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BY OVETTA WIGGINS

AND ERIN COX

Gov. Larry Hogan aggressively

lashed out at Democratic leaders

Thursday over two top priorities

of this legislative session: fund-

ing a sweeping public education

overhaul and stemming escalat-

ing violence in Baltimore.

Hogan, a Republican, con-

demned a Democratic proposal

to raise money for schools by

expanding the sales tax to in-

clude professional services, say-

ing the change would “destroy

our economy.”

Democrats, meanwhile,

scorned Hogan’s demand to stiff-

en prison sentences for violent

offenders, accusing the governor

of relying on poll data to address

crime in Baltimore instead of

proven crime-prevention strate-

gies.

The governor “has got to start

leading and stop polling,” said

senate Judicial Proceedings

Chairman William C. smith Jr.

(D-Montgomery), after Hogan

said smith’s refusal to move his

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Hogan

attacks

sales tax

proposal

expansion would

fund education

Md. Democrats blast

governor’s crime bill

retropolis

Joe rosenthal/associated press

U.s. marines raise the flag atop mount suribachi on t he Japanese island of iwo Jima in february 1945. Joe rosenthal’s photo capturing

the moment has come to symbolize the World War ii battle of iwo Jima, in which some 6,800 americans and 20,000 Japanese died.

BY MICHAEL E. RUANE

A

s photographer Joe Rosenthal stood

on Mount suribachi that day, aimed

his speed Graphic at the American

flag and froze a moment in history,

Marine Corps sgt. Bill Genaust’s movie

camera was already rolling.

Genaust filmed the Marines readying the

long pipe to which the flag was attached. He

caught them jamming the pipe into the

ground. And he filmed the three seconds it

took to raise it during the World War II battle

of Iwo Jima.

He showed the flag caught in the wind. He

showed the Marines piling rocks at the base

of the pipe so i t would stay u p. He s howed the

grit and reality of the event.

Genaust’s clip also proved to doubters that

Rosenthal’s Feb. 23, 1945, picture was not set

up. Copies also helped the Marines ascertain

the identities of the men in the photograph.

But Genaust’s original “in camera” color

film has been lost.

seventy-five y ears l ater, all that survive are

copies, according to the national Archives.

The earliest one dates to 1951, six years after

the battle, said Criss Austin, the Archives’

supervisory motion picture preservation spe-

cialist.

“We like to have the original because that

is the authentic record of what happened,”

said Austin, who w rote a chapter for the b ook

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A cameraman’s key film is lost to time

thayer soule collection/national archives

sgt. Bill genaust o f st. paul, minn., left,

and Cpl. atlee s. tracy of Chicago take a

rest on iwo Jima from their work as motion

picture photographers in the marines.

BY TOM JACKMAN

It has been more than four

years since journalist Alison

Parker, doing a live television

interview in southern Virginia,

was killed when a former col-

league walked up and shot her

and videographer Adam Ward.

Despite repeated requests from

her father and others, videos of

the slaying remain on YouTube, as

do countless other graphic videos

that show people dying or that

promote various outlandish

hoaxes.

Andy Parker has never

watched the videos of his daugh-

ter’s death, including GoPro foot-

age recorded and posted by the

shooter. But he and others have

notified YouTube and Google,

YouTube’s o wner, that the graphic

videos continue to exist on the

dominant worldwide video plat-

form. “We’re flagging the stuff,”

Parker said. “nothing’s coming

down. This is crazy. I cannot

tolerate them profiting from my

daughter’s murder, and that’s ex-

actly what they do.”

There is no specific law prohib-

iting YouTube from hosting dis-

turbing videos. so Parker filed a

complaint Thursday with the

Federal Trade Commission, argu-

ing that YouTube violates its own

terms of service by hosting con-

tent it claims is prohibited and

urging the FTC to “end the com-

pany’s blatant, unrepentant con-

sumer deception.” The complaint,

drafted by the Civil Rights Clinic

of the Georgetown University

Law Center, notes: “Videos of

Alison’s murder are just a drop in

the bucket. There are countless

other videos on YouTube depict-

ing individuals’ moments of

death, advancing hoaxes and in-

citing harassment of the families

of murder victims, or otherwise

violating YouTube’s Terms of ser-

vice.”

YouTube said in a statement

that it had removed thousands of

copies of the video of Parker’s

shooting since 2015.

“our Community Guidelines

are designed to protect the You-

Tube community, including those

affected by tragedies,” the state-

ment said. “We specifically pro-

hibit videos that aim to shock

with violence, or accuse victims of

public violent events of being

part of a hoax. We rigorously

enforce these policies using a

combination of machine learning

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Father takes on YouTube over footage of daughter’s slaying on live TV

FTC complaint accuses

site of hosting content

that its own rules forbid

birdseed sacks as if they were

the dunes of Rehoboth Beach,

and her cold eyes dare you to tell

her to get back to work.

Malgorzata Baker, who also

works at the store and is a

professional photographer on

the side (check out her Facebook

page, wapo.st/Malgorzata, so

you can hire her), sets up and

makes all the photos, which have

received thousands of likes and

swarms of followers.

Her eye for staging is divine,

putting a showercap on the

scowling granny, having her flop

down on a yoga mat or nap in a

crib. Baker features other

employees, too, paying homage

to Mr. Gilbert in the auto care

department or Mr. Glen in the

Crafts/Hardware departments.

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year-old grandmother with

frosted hair, high-waist jeans

and a resting go-slither-away-

and-die face.

Charlene Mull is Walmart’s

unlikely, frowning, scowling

model, posing for the Maryland

store’s Facebook feed with

various sale items and the kind

of deadpan face that loads of

cheap plastic from China and

Walmart wages deserve.

The electronics department

manager sits in a cart full of

cabbages — with a cabbage leaf

cap on her head — and a look

that lets you know she will ream

your face with every one of the

leafy orbs if you come between

her and her grandbaby.

she poses with on-sale cheese

and has zero hoots to give.

she reclines on a mountain of

I cornered

Charlene in the

electronics

department of the

Maryland

Walmart she’s

helped make

famous. And she

was not happy

about it.

I was the fourth or maybe fifth

person to do that on Wednesday.

everyone else took a selfie with

her. I just wanted to talk.

More admirers are coming for

Charlene. online, her fans from

as far away as California are

threatening to road-trip to north

east, Md., a Chesapeake Bay

town of fewer than 4,000 people,

just to meet the famous

Charlene — the Internet’s new

Grumpy Cat, repackaged as a 64-

Her scowl stole hearts on the Internet. Her employer stole her voice.

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Walmart officials in arkansas won’t permit maryland employee

Charlene mull to speak with any media about her viral visage.

BY JOE HEIM

AND DANA HEDGPETH

salisbury University officials

canceled classes Thursday after

the discovery of racist graffiti that

threatened black students with

lynching. The messages were

scrawled on a wall and a door in

two academic buildings and were

reported to university p olice.

It wasn’t the first time this aca-

demic y ear that messages targeted

African American students at the

Maryland state university.

salisbury University President

Charles A. W ight decided to cancel

classes after meetings Wednesday

with students and a dministrators.

“Tonight, our campus is under

attack by a coward,” Wight said in

a statement Wednesday. “A n at-

tack on s ome members of our c am-

pus community is an attack on all

of us, and we all need to respond.”

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More racist

gra∞ti is

reported at

Salisbury

Eastern Shore university

cancels classes; similar

messages found in Nov.

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