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Biden Holds 14-Point Edge

Over Trump in a New Poll
Voters Signal Disapproval Over President’s
Handling of Pandemic and Protests
This article is by Alexander was first elected, she had resolved
Burns, Jonathan Martin and Matt to “give him a chance,” but had
Stevens. since concluded that he and his
Joseph R. Biden Jr. has taken a party were irredeemable.
commanding lead over President “I was one of those people who
Trump in the 2020 race, building a stuck by Nixon until he was wav-
wide advantage among women ing goodbye,” Ms. Myles said. “I
and nonwhite voters and making thought I was a good Republican
deep inroads with some tradition- and thought they had my values,
ally Republican-leaning groups but they have gone down the
that have shifted away from Mr. tubes these last few years.”
Trump following his ineffective re- Ms. Myles said she planned to
sponse to the coronavirus pan- vote for Mr. Biden, expressing
demic, according to a new na- only one misgiving: “I wish he
tional poll of registered voters by was younger,” she said.
The New York Times and Siena Most stark may be Mr. Biden’s
College. towering advantage among white
Mr. Biden is currently ahead of women with college degrees, who
Mr. Trump by 14 percentage support him over Mr. Trump by 39
points, garnering 50 percent of the percentage points. In 2016, exit
vote compared with 36 percent for polls found that group preferred
Mr. Trump. That is among the Mrs. Clinton to Mr. Trump by just
most dismal showings of Mr. 7 percentage points. The poll also
Trump’s presidency, and a sign found that Mr. Biden has nar-
that he is the clear underdog right rowed Mr. Trump’s advantage
now in his fight for a second term. with less-educated white voters.
GABRIELA BHASKAR FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Mr. Trump has been an unpopu- The exodus of white voters from
Taking On the Outbreak Themselves lar president for virtually his en- Continued on Page A18
tire time in office. He has made
Tenants handing out masks and sanitizer in the South Bronx. Residents of public housing aren’t waiting for the city to help. Page A6.
few efforts since his election in
If the election were held today,
2016 to broaden his support be-
yond the right-wing base that whom would you vote for?
vaulted him into office with only
Virus Surges, Unable to Eradicate Covid-19, Race Will End 46 percent of the popular vote and
a modest victory in the Electoral
All registered voters
Biden Trump
50% 36

Knocking U.S. World Learns to Live With It Nov. 3, Right? College.

But among a striking cross-sec-
GENDER
Female 55 33
Back on Ropes Don’t Bet on It
This article is by Sui-Lee Wee,
looking for targeted ways to find
tion of voters, the distaste for Mr.
Trump has deepened as his ad-
ministration failed to stop a
Male 43 40

Benjamin Mueller and Emma AGE

and stop outbreaks before they deadly disease that crippled the
Bubola. become third or fourth waves. economy and then as he re- 18 to 34 59 25
By MATT PHILLIPS By SHANE GOLDMACHER
and ANUPREETA DAS China is testing restaurant While the details differ, the sponded to a wave of racial-justice 35 to 49 53 30
strategies call for giving govern- The cliffhanger elections on protests with angry bluster and
workers and delivery drivers
On Wednesday, governors, ments flexibility to tighten or ease Tuesday night in Kentucky and militaristic threats. The dominant 50 to 64 44 45
block by block. South Korea tells
mayors, investors and others as needed. They require some mix New York didn’t just leave the picture that emerges from the poll
people to carry two types of masks 65 and older 47 45
across the United States woke up of intensive testing and monitor- candidates and voters in a state of is of a country ready to reject a
for differing risky social situa-
to news that was impossible to ig- suspended animation wondering president whom a strong majority
tions. Germany requires commu- ing, lightning-fast response times, RACE AND EDUCATION
nore. More than 35,000 new coro- who had won. Election officials, of voters regard as failing the
nities to crack down when the tight border management and Black 79 5
navirus cases had been identified lawyers and political strategists in
number of infections hits certain constant reminders to their citi- greatest tests confronting his ad-
the day before. It was the highest both parties said the lack of re- Hispanic 64 25
thresholds. Britain will target lo- zens of the dangers of frequent hu- ministration.
number reported in a single day sults was a bracing preview of
cal outbreaks in a strategy that man contact. Mr. Biden leads Mr. Trump by White 43 44
since late April. what could come after the polls
Prime Minister Boris Johnson The strategies often force cen- enormous margins with black and
The news kept getting worse. close in November: no clear and White, college 58 30
Florida, Texas, Oklahoma and calls “Whac-a-Mole.” tral governments and local offi- Hispanic voters, and women and
immediate winner in the presi-
South Carolina reported their Around the world, governments cials to share data and work young people appear on track to White, no college 34 53
dential race.
highest single-day totals. New that had appeared to tame the co- closely together, overcoming in- choose Mr. Biden by an even
With the coronavirus pandemic wider margin than they favored PARTY IDENTIFICATION
York instituted a quarantine for ronavirus are adjusting to the re- compatible computer systems,
swelling the number of mailed-in Hillary Clinton over Mr. Trump in
some travelers from out of state. ality that the disease is here to turf battles and other longstand- Democrat 90 5
ballots to historic highs across the 2016. But the former vice presi-
And the stock market slid 2.6 per- stay. But in a shift from damaging ing bureaucratic rivalries. Al-
nation, the process of vote- dent has also drawn even with Mr.
Independent 50 29
cent as investors fretted about nationwide lockdowns, they are Continued on Page A8
counting has become more un-
what the latest troubling news Trump among male voters, whites Republican 5 90
wieldy, and election administra-
meant for economic recovery. and people in middle age and old-
tors are straining to keep up and
It was as if the country had er — groups that have typically IDEOLOGY
deliver timely results. The jumble
found itself back in March — at the been the backbones of Republican Very liberal 88 5
of election rules and deadlines by
start of the pandemic, in the early electoral success, including Mr.
state, including in presidential Somewhat liberal 80 11
days of the lockdown, when masks Trump’s in 2016.
battlegrounds like Pennsylvania
were in short supply and the death Arlene Myles, 75, of Denver, Moderate 57 24
and Wisconsin, all but ensures
toll was skyrocketing. said she had been a Republican for 26 58
that the victor in a close race won’t Somewhat conservative
By the end of Wednesday, more nearly six decades before switch-
be known on Nov. 3. Very conservative 11 84
than 36,000 new cases had been ing her registration to independ-
And top election officials are
reported nationwide, the second- ent earlier this year during Mr.
warning that if the race between Based on a New York Times/Siena College poll
highest daily total since the pan- Trump’s impeachment trial. Ms. of 1,337 registered voters, June 17 to 22. Other
Donald J. Trump and Joseph R. Bi-
demic began. Myles said that when Mr. Trump responses not shown. THE NEW YORK TIMES
den Jr. is anything but a blowout,
The new cases showed that the
the public and the politicians need
outbreak had been far from con-
to recalibrate expectations for
tained. That could lead some
when the 2020 campaign will
states to slow the process of re-
opening businesses, further hob-
come to a decisive conclusion.
“I don’t think it matters when
Divided Appellate Panel Orders
bling the economy and delaying
its recovery.
Some states, including New
you go to bed — you can stay up as
late as you want, you won’t have Dismissal of Case Against Flynn
York, which at one point had the an answer,” said Chris Thomas,
most virus cases, have brought who served for 36 years as the
the number under control. But state director of elections in Mich- By CHARLIE SAVAGE
cases are still rising in more than igan. WASHINGTON — A divided suspended deadlines for further
20 states, especially in the South Already in this primary season, federal appeals court panel or- briefs and a July 16 hearing in his
and West. state after state has seen it take dered an immediate end on review, suggesting he was study-
Florida reported a new daily longer than usual to tally enough Wednesday to the case against ing his options or waiting to see
high of 5,508 cases on Wednesday, votes to project winners. New Michael T. Flynn, President what the broader group of judges
and the percentage of residents CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES York and Kentucky are just the Trump’s former national security might do.
Continued on Page A10 A movie theater in Tokyo. Japan is trying to keep its limits light. Continued on Page A19 adviser — delivering a major vic- The order from the panel — a
tory to Mr. Flynn and to the Jus- so-called writ of mandamus —
tice Department, which had was rare and came as a surprise,
sought to drop the case. taking its place as yet another

Facial Recognition Tool Led to Black Man’s Arrest. It Was Wrong. In the ruling, two of three
judges on a panel for the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the District of
twist in the extraordinary legal
and political drama surrounding
the prosecution of Mr. Flynn, who
into his driveway in a quiet subdi- ceny.” “When’s the last time you went Columbia Circuit ordered the trial twice pleaded guilty to lying to
By KASHMIR HILL vision in Farmington Hills, Mich., His wife, Melissa, asked where to a Shinola store?” one of the de- judge overseeing the matter, Em- F.B.I. agents in the Russia investi-
On a Thursday afternoon in a police car pulled up behind, he was being taken. “Google it,” tectives asked, in Mr. Williams’s met G. Sullivan, to immediately gation about his conversations in
January, Robert Julian-Borchak blocking him in. Two officers got she recalls an officer replying. recollection. Shinola is an upscale dismiss the case without further December 2016 with the Russian
Williams was in his office at an au- out and handcuffed Mr. Williams The police drove Mr. Williams to boutique that sells watches, bicy- review. The third accused his col- ambassador to the United States.
tomotive supply company when on his front lawn, in front of his a detention center. He had his mug cles and leather goods in the leagues of “grievously” overstep- Mr. Flynn’s case became a polit-
he got a call from the Detroit Po- wife and two young daughters, shot, fingerprints and DNA taken, trendy Midtown neighborhood of ping their powers. ical cause for Mr. Trump and his
lice Department telling him to who were distraught. The police and was held overnight. Around Detroit. Mr. Williams said he and But the full appeals court has supporters, who have sought to
come to the station to be arrested. wouldn’t say why he was being ar- noon on Friday, two detectives his wife had checked it out when the option of reviewing the matter, discredit the broader inquiry into
He thought at first that it was a rested, only showing him a piece took him to an interrogation room the store first opened in 2014. and Judge Sullivan did not imme- Russia’s interference in the 2016
prank. of paper with his photo and the and placed three pieces of paper The detective turned over the diately dismiss the case in re- election and links to the Trump
An hour later, when he pulled words “felony warrant” and “lar- on the table, face down. Continued on Page A21 sponse to the ruling. Instead, he Continued on Page A15

INTERNATIONAL A11-13 BUSINESS B1-7 ARTS C1-8

Kim’s Flip-Flop Strategy Bayer’s $10 Billion Settlement Protests, and All That Jazz
North Korea, having raised tensions The chemical and pharmaceutical Jon Batiste, the “Late Show” bandleader,
last week, lowered them — a familiar maker faced claims linking its Roundup has been marching and bringing his
approach of Kim Jong-un and his fore- weedkiller to cases of cancer. PAGE B1 musical message to the streets. PAGE C1
bears. News Analysis. PAGE A11
Asking Bezos to Walk the Talk Turmoil at the Met Museum
TRACKING AN OUTBREAK A4-10 France’s Slave-Trading Past From racist graffiti to missed promo- THURSDAY STYLES D1-6 A curator’s Instagram post on protecting
After the killing of George Floyd, some tions, black employees at Amazon say a monuments from “zealots” drew staff
A Maskless Salute in Moscow argue the country’s role should be “systemic pattern of racial bias” perme- Hearts in Bloom Across City charges of systemic racism. PAGE C1
Thousands turned out to mark Russia’s remembered and explained. PAGE A12 ates the company. PAGE B1 Lewis Miller, a florist beloved for his
defeat of Nazi Germany, but few, includ- botanical street installations, spreads a EDITORIAL, OP-ED A24-25
ing veterans, took precautions. PAGE A4 little joy with “flower flashes.” PAGE D6
NATIONAL A14-22 SPORTSTHURSDAY B9-11 Ross Douthat PAGE A24

Texas Restart Backfires Barr Accused During Hearing Pandemic’s Latest Casualties A Toxic Culture at CrossFit
As new cases mount, Gov. Greg Abbott Career Justice Department officials told Marathons in New York City and Berlin Women report rampant sexual har-
is facing increasing pressure over his a House committee that politics drove were canceled as organizers decided assment and other mistreatment from U(D54G1D)y+?!]!&!$!"
decision to open the economy. PAGE A9 decisions in two cases. PAGE A15 the risks were too high. PAGE B9 top male management. PAGE D1
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featured in the film “Soul,” the first largest manufacturing sector.
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A New York Times/Siena College poll of registered voters due date, she reported an article about other women’s experi-
nationwide found that Joe Biden is ahead of President Trump ences giving birth during the Covid-19 pandemic in New York
by 14 percentage points and cutting into the president’s sup- City, “which has reshaped and added tension (and whole lot of
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of the bloc are completing their border policies. Travelers institutions in NYC, which women say contributes to
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BY JOEL FAGLIANO HOW THE PANDEMIC HAS AFFECTED PASSPORT AND GLOBAL ENTRY APPLICATIONS UNTIL JULY 12

1 2 3 4 Travel is gradually returning, but not with-

out disruptions. And they go beyond just
airports and travel bans. Here’s what to
5
expect when applying for or renewing a
passport or Global Entry membership.
6 TACEY RYCHTER

U.S. passports. About 1.7 million Ameri-

7 cans in need of passports were facing se-
vere delays earlier this month because of
8
processing center closures. Fifteen centers
had reopened for limited service as of June MICHAEL REYNOLDS/EPA, VIA SHUTTERSTOCK

19. Pending applications will be addressed approval at the Department of Homeland

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the final phase of reopening the passport tionally approved have a year to complete
DOWN offices (no timeline has been announced for their enrollment interview. The C.B.P.
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H O P E
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Tracking an Outbreak
0N

Coronavirus Update Hot Spots in the United States

As of Wednesday evening, more than 2,383,500 people across every state, plus Washington, D.C., and four U.S. territories, have tested positive for
the coronavirus, according to a New York Times database. More than 121,800 people with the virus have died in the United States.
New U.S. Cases Up 14% Over Past 2 Weeks
How the number of new cases
Fresh Outbreaks Reported in Italy and Japan has changed over the last two weeks

Wash.
Global Economy Is Expected to Shrink 4.9% Falling Rising ĺ Few or same
number of cases Maine
Mont. N.D.

By JAMES BARRON Ore. Minn.

Idaho Wis. N.Y. Vt. N.H.
The coronavirus is slogging through the South and Southwest —
Mass.
cases have surged 14 percent over 14 days, and the 35,000 new cases S.D. Mich.
on Tuesday were the most on a single day since late April. People in Wyo. Conn. R.I.
places that were spared early in the pandemic are fearful, and offi-
Iowa Pa.
cials in places that were ravaged early are trying desperately to
N.J.
keep what they did to control the outbreak from being undone. Nev. Neb.
Ohio
On Wednesday, governors from the early epicenter of the out- Ind. Md.
Del.
break in the Northeast said that arriving travelers would have to Ill. D.C.
Utah Colo. W.Va.
quarantine for 14 days. Under the “joint travel advisory” announced Va.
by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York, Gov. Philip D. Murphy of Calif. Kan. Mo.
New Jersey and Gov. Ned Lamont of Connecticut, travelers from Ky.
eight states with high infection rates would have to isolate them- Ariz. N.C.
selves. But more states could be added to the list and any of the Okla. Ark. Tenn.
original eight could be removed, depending on how their caseloads
N.M. S.C.
fare.
Under thresholds detailed in the advisory, the quarantine re- Ga.
quirement would apply to anyone from a state where 10 percent of Miss.
the Covid-19 tests were positive or where there was a seven-day Ala.
La.
average of more than 10 new cases for every 100,000 people.
Together, the three Northeastern states have reported more Texas
than 26 percent of the nation’s 2.3 million cases and 39 percent of Fla.
Alaska
the 121,000 deaths. But the number of new cases in New York has
largely remained flat for the last 14 days, at around 630 cases. New
cases in New Jersey and Connecticut have also trailed off in June.
“We now have to make sure that the rate continues to drop,” Mr. Hawaii Puerto Rico
Cuomo said. “A lot of people come into this region and they could
literally bring the infection with them. It wouldn’t be malicious or
malevolent, but it would still be real.”
He said that failure to go into isolation in New York could result
in thousand-dollar fines. Connecticut is considering putting up signs Sources: State and local health agencies. The map shows where the average number of reported cases over the past two weeks is increasing, decreasing or
just inside its borders and getting the word out on social media. about the same. Counties with fewer than 20 cases over the past two weeks and parts of a county with a population density lower than 10 people per square mile
are not shaded. Data for Rhode Island is shown at the state level because county data is infrequently reported. Data is as of June 24, 2020, at 5 p.m., Eastern. THE NEW YORK TIMES
The announcement by the three governors was a turnabout
from a couple of months ago, when Florida and Rhode Island sin-
gled out travelers from New York. It came amid the continuing
national debate over whether to reimpose restrictions or push ahead
with reopenings. The result is a patchwork of rules even more con- RUSSIAN PARADES
fusing than during shutdowns that varied from state to state. In
some places, the orders on mask wearing have come from local
authorities. Miami told residents to wear masks outdoors as well as
in public spaces indoors. Across Florida in Clearwater, by contrast, Tanks and Soldiers, but Few Masks, on Victory Day
the Pinellas County commissioners mandated masks indoors but
said nothing about wearing them outdoors. By ANDREW HIGGINS time zones. As the main parade two members of an official delega- pact of friendship between the
In Washington State, Gov. Jay Inslee ordered everyone to wear a MOSCOW — Putting to one side was winding down in Moscow, tion that traveled from Kyrgyz- Kremlin and Hitler as an inevita-
mask indoors and outdoors, declaring that “this is about saving Russia’s unfinished battle against troops began marching in Kali- stan to attend the Moscow parade ble consequence of appeasement
the coronavirus, President Vladi- ningrad, a former German terri- tested positive for coronavirus. by Britain, France and others. He
lives.” Oregon, to the south, has no statewide mask requirement. But
mir V. Putin on Wednesday cele- tory known as East Prussia that The Kyrgyz president, who was also claimed that the Baltic States,
seven of its counties do, under an order from Gov. Kate Brown. was seized by the Soviet Union af-
brated his country’s victory 75 traveling with them, stayed away seized by the Soviet Union as part
Across the border in Idaho, which reported 242 cases on Monday, a ter Hitler’s defeat. of the 1939 pact with Hitler, had
years ago against Nazi Germany, from Red Square on Wednesday.
one-day record, bars are shutting down and gatherings of more than Kremlin critics have accused freely given up their independ-
presiding over an enormous mili- Even Mr. Putin, in a televised
50 people are again outlawed. There is no mask requirement, but Mr. Putin of gambling with public address to the nation on Wednes- ence and had no right to complain
tary parade through Red Square
last week a public health administrator in the state’s Department of health in order to put himself at day, cautioned that, “the fight about Soviet aggression.
that featured thousands of sol-
Health and Welfare posted a video on Facebook promoting mask diers marching shoulder-to-shoul- the center of a gigantic display of against the epidemic continues.” Mr. Putin’s own version of his-
wearing. der without face masks. Russia’s military might and to With the economy and his rat- tory has infuriated Baltic coun-
In Texas, one of the first states to reopen, Gov. Greg Abbott told The parade, the largest of sev- rally support ahead of a nation- ings slumping, however, Mr. Putin tries and also Poland, which he ac-
residents to just stay home. He declared that many Texans had not eral celebrations taking place na- wide vote on his future. Voting on has sought to revive the country’s cused of conniving with Hitler. But
grasped the magnitude of the outbreak. After Texas reported more tionwide, was originally sched- constitutional amendments that spirit with proud memories of the issue has become so inviolable
than 5,000 new cases on Tuesday, its largest single-day total, Mayor uled for May 9, a joyous annual would allow Mr. Putin to stay in Russia’s unequivocal triumph inside Russia that among the con-
Sylvester Turner of Houston said, “I strongly feel we are moving in holiday known as Victory Day, but power until 2036 begins on Thurs- over Nazi Germany. stitutional amendments up for a
the wrong direction and we are moving fast.” was delayed for six weeks by the day. The Soviet Union lost up to 27 vote this week is one banning the
coronavirus pandemic. The out- The mayor of Moscow, Sergei million lives during World War II, “distortion” of Russia’s past.
break continues to grow in Russia Sobyanin, urged residents to Moscow held its first grand vic-
New Coronavirus Cases Announced Daily in U.S. — the world’s third hardest hit watch the parade on television in- tory parade on June 24, 1945, an
As of Wednesday evening, more than 2,383,500 people across every country, with nearly 600,000 cases stead of thronging the streets of event presided over by Stalin, and
state, plus Washington, D.C., and four U.S. territories, have tested — but at a slightly slower pace the city as they usually do. Thou- resumed the ritual in 1965 under
positive for the virus, according to a New York Times database. than before. sands of people still went outside the Soviet leader Leonid I. Brezh-
Aging veterans in their 80s and to watch, but the crowds were nev. The tradition was halted after
90s joined Mr. Putin on the re- smaller than usual. the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Un-
30,000 viewing stand, nearly all of them Yelena Loginova, a 36-year-old ion until President Boris N. Yel-
without masks, to watch 14,000 psychologist, who attended the tsin revived it in 1995, the 50th an-
New cases troops march in tight formation to parade said she had ignored the niversary of Hitler’s defeat, with a
stirring martial music. Tanks, mayor’s advice to watch the large display of troops and mili-
20,000 missiles and other military equip- events on TV because it was tary hardware in Red Square.
ment then trundled through the “much more interesting” to see in President Clinton and several
7-day square in front of the Kremlin, fol- person. other Western leaders attended
average
lowed by a flyover by strategic “You immediately have totally Mr. Yeltsin’s celebration, a display
10,000 bombers, fighter jets and helicop- different emotions than on televi- of respect for Russia’s wartime
ters. sion,” she said. “You feel it directly sacrifice that Mr. Putin had hoped
Mr. Putin, who has spent most when the heavy ones drive by. The would be repeated this year.
of the past three months cooped asphalt shakes under your feet.” While pledging that Russia
up at his country residence, is She said she had traveled with ALEXEY NIKOLSKY/SPUTNIK, VIA A.F.P. “will never forget our allies’ con-
March 1 June 24 hoping that the Moscow parade, her son from a Yoshkar-Ola, a tribution to the common victory,”
President Vladimir V. Putin
Note: Wednesday’s total is incomplete because some states report cases one of dozens held across the town 500 miles east of Moscow, celebrating Russia’s role in the Mr. Putin had a blunt message for
after press time. Data is as of June 24, 2020, at 5 p.m. Eastern.
country on Wednesday, will help just to see the parade in person. absent Western leaders on
Sources: State and local health agencies; hospitals; C.D.C. THE NEW YORK TIMES
Wearing a mask pulled down to
defeat of Hitler’s Germany. Wednesday:
lift the gloom that has settled over
his rule in recent weeks. The crisis her chin, she said she had not even “Remember that the Soviet peo-
has sent his approval rating to its thought about the possible risks of known in Russia as the Great Pa- ple shouldered the main burden of
In places where the coronavirus appeared to be under control, lowest level since he came to standing in a crowd of strangers triotic War. Mr. Putin has made the fight against Nazism,” he said.
new outbreaks remain a risk. Japan’s seven-day average of new power 20 years ago. on the street. the victory over fascism the “It was our people who defeated
cases has climbed to 57, from 39 two weeks ago. Cumulatively, 253 Having staked so much of his Russia on Wednesday reported touchstone of Russia’s collective the terrible, total evil, crushed
new infections have been reported in Tokyo in the last week, 83 from previous popularity on Russia’s 7,176 new coronavirus cases over identity, while also using it as a more than 600 divisions, de-
a single nightlife district. re-emergence as a major global the previous 24 hours. The daily propaganda battering ram stroyed 75 percent of the total
In Rome, which recently emerged from one of the strictest lock- power, Mr. Putin on Wednesday increase in infections has dropped against the West or any griev- number of Nazi aircraft, tanks, ar-
downs in Europe, 122 people were linked to a cluster at a hospital, basked in the glory of Russia’s im- from around 10,000 in May, but ances directed at Moscow from tillery units, and walked their
the San Raffaele Pisana Institute. Separately, 18 people who lived in mense role in the defeat of Hitler’s public health officials have abroad. righteous and infinitely sacrificial
a building with shared bathrooms came down with the virus. “As
Germany and the liberation of Eu- warned that the battle is far from In a lengthy essay published path to the end, to their victorious
rope during World War II. over. last week, Mr. Putin assailed what destination.”
soon as we lowered our guard,” said Paolo La Pietra, who owns a
“It is impossible to even imag- In a sign of the risks involved in he described as Western distor- This, he said, “is the main truth
tobacco shop in the neighborhood, “it hit us back.” ine what would have happened to holding such a large-scale event, tions of history, defending a 1939 about the war, honest and clear.”
In Gütersloh, in western Germany, more than 1,500 workers the world had it not been for the
from a meat-processing plant tested positive, prompting the authori- Red Army that stood up to defend
ties to order weeklong “soft lockdowns” there and in neighboring it” against fascism, he said in a
North Rhine-Westphalia. “The restrictions are less extensive than in speech at the start of the parade.
March,” the district administrator in Gütersloh, Sven-Georg Ade- Few foreign leaders, however,
nauer, explained on his website. “That was particularly important to were on hand to hear his message.
me. I am glad that, for example, the shops can remain open.” European leaders stayed away,
with a few exceptions: the presi-
dent of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic,
Widening Economic Fallout and the leaders of Moldova and
Two indicators of the economic toll of the pandemic came from Belarus, former Soviet republics.
the International Monetary Fund and Mayor Sadiq Khan of London. President Emmanuel Macron of
The I.M.F. lowered its forecast for global growth, predicting that France and others had planned to
the world economy would shrink 4.9 percent this year. That is no- attend the previously planned pa-
ticeably bleaker than the 3 percent it predicted in April. It also pro- rade in May but skipped the re-
jected a 5.4 percent global growth rate in 2021, far below its pre- scheduled event.
China and India, vying for Rus-
pandemic projections.
sia’s support after recent clashes
The I.M.F. also revised its estimate for the United States, saying
between their armies in a remote
the nation’s gross domestic product — the value of all goods and border region, sent senior officials
services produced in the United States — would plunge 8 percent and also soldiers, who took part in
this year, even more than its April estimate of a 5.9 percent slide. the parade. China sent the largest
Such projections have leaders around the world worried about foreign contingent.
reduced revenue from taxes. Mr. Khan, the London mayor, said that The military parades began
he was considering relocating City Hall to save money. Moving to shortly after midnight Moscow
East London from the center of the British capital would save about time on Tuesday evening in Kam-
£55 million, or roughly $68 million, over five years, he said. chatka on the Pacific Ocean and
then rolled across the country’s 11

