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Vehicle attack An SUV plowed into a holiday

parade in Waukesha, Wis., leaving more than

20 people injured and multiple dead. A

Happy returns Washington’s Ron Rivera and

Taylor Heinicke bested t heir former franchise

in a 27-21 win at the Carolina Panthers. D

STYLE

Familiar failures

Millions of Americans

attend music festivals

every year. The ones that

go wrong share similar

problems. C

Off-screen effects

Recent documentaries

have spurred public

reckonings and changes

within the justice

system. C

In the News

THE NATION

Two of the missionaries

kidnapped last month in

Haiti have been freed, a

U.S. aid group said. A

The White House is

scrutinizing U.S. mili-

tary exercises in Europe

amid tensions with Rus-

sia in the region. A

THE WORLD

The arrest of a suspect-

ed pro-Russian torturer

in Ukraine could shed

light on some of the

darkest corners of the

nation’s war. A

Sudanese leaders

reached a deal to rein-

state the civilian prime

minister, a move that

seemed likely to give rise

to greater turmoil. A

THE ECONOMY

The Help Desk tackles

readers’ questions on

cloud conundrums,

emergency-only phones

and Windows woes. A

THE REGION

Maryland’s laws to

protect victims of child

sex trafficking rank

among the worst in the

nation, according to a

prominent anti-traffick-

ing organization. B

Charlottesville’s com-

pact nature has resulted

in uncomfortable sight-

ings of white suprema-

cists facing trial. B

As D.C. eases its mask-

ing requirements, col -

leges across the city say

their own mask policies

are staying in place. B

THE WEEK AHEAD

MONDAY

President Biden and

first lady Jill Biden visit

service members and

their families at Fort

Bragg in North Carolina.

The Supreme Court is

expected to announce

opinions.

TUESDAY

The Bidens are expect-

ed to travel to Nantucket

for the Thanksgiving

holiday.

WEDNESDAY

Jobless claims are esti-

mated at 264,000.

The Commerce

D epartment reports

new-home sales and per-

sonal income estimates

for October.

THURSDAY

Thanksgiving is ob-

served.

The annual Macy’s

Thanksgiving Day

Parade takes place on

the streets of New York.

The National Football

League holds its s late of

Thanksgiving games.

FRIDAY

Black Friday shopping

events take place around

the country.

The Federal Reserve

releases its weekly bal-

ance sheet.

Inside

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BUSINESS NEWS.......................A

COMICS.......................................C

OPINION PAGES.........................A

LOTTERIES...................................B

OBITUARIES.................................B

TELEVISION.................................C

WORLD NEWS............................A

CONTENT © 2021

The Washington Post / Year 144, No. 352

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BY SAMANTHA SCHMIDT AND DIANA DURÁN

montebello, colombia — Luis Eduardo Tijaro walked

down the dirt path to the land where he had invested his

life’s savings.

He strolled past his cattle, grazing on bright-green

pasture; by the small wooden house with the papaya tree

towering over his wife’s garden; and up to the creek where

his 11-year-old son waded.

Their rural community, in an isolated corner of the

Amazon once controlled by Colombia’s largest rebel group,

is at least a two-hour drive from the closest town. The

family of four arrived here six years ago, on the back of a

motorbike, carrying one suitcase.

Theirs was a uniquely Colombian story, a family hit by

opposing s ides of the country’s conflict: He h ad been forced

from his home by government-backed paramilitaries. She

had been displaced by rebel fighters. But when they moved

here, the country was on the cusp of peace. They found a

patch of nearly 185 acres of cheap, rich soil in the Montebel-

lo community. They built a home, a farm, a fresh start.

The family had no idea the land was part of a protected

reservation for an Indigenous community that had been

displaced by guerrillas a decade earlier. A community that

objected to the farmers’ practice of clearing the rainforest

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BY ELIZABETH DWOSKIN,

NITASHA TIKU

AND CRAIG TIMBERG

Last year, researchers at Face-

book showed executives an exam-

ple of the kind of hate speech

circulating on the social network:

an actual post featuring an image

of four female Democratic law-

makers known collectively as

“The Squad.”

The poster, whose name was

scrubbed out for privacy, referred

to the women, two of whom are

Muslim, as “swami rag heads.” A

comment from another person

used even more vulgar language,

referring to the four women of

color as “black c---s,” according to

internal company documents ex-

clusively obtained by The Wash-

ington Post.

The post represented the

“worst of the worst” language on

Facebook — the majority of it

directed at minority groups, ac-

cording to a two-year effort by a

large team working across the

company, the document said. The

researchers urged executives to

adopt an aggressive overhaul of

its software system that would

primarily remove only those hate-

ful posts before any Facebook us-

ers could see them.

