV journalist; John Hodgman (1971- ), author/actor; Rafael nadal (1986- ), tennis player; yordano Ventura (1991-2017), baseball player.

TODAY’S FACT: according to the results of the 1860 census, the slave population outnumbered the free population in two states: mississippi and south carolina.

TODAY’S SPORTS: in 1888, the comic baseball poem “casey at the Bat,” by ernest lawrence thayer, was published in the san Francisco examiner.

TODAY’S QUOTE: “only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across texas without eating a chicken-fried steak.” -larry mcmurtry, “in a narrow grave”

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COLUMNIST I AMY DICKINSON

Couple argues over emotional affair

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EAR AMY: My marriage of nearly 40 years has been crumbling for a couple of years now, primarily due to my frustration with my husband’s negative attitude toward life. (I tend to be joyful.)

Now that we are both retired and home, it has hit the proverbial fan.

“Barney” is on his phone a lot. He keeps it glued to his side. I wondered what he was up to, so I checked our phone bill (not his phone) and discovered he has been texting a woman he knew from high school at least 350 times a month, sometimes over 30 times a day for the last two years.

I think this has a lot to do with our problems. I confronted him and he popped a cork, furious that I checked the phone bill for his text usage.

He says I’ve “broken his trust.” I told him this is indicative of an emotional affair, and he swears that since they don’t talk about anything sexual, I am wrong.

All this time I’ve been wondering why he doesn’t talk to me (and blames me for not talking to him), and he is texting this woman.

Can this be an emotional affair if they only talk about their day-to-day activities?

I say yes, he says no. I welcome your opinion. He reads your column daily.

— Untexted in Texas DEAR UNTEXTED: Perhaps you have a friend that you text dozens of Dickinson times a day, but I doubt it.

If you did have a friend that you texted continuously for two years (while at the same time not communicating with your husband), he would very rightly wonder what in the Sam Hill was going on.

You did not violate his privacy by checking the phone bill. Presumably, it’s your phone bill, too. While he might consider the contents of his texts private, the details contained on the bill are not.

Also, I wish “Barney” had been paying closer attention to this space over the years. Emotional affairs are different from sexual affairs. Emotional affairs grow when people share intimacies (sometimes about their partners), while excluding their partners. These relationships are every bit as insidious and destructive to a marriage as a sexual relationship.

Barney’s anger about your discovery is a “tell.” If it was no big deal, then he would show you his text thread, and revel in his innocence.

He could handle this —

and recommit to your relationship — by coming clean about this friendship and being emotionally honest with you about it.

DEAR AMY: This past January, my fiancee allowed her daughter’s boyfriend, “Thomas” to live with her until he finds a new place.

It is now five months later, and we have heard nothing about him moving out.

We have learned that he owes $3,500 to his previous landlord, owes money to a bank for loan repayment, and owes the IRS over $10,000 in back taxes.

My fiancee and I have purchased a home and are moving there in two months.

Her daughter is coming with us and I am under some pressure to allow him, too.

He only has a part-time job, and seems to enjoy smoking pot in his free time.

This is unacceptable. I told him I want him having a full-time job (doing whatever) and $450 in rent per month.

Honestly, I really want him gone, but I do not want to upset my future stepdaughter.

What should I do?

— Busted DEAR BUSTED: Here’s what you shouldn’t do: Lay down a lot of specific expectations and demands. Why? Because if the IRS doesn’t faze “Thomas,” you certainly won’t.

If he owes a previous land-

lord a substantial sum, why would you even consider becoming his landlord? He has a history of running up debt and bailing.

Don’t get tied up financially with this very bad bet.

You and your fiancee are moving into a new home.

This is the ideal time to say, “We’re moving — but Thomas, you’re not.”

Yes, your future stepdaughter (and possibly her mother) will likely pressure you. But cohabiting with this guy will ultimately be worse for your relationship (with him, and with each other) than delivering the tough love now.

DEAR AMY: I want to echo others who have pointed out why liquor stores are considered “essential” businesses.

Anyone who lives with an alcoholic knows that sudden withdrawal is a nightmare and potentially dangerous.

— Been There, Recovered DEAR RECOVERED: Thank you so much for emphasizing this point. I’m sorry I missed it when I responded to this query.

You can contact Amy Dickinson via email: ASKAMY@amydickinson. com. Readers may send postal mail to Ask Amy, P.O. Box 194, Freeville, NY 13068. You can also follow her on Twitter @ askingamy or “like” her on Facebook.

emphasize how you earn your living. Find new ways to use your skills. learn about and explore something that intrigues you. make a change based on your current situation, where you see yourself heading and what you want to accomplish moving forward. don’t get angry; get moving.

