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Search for student suspended North Bend junior fell from rocks Sunday near Sunset Bay ZACH SILVA The World

COOS COUNTY — On Monday afternoon, the Coos County Sheriff’s Office announced the suspension of a search for 17-year-old Ian Spalding near Sunset Bay. On Sunday night around 8 p.m. the department received a call about a male teen who had fallen off a rock while with two friends. That was the last time

he was seen.

The location where Spalding fell was near Norton Gulch and a press release stated that Spalding struck his head during the fall. A witness noted that he was in and out of consciousness while in the ocean. Spalding was a junior at North Bend High School and member of the Bulldogs’ football and baseball teams.

After a night of searching that was restarted at first light, efforts to continue the search were suspended on Monday afternoon around 3 p.m.

“We have used every available asset, we’ve run every avenue until it’s — multiple times repeatedly,” said Bryan Valencia, a

deputy with the CCSO who was also serving as Search and Rescue coordinator. “We’ve had air assets, boats, divers in the water and at one point we had (over 100) people, friends and family, out here searching and helping.

Just a tremendous outpouring from the community.

“Unfortunately, we just have no further avenues that we can investigate at this time. We’ll be here if the family calls and we’ll be the first ones out to look again if they find something or see something, but at this point we’re going to suspend our search.”

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A sign near the Norton Gulch Trail where 17-year-old Ian Spalding was last seen.

Coquille council member resigns

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it would escalate a tense situation.

“This is a very difficult time for our state and our entire nation. Senseless violence does not honor George Floyd’s death,” she said, adding later that “having soldiers on the streets of America is exactly what President Trump wants.”

Earlier Monday, U.S. Attorney for Oregon Billy J. Williams had asked Brown to deploy National Guard troops to the city to guard infrastructure such as federal courthouses and police offices.

“What I saw at the Justice Center …. was sickening. This has to stop and in order for that to happen in the city of Portland, we need help,” Williams said of the protests Sunday.

COQUILLE — The City of Coquille announced Friday its search for a new city council member following the resignation of Mike Layton.

With his other commitments becoming much larger, Layton stated in his resignation letter that he was unable to fulfill his requirements as a city councilor, said Coquille City Manager Sam Baugh.

Layton, who was elected in November 2018, submitted his letter of resignation on May 19.

In one of the city’s most populated races in years, Layton competed against 10 other candidates for one of the three council seats available.

In the 2018 general election, Layton received the most votes with 16.70%, or 714 votes.

He, along with fellow council members Matt Rowe and Ann Parker, secured council positions and replaced long-term members Linda Short, Loran Wiese and Dennis Graham.

The city issued a public notice on May 19 announcing the vacancy and its search for residents looking to serve the remainder of Layton’s term, which was set to end Dec. 31, 2022. Applicants must be a U.S. citizen, a registered voter and a resident of the City of Coquille for at least 12 months.

According to the public notice, applicants must submit their letters of interest, which can be delivered in person or by email, to city hall prior to 5 p.m. on June 10. Postmarked dates will not be accepted.

Interviews are expected to be conducted at the Coquille City Council meeting on Monday, June 15, said Baugh.

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A Les Schwab worker paints over graffiti on Monday morning. Over the weekend, a message was spray painted on the side of Les Scwab’s building on Broadway St. in Coos Bay. The graffiti included George Floyd’s name. Floyd was killed by a police officer in Minneapolis last week, which has led to protests across the country.

Governor resists use of National Guard PORTLAND (AP) — Oregon Gov. Kate Brown said Monday she won’t send National Guard troops to actively help quell violent protests in Portland over the killing of George Floyd because they aren’t needed and that “is exactly what President Trump wants.”

Protests continued Monday evening and night throughout the city, with thousands of people marching through neighborhoods for the fifth consecutive night.

At a news conference, Brown said she would send 100 state police from around Oregon to assist the city, and would activate 50 unarmed National Guard troops to work in support and behind the scenes. Earlier Monday, President Donald Trump slammed many governors

as “weak” in teleconference and demanded tougher crackdowns on burning and stealing during some demonstrations.

“You don’t defuse violence by putting soldiers on the streets,” Brown, at Democrat, countered.

“Trump wants governors to deploy the National Guard as a show of force to intimidate the public. I want to ensure that the public can safely raise their voices in this much-needed call for reform.”

Portland remains under a curfew order that takes effect at 8 p.m. nightly. On Monday, however, the police went even further and ordered all citizens out of a large area of downtown Portland starting at 4 p.m. On Twitter, the agency said demonstrators could protest outside the no-go zone.

Police have arrested at least 75 people in the past three nights during demonstrations over the killing of Floyd, a handcuffed black man who pleaded for air as a white Minneapolis police officer pressed a knee against his neck.

Eleven adults were arrested during protests Sunday and three juveniles were detained.

Earlier Monday, authorities said projectiles — including “large, industrial grade mortar-type fireworks” — were thrown at officers and windows in a federal courthouse had been shattered.

Brown said the violence is being perpetrated by a small segment of the demonstrators and said she refused to deploy the National Guard on Sunday at Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler’s request because she was concerned

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Powers High School drive-in graduation AMANDA LINARES The World

POWERS — A first in its school history, Powers High School hosted a drive-in graduation ceremony Saturday to celebrate the graduating class of 2020.

With traditional graduation festivities off the table due to the new coronavirus pandemic, seniors and their families attended in this year’s commencement ceremony by parking and staying inside their vehicles.

Like a drive-in theater, folks were able to watch the outdoor ceremony from the privacy of their cars, which were parked in the front of the school building, according to Powers School District Superintendent Matt Shorb.

With a senior class of five students, Shorb said he thought the drive-in ceremony seemed to be the best fit for seniors and their families. Each student was allowed to invite up to six vehicles to the ceremony, he added.

This year’s graduating class, which was faced with a number of changes and cancellations due to the new coronavirus, really showcased their strength and resilience, said Shorb.

“I think anytime you face adversity in life it allows you the opportunity to demonstrate your resilience,” said Shorb.

“The class of 2020 has had ample opportunity to demonstrate their resilience and they’ve been through more as a graduating class than any other graduating class that I have been a part and with that comes experience and toughness. They’ll be able to use that to their benefit moving forward.”

A student who demonstrated his resiliency by pushing through this year’s challenges was 18-year-old David Pedrick, who was named the valedictorian for the class of 2020.

In his speech on Saturday, Pedrick, a student athlete, said he reminded his fellow classmates to join him in pushing beyond their frustrations and

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Powers High School hosted a drive-in graduation ceremony on Saturday, May 30 to celebrate its class of 2020. disappointment with how their senior year ended because of the pandemic.

The Powers high school class of 2020 will go on to do great things and will continue to overcome challenges, he said. Next fall, Pedrick said he plans to attend Oregon State

University where he will participate in its U.S. Air Force ROTC program and study chemistry.