Coronavirus Update wraps up the day’s developments with infor- Sophia Kishkovsky contributed re- MIKHAIL VOSKRESENSKIY/HOST PHOTO AGENCY, VIA REUTERS

mation from across the virus report. porting. Russian sailors marching during the Victory Day Parade in Red Square in Moscow on Wednesday.
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A6 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2020

Tracking an Outbreak Public Housing

MITCHEL HOUSES

MILL BROOK HOUSES

IN THE SOUTH BRONX

‘The City Fumbled It’:

How Four Families
Took On the Virus
Article by DAVID GONZALEZ
Photographs by GABRIELA BHASKAR
A WALK ALONG 138th Street in long complained about delayed re-
Mott Haven offers a blunt diagno- pairs and dirty buildings. The co-
sis of a South Bronx community ronavirus only made a bad situa-
troubled by chronic, and prevent- tion intolerable.
able, illnesses. Asthma, obesity The Bronx has the highest rates
and diabetes — which has of coronavirus cases, hospitaliza-
spawned its own economy, re- tions and deaths in the city, and
flected in signs on lampposts offer- public housing residents have
ing cash for test strips — have put been frustrated with the conflict-
the Bronx at the bottom of New ing messages from housing offi-
York’s health rankings. cials and the city about social dis-
Blocks of housing projects dot tancing; delays in testing; and
this part of the borough, which has lack of cleaning and personal pro-
long been saddled with the distinc- tective gear. Residents said local
‘WE’RE NOT ALL IN THIS TOGETHER’
tion of being the country’s poorest testing did not begin until mid-
urban congressional district. The May, after thousands had already Ramona Ferreyra, 39, Mitchel Houses
median family income is $28,038, been infected.
compared with $55,191 citywide. A spokeswoman for NYCHA Ramona Ferreyra missed her
More than a third of residents live said the agency had “informed the grandmother so much that 18
in poverty. Many work in nursing residents of best health and safety months ago she left a six-figure
job in Hawaii and returned to the
homes, stock supermarket practices” and “access to re- South Bronx. She unexpectedly
shelves or drive city buses. sources” through a combination of found herself weathering the vi-
These conditions left the South social media, phone calls and rus in her grandmother’s 17th-
Bronx particularly vulnerable to signs. The agency said it had also floor apartment at a building for
the coronavirus. secured cleaning contracts “from older people.
As winter progressed, Ms. Fer-
“You have overcrowded house- Day 1” to “sanitize high-touch, reyra warned her grandmother,
holds,” said Daniel Barber, who high-traffic areas in all 316 devel- Carmen Perez, 89, what to expect,
lives in the Jackson Houses in the opments.” from masks and hand washing to
Bronx and is the president of the However, residents said that testing and social distancing. This
New York City Housing Authori- building maintenance did not im- was not speculation: Ms. Fer-
reyra had spent a decade as a de-
ty’s council of resident association prove; contractors did only cur- fense department contractor in
leaders. “Look at the work they do sory cleanings in the floors above Oahu, where she earned a mas-
— a lot of essential workers, home the lobby, they said. Instead, many ter’s degree in public policy and a
health aides who still go to house- tenants cleaned the common ar- certificate in disaster manage-
holds and take care of other peo- eas on their own. ment. She had devised an emer-
gency response plan for a senior
ple. The fact is, we’re all infected.” “Even though they knew what housing facility in Oahu.
The city’s housing authority, was coming, they weren’t pre- “This is such a classic pandemic
which operates the nation’s larg- pared for this,” Mr. Barber said of that there is nothing surprising
est public housing system with the housing authority. “They about it,” Ms. Ferreyra said.
some 400,000 tenants, was under waited for the city to take the lead, “Then seeing what’s happening
here it’s difficult, because I can see
federal investigation a few years and the city fumbled it.”
how each action equals a certain
ago for submitting false paper- But like the South Bronx activ- percentage of deaths. Then those
work on lead inspections. But its ists of a generation ago who de- percentages become people.”
problems began decades earlier manded better housing and public At first, Ms. Perez, a retired “When everything goes away, came an advocate for them.
when the federal government be- services, the residents are rolling seamstress, thought her grand- then I’ll go play,” Ms. Perez said. Last year, Ms. Ferreyra applied
daughter was being alarmist. But “Now they’ve kept on playing like for disability from Social Security
gan to cut funding. Residents have up their sleeves.
news reports, as well as the it’s nothing. But this sickness because of an immune disorder.
deaths of a neighbor across the comes quickly, and I’m not taking She said she was rejected, and the
hall and another longtime tenant, any chances.” request was treated almost dis-
persuaded her to stay put. Her Ms. Ferreyra said it is odd being missively, until she told them she
MOTT HAVEN HOUSES friends invite her downstairs to stuck inside a building where she had a master’s degree. Her second
break the boredom of isolation has been a familiar face since application is pending.
and play dominoes, as they have childhood. But the tenants have “It’s misleading to tell someone
for decades. They swear they are seen her grow up. They know her in the South Bronx we’re in this to-
not sick. and trust her. And she, in turn, be- gether,” she said, “when the per-

‘WE’RE LAST ON THE BATTLEFIELD WHEN EVERYTHING IS HAPPENING’

Princella Jamerson, 59, Mill Brook Houses

As Princella Jamerson watched down. “I told them it’s going to get ment centers that were rejected
news reports from Wuhan, China, us. Why? People travel, and there by other neighborhoods.
in December, she thought it would is no way that this hits someplace “It was crazy around here,”
only be a matter of weeks before else and not hit us.” said Ms. Jamerson. “You’d walk
the coronavirus traveled around She knew that her neighbors down the street and you’d see a
the globe to her South Bronx com- were vulnerable, whether from line like they were giving out
munity. She wasn’t just worried age, chronic illness or because cheese. But it was crack.”
MELROSE HOUSES about herself; she worried about they commute by subway to jobs As the pandemic hit, rather
the thousands of her neighbors at that often pay little but keep them than wait for an official re-
the Mill Brook Houses, where, as afloat. sponse, Ms. Jamerson rallied
head of the residents association, Ms. Jamerson took over the with residents and tenant lead-
she works to solve problems be- residents association at Mill ers. Before the coronavirus,
tween tenants and housing au- Brook in 2007. Having lived in the their concerns were mostly
thority management. neighborhood since 1978, she about repairs that dragged on
In January, Ms. Jamerson con- knew how bad things had once for months. But as the economy
vened a residents’ meeting. “I told been. She watched as the crack collapsed, they needed to ad-
them, ‘Y’all need to prepare your- trade and AIDS devastated the dress rent, food and keeping
selves,’” she said, suggesting they area, compounded by city plan- buildings clean.
stock up on food and cleaning sup- ning that led to a concentration of “Nothing is kept clean,” Ms.
plies and be ready to hunker homeless shelters and drug treat- Jamerson said. “There’s spit in
 THE NEW YORK TIMES, THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2020 N A7

‘SOMETIMES YOU JUST RUN OUT OF PATIENCE’

Lenny Medina, 39, Melrose Houses

Cassandra Bowlin, tenants

association president at the
Melrose Houses, and a vol-
unteer, Elijah Hammond, 16,
prepare to hand out meals.

Jessica Nieves and her hus-

band, Lenny Medina, were
about to yank their three chil-
dren out of public school in early
March, alarmed and confused
by the city’s halting and contra-
dictory warnings about the dan-
ger of the coronavirus. They had
already stocked up on food and
cleaning supplies for what they
felt was an inevitable shutdown.
“I usually think ahead,” said
Mr. Medina, 39, a maintenance
supervisor at a Manhattan syn-
agogue. “I do things just be-
cause I am the type of person
who needs to be ready.”
When the stay-at-home order
did come, they had everything
they needed. Except patience.
They used to start their morn-
ings with a practiced drill of get-
ting up, getting dressed, eating
breakfast and heading off to
school or work. Now it’s a blur of
endless days and discombobu-
Melissa Goenaga wiping lated routines inside their three-
down an elevator at the bedroom apartment in the Mel-
Mitchel Houses in April. rose Houses. Ms. Nieves works
Residents banded together from home as a teacher’s aide
to deal with their concerns while their children study, antsy
early in the lockdown. to go outside.
“Sometimes you just run out
of patience,” said Mr. Medina,
who is also a freelance photog-
rapher. “When I wake up some
mornings it’s like, Dios mio, I
‘AT LEAST I DIDN’T HAVE TO BURY MY WHOLE FAMILY’ would rather be working.”
He has come to accept the sit-
Mary Brown, 60, Mott Haven Houses
uation, though the sameness of
each day becomes its own bur-
In the earliest days of the lock- she calls “The Penthouse” for its den. “Our schedule makes no
down, Mary Brown had not been sweeping views of Manhattan. sense anymore,” Mr. Medina
able to find masks. As a diabetes “We have to take care of each said. “I wake up, and every-
peer educator who leads commu- other,” she said. “We were left out body’s sleeping. God forbid you
nity workshops on healthy living, here with nothing, depending and wake any of them up, they get
she knew her neighbors at the waiting for the government to dis- mad. I let them, because I know
Mott Haven Houses were already tribute things to us.” they’re stressed.”
at risk because of heart disease While she said her building was Their youngest, Jordan, 9,
and immune issues. fairly clean — there is less foot had a difficult adjustment to re-
“We couldn’t find gloves, traffic in and out because of social- mote learning since his school
masks, anything,” said Ms. distancing restrictions — she re- doesn’t use computers much,
Brown, who had hoped that the fuses to let her guard down, clean- Ms. Nieves said.
housing authority would provide ing her apartment daily. “It’s hit him hard,” she said.
those items. “I wound up paying Despite her grief, or perhaps “He lost motivation. He would
$2 each for masks at a pharmacy, because of it, Ms. Brown contin- get frustrated and not want to
not that it did my mother and sis- ues to work with Health People, a get up.”
ters any good. I guess by then we nonprofit group that trains local Isaiah, 16, went from being an
had already gotten it.” residents to be peer educators on easygoing child to one who is
Her questions — and suffering H.I.V. and diabetes. easily irritated. “He was always
— have only increased since then. Health People was started in smiling,” Ms. Nieves said,
First her brother, a bus driver, fell the South Bronx by Chris Nor- “laughing and sweet. Now, he
ill, mostly likely from the flu. Then wood 30 years ago. The group fo- looks serious and sad.”
two of her sisters spent weeks in cuses on the idea that people can The oldest, Anastasia, 17,
intensive care recovering from be empowered to take control of From left to right, Kevin started getting dizzy spells and
Covid-19. In late March her their own health. friends, are either dealing with Benson, 60, James Johnson, anxiety attacks.
mother, Mary, 82, was rushed to “What I fear going forward,” this or have a mom who is,” she 40, Eric Woods, 53, and “Home used to be the place
the hospital because she could not Ms. Norwood said, “is all these said. “They started coming to where, after I did my work in
Norman Cardiff, 47, play school, I could relax and watch
breathe. She died — alone — on poor communities have been me.” dominoes in a common area
April 4. The next day, Ms. Brown’s branded as incapable of coping. Although in-person workshops movies,” she said. “Now, it’s just
have been suspended, she and
at the Mott Haven Houses. my workplace and I’m having a
15-year-old grandnephew was It’s the old blame the victim.
A memorial for people who stabbed to death in Harlem. They’ve been presented publicly her colleagues confer with each hard time doing both.”
died of Covid-19 in the lobby “It’s been hard,” she said. “At as being hopeless against chronic other and clients by phone. While Even Anastasia’s search for
least I didn’t have to bury my disease. That is very dangerous.” she does not go outside often, she in frozen foods. Anything canned colleges has been colored by the
of one of the buildings at the pandemic. She had been looking
Mitchel Houses. whole family.” Three years ago, Ms. Brown is careful to keep her distance and has sodium. Vegetables, fruits,
The season of devastating loss joined Health People not only to avoid stores with crowds. She is lean meat or fish are better.” forward to visiting schools and
has been made worse by the sor- better understand how to care for especially wary of the local 99- For now, she is determined to finding a place to nurture her in-
row of being unable to send her her mother, who was diabetic, but cent store, not just because of the help her neighbors in any way she terests in art, music and Japa-
son in Vermont has access to fresh mother off properly or gathering also to reduce the risks to her own long lines outside, but because of can, even if she can’t reach every- nese culture (she loves anime).
air, clean water, green space, bet- to console one another. Ms. health. She learned about proper its poor selection of cheap food in- one. Now as she searches for col-
ter internet and a quality educa- Brown, who also lives with a sister diet, exercise, stress relief and side. “Once, we only had to worry leges online, she knows one
tion. You can see we’re not togeth- and an autistic 28-year-old neph- other strategies to lower the im- “There’s nothing healthy in about hypertension and diabetes,” thing: “I don’t want to be far
er just by seeing how many people ew, mostly stays inside her 21st- pact of diabetes. there,” she warns her neighbors. she said. “Now, we’re starting to away. I don’t want to worry
are dying in our community.” floor, five-room apartment, which “So many people, especially my “There’s too much saturated fat get everything.” about trains shutting down and I
can’t make it home for Christ-
mas. With this pandemic, you
have to take it all into account.”

Gabriela Bhaskar contributed

reporting. Additional photogra-
phy on preceding page at far left
by Ramona Ferreyra, Mary
Brown, Lenny Medina, Anasta-
the elevator that’s been there for- opment check-ins and daily re- Even hours after the giveaway sia C., and Princella Jamerson.
ever.” ports. ends, stragglers come looking for
She said the cleaners that the A lot of Ms. Jamerson’s neigh- help.
city hires rush through too bors were worried. She told them “People in other places don’t go
quickly to do a careful job. “I’ve to stay indoors, as she did for the through what we do,” she said.
watched them. All they do is first two weeks of lockdown after “We’re people of color. We’re poor.
come in and spray two or three her doctor said her aches and We’re served less. Our local hospi-
times. They were supposed to malaise could be caused by the vi- tals treat us differently. We’re last
sanitize all the hard surfaces, the rus. But she re-emerged to help on the battlefield when every-
mailboxes, the elevator buttons. distribute masks, cleaners and thing is happening.”
How can someone do that, cover- meals prepared by local restau-
ing 16 stories, in 10 minutes?” rants. She stayed inside a com-
A housing authority spokes- munity center while young peo-
woman replied by email that NY- ple from the area gave out the
CHA contractors clean develop- items, keeping tabs on who Princella Jamerson arrang-
ments at least three times a week needed what.
and exceed government stand- Even then, food and supplies —
ing meals for residents of the
ards. She said there was constant some of which were purchased Mill Brook Houses. She said
oversight of the vendors, includ- with city funds allocated to the as- she began worrying about
ing field monitoring, daily devel- sociation — have run out quickly. the virus late last year.
A8 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2020

Tracking an Outbreak Global Response

THE NEW NORMAL

Unable to Eradicate Covid-19, the World Is Learning to Live With It

Though many of these efforts
From Page A1 are intensely local, they require
ready, in Britain, some local offi- close coordination with central of-
cials say their efforts are not co- ficials and neighboring jurisdic-
ordinated enough. tions. England, for example, is ex-
The shifting strategies are an ploring limited, tailored shut-
acknowledgment that even the downs around clusters of infec-
most successful countries cannot tions, but local officials warn of
declare victory until a vaccine is potential holes in the system.
found. They also show the chal- Health officials in England,
lenge presented by countries like Wales, Scotland and Northern Ire-
the United States, Brazil and In- land are largely responsible for
dia, where the authorities never their own strategies. In England,
fully contained initial outbreaks where local officials have com-
and from where the coronavirus plained about a lack of testing
will continue to spread. data from the central government,
“It’s always going to be with us,” employers or building managers
said Simon James Thornley, an have picked up the slack by keep-
epidemiologist from the Univer- ing track of infections and re-
sity of Auckland in New Zealand. spond to outbreaks. Some, like the
“I don’t think we can eliminate the headquarters of a major retailer in
virus long term. We are going to East Lancashire, have been
need to learn to live with the vi- praised by public health officials
rus.” for taking quick action.
Even in places where the coro- But controlling the virus would
navirus appeared to be under con- require an understanding of
trol, big outbreaks remain a major where it is lurking, especially diffi-
risk. In Tokyo, there have been cult for a disease in which 80 per-
253 new infections in the past cent of the cases have mild symp-
week, 83 from a nightlife district. toms. Several local public health
In Gütersloh in western Germany, directors said in interviews that
more than 1,500 workers from a they learned about outbreaks
meat processing plant tested pos- from the news. The level of detail
itive, prompting the authorities to that officials need to decide on lo-
shut down two districts. South Ko- calized shutdowns — the postal
rea has announced dozens of new codes of people testing positive,
infections in recent days. for example — remains elusive.
In Rome, which recently “Every pandemic begins as a lo-
emerged from one of the strictest KEVIN FRAYER/GETTY IMAGES cal outbreak,” said Lincoln
lockdowns in Europe, 122 people In Beijing this week, above, officials reacted to a new outbreak by Sargeant, the director of public
have been linked to a cluster case isolating a market and the surrounding areas while testing over health in North Yorkshire. “It’s
at a hospital, the San Raffaele Pi- granular intelligence that we need
two million people in about a week. In Seoul, left, the authorities in a timely fashion.”
sana Institute. Several days later,
18 people who lived in a building
are initiating actions that they call “everyday life quarantine.” Mr. Johnson, the prime min-
with shared bathrooms came ister, has maintained that local
down with the virus. “We need to run the economy Unlike Wuhan, the effort was shutdowns are sufficient to con-
“As soon as we lowered our strongly by controlling the infec- targeted. Other Beijing neighbor- trol new waves of the virus. In the
guard,” said Paolo La Pietra, who tion risks with less-restrictive hoods stayed open. The Chinese beginning, the government “had
owns a tobacco shop in the neigh- measures and take measures government tends to favor mass very few instruments at our dis-
borhood, “it hit us back.” which put more emphasis on pro- testing focused on specific groups posal,” he said on Friday. Now, he
Some countries, like South Ko- tecting jobs and life,” said Mr. Abe. — in addition to the people con- said, officials can “identify out-
rea and Japan, aimed to make Some countries, like China, are nected to the market, it said it breaks where they happen.”
their responses nimble. learning to ease their more draco- would also test residents living in He has likened the effort to
South Korea calls its strategy nian methods. The Chinese gov- high- and medium-risk neighbor- Whac-a-Mole, the arcade game.
“everyday life quarantine.” The ernment virtually isolated tens of hoods, restaurant and retail staff, Officials can “take the preventive
country never implemented the millions of people in the city of Wu- students and teaching staff, and measures necessary on the spot,
strict lockdowns seen in other han and surrounding Hubei Prov- health care workers. rather than going back to the na-
places, and social-distancing ince when the outbreak began. China’s strategy is not to bring tional lockdown approach,” he
measures, while strongly encour- JUNG YEON-JE/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES Mindful of the economic dam- infections to zero, said Zhang said. “That’s what we hope.”
aged, remain guidelines. Still, it age, Chinese leaders have Wenhong, an adviser to the In Rome, the outbreak at the
has set a strict target of a maxi- advises companies to have em- Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said. adopted looser restrictions. In Shanghai government on the pan- San Raffaele Pisana Institute
mum of about 50 new infections a ployees sit in a zigzag fashion. Air- Last Friday, Japan launched a Beijing, officials told residents demic. Instead, in an interview tested the ability of local authori-
day — a target that it says its pub- conditioners should be turned off contact tracing app that would that they could take off their with China’s Caixin magazine, he ties to find and stop outbreaks.
lic health system, including its and windows opened every two alert users if they had been in masks outdoors. Temperature described China’s game plan as Local health officials tested pa-
testing and tracing capacity, can hours to increase ventilation, it touch with a person who tested screening in the city became less “getting close to zero cases.” tients and hospital workers, emp-
withstand. said. It has discouraged singing in positive in the last 14 days. Rail- widespread. “Prevention and control with tied three wards and sealed off the
Officials shift the rules as markets and other public places. way operators have launched an Then, on June 12, Beijing offi- precision, coupled with rapid building. Former patients and
needed. After a second wave of in- It has also advised people to app and websites telling commut- cials announced that 53 people medical treatment,” Dr. Zhang their contacts queued in their cars
fections broke out in Seoul, city of- carry two types of masks in sum- ers how crowded the trains are. had tested positive for the coro- said. “This strategy will be appli- outside drive-in testing stations.
ficials made people wear masks in mer — a surgical mask and a Officials are also warning peo- navirus. Instead of locking up the cable to China for a long time.” Rome’s prosecutors opened an in-
public transportation and closed heavy-duty mask, similar to the ple constantly to change the way capital city, officials promptly shut European governments are vestigation into clusters’ origin.
public facilities for two weeks. N95 respirator masks worn by they live. Though bars and clubs down a market and residential also learning to be more flexible One of the people who became
The South Korean government health care workers, to be used in are reopening, hostesses have communities surrounding it and following their strong responses, ill was a pulmonologist, Vittorio
has added new guidelines as it has crowded settings. been told to refrain from being mobilized close to 100,000 com- though the process can be slow. In Bisogni. He came down with a
learned more about outbreaks. It Japan, which endured only lim- next to a client when singing kara- munity workers to test roughly 2.3 Germany, officials have stipulated slight fever after he visited a pa-
ited lockdowns, also wants to keep oke and dancing. Nightclubs must million residents in about a week. that regions or municipalities that tient who had been released from
Reporting was contributed by its limits light to help restart its minimize music and crowd vol- “A city as big as Beijing can’t be register more than 50 new infec- the hospital. Dr. Bisogni was diag-
Hisako Ueno from Tokyo, Su-Hyun economy. It is considering allow- umes to reduce the spread of res- in a state of wartime resistance tions per 100,000 people in seven nosed with the virus on June 9. His
Lee from Seoul, South Korea, and ing travelers from Australia, New piratory droplets. Citizens are ad- forever,” said Mao Shoulong, a days must quickly respond to patient died a few days later.
Christopher F. Schuetze from Zealand, Thailand and Vietnam. vised to continue avoiding the public policy professor at Beijing’s quell the outbreak, using tools like “I got angry,” Dr. Bisogni said,
Berlin. Liu Yi contributed re- As an island nation, Japan cannot “Three Cs” — closed, crowded and Renmin University. “How many school closings, full quarantines “After getting hit so hard, we can’t
search. afford to keep its borders closed, close-contact activities. more times can we endure this?” and mass testing. afford to be so naïve.”

IMMUNIZATION of them in children soon after they

were immunized against polio.

Soviet-Era Studies Offer

A Soviet Union study of 320,000
people, from 1968 to 1975, over-
seen by Dr. Voroshilova, found re-
duced mortality from flu in people

Possible Path to Vaccine immunized with other vaccines.