GEMINI (may 21-June 20) — use your connections to your advantage. Reconnect with someone who may have a lead on a position that might interest you. don’t take a risk, and protect yourself against injury and illness.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — take time to explore new possibilities. a challenge will motivate you to start something that encourages you to use creative skills to benefit you mentally as well as financially.

LEO (July 23-aug. 22) — you may not like a change that’s taking place, but in the end, there will be benefits you didn’t anticipate. sit tight and let things unfold naturally. Romance is on the rise.

VIRGO (aug. 23-sept. 22) — go about your business and stay out of trouble. Refuse to get involved in someone else’s drama. clear thoughts will prompt wise moves. a personal change will enhance your life.

LIBRA (sept. 23-oct. 23) — discipline will pay off. do your best to learn all you can about an interest you want to pursue. personal growth, physical improvements and a new beginning look promising.

SCORPIO (oct. 24-nov.

22) — it’s time to update some of your diehard beliefs before moving forward. times and trends are changing, and updating your goals and how you go about achieving your dreams is encouraged.

SAGITTARIUS (nov. 23-dec.

21) — Being secretive will benefit you in the end. only share what’s necessary and protect those you love from any outside interference. a financial plan will turn out better than anticipated.

CAPRICORN (dec. 22Jan. 19) — don’t disregard what others do for you. offering praise and credit for a job well done will encourage others to continue to please you. Be smart and reap the rewards.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — channel emotional energy into something creative or unique. How you spend your time will determine how much trouble you encounter. idle time is the enemy. personal improvement and romance are encouraged.

PISCES (Feb. 20-march 20) — look for creative outlets. learning something new, consulting with an expert, spending time teaching others or expanding your personal and professional options will help you feel good about your future.

ARIES (march 21-april 19) — don’t quibble over something that doesn’t matter. if you overreact, you will end up having regrets. look at what you can do well and concentrate on personal goals.

TAURUS (april 20-may 20) — it’s oK to do things differently. step outside your comfort zone and you will push yourself to make the adjustments necessary to get ahead. turn your dreams into reality.

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Since I made the change, my previous “One more thing,” he says. “In case we provider has flooded my mailbox with get disconnected, I’ll need a call-back invitations for me to “come back.” They number.” I dutifully respond, and sure are offering me faster speed, better ser- enough, moments later the line goes vice, and I think they promised to paint dead, and I hear silence. I never hear my garage. Honestly, if they had even from him again. I’m too exhausted to answered the phone when I was their climb back up that phone tree. It will customer, I would have never left. have to wait until tomorrow.

My first few weeks of quarantine were When we begin to rebuild our econspent listening to “hold music.” You omy, here’s how we put people back to know, that screechy noise they play be- work. We require these huge companies tween the insincere messages: “Your to hire enough folks to make customer call is very important to us. Please re- service a priority. main on the line for the next available Instead of having to wait on hold for a agent.” After a few rounds of that, I hear month, someone from the phone compaa phone ringing. Success! I’m about to ny would contact us every week, just to speak to a human. Nope. The next mes- check in. “Dave, how’s it going? Is there sage informs me, “We are experiencing anything we can do to help?” a high volume of calls. Wait times may If that happens, I already have my be longer than usual. You may want phone greeting ready to go. “You have to call back during the next leap year, reached the Carroll residence. Please or when Cher retires again, whichever listen carefully, because our options comes first.” have changed. Earlier today, we were I know that my call is not that im- thinking pizza for dinner, but we are portant to them. If it was, a real person suddenly craving Mexican. It may be would answer, and I wouldn’t have to dine-in, or it could be carry-out. It’s navigate the annoying phone tree. “For good to have options. Please hold, and English, press one. Para español, oprima the next available family member will dos.” That’s not so bad. But it gets worse. take your call.” After a few minutes of “If you have questions about your war- 1960s bubblegum music like “Yummy ranty, press three. If you are checking Yummy Yummy,” another recorded meson an order, press four. If you’re going sage will play. “Due to an unusually high to San Francisco, press five. If you’re volume of calls, we may not be able to planning to wear a flower in your hair, respond until the Atlanta Falcons make press six. If you’ve ever trimmed your it to the Super Bowl. Goodbye.” weeds and found a bicycle, you might Maybe, just maybe, if they got a taste be a redneck. To speak with Jenny, call of their own medicine, they would under867-5309.” stand how to do customer service again.

Eventually, after waiting on hold long enough to grow a ZZ Top-style beard, a David Carroll, a Chattanooga news anchor, is live person speaks to me. I’m stunned. the author of Volunteer Bama Dawg, available When he asks how he can help, I have on his website, ChattanoogaRadioTV.com. You to think for a minute. Why did I call? may contact him at radiotv2020@yahoo.com.

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Jenkins off base with ‘progressives are fascists’ rant

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oth your columnists Rob Jenkins and Darrell Huckaby are or have been teachers. We don’t envy their students; we can only hope that they – and your readers – have reached the fortunate stage of being able to distinguish bad instruction from good.