Pedrick, who was awarded a scholarship under the program, said he hopes to one day become an Air Force pilot and eventually an astronaut.

His grandfather, Don, an Air Force veteran, is among the people he said inspires him to do his best and succeed.

Throughout his high school career, Pedrick has been on the football, basketball, cross-country and track teams. For his junior

year, he was also elected class president.

“I’m excited to get to what’s new,” said Pedrick.

The Powers High School Class of 2020 also included salutatorian Maria Cano, Jeremiah Beagle, Hayden Kamakele and Hailee McKnight.

Arago to the California border remain closed to razor clamming, as domoic acid toxin levels remain too high there.

Residents of Oregon can participate in harvesting recreational mussel, bay clam and crab, along the entire coastline. Coastal scallops can also be harvested but not eaten whole — only

the adductor muscle of recreationally-harvested scallops should be eaten.

Commercially harvested shellfish remains safe for consumers.

All clamming is closed to non-residents, due to concerns about COVID-19. According to the release, crabbing is open to non-residents along most of the coast,

but closed north of Cape Falcon and in the Columbia River.

The ODA tests for toxins twice per month, as tides and weather permit. They test for both paralytic shellfish toxin and domoic acid toxin, which are produced by algae which originates in the ocean. To reopen an area to clamming or

crabbing, ODA must conduct two tests in a row with results below the limit.

For more information call ODA’s shellfish safety information hotline at (800) 448-2474, the Food Safety Division at 503986-4720, or visit the ODA Recreational Shellfish Biotoxin Closures webpage at bit.ly/3dkcEo1.

Recreational razor clamming reopens for residents The World COOS BAY — Recreational razor clamming is now open on the south-central coast beaches.

In a press release from the Oregon Department of Agriculture and the

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Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, it was announced that levels of the biotoxin domoic acid had dropped low enough that areas from Cape Arago to the Columbia River could be opened to clamming for Oregon residents.

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June 1 Arrest At 7:36 a.m. on Broadway Avenue, an officer contacted two subjects on Sizzler property. The first subject was warned not to camp at location and agreed to leave. The officer served a valid Coos County Sheriff’s Office warrant on the second subject, Nick Linnehan, 37, of North Bend for alleged failure to appear on DUII. The subject was cited in lieu of custody and issued permanent trespass from Sizzler.

At 1:17 p.m. on Newmark Street, it was reported that an intox-

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Proposed county budget navigates revenue losses JILLIAN WARD The World

COOS COUNTY — After rebuilding the Coos County Sheriff’s Office staffing levels over the past 10 years, Sheriff Craig Zanni is afraid some of his efforts are unraveling.

Recently, the Coos County Budget Committee approved a reduction to the general fund.

This move cut any open positions financed through that fund, which included positions in the District Attorney’s Office and county law enforcement. This month, the Board of Commissioners will review the proposed budget before approving the changes, though Zanni doesn’t expect positions to be saved.

“We lost two open positions,” Zanni said of the cuts. “… (The county) was originally $2.8 million out of balance and statute requires the county balance because you can’t run deficits or spend money you don’t have. The bottom line is they had to reduce the deficit.”

Coos County District Attorney Paul Frasier spoke with The World last month on how these proposed cuts would affect his office, which cut one open position. He said part of the backlog of nearly 600 cases, some spanning from 2018, might go unprosecuted due to the understaffing.

For Zanni, being down two deputy positions means more work will be spread among existing staff.

“We have to find a way to spread the work out,” he said. “Everyone is pulling a little harder.”

Since the new coronavirus pandemic began, Zanni said the department has seen crime shift but the volume remain steady. He said while

burglaries were down as of mid-May, domestic disturbances were up. And while traffic accidents were down, assisting mental health calls was up.

Though his department is working to absorb the loss of two deputy positions and maintain the same level of coverage, it is a point of frustration after having spent 10 years working to rebuild staffing levels after the county lost timber money in 2007. That loss initially brought the department funding down by 40%.

“We’ve been trying to return to what it was ever since,” Zanni said. “… Now we’re just holding our breath to see what happens.”

As he described it, after the 2007 loss of timber revenue, the department was not “viably functioning” at the resulting 40% revenue loss.

All the department could do was handle the major calls.

“When I came in as sheriff over 10 years ago, when you had a theft you used to get a letter from (the department) saying ‘please put name, information, what was taken so if we come across it we will give your property back,’” he remembered. “We didn’t have people to investigate those calls … (Now) if you’re a victim of a crime, a deputy is coming. Maybe not in five minutes, but they are coming. If we look at reductions, I see us going back to that and have a real problem with that. That’s not appropriate public safety.”

Coos County Treasurer Megan Simms said that the budget, proposed at $24,641,792, likely won’t change between now and final approval unless there is revenue to back up those changes.

And though the county is still trying to recover from the loss of timber revenue, additional unknowns are factoring into the 2020-2021

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Coos County Sheriff Craig Zanni talks about proposed budget cuts and what it means for the department. budget as well. These “unknowns” are financial impacts from the state shutdown as a result from the pandemic, which won’t be felt, she said, for another month or two.

“The potential loss of funds due to the pandemic … a lot of funding comes from the state,” she said. “For instance … parks were closed and that was a major revenue loss for the parks fund.

There are all of these different revenue sources from shutting the county down. “… We’re in a state of flux trying to figure out what’s going to happen.”

Simms expects the county commissioners to adopt the budget this month, though the county will need a supplemental budget to account for not only these financial fallouts but to adjust for the newly approved radio levy which was not included in the proposed budget. “… The impact of the reduction of timber (funds) and now the downturn of the economy, every agency is going to see problems,” Zanni said. “Coos County has been in hard times for a long time. This will just make it worse.”

Port Orford, Bandon and Reedsport graduation plans The World Pacific High School PORT ORFORD — Pacific High School will be hosting its 62nd commencement ceremony for the Class of 2020 at 5 p.m. Friday, June 5, in Port Orford. The ceremony will be a parade through Port Orford. The route starts at the intersection of 16th Street and U.S. Highway 101 and will proceed down Highway 101. Each graduate will be in a vehicle with their family.

In front of Driftwood Elementary School, each vehicle will stop, graduates will get out, be presented to the crowd, receive their diploma and a flower, and get back into their vehicle. The graduates will drive until 11th Street, where they will turn and proceed into the Driftwood field.

Graduates will get out, turn tassels and throw their caps.

Highway 101 will be shut down to all traffic on June 5 from 4:45 p.m. to approximately 5:45 p.m. Traffic will be rerouted. Those who are planning on parking on the parade route, are asked to be parked before 4:45 p.m.

Parking to watch the parade is available down both sides of Highway 101 and 11th Street on either side of the street. Parking will not be available in front of the lawn at Driftwood. Parking will be available in the Driftwood parking lot off of Tichenor Avenue.

