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NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL
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Denton Record-Chronicle
Monday, May 11, 2015
slain officers
Mississippi town mourns 2
man for the Mississippi Depart-
ment of Public Safety. Banks also
was charged with one count of
being a felon in possession of a
firearm and with grand theft for
fleeing in the police cruiser after
the shooting, Strain said.
“He absconded with a Hat-
tiesburg police cruiser. He didn’t
get very far, three or four blocks,
and then he ditched that vehi-
cle,” Strain said.
Banks’ 26-year-old brother,
Curtis Banks, was charged with
two counts of accessory after the
fact of capital murder.
The fourth person, 28-year-
old Cornelius Clark, was arrest-
ed and charged with obstruction
of justice, he added.
Local reports identified
Deen, 34, as a former Oflicer of
the Year in Hattiesburg.
Tate, 25, grew up in Stark-
ville, 150 miles north of Hatties-
burg. Strain said he was a 2014
graduate of the law enforcement
academy.
Jarvis Thompson, who knew
Tate from childhood, said he
wanted to be a policeman to
make a difference in the black
community.
“He wanted to become an of-
ficer because we’ve seen so much
of our peers get killed or end up
in jail,” said Thompson, 24. “He
was talking all the time about
how he wanted to do better and
make the place better.”
On Sunday morning, blood-
stains still marked the street
where the two were shot, and a
steady stream of people visited
the site to leave flowers or bal-
loons. In the nearby New Hope
Baptist Church, worshippers
prayed for the fallen officers and
their families.
“This should remind us to
thank all law enforcement for
their unwavering service to pro-
tect and serve,” Mississippi Gov.
Phil Bryant said in a statement.
“May God keep them all in the
hollow of his hand.”
Marvin Banks, 29, and Joanie
Calloway, 22, were each charged
with two counts of capital mur-
der, said Warren Strain, a spokes-
a shock. The pain hit particular-
ly close to home for Erica Sher-
rill Owens, whose mother, Sgt.
Jackie Dole Sherrill, was killed
in 1984 while trying to serve a
warrant on a suspect.
When Owens heard that two
officers had been killed, she said
she hoped it wasn’t someone she
knew.
By Rebecca Santana
Associated Press
HATTIESBURG, Miss. -
One was a decorated “Officer of
the Year.” The other was a proud
recent graduate of the academy
who had wanted to be a police-
man since he was a boy.
A routine traffic stop led to
their shooting deaths Saturday
night — the first Hattiesburg po-
lice officers to die in the line of
duty in more than 30 years
and four people were arrested,
including two who were charged
with capital murder.
The deaths of Officers Benja-
min Deen and Liquori Tate
stunned this small city in south-
ern Mississippi.
Tate
Deen
A preliminary investigation
indicated Deen had pulled over
the vehicle on suspicion of
speeding and then called for
backup, which is when Tate ar-
rived. Strain said it was too early
to say who shot the officers or
how many shots were fired.
For many in the community,
the first death of an officer in
three decades while on duty was
“Then when I heard one of
the names, my heart just sank
because I went to high school
with him,” Owens said, who had
gone to Sumrall High School
with Deen.
“He married his high school
sweetheart and he’s got two kids
and a great family,” she said. “It’s
just heartbreaking.”
Sea rise
worries
Florida
coast
BRIEFLY
Boko Haram victims face stigma
U.S. AND THE WORLD
Baltimore
Records: Thousands
too injured to enter jail
By Michelle Faul
Associated Press
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The
taunts wouldn’t stop. “Boko
Haram wives,” the schoolgirls
were called because they had
been briefly held by Nigeria’s
Islamic extremists before es-
caping. The teasing was so re-
lentless that some of the Chi-
bok girls left their town and
families.
Their plight does not bode
well for hundreds of girls and
women recently rescued from
months of captivity by Boko
Haram, including dozens who
are pregnant. After enduring
captivity by the militants, the
females may now face stigma
from their communities.