Based on their columns on May 17 — Huckaby’s was titled ”Who can we trust in this ‘crisis of confidence’?” — it’s hard for us to pick which columnist-teacher is worse.

But let’s start with Professor Jenkins. In a remarkably tortured analysis — “Now we know who the real fascists are” — somehow he would have us equate progressives with fascists. Wow. We hope that if that’s his lecture, that one of his students will raise her hand and say: “Gee, I thought the progressives were the folks who understood that 40% of the people in this country don’t have $400 in reserve and, if that’s too abstract

to appreciate, they’re the ones in the mileslong lines today hoping to get for food for their families.

“Progressives seem to want people to be able to pay their rent, which so many struggle to do even when they actually have a job – or two; and to have people who are ill be able to go to the doctor. Professor, I guess you need to explain to me again why people with these aims are fascists because I think you are as wrong as could be.”

We’d hope many of your readers would reach the same conclusion as the smart young student.

For ourselves, we put the concept of “progressives are fascists” in the same offthe-rails category as “Hey, maybe drinking bleach will kill your coronavirus.”

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ou may choose to look the other great writer William Faulkner reminded way, but you can never again us, is “not even past.” From genocide and say that you did not know.” slavery to Jim Crow, lynchings and the — William Wilberforce bloody beatings on the Edmund Pettus Everyone has had some version of this Bridge, to the breath-shunting knee to nightmare: You forget to study for an exam George Floyd’s throat — mayhem is part or write a paper that’s due in the morning of our legacy. Eventually, the boil created — or, you are running from a monster in by centuries of torture, oppression and hideous pursuit, and you keep fallhatred — and routinely ignored ing down. and explained away — must burst Relief comes upon waking and again and again. realizing that it was all just a bad History suggests that both sides dream. You are long past the days overplay weak hands, and some of of term papers and tests and monthat is happening here. We can’t let sters, everyone knows, aren’t real.

Floyd’s death be in vain, goes the Except when they are. We hear refrain. True enough, but what does the words of Stephen King: “Monit mean if, as Atlanta-born rapper Parker sters are real, and ghosts are real, Killer Mike tearfully implored, we too. They live inside us, and someburn our own houses to the ground? times they win.”

The absurdity of rioters destroying public Now we wake, if we sleep at all, and property was clarified with graffiti on the the nightmare is real — and the monsters Lincoln Memorial. have names.

By the same measure, President Trump’s We don’t have to second-guess what hap- vow to use the military against U.S. citipened to George Floyd. We saw the video zens, if realized, will only pour kerosene and recoiled in horror. Nor do we have to on the flames. His awkward pose with a deploy euphemisms or dodgy words like Bible in front of a church after dispers“apparently” or “allegedly” to recount how ing peaceful demonstrators with tear gas Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin makes Sinclair Lewis’ Elmer Gantry seem pressed his knee into Floyd’s neck for nine like Moses. minutes, cutting off blood and oxygen as If I may take a moment? the prone and cuffed man begged for air Four years ago, I wrote on Election eve and his life. that we’d survive no matter who won. It Chauvin, charged with third-degree wasn’t an endorsement of either candidate murder and second-degree manslaughter, but was an exercise in optimism based on is surely the loneliest man on the planet. my faith in our institutions and our system How does he sleep at night? I try to imagine of checks and balances. Trump, whom I’d what he thinks about in those dark hours previously described as a hot-air buffoon when the wolf closes in, sniffing the hol- surely wouldn’t keep his tyrannical camlowness at the threshold of his cell. Does paign promises, I declaimed. he replay those nine minutes trying to unHow wrong I was. Our Democratic Rederstand why he did what he did? Does public was always an experiment without he even care? guarantees or necessarily an expectation From the video, it’s easy to see that of its success. “A Republic, if you can keep Chauvin not only kept his knee in place it,” Benjamin Franklin once quipped. despite outraged pleas from onlookers; he Today, as anarchists infiltrate peaceful pressed his full-body weight into Floyd’s demonstrators and wreak havoc from neck. Why didn’t the other three officers sea-to-sea, the joists of our foundations stop this horror? What fear or evil allowed are being tested. them to look away? Why didn’t the people George Floyd surely never wanted to taking video compel Chauvin or his breth- be a martyr. But, perhaps, he can rest in ren to stop? That’s impunity, incarnate. peace if his unjustified and unmerciful The minds of monsters are hard to read. death prompts Americans to reflect and They are not like us. Monsters are without march peacefully across the Pettus Bridge qualms, hesitations, empathy or remorse. of our collective memory to cast our balCertitude animates the beast; power feeds lots. The monsters in this nightmare are its lust for more. real, sure enough.

