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Denton Record-Chronicle
Saturday, June 24, 2017
Senators pressure military on Yemen claims
worked with forces from the United Ar-
ab Emirates who are accused of tortur-
ing detainees in Yemen.
John McCain, Republican chairman
ofthe Senate Armed Services Committee,
and the ranking Democrat, Jack Reed,
called the reports “deeply disturbing.”
The reports were revealed in an in-
vestigation by The Associated Press
published Thursday.
That same day, McCain and Reed
wrote a letter to Defense Secretary Jim
Mattis asking him to conduct an imme-
diate review of the reported abuse and
what U.S. forces knew.
“Even the suggestion that the United
States tolerates torture by our foreign
partners compromises our national se-
curity mission by undermining the
moral principle that distinguishes us
from our enemies— our belief that all
people possess basic human rights,” the
senators wrote Mattis. “We are confi-
dent that you find these allegations as
extremely troubling as we do.”
Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy, Vice
Chairman ofthe Senate Appropriations
Committee, also called for an investiga-
tion and noted that support for the
UAE forces could violate a law he wrote
that forbids funding to known human
rights violators.
“Reports of acts of torture by agents
of a government that is supported by
the United States, and the possibility
that U.S. military personnel may have
been aware of it, should ring alarm bells
at the Department of Defense,” Leahy
said in a statement to the AP.
The AP’s report detailed a network
of secret prisons across southern Yemen
where hundreds are detained in the
hunt for al-Qaida militants and held
without charges. American defense offi-
cials confirmed to the AP that U.S. forc-
es have interrogated some detainees in
Yemen but denied any participation in,
or knowledge of, human rights abuses.
Defense ofiicials told the AP that the
department had looked into reports of
torture and concluded that its person-
nel were not involved or aware of any
abuse. The American ofiicials con-
firmed that the U.S. provides questions
to the Emiratis and receives transcripts
of their interrogations.
McCain, Reed ask for
review of U.S. role
in reports of torture
By Desmond Butler
and Maggie Michael
Associated Press
WASHINGTON
Pressure
mounted on the U.S. Defense Depart-
ment Friday after multiple U.S. sena-
tors called for investigations into re-
ports that U.S. military interrogators
Chief defends search
for girl found dead
Gathering together
Dylan and Carol
Lischau of Gath-
erward Design
Co. unveil a new
table Friday in a
cottage at Cum-
berland Presby-
terian Children’s
Home, while
Chick-fil-A’s
cow mascots
watch from the
corner. Three
local Chick-fil-A
restaurants
sponsored the
creation of four
handmade ta-
bles for Cum-
berland, which
houses children
removed from
unhealthy situa-
tions.
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Wednesday afternoon. She dis-
appeared Monday evening
while walking her dog.
The Tarrant County medical
examiner’s office identified her
Thursday and performed an au-
topsy, though her cause and
manner of death have yet to be
released.
Investigators have yet to
identify any suspects or persons
of interest, Gibson said, but po-
lice have no evidence indicating
that there’s any threat to the
public.
‘We do not see anything that
would indicate a repeat offend-
er,” he said, adding that he didn’t
know whether the girl had been
sexually assaulted.
Kaytlynn’s parents began
looking for her when she did not
return home after about 30
minutes. She was reported miss-
ing to police about 8 p.m., police
said.
Missing teen’s body
found at landfill
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By Nicole Cobler, Abigail Shaw
and Claire Z. Cardona
The Dallas Morning News
Bedford police said they’re
leaving “no stone unturned” in
their criminal investigation after
a missing teen was found dead
in a landfill.
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found at the Arlington dump.
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exceptionally well,” he said at a
news conference at Bedford po-
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Second mistrial in University of
Cincinnati officer’s murder case
BRIEFLY
Military heads want
time to prepare for
transgender enlistees
ACROSS THE STATE
Austin
Justice Dept, backs state
‘sanctuary city’ law
The Trump administration is
backing a Texas “sanctuary city”
crackdown in court ahead of a
federal judge deciding whether
to put the new law on hold.
U.S. Attorney General Jeff
Sessions said Friday that Texas
“has admirably” followed the
lead of President Donald
Trump’s tougher stance on ille-
gal immigration. The new law
takes effect in September and
lets police ask people about their
immigration status during rou-
tine stops.
Houston this week joined
other major Texas cities, includ-
ing Dallas and Austin, in asking
U.S. District Judge Orlando
Garcia to stop the law from tak-
ing effect. The first court heari ng
is Monday in San Antonio.