“The most important thing
is to restore their dignity” the
executive director of the Unit-
ed Nations Population Fund,
Babatunde Osotimehin, told
The Associated Press in a
phone interview from his office
in New York.
“When you have been in
captivity against your will, and
God knows whatever they have
done to them, some of them
will have been violated, some
raped, food insecure. ... We
need to take them, work with
them and bring them back to
the reality of their lives,” said
Osotimehin, who is Nigerian.
His agency is providing the
women and girls with intense
psychosocial counseling and
medical care for reproductive
and maternal health. It is also
encouraging communities to
allow the girls to return in
YOLA, Nigeria
Thousands of people have
been brought to the Baltimore
city jail in recent years with in-
juries too severe for them to be
admitted, newly released re-
cords show.
The records, obtained by The
Baltimore Sun through a public
information request, show that
correctional officers at the Balti-
more City Detention Center re-
fused to admit nearly 2,600 de-
tainees who were in police cus-
tody between June 2012 and
April 2015.
The records do not indicate
how the people were injured or
whether they suffered their inju-
ries while in custody. However,
they do suggest that police offi-
cers either ignored or did not
notice the injuries. Suspects are
constitutionally
health care before they are
booked into jail.
Baltimore police are under
scrutiny for their treatment of
detainees following the death of
Freddie Gray last month. Gray
died of abroken neck that prose-
cutors said he suffered while rid-
ing in a Baltimore police van,
and six officers involved in
Gray’s arrest are facing criminal
charges, including one charged
with second-degree murder.
On Friday, the Justice De-
partment announced that it is
conducting a civil-rights investi-
gation of Baltimore police.
Charlotte, N.C.
Ana loses steam
along Carolina coasts
Tropical Storm Ana lost the
last of its strength and was
downgraded to a depression as it
created wet and windy condi-
tions along the North and South
Carolina coasts.
At 5 p.m. Sunday, the Na-
tional Hurricane Center said the
center of the depression was lo-
cated about 15 miles northeast of
Whiteville. The storm’s maxi-
mum sustained winds were at
35 mph. Gradual weakening
was expected over the next few
days, according to the hurricane
center.
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Review finds state
short on planning
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By Jason Dearen
and Jennifer Kay
Associated Press
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. -
America’s oldest city is slowly
drowning.
St Augustine’s centuries-old
Spanish fortress sits feet from the
encroaching Atlantic, whose wa-
ters already flood the city’s narrow
streets about 10 times a year — a
problem worsening as sea levels
rise in a city reliant on tourism.
“If you want to benefit from
the fact we’ve been here for 450
years, you have the responsibili-
ty to look forward to the next
450,” said Bill Hamilton, whose
family has lived in the city since
the 1950s.
St. Augustine is one of many
chronically flooded communities
along Florida’s coast, and officials
in these diverse places share a
concern: They’re afraid their
buildings and economies will be
further inundated by rising seas
in just a couple of decades. The
effects are a daily reality in much
of Florida. Drinking water wells
are fouled by seawater. Higher
tides and storm surges make for
more frequent road flooding
from Jacksonville to Key West,
and they’re overburdening aging
flood-control systems.
But the state has yet to offer a
clear plan or coordination to ad-
dress what local officials across
Florida’s coast see as a slow-
moving emergency. Republican
Gov. Rick Scott is skeptical of
man-made climate change and
has put aside the task of prepar-
ing for sea level rise, an Associat-
ed Press review of thousands of
emails and documents found.
Despite warnings from water
experts and climate scientists,
skepticism over sea level projec-
tions and climate change science
has hampered planning efforts
at all levels of government, the
records showed. Florida’s envi-
ronmental agencies under Scott
have been downsized, making
them less effective at coordinat-
ing sea level rise planning in the
state, documents showed.
“If I were governor, I’d be out
there talking about it [sea level
rise] every day,” said Eric Buer-
mann, former general counsel to
the Republican Party of Florida
and a former water district gov-
erning board member. “Unless
you’re going to build a sea wall
around South Florida, what’s
the plan?”