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Facebook

practices

failed to

halt hate

FILES: CONSERVATIVE

PUSHBACK FEARED

Race-neutral stance came

at expense of Black users

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BY JACQUELINE ALEMANY,

MARIANNA SOTOMAYOR

AND JOSH DAWSEY

The show of force from Donald
Trump’s staunchest congres-
sional allies began almost im-
mediately after 13 House Republi-
cans voted this month in favor of
a massive infrastructure bill that
handed President Biden one of
the biggest victories of his tenure.
“Traitor Republicans,” Rep.
Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.)
declared in a series of tweets
where she posted their office
phone numbers after saying that
all those in her party who “hand
over their voting card to Nancy
Pelosi to pass Biden’s Communist
takeover of America will feel the
anger of the GOP voter.”
Others chimed in. Rep. Madi-
son Cawthorn (R-N.C.) promised
to “primary the hell” out of any
Republican who voted for the
measure.
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.)
tweeted it was “Time to name
names and hold these fake repub-
licans accountable.” And, this
past week, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-
Fla.) told a pro-Trump podcast
that there was never a situation
during the infrastructure debate
in which Republicans should
work with Democrats: “They
were going to win it all, or we
were going to win it all.”
The continuing turmoil in the
House GOP conference over how
and whether to punish members
who back anything supported by
Democrats shows how an em-
boldened group of far-right
House members is gaining influ-
ence over the Republican Party in
SEE GOP ON A

Trump’s

loyalists

exert sway

in House

Emboldened group s eeks

to punish 1 3 Republicans

over infrastructure vote

A tangle in the forest

Colombia’s land title delays pit vulnerable groups against each other

FERNANDA PINEDA FOR THE WASHINGTON POST

BY ALEX HORTON

Up to 10,000 active-duty Ma-

rines will not be fully vaccinated

against the coronavirus when

their deadline arrives in coming

days, a trajectory expected to

yield the U.S. military’s worst

immunization rate.

While 94 percent of Marine

Corps personnel have met the

vaccination requirement or are

on a path to do so, according to

the latest official data, for the

remainder, it is too late to begin a

regimen and complete it by the

service’s Nov. 28 deadline. Within

an institution built upon the

belief that orders are to be

obeyed, and one that brands itself

the nation’s premier crisis-

response force, it is a vexing

outcome.

The holdouts will join approxi-

mately 9,600 Air Force personnel

who have outright refused vacci-

nation, did not report their sta-

tus, or sought an exemption on

medical or religious grounds,

causing a dilemma for command-

ers tasked with maintaining

SEE VACCINES ON A

Marines set

to be least

compliant on

shot mandate

PHOTOS BY BRIAN ADAMS FOR THE WASHINGTON POST

Reclaiming the record

during heritage month

American Indians and Alaska Natives, including Native Village of Eklutna

President Aaron Leggett, above, spoke with The Washington Post about their

efforts to educate their children and others about their tribes’ past and pre-

sent. For many, in the face of wrongful assumptions and a history of attempt-

ed erasure, their message to society is simple: “We’re still here.” Story, A

BY DAVID NAKAMURA

louisville — In a city still
wounded by the police killing of
Breonna Taylor, another
officer-involved shoot-
ing last month offered a
test of policies aimed at
restoring public trust.
Louisville Metro Po-
lice Chief Erika Shields
learned of the late-night
incident via emergency
text. Under a new city
policy, she confirmed the
details — police respond-
ing to a domestic distur-
bance fatally shot a man
who they said fired at
them first — then hand-
ed over the investigation to the
Kentucky State Police.
A team of Justice Department
investigators was in town, part of
a sweeping probe of the police

department prompted by Taylor’s

death in March 2020 and the law

enforcement response to more

than 100 days of social justice

demonstrations last

year.

By the next afternoon,

federal investigators

were on the phone with

Louisville’s division

commander asking

questions about the offi-

cer-involved shooting —

the eighth in the city this

year, and the second

that resulted in a fatali-

ty.

“You can’t control the

timing of these things —

you just want as few of

them as possible,” said Shields,

54, who was hired in January

after four years as Atlanta’s po-

lice chief. “The problem is that

SEE LOUISVILLE ON A

O ut of Louisville’s pain,

a t est case in reform

L ocal and federal officials walk a complex path

20 months after Breonna Taylor’s police killing

Police Chief

Erika Shields

has led the

Louisville

force for less

than a year.

Breiner Tijaro, 11, waits for rain to stop to help his father with c hores. The family moved to

Montebello after being displaced only to find the land is part of a protected reservation.