So it has been throughout history, includBut we know their names. ing our own. When we say we can’t believe this is happening in the United States of Kathleen Parker is a columnist for the Washington Post.

America, we ignore our past, which, the

Racism, rioting and redemption

t was a night I shall never forget.

The date was April 4, 1968. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated in Memphis, and I was flying home to Washington, D.C., from Atlanta. As the plane descended over National Airport, I could see flames. Part of the city of my birth and capital of the nation was on fire.

The riots and looting in several U.S. cities after George Floyd was killed by a white Minneapolis police officer whose knee cut off his airway while he was subdued by handcuffs and lying face down in the street, reminds me of those days. When the protests started, Minnesota governor Tim Walz blamed domestic terrorists and possibly international forces trying to destabilize the country for fomenting violence and destruction of property.

TV images overwhelmed the just cause of peaceful protesters. Similar scenes helped Richard Nixon win the presidency in 1968 on a “law and order” platform.

Why does this happen again and again?

Leaving aside the charge of domestic terrorists and outsiders for the moment (though

violence and looting solve nothing “As a country, we’ve been here beand obscure any cause), discriminafore, first following the collapse of tion and racism have scarred AmerReconstruction and the rise of Jim ica since slavery. Harvard Professor Crow, and then again in a less wellHenry Louis Gates Jr., who is Afriknown series of events that unfoldcan American, had his own experied in 1919. Following the Influenza ence when he was arrested by a white Epidemic of 1918, and the return police officer in Cambridge after a of black soldiers from World War Thomas neighbor reported a black man was I, and at the apex of the legitimizatrying to break into someone’s house. tion of Jim Crow, white vigilantes It was Gates’ own home. engaged in an appalling series of lynchings I asked Gates for his reaction to Floyd’s of innocent black victims, so brutal that it killing. He responded: “Racism has been part was soon dubbed ‘the red summer’ of 1919.” of America’s cultural DNA since before the Gates is quick to acknowledge it would be ink dried on the Constitution. Dominant in a mistake to ignore the “great progress” the some and recessive in others, it’s a gene that country has made in race relations and adds: has mutated over time yet remains part of “Those of us who love freedom and justice the inheritance weighing us down, one gen- and believe in an America that stands for eration to the next. The damage it has done racial equality and community across the is systemic and goes all the way down to the color line must join arms and fight white cellular level.” supremacy wherever and however it rears Gates, whose PBS series “African-Ameri- its heinous head.” can Lives,” and “Finding Your Roots” should This “DNA” problem is called sin by preachbe must-see TV because they help explain ers and cannot be altered by government the African-American experience, added: programs. If it could have, it would have

by now. We have spent $22 trillion on anti-poverty and racial justice programs, according to a 2014 study by The Heritage Foundation on the outcome of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society. The results have been minimal at best because they never cured fundamental causes of poverty. A changed heart is key, something government lacks the power to achieve.

Poverty, alone, is not the only problem, though. Allowing nationwide school choice for poor children would help alleviate it for many. One can also discriminate against someone who is middle class and hate a wealthy person because of skin color. Tribalism is also a contributing factor to racism.

We tend to know and stick only with members of our own “tribe.”

That has to change. Otherwise, even if justice is served in the George Floyd case, racism and its terrible consequences will endure.

Readers may email Cal Thomas at caeditors@ tribpub.com.

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Scenes from the protest at Lawrenceville City Hall on Monday, June 1, 2020

PROTEST From A1 few months due to COVID-19 to protect his family, which is immunosuppressed, he said he felt the need to participate because this was “the only chance we have to make a change.”

As the protest carried on, Kenon Richardson, who was protesting alongside his wife, niece and stepdaughter, said he was there to join the movement and voice his opinion about the injustice going on. He said he remembers participating in similar protests when Martin Luther King Jr. was still alive.

“Black lives matter,” another protestor, Quan Warren, said. “That’s my main motivation for being here.

I’m tired of seeing black people getting mistreated and killed and no justice. Only about 2% of officers ever get convicted of these crimes.

That’s sickening, so we have to start making steps.”

Warren said this was his first time protesting in something as big as the protests happening all over the country. Though some protests have turned violent and resulted in looting, the protest in Lawrenceville on Monday remained peaceful on both sides, Warren said.

At one point, however, protestors began walking toward the town square and were met by sirens and officers with shields who wanted to keep them from blocking the street.

Police and protestors came face to face as tensions grew and the police began to slowly drive their cars

toward the crowd.

Eventually, the crowd conceded and returned to City Hall.

“I just hope this all ends with the understanding that we deserve protection and some laws are changed in our state and nationwide so everyone gets treated right,” Warren said.

Monday morning, Lawrenceville Mayor David Still and the city council announced they would implement a 9 p.m. curfew beginning Monday night that would possibly extended into Tuesday and Wednesday.