Per Governor Brown’s orders, social distancing is required along the parade route. People are more than welcome to watch the parade in their cars. Pacific High administrators encourage people to wear masks if they are planning on standing on the sidewalks. Anyone with any symptoms of sickness, are asked to please watch the ceremony on the school’s live stream.

Those planning on walking to the event are asked to not park along the parade route to leave room for those who would prefer to watch the parade in their cars.

Pacific will also be live-streaming the event on its Facebook page for those who cannot make it. Pacific will also broadcast the videos of the valedictorian and salutatorian speeches, the scholarship presentation, and the senior video on its YouTube page starting June 5. The gradua-

tion program will be available on the Facebook page on June 5. A video of the event will be posted on the YouTube page the next week.

Bandon High School BANDON — The graduating Bandon High School Class of 2020 will be parading through the streets of Bandon following a drive-up style graduation ceremony on Saturday, June 6.

Diploma presentations will begin at 4 p.m. (graduate families only).

Following the 44 diploma presentations, seniors will commence with a community parade.

The parade will begin at the corner of Ninth Street SW and U.S. Highway 101, proceeding through Old Town via the city’s traditional holiday parade route.

“The Bandon School District is hoping the entire community will come out and wish these seniors well as they drive by, while following social distancing guidelines, to say ‘Congratulations, Bandon High School Class of 2020!’” ● 2020 graduates arrive at 3:30 p.m., to begin vehicle lineup behind BHS and HLMS in the back parking lot area. The vehicle transporting the student will be provided a number for their place in the ceremony and parade. ● Vehicle lineup begins as follows: BHS Class of 2020 valedictorian; BHS Class of 2020 salutatorian; BHS Class of 2020 class officers; then, first come, first served for remainder of lineup. ● At 4 p.m., the graduation ceremony will begin with an announcement from Superintendent Doug Ardiana. Each graduate will take turns entering the diploma distribution area (BHS gymnasium parking lot), where they will receive their diploma and additional graduation related items (including Booster Club sign). ● Graduate names will be announced as they move toward the front of the stage for their presentation of diploma ceremony. ● Following their presentation, graduate vehicles will exit the gym parking lot through the opposing side to line up facing east on Ninth Street for the community parade. ● After all graduates have received their diplomas, the parade will commence, running along the typical City of Bandon parade route.

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to watch at a later date once everything is edited and will be put online on the RCCS website.

A virtual Senior Recognition Night will be held at 6 p.m. Tuesday, June 2, in the Reedsport Community Charter School Auditorium. This will be a virtual meeting through Google Meets.

You will need to download the app on your device before the meet. Here is the link: https:// meet.google.com/qxf-nuba-gxs.

Project Graduation Grad Night — Graduates will meet in the back parking lot at 6 p.m. on Sunday, June 7, and drive or be driven on parade route. The public is invited to watch the parade and cheer on the graduates.

The route will start in the back parking lot of the high school, proceed onto 22nd Street, turning right headed to Arthur Drive, then turning right off of 22nd Street onto Arthur Drive to Longwood, then turning left on Longwood passing Highland Elementary School. From Longwood, the parade will travel to Ranch Road, then turn right on Ranch Road, passing the School District office. The parade will then go under the Burdic underpass, then right onto Frontage Road, then to 22nd Street, turning right onto 22nd, then left on U.S. Highway 101 heading north, then following Highway 101 to Napa Auto Parts, and turning right on Winchester Avenue, then to East Rail Road, and ending at Hahn Park at the Veterans Memorial flag pole.

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Reedsport Community Charter School REEDSPORT — The Reedsport Community Charter School will hold graduation ceremonies on Sunday, June 7, with 45 students celebrating their accomplishments along with a limited number of educators, parents, family and friends.

At 11:45 a.m., graduates only, wearing their caps and gowns, will arrive for their senior picture at Ruppe Field (weather permitting — if not, there will be a photo of the girls and a photo of the boys taken inside the gym). Parents, family and friends are asked not to attend; the senior photo will be made available to them at a later time.

Graduation will start at 1 p.m. at RCCS, 2260 Longwood Drive, Reedsport. Due to the COVID-19 issue, the ceremony is not open to the public. Each graduate will be allowed only eight guests to enter the school and auditorium to watch. The speaker will be Mr. Josh Peck.

Graduates will be given a time to arrive and be staged at RCCS about one half-hour before they enter the auditorium to receive their diplomas. In order to keep everyone safe, there will be no sitting in the auditorium. Guests may walk their graduate down front and take one quick photo, then exit the building.

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Letters to the Editor Remembering June 4, 1942 Christmas Day 1941 Admiral Chester Nimitz arrived alone by Catalina flying boat to command the Pacific Fleet. He saw the Pearl Harbor attack had missed dry-docks, repair shops, and the tank farm. Therefore, the carriers, their escorts, and submarines stood ready to take the offensive.

Nimitz determined some good men had taken a terrible beating.

When he took command December 31, he told the assembled staffs he had complete and unlimited confidence in every one of them. He immediately sent submarines into Japanese waters and conducted carrier operations disrupting Japanese Initiatives.

The discovery through code breaking of enemy intentions for Midway provided a unique opportunity to fight their main carrier fleet, but against long odds. Preparing Midway Island for invasion and assembling the carrier task forces for battle required the combined achievements of thousands in logistics, ship repair, and naval intelligence.

Yet on June 4, 1942 the final margin for victory resided with the fearful sacrifice of a few brave men. About 550 airmen lost over half their number killed when flying into the concentrated anti-aircraft fire and fighter attacks to destroy four heavy carriers and defend Midway.

This splendid victory permanently seized the initiative from the Japanese. One could easily paraphrase Winston Churchill to say never had so many, who fought in the Pacific, owed so much to so few. Walter Lord and Gordon W. Prange considered this accomplishment incredible and miraculous. For Mitsuo Fuchida and Masatake Okumiya, it was the battle that doomed Japan.

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Keeping the kids’ dream alive This year our North Bend boys bowling team worked tirelessly to achieve excellence and now has accomplished incredible success making it to the nationals in Cincinnati, however they may face an insurmountable competitive advantage, because of our continued lack of governorship. We have a facility ready to open safely where our own Mark Mattecheck owner of North Bend lanes helped write the State of Oregon’s plan for bowling allies to reopen. Until recently Bowling allies were part of Phase 1 of the Governor’s reopening plan. It includes closing half of our lanes and thorough cleaning protocols for all touch points amongst other protocols and operating standards. Our Nation is no longer ground to a halt and were ready for a new plan one that’s governed by common sense not exploitation.

Community health is of course important to us all, but what sense does it make to pick almost every other small business over bowling allies and movie theaters?

Give us clear guidelines and let us keep or community physically and financially strong!

Give the kids a shot to Achieve national greatness and all of our small business a chance to survive. Stop picking the winners and losers in our state, instead set some guidelines that we can work towards!

Thank you to the leaders in our community that have devoted time, money and resources to keep the kids’ dream alive.