Dr. Voroshilova’s and Dr. Chu-
makov’s work clearly influenced
By ANDREW E. KRAMER about being scoffed at as mad sci- their sons’ minds as well as their
entists, experimenting on them- health — not only did all of them
MOSCOW — To the boys, it was become virologists, they em-
just a sugary treat. To their par- selves.
Experts advise that the idea — braced self-testing as well.
ents, prominent medical re- Dr. Peter Chumakov today is
searchers, what happened in their like many other proposed ways of
attacking the pandemic — must the chief scientist at the Eng-
Moscow apartment that day in elhardt Institute of Molecular Bi-
1959 was a vital experiment with be approached with great caution.
“We are much better off with a ology at the Russian Academy of
countless lives at stake — and Sciences and co-founder of a com-
their own children as guinea pigs. vaccine that induces specific im-
munity,” Dr. Paul A. Offit, a co-in- pany in Cleveland that treats can-
“We formed a kind of line,” Dr. cer with viruses. He has devel-
Peter Chumakov, who was 7 at the ventor of a vaccine against the ro-
tavirus and professor at the Perel- oped about 25 viruses for use
time, recalled in an interview. Into against tumors — all of which, he
each waiting mouth, a parent man School of Medicine at the
University of Pennsylvania, said said, he has tested on himself.
popped a sugar cube laced with He is also now taking polio vac-
in a telephone interview. Any
weakened poliovirus — an early cine, which he grows in his own
benefits from a repurposed vac-
vaccine against a dreaded dis- laboratory, as possible protection
cine, he said, are “much shorter
ease. “I was eating it from the against coronavirus.
lived and incomplete,” compared BETTMANN ARCHIVE
hands of my mother.” Dr. Ilia Chumakov, a molecular
with a tailored vaccine. The virologists Dr. Marina Voroshilova, left, and Dr. Mikhail Chumakov, second from left, in 1956.
Today, that same vaccine is biologist, helped sequence the hu-
Still, Dr. Robert Gallo, a leading
gaining renewed attention from advocate of testing the polio vac- man genome in France.
researchers — including those cine against coronavirus, said that signed by Dr. Gallo’s institute, the least temporarily. Their experiment enabled Dr. Dr. Alexei Chumakov, who was
brothers, who all grew up to be vi- repurposing vaccines is “one of Cleveland Clinic, the University of The first polio vaccine, devel- Chumakov to persuade a senior not yet born when his parents ex-
rologists — as a possible weapon the hottest areas of immunology.” Buffalo and Roswell Park Com- oped by Dr. Jonas Salk, an Ameri- Soviet official, Anastas Mikoyan, perimented on his brothers,
against the new coronavirus, Dr. Gallo, director of the Institute prehensive Cancer Center to test can, used “inactivated” virus — to proceed with wider trials, even- worked as a cancer researcher at
based in part on research done by of Human Virology at the Univer- the effectiveness of live polio vac- particles of killed virus. It had to tually leading to the mass produc- Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles for
their mother, Dr. Marina Voroshi- sity of Maryland School of Medi- cine against coronavirus, using be injected, an obstacle to immu- tion of an oral polio vaccine used much of his career. While working
lova. cine, said that even if the weak- health care workers as subjects. nization campaigns in poorer around the world. The United in Moscow, he developed a vac-
Dr. Voroshilova established that ened poliovirus confers immunity The agency raised safety con- countries. States began oral polio vaccina- cine against hepatitis E, which he
the live polio vaccine had an unex- for only a month or so, “it gets you cerns, including the chance of live When that vaccine was widely tions in 1961 after it was proved tested first on himself.
pected benefit that, it turns out, over the hump, and it would save a poliovirus making its way into wa- introduced in 1955, Dr. Albert Sa- safe in the Soviet Union. “It’s an old tradition,” he said.
could be relevant to the current lot of lives.” ter supplies and infecting others, bin was testing a vaccine using “Somebody has to be the first,” “The engineer should stand under
pandemic: People who got the But there are risks. according to researchers familiar live but attenuated poliovirus, Dr. Peter Chumakov said in an in- the bridge when the first heavy
vaccine did not become sick with Billions of people have taken with the study application. The which could be taken orally. But in terview. “I was never angry. I load goes over.”
other viral illnesses for a month or live poliovirus vaccine, nearly press office of the N.I.A.I.D. de- the United States, with the Salk think it was very good to have Dr. Konstantin Chumakov is an
so afterward. She took to giving eradicating the disease. However, clined to comment. vaccine already in use, the au- such a father, who is confident associate director of the U.S. Food
the boys polio vaccine each fall, as in extremely rare cases, the weak- But other countries are moving thorities were reluctant to take enough that what he is doing is and Drug Administration’s Office
protection against flu. ened virus used in the vaccine can ahead. Trials with the polio vac- the perceived risk of conducting right and is sure he will not harm of Vaccine Research and Review,
Now, some scientists in several mutate into a more dangerous cine have begun in Russia, and are live-virus trials. his children.” which would be involved in ap-
countries are taking a keen inter- form, cause polio and infect other planned in Iran and Guinea-Bis- Dr. Sabin gave his three strains His mother was, if anything, proving any coronavirus vaccines
est in the idea of repurposing ex- people. The risk of paralysis is es- sau. of attenuated virus to a married even more enthusiastic about run- for use in Americans.
isting vaccines, like the one with timated at one in 2.7 million vacci- A specific vaccine for the coro- pair of virologists in the Soviet Un- ning the tests on the boys, he said. In an interview, he said he can-
live poliovirus and another for tu- nations. navirus would be one that trains ion, Dr. Mikhail Chumakov, the “She was absolutely sure there not remember eating the sugar
berculosis, to see if they can pro- For those reasons, public health the immune system to target that founder of a polio research insti- was nothing to be scared of,” he cube back in 1959 — he was 5
vide at least temporary resistance organizations say that once a re- virus specifically, and more than tute that now bears his name, and said. years old — but approved of his
to the coronavirus. Russians are gion eliminates naturally occur- 125 vaccine candidates are under Dr. Voroshilova. Something Dr. Voroshilova no- parents’ experiment as a step to-
among them, drawing on a long ring polio, it must stop routine use development around the world. Dr. Chumakov vaccinated him- ticed decades ago has renewed in- ward saving untold numbers of
history of vaccine research — and of oral vaccine, as the United Repurposed vaccines, in con- self, but a medicine intended pri- terest in the oral vaccine. children from paralysis.
of researchers, unconcerned States did 20 years ago. trast, use live but weakened vi- marily for children needed child A typical healthy child is host to “It was the right thing to do,” he
And this month, the National In- ruses or bacteria to stimulate the test subjects, so he and Dr. Voro- a dozen or so respiratory viruses said. “Now, there would be ques-
Oleg Matsnev contributed report- stitute of Allergy and Infectious innate immune system more shilova gave it to their three sons that cause little or no illness. But tions, like ‘Did you get permission
ing from Moscow. Diseases delayed a study de- broadly to fight pathogens, at and several nieces and nephews. Dr. Voroshilova could not find any from the ethics committee?’”
 THE NEW YORK TIMES, THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2020 N A9

Tracking an Outbreak Hot Zones

SPIKE IN TEXAS

As New Cases Soar, the Governor Faces Fallout From a Rush to Reopen
This article is by Manny Fernan- Democratic critics who had
dez, Neil MacFarquhar and Sarah been fighting for more local con-
Mervosh. trol said the governor’s turnabout
HOUSTON — The coronavirus came too late. Some Republicans
has been testing America’s gover- saw Mr. Abbott’s move as throw-
nors. Few are being squeezed ing business owners under the
harder than Gov. Greg Abbott of bus.
Texas. “Business owners will become a
Mr. Abbott, the governor of the de facto law enforcement arm, but
country’s largest Republican-con- the only tool they will have to en-
trolled state, reopened Texas in force the mask requirement is to
May, eager to be part of President refuse to sell to their customers
Trump’s push to restart the econ- and to kick them out of their
omy sooner rather than later. But store,” State Senator Bob Hall, a
the reopening has backfired, cre- Republican from East Texas,
ating the makings of a political wrote in a posting online. “Who
and public health disaster that is knew the flame of Texas Liberty
putting the lives of Texans at risk, would be extinguished, by the
adding ammunition to Mr. Ab- stroke of a pen, without a shot
bott’s long-running war with the
ILANA PANICH-LINSMAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLAGHAN O’HARE/REUTERS fired?”
Democrats who run the state’s After weeks of assurances that the coronavirus was largely under control, Texans were encouraged to resume shopping and eating In Galveston, a beach city
biggest cities and drawing unusu- out, as in the South Congress area of Austin. But since late May, newly reported cases have more than doubled, to about 3,500 a day. southeast of Houston, Mayor
ally sharp criticism from fellow James D. Yarbrough ordered
Republicans. mandatory face masks for all
2,100 on Wednesday. servatives, who resist wearing The governor initially resisted mostly Democratic mayors in the businesses starting on Tuesday.
As millions of Texans have Mr. Abbott is by no means masks in public and say the state calls to issue a stay-at-home order, state’s largest cities, who have
emerged from weeks of isolation The number of people who tested
alone. Other states led by Republi- needs to go even further. (Bars as other states had done, before is- begged for more power to impose positive rose to more than 300 this
and headed to shopping malls, can governors have struggled to now operate at 50 percent capaci- suing an executive order in early tougher restrictions. At first, Mr.
movie theaters and beaches, the week from about 50 at the end of
balance their reopenings with the ty, while restaurants operate at 75 April. But even that led to a flurry Abbott’s approach was to let local May.
governor, faced with an alarming spread of the virus, while navigat- percent capacity.) of confusion, when he said at a officials handle the response.
number of new cases, did an The city has seen packed
ing the politics of mask-wearing In just one example of the poli- news conference that it did not Then he shifted course, issuing an beaches and crowds in restau-
abrupt about-face this week and and issues of state versus local amount to a stay-at-home order.
tics at play, the Texas Democratic executive order that made it clear rants, bars and souvenir shops.
urged people to go back home. control. The next day, he released a video
Party held an online-only conven- the state’s coronavirus rules nulli- “There is no social distance —
He imposed restrictions on out- In Arizona, the handling of the message clarifying that it did.
tion recently, while the Republi- fied local ones. His stance shifted there are minimal masks,” said
door gatherings of more than 100 pandemic by Gov. Doug Ducey, a can Party is planning an in-person The order lasted 28 days, one of again in recent days when he al- Mr. Yarbrough, a Democrat. “We
people and has cleared the way for Republican, has come under in- convention in Houston in July. the shortest stay-at-home orders lowed cities and counties to re- are seeing a lot more younger peo-
local authorities to require face tense criticism by Democratic Mr. Abbott has leaned on con- in the country. quire businesses to have ple, what we call day trippers,” he
masks in businesses — after earli- leaders in Arizona’s largest cities. servative, pro-business, small- Since businesses began reopen- customers and employees wear said. “They come to spend the day
er opposing attempts by local offi- Mr. Ducey had resisted allowing government themes, but has also ing in early May, Mr. Abbott has masks and to fine business own- and leave their trash and Covid
cials to require everyone in their mayors to make mask-wearing
cities to wear masks in public. sent conflicting messages. gone head-to-head with the ers who did not comply. and go on back.”
mandatory in their cities. But un-
These were the latest in a series der pressure over a surge in cases,
of contradictory moves by the Mr. Ducey allowed mayors to im-
governor that have proved con- plement their own measures.
fusing and frustrating to many On Wednesday, Florida saw a
Texans. record number of new coro-
For weeks, Mr. Abbott had re- navirus cases, but Gov. Ron De-
assured Texans that the virus was Santis, a Republican, gave no indi-

NEW BRANDS ADDED

largely under control. “Covid-19, cation that the state would roll
while dangerous, while still grow- back its reopening, urging people
ing in the state of Texas, is not as instead to avoid crowds and
severe as it is in some other closed spaces with poor ventila-
states,” he told reporters in April. tion.
But as the state began to rapidly Texas, though, is facing a chal-
reopen, and people returned to lenge of both politics and num-
restaurants, bars, malls, hair sa- bers. If local trends persist, Hous-
lons and gyms, the numbers — ton could become the hardest-hit
and the governor’s tone and policy city in the country, rivaling the sit-
responses — have changed. uation in Brazil, Dr. Peter Hotez,
New cases, hospitalizations and dean of the National School of
the percentage of positive tests Tropical Medicine at Baylor Col-
have been on the rise for weeks, lege of Medicine in Houston,
indicators that the coronavirus is warned this week on Twitter.
spreading rapidly. Since late May, Dr. Hotez, one of the state’s
the average number of newly re- leading experts on contagious dis-
ported cases each day has more eases and vaccine development,
than doubled to about 3,500, up said in an interview on Wednes-
from 1,500. That is not just the re- day that the Houston, San Anto-
nio, Austin and Dallas-Fort Worth
metropolitan regions “are facing a
The
dire public health emergency.”
The governor should require

DESIGNER
face masks and tougher social dis-
tancing measures in those four re-
gions immediately, he said. “We
have to take action before the end
of this week,” he said. “If we don’t
do something, there’s nothing to
stop this thing going up the ceil-
ing.”

SALE
Dr. Hotez and other public
health experts, along with several
local elected officials, have
blamed the uptick in the virus on
Mr. Abbott’s decision to speedily
RICARDO B. BRAZZIELL/AUSTIN AMERICAN-
reopen the state. They said busi-
STATESMAN, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS nesses were allowed to resume
Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas has operations before the state had
suggested that shutting down enough testing, contact tracing
and other resources in place.
the state is still a “last option.”
The results surfaced immedi-

70%
ately in cities around the state.
sult of more testing: The percent- San Antonio’s Bexar County
age of tests coming back positive had 93 patients in county hospi-
has soared from 4.5 percent to tals on June 1, 20 of them on venti-
about 9 percent. Hospitalizations lators; by Tuesday, those num-
are also on the rise. bers had jumped to 518 hospital-
Texas has surpassed more than ized, with 79 on ventilators.
100,000 cases, joining a small club “As we opened up Texas, every-
of only six other states to do so — body became very complacent
New York, California, New Jersey,
Illinois, Massachusetts and Flor-
ida. On Wednesday, Texas hit an-
and were not wearing face
masks,” said Nelson W. Wolff, a
Democrat who serves as the top
Up to
other milestone, recording more elected official in Bexar County.
new cases in a single day than it “Then you have the president run-
has since the pandemic started— ning around and not wearing one,
more than 6,200 new infections. and the governor only recom-
Wednesday brought another mending it, not enforcing it, and so

*
OFF
turnabout. Texas had previously I think people got mixed signals,
ordered all air travelers arriving and we have seen it spread expo-
from New York, with its then- nentially.”
booming number of cases, to quar- Mr. Abbott, a former Texas at-
antine for 14 days. But on Wednes- torney general now in his second
day, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of term, has been praised for his
New York turned the tables and calm and swift handling of Hurri-
announced that travelers from cane Harvey, mass shootings and
Texas and eight other hard-hit other large-scale disasters. But he
states would have to quarantine has also been criticized, even by
there. some in his own party, for too often
The sudden reversal has left Mr. following the lead of the state’s
Abbott with few good options and second-in-command, Lt. Gov. Dan
an array of critics from both par- Patrick, an outspoken arch-con-
ties — some of them the leaders of servative who made national
the state’s largely Democratic ma- headlines for saying he and other
jor cities, who have complained grandparents were willing accept
that the state reopened too the threat to their own lives if that
quickly and tied their hands when is what it took to reopen the coun-
they wanted to impose virus-con- try.
trol measures of their own. Mr. Abbott, his aides and his
“The governor opens up our supporters defended his response
economy and says, ‘OK, you guys to Covid-19 and said Texas can
go back to work,’ and we expect both reopen its economy and
nothing to happen?” said Ruben maintain public health.
Becerra, a Democrat and the “People must know the facts,”
county executive in Hays County, Mr. Abbott told KTVT in Fort
southwest of Austin, where total Worth on Tuesday. “The facts are
As we reopen our stores, we're focused on safety and ease of shopping.
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A10 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2020

Tracking an Outbreak The Region and the Economy

STOPPING THE SPREAD WHAT WENT WRONG

New York Imposes Quarantine on Travelers From Hot Spots Inquiry Finds
By J. DAVID GOODMAN
A few months ago, New York
‘Nightmare’
was suffering through the worst
ravages of the coronavirus pan-
demic. Hospitals filled to near ca-
At a Home
pacity. Hundreds of people died
each day, reaching a peak in mid- For Veterans
April.
The rest of the country recoiled By ELLEN BARRY
at the sight of a New York license BOSTON — An investigation of
plate. Florida and Rhode Island 76 deaths linked to the coro-
singled out New York travelers, navirus at a state-run veterans’
who researchers now believe home in Massachusetts paints a
helped to seed the spread of the vi- picture of a facility in chaos, as
rus in other states. traumatized nurses carried out
But as New York has largely orders to combine wards of in-
controlled its outbreak, other fected and uninfected men, know-
states — especially in the Sun Belt ing that the move would prove
and the West — have seen virus deadly to many of their patients.
cases surge, leading to a table- Workers at the facility, the Hol-
turning moment: Gov. Andrew M. yoke Soldiers’ Home, remem-
Cuomo on Wednesday announced bered the days in late March as
that anyone coming to New York “total pandemonium” and a
from a state currently hard hit by “nightmare.”
the virus would have to quaran- One social worker told investi-
tine for two weeks. gators, in a report released on
The restrictions were based on Wednesday, that she “felt like it
specific health metrics related to was moving the concentration
the coronavirus, Mr. Cuomo said. camp, we were moving these un-
At the moment, travelers from knowing veterans off to die.”
eight states — as well as New Another recalled sitting in a
Yorkers returning from those makeshift ward that was crowded
states — would have to quaran- with sick and dying patients, some
tine. unclothed or without masks, and
“We now have to make sure that trying to distract a man who was
the rate continues to drop,” Mr. “alert and oriented,” chattering
Cuomo said. “A lot of people come about the Swedish meatballs his
into this region and they could lit- wife used to make.
erally bring the infection with “It was surreal,” she said. “I
them. It wouldn’t be malicious or JUAN ARREDONDO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES don’t know how the staff over in
malevolent, but it would still be Williamsburg, Brooklyn, this month. Although New Yorkers have become increasingly social, the outbreak has slowed in the state. that unit, how many of us will ever
real.” recover from those images.”
Failure to quarantine in New Nursing home deaths have ac-
next phase of reopening and make places where out-of-state arrivals rate “health protocols” with them Now, the virus appears to be
York could result in thousand-dol- counted for more than 60 percent
masks required statewide in pub- are already formally required to since last week, he said. spreading far more rapidly out-
lar fines, Mr. Cuomo said. Trav- of the fatalities from the coro-
lic when distancing is not possible. quarantine, there has not been Mr. Cuomo, who hosted the side of New York, with new infec-
elers to New Jersey and Connecti- navirus in Massachusetts, a state
In Florida, more than 20,000 widespread enforcement to make news conference from New York tions surging in places like Ari- that prides itself on its health care
cut would also be told to quaran-
people tested positive for the vi- sure the rules were being fol- City, was joined via video link by zona and Texas. Those who left for system. None of those deaths
tine, though officials from both
rus over the last five days ending lowed. Gov. Philip D. Murphy of New Jer- other states, upon their return to have received more attention than
states said there was no enforce-
Tuesday; in New York, where far A spokesman for Mr. Cuomo sey and Gov. Ned Lamont of Con- New York, will have to quarantine. the cluster at the Holyoke Sol-
ment mechanism at the moment.
more people are being tested said that if a New Yorker believes necticut, all three Democrats. The city and state have begun a diers’ Home, which housed frail
The order — a “joint travel advi-
daily, roughly 3,100 tested positive that a recent arrival — or a return- “This is a smart thing to do. We phased reopening of business that veterans of World War II and
sory” with the two other states —
would take effect at midnight, Mr. over those same five days. ing neighbor — has not been abid- have taken our people, the three of has been more cautious than other conflicts.
Cuomo said Wednesday. He said Only a handful of states — in- ing by the quarantine, then that us, these three states, through hell other areas of the country, and Mr. The 174-page independent re-
the quick implementation was cluding Maine, Rhode Island and person should start by reporting and back,” Mr. Murphy said. “The Cuomo as well as other officials port, led by the former federal
aimed at preventing a rush of Hawaii — have required out-of- last thing we need to is subject our have been concerned about a re- prosecutor Mark Pearlstein,
travelers trying to avoid the re- state travelers to quarantine. A folks to another round.” surgence of the virus. The travel blasts decisions made by the facil-
quirement, which applied to Ala- larger number have asked trav- The goal, the governors said, restrictions were an attempt at ity’s superintendent, Bennett
bama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, elers to quarantine but do not
mandate doing so. And a few, such
Connecticut and New was to maintain the hard-fought
gains against the virus that have
mitigating the risk of new infec-
tions coming from outside the
Walsh, as “utterly baffling from an
North Carolina, South Carolina, infection-control perspective.”
Texas and Utah. as Florida and Kansas, apply the Jersey also require been made, at great economic and state. The report was especially
requirement only to those coming human cost, over the past three “We now have the virus under scathing on the decision to com-
Washington State had origi-
nally been included, but after a from certain states. two weeks of isolation. months. On Monday, for example, control. Yeah, but Florida doesn’t, bine crowded wards. But it cata-
further review of the data, it was The new quarantine in New nearly 49,000 people were tested Texas doesn’t, these other states logs a series of other errors, in-
dropped from the list. York, New Jersey and Connecti- for the virus in New York, with don’t,” he said last week. “And cluding failure to isolate infected
As businesses reopen and pub- cut would apply to any person ar- just shy of 600 coming back pos- what happens if they get on a veterans, failure to test veterans
riving from a state with a positive the possible violation to the local itive. plane and they come to J.F.K.? So,
lic life returns, the virus has been who had symptoms, and the rota-
test rate higher than 10 per health department. we get the infection rate down and tion of staff members between
spreading to areas that had Since the middle of March, New
100,000 residents, or a state with a “You could argue that even law Yorkers have largely abided by then because other states are wards, accelerating the spread of
mostly managed to initially evade
10 percent or higher rate over a is the honor system until you get the orders to stay at home and high, we could have a problem.” the virus.
the worst of the outbreak.
seven-day rolling average. caught,” Mr. Cuomo said. “You can wear masks in public, creating a Epidemiologists do not see a “In short, this was the opposite
In recent days, Texas has seen
Mr. Cuomo said that enforce- violate the quarantine until you new way of life in the city and sur- uniform coronavirus wave of infection control: Mr. Walsh and
record-high levels of hospitaliza-
tions for Covid-19, the disease ment would be up to each of the get caught,” he added, then rounding suburbs that helped to spreading across the country, but his team created close to an opti-
caused by the coronavirus. Hospi- three states. In New York, he said, “you’re in mandatory quarantine bring new infections down to a multiple outbreaks that are out of mal environment for the spread of
tals, particularly in Houston, have those violating the quarantine or- and fined thousands of dollars.” manageable level. sync with each other. In that con- Covid-19,” the report said.
struggled to keep up with the ris- der could be “subject to a judicial Players from the Mets and Yan- At the same time, many New text, they said, quarantine re- Gov. Charlie Baker of Massa-
ing number of patients needing in- order and mandatory quaran- kees who have been in Florida but Yorkers with the means to do so quirements made sense. chusetts said on Wednesday that
tensive care. tine.” A first violation could result are coming back to New York for fled, often to out-of-state locales. They also cautioned that the the accounts in the report were
Amid rising hospitalizations in in a $2,000 fine and could go up to an abbreviated and late spring By late March, Florida began re- outbreak remains active and that “one of the most depressing and
North Carolina, Gov. Roy Cooper $10,000 for subsequent violations. training will not be required to quiring travelers from the New the situation in any one state or re- utterly shameful descriptions of
said on Wednesday that the state Indeed, the effect of the order quarantine, Mr. Cuomo said. The York area to quarantine. Other gion of the country could still what was supposed to be a care
would “pause” its move into the may be largely symbolic. Even in state had been working on sepa- states sought to restrict visitors. change. system that I have ever heard of.”
The state is acting to fire Mr.
Walsh, a retired Marine Corps
lieutenant colonel with no previ-
A PATHOGEN’S PUNCH ous nursing home experience, the
governor said. A lawyer for Mr.
Walsh was not immediately avail-