Additionally, City Hall closed to the public at 3 p.m. and all public meetings on the city calendar were cancelled and rescheduled for the week of June 8-12.

“I want y’all to know that we want y’all to be able to speak and have a protest and let us know what you’re thinking,” Still said Monday, addressing the protestors. “... It’s also great that y’all actually have passion, but you’re funneling it in the right way so that we can start to have discussion.”

State Rep. Donna McLeod encouraged protestors to stand their ground and to remain united and peaceful.

“We are not going to continue to get abused,” she said. “Our bodies are valuable. I want you guys to understand I stand with you. ...

We cannot let somebody die anymore. Enough is enough.”

No property damage or injuries were reported in downtown Lawrenceville. The Lawrenceville police along with multiple jurisdictions from around the county were present and maintained order.

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GAC grad Brogdon joins Brown in march

From staff reports

Former Greater Atlanta Christian star Malcolm Brogdon joined fellow NBA player and Atlanta area native Jaylen Brown’s peaceful protest in Atlanta on Saturday.

The two were joined by Atlanta Hawks forward Justin Anderson, rapper Lil Yachty and others in a march from the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial beside Ebenezer Baptist Church to the state capitol and back.

Brogdon was among those who spoke to the crowd with a megaphone.

“I got brothers, I got sisters, I got friends that are in the streets that are out here that haven’t made it to this level that are experiencing it, that are getting pulled over, just discrimination day after day, dealing with the same bull (expletive),” Brogdon said. “This is systematic. We don’t have to burn down our homes. We built this city. This is the mostly proudly black city

in the world, in the world, man. Let’s take some pride in that. Let’s focus our energy. Let’s enjoy this together. This is a moment.

We have leverage right now.

We have a moment in time.

“People are going to look back. Our kids are going to look back at this and say you were a part of that. I got a grandfather that marched next to Dr. King in the ’60s.

He was amazing. He would be proud to see us all here.

We’ve got to keep pushing forward. Jaylen, man, has led this charge. Man, I’m proud of him. We need more leaders.”

Brown organized the march over concerns with recent events, most recently the Minneapolis death of George Floyd, who died after white police officer Derek Chauvin kneeled on his neck for minutes. The event has sparked protests, both peaceful and otherwise, in cities across the U.S. “We’re raising awareness for some of the injustices we’ve been seeing,” Brown said on Instagram.

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Parkview’s Xander Stephens pitches against Hillgrove during the 2019 Class AAAAAAA championship series at SunTrust Park.

STRONG FINISH Panthers denied chance at three-peat by COVID-19

By Jack Leo Staff Correspondent

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Greater Atlanta Christian grad and NBA player Malcolm Brogdon speaks to the crowd during a protest march Saturday in Atlanta.

In BRIEF Wilkins signs with defiance

as a junior. As a senior, he was a preseason Super Six selection by the Daily Post Justin Wilkins, a 2020 as one of the top six players Central Gwinnett, has signed in Gwinnett County. with the Defiance College neal commits (Ohio) football program.

The 5-foot-10, 215-pound to Air Force running back earned firstFranklin Neal, a rising team All-Region 7-AAAAAAA honors and all-county hon- senior at Grayson, plans to ors as a senior when he continue his football career rushed for 799 yards and at the U.S. Air Force Acad10 touchdowns and caught emy. He committed Sunday 48 passes for 523 yards and to the Falcons.

The outside linebacker had eight TDs. Wilkins, who also played 42 tackles last season for the defense during his Central Rams’ state playoff team. career, rushed for 874 yards and 11 TDs as a junior. He Claude commits also had 37 catches for 384 to Buffalo yards and three more scores.

Grayson defensive back Hart to play for Jibrahn Claude announced his college football plans LaGrange College Saturday, committing to Satchel Hart, a 2020 Gray- the Buffalo Bulls.

The rising senior defenson grad, made a commitment to the LaGrange Col- sive back, rated a three-star lege men’s soccer program. recruit by 247Sports.com, Hart, a two-year captain had 72 tackles and two inand four-year varsity player, terceptions last season for was a first-team all-coun- the Rams’ state quarterfity and all-region selection nal team.

Going into the 2020 season, Parkview head baseball coach Chan Brown and his team were looking to be the first Class AAAAAAA team to win the state championship in three consecutive years.

Brown and the Panthers never got that chance as a season full of tournaments and three-peat hopes was cut short to just 15 games due to the outbreak of the coronavirus.

“Obviously, our expectation at the start of the year was to try to win the state championship and win the region championship,” Brown said. “Coming back with all of our pitching with Miles Garrett and Xander Stephens leading the pack, we felt really good about our pitching.”

