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JUNE 14 – JUNE 20, 2019

VOLUME 27 NO. 24

SHOT FOR AN APOLOGY Florida is still ‘The Gunshine State.’ Here’s news on a mistaken road rage incident and some relevant political happenings this week. COMPILED FROM WIRE REPORTS

DAVIE – Keith Byrne was trying to do the right thing. After the Marine Corps veteran accidentally cut off another car, he was ready to apologize at the next light. Before he could, a passenger got out of the cut-off car and shot him square in the chest.

Returned fire The mortally wounded Byrne, 41, was also prepared to fight back. With his own gun, he fired

two shots at 22-year-old Andre Sinclair, and Sinclair died of his injuries at the hospital two days later. Byrne died on scene. Sinclair had been a passenger in the car his girlfriend was driving. Their toddler was in the backseat. The whole incident was something that Davie Police Sgt. Mark Leone called ultimately “pointless and silly.” In a news conference Wednesday, the sergeant went through what had happened on June 7 at the corner of Flamingo Road and Southwest

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Two men killed each other in an apparent road rage incident in South Florida. Eighth Street just south of Interstate 595.

‘My bad’ Byrne had been on the phone with a friend at the time.

The friend “heard his friend Keith say, ‘My bad,’ in making an attempt to apologize,” Leone said. “At that time over the phone he heard the gunshots and Mr. Byrne said, ‘I think I’ve been shot,’ started slurring his speech, and

then the phone call was disconnected.” According to police, Sinclair got out of his girlfriend’s blue BMW displaying his gun and was See RAGE, Page A2

Census 2020 is hiring

2019 NBA PLAYOFFS

Warriors not dead yet

Here’s your guide SPECIAL TO THE TRICE EDNEY NEWS WIRE FROM ETHNIC MEDIA SERVICES

The Census Bureau has said it expects to hire about a half-million people nationwide to help in its all-important counting of everybody living in the United States – something the government has done every 10 years since 1790. That half-million hiring target is a sizable decrease from the last census, in 2010, when the bureau was more dependent on shoe leather than silicon to get the work done.

Going online

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Despite NBA superstar Kevin Durant’s early-game injury, the Golden State Warriors used killer three-point shooting to stave off elimination on June 10’s Game Five of the 2019 NBA Finals in Toronto, Canada. Game Six was scheduled to be played on June 13, after the Florida Courier’s press time late Wednesday night.

Instead of the 635,000 people hired in 2010 to knock on doors to fill out questionnaires with people who hadn’t gotten theirs to the mailbox, in 2020, for the first time, the government is counting on people filling out their forms online. The half-million Census Bureau jobs are open to any U.S. citizen who can pass a background check, is at least 18 and possesses a Social Security number. In California, census officials project they will fill or already have filled about 12,800 positions. “It’s a relatively fluid number, just a projection,” said Celeste Jimenez, assistant regional census manager based in Los Angeles. That’s because for “enumerators,” the biggest category of census workers, the number of people hired will depend on how many people didn’t complete their census questionnaires promptSee CENSUS, Page A2

SNAPSHOTS

DeSantis, GOP make petition drives harder BY JIM SAUNDERS NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA

TALLAHASSEE – Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday signed 38 bills, including a controversial measure that will make it harder for groups and citizens to put proposed constitutional amendments on the ballot. The Republican-dominated Florida Legislature passed the measure (HB 5) amid petition drives designed to place a series of issues on the November 2020

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ballot, including proposed amendments to increase the minimum wage, expand Medicaid, overhaul the electric-utility industry, ban assault-style weapons and revamp primary elections.

More regulations The bill places new restrictions on the petitiongathering process, which plays a critical role in getGov. Ron ting initiatives on the balDeSantis lot. For the November 2020 election, as an example, supporters of amendments need to submit 766,200 valid petition signatures to reach the ballot. Among other things, the bill makes it illegal to pay petition gatherers based on the number of petitions they collect, a

change that is expected to drive up costs for amendments backers. Also, the bill requires submission of information about petition gatherers, including their permanent and temporary addresses and dates of birth. In addition, it requires petitions to be turned into county supervisors of elections no more than 30 days after being signed by voters and includes penalties of up to $50 for each late submission.

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Now in effect The prohibition on paid petition-gatherers takes effect immediately, while other petition-related changes in the bill will take effect in 30 days, according to a House analysis. The changes apply to amendments proposed for the 2020 ballot, though they do not affect signatures See DESANTIS, Page A2

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