U.S. Staggers Back on the Ropes as Coronavirus Infections Soar able for comment.
Mr. Walsh’s supervisor, Fran-
cisco Urena, resigned from his
“You need to do your part and tional safe haven for investors, post as the state’s secretary of vet-
From Page A1 The S& P 500 Index erans’ services on Tuesday in an-
make sure that you’re not spread- rose.
ing it to people who are going to be Position of the S& P 500 index at 1-minute intervals on Wednesday. Gold prices slipped slightly, af- ticipation of the report. Mr. Baker
testing positive has risen sharply.
more at risk for this,” he said. 3,150 ter earlier in the day flirting with said the secretary was asked to
Gov. Gavin Newsom of California
The percentage of people in some of their highest levels in al- step down.
said Wednesday that the state re-
Florida testing positive has risen most a decade, approaching Staff members told investiga-
corded more than 7,000 new cases
sharply, but testing alone does not Previous close $1,780 an ounce. Gold is tradition- tors that they were initially dis-
over the past day.
explain the surge. Increases in 3,131.29 ally viewed as a hedge against po- couraged from wearing protective
“I want to remind everybody 3,100
hospitalizations also signal the vi- tential inflation, and a safe asset equipment to conserve a limited
that we are still in the first wave of
rus’s spread. for investors during times of supply, and that they felt “an-
this pandemic,” Mr. Newsom said
New case reports also reached growing political and economic noyed, paranoid and fearful for
during a virtual news briefing. their lives because they could not
The governor pleaded with resi- their highest levels in recent days uncertainty.
in Missouri, but coronavirus hos- 3,050 The global picture also looked find masks,” the report said.
dents, many of whom he acknowl-
pitalizations have declined gloomy. The International Mone- The most troubling portions of
edged were gathering with the report describe the weekend
friends and relatives, to continue slightly over the last month. tary Fund said global gross do-
“We are NOT overwhelmed,” mestic product would shrink 4.9 of March 28 and 29, when staffing
practicing social distancing, to was so short at the home that two
stay outdoors whenever possible Gov. Mike Parson wrote on Twit- 3,000 percent in 2020, a sharper con-
ter, linking the uptick to more test- traction than the 3 percent decline wards were hurriedly combined, a
and to wear a mask. decision one employee described
Texas reported more than 6,000 ing. “We are NOT currently expe- 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. it predicted just two months ago.
riencing a second wave. We have Source: Reuters THE NEW YORK TIMES The I.M.F. also lowered its expec- as “the most insane thing I ever
new cases on Wednesday. In saw in my entire life.”
NO intentions of closing Missouri tations for growth in the United
Houston, the intensive-care units A social worker described lis-
back down at this point in time.” all of its roughly 500 stores world- cluding energy, industrial and fi- States, saying that the world’s
were at 97 percent of capacity, and tening to the chief nursing officer
The World Health Organization wide months ago. nancial shares, which tend to be largest economy will shrink 8 per-
hospitals risked running out of say “something to the effect that
warned on Wednesday that if gov- Many stock market investors, sensitive to the near-term expec- cent this year, more than the
I.C.U. beds within two weeks if this room will be dead by Sunday,
ernments and communities in the tations for economic growth. roughly 6 percent rate it expected
nothing is done to slow the up- who had been expecting the virus so we will have more room here.”
Americas were not able to stop the in April.
ward trajectory of the virus. to retreat swiftly, were alarmed by For most of the day, investors Another social worker recalled
spread of the virus through sur- “We are definitely not out of the
“I strongly feel we are moving its resurgence. The spike ap- clobbered the stocks of companies seeing a supervisor point to a
veillance, isolation of cases and woods,” said Gita Gopinath, direc-
in the wrong direction, and we are peared to undermine hopes for a that are most vulnerable to the room and say, “All this room will
quarantine of contacts, there tor of the I.M.F.’s research depart-
moving fast,” Mayor Sylvester V-shaped rebound, in which both risks of a prolonged pandemic. be dead by tomorrow.”
might be a need to impose — or re- ment. “This is a crisis like no other
Turner of Houston said. the economy and corporate prof- The cruise line Norwegian was Several staff members told in-
impose — general lockdowns. and will have a recovery like no
In Washington State, where its would bounce back as swiftly down 12.4 percent, while the com- other.” vestigators that, in the confusion,
The New York quarantine an-
cases are rising again, Gov. Jay In- as they plunged when the United petitors Royal Caribbean and Car- some of the dying men did not re-
nounced by Gov. Andrew M. And as infection rates rise in
slee said residents would have to Cuomo applies to visitors from States fell into a recession. nival both plummeted more than California, the Walt Disney Com- ceive adequate pain relief medica-
start wearing masks in public. Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, “All the hopes of investors look- 11 percent. They were the three pany on Wednesday abandoned tion.
“This is about saving lives,” Mr. Florida, North Carolina, South ing for a better economy to im- worst-performing issues in the its plan to reopen Disneyland and None of the facility’s top admin-
Inslee said. “It’s about reopening Carolina, Utah and Texas, as well prove the bottom lines of compa- S&P 500. Disney California Adventure on istrators acknowledged taking
our businesses.” as New Yorkers returning from nies shut down in the recession Airlines were hammered, with July 17, citing a slower-than-antic- part in the decision to combine the
In Florida on Wednesday, Gov. those states. Violators could be have been dashed,” Chris Rupkey, United Airlines down more than ipated approval process by state two wards, and its medical direc-
Ron DeSantis gave no indication subject to a mandatory quaran- chief financial economist at 8.3 percent and Delta Air Lines regulators. tor, David Clinton, told investiga-
that the state would roll back its tine and fines of up to $10,000. MUFG Union Bank, wrote in a dropping by 7.8 percent. Energy The two theme parks, which tors he was not consulted.
economic opening, but he urged Travelers to New Jersey and Con- note to clients on Wednesday. and oil field services companies border each other in Anaheim, “We find this not to be credible,
residents to avoid closed spaces necticut will also be told to quar- “Forget about the fears of the vi- tumbled, too. Occidental Petro- closed on March 13. Unions repre- and at the very least, that Dr. Clin-
with poor ventilation, crowds and antine. rus coming back in the fall. The leum dropped 9 percent and Hal- senting most of the Disneyland’s ton was aware (or should have
close contact with others. The reopening of many busi- number of new cases and hospital- iburton fell 8.8 percent, as oil 32,000 employees sent a letter to been aware) of the move and did
Mr. DeSantis continued to at- nesses is not going smoothly. Ap- izations in states like Arizona, prices dropped more than 5 per- Governor Newsom on June 17 nothing to stop it,” the report said.
tribute the rising infections to ple said Wednesday that it had Texas and Florida says the threat cent pushing the cost of a barrel of saying that “despite intensive Val Liptak, the interim adminis-
younger people who have started shut seven stores in the Houston is happening right now.” West Texas Intermediate oil be- talks with the company, we are not trator brought in to manage the
to socialize in bars and homes, de- area because of the rising number This is the second time in recent low $40. yet convinced that it is safe to re- crisis, told investigators that,
spite rules in many municipalities of cases in the region. Last week, it weeks that the S&P 500 stock Investors in other markets as- open the parks on Disney’s rapid though she and her team had a
prohibiting group gatherings. closed 11 stores in Arizona, Flor- market index has faltered. On sumed a dour outlook for eco- timetable.” Since then, many of “collective 90-plus years of nurs-
ida, South Carolina and North Car- June 11, reports of rising infec- nomic growth. Yields on govern- Disney’s unions have signed ing” among them, “none of us
Jack Nicas, Alan Rappeport and J. olina. Apple had opened most of tions set off a 5.9 percent drop. ment bonds — traditionally linked agreements with the company have ever seen anything like this.”
David Goodman contributed re- its stores in the United States in Wednesday’s market drop was led to expectations for growth and in- outlining enhanced safety pro- The overcrowded ward, she said,
porting. recent weeks after closing nearly by sharp downturns in sectors in- flation — fell. The dollar, a tradi- cedures. “looked like a war zone.”
THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2020 A11
N

Kosovo Leader
Faces Charges
Of War Crimes
In 1990s War
By PATRICK KINGSLEY
and GERRY MULLANY
BERLIN — President Hashim Thaci of
Kosovo, a guerrilla leader during Koso-
vo’s battle for independence from Serbia
during the 1990s, was indicted on 10
counts of war crimes on Wednesday at a
special court in the Netherlands. Pros-
ecutors accused him and other former
fighters of being “criminally responsible
for nearly 100 murders.”
The charges, long anticipated, have
yet to be accepted by
judges at the court,
but their timing
came as a shock,
both in the Balkans
and in Washington.
Mr. Thaci was to
meet on Saturday at
the White House
with his Serbian
counterpart, Presi-
dent Aleksandar Vu-
cic, to continue a Hashim Thaci
Kosovar-Serbian di-
alogue mediated by American officials.
Mr. Thaci, 52, will no longer attend the
meeting, dashing American hopes that
the negotiations might finally lead to a
settlement between Serbia and Kosovo.
AHN YOUNG-JOON/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kosovo won autonomy in 1999, aided by a
NATO bombing campaign, but Serbia
An annual South Korean exercise near the border Tuesday. On Wednesday, Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s leader, tabled a plan to resume such exercises. has never recognized Kosovo’s
sovereignty, and negotiations to reach a

Kim’s Flip-Flop Strategy: Hawk Turns Dove Again

final peace deal stalled in 2018. The
United States is one of about 100 coun-
tries that recognize Kosovo’s independ-
ence.
By CHOE SANG-HUN “This affects Kosovo in all possible
North Korea fired at the loudspeakers, ways,” said Agron Bajrami, the head of
SEOUL, South Korea — One of North the South responded with artillery fire.
Korea’s favorite geopolitical strategies the Koha Media Group, Kosovo’s largest
As both sides raised their military alert media conglomerate. “It affects the
has long been compared to dipping level, it was the North that first
alternately in pools of scathingly hot process of dialogue, in which the presi-
proposed dialogue, and it later ex- dent was the main interlocutor for both
and icy cold water in a public bath- pressed regret over the South Korean
house. the European Union and the United
soldiers’ injury. States, and it will have an enormous ef-
NEWS Just a week ago, Kim In 2018, a North Korean diplomat fect in the political scene in Kosovo.”
ANALYSIS Yo-jong, the only sister called Vice President Mike Pence Though most of the more than 13,000
and key aide of North “stupid” and a “political dummy,”
Korea’s leader, Kim Jong- casualties in the Kosovo War were Koso-
threatening to cancel a planned summit var Albanians killed by Serbian troops,
un, threatened to kill the country’s between Mr. Kim and Mr. Trump. When
agreements with South Korea that were more than 2,000 were Serbs, Roma and
Mr. Trump acted first and called off the Kosovar Albanians killed mostly by
intended to ease military tensions along meeting, North Korea immediately NATO bombs or by guerrilla groups like
the border. She called the South Korean issued another statement saying that the Kosovo Liberation Army, according
president, Moon Jae-in, “disgusting” Mr. Kim wanted to meet Mr. Trump “at to figures from the Humanitarian Law
and “insane.” Then the North blew up any time.” Mr. Trump was happy to Center, a human rights group with of-
the joint inter-Korean liaison office, the revive the summit plan.
first of a series of actions that threat-
This month too, North Korea has
ened to reverse a fragile détente on the
been carefully calculating its maneu-
Korean Peninsula.
On Wednesday, Mr. Kim emerged as
vers. Even when its military drew up A tribunal accuses a
action plans along the border, the state
the good cop, overruling his military
and suspending its plans to deploy
news media took pains to point out that president who was about
more troops and resume military exer-
they would need Mr. Kim’s “ratifica-
tion.”
to visit the White House.
cises along the world’s most heavily
Mr. Kim suspended those plans
armed border. Hours later, South Kore-
during a meeting of his Central Military
an border guards confirmed that the
Commission on Tuesday. The next day, fices in Serbia and Kosovo.
North Korean military had dismantled
the North Korean media said the meet- To investigate possible war crimes
loudspeakers installed on the border in POOL PHOTO
ing was “preliminary.” The language carried out by these guerrilla groups, the
recent days as part of its threat to
revive propaganda broadcasts against
Last week, Kim Yo-jong, above, Mr. Kim’s sister and adviser, called the South prompted some analysts to suspect that Kosovar Parliament founded a special ju-
the South. Korean president “insane” and threatened to kill agreements with the South, the commission could hold a regular dicial system in 2016, staffed by foreign
If the flip-flop seemed disorienting, and North Korea blew up the joint inter-Korean liaison office, below. meeting to have more discussions and jurists and based in the Netherlands to
that was exactly the effect North Korea potentially reverse course if needed. allow its officials to work more independ-
intended. Over the decades, alternating “Now that he has succeeded in seiz- ently.
between raising tensions and extending ing the attention of Washington, Seoul The prosecutors accused Mr. Thaci,
an olive branch has been part of the and Beijing, Kim Jong-un thinks he can Kadri Veseli, a former spy chief, and sev-
North’s dog-eared playbook. pause for a bit to see how they re- eral unnamed defendants of crimes
In 2017, Mr. Kim conducted a series of spond,” said Kim Yong-hyun, a North against humanity, including murder, en-
increasingly daring nuclear and long- Korea specialist at Dongguk University forced disappearance of persons, perse-
range ballistic missile tests, driving his in Seoul. “By saying that he ‘sus- cution and torture.
country to the edge of war with the pended,’ not terminated, the action “If the indictment is confirmed, it
United States. Then he made a sudden plans, he is still keeping the option on would be unprecedented,” said Vigan
switch the next year to a giddy round of the table.” Qorrolli, a law professor at the Univer-
diplomacy with President Trump, as There were signs that North Korea’s sity of Pristina in Kosovo’s capital.
well as with Mr. Moon. strategy was already working in the “Some people thought they’d go for the
Mr. Kim’s grandfather Kim Il-sung, South. smaller fishes, but they started with the
As tensions rose on the peninsula, bigger fishes.”
North Korea’s founding president,
South Korea moved swiftly to ban send- Mr. Thaci began his public life as a
proposed reconciliation with South
ing anti-North Korean leaflets across leader of the Kosovo Liberation Army
Korea even as he prepared to invade
the inter-Korean border. Liberal poli- but turned to civilian politics after the
the South to start the 1950-53 Korean
ticians urged Mr. Moon to persuade war ended, serving as both prime min-
War. His father and predecessor, Kim
Washington at least to allow inter- ister and foreign minister. Since 2016, he
Jong-il, discussed co-hosting the 1988
Korean economic cooperation and has been Kosovo’s mainly ceremonial
Summer Olympics with South Korea
humanitarian aid shipments to the president. He remains a pillar of Kosovar
before North Korean agents planted
North. political life, revered as a hero of the war
bombs on a Korean Air Boeing 707 in by some while others accuse him of being
1987. The plane exploded near Myan- There was another reason Mr. Kim
KOREAN CENTRAL NEWS AGENCY, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS
hesitated: Some of the actions North the embodiment of the wayward political
mar, killing all 115 on board. class that has ruled Kosovo since inde-
When the move is toward peace, the Korea threatened against the South
were tantamount to shooting itself in pendence.
change of tack is so dramatic that omy” impervious to international sanc- South Korea and Mr. Moon. North
the foot. A 2008 report compiled by German in-
North Korea’s external enemies often tions. At the same time, he tried to ease Korea has repeatedly accused Mr.
If North Korea follows through on its telligence officers accused him of ramp-
take the shift itself as progress, even the pain of sanctions by attracting more Moon of being so beholden to Washing-
ant corruption. “People identify him with
though there is no evidence that the Chinese tourists and encouraging ille- ton’s policy of enforcing sanctions that threat to restart propaganda broad-
everything that went wrong after inde-
country has decided to abandon its gal smuggling. he has reneged on his promise to Mr. casts and leaflet distribution across the
pendence,” Mr. Bajrami said.
nuclear weapons. But that plan sputtered amid the Kim to improve inter-Korean economic border, the South would likely respond
Still, Joseph R. Biden Jr., the presump-
“When such a shift comes, the world coronavirus epidemic, which has forced ties. in kind. North Korea has more to lose,
tive Democratic nominee for president,
goes, ‘Wow!’ ” said Yun Duk-min, a the country to shut its borders. Mr. Kim’s sister, Kim Yo-jong, took say analysts. The North’s propaganda
once described Mr. Thaci as the “George
former chancellor of the Korea National “First and foremost, the economy is the lead in the attack against South has little impact on South Koreans, who Washington of Kosovo.”
Diplomatic Academy. “The world is so the problem for Kim Jong-un,” said Korea. But Mr. Kim stayed out of the are far more affluent, while the regime Earlier this year, Mr. Thaci helped en-
impressed that just starting dialogue Park Won-gon, a professor of interna- escalating standoff with the South, doesn’t have sufficient electricity to gineer the collapse of the government of
with the North feels like a major turn- tional relations in Handong Global giving himself flexibility to change raise the volume on its loudspeakers. Albin Kurti, a reformist prime minister
around.” University in South Korea. “As the course. Cross-border hostilities will also weak- and longtime political activist who had
Mr. Kim’s decision on Wednesday will impact of the prolonged Covid-19 epi- “The brother and sister play the good en South Koreans’ support for eco- promised to clean up Kosovo’s judicial
at least temporarily keep the latest demic wore heavily on his people’s and bad cop toward South Korea,” said nomic or humanitarian help for the system, and whom many younger Koso-
tensions from spinning out of control on livelihoods, Kim Jong-un doesn’t have a Lee Byong-chul, a North Korea expert North. vars viewed as a necessary break from
the Korean Peninsula. But it also lot of time left” before he must find a at Kyungnam University’s Institute for But analysts also warned that Mr. former wartime leaders like Mr. Thaci.
showed that Mr. Kim was calibrating way out, Mr. Park said. Far Eastern Studies in Seoul. Kim may shift his posture again if Seoul Criticism of Mr. Thaci escalated after
his moves as he sought to reclaim some In the North’s playbook, domestic Although North Korea has often and Washington don’t appease the his support for a land swap with Serbia.
of the domestic credibility and diplo- trouble often calls for raising tensions sounded incorrigibly bellicose, it has North. As the presidential election in Mr. Thaci now denies he discussed such
matic leverage he had lost after his two with its outside enemies to win their proved to be a shrewd strategist capa- the United States draws near, Mr. Kim a land swap with Serbian officials, but
years of diplomacy with Mr. Moon and concessions and also consolidate inter- ble of judging when to throttle up the could attempt major military provoca- the claim remains central to Kosovar po-
Mr. Trump. nal unity. tensions and when to pull back on tions to gain leverage with whoever litical discourse.
Mr. Kim returned from his second The North is widely believed to have them. wins the election. Prosecutors at the special court said
summit with Mr. Trump, held in Viet- expedited its nuclear weapons develop- After two South Korean soldiers were “There may be a pause in provoca- they had been forced into announcing
nam in February of last year, without ment after it struggled under a devas- injured by land mines in 2015, the South tions or Pyongyang might temporarily their indictment on Wednesday because
winning a badly needed reprieve from tating famine in the late 1990s. It has accused the North of planting the de- de-escalate in search of external con- of unspecified actions taken by Mr. Thaci
international sanctions that he had pushed its nuclear program as a deter- vices near the soldiers’ front line guard cessions,” said Leif-Eric Easley, a pro- and Mr. Veseli to undermine their work.
promised to his people. Those sanctions rent against “American invasion,” as post. In retaliation, South Korea re- fessor of international studies at Ewha
have devastated the North’s exports well as a tool to extract economic and sumed loudspeaker propaganda broad- Womans University in Seoul. “But Patrick Kingsley reported from Berlin,
since late 2017. other concessions from Washington and casts along the border, bombarding North Korea will almost certainly con- and Gerry Mullany from New York.
Mr. Kim began this year by exhorting its allies. North Korean soldiers with K-pop mu- tinue to bolster its so-called ‘deter- Marlise Simons contributed reporting
his people to build a “self-reliant econ- This year, the North’s first target was sic and screeds against Mr. Kim. When rent.’” from Paris.
A12 N THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2020

Floyd’s Death Forces a Deeper Debate on France’s Slave-Trading Past

By NORIMITSU ONISHI tory and France, said that those
BORDEAUX, France — At a efforts were complicated by
bend in the river, a succession of France’s self-understanding as a
stately stone buildings, each more nation and as a proponent of uni-
imposing than the last, stretches versal values like equality and lib-
along the left bank. Their elegant erty.
18th-century facades had helped “There aren’t that many coun-
Bordeaux, already famous for its tries in the world which believe
wineries, become a UNESCO profoundly that they are invested
World Heritage site. with a universal mission,” said Mr.
“This facade, it’s a monumental Mbembe, who teaches at the Uni-
and extraordinary heritage — and versity of Witwatersrand in Jo-
a sort of stage metaphor,” said hannesburg. “The U.S. is one of
Laurent Védrine, director of the them, and France is the other.”
Museum of Aquitaine. “Let’s go “It is the idea of a universal
look behind the stone facade: which is premised on the concept
Where did this wealth come that there is one human race,” he
from?” added. “But the French confuse
Bordeaux, unlike much of the horizon with the existing reali-
France, began digging into that ty. There’s a huge gap.”
question more than a decade ago. The gap was easy to ignore be-
It found that its grand buildings cause slave-trading and colonial-
had been financed, in part, by the ism were carried out well beyond
slave trade. Slavery touched on its France’s main territory in Europe,
monuments and its architecture. Mr. Mbembe said, adding, “It was
So the city began to address the always a kind of offshore enter-
past, but instead of tearing down prise.”
the telltales of its ugly history, it Even in France’s far-flung cor-
has put up plaques to acknowl- ners, coming to terms with the
edge and explain it. past has been a slow process.
Other European cities with sim- In French Guiana — an over-
ilar histories have preferred to re- seas department on the north
main silent. But the killing of coast of South America that
George Floyd by a police officer in France established in the 17th cen-
Minneapolis has now widened tury with enslaved Africans — the
and invigorated the debate over main airport was long named “Ro-
Europe’s long, brutal and lucra- chambeau” after the father of a
tive history in Africa, punctuated French general who used dogs to
by the recent toppling of statues of suppress a slave uprising in Haiti
colonial-era figures. PHOTOGRAPHS BY ANDREA MANTOVANI FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES and encouraged feeding the dogs
In France, a long history of slav- The Place de la Bourse is a symbol of the prosperity of Bordeaux, with human flesh.
ery and colonialism has been which flourished because of the slave trade. Karfa Diallo says the Christiane Taubira — a law-
eclipsed by a national narrative city — and France — should do more to acknowledge that past. maker who was the driving force
and self-identity as the revolution- behind a 2001 French law that rec-
ary champion of universal human ognized the slave trade and slav-
rights. But Mr. Diallo said that Bor- eral work force. ery as crimes against humanity,
But France’s colonialist past is a deaux — and France — should do In France, many protesters fo- and the first black woman named
subject as sensitive as slavery is more, especially in light of the an- cused on Jean-Baptiste Colbert, justice minister in France — be-
in the United States. Behind the ger stirred by Mr. Floyd’s killing. the 17th-century statesman who is gan pressing to change the air-
refined facade of much of Europe, Mr. Diallo said that while he found still celebrated for his lasting im- port’s name in the early 2000s.
the world’s most-visited tourist the possibility of financial repara- pact on France’s political econ- “There was so much resistance
region, lies wealth that was gener- tions politically unrealistic, he be- omy, but who was also the author — from historians, politicians and
ated by the trans-Atlantic slave lieved the idea was morally just: of the Code Noir, the 1685 decree even the people — that I was
trade and the subsequent coloni- When France abolished slavery in regulating slavery in the colonies. ready to hand over the fight to the
zation of the African continent. 1848, it compensated enslavers for On Tuesday, a protester splattered next generation,” Ms. Taubira said
Six decades after most African their financial loss. Far short of red paint on a statue of Colbert in by phone from French Guiana, her
nations gained independence, that, he says, he’d like to see one front of the National Assembly voice rising above the din of a
there has been no complete com- street in the city renamed entirely and wrote “state Negrophobia” on tropical rainstorm. “But after nine
ing to terms with that history, ei- as a “strong symbol.” its pedestal. years of battle, we won.”
ther in Europe or in Africa. Caught Mr. Fetouh said that changing Jean-Marc Ayrault, a former In 2012, the airport was re-
in the silence are people of African street names makes residents an- prime minister who is now presi- named after Félix Éboué, a de-
origin in Europe, where enduring gry and would make the popula- dent of the Foundation for the scendant of enslaved people who
ings. moved closer to where people live.
racism, near-hysterical fear over tion less open to look at the past. in 1936 was appointed the gover-
Local men had made fortunes Last year, the statue of Modeste
migration and the failure to inte- But around Europe there is less nor of Guadeloupe, then a French
sending ships to Africa, where the Testas, an enslaved woman
grate generations of immigrants sentiment in favor of preserving colony in the Caribbean.
French bartered goods for people, bought by two Bordeaux brothers,
cannot be separated from that un- who were then taken across the was erected on the riverbank.
the status quo. Plaques and a statue The enduring ties between
resolved past. After Mr. Floyd’s killing, a France and its former colonies
“It’s the inability to shed light
Atlantic to Caribbean colonies.
There, they were sold and forced
This month, the city installed
plaques on five residential streets
crowd in Bristol, England, toppled mark Bordeaux’s role also continue to shape the per-
a statue of the 17th-century slave
on that past that maintains the
racism and the impunity of the po-
to labor on plantations, producing named after prominent local men trader Edward Colston. In Ant- in the slave trade. spective of Francophone Africans,
generations after independence.
goods that were finally brought to who were involved in the trans-At- werp, Belgium, the local authori-
lice, or the impunity of those who Poor, young African migrants
Bordeaux’s port and sold in Eu- lantic slave trade. One plaque, ties, responding to increasing pro-
make decisions, in employment or keep risking their lives to cross
rope. placed on the wall of a one-story tests, removed a statue of Leopold the Sahara and the Mediterra-
in housing, based on physical cri- Memory of Slavery, urged the gov-
In 2009, the Museum of house on Gramont Street, ex- II, the Belgian king who ran an ex- nean, homing in on France and its
teria and deny the rights of ernment to remove Colbert’s
Aquitaine established a perma- plained that Jacques-Barthélémy ploitative regime that led to the vague, though talismanic, pull.
French people who are black or name from important halls and
nent exhibition detailing Bor- Gramont, a former mayor of Bor- deaths of millions in what is now The elite keep apartments in
Arab,” said Karfa Diallo, the Sene- buildings. The idea was quickly
galese-born founder of Mémoires deaux’s role in France’s slavery- deaux, financed a slave-trading the Democratic Republic of Congo Paris and send their children to
based commerce. From 1672 to expedition in 1783 and two more in shot down, led by President Em-
et Partages, an organization that and whose ambitions set off Eu- schools there.
1837, 180 shipowners in Bordeaux 1803. manuel Macron, who said during
has pushed the city of Bordeaux to rope’s scramble for African colo- Mr. Diallo, the Senegalese-born
led 480 expeditions that trans- Marik Fetouh, a deputy mayor, nies. a national address that France
fully acknowledge its history. “It’s activist in Bordeaux, left Africa a
ported as many as 150,000 Afri- said that the city had always be- In the United States, protesters “will not erase any trace or name
never said as clearly as that, but quarter-century ago as a young
that’s the heart of the matter.” cans to France’s Caribbean colo- lieved that the past must be re- first focused on Confederate mon- from its history. The republic will man imbued with the words of
As researchers dug deeper into nies, making Bordeaux the most membered and explained, in con- uments. But they have since cast a not take down any statues.” Léopold Senghor and Aimé Cé-
Bordeaux — past the sculpted Af- important French slave-trading trast to a growing number of peo- wider eye, including at former But France — whose diplomatic saire. In France, he built a life at
rican faces looking down from a port after Nantes. ple pushing to tear down statues presidents like Andrew Jackson, a power rests greatly on the influ- the bend in the river, making its
building in the Place de la Bourse The city government has physi- in Europe and the United States. slave owner whose policies forced ence it still exerts over its former town his, too.
— they found logbooks, records, cally acknowledged that history, “Getting rid of statues won’t Native Americans from their land, African colonies — has struggled “The desire for Europe is
paintings, all showing that the starting in 2006 with a modest erase horrible crimes that have and Woodrow Wilson, the archi- more than other European na- stronger than the desire for Afri-
French city in the interior, at a plaque on a dock along the river to been committed,” Mr. Fetouh said. tect of the League of Nations tions to come to terms with its im- ca,” Mr. Diallo said. “Even in us,
bend in the Garonne, had flour- commemorate the history of slav- “Not only do you not change his- whose legacy has faced increas- perial past. it’s not at all absent. We came to
ished because of commerce based ery. Over the years, the reminders tory, but you also deprive yourself ing scrutiny for his racist views Achille Mbembe, a Camer- study here and finally we stayed.
on the enslavement of human be- have grown more prominent and of ways of explaining it.” and his resegregation of the fed- oonian expert on post-colonial his- We became French.”

Poland’s President Gets

Former Secretary of State
Madeleine K. Albright, who
helped to expand the NATO alli-
ance into Eastern Europe the

A Boost From Trump 1990s, also criticized the visit.