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Will Increase Lumber Cut Both Sides of Eastside Mill to be Operated Will Give Work to Twenty More Men — Logs Coming from Camps in Good Shape It was announced at the C.A. Smith mill this afternoon that logs were coming in from the Smith-Powers camp now in good shape and in a few days both sides of the Eastside mill will be operated. Only one side has been running but the other side will be started which will give employment to about twenty more men.

Both sides of the big mill are running.

The logs are coming from the new Cunningham Creek camp and also from the camps around Powers.

Bay Hospital District OK’s Proposed Budget Bay Area voters are asked to ballot on several key issues in today’s primary election, but interest generated by preelection campaigns was not reflected in the early-morning turnout at precinct polling sites. Election boards reported generally slow voting during the first 1 ½ hours, although an occasional site found the turnout above normal.

Ten precincts out of about 45 in the Bay Area surveyed

by The World this morning indicated results ranging from “very, very slow” to “a little better” than in the last election.

Voting at the North Bend City Hall site, Precinct 11, where 26 had cast ballots by about 9:30 a.m., was “a little better” than usual.

Lila Holmes, election board chairman, said senior citizens make up the bulk of her voters (322 registered) and “They always turn out well for any election.”

75 YEARS June 2, 1945 City Parking Lots To Get New Surface Improvement of parking lots in Coos Bay is underway this week under the supervision of City Manager Harry McCrea. Areas behind the Coos Bay Times building and Hall Building are being graveled and leveled and a coat of black-top will be applied with the next few days.

During the improvement work, the areas have been closed to public parking. The city is pushing through the improvement in order to alleviate the crowded parking congestion in the business district, of the city.

15 YEARS June 2, 2005 CB woman hurt in crash

A Coos Bay woman was taken to the hospital early Wednesday morning after she was injured in a two-car accident on Newmark Avenue in Empire.

Coos Bay police responded to the scene and found a 2002 Mitsubishi Eclipse in the intersection of Newmark

and Morrison Street and a 1996 Geo Metro that had gone halfway over a nearby embankment adjacent to the Sunnyside Coin Laundry.

Angela Hawkins, 35, the driver of the Geo, was cited for driving uninsured. She was transported to Bay Area Hospital. The hospital had no record of Hawkins this morning.

Hundreds of sex offenders living in Coos County; 16 are predators

By Carl Mickelson and Dan Schreiber, Staff Writers Coos County is home to 249 convicted sex offenders.

Of those, 16 are designated by the Oregon State Police as predatory, ranking Coos County second highest per capita for sexual predators.

The county ranks 14th for total sex offenders, predatory or otherwise, among Oregon’s 36 counties. And under state law, residents have a right to know who they are and the towns in which they live.

According to the latest figures, there are 10,311 registered sex offenders in the state. In order to be classified as a registered sex offender, a person must have been convicted of any degree of rape, sodomy, unlawful sexual penetration or sexual abuse.

-----------------------------------These stories were found in the Marshfield Sun Printing Museum newspaper repository store in Marshfield HS courtesy of Coos Bay Schools and on The World newspaper website www.theworldlink.com.

Will the American voters trust Trump again?

Joe Biden is a mediocre presidential candidate, and every Democrat knows it.

He never would have won the nomination if a stronger, younger opponent had emerged from the selection process. And as his recent disastrous appearance on a popular black radio show demonstrates, he might be better off returning to his basement in Delaware and letting Donald Trump run against himself.

Biden told the radio host, who goes by Charlamagne tha God, “If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or you’re for Trump, then you ain’t black.” True, 89% of African Americans preferred Hillary Clinton to Trump in 2016, but in the radio interview, Biden came off as wildly insensitive. He later apologized, saying, “Perhaps I was much too cavalier.”

Being “much too cavalier” is a core Biden trait. It helped sink his two previous runs for the

White House, and at 77, there’s no reason to believe he’s going to change now.

Still, Biden could well beat Trump in November for one simple reason: When it comes to character, there’s no contest between the two. The president is far more erratic, impulsive and devious. If Trump was merely “cavalier” in his public statements, that would rank as a vast improvement over his mean-spirited mendacity.

Of course, November is a long way off, and how the country recovers from this pernicious pandemic will have a major impact on the election. But the basic outline of the fall contest is starting to crystallize, and the pivotal word is “trust.”

The best description of Biden compares him to an “old shoe” -- comfortable, broken in, familiar. He’s solid, steady, sensible. He’s no JFK, representing a new generation of leaders who fought and won World War

STEVEN V. ROBERTS II. He’s no Bill Clinton, the first Baby Boomer president. And he’s no Barack Obama, the first president of color. The energy fueling the Biden campaign is largely negative, not positive: The passion comes from loathing Trump, not loving Joe. But all elections are shaped by context -- by real-world choices, not idealized abstractions -and there is one historic parallel that strikes me as useful: 1976. The country had long been sickened by countless falsehoods about

Vietnam and Watergate emanating from Washington leaders, and voters hungered for what they heard from Jimmy Carter: “I will never lie to you.”

It was a brilliant slogan for that year, those times.

And Biden is offering a similar theme: End the chaos. Enough of the craziness. Let’s get back to normal. And at this moment in history, that message could be widely appealing.

In the latest Quinnipiac survey, only 34% describe Trump as honest, as opposed to 62% who don’t trust him. What’s so stunning is that those results mirror the exit polls for the 2016 election almost exactly. And yet 1 in 5 of those 2016 Trump skeptics voted for him despite their concerns, and arguably handed him the election.

Team Trump insists this will happen again. Tim Murtagh, the president’s campaign spokesman, compared Biden to Hillary Clinton and told The

Washington Post: “They are about to nominate another candidate who, lo and behold, has almost the exact same problems. He happens to have the same vulnerabilities. It’s not our fault the Democrats nominated another swamp creature.”

To Trump’s loyal supporters, that’s undoubtedly true, but two factors make this year quite different from 2016 -- starting with Trump’s opponent. Biden, for all his flaws, does not generate anything like the fierce animosity many voters felt for Hillary. Four years ago, voters who despised both candidates broke heavily for Trump, but this year, those who feel that way tell pollsters they strongly favor Biden.

Moreover, many of those anti-Hillary voters never thought Trump would win, and had no real conception of how he would perform as president. Now they know.

“What we’re seeing in polls is that Trump’s personal ratings have gone down even more than his job approval ratings,” Geoff Garin, a veteran Democratic pollster, told The New York Times.

“And what that tells me is that all of Trump’s antics are taking a toll on his vote, because now more than ever, people see his lack of judgment and lack of temperament as being consequential.”

Base voters in both parties will vote predictably next November. The key to the outcome is held by that sliver of Americans who felt uneasy about Trump the first time around and backed him anyway. Will they trust him again?

(Steven Roberts teaches politics and journalism at George Washington University. He can be contacted by email at stevecokie@ gmail.com.)