Jurors deadlock on
verdict in shooting
of black motorist
Former police
officer Raymond
Tensing reacts
as Judge Leslie
Ghiz declares a
mistrial on Fri-
day in Cincin-
nati. Tensing
was charged
with murder and
voluntary man-
slaughter in the
shooting of Sam
DuBose during a
traffic stop.
ended the ban, declaring it
the right thing to do. Since
Oct. \ transgender troops
have been able to receive
medical care and start for-
mally changing their gender
identifications in the Penta-
gon’s personnel system.
But Carter also gave the
services until July 1 to develop
policies to allow people al-
ready identifying as transgen-
der to newly join the military,
if they meet physical, medical
and other standards, and
have been stable in their iden-
tified genders for 18 months.
The military chiefs had said
they needed time to study the
issue and its effects on the
readiness of the force before
taking that step.
Ofiicials said Friday that
the chiefs believe the extra
half-year would give the four
military services time to
gauge if currently serving
transgender troops are facing
problems and what necessary
changes the military bases
might have to make.
By Lolita C. Baldor
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Mili-
tary chiefs will seek a six-
month delay before letting
transgender people enlist in
their services, officials said
Friday.
After meetings this week,
the service leaders hammered
out an agreement that reject-
ed Army and Air Force re-
quests for a two-year wait and
reflected broader concerns
that a longer delay would trig-
ger criticism on Capitol Hill,
officials familiar with the talks
told The Associated Press.
The new request for a de-
lay will go to Defense Secre-
tary Jim Mattis for a final de-
cision, said the officials, who
weren’t authorized to discuss
the internal deliberations
publicly and spoke on condi-
tion of anonymity.
Transgender servicemem-
bers have been able to serve
openly in the military since
last year, when former De-
fense Secretary Ash Carter
By Dan Sewell
Associated Press
CINCINNATI - A second
mistrial was declared Friday in
the case of a white University of
Cincinnati officer who killed an
unarmed black motorist during
a traffic stop. It’s the latest racial-
ly charged police shooting case
to showthe reluctance of U.S. ju-
rors to convict officers.
Hamilton County Judge Les-
lie Ghiz declared a mistrial after
more than 30 hours of jury delib-
erations over five days. The jurors
had said earlier Friday that they
were unable to reach a verdict in
Officer Ray Tensing’s trial, but
Ghiz had sent them back to try
again on the counts of murder
and voluntary manslaughter.
Instead, they sent her anoth-
er note some three hours later,
saying: ‘We are almost evenly
split regarding our votes.” The
note said they didn’t foresee
reaching a unanimous verdict.
Tensing, 27, looked down, his
hand on his face, as the judge
announced the mistrial over the
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death of 43-year-old Sam Du-
Bose, who was shot in the head
while driving away from the traf-
fic stop on July 19, 2015. Tensing
and his family left quickly with-
out comment.
The first trial against Tensing
also ended in a mistrial after the
jury deliberated 25 hours over
four days in November without
reaching a verdict.
The case is among several
across the country in recent
years that have raised attention
to how police deal with blacks.
A jury last week acquitted a
Minnesota officer who fatally
shot Philando Castile during a
traffic stop. And jurors on
Wednesday acquitted a black
police officer of first-degree
reckless homicide in the death of
a black Milwaukee man who
threw away the gun he was car-
rying during a brief foot chase
after a traffic stop.
The NAACP of Cincinnati
blasted the hung jury result and
said they will demand justice.
Prosecutors will have to de-
cide whether to try Tensing for a
third time.
Dallas
Officer charged with
assault in fatal shooting
A grand jury has recom-
mended an aggravated assault
charge against a Dallas police of-
ficer who shot and killed a wom-
an in a January confrontation
involving a stolen car.
The Dallas County district at-
torney announced Friday that
Christopher Hess was indicted
on a charge of aggravated as-
sault. The charge is related to the
January shooting death of 21-
year-old Genevive Dawes.
Dallas County District Attor-
ney Faith Johnson said at a press
conference Friday that her office
was committed to taking the
case to trial and to investigating
officer-involved shootings.
Daryl Washington, a civil
rights attorney representing
Dawes’ family, said they were
hoping for a murder charge to
be brought against the officer.
Hess and another officer, who
the grand jury did not recom-
mend charges against, had re-
sponded to a suspicious persons
call, according to police accounts.
Dawes and Rosales allegedly ig-
nored commands to get out of the
car, reversed the car into a police
cruiser and rammed a fence when
police fired, killing Dawes and in-
juring the passenger, Virgilio Ro-
sales, Dawes’ boyfriend.