“I was proud to welcome a dem-
ocratic Poland into NATO, and I
By MICHAEL CROWLEY His visit had no clear official am very concerned by the extent
President Trump welcomed purpose, analysts said, and to which the current Polish gov-
President Andrzej Duda of Poland amounted to a photo opportunity erning party has retreated from
to the White House on Wednes- for a populist leader whom polls the values at the heart of the alli-
day, his first meeting with a for- show with just 40 percent support ance,” she said in a statement.
heading into an election that re- “The United States should be
eign leader since February and
quires a majority to avoid a runoff. standing up for those values,
one that Democrats called an un-
“This was really an endorse- rather than rewarding President
seemly effort to boost a European
ment masquerading as a meet- Duda with a White House visit
ally whose country is tilting to-
ing,” said Molly Montgomery, a days before the election.”
ward autocracy days before a
former career diplomat and a non- Ms. Kaptur and others also crit-
close re-election vote.
resident fellow at the Brookings icized Mr. Duda for running a so-
Mr. Duda, who has served as
Institution. Ms. Montgomery cially conservative campaign that
Poland’s president since 2015, has
noted that Mr. Trump “didn’t even speaks of “L.G.B.T. ideology” and
presided over political restric-
try to hide or gloss over the elec- has compared gay rights activists
tions on Poland’s judiciary, media to communist revolutionaries.
tion piece here.”
and civil society while becoming
Mr. Trump has not met in Wash- “President Duda and his party
one of Mr. Trump’s preferred for-
ington with a top foreign official promote horrifying homophobic
eign partners. The Polish election and anti-L.G.B.T.Q. stereotypes
since February, when he hosted
is on Sunday, a fact Mr. Trump and policies that run counter to
Venezuela’s opposition leader,
made no effort to gloss over. the human rights and values that
Juan Guaidó, whom the U.S. rec-
“I do believe he has an election ognizes as the country’s rightful ERIN SCHAFF/THE NEW YORK TIMES America should strive to uphold,”
coming up, and I do believe he will president. President Andrzej Duda of Poland with President Trump in the Oval Office on Wednesday. Representative Eliot L. Engel, the
be successful,” Mr. Trump said of He tried without success to chairman of the House Foreign
Mr. Duda during a news confer- coax several heads of state to a Affairs Committee, said in a state-
ence the men held in the Rose Gar- The leaders said they discussed on a rotating basis. Mr. Duda said on Wednesday ment last week.
Group of 7 summit in the Washing-
den. a range of issues, including efforts But Trump officials say no such that he had asked Mr. Trump to re-
ton area this month, an event he Mr. Fried said that Mr. Duda
Pressed on whether he was against the coronavirus, Poland’s plans have been set. Writing in locate some of the troops into his was not the driving force behind
said would signal a “return to nor-
seeking to tip the scales in the Pol- purchase of liquid natural gas The Wall Street Journal last week, country and warned that major his country’s recent authoritarian
malcy.” But Chancellor Angela
ish election, Mr. Trump deflected Merkel of Germany quashed the from the United States and Ameri- Mr. Trump’s national security ad- American withdrawals from the measures.
the question. idea in a statement saying the co- can assistance for Poland’s civil viser, Robert C. O’Brien, said mili- continent “would be very detri- Mr. Trump and Mr. Duda also
“He’s doing a terrific job. The ronavirus made such a gathering nuclear program. tary officials were still drawing up mental to European security.” found unlikely common cause
people of Poland think the world of unsafe. “I don’t think we’ve ever been options for the president. But European leaders are con- over recent efforts by anti-racism
him,” Mr. Trump said. “I don’t For Mr. Duda, the political bene- closer to Poland than right now,” “We’re going to be reducing our cerned about what Mr. Trump protesters in the United States to
think he needs my help.” fits clearly outweighed any risk of Mr. Trump said in brief remarks to forces in Germany,” Mr. Trump might do. In his new book, Mr. deface and topple federal statues
But it is clear that Mr. Trump travel, even if his visit violated a reporters in the Oval Office. “I said. “Some will be coming home Trump’s former national security and monuments, which Mr.
would be happy to see Mr. Duda longstanding American political have a very good personal rela- and some will be going to other adviser, John R. Bolton, confirmed Trump says he will make a crime
retain power. The two leaders norm. tionship with the president.” places — but Poland would be one reports that Mr. Trump had con- punishable by 10 years in prison
have met one on one at least five “There is a good rule in U.S. di- The men also discussed Ameri- of those other places, other places sidered withdrawing from NATO through an executive order. Mr.
times, including three times at the plomacy where you don’t do that,” can troop levels in Poland, which in Europe.” altogether. Duda lamented that during dem-
White House. Two years ago Mr. said Daniel Fried, a retired career could rise if Mr. Trump follows If more American troops do go Several prominent Democrats onstrations near the White House
Duda hosted the president in War- diplomat who served as the U.S. through on his stated plans to to Poland, they are unlikely to be criticized the visit before Mr. Du- this month, protesters defaced a
saw, where Mr. Trump delivered a ambassador to Poland in the Clin- withdraw 9,500 U.S. troops from housed at a site named after Mr. da’s arrival. Representative statue in Lafayette Square of the
speech calling for nationalist, ton administration. “Trump does- Germany, capping America’s per- Trump. Last year, Poland pro- Marcy Kaptur of Ohio, who is Pol- Polish general Tadeusz Kosciusz-
anti-immigration policies world- n’t much care about those things, manent presence there at 25,000 posed spending some $2 billion to ish-American, called on Mr. ko, who fought on the American
wide. Mr. Duda has even offered to but the reason you don’t do it is be- troops. build a new base informally desig- Trump to cancel the meeting, cit- side of the Revolutionary War.
host a “Fort Trump” that would cause it injects the U.S. into the do- Many officials in Poland are nated as Fort Trump to host thou- ing in a statement his “inappropri- “For completely incomprehen-
house U.S. troops in his country. mestic politics of another country, hopeful that Mr. Trump will relo- sands of American troops. Those ate efforts to insert himself into sible reasons to us, that monu-
and it alienates a whole bunch of cate some of those troops to their plans fell through, but the United Polish domestic politics and boost ment was devastated,” he said,
Marc Santora contributed report- people there’s no reason to alien- country, which now hosts some States did agree to send 1,000 President Duda’s re-election with adding that it had since been re-
ing. ate.” 4,500 American service members more troops to the country. a White House visit.” stored.
 THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2020 N A13

Palestinians in Jordan Valley Fear Annexation Would Cut Them Off

Netanyahu’s Plan
Remains Unclear
By ADAM RASGON
AL JIFTILIK, West Bank —
Hamdan Saeed rises at 5:30 each
morning to sell hot coffee to Pales-
tinian and Israeli motorists along
Route 90, the main highway
through the Jordan Valley, a re-
source-rich borderland in the oc-
cupied West Bank.
But Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu’s push to annex the
area has him worried that he
could lose his livelihood if his tiny
farming village is blocked off from
the road.
“We have no idea what annex-
ation would mean for us, because
nobody is telling us anything,” Mr.
Saeed, 49, a father of three who
makes around $20 a day, said at
his makeshift coffee stand on a re-
cent blazing hot morning. “Who
knows if I’ll be able to come
here?”
Palestinians in the Jordan Val-
ley have been left in the dark
about how annexation would af-
fect them. Many worry that it
could block them from their farm-
lands, prevent them from getting
to their jobs in Israeli settlements
and choke off their villages behind
walls, fences and checkpoints.
Mr. Netanyahu has vowed to be-
gin the process of annexing parts
of the West Bank as soon as July 1,
encouraged by the Trump admin-
istration’s proposal for resolving
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The unilateral annexation of oc-
PHOTOGRAPHS BY DAN BALILTY FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
cupied territory has been widely
condemned by other countries as Many Palestinians in the Jordan Valley worry annexation could block them from getting to their
illegal. farmlands. At left, Israeli soldiers at a Palestinian shopping center in the Jordan Valley.
While Mr. Netanyahu has not
released his plan, he has promised alongside most of the interna- director of Palestine Gardens, a annexation immediately, but that
to include the Jordan Valley, a 620- tional community, consider the Is- date exporting company near authorities could eventually de-
square-mile farming region that raeli settlements to be illegal. Jericho, said the prospect of an- cide to erect a barrier separating
would give Israel a permanent Whoever is at fault, farmers in nexation adds another challenge the Palestinian enclaves from the
eastern border abutting Jordan. to his business, which has already rest of the valley.
the valley fear that annexation
Mr. Netanyahu considers the val- Despite the overwhelming pes-
will only make matters worse. faced a number of complications
ley a nonnegotiable requirement simism about the prospect of an-
Abdo Moussa, 29, a farmer from this year.
for Israel’s security. nexation, some Palestinians in the
Al Jiftilik, said Israeli authorities “It’s been a tough time,” he said
He has suggested that he would area did not rule out the possibil-
carve out Palestinian villages, have squeezed Palestinian com- at his packing plant. “We had a
munities in the area for decades trade conflict between the Israeli ity that it might benefit them.
which would “remain as Palestin-
by cutting off their access to land and Palestinian sides in February, Raed Bani Fadal, 35, a worker at
ian enclaves.” Israel would not
and providing inadequate serv- then the coronavirus came in an Israeli date plant in the Netiv
“apply sovereignty over them,” he
ices. March and now we are dealing Hagdud settlement, said annex-
said in an interview with an Israeli
“It’s always been that Israel with annexation.” ation might open the door to per-
newspaper last month, but would
wants the land but not the people,” He worries that annexation manent residency, the status af-
retain “security control.”
said Abdo Moussa, 29, a farmer could require the placement of a forded to Palestinian residents of
Presumably the enclaves and
yahu proposed when he first and does not purchase sufficient from Al Jiftilik. “They’ve tried en- barrier between his packing plant East Jerusalem. He sees that as
their residents would be con-
promised to annex the valley last electricity from Israel to cover couraging us to leave our land by and suppliers scattered through- an improvement over the current
nected to a larger Palestinian enti-
fall. Palestinian demand there. refusing to grant building permits out the Jordan Valley. “This issue military occupation.
ty in the West Bank, but Mr. Ne-
tanyahu has not explained how The valley, which Israel has He blamed the Palestinian Au- and barely giving us enough wa- is creating a lot of uncertainty for “It might mean they have to pay
such a system would work, and his controlled since the 1967 Arab-Is- thority for the water shortage, ter and electricity. I’m not sure the us,” he said. us higher wages and allow greater
office declined to comment. raeli war, comprises approxi- saying it has refused to work with situation can get much worse, but Shaul Arieli, a former Israeli ne- freedom of movement,” he said.
But Mr. Netanyahu’s pledge has mately a quarter of the West Bank Israel to advance projects that I’m afraid they’ll find a way to do gotiator who specializes in maps “If I’m right, I hope they annex
fueled concerns among Palestin- and lies hundreds of feet below would benefit both Palestinians so.” and borders, said that he did not right away.”
ian residents that they would be sea level. Outside of the Jericho and settlers. The Palestinians, Momen Sinokrot, the managing expect Israel to implement any The Palestinians in the Jordan
confined to isolated islands. region, it is inhabited by about Valley who feel most anxious
“What he’s saying is we should 12,000 Palestinians and 12,500 Is- about the ongoing annexation dis-
be put in small bird cages,” said raeli settlers. cussions are Bedouin shepherds
Hazem Abu Jish, 53, a conven- Israeli authorities already pro- — several thousand of whom live
ience store owner in Furush Beit hibit Palestinians from building in tin-roofed tents in encamp-
Dajan, a village in the northern on most of the territory and deny ments that Israel considers ille-
Jordan Valley. “How can we live them access to large parts of it, gal.
like that? What if I need to go to over half of which has been de- “They have been practicing an-
the hospital in Jericho for an clared a closed military zone, ac- nexation against us since 1967,
emergency? Will I no longer be cording to Peace Now, an anti-set- trying to deny us all the basic
able to drive there in a half-hour?” tlements group. needs of life,” said Abdel Rahman
Jihad Abu al-Asal, the Palestin- Palestinian villages in the Jor- Bisharat, 71, a resident of Al Ha-
ian Authority’s governor of Jeri- dan Valley regularly face power didiya, a Bedouin village that is
cho and the Jordan Valley, said outages and receive far smaller al- accessible only by a rocky dirt
that Mr. Netanyahu seemed to be locations of water than neighbor- road. “We now fear they will try to
willing to jeopardize Palestinian ing settlers, according to several expel us from our land.”
communities to advance annex- Israeli nongovernmental organi- In Al Hadidiya, water is so
ation. zations. scarce that residents can take
“He thinks we are like pawns,” “They give more water to the showers only once a week, he said.
Mr. Abu al-Asal said in an inter- fruits and vegetables than the Israel has not said whether it
view. “He thinks he can do what- people,” said Ibrahim Obayat, the would expel shepherds in unrec-
ever he wants with us to achieve mayor of the village of Fasayil, re- ognized villages if it annexes the
his goals. What he wants to do is to ferring to Israeli farms in the area. Jordan Valley, but Mr. Arieli pre-
formally institute an apartheid Israeli officials say they are not dicts they would likely be “the
system.” to blame for shortages of water first casualty” of the process.
Mr. Netanyahu has said he and electricity. Mr. Bisharat, however, said his
would not annex the Jericho area, Danny Tirza, a former Defense family would not accept reloca-
home to more than 40,000 Pales- Ministry official who worked on tion.
tinians. A conceptual map in the zoning issues in the West Bank, “We refuse to leave,” he said.
Trump administration’s proposal said the local utility, the Jerusalem “We were born on this land and we
leaves Jericho under Palestinian District Electricity Company, has will do everything we can to stay
control, as does a map Mr. Netan- not renovated its infrastructure “We now fear they will try to expel us from our land,” said Abdel Rahman Bisharat, a shepherd. here.”

U.S. Used Secret Weapon, Missile With Blades, to Kill Qaeda Leader in Syria
By ERIC SCHMITT Obama to reduce civilian casu- airstrike in Idlib Province in small-diameter bomb used exten- Mr. al-Aruri, who was also ago. But with as many as 2,000
WASHINGTON — American alties and property damage in northwest Syria in February 2017. sively in the 2016 and 2017 battles known as Abu al Qassam, was a fighters, including seasoned lead-
Special Operations forces used a America’s long-running wars on Photographs of the vehicle Mr. of Mosul and later Raqqa. Another close companion and brother-in- ers from Jordan and Egypt, Hur-
specially designed secret missile terrorism in far-flung hot spots. al-Masri was said to have been weapon that has gained popular- law of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the ras al-Din is much larger and has
to kill the head of a Qaeda affiliate The weapon, first described in traveling in revealed unusual de- ity is the advanced precision-kill Jordanian terrorist who headed Al operated in areas where Russian
in Syria this month, dealing the detail last year by The Wall Street tails for such a strike: The vehicle weapon system. It transforms a Qaeda in Mesopotamia until he air defenses have largely shielded
terrorist group a serious blow Journal, has been used perhaps a sustained no major explosive small, unguided 2.75-inch rocket was killed by an American them from American airstrikes
with a weapon that combines me- half-dozen times in recent years, damage, but a projectile clearly with a laser-guidance kit, effec- airstrike in Iraq in 2006, according and the persistent stare of Ameri-
dieval brutality with cutting-edge American officials said, typically struck it directly through its roof. tively turning the weapon into an to Thomas Joscelyn, a senior edi- can surveillance planes.
technology. when a senior terrorist leader has This suggested that the military air-launched sniper round. tor of FDD’s Long War Journal, a Moscow dispatched military
been located but other weapons deliberately used an inert war- But even the use of smaller, website run by the Foundation for aid and advisers to Syria in late
American and Qaeda officials
would risk killing nearby civil- head to kill its target by high-ve- more precise munitions has left Defense of Democracies that 2015 to support the beleaguered
said on Wednesday that Khaled
ians. locity impact. Pentagon officials hundreds, if not thousands, of ci- tracks military strikes against government of President Bashar
al-Aruri, the de facto leader of the
Conventional Hellfire missiles, at the time did not disclose details vilians killed by American weap- militant groups. al-Assad.
Qaeda branch, called Hurras al-
with an explosive warhead of about the R9X’s blades. ons during the six-year war In 2015, Mr. al-Aruri was one of Hurras al-Din was initially led
Din, perished in a drone strike in
about 20 pounds, are often used The British Royal Air Force against the Islamic State and the five senior Qaeda figures freed by by Abu Hammam al-Shami, an-
Idlib in northwest Syria on June used inert precision-guided continuing air campaign in Af- Iran in exchange for an Iranian
against groups of individuals or a other Qaeda veteran, but a United
14. He was a Qaeda veteran whose bombs in the opening phases of ghanistan. diplomat held in Yemen. His re- Nations report said last year that
so-called high-value target who is
jihadist career dates to the 1990s. meeting with other militants. But the invasion of Iraq in 2003, and The resilience of the Qaeda lease brought a highly experi- Mr. al-Aruri took charge of the or-
How he died was even more when Special Operations forces the French Air Force did the same branch in Syria, as well as the op- enced operative back to the field, ganization at some point.
striking. The modified Hellfire are hunting a lone leader, the R9X in Libya in 2011. Neither munition erations of other affiliates in West and after his arrival in Syria he “Khaled al-Aruri was one of Al
missile carried an inert warhead. now is often the weapon of choice. employed the blades that the Africa, Somalia, Yemen and Af- slowly climbed the ranks to be- Qaeda’s most senior figures
Instead of exploding, it hurled American officials confirmed American version later would. ghanistan, underscores the ter- come Al Qaeda’s military boss and worldwide and a major veteran of
about 100 pounds of metal through the use of the unusual missile in Pentagon and C.I.A. represent- rorist group’s enduring threat de- then the de facto leader there. the cause, having begun work
the top of Mr. al-Aruri’s car. If the two specific instances, one by the atives declined to comment on spite Bin Laden’s death and being The new Qaeda branch, called with Zarqawi in the late 1980s,”
high-velocity projectile did not kill Central Intelligence Agency and Wednesday about the use of the largely eclipsed in recent years by Hurras al-Din, emerged in early said Charles Lister, the director of
him, the missile’s other feature al- one by the military’s secretive R9X missile in Mr. al-Aruri’s the Islamic State as the terrorist 2018 after several factions broke the Middle East Institute’s Syria
most certainly did: six long blades Joint Special Operations Com- death. group of choice of global jihadis. away from a larger affiliate in Syr- and Countering Terrorism and
tucked inside, which deployed mand. An American military The use of this type of missile “Al Qaeda remains a global ia. It is the successor to the Khora- Extremism Programs.
seconds before impact to slice up airstrike in Yemen in January falls in line with the American mil- force with its networks and san Group, a small but dangerous Besides being Al Qaeda’s pri-
anything in its path. 2019 killed Jamal al-Badawi, one itary’s push to use smaller muni- branches around the world,” Am- organization of hardened senior mary representative in Syria, Mr.
The Hellfire variant, known as of the men suspected of plotting tions to kill targets, made appar- bassador Nathan A. Sales, the Qaeda operatives that Ayman al- al-Aruri was also engaged in ef-
the R9X, was initially developed the deadly Qaeda bombing of the ent during the recent air cam- State Department’s counterter- Zawahri, Al Qaeda’s leader, sent to forts to revitalize the group’s oper-
nearly a decade ago under pres- U.S. Navy destroyer Cole in 2000. paigns against the Islamic State in rorism coordinator, said in a con- Syria to plot attacks against the ational presence in Iraq, Turkey
sure from President Barack And Al Qaeda’s second-ranking Iraq and Syria in an effort to avoid ference call with reporters on West. and Lebanon, re-engaging old net-
leader, Abu al-Khayr al-Masri, civilian casualties. Wednesday after releasing the de- The Khorasan Group was effec- works and connections that had
Thomas Gibbons-Neff contributed who was a son-in-law of Osama This includes the increased reli- partment’s annual country re- tively wiped out by a series of weakened somewhat in recent
reporting from Hope, Maine. bin Laden, died in a C.I.A. ance on the GBU-39, a 250-pound ports on terrorism. American airstrikes several years years, Mr. Lister said.
A14 THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2020

United in Music, Faith and Messaging, Even After a Firing

By KATHLEEN GRAY young adults because we started doing
ROYAL OAK, Mich. — The first wed- musicals. We did Jesus Christ Superstar
ding ceremony for Terry Gonda and Director Sees Dismissal as Archdiocese’s ‘Shot Across the Bow’ and then we did Godspell,” Ms. Gonda
said. “The camaraderie and the spiritu-
Kirsti Reeve was a joyful occasion at-
tended by 180 friends and family, com- ality had a profound impact on me. It was
plete with white wedding dresses and a powerful, powerful time.”
veils, handmade origami table decora- Music also led her to Ms. Reeve in
tions and songs from their church choir. 1994. Even though internet access was
That wedding in Michigan was not le- limited at the time, they connected on-
gal in 2003, but rather a symbolic testa- line through an Indigo Girls fan group.
ment to the love they had nurtured over a Ms. Reeve, who was involved with an
9-year, long-distance relationship. evangelical church and lived in London,
Their second marriage, in 2011, hap- had a bootleg copy of one of the duo’s re-
pened on a whim as they visited friends cordings. Ms. Gonda, who was planning
in Washington, D.C., where same-sex a trip to England with her mother, ar-
marriage was legal. ranged to meet Ms. Reeve to get a copy of
And it is their dream that the third time the tape.
around will happen in the Catholic The encounter was electric for both.
Church they have called home for nearly When Ms. Gonda played Ms. Reeve a
20 years. song with religious undertones, the
As unrealistic as that possibility al- match was sealed.
ready was, it became even more remote “The phone calls cost $8,000 that first
after Ms. Gonda, 59, was notified that she year,” Ms. Gonda said.
was going to be fired this week from her After nine years of writing, calling and
part-time job as a music director at the periodic visits, Ms. Reeve, a licensed
St. John Fisher Chapel, a church in Au- counselor, moved to Michigan in 2003,
burn Hills, Mich. and a month later, they were married.
Msgr. Michael LeFevre, the pastor of “I knew it was going to be OK when
St. John Fisher who has supported the Terry introduced me to Father Brzezin-
couple since he learned of their marriage ski and he hugged me and said, ‘welcome
five years ago, delivered the news in an home,’” Ms. Reeve said of her first meet-
email, saying the archdiocese had re- ing with the pastor of St. John Fisher at
cently learned about it, too. the time, Father Jerry Brzezinski.
“When asked, I confirmed that you In an interview, Father Brzezinski,
and Kirsti had informed me of your mari- who is retired but remains a member of
tal status some five years ago,” he wrote the parish, said Ms. Gonda’s marriage
in the email, which Ms. Gonda shared was never an issue while he was pastor
with The Times. “Now, the archdiocese is at St. John Fisher.
choosing to activate its morality clause “There was never a time that we were
to terminate your employment.” proclaiming it publicly, nor we were we
On Wednesday afternoon, in a meeting trying to hide it,” he said. “It’s unfortu-
with archdiocese officials, Ms. Gonda nate that the church hasn’t come to a
was officially terminated. fuller understanding of human sexuality
Monsignor LeFevre’s email came and what’s going on in our lives in terms
June 12, just three days before the Su- of the person, their faith and goodness
preme Court ruled that employers could and basically seeing each person in the
not fire workers based on their sexual image and likeness of God. We’ve never
orientation or gender identity. seen anything except that likeness of
In his opinion, Justice Neil M. Gorsuch God in Terry.”
recognized the existence of protections Although Ms. Gonda and Ms. Reeve no
for religious institutions in employment, longer feel welcome at the church and
including the First Amendment, the Reli- have been approached by other parishes
gious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 ready to accept them, they said they
and a 2012 Supreme Court ruling that PHOTOGRAPHS BY ELAINE CROMIE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
want to figure out a way to stay with their
recognized a “ministerial exception” in pastoral family and change people’s
employment discrimination laws.
Terry Gonda, top right, and Kirsti Reeve were hearts. Neither lawmakers nor the
But there are also cases before the Su- married in 2011. St. John Fisher Chapel in Au- courts should decide the fate of
preme Court regarding religious exemp- burn Hills, Mich., where Ms. Gonda worked as L.G.B.T.Q. people in the Catholic Church,
tions to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that music director, knew about her marriage for they said.
could address protections for religious years but fired her this month at the request of “I’m uncomfortable with having laws
organizations more directly. more traditional archdiocese officials. determine these decisions. I think the
“How these doctrines protecting reli- church needs to do this,” Ms. Gonda said,
gious liberty interact with Title VII are adding she’s not interested in pursuing a
What she finds galling is that instead seem to condone Dignity Detroit’s com- asked them to perform the music at their lawsuit against the church, but hasn’t
questions for future cases too,” he wrote.
of just not renewing her contract when it peting vision for growth in holiness,” wedding in 2009 and become godparents shut the door on that option.
The court heard oral arguments last expired on June 30, the church is choos- Bishop Gerard Battersby wrote to to their 4-year-old son.
month in Our Lady of Guadalupe School For Ms. Gonda, her life has been a se-
ing to fire her instead. parishes in March. “Whatever her lifestyle is, it has no
vs Morrissey-Berru, for example, a case ries of seeming contradictions and she is
“They’re trying to send a message. The couple has been inundated with real bearing on how she does her job,”
about whether teachers at private, reli- ready to adapt once again.
This is a major shot across the bow,” she cards and calls of support. Some long- Ms. Ginger said. “She has done it profes-
gious schools are subject to the excep- said. time members of the parish, as well as “I’m a Catholic and a lesbian, an engi-
sionally for decades and she should not
tion in the Civil Rights Act. “They’re trying to sweep the gays out some members of the choir, are contem- be fired for what she does in her personal neer and an artist, and a pacifist who
Ned McGrath, a spokesman for the of the church,” added Ms. Reeve, 51. plating a switch to a different, more wel- life.” works for the Army,” Ms. Gonda said. “I
Archdiocese of Detroit, said, “As a long- “Would they rather we live in sin?” coming church. For Ms. Gonda, the music director’s live in the middle of a paradox, so I’ve al-
standing practice, out of respect for the The Catholic community in Detroit has Under the last two pastors at their job is not about the money: It pays about ways got one foot out the door, period.”
privacy of those involved, the Detroit a strong traditionalist faction, including parish, the church has gained a reputa- $21,000 a year, split among four people, The parish also is going through a
archdiocese does not comment on per- the controversial publication Church tion as a progressive community com- and is a small supplement to her full-time transition, with Monsignor LeFevre be-
sonnel matters.” Militant, which regularly includes homo- mitted to social justice. And that has job as an engineer at the U.S. Army’s ing assigned to a new parish and a new
But the archbishop, Allen Vigneron, of- phobic content. And as the vice president been a tension point with the more con- Tank Automotive and Armament Com- pastor starting in July.
fered a clear viewpoint in 2017 pastoral of the U.S. Council of Catholic Bishops, servative leadership in the archdiocese. mand facility in Warren, Mich. It is about Ms. Gonda said she would direct the
note, calling for prayer for “those with Archbishop Vigneron is next in line to “It’s just an unbelievable thing that’s her faith and how she’s been able to ex- choir this Saturday, as a volunteer, start-
same-sex attraction who do not see the take over the organization, which took a happening. Terry is one of the nicest peo- press her spirituality since she joined the ing with the song “All Are Welcome.” She
truth and goodness of Christ’s call to hard stance against the Supreme Court’s ple you’d ever want to know and Kirsti is parish as a student at Oakland Univer- hopes to be in the front pew to welcome
them, that they might undergo repen- ruling. just delightful,” said Alyce Gilroy, of Au- sity, which is across the street from the the new pastor at an evening mass on the
tance and conversion to receive healing The firing of Ms. Gonda came after burn Hills, who has been a member of St. church. She spent 24 years as the assist- Fourth of July.
and peace.” church leaders sent a letter to priests in John Fisher for 40 years. “I am currently ant music director at St. John Fisher and “The guiding question for me right
Ms. Gonda said that she thought the metro Detroit, forbidding them to hold looking to find a new church that aligns the last six years as music director. now is how can we together as baptized
Supreme Court ruling might give the masses for Dignity Detroit and Fortu- with my values. At age 97, that is pretty Her love of music helped her as she Catholics, being embraced by the arms of
archdiocese pause before going through nate Families, support groups for parish- sad.” was figuring out her sexual orientation the joy of the gospel, build bridges that
with firing her, but she did not expect it ioners who are part of the L.G.B.T.Q. Michael and Sandra Ginger, of Roches- as a member of St. Valentine Church in create a healthy church,” she said. “How
because of ministerial exemptions to community and their families. ter Hills, met Ms. Gonda and Ms. Reeve Redford, Mich., she recalled. can we do that together? Because there
workplace civil rights protections. “It is essential that the church not at church more than 15 years ago and “Our church became a regional hub for has to be a better way.”