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Monkeys, ferrets offer needed clues in COVID-19 vaccine research LAURAN NEERGAARD Associated Press

The global race for a COVID-19 vaccine boils down to some critical questions: How much must the shots rev up someone’s immune system to really work? And could revving it the wrong way cause harm?

Even as companies recruit tens of thousands of people for larger vaccine studies this summer, behind the scenes scientists still are testing ferrets, monkeys and other animals in hopes of clues to those basic questions — steps that in a pre-pandemic era would have been finished first.

“We are in essence doing a great experiment,” said Ralph Baric, a coronavirus expert at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, whose lab is testing several vaccine candidates in animals.

The speed-up is necessary to try to stop a virus that has triggered a pandemic, killing more than 360,000 worldwide and shuttering economies. But “there’s no question there is more risk in the current strategy than what has ever been done before,” Baric said.

The animal testing lets scientists see how the body reacts to vaccines in ways studies in people never can, said Kate Broderick, research chief at Inovio Pharmaceuticals.

With animals, “we’re able to perform autopsies and look specifically at their lung tissue and get a really deep dive in looking at how their lungs have reacted,” Broderick said.

She’s awaiting results from mice, ferrets and monkeys that are being exposed to the coronavirus after receiving Inovio’s vaccine.

Since no species perfectly mimics human infection, testing a trio broadens the look at safety.

And there’s some good news on the safety front as the first animal data from various research teams starts to trickle out. So far, there are no signs of a worrisome side effect called disease enhancement, which Dr. Anthony Fauci of the U.S. National Institutes of Health calls reassuring.

Enhancement is just what the name implies: Very rarely, a vaccine doesn’t stimulate the immune system in quite the right way, producing antibodies that not only can’t fully block infection but that make any resulting disease worse.

That first happened in the 1960s with failure of a vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus, RSV, an infection dangerous to young children. More recently, it has complicated efforts at vaccines against mosquito-spread dengue fever.

And some attempted vaccines for SARS, a cousin of COVID-19, seemed to cause enhancement in animal testing.

Fast forward to the pandemic. Three recently reported studies in monkeys tested different COVID-19 vaccine approaches, including shots made by Oxford University and China’s Sinovac. The studies were small, but none of the monkeys showed evidence of immune-enhanced disease when scientists later dripped the coronavirus directly into the animals’ noses or windpipes.

Some of the best evidence so far that a vaccine might work also comes from those monkey studies. Oxford and Sinovac created very different types of COVID-19 vaccines, and in separate studies, each team recently reported that vaccinated monkeys were protected from pneumonia while monkeys given a dummy shot got sick.

Volunteers across country clean up aftermath of riots

LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Carrying brooms, shovels, trash bags and cans of paint, thousands of people from Los Angeles to New York swept up glass from broken store windows, covered over graffiti and organized ransacked businesses Monday after protests over police killings of black people turned destructive once again.

Some showed up only hours after taking part in demonstrations over the death of George Floyd, a black man pinned to the ground by a white Minneapolis police officer who pressed a knee into his neck for several minutes. Many said cleaning felt cathartic during a dark period for a nation battling the coronavirus pandemic, the job losses that followed

and now the worst racial unrest in half a century.

Bill Stuehler donned a mask Sunday and marched with a fellow nurse and other activists in Los Angeles, later trying to stop young people from breaking into stores and stealing. At home, he kept watching the violence on live feeds and fell deeper into despair.

So before sunrise, the 66-year-old grabbed brooms, a rake and a trash shovel and drove to nearby Long Beach to clean up the mess. Soon, more than 2,000 people were working side by side, scrubbing, filling trash containers and repairing what they could in the hard-hit city south of Los Angeles.

“It was pretty amazing to see the number of people turn out for the

community,” Stuehler said. “It restored the faith in humanity that I had lost last night.”

Throngs of people nationwide volunteered to help businesses — from small shops to major chains — bounce back from the damage, though some stores had burned to the ground and another night of unrest was expected.

In New Jersey, Chris DeLeon, broom in hand, arrived at 8 a.m. with dozens of other people to sweep up broken glass in the capital of Trenton. The 34-year-old had protested Sunday, then decided to help clean up after seeing videos of people smashing windows.

“It just goes to show there’s at least

as many good people as there are other folks out there,” DeLeon said.

In Wisconsin, volunteers in Milwaukee and Madison turned up for a second day to clean up damage from the night before.

Countless businesses already had taken a hit from restrictions designed to curb the spread of the coronavirus and were starting to reopen just as the protests led to more expensive setbacks: vandalism and stolen merchandise.

The owner of the Laugh Factory’s club in Long Beach discovered broken windows and doors, computers smashed and memorabilia stolen, including Three Stooges posters and autographed photos of Redd Foxx and other late comedians. Workers board-

ed up windows and swept up broken glass Monday.

Owner Jamie Masada was offering an unspecified reward to anyone who returns the memorabilia.

“It is not worth anything to them but it means a lot to me,” Masada said, because it’s tied to those who represent “the height of comedy.’”

In Sacramento, two-thirds of the capital city’s 600 downtown properties took a hit, with more than 200 broken windows, 330 pieces of graffiti, and more than 50 cases of “significant property damage,” said Michael Ault, executive director of the Downtown Sacramento Partnership.

Employees protest Facebook’s Trump policy OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Facebook employees are using Twitter and Facebook’s internal communications tools to register their frustration over CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to leave up posts by President Donald Trump that suggested protesters in Minneapolis could be shot.

Twitter flagged and demoted Trump’s tweet about the protests when he used the phrase “when the looting starts the shooting starts.” Facebook has let it stand, and Zuckerberg explained his reasoning in a Facebook post Friday.

“I know many people are upset that we’ve left the President’s posts up, but our position is that we should enable as much expression as possible unless it will cause imminent risk of specific harms or dangers spelled out in clear policies,” Zuckerberg wrote.

Angry demonstrations have spread across the U.S. over the past week, creating some of the most widespread racial unrest since the 1960s. The protests, which have been met by violent police action in many cities, were spurred by the death of George Floyd, a black man who died after he was pinned to the pavement by an officer who put his knee on the handcuffed man’s neck until he stopped breathing.

Trump’s comment evoked the civil-rights era by borrowing a phrase used in 1967 by Miami’s police chief to warn of an aggressive police response to unrest in black neighborhoods.

On Monday, dozens of Facebook employees staged a virtual “walkout” to protest the company’s decision not to touch the Trump posts according to a report in the New York Times, which cited anonymous senior employees at Facebook. The Times report says dozens of Facebook workers “took the day off by logging into Facebook’s systems and requesting time off to support protesters across the country.”

Workers also expressed frustration in other ways, including posting on Twitter, speaking to managers and writing on Facebook’s internal communication network.

Though virtual, this was the first time that Facebook workers have staged a walkout in the company’s history. Employees at the social media giant have been less outspoken than their counterparts at other tech companies such as Google and Twitter.