The issue presents a public
works challenge that could cost
billions here and nationwide.
Insurance giant Swiss Re has es-
timated that the economy in
southeast Florida could sustain
$33 billion in damage from cli-
mate-related damage in 2030.
In a brief interview in March,
Scott wouldn’t address whether
the state had a long-range plan.
He cited his support for Ever-
glades restoration and some
flood-control projects as prog-
ress but said cities and counties
should contact environmental
and water agencies to find an-
swers — though Scott and a
GOP-led Legislature have
slashed billions from those
agencies.
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AP file photo
A July 22 photo shows schoolgirls who escaped abduction from the Chibok government
secondary school as they arrive for a meeting with Nigeria’s president in Abuja, Nigeria.
Some of the Chibok girls have left their town and families because others still associate
them with Boko Haram extremists.
guaranteed
reinforce the very stigma he
says he wants to avoid, said
Human Rights Watch re-
searcher Mausi Segun.
Segun has interviewed
many females who escaped
from Boko Haram and de-
scribed their experiences as
“very traumatizing and horrify-
first couple of days of their ab-
ductions. Some got away as
they were being transported in
open trucks by grabbing the
branches of low-hanging trees.
Instead of being admired
for their bravery, some of those
“who had escaped were being
called Boko Haram wives,” said
Segun. After speaking to one of
the girls, Segun “got the sense
from her that it deeply, deeply
shamed her and her compan-
ions. ... They were being dis-
criminated against because of
close contact with Boko Ha-
ram and stigmatized,” Segun
said.
that girls and women raped
and made pregnant by the ex-
tremists could be breeding a
new generation of terrorists.
Shettima called for a special
monitoring program of the
mothers to identify paternity
because he said the militants
had deliberately impregnated
them so they would give birth
to future insurgents.
“I am seriously worried
with the fact that most women
tend to hate and abandon chil-
dren they deliver from rape.
Now, the problem is that these
children could go to the streets
unattended to, they then lack
access to food, health care and
education. The result is that
they could indeed inherit their
fathers’ [ideology] somehow,”
Shettima told government offi-
cials, according to the Nigerian
mg.
The mass kidnapping of
nearly 300 students who were
taking science exams at a
boarding school in the town of
Chibok a year ago brought Bo-
ko Haram to the attention of
the world and elicited interna-
tional outrage. The extremists
abducted a hundreds more in
their campaign across north-
eastern Nigeria.
The stigma of Boko Haram
has tainted girls who escaped
their captors.
Segun described the experi-
ence of some of “the Chibok
girls,” as they have come to be
known, who escaped in the
peace.
That will be a challenge, go-
ing by comments made last
week by Gov. Kashim Shettima
of Borno, the home state of Bo-
ko Haram and the one most af-
She said some of those girls
have left Chibok and are living
with relatives or supportive
family friends elsewhere.
“These girls weren’t even
touched [raped],” said Segun,
“but Boko Haram is so de-
spised that anyone identified
with the group shares some of
that label, the slur.”
fected by the nearly 6-year-old
Islamic uprising that has killed
more than 12,000 people and
forced more than L5 million
from their homes.
The governor said he feared
press.
Such statements from a
man of Shettima’s standing are
“very unfortunate” and would
Castro
impressed
by pope
N.Y. plant
fire led
to oil slick
Warsaw, Poland
Poll: Opposition forces
runoff in Poland’s vote
-
WARSAW, Poland - Na-
tionalist opposition candidate
Andrzej Duda made a surpris-
ingly strong showing Sunday in
the first round of Poland’s presi-
dential election, apparently forc-
ing a runoff with incumbent
Bronislaw Komorowski who
faces a tough re-election cam-
paign, according to exit poll re-
sults.