A Proposed Link for Manhattan and Queens, for Bikes and Pedestrians Only
By WINNIE HU The Queens Ribbon would serve the River. Each bridge would be 20 feet wide,
New York City has taken street space growing bike and foot traffic in Manhat- and could carry up to 20,000 people a day.
away from cars for dozens of pedestrian tan’s central business district. As New The Queens Ribbon was designed by
plazas and for hundreds of miles of bike York City has begun reopening after a T.Y. Lin International, an engineering
lanes that make up the largest urban three-month shutdown, city officials firm. It would be a slender, flexible sus-
bike network in the nation. have warned that the streets could be pension bridge modeled after industrial
It has significantly expanded those ef- jammed by cars, and have urged com- bridges that carry pipes for gas or elec-
forts during the coronavirus pandemic, muters to take mass transit or alterna- trical power, said Michael Horodniceanu,
adding more than 40 miles of open tives, such as bikes. a professor of civil engineering at New
streets for pedestrians and cyclists, City officials have stepped up efforts to York University who helped develop the
some of which may become permanent. make cycling safer after a spate of bridge proposal.
Now, a new proposal calls for the city deadly crashes last year. Twenty-eight Dr. Horodniceanu said the bridge
to build the first new bridge to Manhat- cyclists were killed in 2019, the highest would expand biking and walking op-
tan in decades — one just for cyclists and number in two decades. This year, there tions, and would also help the city’s econ-
pedestrians. have been eight cyclist deaths, com- omy recover by creating new construc-
The car-free bridge would connect pared with 12 during the same period a tion jobs. “There are so many ways that
Midtown Manhattan to Long Island City year ago. this will be a winner,” he said.
T.Y. LIN INTERNATIONAL
in Queens, near the site that Amazon had Cycling has surged in recent months Polly Trottenberg, the city’s trans-
planned to build a headquarters before as people have traded in the potential A rendering of the Queens Ribbon, a proposed bridge for cyclists and pedes- portation commissioner, said at a news
pulling out under intense community op- health perils of subway and bus rides for trians that would connect Midtown Manhattan to Long Island City in Queens. conference this week that the Koch
position. those of bike lanes. Citi Bike, the city’s Bridge and Brooklyn Bridge had been
The bridge would also link to Roose- bike-share program, averaged 63,481 build upon the city’s current bike net- zens Budget Commission, a nonprofit “pinch points for cycling in and out of
velt Island, where Cornell Tech is nurtur- daily rides for June 15-17, up 45 percent work, which includes sections that are watchdog group, said the bridge’s poten- Manhattan.”
ing a new generation of tech en- from June 1-3, according to Citi Bike data. not connected and do not have physical tial benefits must be weighed against the The Koch Bridge, which opened in
trepreneurs. Bike rides over four East River cross- barriers separating cyclists from driv- city’s competing transportation needs. 1909, is the only direct connection for pe-
Called the Queens Ribbon, the $100 ings — the Ed Koch Queensboro, the ers. “There are trade offs,” he said. “When destrians and cyclists between Midtown
million bridge would be narrower than Brooklyn, the Manhattan and the Still, the bridge proposal faces big hur- you weigh these projects, something has Manhattan and Queens. It becomes
one designed for cars and would resem- Williamsburg Bridges — that are popu- dles. It would require city and state ap- to give. If the city were to do this, what crowded partly because cycling is
ble a relatively thin line across the East lar bike routes for commuters increased provals, and a hefty investment at a time project would it decide not to do?” banned across another major bridge
River, according to the proposal, which to an average of 21,033 trips per weekday when the pandemic has plunged the city Other things to consider, Mr. Rein add- crossing nearby, the Robert F. Kennedy
was developed by a group of transporta- in 2018 from 12,206 in 2008, according to into its most dire fiscal crisis in genera- ed, would be where the bridge fits into Bridge, which connects East Harlem in
tion engineers led by Samuel I. city data. tions, which may require other trans- the city’s overall plan for cycling and how Manhattan to Astoria, Queens.
Schwartz, a former city traffic commis- “Covid-19 has drawn tremendous at- portation infrastructure projects to be much it would cost to maintain the new Mr. Schwartz said he had called for
sioner. tention to walking and biking as increas- put on hold. bridge once it was built. new pedestrian-and-bike bridges in
London, Paris, Singapore and other ingly safe modes of transportation,” Mr. City and state officials said they would Mr. Schwartz said the new bridge Manhattan for more than a decade as the
cities have built car-free bridges as part Schwartz said. “We know there will be fu- review the bridge proposal. City officials could potentially be funded through a city’s population grew, tourism boomed
of a global movement to make more ture epidemics, superstorms, blackouts added that they had made expanding cy- public-private partnership. and development spread to practically
room for people in urban streetscapes. In and transit strikes.” cling and mobility options a priority. “We His group sees the Queens Ribbon as every neighborhood.
New York, several major bridges carry The Regional Plan Association, an in- appreciate the engineers’ hard work in the first of three pedestrian-and-bike “We never learn that we have to fit all
only pedestrians and cyclists, including fluential planning group, recently un- crafting a proposal to reimagine mobility bridges. The other two, which are still be- the pieces together,” he said. “We can
the High Bridge connecting Washington veiled a master plan for a Five Borough in our city,” a spokesman for the mayor ing developed, would link Lower Man- build up to the sky, but if we can’t get peo-
Heights in Manhattan and Highbridge in Bikeway: a 425-mile continuous network said. hattan and Brooklyn, and Manhattan ple in, we will never fully use what we
the Bronx. of protected, priority bike lanes. It would Andrew Rein, the president of the Citi- with New Jersey across the Hudson build.”
 THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2020 N A15

The 45th President The Agenda

Divided Appellate Panel Orders the Dismissal of the Case Against Flynn
then appeal. Ms. Powell used those docu-
From Page A1 “The District Court must be giv- ments to renew her allegations
campaign. Earlier this year, Mr. en a reasonable opportunity to that law enforcement officials rail-
Flynn sought to withdraw his consider and hold a hearing on the roaded her client, even as the
guilty plea, and Attorney General government’s request to ensure president indicated that he was
William P. Barr directed prosecu- that it is not clearly contrary to the considering pardoning Mr. Flynn.
tors last month to ask Judge Sulli- public interest,” he wrote. “I there- But in May, Mr. Barr intervened
van to dismiss the case. fore dissent.” again, directing a prosecutor to
But before ruling on that re- Mr. Trump fired Mr. Flynn in seek to dismiss the case with prej-
quest, Judge Sullivan appointed a early 2017 for lying to Vice Presi- udice — meaning it could not be
former judge to critique the gov- dent Mike Pence and other col- refiled by the Justice Department
ernment’s motion. Mr. Flynn’s de- leagues about what he and the under any future administration
fense lawyer, Sidney Powell, then Russian ambassador discussed in — on the theory that Mr. Flynn’s
asked the federal appeals court to December 2016. After realizing lies to the F.B.I. were not “ma-
order Judge Sullivan to shut down that Mr. Flynn was lying to his col- terial” to any legitimate investiga-
that review and terminate the leagues about the calls, the F.B.I. tion.
matter. questioned him on Jan. 24, 2017, Mr. Barr’s move was widely
Widely seen as a long shot by and he again falsely denied what seen as extraordinary and a break
many legal experts, her strategy they had discussed. with the Justice Department’s ap-
succeeded — at least for now. Mr. Flynn later struck a deal proach in cases not involving a
The case is “about whether, af- with prosecutors working for the
ter the government has explained special counsel, Robert S. Mueller
why a prosecution is no longer in III, to cooperate and plead guilty
the public interest, the district to one count of making a false A surprise 2-to-1 ruling
judge may prolong the prosecu- statement to the F.B.I. agents. The
tion by appointing an amicus, en- deal would resolve his liability for could face further
couraging public participation that crime as well as for failing to
and probing the government’s register as a paid foreign agent of judicial review.
motives,” wrote Judge Neomi Turkey in 2016 and then signing
Rao, a former White House official BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES forms in 2017 lying about the na-
whom Mr. Trump appointed to the Michael T. Flynn, the former national security adviser, twice pleaded guilty to lying to the F.B.I. ture of that work.
presidential favorite, fueling accu-
appeals court last year. But after Mr. Flynn twice sations of politicization. In partic-
She added, “On that, both the about other law enforcement deci- “does what Trump likes best, that seemed to signal skepticism pleaded guilty, he switched last ular, legal experts broadly dis-
Constitution and cases are clear: sions by and under Mr. Barr, Re- which is jeopardize the safe air about short-circuiting Judge Sulli- year to a new defense lawyer — puted his notion that the false
He may not.” publican lawmakers treated the and water of the American public van’s review. Ms. Powell — who began accusing statements were immaterial,
Judge Sullivan, who has a law- ruling as vindicating the attorney and give in to industry and profits A third judge on the panel, the F.B.I. and prosecutors of mis- since they bore on the broader
yer representing him in the ap- general’s claim that the Flynn and pollution. And she did a good Robert L. Wilkins, a 2014 appoint- conduct. After Judge Sullivan re- counterintelligence investigation
peals court, could ask the full case was unjust on the merits. job of it.” ee of President Barack Obama, jected her accusations as un- into whether Trump campaign of-
court to reverse the order. The full “We obviously know the Flynn Judge Rao’s decision not to per- dissented. He said Judge Sullivan founded late last year, Mr. Flynn ficials had coordinated with Rus-
court also could invoke a rarely charge was wrong as evidenced mit Judge Sullivan to scrutinize should be permitted to complete sought to withdraw his guilty plea. sia’s 2016 election interference.
used rule that permits it to order a by what happened today,” said the Justice Department request to his review of whether the prosecu- Mr. Barr then assigned an outside The outsider whom Judge Sulli-
rehearing on its own, without any Representative Jim Jordan, Re- withdraw the Flynn charge was tor’s actions were impermissible prosecutor to scour Mr. Flynn’s van had appointed to critique the
petition, if the judges deem the publican of Ohio. joined by Judge Karen L. Hender- before deciding whether to grant case file, turning over internal Justice Department motion —
matter to involve “a question of At the White House, Mr. Trump son, a 1990 appointee of President the motion to dismiss, citing the documents showing that the F.B.I. John Gleeson, a former federal
exceptional importance.” told reporters he was “very happy George Bush. unusual circumstances of the Jus- was aggressive in decisions relat- judge — had argued that its stated
The ruling turned on a technical about General Flynn,” adding: The fact that the two of them tice Department’s “abrupt rever- ed to questioning him. reasons for dropping the case
question — whether, as a legal “He’s been exonerated, and I want turned out to be on the panel had sal on the facts and the law” and Among other things, the docu- were baseless and a “pretext” for
matter, Judge Sullivan had the au- to congratulate him.” been seen as a good sign for Mr. the opacity of what happened. ments showed that the F.B.I. had an illegitimate political interven-
thority to scrutinize Mr. Barr’s But Representative Steve Co- Flynn because each has proved In a dissenting opinion, he said decided to close an investigation tion on behalf of a presidential fa-
motivation or had to acquiesce to hen, Democrat of Tennessee, more willing than the majority of his colleagues had made a series into whether Mr. Flynn was a Rus- vorite. He urged Judge Sullivan to
the Justice Department request called on the full appeals court to their colleagues to interpret the of mistakes that rendered a “dead sian agent before the issue of his instead sentence Mr. Flynn.
that he rubber-stamp dropping review the panel’s decision, argu- law in Mr. Trump’s favor in other letter” the portion of the rule of calls with the Russian ambassa- The Justice Department and
the case without reviewing the ing at the House hearing that politically charged cases, like dis- criminal procedure that says dor arose, at which point it used Ms. Powell have rejected that cri-
motion’s legitimacy. judges should be able to “look into putes over congressional subpoe- cases may only be dismissed with the fact that the inquiry remained tique, arguing that dismissal of
But at a House Judiciary Com- the executive branch when what nas for his financial records and a judge’s approval, or “leave of the open to interview him about the the case was warranted on the
mittee hearing titled “Political In- they do is not in the interest of jus- whether Congress may see secret court” — at least when the de- new concern. They also showed facts and that Judge Sullivan had
terference and Threats to Pros- tice.” grand-jury evidence from the fense and prosecution agree that a that James B. Comey, then the no authority to question the exec-
ecutorial Independence” on He also portrayed Judge Rao in Russia investigation. case should be dropped. F.B.I. director, violated bureau- utive branch’s decision not to
Wednesday, where two Justice political terms, noting that until But the ruling was nevertheless Instead, he argued, the law re- cratic protocol when he unilater- press forward with a prosecution.
Department officials testified she became a judge last year, she a surprise because both of them — quires that Judge Sullivan be per- ally sent agents to question Mr. Mr. Gleeson had been due to file a
had led a White House agency and Judge Henderson in particu- mitted to rule — and if Mr. Flynn Flynn, amid unfinished delibera- response to those rebuttals on
Katie Benner contributed report- that oversees regulations. Under lar — had asked many questions and the Justice Department do tions with the acting attorney gen- Wednesday before Judge Sullivan
ing. Mr. Trump, he said, that agency during oral arguments this month not like what he decides, they can eral about how to do it. suspended the proceedings.

In Blunt House Testimony,

Officials Say Politics Drove
Decisions on Barr’s Watch
This article is by Nicholas Fandos, sue a subpoena for his appear-
Katie Benner and Charlie Savage. ance. Seeking to further increase
Two Justice Department offi- pressure on the attorney general,
cials recounted to Congress in Representative Jerrold Nadler,
stinging detail on Wednesday how Democrat of New York and the
political appointees had inter- panel’s chairman, told reporters
vened in criminal and antitrust after the hearing that the commit-
cases to advance the personal in- tee “may very well” pursue im-
terests of President Trump and peachment proceedings against
Attorney General William P. Barr. Mr. Barr — a highly unlikely out-
Aaron S.J. Zelinsky, a prosecu- come given the political reality of
tor who worked on the Russia in- a fast-approaching election.
vestigation, told the House Judi- During the hearing, lawmakers
ciary Committee that senior law spent more time trying to argue
enforcement officials had stepped divergent political points about
in to overrule career prosecutors Mr. Barr, Mr. Trump and the inves-
and seek a more lenient prison tigations that have hung over his
sentence for Mr. Trump’s longtime presidency than they did eliciting
friend Roger J. Stone Jr. “because facts about the Justice Depart-
of politics.” ment from either witness.
“In the United States of Amer- “These are merely the symp-
ica, we do not prosecute people toms of an underlying disease,”
based on politics, and we don’t cut Mr. Nadler said in opening re-
them a break based on politics,” marks. “The sickness that we
said Mr. Zelinsky, who testified by must address is Mr. Barr’s use of
video because of the coronavirus the Department of Justice as a
pandemic. “But that wasn’t what weapon to serve the president’s
happened here. Roger Stone was petty, private interests.”
treated differently because of poli- Democrats turned frequently to ANNA MONEYMAKER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
tics.” a third witness, Donald B. Ayer,
who was deputy attorney general Aaron S. J. Zelinsky, onscreen, testified that senior officials treated a longtime friend of the president differently “because of politics.”
John W. Elias, a senior career
official in the antitrust division, under President George Bush and
charged that his supervisors im- warned that under Mr. Barr, the in protest from the Stone case af- Shea. place in the marijuana, or Mr. Delrahim “acknowledged at
properly used their powers to in- country was “on the way to some- ter political appointees overrode Mr. Zelinsky said that he was cannabis, industry” because the an all-staff meeting that the
vestigate the marijuana industry thing far worse than Watergate.” their recommendation that Mr. told that Mr. Shea “was receiving attorney general “did not like the cannabis industry is unpopular
and a deal between California and Republicans mounted an ag- Stone receive seven to nine years heavy pressure from the highest nature of their underlying busi- ‘on the fifth floor,’ a reference to
four major automakers at the be- gressive defense of Mr. Barr, rely- in prison, in line with standard levels of the Department of Jus- ness,” Mr. Elias said in written tes- Attorney General Barr’s offices.”
hest of Mr. Barr. He likened their ing on their witness, Michael B. sentencing guidelines. tice” and complied because he timony. The department’s Office of Pro-
efforts to burdensome har- Mukasey, who was attorney gen- Mr. Stone had been convicted of was “afraid of” Mr. Trump. At one Mr. Elias also said that the de- fessional Responsibility investi-
assment meant to punish compa- eral under President George W. committing seven felonies to im- point, he said, a supervisor in- partment began a review of four gated Mr. Elias’s concerns about
nies for decisions the attorney Bush, to try to deflate Democrats’ pede a congressional inquiry that structed him and other line pros- automakers the day after Mr. the reviews of mergers in the
general and the president op- arguments. threatened Mr. Trump. Mr. Zelin- ecutors that they could be fired if Trump said on Twitter that he was cannabis industry and deter-
posed. “The politics was in the previ- sky described a fraught battle be- they did not comply. enraged by the news that the com- mined that the division “acted rea-
“Personal dislike of the indus- ous administration,” said Repre- tween the career prosecutors Under questioning by Mr. Jor- panies would adhere to higher fuel sonably and appropriately,” ac-
try is not a valid basis upon which sentative Jim Jordan of Ohio, the working the case and their superi- dan, Mr. Zelinsky identified J.P. emissions standards than the fed- cording to an email sent to the di-
to ground an antitrust investiga- top committee Republican. “Bill ors that spilled into public the day Cooney, the chief of the fraud and eral government demands. vision and obtained by The New
tion,” Mr. Elias said of the Barr is doing the Lord’s work try- after prosecutors made their re- public corruption section in the Under questioning by Repre- York Times.
cannabis cases. ing to clean it up so that it doesn’t quest, when Mr. Trump attacked it U.S. attorney’s office for the Dis- sentative David Cicilline, Demo- The office also found that given
The two accounts painted a happen again.” on Twitter as unjust. trict of Columbia, as one of the su- crat of Rhode Island and chair- the “unique challenge” that the
damning portrait of the Justice Republicans worked with the Later that day, the department pervisors who told him what was man of the panel’s antitrust sub- nascent cannabis industry posed
Department under Mr. Barr, made Justice Department to undermine submitted a new, more lenient rec- happening, but said there were at committee, Mr. Elias said he was for federal and state regulators,
all the more remarkable given the credibility of Mr. Zelinsky and ommendation to the judge decid- least two others. Democrats must “not aware” of any evidence at the the department reasonably
that the witnesses were both still Mr. Elias, who they pointed out ing what punishment to impose. now decide whether to try to seek time that the investigation would sought out additional information
department employees. They had previously sought an assign- Mr. Zelinsky testified that su- testimony from Mr. Cooney. have served the public, and that it from the industry.
could increase pressure on Mr. ment working with Democrats on pervisors had openly discussed Mr. Stone was ultimately sen- was clear throughout that the au- Republicans drew heavily on
Barr to further explain decisions the committee. the intervention to shorten the tenced to 40 months in prison and tomakers “had clear legal de- that report to undercut his ac-
related to criminal cases involving A department spokeswoman, recommendation as motivated by ordered to begin serving is sen- fenses for what they were doing.” count. In defending Mr. Barr, they
Mr. Trump’s associates and the Kerri Kupec, said in a statement “political reasons” even though tence by June 30. He has asked a In Mr. Elias’s account, the mari- also frequently cited a ruling on
abrupt firing of the top federal that Mr. Barr determined that the one supervisor agreed that doing judge to grant him a two-month juana industry reviews consumed Wednesday by a divided appeals
prosecutor in Manhattan, who sentencing recommendation for so “was unethical and wrong.” He reprieve because of the pandemic, the antitrust division, making up court panel that ordered the dis-
had overseen some of the investi- Mr. Stone was “excessive and in- said they also pressured him to and on Wednesday the judge or- nearly a third of all of its cases in missal of the case against Michael
gations into Trump allies. consistent with similar cases.” mischaracterize trial testimony dered Justice Department offi- the fiscal year that ended in Sep- T. Flynn, Mr. Trump’s former na-
Not long after the hearing got She said Mr. Barr did not discuss and play down Mr. Stone’s miscon- cials to report to her on its policies tember. He said that staff objected tional security adviser. The ruling
underway, the Justice Depart- intervening in the case with the duct so the department could rec- for dealing with such requests. to the numerous requests for in- could be appealed.
ment announced that Mr. Barr president or anyone at the White ommend a lighter sentence. Mr. Elias’s account of the an- formation that the department Mr. Barr had ordered that case
had agreed to appear himself be- House. And she added that Mr. Days before the intervention, titrust division more directly tied sent to the companies, in large dropped last month even though
fore the panel on July 28. Demo- Zelinsky’s testimony was “based Mr. Barr had maneuvered the what he viewed as improper ac- part because they were seen as Mr. Flynn had twice pleaded
crats had been threatening to is- on his own interpretation of Senate-confirmed U.S. attorney tions by Mr. Barr. harassing and burdensome. guilty to lying to the F.B.I. about
events and hearsay (at best), not for the District of Columbia, Jessie “At the direction of Attorney Mr. Elias, who served as chief of phone calls with the Russian am-
firsthand knowledge.” K. Liu, out of her role and tempo- General Barr, the antitrust divi- staff to Makan Delrahim, the head bassador — another move that
Sharon LaFraniere contributed re- Mr. Zelinsky was among four rarily installed in her place a close sion launched 10 full-scale re- of the antitrust division, said that critics of Mr. Barr have portrayed
porting. career prosecutors who withdrew aide from his own office, Timothy views of merger activity taking during a meeting in September, as favoritism to a presidential ally.
A16 N THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2020

The 45th President The Agenda

In Milestone for Trump,

laws, that disproportionately ing that most of the major, binding
harm minority voters, and he has court rulings occur at that level
shown a pattern of dismissing le- since the Supreme Court hears a
gitimate concerns from voting relatively small number of cases.