“I work at Facebook and I am not proud of how we’re showing up. The majority of coworkers I’ve spoken to feel the same way. We are making our voice heard,” tweeted Jason Toff, a director of product

Oregon reports one new COVID-19 death, 59 new cases The World

PORTLAND — COVID-19 has claimed one more life in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 154, the Oregon Health Authority reported at 12:01 a.m.

Monday.

Oregon Health Authority reported 59 new confirmed and presumptive cases of COVID-19 as of 12:01 a.m. Monday, bringing the state total to 4,302.

The new confirmed and presumptive cases reported Monday are in the following counties: Clackamas (5), Deschutes (2), Jackson (1), Jefferson (11), Josephine (1), Lane (4), Lincoln (3), Linn (2), Marion (13), Morrow (1), Multnomah (6), Polk (2), Umatilla (4), Washington (4).

Oregon’s 154th COVID-19 death is a 59-year-old man in Marion County, who tested positive on May 29 and died the same day at Salem Hospital. He had

underlying medical conditions.

Last week, OHA previously announced that it will begin reporting large COVID-19 outbreaks in workplaces. This will include all past and future outbreaks that involve five or more COVID-19 cases in a workplace setting. OHA is in the process of compiling information on past outbreaks for public disclosure.

OHA is now including a link to the Oregon COVID-19 Daily Update in the daily news release. The Daily Update is a detailed look at COVID-19 in Oregon, including testing data, hospital capacity, and cases broken down by demographic information such as age groups, gender, race and ethnicity.

To see more case and county level data, visit the Oregon Health Authority website, which OHA updates once a day: www.healthoregon.org/coronavirus.

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management at Facebook who’s been at the company for a year.

Toff, who has a verified Twitter account, had 131,400 “likes” and thousands of retweets of his comment. He did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment on Monday.

“I don’t know what to do, but I know doing nothing is not acceptable. I’m a FB employee that completely disagrees with Mark’s decision to do nothing about Trump’s recent posts, which clearly incite violence. I’m not alone inside of FB. There isn’t a neutral position on racism,” Facebook design manager Jason Stirman

tweeted.

Stirman did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Monday.

Sara Zhang, a product designer at the company, tweeted that Facebook’s “decision to not act on posts that incite violence ignores other options to keep our community safe. The policy pigeon holes us into addressing harmful user-facing content in two ways: keep content up or take it down.”

“I believe that this is a self-imposed constraint and implore leadership to revisit the solution,” she continued. Zhang declined to comment to The Associated Press.

DEAR ABBYBy Abigail Van Buren Sister fears for young niece being raised in toxic home DEAR ABBY: After many years, my sister and I finally have a decent relationship. I feel I can tell her about almost anything.

My brother-in-law, “Aaron,” is an alcoholic, and my sister enables him.

When he drinks, his already quick temper becomes worse and he “knows everything.” To make things worse, they have a 3-year-old child I’ll call “Casey.”

It infuriates me when I see Aaron’s crude, foul-mouthed, “omnipotent” behavior in front of Casey.

There have been times he has used my presence (because I babysit Casey) to drink to the point of impairment. When Casey has a tantrum or is overtired and acts her age, Aaron loses patience with her. He yells at her, slams things down in front of her and storms out of the room.

I’m well aware that children watch and learn behavior from their parents.

Daughters will seek out boys, then men who behave like their father, thinking it is normal behavior. How do I approach my sister, who buys Aaron whiskey when he’s feeling down, that there’s a serious problem here?

My husband and I have a stable home and successfully raised five children. We would be willing to take in Casey until Aaron is truly well. My comments to my sister will be met with fury or maybe hatred, but I will do whatever is best for Casey. I love that little girl too much to see her raised in such a toxic environment. -- BETWEEN A DRUNK AND A HARD PLACE DEAR BETWEEN: You say your sister slips her husband alcohol when he’s down. To me that says he may be using it to self-medicate depression.

You DO need to talk with your sister.

When you do, explain you are concerned about Aaron’s change of behavior when he drinks and the effect it has -- and will continue to have -- on little Casey. Aaron does need help, but so does your sister.

Enabling someone, as well-intentioned as it may be, is not helping the person.

Aaron needs to talk to a doctor about his episodes of depression, and your sister could gain a great deal of insight

by attending some Al-Anon meetings.

You can find one nearby by visiting al-anon.org. Offer to go with her if she’s reluctant.

DEAR ABBY: I am in an interracial relationship (I’m black, and she’s white/ Hispanic). We have been together for a year.

She has met just about all my family and all of my friends, but I have only met four people in her life. She has a lot of friends on social media, but no one knows about me. She never posts pictures of us or even hints anything about me. She is friends with her ex-boyfriend, and she knows about his girlfriend, but he has no clue about me. No one does. I feel like I’m her invisible man.

She comes from a “country” background, and I’m afraid she is embarrassed or ashamed of me. Am I reading too much into this, or should I be concerned that she may not be into me as much as I am into her? We were talking about getting married. -- INVISIBLE MAN IN TEXAS DEAR INVISIBLE MAN: Something isn’t right here. You say you “were” talking about getting married.

Are you still talking about it? I find it peculiar that after being together for a year, you haven’t met her family, you have met so few of her friends and she has posted nothing about you on social media. The time has come to ask her the reason and whether your romance may have run its course.

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Kylie Jenner, Forbes spar over story on billionaire status media outlets, including Forbes, to believe,” the magazine said in the story. “Forbes now thinks that Kylie Jenner, even after pocketing an estimated $340 million after taxes from the sale, is not a billionaire.”

Jenner responded in a series of tweets, saying “what am i even waking up to. i thought this was a reputable site.. all i see are a number of inaccurate statements and unproven assumptions lol. i’ve never asked for any title or tried to lie my way there EVER. period.”

She later tweeted, “but okay, i am blessed beyond my years, i have a beautiful daughter, and a successful business and i’m doing

perfectly fine. i can name a list of 100 things more important right now than fixating on how much money i have.”

Jenner’s business and social media prominence have made her stand out even in the exceedingly famous family behind “Keeping Up With the Kardashians.” She is the younger daughter of Kris and Caitlyn Jenner, sister to Kendall Jenner and half-sister to Kim, Khloe and Kourtney Kardashian.

In March 2019, Forbes featured Jenner along with the headline, “At 21, Kylie Jenner Becomes The Youngest Self-Made Billionaire Ever.”

On Friday, Forbes offered a starkly different headline: “Inside Kylie Jenner’s Web of Lies — And Why She’s No Longer a Billionaire.”

The story acknowledges that the coronavirus crisis and its effect on the cosmetics industry has hurt her net worth.

But it says it is “likely” that the “business was never that big to begin with, and the Jenners have lied about it every year since 2016 — including having their accountant draft tax returns with false numbers — to help juice Forbes’ estimates of Kylie’s earnings and net worth.”