Cuba’s president
considers return
to Catholicism
By Verena Dobnik
Associated Press
BUCHANAN, N.Y. - Part of
a New York nuclear power plant
remained offline Sunday after a
transformer fire created another
problem: thousands of gallons
of oil leaking into the Hudson
River, officials said.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuo-
mo said emergency crews were
out on the water near Buchanan
trying to contain and clean up
transformer fluid that leaked
from Indian Point 3.
“There’s no doubt that oil was
discharged into the Hudson
River,” Cuomo said. “Exactly
how much, we don’t know.”
It could be weeks before In-
dian Point 3 is reopened again,
said a spokesman for Entergy
Corp., the plant owner.
The transformer at the plant
about 30 miles north of midtown
Manhattan failed on Saturday
evening, causing a fire that forced
the automatic shutdown.
Cuomo revealed Sunday that
even after the blaze on the non-
nuclear side of the plant was
quickly doused, the heat reignit-
ed the fire that was again extin-
guished.
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By Frances D’Emilio
Associated Press
VATICAN CITY — Cuban
President Raul Castro paid a call
Sunday on Pope Francis at the
Vatican to thank him for work-
ing for Cuban-U.S. detente —
and said he was so impressed by
the pontiff he is considering a re-
turn to the Catholic church’s
fold.
Gregorio Borgia, pool/AP
Pope Francis, right, meets Cuban President Raul Castro dur-
ing a private audience at the Vatican on Sunday. The pope
played a key role in the breakthrough between Washington
and Havana aimed at restoring U.S.-Cuban diplomatic ties.
Duda, who is no fan of the
European Union, was predicted
to receive 34.5 percent of the
vote to Komorowski’s 33.1 per-
cent, according to the IPSOS ex-
it poll released by the private
TVN24 and the state-run PAP
the leader of a Communist
country, whose crackdown on
dissidents in the past had drawn
sharp Vatican criticism.
“I am from the Cuban Com-
munist Party, that doesn’t allow
[religious] believers, but now
we are allowing it, it’s an impor-
tant step,” Castro said.
Castro had already publicly
thanked Francis for helping to
bring Havana and Washington
closer together after decades of
U.S. government policy of strict
isolation of the Communist-
ruled Caribbean island. On Sun-
day, he stepped up his praise on
Francis’ push for the two nations
to put enmity aside and work for
reconciliation for the benefit of
Americans and Cubans.
brought the Communists to
power in Cuba, gushed with
praise for Francis.
The pontiff “is a Jesuit, and I,
in someway, am too,” Castro said
at a news conference. “I always
studied at Jesuit schools.”
‘When the pope goes to Cuba
in September, I promise to go to
all his Masses, and with satisfac-
tion,” Castro said at a news con-
ference at the office of Italian
Premier Matteo Renzi, whom he
met with after the Vatican talks.
“I read all the speeches of the
pope, his commentaries, and if
the pope continues this way, I
will go back to praying and go
back to the church, and I’m not
joking,” he said.
It was a startling assertion for
news agency.
The poll results suggest ris-
ing dissatisfaction with the rul-
ing pro-EU establishment led by
the center-right and pro-busi-
ness Civic Platform party, which
has been in power since 2007.
Komorowski was a member but
left in order to be a non-aligned
president. The dissatisfaction
was also reflected in the unex-
pectedly high support — 20.5
percent of the vote — predicted
for punk rock star Pawel Kukiz,
an anti-establishment candidate
critical of the government.
— The Associated Press
“Bienvenido [welcome]! ”
Francis said in his native Span-
ish, welcoming Castro to his stu-
dio near the Vatican public audi-
ence hall. The Cuban president,
bowing his head, gripped Fran-
cis’ hand with both of his, and
the two men began private talks.
The meeting lasted nearly an
hour, as the Argentine-bom
Francis and Castro spoke in
Spanish.
Francis will visit Cuba in Sep-
tember en route to the U.S.
After leaving the Vatican,
Castro, the brother of Fidel, the
revolutionary leader who
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