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MINNESOta
Shoppers’ swastika
masks cause stir
A couple in Minnesota wore
red masks emblazoned with
swastikas to a Walmart in a
video posted on social media.
Police were called Saturday to
the Walmart in Marshall, in the
southwestern part of the state,
on a report that two shoppers
were wearing the masks with the
symbol used by the Nazi Party.
Another shopper, Raphaela
Mueller, who is a vicar of a
southwest Minnesota parish,
posted video on Facebook of the
man and woman being
confronted by others in the
store, the Star Tribunenewspaper reported.
“If you vote for [Democratic
presidential candidate Joe]
Biden, you’re going to be living
in Nazi Germany; that’s what it’s
going to be like,” the woman
with the swastika mask said in
the video as her husband loaded
groceries into a shopping cart.
Mueller said when she first
saw the couple, she felt“nauseated, and I wanted to cry,
which I ended up doing.”
Marshall police gave the
couple no-trespass notices but
did not cite or arrest them,
police Capt. Jeff Wenker told the
Associated Press on Sunday.
Police did not identify the
couple.
Saturday was the first day that
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s
executive order took effect
requiring masks in businesses
and indoor public spaces to help
prevent the spread of the novel
coronavirus. Walmart already
requires customers to wear
masks at its namesake and Sam’s
Club stores.
— Associated PressINDIaNaVideo, audio of man’s
mauling is releasedAuthorities have released
additional police video footage
and 911 audio of the May arrest
of a black northwestern Indiana
man who was mauled by a police
dog while being arrested on
suspicion of battery.
A special prosecutor and the
state police are investigating
allegations that three Lafayette
police officers used excessive
force on Richard Bailey Jr., who
was seriously injured.
Bailey’s lawyers previously
released some police video of thedog attack and the moments
leading up to it in which officers
tell Bailey to get off a moped and
warn him that they will use a
K -9 unit if he doesn’t comply.
“We have prepared this video
in response to public concern
and media representation that
do not include all the facts and
circumstances,” Chief Patrick
Flannelly said in a video
preceding the newly released
footage.
In the 911 audio, a caller says a
man who had been drinking
attacked three people before
leaving on a moped. The newly
released police footage shows an
officer remark to Bailey that he’s
“clearly intoxicated” after Bailey
seems to have trouble speaking
and stopping the moped.
Bailey’s attorneys called the
use of the dog, which mauled
Bailey’s neck for 30 seconds,
“extraordinarily violent” and
said the three white officers used
excessive force because Bailey is
black, according to the Journal &
Courier. They said Bailey, 46,
spent several days in a medically
induced coma.
Attorneys Swaray Conteh and
Fatima Johnson told the
newspaper that the 911 call isn’t
the c omplete story of what
happened b efore police arrived.
“What the 911 tape failed to
mention is that Mr. Bailey was
attacked with a knife, had a gun
pointed at him, and yet still
managed to inflict less damage
to his attackers than the police
did to him,” said Elayne Rivers, a
spokeswoman for Johnson’s law
firm.
Police have called the
allegations against the
department baseless.
— Associated PressDIGEStBY MERYL KORNFIELD
AND MARISA IATIThe United States tallied just
shy of 1,000 coronavirus-related
daily deaths on Saturday after a
four-day streak of four-digit death
tolls, the worst accounting of hu-
man loss from the virus since late
May.
The country reported 5 9,
new infections and 566 additional
deaths as of Sunday evening, re-
sulting in a seven-day average of
infections that was slightly lower
than Saturday’s and an average of
deaths that was a bit higher. The
world surpassed 16 million con-
firmed cases this weekend and
reached at least 641,000 coronavi-
rus-related deaths. The United
States accounts for about one-
fourth of the reported infections
and one-fifth of the death toll.
As of Sunday evening, the
s even-day averages for new cases
hit fresh highs in several states,
including Alaska, Colorado, Ha-
waii, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mis-
sissippi, Missouri, Montana, New
Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma,
Wisconsin and Wyoming.
Nevada and South Carolina set
records for their s even-day averag-
es of daily deaths, and Mississippi
and North Carolina tied their pre-
vious h ighs.
In Texas, the seven-day average
for cases was 8,302 on Saturday as
Hurricane Hanna roared ashore
on the Te xas coast. Winds, torren-
tial rain and storm surges left a
path of destruction in an area al-
ready ravaged by coronavirus in-
fections. The seven counties from
Corpus Christi south to Browns-
ville and inland along the border
with Mexico, predicted to face
Hanna’s strongest winds and
heaviest rains, have diagnosed a
total of 18, 420 active covid- 19 cas-
es, many in the past few weeks,
according to the Te xas Health and
Human Services Commission.
Elsewhere in the Lone Star
state, bar owners reopened Satur-
day night, defying a June 26 order
by Gov. Greg Abbott (R) to shut
down. Fort Worth bar owner and
“Freedom Fest” protest organizer
Chris Polone said in a video posted
on Facebook that out of about 800
bar owners who participated, not
one was penalized b y authorities.
The county that includes Fort
Worth has reported 24,562 corona-
virus cases, 3,367 more since last
week.
The surge in cases comes as
states wrestle with reopening their
economies or imposing greater
public health restrictions to slow
the spread of the virus.
