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Thursday 30 November 2017
AP: Speaker arrested at UConn blames students Castile’s girlfriend

reaches settlement
litical landscape.
UConn’s College Republi- in police shooting
cans student group spon-
sored Tuesday night’s
event. ST. ANTHONY, Minn. (AP)
“UConn does not bar — The Minnesota city that
speakers on the basis of employed a police officer
content. Free speech, like who fatally shot black mo-
academic freedom, is one torist Philando Castile dur-
of the university’s bedrock ing a traffic stop last year
principles,” Reitz said. has reached a settlement
UConn President Susan with Castile’s girlfriend and
Herbst called it “a very dis- her daughter, who were in
appointing evening.” the car with him when he
“We live in a tense and was killed.
angry time of deep po- The St. Anthony City Coun-
litical division. Our hope as cil voted Tuesday night to
educators is that creative pay $675,000 to Diamond
leadership and intellectual Reynolds and her daugh-
energy can be an antidote ter, who was 4 years old
to that sickness, especially when her father was killed.
on university campuses,” Reynolds also will receive
In this Nov. 28, 2017 photo, Lucian Wintrich, White House correspondent for the right-wing blog Herbst said. $125,000 from the League
of Minnesota Cities Insur-
Gateway Pundit, speaks at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, Conn. The conservative “Between the offensive re-
commentator was arrested and charged with breach of peace after an altercation during his marks by the speaker who ance Trust and the city of
speech titled “It’s OK To Be White.” also appeared to aggres- Roseville, where Reynolds
(Rebecca Lurye/The Courant via AP) sively grab an audience was detained by police
STORRS, Conn. (AP) — A on Twitter show Wintrich, 29, dent was charged with member and the reckless and questioned by the
conservative commenta- running after the woman breach of peace and crim- vandalism that followed, state Bureau of Criminal
tor who was arrested at the and grabbing her before inal mischief for allegedly that was certainly not the Apprehension after the
University of Connecticut other audience members breaking a window as peo- case on our campus to- shooting.
and charged with breach get involved. ple were leaving the event. night. We are better than St. Anthony Mayor Jerry
of peace following an al- Police quickly stepped in Reitz said that student was this.” Faust said the settlement
tercation blamed some and led Wintrich away. not charged in connection Campus police said be- resolves any civil litigation
UConn students for being “It’s really unfortunate with a smoke bomb that forehand that they would against the city and cur-
“violent and disruptive.” that some of the kids at @ was thrown inside at one be taking measures to en- rent and former employees
Lucian Wintrich’s Tuesday UConn felt the need to be point. That remained under sure public safety. and “opens the door to
night speech titled “It’s OK violent and disruptive dur- investigation. She also said The College Republicans healing.” A statement on
To Be White” was repeat- ing a speech that focused police were reviewing vid- said flyers advertising the the city’s website says the
edly interrupted by people on how the leftist media is eos to determine if any oth- event had been torn down settlement resolves Reyn-
in the audience booing turning Americans against er charges or arrests were or defaced across campus. olds’ claims of “emotional
and chanting before com- each other,” Wintrich wrote warranted. UConn’s College Demo- distress and false arrest.”
ing to an abrupt end when on Twitter early Wednesday Wintrich is the White House crats said they were spon- Castile was driving in Fal-
a woman appeared to after he was released from correspondent for the right- soring a discussion before con Heights when Officer
take paperwork off the lec- police custody. “Tonight wing blog Gateway Pundit, the speech so activists from Jeronimo Yanez pulled him
tern he was using and then proved my point.” which said the talk would across the campus com- over and shot him after he
began to leave. UConn spokeswoman be about “identity politics” munity could express their said he was armed. Reyn-
Cellphone videos posted Stephanie Reitz said a stu- in today’s cultural and po- views.q olds streamed the shoot-
ing’s aftermath live on
Nevada: Facebook.
Yanez was acquitted of
Suspected high-rise gunman dead, hostage safe manslaughter and other
charges and left the police
department.
Reynolds released a state-
RENO, Nevada (AP) — A hostage, was hurt. Stephen Paddock, the man the neighboring Eldorado
gunman with a hostage The gunman’s name has who opened fire from the Resort Casino when the ment Tuesday night, saying,
“The settlement symbolizes
opened fire from the eighth not been released. Robin- 32nd floor of the Mandalay shots rang out.
floor of a luxury high-rise son described him only as Bay hotel and casino onto “It’s scary, you know?” that what happened to
my daughter and I on July
condominium in Nevada a young adult. an outdoor concert be- Pavicich told the Review-
onto the streets below, The luxury high-rise is sur- low killing 58 people, had Journal. “This is the same 6, 2016 was wrong. While
no amount of money can
authorities said. No injuries rounded by some of down- owned a unit at the Mon- kind of town.”
were reported. town Reno’s most popular tage. Records show he sold The building was once a change what happened,
bring Philando back, or
The man died Tuesday after casinos, and the gunfire the property in December casino itself before it was
a SWAT team descended brought eerie echoes of 2016. converted into luxury con- erase the pain that my
daughter and I continue to
on him while he was bar- the Las Vegas shooting two “When you heard it’s com- dos, according to its web-
ricaded at the Montage, months earlier that killed ing from above it reminds site. suffer, I do hope that clos-
ing this chapter will allow us
Reno police Deputy Chief dozens. you of the guy shooting Trooper Chris Kelley of the
Tom Robinson told report- But there were no reported from Mandalay Bay,” said Nevada Highway Patrol to get our lives back and
move forward.”
ers. It wasn’t immediately injuries in Tuesday’s attack Mike Pavicich, who was in told the Reno Gazette-
clear whether he was killed as the streets were mostly town on business from Las Journal that shots were Castile’s death and the of-
ficer’s acquittal sparked
by police gunfire or his own. empty on a cold week- Vegas and was standing heard from the building for
No one else, including the night. atop a parking garage at at least 20 minutes.q weeks of protests.q