Xander Stephens (3-0, 0.00 ERA), Miles Garrett (2-1, 0.68 ERA), Mason Brown (3-0, 0.00 ERA), Graham Yntema (2-0, 1.02 ERA) and Ryan Spikes (1-0, two saves, 0.00 ERA) were stellar on the mound in the early going.

The Panthers dropped their first game of the year against 2019 state semifinalist North Gwinnett by a narrow score of 2-1.

“That was a big game opening up for us, but we didn’t swing the bat very well. Coming out of that game, we saw some things we needed to work on,” Brown said. “Obviously, one game didn’t determine anything. Our guys knew that they needed to focus a little bit more and we started playing well in the games that we needed to.”

Parkview did exactly that, winning 12 of its next 13 games and accumulating a 4-0 region record before the season’s cancellation.

During that hot stretch, it went 3-0 in the Georgia Peach Tournament with three wins by shutout — 3-0 over Jefferson, 4-0 over Starr’s Mill and 8-0 over Blessed Trinity. It went 3-1 in the prestigious Perfect Game High School Showdown, losing only to Florida’s Archbishop McCarthy (3-2

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Parkview’s Pascanel Ferreras plays defense during a game this season. in eight innings). Its Perfect Game victories came against Hartselle, Ala. (1-0), Decatur (5-1) and Doral Academy, Fla. (4-0).

The Panthers’ last game was at home on March 12 against Grayson. Going into the game, Brown was aware of the possibility that the season might be cancelled soon after the game.

“Before we played Grayson, we talked about it before the game that this could be their last game so they needed to leave everything on the line,” Brown said. “It hit home pretty hard. Some of their goals were taken away from them which hurt from a heart standpoint. Losing the brotherhood and the relationships that we formed hurt as well.”

When it became evident in the fifth inning of the Grayson game that the season would be postponed, Brown commenced a makeshift “Senior Night” to honor one of his

most successful classes.

“Our most complete game was our last game against Grayson,” Brown said. “We were starting to come together at the right time right before we were going into region.

I think as a team, we were headed in the right direction.”

Pascanel Ferreras had a big season at the plate for the Panthers, leading the team in home runs, hits, runs, batting average and doubles.

He hit .415 with four home runs, 10 RBIs, 15 runs, 17 hits, five doubles and a triple.

Other offensive standouts included Jack Davis (.343, two home runs, 12 RBIs, two doubles, two triples), Sam Smith (.361, eight RBIs, five doubles), Spikes (.405, 15 hits), Jon Ponder (.351, 11 runs), Dobbs Bowden (.400, two home runs, 10 RBIs), Cade Sadler (.370, seven RBIs, three doubles) and C.J. Thompson (.364, 9 of 10 stolen bases).

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GCPS provides Phase 1 guide for conditioning to begin June 8

By Will Hammock will.hammock@ gwinnettdailypost.com

Athletes from Gwinnett County Public Schools can return to on-campus training June 8, the date set by the Georgia High School Association for reopening from the coronavirus pandemic break.

GCPS distributed an informational packet, its Guidance for Return to Athletic Conditioning, to high school athletic departments in advance of its Phase 1 of reopening that begins June 8. Each GCPS high school will work with the district guidelines and develop an individual plan that works best for their program and facilities.

The conditioning sessions are permitted Monday through Thursday with all GCPS schools closed on Friday.

The GHSA announced May 21 that it would allow oncampus conditioning to resume June 8. The first stage only permits conditioning (no balls or sports-specific

equipment), is voluntary and must follow a set of safety guidelines set forth by the organization.

Schools have the option to be more strict with their plans, the GHSA said, but they cannot be more lenient.

“As the data related to COVID-19 continues to improve, restrictions may be reduced after input from our health care professionals and guidance from our Governor,” GHSA executive director Robin Hines told member schools in the May 21 announcement. “Please make every effort to follow the recommendations and restrictions included in the guidance provided. As you return to conditioning, keep in mind that the majority of your athletes have deconditioned the past two months and need to work into what would be normal for this time of year. Reduce the work and gradually increase the workouts with time.”

The GHSA will provide updates when activities other than conditioning are allowed.

The GCPS Phase 1 plan

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Other GCPS and GHSA guidelines include no use of locker rooms or showers, weight room cleaning while in use (between sets of each athlete), social distancing and the encouragement of wearing masks (though not mandatory). Athletes are required to bring their own water bottles and towels are not allowed.

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Former Buford head coach Jess Simpson is seen prior to a 2017 preseason game against the Arizona Cardinals at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.

Falcons’ Simpson, former Buford coach, offers advice on restart From staff reports With high school athletics nearing a restart amid uncertainty from the coronavirus pandemic and racial tension, Jess Simpson offered some advice to coaches on social media.

The Atlanta Falcons defensive line coach spent 22 years as a high school football coach at Buford, including 12 as head coach.