G.O.P. Fills Last Vacancy rights groups,” Senators Chuck

Schumer of New York, Dianne
Feinstein of California and Amy
Carl W. Tobias, a law professor
at the University of Richmond
School of Law, said it was the first

On Circuit Court Benches Klobuchar of Minnesota, wrote to

Mr. McConnell.
“Appointing someone to the
time since the Reagan administra-
tion that there were no vacancies
among the 179 appellate judge-
By CARL HULSE son. The Senate’s confirmation of Fifth Circuit who refers to the con- ships authorized by Congress. He
200 judges since 2017, he said, is cerns of African-American citi- noted that the aggressive push by
The Senate on Wednesday con- the Trump White House and Sen-
firmed Cory T. Wilson of Missis- the highest total in a president’s zens and community advocates
regarding the effects of voter ID ate Republicans had shifted the
sippi to a New Orleans-based cir- first term since President Jimmy
laws as ‘poppycock’ is a slap in the makeup of three circuits from a
cuit court over united Democratic Carter.
face to black Americans at a time majority of judges nominated by
opposition, handing President “The seat we are voting to fill is Democrats to a majority nomi-
Trump the 200th federal judicial actually the last remaining circuit when our country is working to
take steps forward on racial jus- nated by Republicans. The effort
confirmation of his tenure and court vacancy at this time, reflect- TOM WILLIAMS/CQ-ROLL CALL, VIA GETTY IMAGES had also added to the existing ma-
achieving a Republican goal of fill- ing the remarkable progress we tice, not backwards,” the Demo-
In a 52-48 vote, the Senate confirmed Judge Cory T. Wilson of jority of Republican-nominated
ing every appeals court opening have made in rebuilding the fed- crats wrote.
Mississippi to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans. judges on other circuits and in-
by the end of the year. eral judiciary,” Mr. Wicker added. Democrats also faulted Judge
creased conservative representa-
In winning Senate approval, Under Senator Mitch McCon- Wilson for his opposition to the Af- tion on the liberal Ninth Circuit on
Judge Wilson, a conservative nell, Republican of Kentucky and lose re-election or they could lose posting a glossy video on Twitter fordable Care Act, saying he and the West Coast, he said.
state court judge and former Mis- the majority leader, Senate Re- their Senate majority, eliminating celebrating the “new milestone in another appeals court judge con- It is possible that more vacan-
sissippi legislator, became the publicans have prioritized con- their iron grip on the confirmation reshaping the courts,” underscor- firmed last week, Judge Justin cies could still occur this year, and
53rd federal appeals court judge firming conservative judges over process. ing that the majority leader con- Walker of Kentucky, were being Republicans have indicated they
installed by Mr. Trump and ce- considering legislation in the “Following Number 200, when siders his impact on the courts to placed on the courts to help unrav- would move to fill them despite an
mented a milestone in a judicial sharply divided chamber, since we depart this chamber today, be his crowning achievement. el the law. informal tradition of suspending
legacy that has reshaped the fed- nominations can be advanced there will not be a single circuit Before the vote, Democrats un- But a series of changes to Sen- judicial confirmations late in an
eral courts during his administra- with no support from minority court vacancy anywhere in the successfully called on Mr. McCon- ate rules since 2013 have essen- election year.
tion, including putting in place two Democrats. nation for the first time in at least nell to pull the nomination from tially eliminated the ability of the More than 70 Federal District
Supreme Court justices. Republi- Mr. McConnell even adopted an 40 years,” Mr. McConnell said on the floor, saying that Judge Wilson minority to hold up judicial nomi- Court vacancies remain. The pace
cans lauded the achievement. The informal slogan to characterize Wednesday, repeating the statis- was a shameful choice at the cur- nations, a significant factor in em- of filling them has moved more
vote was 52-48. the effort: Leave no vacancy be- tic for emphasis. “It’s a victory for rent moment because of his powering Republicans to push slowly because home-state Demo-
“This will be a historic moment hind. This year, Republicans have the rule of law and for the Consti- record on voting rights, among through hundreds of new federal crats still have influence over
for this body and for the adminis- stepped up their efforts to confirm tution itself.” other objections. judges despite deep Democratic those choices, complicating ef-
tration,” said Senator Roger as many of Mr. Trump’s judicial Mr. McConnell’s staff lost little “Judge Wilson has been an ar- opposition to most of them. forts by the Trump administration
Wicker, Republican of Mississippi, nominees as possible before No- time in declaring the achievement dent supporter of restrictive vot- Republicans purposefully fo- to win swift confirmation of their
a strong supporter of Judge Wil- vember, when the president could a victory for him as well, quickly ing measures, including voter ID cused on the appeals courts, say- preferred candidates.

Senators Press C.I.A. Watchdog Nominee on Whether He Can Work Independently

By JULIAN E. BARNES about the complaint, touching off ate of any “significant com- gence officials, adding to the con-
WASHINGTON — The Senate a fight between the House Intelli- plaints” his office received. cerns in the Senate, particularly
Intelligence Committee on gence Committee and the White “We will ask difficult and prob- among Democrats.
Wednesday sharply questioned House. Mr. Trump fired Mr. Atkin- ing questions of you and your The independence of the Trump
the Trump administration’s nomi- son in April. staff, and we will expect honest, administration’s inspectors gen-
nee to be the C.I.A.’s inspector Mr. King, who usually votes complete and timely answers,” eral “is under grave threat,” said
general, amid concern that the with the Democrats, chastised Mr. Mr. Rubio said. Senator Mark Warner, the Virgin-
White House’s purge of govern- Thomson for not directly answer- Mr. Thomson’s confirmation, ia Democrat who serves as the
ment watchdogs has threatened ing a question from Senator Susan for now, appears likely. The Re- vice chairman of the Intelligence
their ability to function independ- Collins, Republican of Maine, publicans who control the com- Committee.
ently. about whether the Ukraine whis- mittee were supportive of his can- “We have seen the president at-
In normal times, the nomina- tle-blower complaint should have tack without justification the
tion of a conservative white shoe gone to Congress. brave women and men of the intel-
lawyer to be the government “Don’t tell me you don’t know all ligence community, simply be-
watchdog for the nation’s top spy the facts,” Mr. King said. “We A job gains new cause they were doing what all
agency would be a dull, pro forma Americans expected of them:
affair. But both the administra-
know the essential facts, you
know what the complaint was.
importance amid a telling truth to power,” Mr. Warner
said. “This is because for this
tion’s moves to oust various in-
spectors general and the partisan
Should that have been forwarded purge in Washington. president, the truth is very often
TOM WILLIAMS/CQ-ROLL CALL, VIA GETTY IMAGES to Congress? Yes or no?”
division over a C.I.A. officer’s unwelcome.”
whistle-blower complaint that led
Peter M. Thomson, a defense lawyer and former federal prosecu- While Mr. Thomson again
Mr. Thomson is a defense law-
tor, has been nominated to be the C.I.A.’s inspector general. sidestepped the question, Senator
to President Trump’s impeach- didacy, and Mr. Rubio said he yer at the New Orleans law firm
Tom Cotton, Republican of Arkan- Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann.
ment loomed over the nomination wanted to move quickly to a vote.
sas, stepped in to say the com- He spent much of his career as a
of Peter M. Thomson to become cumb to any pressure, real or per- Ukraine drew a sharp rebuke by But the questions over the
the spy agency’s government plaint should not have been sent federal prosecutor. While a serv-
ceived. Senator Angus King, independent Trump administration’s treat-
watchdog. to Capitol Hill. ing as an assistant United States
“Independence, in my view, of Maine. ment of government watchdogs
The job has been open for more means the work of the inspector “You are not helping yourself by While Mr. Cotton took a strong attorney, he was detailed, for a
remain.
than five years, since David Buck- general must be performed in an obfuscating and avoiding these stand against informing Con- time, to the National Security
In addition to firing Mr. Atkin-
ley stepped down from the posi- unbiased or impartial manner, questions,” Mr. King said. gress, most committee members Agency, where he provided legal
son, the administration has re-
tion near the end of the Obama ad- free of undue or inappropriate in- The whistle-blower could have of both parties used their ques- moved the State Department in- advice related to signals intelli-
ministration. Mr. Trump’s first fluences,” he said. gone to the C.I.A. inspector gener- tions to get Mr. Thomson to pledge spector general and ousted the gence.
pick for the post languished in the But his attempt to dodge ques- al’s office, even though the post to inform Congress about intelli- acting Pentagon inspector gen- Mr. Trump’s first choice for the
Republican-controlled Senate. tions about Mr. Trump’s attacks on was vacant, but chose instead to gence investigations he was con- eral who was overseeing coro- post, Christopher R. Sharpley,
In April, the Trump administra- the intelligence community and go to Michael K. Atkinson, the in- ducting. navirus relief funds, leading to quit as acting inspector general in
tion nominated Mr. Thomson, a his assertion that he did not have telligence community inspector Senator Marco Rubio, the Flor- broad concerns about oversight of 2018 after he did not get a vote in
lawyer from New Orleans who all the facts about the handling of general at the time. Mr. Atkinson, ida Republican who leads the the executive branch. The admin- the Senate over his handling of
told lawmakers on Wednesday the whistle-blower complaint against the advice of the Justice committee, made Mr. Thomson istration has also over the past whistle-blower complaints from
that he would not be bullied or suc- about Mr. Trump’s dealings with Department, informed Congress promise he would inform the Sen- year fired a string of senior intelli- former C.I.A. employees.

New York City, ‘Running Out of Options,’

Could Lay Off 22,000, de Blasio Warns
By DANA RUBINSTEIN M.T.A.” mission.
and CHRISTINA GOLDBAUM Mr. de Blasio described the lay- Harry Nespoli was laid off from
Mayor Bill de Blasio and other offs and furloughs as a potentially his job at the Sanitation Depart-
top officials warned on Wednes- necessary move in light of sub- ment in 1975. Now he leads the
day that the coronavirus pan- stantial budgetary shortfalls Municipal Labor Committee, a co-
demic was putting tremendous brought about by the pandemic’s alition of about 110 city unions.
stress on the finances of govern- steep reduction in business activi- He has been in talks with City
ment in New York City, raising the ty. Hall for more than a month to find
prospect that they might have to As the pandemic has continued savings and said the timing of Mr.
carry out cuts in infrastructure to paralyze New York’s economy, de Blasio’s announcement on
spending and some of the most the administration’s estimates of Wednesday was unhelpful.
sweeping layoffs of municipal its own budget shortfalls have “What performance does the
workers in decades. continued to rise, forcing the city mayor expect to get from his work
The bleak financial picture to plan for spending cuts in nu- force now?” Mr. Nespoli said.
threatens to hamper New York’s merous areas. The mayor said the While criminal justice advo-
recovery even as it emerges from administration was now looking cates have called for a $1 billion
a brutal lockdown that shut down for another $1 billion in savings. cut to the New York Police Depart-
businesses and brought the city to Mr. de Blasio said he was talk- ment’s budget, they would like to
a virtual halt for three months af- ing with municipal labor unions in see that funding distributed else-
the hope of finding savings that where, not eliminated from the
ter it became the epicenter of the
budget entirely.
U.S. pandemic. would forestall layoffs from a city
“We’re often told we can only
The alarms from New York offi- work force that numbered 326,000
get jobs or justice,” said Antho- BRYAN R. SMITH/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES
cials reflect a broader political by the end of 2019, according to
strategy — threatening deep cuts
nine Pierre, deputy director of the Mayor Bill de Blasio said the pandemic may deplete New York’s tax revenue by up to $9 billion.
Brooklyn Movement Center, via
as part of their effort to pressure
text. “The hard work of the mayor
Washington to provide more as- vastly inaccessible subway sys- in emergency federal funds. The “Without federal funding, they
is to figure out how to provide
sistance. And New York City’s The M.T.A. pauses its both.”
tem. agency projects that it is facing a have to resort to options that in-
predicament speaks to the dire fis- But after revenue used to keep $10 billion deficit over the next clude opening the capital lock-
cal situation of states and local- capital plan, citing a Mr. de Blasio has sought au-
thority from Albany to take on
the system running from fares, two years. box.”
ities across the nation. tolls and dedicated taxes vanished On Wednesday, transit officials Delays to already overdue up-
With the coronavirus siphoning fiscal ‘four-alarm fire.’ debt for operating costs, though
almost overnight because of the said that they are also considering grades outlined in the capital pro-
state legislators have seemed re-
as much as $9 billion in tax reve- luctant to grant it. Some inter- pandemic, the future of the project job cuts, service reductions, and gram risk eroding service over
nue from New York City, Mr. de preted his announcement as a was thrown into uncertainty. fare and toll increases in order to the long term. Years of disinvest-
Blasio said on Wednesday that the means by which to exert leverage “The simple fact is that the capi- weather the financial crisis in the ment after the 2008 recession
the Citizens Budget Commission.
city might have to lay off or fur- on Albany legislators to take ac- tal program of the M.T.A. is frozen years to come. plunged the system into such dis-
That includes an expansion of
lough 22,000 municipal workers nearly 30,000 during Mr. de Bla- tion. because of uncertainty about how As a stopgap measure to ensure repair that Gov. Andrew M.
this fall. sio’s administration, said Andrew On Wednesday, the mayor sug- much money is going to be avail- trains continued to run, New York Cuomo declared it to be in a state
“We are running out of options Rein, the commission’s president. gested that it would be foolish to able,” said Janno Lieber, head of lawmakers allowed the M.T.A. to of emergency in 2017.
here,” the mayor said. “That is the Mr. Rein noted that Mr. de Bla- hold out for further relief from the authority’s capital construc- borrow money to pay for operat- “Momentary cuts in invest-
blunt truth.” sio will have to grapple with even Washington lawmakers. tion. The suspension of the plan ing costs — an option Albany ments — especially in an old sys-
The same morning, the state- more significant budget shortfalls “For weeks and weeks, we all was first reported by The City. seems unwilling to offer City Hall. tem that needs state of good re-
run transit agency announced in future years, even if he does had the hope that there would be a At the same time, the agency’s Albany has also allowed the pair investment — have dramatic
that it would suspend its much- find $1 billion in labor savings. He federal stimulus plan by now,” Mr. plan to carry out the country’s M.T.A. to use funds it had set aside long-term consequences,” Mr.
heralded $54 billion plan to mod- also argued that the city could find de Blasio said. “It’s quite clear first congestion pricing plan — for system modernization for op- Lieber said.
ernize the city’s antiquated trans- labor savings in ways that do not that’s not happening.” which would charge people driv- erating expenses. So far, the au- Over the last four years, sub-
portation system. entail layoffs, including by operat- The M.T.A.’s sweeping capital ing into the busiest parts of Man- thority has not dipped into that way service has improved. But if
The move came as the Metro- ing more efficiently and consoli- program, the largest in the transit hattan — has stalled in the face of funding, which would total around the system slips back into decay, it
politan Transportation Authority, dating union welfare funds. agency’s history, was hailed as a federal inaction on environmental $950 million. But shelving the cap- could hamper the M.T.A.’s ability
which oversees the city’s subway The city hasn’t seen layoffs much-needed transformation of review guidance. The revenue ital program indefinitely suggests to lure back riders as the city re-
and buses, pushed for $3.9 billion since 2012, when City Hall laid off the century-old system after from that proposal was supposed that transit officials plan to do so if awakens and could hurt the re-
in federal emergency funds to fewer than 1,000 employees, the years of disinvestment had to support the M.T.A.’s moderniza- the agency does not receive an- gion’s economic recovery.
help the agency survive the crisis. commission said. plunged it into disrepair. tion plan, too. other federal bailout. “The future of New York hinges
“To be clear, this is a four-alarm When the city was on the brink It includes installing modern In March, the authority re- “This is not hyperbole: The on the subway, and the future of
fire,” said Patrick J. Foye, chair- of insolvency in the 1970s, its work subway signals, purchasing more ceived a nearly $4 billion federal M.T.A.’s projected losses are cata- the nation hinges on New York,”
man of the M.T.A., on Wednesday. force declined by 20 percent, or than 1,900 new subway cars and bailout to cover initial revenue strophic,” said Rachael Fauss, a said Danny Pearlstein, a spokes-
“We are facing the most acute fi- 45,000 full-time employees, over 500 electric buses and adding ele- loss, and transit officials have lob- senior research analyst at Re- man for the Riders Alliance, a
nancial crisis in the history of the three years, according to the com- vators to 70 stations across the bied for an additional $3.9 billion invent Albany, a watchdog group. grass-roots organization.
 THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2020 N A17

Election

Unable to Undercut Biden, Trump Trains Fire on Trust in Voting by Mail

This article is by Maggie Ha- “President Trump and Vice
berman, Nick Corasaniti and Linda President Biden have both ques-
Qiu. tioned the integrity of our elec-
President Trump is stepping up tions recently without citing evi-
his attacks on the integrity of the dence, and they both need to stop
election system, sowing doubts it,” Mr. LaRose said in a state-
about the November vote at a time ment.
when the pandemic has upended Voter fraud, in all forms, is ex-
normal balloting and as polls tremely rare, according to numer-
show former Vice President Jo- ous independent studies and gov-
seph R. Biden Jr. ahead by large ernment reviews. While mail-in
margins. voting is less secure than voting in
Having yet to find an effective person, fraud remains statis-
formula for undercutting Mr. Bi- tically tiny.
den or to lure him into the kinds of A database of proven election
culture war fights that the presi- fraud cases maintained by the
dent prefers, Mr. Trump is train- Heritage Foundation, a conserva-
ing more of his fire on the political tive think tank, includes 206 cases
process in a way that appears in- that involved “fraudulent use of
tended to give him the option of absentee ballots” from 1991 to this
raising doubts about the legitima- year. The Times was unable to find
cy of the outcome. any news reports or instances of
Promoting baseless questions mail carriers being held up over
about election fraud is nothing mail-in ballots. It would be a fed-
new for Mr. Trump. He has hop- eral crime to do so.
scotched from saying that Presi- California has been a particular
dent Barack Obama was elected focus of Mr. Trump’s ire, featuring
with the help of dead voters to in six false attacks, but the battle-
suggesting that undocumented ground states of Michigan and Ne-
immigrants were voting en masse vada have earned nods, as well.
to claiming that out-of-state vot- He has inaccurately claimed
ers were bused into New Hamp- that “anybody in California that’s
shire in 2016. breathing gets a ballot,” including
But in recent days, Mr. Trump “people that aren’t citizens, ille-
has focused intensive new attacks gals.” State officials will mail bal-
on voting by mail, as states grap- lots to active registered voters
ple with the challenge of conduct- ERIN SCHAFF/THE NEW YORK TIMES
only.
ing elections in the middle of surg- He wrongly claimed that Neva-
ing coronavirus cases in many President Trump said on Tuesday, without evidence, that this would be “the most corrupt election in the history of our country.” da and Michigan had “illegally”
parts of the country. sent absentee ballots to voters,
On Tuesday, Mr. Trump de- Biden supporters in six battle- ers’ confidence in our elections,” “rigging” the election through November election results that he and threatened to withhold fed-
clared, without offering any evi- ground states strongly or some- said Wendy R. Weiser, the director mail-in voting, and has claimed may not like,” Mr. Padilla said. eral funding should they not re-
dence, that the 2020 election “will what support mail-in voting, while of the Democracy Program at the four times that Republicans are at Mr. Hasen said that Mr. Trump’s scind the policy, though he did not
be, in my opinion, the most cor- 72 percent of Mr. Trump’s support- Brennan Center for Justice, a non- a disadvantage when mail-in bal- denigration of by-mail voting puts have the authority to do so.
rupt election in the history of our ers strongly or somewhat oppose partisan think tank. “If you are ril- lots are used or are not sent mail- into focus scenarios that Demo- More recently, Mr. Trump has
country, and we cannot let this it. ing up supporters into a state of in ballots at all. crats are increasingly worried seized upon the idea that foreign
happen.” Justin Clark, the senior counsel anger over the legitimacy of the Election officials on both sides about, like Mr. Trump declaring countries could simply print bal-
Mail-in ballots, he said, refer- to the Trump campaign, defended election, they might actually take of the aisle lamented the presi- victory in specific states based on lots on their own, repeating the
ring to conspiracy theories, could the president’s words. He said steps to try to suppress votes and dent’s attacks are making their Election Day tallies, when absen- claim four times this week without
be stolen from carriers, counter- that Mr. Trump was voicing legiti- to undermine the actual legiti- jobs harder. tee ballot totals could shift the re- providing evidence.
feited or forged by either forces in- mate concerns about how many mate running of the election.” Kim Wyman, the Republican sults days later. Election officials and experts
side the United States or by “for- people would have their hands on The unfounded conspiracy the- secretary of state of Washington Already, 34 states and Washing- have widely rejected this idea as
eign powers who don’t want to see ballots with broad mail-in voting, ories, some officials said, were no State, which conducts its elections ton, D.C., offer no-excuse absen- nearly impossible, noting that bal-
Trump win.” adding, “This is all in the context different from the kind of toxic almost entirely by mail, pointed to tee ballots — including battle- lots are printed on very specific
“There is tremendous evidence of a broad democratic push to confusion that Russia and other the difficulty of fielding enough ground states like Wisconsin, stock and often have specific
of fraud whenever you have mail- nations have sought to inject into workers to count ballots safely Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania tracking systems like bar codes.
in ballots,” Mr. Trump claimed American politics. during the pandemic or work at and Arizona — so even without ex- “It’s so much more difficult than
during an appearance in Arizona, the state’s few in-person voting tra measures introduced in re- a cyberattack. You’d not only have
“It is misinformation and disin-
a statement that has no basis in
the experience of the states that
Dozens of false claims formation, and it’s no different sites. sponse to the pandemic, voters to attack the printer, you’d have to
than foreign adversaries and cy- In California, Alex Padilla, the are likely to utilize mail-in ballots get information from the jurisdic-
give voters the option of voting by about mail-in ballots berhackers spewing info about an Democratic secretary of state, at a much greater rate than previ- tion and get voter registration in-
mail. said that the president was under- ously. formation,” said Lawrence Nor-
Mr. Trump has made five dozen as a pandemic rages. election process,” said Amber
McReynolds, a former election of- mining confidence in the election Frank LaRose, the Republican den of the Brennan Center. “You’d
false claims about mail balloting for his own political benefit. secretary of state of Ohio, who have to have some way of mailing
ficial from Colorado and the cur-
since April, as officials in various “What he’s trying to do is abso- took issue with Mr. Biden when he the ballots from an address and
states began contemplating the rent chief executive of the Na-
tional Vote at Home Institute, lutely clear: He is not just seeking said that he feared Mr. Trump was get the signature of the voter. It
need for expanded use of the op- greatly expand vote by mail four
which promotes voting by mail. to undermine the confidence in trying to “steal” the election, would be an exceptionally difficult
tion amid the pandemic. months before the general elec-
Richard L. Hasen, an election the election, but confidence in the called for an end to such attacks. attack.”
About a third of the president’s tion.”
falsehoods were general warn- The president’s supporters law expert and a professor at the
ings about widespread fraud in have already shown that they are University of California, Irvine,
mail-in voting. Another 11 were taking his assertions to heart. In said that unlike the president’s
specific claims about held-up mail Michigan, voters began to burn false claims about in-person vot-
carriers, stolen and forged ballots their absentee ballot applications ing, there have been sporadic
and dead people voting. that were sent to them by the state problems with mail-in voting, giv-
Figures released Wednesday in an act of protest. In Alabama ing Mr. Trump a kernel of truth on
from a New York Times/Siena and Kansas, state legislatures which to build an indictment of the
College survey of battleground- have started to pull back from ex- entire system.
state voters showed that 61 per- panded vote-by-mail initiatives. “The shift has been to mail-in
cent strongly or somewhat sup- The president’s attacks on vot- balloting,” Mr. Hasen said of Mr.
port allowing all voters to use ing by mail stirred widespread Trump’s comments, “and this is
mail-in ballots if necessary, while concern from current and former especially dangerous now be-
37 percent strongly or somewhat election officials and election ex- cause everything about our elec-
oppose it. perts. tions is being upended by the vi-
But the poll also suggested that “His comments are exceedingly rus.”
Mr. Trump’s message was getting damaging to democracy, to Amer- The president has directly ac-
through to his base: 88 percent of ica’s standing in the world, to vot- cused Democrats five times of

Democratic Convention Will Downsize

By REID J. EPSTEIN
WASHINGTON — The Demo-
cratic National Convention will
move out of Milwaukee’s profes-
sional basketball arena, and state
delegations are being urged not to
travel to the city because of con-
cerns about the coronavirus pan-
demic, party officials said
Wednesday.
Former Vice President Joseph
R. Biden Jr. still intends to travel
to Milwaukee to accept his party’s
presidential nomination, his cam-
paign manager said, but neither
his campaign nor the Democratic
National Committee have made
firm commitments that Mr. Biden
will attend.
KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES
The Democratic convention will
be “anchored” in Milwaukee, but The Democratic National Convention will move five blocks from
the four-night mid-August event
will “include both live broadcasts
the 17,000-seat Fiserv Forum to the Wisconsin Center, above. American master
and curated content from Milwau-
kee and other satellite cities, loca-
need for a production footprint or have been an enormous celebra- william merritt chase
what social distancing require- tion of Mr. Biden and the party’s
tions and landmarks across the
country,” according to a news re-
ments will be in place when the efforts to oust Mr. Trump. A sur- Important artist. American
lease. convention begins on Aug. 17. vey of D.N.C. members last month Impressionism. Brilliant
And while Mr. Biden’s cam- found the vast majority of them seascape . The landscapes of
The announcement that the
paign insists he is planning to at- did not want to attend an in-per- William Merritt Chase are among
convention will move five blocks
tend, they have yet to make a firm son convention, citing health risks the greatest achievements of
from the 17,000-seat Fiserv Forum
commitment. from the pandemic.
to the Wisconsin Center, Milwau- American Impressionism, and
kee’s convention center, stands in “Vice President Biden intends All of the convention’s official
business — setting its rules, this original oil depicting the
contrast to the plans being made to proudly accept his party’s sun-bathed California coast is no
by Republicans, who at the behest adopting a platform and formally
nominating Mr. Biden and his run- exception. A rarity in his body
of President Trump moved the
venue for his nomination accept- ning mate — will be conducted re- of work and completed just two
ance speech from Charlotte, N.C., Same city, but in a motely, party officials said.
Convention organizers have
years before his death, it is one
of only a handful of paintings the
to Jacksonville, Fla., where local
officials have required fewer smaller venue, with added two epidemiologists, W. Ian artist composed in California. Signed (lower left). Circa 1914.
safety precautions, even as cases Lipkin of Columbia University Canvas: 25”h x 19”w; Frame: 34”h x 281/4”w. #31-1382
of the virus continue to surge in fewer delegates. and Larry Brilliant, who is known
Florida. for his work eradicating smallpox,
The news came as the United to advise officials on public health
States reported the highest single- precautions at the convention.
nomination in Milwaukee,” said Organizers also announced
day total of new coronavirus cases
Jen O’Malley Dillon, Mr. Biden’s they had canceled all official par-
since late April.
It remains unclear how many campaign manager. “The city of ties and events that were to take
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A18 N THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2020