In Florida, the secretary of the
state’s Department of Business
and Professional Regulation,
Halsey Beshears, signaled that he
planned to start talking with bars
and breweries about how they can
return to business. His announce-
ment came as Florida’s average
number of deaths rose for the third
straight day.
The state surpassed New Yo rk intion,” Pelosi said President Trump’s
aim to pull unemployment bene-
fits back from people with job op-
tions is unsafe.
“I have a new name for him: Mr.
Make Matters Worse,” Pelosi told
Margaret Brennan. “He has made
matters worse from the start. De-
lay, denial, ‘it’s a hoax,’ ‘it will go
away magically,’ ‘it’s a miracle’ and
the rest.”
The White House’s coronavirus
testing coordinator conceded Sun-
day that turnaround times for di-
agnostic testing should improve,
promising better times t his week.
In an interview Sunday on
“State of the Union,” Adm. Brett
Giroir blamed “large commercial
labs that perform about half the
testing in our country.”
“I started out by saying that we
are never going to be happy with
testing until we get turnaround
times w ithin 24 h ours, and I would
be happy with point-of-care test-
ing everywhere,” Giroir said, refer-
ring to when sample collection and
testing occur in the same place.
“We are not there yet. We a re doing
everything we can to do that.”
Giroir defended testing capaci-
ty, saying that “no one is trying to
stop testing in this country,” when
Ta pper asked about Trump’s re-
marks that he had instructed offi-
cials to slow testing out of concern
that it would highlight the spread
of the v irus i n the country.
As many of the largest school
districts have already announced
that students won’t immediately
return to in-person instruction in
the fall, Health and Human Servic-
es Secretary Alex Azar s aid Sunday
that the administration doesn’t b e-
lieve there should be uniform
thresholds to meet for schools to
reopen.
“Each community is going to
have to make the determination
about the circumstances for re-
opening and what steps they take
for reopening, but the presump-
tion should be we get our k ids b ack
to school,” Azar told CBS News’s
Brennan.
But schools that reopen may not
be able to stay open if cases surge
again in those communities, for-
mer Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention director To m Frie-
den warned.
“The hard part is opening them
and keeping them open,” Frieden
told Wallace on “Fox N ews Sunday.”
Outside the United States,
North Korea declared a “maxi-
mum” national emergency and
locked down the city of Kaesong
near the border with South Korea
after what could be the North’s
first covid- 19 case, the state-run
Korean Central News Agency re-
ported Sunday. North Korea al-
leged that the patient illegally
crossed t he border f rom South Ko-
rea last week a nd said v irus screen-
ing results a re “uncertain.”
[email protected]
[email protected]Christian Davenport contributed to
this report.7-day averages for new virus cases
hit fresh highs in over a dozen states
sarah silbiger for the Washington Post
President Trump returns to the White House from his golf club in
Bedminster, N.J. “I still think the V-shaped recovery is in place,”
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unlimited access.total confirmed cases, as Florida
hit 414,511 on Saturday, with its
health department reporting
12, 180 new infections. Only Cali-
fornia, with double the population
of the Sunshine State, has more
cases t han Florida.
Despite the recent surge in cases
and deaths, White House senior
staff members painted a rosy pic-
ture of the country rebounding
from the crisis.
“I don’t deny that some of these
hot spot states are going to moder-
ate that recovery, but, on the
whole, the picture is very positive,
and I still think the V-shaped re-
covery is in place,” White House
chief economic adviser Larry Kud-
low told CNN host Jake Tapper on
“State of the Union” on Sunday.
Kudlow and other administra-
tion officials denied that intrapar-
ty conflict was at play as lawmak-
ers rush to pass legislation before
the enhanced jobless aid expires.
Hinting at developments, Kudlow
said that the federal government
would extend a four-month mora-
torium on evictions that ended
Friday and that $1, 200 direct-
impact payments will be part of
the negotiated s timulus package.
Treasury Secretary Steven
Mnuchin told Fox News’s Chris
Wallace on Sunday that the White
House and GOP lawmakers were
“on the same page” and wouldpresent a stimulus package Mon-
day, straying from what White
House Chief of Staff Mark Mead-
ows and Senate Majority Leader
Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) previous-
ly suggested. McConnell on Friday
announced that an agreement
could take a “few weeks,” poten-
tially leaving millions of Ameri-
cans in limbo when benefits are
cut off.
Meadows also suggested prog-
ress Sunday, s aying t hat new thera-
pies for treating the coronavirus
could be unveiled this week.
Speaking on ABC News’s “This
Week,” he provided no details on
what the therapies might involve
or who was developing them. But
he maintained that the key to de-
feating the virus would ultimately
come down to “A merican ingenu-
ity” m ore than mandates requiring
people to wear masks and main-
tain social distancing or keeping
businesses closed.
But negotiations with Demo-
crats will hinge in part on tempo-
rary unemployment benefits that
are set to expire at the end of this
week. Republicans aim to reduce
the $600 weekly payments.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-
Calif.) said Sunday that the Trump
administration is effectively t rying
to take away employees’ freedom
not to go to work if they don’t feel
safe. On CBS News’s “Face the Na-New coronavirus cases and deaths in the U.S., by day
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