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U.S. NEWS Wednesday 20 February 2019

Newspaper calls for KKK resurgence, NY court: Public allowed

schools rescind honors to see police body

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) ery Advertiser he stands by servatives in the South were camera footage

— A small-town newspaper his Feb. 14 editorial. During Democrats.
has called for a resurgence an interview, Sutton sug- The KKK editorial was only By MICHAEL R. SISAK
of the Ku Klux Klan, prompt- gested lynchings as a way the latest in a series of Associated Press
ing two universities to with- to clean up Washington. provocative opinions ex- NEW YORK (AP) — Police
draw the awards it had Sutton also questioned pressed by The Democrat- body camera footage is
given its editor. whether the KKK is violent, Reporter, which was laud- subject to public disclo-
Auburn University and the claiming America’s most ed two decades ago for sure under New York law,
University of Southern Mis- feared white suprema- coverage rooting out cor- a state appeals court ruled
sissippi decided Tuesday cist terrorist organization ruption in the local sheriff’s Tuesday.
to rescind previous honors “didn’t kill but a few peo- department. The Appellate Division pan-
for Goodloe Sutton, editor ple.” In a December edito- el rejected a police union’s
and publisher of The Dem- The Alabama Press Asso- rial about the high cost of argument that body cam-
ocrat-Reporter of Linden, ciation Board said in a brief crime, the newspaper said: era footage constitutes
Alabama. statement that its board “Giving addicts enough a personnel record and
An editorial published last of directors voted Tuesday free dope to kill themselves is therefore covered by a In this Jan. 30, 2018 file photo,
week began: “Time for the to censure Sutton and sus- is cheaper than putting state law keeping police a newly issued police body
Ku Klux Klan to night ride pend The Democrat-Re- them in prison for killing personnel records secret. camera is shown during a
again.” The editorial says porter’s membership. other people to get a few Body camera video “is NYPD news conference in
New York.
Democrats and “Demo- Dating to 1879, the news- bucks to buy more dope.” more akin to arrest or stop Associated Press
crats in the Republican paper’s editorials are con- Weeks earlier, the newspa- reports, and not records The New York Police De-
Party” are plotting to raise sistently conservative and per complained that CBS primarily generated for partment and police re-
taxes in Alabama, so the often critical of the Dem- News historically has “slan- disciplinary and promo- form advocates welcomed
Klan should raid “gated ocratic Party. The use of dered the South” by pro- tional purposes,” the court the decision. The city’s larg-
communities” where they “Democrat” in its name viding too much coverage said. “To hold otherwise est police union, which
live. reflects back to the period when whites kill blacks in would defeat the purpose sued to block the disclosure
Sutton told the Montgom- when nearly all white con- the region.q of the body-worn-camera of footage, said the court’s
program to promote in- decision was “wrong” and
Key witness says Colorado man fatally creased transparency and that it was considering an
public accountability.”
appeal.q
beat fiancee with bat

DENVER (AP) — A man beat
his fiancee to death with a
baseball bat, convinced
a woman he was having
an affair with to clean up
a bloody crime scene and
then burned the victim’s re-
mains while she watched,
investigators said Tuesday.
Dramatic testimony at
a Colorado hearing re-
lied heavily on what Krys-
tal Jean Lee Kenney, a In this Dec. 31, 2018 file photo, Patrick Frazee leaves the Teller
32-year-old Idaho woman County District Court in Cripple Creek, Colo.
told police: That she and Associated Press
Patrick Frazee were hav- pleaded guilty to tamper- tors. The body of Kelsey
ing a romantic relationship ing with evidence and is Berreth, a 29-year-old flight
and that he wanted her required to testify against instructor and the mother
to kill the mother of his in- Frazee as part of her plea of Frazee’s infant daughter,
fant daughter. Kenney has agreement with prosecu- has yet to be found. q