DILBERT

CLASSIC PEANUTS

FRANK AND ERNEST

BY GEORGE DICKIE

10) “Reggie Jackson hit (a home run) off me that’s still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.”

1) Karl Malone

9) “I once played poker with tarot cards, got a full house and four people died.”

2) Michael Jordan

8) “We’re supposed to be perfect our first day on the job and then show constant improvement.”

3) Mark Twain

7) “I told (general manager) Roland Hemond to go out and get me a big-name pitcher. He said, ‘Dave Wehrmeister’s got 11 letters. Is that a big enough name for you?’ ”

4) Dave Barry

6) “I think there should be bad blood between all clubs.”

5) Yogi Berra

5) “So I’m ugly. I never saw anyone hit with his face.”

6) Earl Weaver

4) “Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy Protestants, today it’s open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.”

7) Eddie Eichorn, then-Chicago White Sox owner

3) “Golf is a good walk spoiled.”

8) Former MLB umpire Ed Vargo

2) “I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twentysix times, I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”

Answers:

9) Steven Wright

Identify the authors of the following quotes: 1) “What excites me the most is when a coach calls a timeout and chews out his forward because I just dunked on his head.”

10) Dan Quisenberry

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Forbes magazine, which once declared Kylie Jenner a billionaire on its cover, says she no longer deserves the title, but Jenner is pushing back.

Forbes said in a story posted Friday that an examination of financial filings after the reality star and beauty mogul sold a majority share in her cosmetics company revealed that Jenner’s worth was inflated. Jenner sold 51% of her Kylie Cosmetics company to Coty in a deal valued at $1.2 billion early this year.

“Kylie’s business is significantly smaller, and less profitable, than the family has spent years leading the cosmetics industry and

Death toll grows amid national protests TUESDAY, MAY 26, 2020 | A7

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LISA MARIE PANE Associated Press

One man was the beloved owner of a Louisville barbecue restaurant who made sure to provide free meals to officers.

Another was a man known as “Mr. Indianapolis,” a former star football player. Yet another was a federal officer working security during a protest.

They are among the people who have been killed as protests roiled American cities in the week since 46-year-old George Floyd died when a white officer jammed his knee into the back of the black man’s neck.

The deaths have at times been overshadowed by the shocking images of chaos engulfing cities across America, from heavy-handed riot police tactics to violence, vandalism and arson. Tens of thousands have marched peacefully in demonstrations against police brutality and racism.

Many of the people killed were African Americans, compounding the tragedy for black families to lose more members of their community amid the unrest.

Dozens more have been hurt in various altercations — vehicles plowing into crowds, police officers suffering head injuries and broken bones and protesters ending up in emergency rooms

OAKLAND: A federal law enforcement officer was providing security at the federal courthouse in Oakland during a protest when someone fired shots from a vehicle.

Dave Patrick Underwood, 53, died and another officer was critically injured in the shooting.

It was not immediately clear if the drive-by shooting was related to the protests, though the federal building’s glass doors were smashed and the front entrance was sprayed with anti-police graffiti.

Underwood, who was black, and the other officer were contracted security officers and employed by the Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Protective Service; they were monitoring a nearby protest.

No one has been arrested and a motive for the shooting has not yet been determined.

Underwood was the brother of Angela Underwood Jacobs, recently a Republican candidate to fill a vacant U.S. congressional district north of Los Angeles.

INDIANAPOLIS: Two people were killed over the weekend amid unrest in Indianapolis, including 38-year-old Chris Beaty, a former offensive lineman for Indiana University.

Beaty was known as “Mr. Indianapolis” and remained

with a variety of injuries from the melees.

The death toll and circumstances surrounding the killings are still being sorted out in many cities, but here is what we know about the cases so far: LOUISVILLE: As local police and the National Guard sought to disperse a crowd early Monday, they heard gunshots and returned fire, killing the owner of a barbecue restaurant, David McAtee.

The mayor has since terminated the city’s police chief after finding out that officers on the scene did not activate their body cameras.

The state police and the U.S. attorney also are investigating.

The 53-year-old McAtee was an African American man known for offering free meals to officers who stopped by.

“We lost a wonderful citizen named David McAtee,” Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer said.

“David was a friend to many, a well-known Barbecue man.”

The protests in Louisville have centered not just on Floyd’s killing but also the death of Breonna Taylor, a black woman killed in her home in Louisville in March. The 26-year-old EMT was shot eight times by narcotics detectives who knocked down her front door as they attempted to enforce a search warrant. No drugs were found in the home.

involved with the Hoosiers long after his graduation. He also was a prominent businessman in the city and ran multiple nightclubs.

“I am at a loss for words. The news of the passing of Chris Beaty is just devastating,” coach Tom Allen said in a statement.

“Since I returned home to coach at Indiana, Chris embraced me, encouraged me and supported me! His passion for life and Indiana Football energized me every time we were together.”

The circumstances of his shooting weren’t immediately clear but some media reports said it happened near an apartment where he lived. It also occurred the same night that an 18-yearold man also was fatally shot as protests broke out in the city.

MINNEAPOLIS: In what is believed to be the first killing since the protests broke out, a 43-year-old black man was fatally shot outside a pawn shop as rioting broke out last week in Minneapolis and then spread nationally.

The owner of the pawn shop, who is white, was arrested in the death of Calvin L. Horton Jr. Police say they are investigating the circumstances surrounding the killing, including whether it was related to protests in the neighborhood.

The shop was described as

having been significantly damaged during unrest.

OMAHA, NEBRASKA: A 22-year-old black man was killed after authorities said he tussled with the owner of two bars in downtown Omaha. Surveillance video of the strip of bars shows a group of people, including James Scurlock, approach bar owner Jake Gardner.

Two people are seen on the video tackling Gardner, who ended up on his back and fired shots in the air. Seconds later, Scurlock is seen tackling Gardner, who then fires the gun over his shoulder, striking Scurlock.

Authorities have declined to press charges, calling the shooting self-defense.

DETROIT: A 21-year-old man was killed in downtown Detroit after someone fired shots into a vehicle during a protest.

According to a police report, the man was sitting in the driver’s seat of a car in a parking lot with two others when someone fired shots into the vehicle and then fled on foot.

CHICAGO SUBURB: Two people were killed during unrest Monday in the Chicago suburb of Cicero, according to a town official. Spokesman Ray Hanania did not provide details about those who were killed but said it happened amid protests there.

Cities erupt in more violence amid threats from Trump WASHINGTON (AP) — American cities erupted in violence and destruction in a seventh straight night of unrest, with several police officers shot or run over, amid boasts and threats from President Donald Trump to send in troops to “dominate the streets.”

In New York, nonviolent protests Monday night were punctuated by people smashing shop windows near Rockefeller Center and breaching the doors of Macy’s flagship store on 34th Street, littering the pavement with broken

glass. A vehicle plowed through a group of law enforcement officers at a demonstration in Buffalo, injuring at least two.