He won seven state championships as head coach with the Wolves, and three more titles as defensive coordinator before coaching college football with the Miami Hurricanes and NFL football with the Falcons. He played high school football at Marietta for legendary coach Dexter Wood, who later became his boss at Buford.

The Georgia High School Association has permitted schools to begin on-campus training — with strict guidelines — beginning June 8.

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and other states are allowing training to begin in the next few weeks for high school athletes,” Simpson wrote.

“I know my life was powerfully impacted by coaches who spoke truth and poured into me as a young man.

“Over the past three months — during an incredibly tough time — I haven’t been able to stop thinking about how high school kids all over this country have been separated from the folks that in many cases have the greatest impact on their lives daily — their coaches, teachers and administrators — and they need us now more than ever.”

Simpson then offered the following guidance to coaches for when players return: ♦ More than training, more than skills development, more than teaching them ball … They need us to Listen — we are all hurting and they need to be able to express themselves to men and women they respect. ♦ They need us to Acknowledge — the Truth!

Our kids need to know that

we know that there is a real problem. ♦ They need us to be Patient — like us they are emotional, confused and angry at what they have witnessed and seen — they need empathy, not an extra lap. ♦ They need to See US — love on each other, listen to each other, serve each other, care for one another and show regard and respect to one another — “and the greatest of these is Love.” ♦ They need Wise Counsel — you may be one of the only voices of reason in their life today. ♦ For our country to change it will have to start in the hearts of men and women like us — because at the root of all of this is a heart problem. ♦ So be intentional — it will take hard and transparent conversations — if we want our youth to be the change that this world needs, they have to see us be different. We have the greatest job in the world and it comes with the greatest responsibility.

IN BRIEF Mize earns All-American nod Brookwood grad Will Mize, a shortstop at Georgia State, was named to the Collegiate Baseball Freshman All-American Team this week.

Mize started all 16 games

in the coronavirus-shortened season and hit .373, second on the team and 10th in the Sun Belt Conference. He had a team-high 17 RBIs, which was fifth in the league, and led all Sun Belt freshmen in RBIs. He finished the season on an 11-game hitting streak.

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Gwinnett Board of Commissioners adds protections for county employees’ sexual orientations, gender identities sidered to be a prohibited form of sex discrimination.”

The move is the latest step Gwinnett County has taken to recognize LGBTQ residents as well as people’s gender identity. Last year, Commissioner Ben Ku — who is Gwinnett’s first openly gay county commissioner — led his colleagues in presenting a proclamation recognizing June as Gay Pride Month, the first time it had ever been recognized by the county.

Ku made the motion to approve the merit system changes on Tuesday, with Commissioner Marlene Fosque seconding the motion. Commission Chairwoman Charlotte Nash joined them in voting in favor of the change.

Ludwiczak said County Administrator Glenn Stephens asked the Merit System Board amend the rules to add the new provision regarding sexual orientation and gender identity. The Merit System Board, which gave its blessing to the new provision, must sign off on any changes to File photo the merit system rules before they go to the Board of Com- Gwinnett County commissioners meet in this file photo. The commission voted Tuesday to add protections for missioners for final approval. county employees from discrimination by prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.

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Gwinnett County leaders changed rules designed to protect county employees from discrimination on Tuesday to ensure no employee will be discriminated against because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.

County commissioners voted 3-2 on Tuesday to amend the county’s merit system rules and regulations to specify that sexual orientation and gender identity will now be considered sexual discrimination, and therefore prohibited. Commissioners Jace Brooks and Tommy Hunter voted against the change.

“Specifically, these proposed changes are intended to address inconsistenciesin some of these provisions and to ensure the same uniform nondiscrimination language appears throughout the rules,” county attorney Mike Ludwiczak said. “The changes are also intended to clarify that discrimination against an employee because of sexual orientation or gender identity is con-

SCHOOLS From A1 whether to close school buildings in the event the virus spreads.

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to handle students and teachers who show symptoms of the virus.

Additionally, the guidelines note ways for school districts to shift to online learning in the event of an outbreak, as well as to take a “hybrid” approach allowing districts to blend in-person and online learning. If the virus spreads at a “moderate” level, the guidelines advise schools to screen students and staff before

Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Office,” Pihera said. “We hope that these arrests can bring some comfort to the Cosme family.”

Officers assigned to the East Precinct responded to an armed

they enter buildings and to require students to keep space between each other in cafeterias, classrooms and hallways.

“In partnership with the Georgia Department of Public Health, we created these guidelines to give school districts a blueprint for safe reopening that is realistic in the K-12 setting,” State School Superintendent Richard Woods wrote in the document. “We have

robbery call at the Auto Zone around 9 p.m. Monday.