Washington said that ac-
count is flawed. He said the cou-
ple was sleeping about 5 a.m. in
the car when police arrived. He
said from the evidence he has
seen, Dawes never drove the car
toward the officers or tried to hit
them. He also said Dawes did
not know the car was stolen.
— The Associated Press
BRIEFLY
ACROSS THE NATION
Washington
Trump signs law to
boost VA accountability
New York
Depp’s comments the
latest in celebrity anger
of outrage” over Depp’s com-
ments was “a little troubling.”
Petaluma, Calif.
Ugliest dog contest
awards inner beauty
The homely hounds and
their humans arrived hours be-
fore the show to socialize and
size up the competition at the
World’s Ugliest Dog Contest Fri-
day, where dog lovers celebrate
the imperfections of man’s best
friend.
Many of the contestants are
adopted. Monkey, a 6-year-old
Brussel Griffon, and Icky, an 8-
year-old unknown breed, were
both rescued from a hoarding
situation.
These dogs — some with ac-
ne, others with tongues perma-
nently sticking out — are used to
getting called ugly. But for their
owners, it was love at first sight.
“He’s my sexy boy,” Vicky Ad-
ler, of Davis, California, said of
her 8-year-old Chinese Crest
named Zoomer.
The pooches face off in a red
carpet walk and “Faux Paw
Fashion Show.” This is the 29th
year the contest is being held at
the Sonoma-Marin Fair.
— The Associated Press
tion that she is lesbian and still
loved by God — before her mi-
crophone is turned off by local
church leaders — is sparking a
new round of discussions about
how the religion handles LGBT
issues.
St. Louis
Attorney: Brown family
settlement is $15 million
The $1.5 million awarded
this week to the parents of Mi-
chael Brown is the latest of sev-
eral large settlements involving
killings ofblack people by police,
but it’s far from the largest.
A federal judge in St. Louis
on Tuesday approved the settle-
ment in a wrongful death law-
suit filed by Michael Brown Sr.
and Lezley McSpadden. Their
18-year-old son was unarmed on
Aug. 9,2014, when he was fatally
shot by white officer Darren
Wilson during a street confron-
tation in Ferguson, Missouri.
The shooting launched
months of protests and led to a
U.S. Department of Justice in-
vestigation that found racial bias
in Ferguson’s police and court
system. But a St. Louis County
grand jury and the Justice De-
partment declined to prosecute
Wilson, who resigned in No-
vember 2014.
Johnny Depp apologized Fri-
day for joking about assassinat-
ing Donald Trump during an ap-
pearance at a large festival in
Britain, the latest example of art-
ists using violent imagery when
dealing with the president.
‘When was the last time an
actor assassinated a president?”
Depp asked the crowd at Glas-
tonbury Festival, in reference to
the death of Abraham Lincoln
by John Wilkes Booth in 1865.
The 54-year-old Pirates of
the Caribbean star then added:
“I want to clarify, I am not an ac-
tor. I lie for a living. However, it
has been awhile and maybe it is
time.”
President Donald Trump
signed a bill into law Friday that
will make it easier for the De-
partment of Veterans Affairs to
fire employees, part of a push to
overhaul an agency that is strug-
gling to serve millions of mili-
tary vets.
“Our veterans have fulfilled
their duty to our nation and now
we must fulfill our duty to them,”
Trump said during a White
House ceremony. “To every vet-
eran who is here with us today, I
just want to say two very simple
words: Thank you.”
Trump repeatedly promised
during the election campaign to
dismiss VA workers “who let our
veterans down,” and he cast Fri-
day’s bill signing as fulfillment of
that promise.
Salt Lake City
Church microphone cut
after girl says she’s gay
A video of a young Mormon
girl revealing to her congrega-
Savannah, 13, spoke on May 7
in Eagle Mountain, Utah, about
her belief that she is the child of
heavenly parents who didn’t
make any mistakes when she was
created. Her comments came
during a once-a-month portion
of Mormon Sunday services
where members are encouraged
to share feelings and beliefs.
“They did not mess up when
they gave me freckles or when
they made me to be gay,” she
said, wearing a white shirt and
red tie. “God loves me just this
way.”
Her mother, Heather Kester,
said Friday that her daughter was
passionate about coming out in
church to be a voice and example
for other LGBT children who
Depp said in a statement Fri-
day that he did not intend any
malice and was trying to be
amusing.
“I apologize for the bad joke I
attempted last night in poor
taste about President Trump,”
the statement said.
White House spokesman
Sean Spicer said Friday “the lack
struggle for acceptance within
the Church of Jesus Christ of Lat-
ter-day Saints. She asked that Sa-
vannah’s full name be withheld
to protect her privacy.
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