Demonstrations also broke out in such places as Philadelphia, where hundreds of protesters spilled onto a highway in the heart of the city; Atlanta, where police fired tear gas at demonstrators; and Nashville, where more than 60 National Guard members put down their riot shields at the request of peaceful protesters who had gathered in front of Tennessee’s Capitol to

honor George Floyd.

Bystander Sean Jones, who watched as people ransacked luxury stores in New York over the weekend, said: “People are doing this so next time, before they think about trying to kill another black person, they’re going to be like, ’Damn, we don’t want them out here doing this ... again.’”

The unrest in Minneapolis appeared to stabilize on the same day Floyd’s brother made an impassioned plea for peace at the spot where a white police officer put his knee on the

handcuffed black man’s neck until he stopped breathing last week.

The death toll from the unrest rose to at least nine, including two people killed in a Chicago suburb. The police chief in Louisville, Kentucky, was fired after a beloved restaurant owner was killed by police and National Guard members enforcing a curfew.

More than 5,600 people nationwide have been arrested over the past week for such offenses as stealing, blocking highways and breaking curfew, according to a count by

The Associated Press.

An officer was shot shortly before midnight near the Circus Circus casino in Las Vegas. Police had no immediate word on the officer’s condition.

Four officers were shot in St. Louis; they were expected to recover.

Trump, meanwhile, portrayed himself as a hard-nosed, law-and-order president, with police under federal command using tear gas to clear peaceful demonstrators from a park near the White House so that he could walk to a church and pose with a Bible.

Emerging after two days out of public view, he threatened from the White House Rose Garden to deploy “thousands and thousands” of U.S. troops.

The photo op at the house of worship known as the Church of the Presidents was condemned by Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde.

“The president just used a Bible and one of the churches of my diocese as a backdrop for a message antithetical to the teachings of Jesus and everything that our church stands for,” she said.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Wielding extraordinary federal authority, President Donald Trump threatened the nation’s governors on Monday that he would deploy the military to states if they did not stamp out violent protests over police brutality that have roiled the nation over the past week. His announcement came as police under federal command forced back peaceful demonstrators with tear gas so he could walk to a nearby church and pose with a Bible.

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“We need bodies, we need more numbers to do something to stop this ridiculous violence. This just cannot keep up.”

The violence came after thousands of protesters held a largely peaceful demonstration outside the Multnomah County Justice Center in downtown Portland. At one point, some police officers took a knee

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Trump’s bellicose rhetoric came as the nation convulsed through another round of violence over the death of George Floyd at a time when the country is already buckling under the coronavirus outbreak and the Depression-level unemployment it has caused. The president demanded an end to the heated protests in remarks from the White House Rose Garden and vowed to use more force to achieve that aim.

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tional Guard in sufficient numbers to “dominate the streets,” Trump said the U.S. military would step in to “quickly solve the problem for them.”

“We have the greatest country in the world,” the president declared. “We’re going to keep it safe.”

A military deployment by Trump to U.S. states would mark a stunning federal intervention rarely seen in modern American history. Yet the message Trump appeared to be sending with the brazen pushback of protesters

outside the White House was that he sees few limits to what he is willing to do.

Some around the president likened the moment to 1968, when Richard Nixon ran as the law-and-order candidate in the aftermath of a summer of riots, capturing the White House. But despite his efforts to portray himself as a political outsider, Trump is an incumbent who risks being held responsible for the violence.

Minutes before Trump began speaking, police and National Guard soldiers began aggres-

sively forcing back hundreds of peaceful protesters who had gathered in Lafayette Park, across the street from the White House, where they were chanting against police brutality and Floyd’s death in Minneapolis. As Trump spoke, tear gas canisters could be heard exploding.

Floyd died last week after he was pinned to the pavement by a police officer who put his knee on the handcuffed black man’s neck until he stopped breathing.

His death set off protests that spread from Minneapolis across

with protesters and three people in the crowd had a private talk with Police Chief Jami Resch, authorities said.

“We saw people at their very worst and we saw people at their very best,” said Deputy Police Chief Chris Davis, who thanked protesters who remained peaceful. “Our strategy last night was to make sure that whatever happened, the police bureau was not the cause and so we decided to give them a greater space

and give them the time to express themselves.”

The Multnomah County GOP criticized the police response in a statement, saying the Portland Police Bureau and Wheeler were being too easy on protesters and should not have allowed them to violate the curfew order without consequences.

“After all of Portland’s experience with mass protests, can the police really be so incompetent as to fail to encircle these

crowds and arrest them all?

Of course not. This is a deliberate policy choice to promoting further disorder,” said Chairman James Buchal.

Elsewhere in Oregon, authorities said between 7,000 and 10,000 people gathered at the federal courthouse in Eugene on Sunday and marched to a local park in a peaceful demonstration. After the event ended, about 1,000 people continued to protest.

Some protesters surrounded a car after its driver sprayed something at them and another occupant fired a gun into the ground, angering the crowd, police said. Authorities intervened and no one was injured.

In another incident, a man with semi-automatic weapon got out of a Jeep that was parked in the road but a protester was able to keep the crowd back until the man got back into the Jeep and left, said Eugene police spokesman John

Hankemeier. The incident is under investigation.

In Salem, up to 400 people marched and got into a confrontation with police that resulted in between six to eight arrests.

Floyd died May 25 after a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee on Floyd’s neck until he stopped breathing. The encounter was caught by a bystander on video. His death has prompted protests across the U.S. and Europe.

people on from Sunset Beach all the way to Cape Arago State Park,” Valencia said. “We actually had a few handfuls of people that were actually out at Sunset Beach and Lighthouse Beach on the other side of the point. That’s a tremendous search area and

it’s a steep, hilly, brushy terrain. So I’m glad that we had the resources that we did. We are just at the end of what we’re able to do.”

Before announcing the suspension, the Coos County Sheriff’s Office talked with the subject’s family near Shore Acres

State Park. This area had been a hub throughout the day where local police and fire and rescue converged.

Volunteers brought snacks and water for those that were taking part in the search process and as the search was suspended in the after-

noon a group of about 15 high school students sat on tables in the area.

“We become personally invested in these and it’s hard on us,” Valencia said. “When we’re here we tend to poker face and do our job and stuff, but you can see, there are kids out here. It’s a hard

situation. And unfortunately, it ended the way it ended today.

“It’s a really hard day.

It’s a really hard day. It’s the kind of days that we don’t like having. We do the best that we can do when we’re here and unfortunately today it wasn’t in the cards.”

then further examine the candidates’ applications as well as their interviews and will likely vote to fill the vacancy

at its next regularly scheduled council meeting.

“We want to be able to do interviews with

the council and possible candidates to find the best fit,” said Baugh.

For people interested in filling the position,

letters of interest should be sent to Coquille City Recorder Jennifer Rose at jstolz@cityofcoquille. org. For more informa-

tion, contact Rose at 541-396-2115, extension 203 or visit city hall located on 851 North Central Boulevard.

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