The employees told the responding officers that a black male suspect entered the store and demanded the store’s cash while pointing a gun at them.

The suspect fled the store in a black vehicle.

Officers eventually tracked down the suspects’ vehicle, where it crashed on La Mai-

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a responsibility to keep out students, teachers, school staff and families safe and to provide the best possible education for our children.”

The guidelines will likely not be the last word on how Georgia should resume classes for the 2020-2021 school year. Last month, Kemp and Woods formed six working groups of educators, public health officials and state

agency representatives to lead the school reopening effort.

The guidelines also come as the Georgia Department of Education faces across-the-board cuts of around $1.6 billion to all aspects of the agency prompted by the virus, from state administrative offices in Atlanta to specialty programs like agricultural education to everyday basic classroom education.

son Drive, approximately three miles from the Auto Zone.

Officers saturated the area looking for the suspects, and Reverse 911s were issued to neighboring homes.

Detectives and officers determined that the two suspects who fled the vehicle were the same suspects from the armed robbery and murder of Cosme at an O’Reilly Auto Parts store in Buford last year.

After an exhaustive search that spanned several hours, neither of the suspects were found until the next day. Both Norah and Robertson had other outstanding warrants.

The FBI offered a reward of $15,000 for information leading to the arrest of the suspects special photo involved in this crime. The re- The Gwinnett County Police Department has identified ward money is separate from 25-year-old Tavares Norah and 27-year-old Prince Robertson the reward offered by Crime as the suspects of the armed robbery and murder of former Stoppers of Greater Atlanta.

deputy Felix Cosme (above). They are wanted for another armed robbery in Dacula that occurred on June 1.

BODY CAM From A1 Lawrenceville residents Alvin Kenneth Joseph, 21, Stephanie Chinwa Nwankwo, 19, and Armani Milton, 19, and Duluth resident Eli Jacob Frederick, 24.

Each of the four was charged with disorderly conduct — refusal to disperse, but Frederick was also charged with willful obstruction of law enforcement officers.

Gwinnett police said a crowd had gathered around officers and began throwing objects at them during the protest.

Officers attempted to arrest Joseph for criminal trespass at that time, but he allegedly ran off. Police did not specify what Joseph did at the protest that prompted officers to want to arrest him.

Body camera video showed officers telling Joseph and other protesters to get on a sidewalk. Joseph can be heard repeatedly asking why officers were addressing the group he was in, and not some nearby people who were white.

“What about those white people,” Joseph can be heard saying.

“Hey, if you don’t get off the road, you’re going to jail for criminal trespassing,” an officer can be heard saying to Joseph. “Three, two, one.

You’re under arrest. Let’s go.

Come on.”

Frederick then allegedly jumped between an officer and a female that the offi-

cer was attempting to arrest.

Police accused Frederick of pushing the officer.

“Body camera video being released shows Frederick being told that he was under arrest and refusing to comply with that lawful order,” police said in a statement released Monday. “While the officer was attempting to place Frederick in handcuffs, Frederick kicked the groin area of the officer. That officer delivered two straight strikes to Frederick in an attempt to gain control and compliance.

“After he was struck, Frederick complied with officers and was placed in handcuffs with no further resistance.

This use of force, as are all applications of force, has been reviewed through the chain of command and has been found lawful and within policy.”

Master Police Officer D.J. Bennett, who arrested Frederick, said much the same in his arrest warrant affidavit.

The affidavit does not mention that the officer struck Frederick, however.

“The accused blocked me from makeing (sic) the arrest of another subject,” Bennett wrote. “The accused physically interfered with the arrest.

The subject was pulled out of the crowd to be arrested, at which point he attempted to get away. The subject refused to comply with officers and put his hands behind his back to be handcuffed. The accused was forced to the ground where he attempted to kick me and continue to

get away. Accused did not offer and did not do violence to the person of said officer.”

Joseph then returned as handcuffs were being put on Frederick.

“Joseph was told that he was under arrest again,” police said. “As Joseph was noncompliant, he turned to run away for the second time, he was struck with a TASER. The TASER strike caused Joseph to fall to the ground, and he was placed in handcuffs without further incident.”

Nwankwo and Milton were arrested without incident, police said.

Joseph and Frederick bonded out of jail on Saturday while Nwankwo and Milton bonded out Sunday.

There were no previous arrests listed in Gwinnett’s jail records for Frederick or Nwankwo.

Records show Joseph was previously arrested on credit card theft and fraud charges in 2015 and armed robbery charges in 2016, while Milton was arrested on a shoplifting charge in 2019.

“The police department is in full support of anyone who wishes to exercise their right to protest in a peaceful and lawful manner,” police said. “At the same time, the department has a responsibility to the residents of Gwinnett County to protect life and property. We will continue to remain transparent in our application of police services and are committed to keeping Gwinnett County safe.”

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