Election

Republican
Prevails,
Keeping Seat
Held by Collins
By JESSE McKINLEY
Chris Jacobs, a Republican
state senator, won a special
House election on Tuesday in
Western New York, maintaining
his party’s hold on a seat last oc-
cupied by Chris Collins, who re-
signed just before pleading guilty
to federal insider trading
charges.
Mr. Jacobs, 53, had banked his
campaign on the popularity of
President Trump, who endorsed
him; Mr. Trump’s son, Donald
Trump Jr., had also recorded a
robocall for Mr. Jacobs, the for-
mer Erie County clerk.
That proved more than enough
to dispatch Nate McMurray, the
Democratic candidate, who was
waging his second battle for the
27th Congressional District. Mr.
McMurray, a lawyer and former DESIREE RIOS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES AL J. THOMPSON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES GABRIELA BHASKAR FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Fulbright scholar, had narrowly Jamaal Bowman is leading Representative Eliot L. Mondaire Jones is ahead of six rivals vying for Repre- Ritchie Torres, a city councilman, is in the lead for
lost in 2018 against Mr. Collins, an Engel in parts of the Bronx and Westchester County. sentative Nita Lowey’s seat in the Hudson Valley. Representative José E. Serrano’s seat in the Bronx.
early endorser of Mr. Trump. The
Associated Press called the race
at 12:39 a.m. on Wednesday.
Mr. McMurray had been con-
sidered a long shot in the district,
a largely rural and suburban col-
Insurgent Wave Upends House Primaries in New York
considering the battles over vote Dekker, a six-term Democrat. In
lection of towns between Buffalo
counts even before the coro- Astoria, Zohran Mamdani, a dem-
and Rochester where Mr. Trump
won easily in 2016, and where
Three progressive Democrats with big leads navirus, like last year’s contested ocratic socialist, was beating Ar-
election for district attorney in avella Simotas, an assemblywom-
there are 40,000 more Republican
voters than Democrats.
are mirroring Ocasio-Cortez’s rise in 2018. Queens. an from Astoria since 2011.
Martin Connor, an election law- In Westchester County, two as-
Mr. Jacobs won despite misgiv- This article is by Jesse McKinley, fully counted for at least a week. yer and former state senator, said semblymen, Steven Otis and
ings among some Republicans Luis Ferré-Sadurní and Dana Ru- That means close races may the pandemic would present Thomas J. Abinanti, were also
that he was too moderate for the binstein. stay in limbo till July. One such daunting logistical issues for the trailing their opponents.
district. Since winning the Re- contest involves another veteran New York City Board of Elections. The big night for progressives
Candidates from the Democrat-
publican nomination in January, Democratic incumbent, Repre- The board would need to ensure was hailed by liberal groups like
ic Party’s left wing held significant
Mr. Jacobs had cast himself as a sentative Carolyn Maloney, who social distancing during the the Working Families Party and
leads in three marquee House pri-
close adherent to the president’s had a slight lead over Suraj Patel, counting process, while allowing political action committees like
maries in New York after Tues-
policies, promising secure bor- day’s machine ballot count, in a who ran against her in 2018. Representative campaigns to have representa- Justice Democrats, which had
ders, strong Second Amendment profound show of progressive po- Still, early returns seemed to José E. Serrano, tives — or watchers — present to jointly spent more than $1 million
protections and an end to sanctu- confirm that the liberal wave that a three-decade incumbent oversee the vote counts. on Mr. Bowman’s behalf. On
litical power.
ary cities. elected Ms. Ocasio-Cortez to Con- “It’s an extraordinary number Wednesday, the two groups were
One of the contests could lead to
Mr. McMurray, 45, had minimal gress in 2018 has continued to of absentee ballots,” he said. “And declaring victory, and sending
the unseating of an entrenched
help from establishment Demo- build momentum. we’ve never had this in the history warning signals, to more main-
leader: Representative Eliot L.
crats: The Democratic Congres- Ms. Ocasio-Cortez had faced a of this state.” stream Democrats, including the
Engel, chairman of the House For-
sional Campaign Committee had primary challenge herself but Though more than 700,000 vot- party’s presumptive presidential
eign Affairs Committee, was
little involvement in Mr. McMur- swept it aside easily, even as like- ers in New York City were sent ab- nominee, Joseph R. Biden Jr.
badly trailing Jamaal Bowman, an
ray’s bid until late in the cam- minded candidates — embracing sentee ballots, not all of them are “The future of the Democratic
insurgent candidate from Yon-
paign, paying for a mailing and a her call for a Green New Deal and expected to be returned. Many Party looks a lot more like A.O.C.
kers.
digital ad. Medicaid for All, among other voters might not have received and Jamaal than Joe Biden,” said
If Mr. Engel, who has served in them in time, might have failed to Waleed Shahid, the communica-
Nor did any of the state’s A-list policies — showed electoral mus-
Congress for more than 30 years, mail them in, or might have voted tions director for the Justice Dem-
Democrats spend any political cle.
were to lose, it would echo a simi- in person instead. ocrats. “Biden knows that if he en-
capital on the race, including Gov. That strength was perhaps
lar upset in 2018, when Alexandria So far, the city’s Board of Elec- ters the White House in 2021, he
most evident in the 16th Congres- Representative
Andrew M. Cuomo, a third-term Ocasio-Cortez defeated Joseph tions had received about 12 per- won’t be governing with the same
sional District, which includes
Democrat, who did not endorse Crowley, then the No. 4 House
parts of the Bronx and Westches-
Nita Lowey, cent of the absentee ballots that Congress from 2009.”
Mr. McMurray. The Cook Political Democrat. a three-decade incumbent were mailed out, according to pre- Like Mr. Bowman and Mr. Tor-
ter County, and where Mr. Bow-
Report listed the 27th District as But this year, the movement liminary data. res, Mr. Jones had campaigned on
man had a hefty lead over Mr.
“solid Republican.” seemed to have more reach, as Engel, who was first elected there Matt Rey, a partner at Red civil rights and criminal justice is-
Like political cycles nation- progressive Democrats led the in 1988. Horse Strategies, a political con- sues, seizing on the energy inside
wide, the campaign had been up- way in contests for two open The race there had illustrated sulting firm that has been analyz- the Black Lives Matters move-
ended by the coronavirus out- House seats held by retiring Dem- the sharp schism in Democratic ing the demographics of voters ment after the police killing of
break, which has killed nearly ocrats. ranks, with Mr. Bowman backed who applied for absentee ballots, George Floyd in Minneapolis on
1,000 people in the eight counties In the Bronx, Ritchie Torres, a by many of the Democrats’ most said there was nothing in the data May 25.
that make up parts of the district. city councilman, led a pack of con- outspoken progressives and Mr. to suggest Mr. Bowman, Mr. Jones As of Wednesday afternoon, Mr.
In late March, Mr. Cuomo moved tenders in the 15th Congressional Engel, fighting for his political life, and Mr. Torres were at risk of los- Jones, a lawyer supported by the
the election to June 23 from April District, where Representative seeking rescue from more centrist ing their leads. institutional left and many na-
28, lengthening the campaign by José E. Serrano is retiring. Those party leaders like the House “The breadth of their victories tional progressive leaders, had
two months. trailing Mr. Torres included a po- speaker, Nancy Pelosi, the former is the real highlight for me here,” garnered more than twice the
A scion of a prominent Buffalo litical veteran, Rubén Díaz Sr., a presidential candidate Hillary said Mr. Rey, whose firm worked votes of his nearest rival, Adam
conservative former state senator Clinton and Gov. Andrew M. Representative with a candidate, Assemblyman Schleifer, a former federal pros-
family, Mr. Jacobs had raised
with a history of anti-gay re- Cuomo. David Buchwald, who ran against ecutor and the son of a pharma-
more than $1 million and lent his Eliot L. Engel,
marks, who had been considered Mr. Bowman, a middle-school Mr. Jones in the 17th District. ceutical billionaire who had out-
own campaign almost $450,000.
among the favorites. a three-decade incumbent
As winner of the special elec- principal, declared victory on “They’re rightly confident to de- spent Mr. Jones by more than five
And in the Hudson Valley dis- Wednesday morning, though The clare victory.” to one. Mr. Jones, however, bene-
tion, Mr. Jacobs will serve for the trict held by Representative Nita Associated Press had yet to call Mr. Rey noted an overwhelming fited from some independent ex-
remainder of Mr. Collins’s term, Lowey, who is also retiring, Establishment Democrats
the race. number of voters who requested penditures on his behalf, including
which ends this year, though Mr. Mondaire Jones, a Harvard-edu- could take some solace in easy
In a speech to supporters on absentee ballots in competitive by the Congressional Progressive
McMurray, a former town super- cated lawyer, had pulled away wins for a number of incumbents,
Tuesday night, he spoke out districts were under age 40, a Caucus.
visor in Grand Island, N.Y., north- from six other candidates in early including Representative Greg-
against poverty, racism and sex- demographic that could give chal- If he wins the Democratic nomi-
west of Buffalo, has vowed to returns. ory Meeks, the chairman of the lengers an edge. nation and the general election in
ism, among other social ills, “a
fight on: In November, when the Mr. Jones and Mr. Torres would system that’s literally killing us.” Queens Democratic Party. Repre- The progressive surge in con- November, Mr. Jones would fill the
seat is contested again for a full become trailblazers if elected in He said, if elected, he would be a sentative Jerrold Nadler, the gressional races also played out in seat held by Ms. Lowey, 82, who
two-year term, Mr. McMurray November: Either would be the “black man with power.” chairman of the powerful House many down-ballot legislative announced her impending retire-
will have the Democratic ballot first openly gay black member of “That is what Donald Trump is Judiciary Committee, held a com- races, especially in State Assem- ment in October in the face of a
line. Congress. afraid of,” said Mr. Bowman, add- fortable lead over two challeng- bly races in Queens, where sev- possible primary challenge from
In an electoral oddity, Mr. Ja- All of Tuesday’s results came ing: “I cannot wait to get to Con- ers, and Representative Yvette eral incumbents appeared endan- Mr. Jones. A first-time candidate
cobs, a second-term state senator, with a sizable caveat: State offi- gress and cause problems.” Clarke was also leading in her gered. and an avowed science-fiction fan,
also faced a primary challenge on cials had issued nearly two million In a statement, the Engel cam- race in Brooklyn, though — as In Jackson Heights, Jessica Mr. Jones likened the race to “a
Tuesday from two Republicans, absentee ballots to voters state- paign said “any declarative state- elsewhere — thousands of absen- González-Rojas, a Latina commu- story out of a sci-fi novel,” he said.
Beth Parlato and Stefan Mycha- wide because of the coronavirus ment on the outcome of this race tee votes remained to be counted. nity organizer who drew many Which sci-fi novel, he was
jliw Jr.; Mr. Jacobs also won that outbreak, and those votes — right now is premature,” and Indeed, the sheer number of ab- parallels to Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, asked?
primary, assuring him a spot on which could be postmarked as late called for every vote to be sentee ballots could prove daunt- was leading a crowded race to de- “One that is still being written,”
the Republican line. as Primary Day — would not be counted. ing to election officials, especially feat Assemblyman Michael Den- he said.

Poll Shows Biden With 14-Point Edge, as Pandemic and Protests Damage Trump
pandemic and said Mr. Biden both the coronavirus and race re- in presidential elections because navirus by a margin of more than health officials in his administra-
From Page A1 seemed “like a guy you can trust.” lations. of how central the Midwest is to two to one. tion have urged Americans to do
the Republican Party has been es- But Mr. Trump held views closer Mr. Trump retains a few points capturing 270 electoral votes. Most of the country is also re- so as a precaution against spread-
pecially pronounced among to his own on the economy, health of strength in the poll that could Yet if Mr. Trump still has a sig- jecting Mr. Trump’s call to reopen ing the coronavirus. In the poll, 54
younger voters, an ominous care and abortion. offer him a way to regain a footing nificant measure of credibility the economy as quickly as possi- percent of people said they al-
trend for a party that was already “Part of you just feels icky vot- in the race, and the feeble condi- with voters on the economy, he ble, even at the cost of exposing ways wear a mask when they ex-
heavily reliant on older Ameri- ing for him,” Mr. Diamond said. tion of his candidacy right now lacks any apparent political people to greater health risks. By pect to be in proximity to other
cans. “But definitely from a policy per- may well represent his low point strength on the most urgent is- a 21-point margin, voters said the people, while another 22 percent
Fifty-two percent of whites un- spective, that’s where my vote’s in a campaign with four and a half federal government should pri- said they usually wear a mask.
der 45 said they supported Mr. Bi- going to go.” months still to go. In 2016, Mr. oritize containing the coro- Just 22 percent said they rarely
den while only 30 percent said Some unease toward Mr. Trump often trailed Mrs. Clinton navirus, even if it hurts the econ- or never wear a mask.
they supported Mr. Trump. And Trump stems from voters’ racial in national polls by slimmer mar- omy, a view that aligns them with Mr. Trump’s job approval on
their opposition is intense: More attitudes. According to the poll, gins, and ultimately overcame Even voters who lean Mr. Biden. race relations was just as dismal.
than twice as many younger white voters under 45 are over- her lead in the popular vote with Just a third of voters said the Sixty-one percent of voters said
whites viewed the president very whelmingly supportive of the razor-thin victories in key swing Republican say they’re government should focus on re- they disapproved of Mr. Trump’s
Black Lives Matter movement, states. starting the economy even if that handling of race, versus 33 per-
unfavorably than very favorably.
Tom Diamond, 31, a Republican while older whites are more tepid His approval rating is still nar- considering a vote for entails greater public-health cent who said they approved. By
in Fort Worth, Texas, said he in their views toward racial jus-
tice activism. And nearly 70 per-
rowly positive on the issue of the
economy, with 50 percent of vot-
the Democrat. risks.
That debate could become the
a similar margin, voters said they
disapproved of his response to
planned to vote for Mr. Trump but
would do so with real misgivings. cent of whites under 45 said they ers giving him favorable marks central focus of the campaign in the protests after the death of Mr.
He called the president a “poor believed the killing of George compared with 45 percent saying the coming weeks, as coronavirus Floyd.
leader” who had mishandled the Floyd was part of a broader pat- the opposite. Should the fall cam- outbreaks grow rapidly in a num- Mr. Trump has sought several
tern of excessive police violence paign become a referendum on sues of the moment: the pan- ber of Republican-led states that times in the last month to use
toward African-Americans which candidate is better demic and the national reckoning have resisted the strict lockdown demonstrations against the po-
rather than an isolated incident. equipped to restore prosperity af- on policing and race. measures imposed in the spring lice as a political wedge issue,
What’s striking, though, is that ter the pandemic has subsided, Nearly three-fifths of voters by Democratic states like New forcing Democrats to align them-
even among white seniors, one of that could give Mr. Trump a new disapprove of Mr. Trump’s han- York and California. selves squarely either with law-
The Upshot provides news, dling of the coronavirus pan-
Mr. Trump’s strongest constitu- opening to press his case. The public also does not share enforcement agencies or with the
analysis and graphics about encies, he has damaged himself The president is also still ahead demic, including majorities of Mr. Trump’s resistance to mask most strident anti-police demon-
politics, policy and everyday life. with his conduct. About two-fifths of Mr. Biden among white voters white voters and men. Self-de- wearing. The president has de- strators.
nytimes.com/upshot of whites over 65 said they disap- without college degrees, who scribed moderate voters disap- clined to don a mask in nearly all The poll suggested most voters
proved of Mr. Trump’s handling of hold disproportionate influence proved of Mr. Trump on the coro- public appearances, even as top were rejecting that binary choice,
 THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2020 N A19

Election

Presidential Race Ends Nov. 3, Right? Don’t Bet on It Black Doctor

6 percent of ballots sent by mail,
Nears History
From Page A1 according to Reid Magney, a
latest, vivid preludes for the gen-
eral election: record numbers of
spokesman for the Wisconsin
Election Commission. In the
With Victory
absentee ballots that are more la-
bor intensive to count; regula-
state’s April primary, that figure
soared to 60 percent. Now the In Virginia
tions that delay the counting state is readying a mailer with an
absentee ballot request form for By MATT STEVENS
process; fears about in-person
voting because of the virus; and all 2.7 million voters who have not Cameron Webb decisively won
legal maneuvering around how already requested such a ballot a four-way Democratic primary in
late people can vote, including al- this fall. Virginia on Tuesday, setting up a
lowing ballots to be postmarked “It’s hard to know exactly how potentially competitive race in the
all the way up to Election Day. long it will take to process those,” state’s Fifth Congressional Dis-
In November, a significant de- Mr. Magney said of the expected trict, where the Republican in-
lay would not just test the nation’s glut of mail-in votes. cumbent was recently ousted in a
resolve and patience, especially if One ongoing legal battle is over drive-through convention.
late-counted votes reverse the how late each state will accept bal- If he wins in the Republican-
early tally in a pivotal state, as has lots. The most flexible states, such leaning district in November, Dr.
often happened in statewide and as California, allow voters to post- Webb, 37, will become the first
congressional contests. But a black physician to serve as a vot-
mark them on Election Day, which
holdup could play into the hands ing member of Congress. With 100
can drag the ballot counting out
of Mr. Trump, who has been on a percent of precincts reporting late
for weeks. In 2018, one California
tear recently to undermine trust Tuesday night, he had amassed
Republican, Young Kim, traveled
in fairly conducted elections, such two-thirds of the vote.
to Washington and posed for the Among the candidates he beat
as his baseless accusations that House freshman class picture in
mail-in ballots are somehow sys- out was Claire Russo, a combat
mid-November — only to end up veteran who finished second in
temically “rigged.” losing her race once all the votes
While the virus is almost cer- the primary and had released a
were counted. poignant advertisement in which
tain to make the November elec- On election night in 2018 after a she spoke candidly about her ex-
tion the most unusual since the hard-fought Senate race in Ari- perience being sexually assaulted
hanging chads of 2000, any zona, Martha McSally, the Repub- by a Marine Corps superior.
drawn-out or disputed vote count lican candidate, had an initial lead “This is one of those moments
could provide Mr. Trump with an over Kyrsten Sinema, the Demo-
ERIK BRANCH FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES where Virginia is standing up and
opening to fight results he did not crat, but days of vote-counting ul-
Primary voters on Tuesday in Kentucky, where incomplete results raised worries about November. speaking out, and we’re ready to
like and shake trust in American timately delivered the victory to go in a different direction — one
democracy. Ms. Sinema. Along the way, Mr. focused on unity, inclusion and
Matt Masterson, a senior advis- Trump lobbed charges of “elector- making sure everyone has oppor-
er on election security for the De- al corruption” without evidence. tunities to succeed,” Dr. Webb said
partment of Homeland Security, “Look, everything about the in a telephone interview late Tues-
said the greater number of mail-in day night.
way this president behaves when
ballots this fall would make re- It was also not lost on Dr. Webb
it comes to voting causes me con-
sults take longer to tabulate than that life has in recent months been
in the past, but he was hesitant to upended by a pair of crises with
even use the word “delay.” which he is personally familiar: a
“That suggests something’s
wrong,” he said. A delay may play into viral pandemic and nationwide
unrest over police brutality, sys-
“The need to take a longer time
to process and count these ballots
Trump’s hands and temic racism and inequality.
“You can’t pick your moments,”
is a sign of the process working,” test voters’ patience. he said. “I’m glad to be in a spot
Mr. Masterson added. “It is in no where I can do some good.”
way an indication of anything ma- Dr. Webb’s victory sets up a
licious.” general-election contest with Bob
In the presidential race, the cerns,” said Marc Elias, a top Good, a Republican who toppled
vote margins in most places are Democratic elections lawyer. “I the incumbent, Representative
expected to be wide enough to al- can only imagine what he’ll be like Denver Riggleman, in a highly un-
low media organizations, such as after Election Day.” usual and bitterly contested drive-
The Associated Press, to project Bob Bauer, an attorney and sen- through convention this month.
winners of individual states even ior Biden adviser who works on Mr. Riggleman, a freshman Re-
before all the votes are tabulated. the campaign’s voter protection publican, had come under a tor-
But delays are widely expected in and election security programs, rent of criticism from conserva-
at least some key states, which urged Americans to vote “through tive activists in the district after
could leave the country in mo- all available means” even if “some he officiated the same-sex wed-
mentary political limbo if neither states could take longer than usu- ding of two of his former cam-
candidate has reached the 270 al to report final official results.” paign volunteers.
electoral votes required to win the “If the people speak, they will Mr. Good, a former athletics of-
presidency. be heard, and there is nothing ficial at Jerry Falwell Jr.’s Liberty
David Scott, deputy managing Donald Trump can do about it,” University who describes himself
editor for The A.P., said how long it Mr. Bauer said. as a “biblical conservative,” con-
takes to call the presidential race Justin Clark, senior counsel to demned the move, casting it as a
in November will depend on the AMR ALFIKY/THE NEW YORK TIMES
the Trump campaign, cited con- betrayal of voters’ trust. He subse-
closeness of the race and what- A polling station in Flatbush, Brooklyn. The Associated Press was cautious with New York results. cerns with voting by mail, which quently defeated Mr. Riggleman,
ever rules states impose between he said “leads to confusion, chaos, capturing about 58 percent of the
now and Election Day. The A.P. and delayed results.” vote in a convention decided by
will have to account for the huge not currently allow the tabulating the June primary to 1.8 million — missioner in Philadelphia, where Not every battleground state is party delegates. Mr. Riggleman
wave of mail-in votes, especially of mail-in ballots until the day of 17 times as many ballots as in he said absentee ballot requests predicting a November slog. denounced the convention as hav-
after incorrectly declaring two the election, though election offi- 2016, according to the secretary of soared from 5,742 in the 2016 pri- “We fully expect to be reporting ing been weighted to favor Mr.
races in Georgia were headed to cials are pressing to relax those state’s office. A winner in the mary to 225,231 in 2020. our unofficial results on election Good.
runoffs this month. restrictions. statewide contest for auditor was Just the act of tabulating those night, as we have in the past,” said Democrats have long consid-
In a sign of its cautious ap- In Pennsylvania, 2020 is also not declared for more than a week. ballots would be further compli- Karen Brinson Bell, the executive ered the Fifth District seat to be
proach, the organization has not cated if there is a significant coro- director of the North Carolina potentially competitive and had
the first presidential election in “You physically have to remove
yet declared that Representative navirus outbreak in the fall — as board of elections. Her state, un- hoped that Mr. Good would pre-
which all voters will be allowed to all those ballots from all those en-
Eliot L. Engel, Democrat of New epidemiologists have warned like some other battlegrounds, al- vail against Mr. Riggleman, in
cast ballots by mail. That, com- velopes and scan them in. It’s a part because he has struggled to
York, lost on Tuesday, even as he bined with the pandemic, drove could happen — requiring social- lows election officials to open and
time-consuming process,” said raise funds. In addition, Mr. Good
trails his challenger, Jamaal Bow- distancing and extensive sanita- process ballots before Election
absentee ballot requests during Nick Custodio, a deputy city com- failed to correctly file the paper-
man, by nearly 27 percentage tion efforts. Day. State lawmakers just ex-
points. In Michigan, local clerks and tended that processing period by work required to be on the No-
“I’ve been saying to anyone the secretary of state, Jocelyn two weeks, she noted. vember ballot, which could create
who will listen that I do not think Benson, a Democrat, have future headaches for the state Re-
Brian Corley, the supervisor of
we will know who won the presi- publican Party as the fall nears.
pleaded with state legislators for elections in Pasco County, one of
dential election on Nov. 3,” said The district, which runs from
months to allow them to begin the quintessential swing counties
Matthew Weil, director of the elec- the North Carolina border to the
processing absentee ballots be- of Florida, said his state had simi-
tions project at the Bipartisan Pol- outer reaches of the Northern Vir-
fore Election Day, given the ex- larly expanded its period to
icy Center, a think tank. ginia suburbs, was last won by a
pected surge of mail votes. A bill process mail-in ballots. But he
Mr. Weil pointed to three states Democrat in 2008. President
carried by a Republican state sen- said exactly how long it would
in particular he expected to be hot Trump won the district by 11
ator who is the former secretary take to declare a winner would de- points in 2016.
spots for slow counting trouble: of state has stalled because of op- pend on how close the race ends
Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wis- Dr. Webb, who grew up in Spot-
position from her own party. up being in a state that famously sylvania, Va., and whose wife is
consin. Those three states, which At a hearing in Lansing on decided the 2000 election by 537
were key to Mr. Trump’s victory in also a doctor, challenged the no-
Wednesday, Republican legisla- votes after a recount and a United tion that the district was too red
2016, are seen by both the Trump tors criticized Ms. Benson for States Supreme Court decision.
and Biden campaigns as linchpins for him to win, arguing that it was
sending all Michigan voters ab- Mr. Corley said the 2020 wait full of residents whose views
to the path to victory. sentee ballot applications, echo- could be measured in days, not “span the entire political spec-
And all three of those states ing a complaint Mr. Trump himself hours. trum.”
have one rule in common: They do has made, rather than addressing “Elections are a lot like Thanks- “I’m here to listen to people,” he
MARK MAKELA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES the logistical challenges of count- giving,” he said. “You’re finishing said. “As a doctor, that’s a skill I
Kathleen Gray contributed report- In Pennsylvania, 1.8 million voters requested absentee ballots. ing the vote in November. the turkey but still have to dole out use every day. You ask them
ing from Lansing, Mich. The state will allow universal voting by mail in the fall. Wisconsin had historically seen the leftovers.” where it hurts, and they tell me.”

as well as Mr. Trump’s harsh “One of the most important age, three in five said they dis- More voters feel strongly about Mr. Trump than they do
characterization of protesters: things to me is the character of
Large majorities said they had a the man in charge of our country.”
Methodology agreed with the claim that he was
too old to be an effective presi-
about Mr. Biden
positive overall assessment of Significantly, one group that The Times/Siena poll of 1,337 dent. The percentage of voters
registered voters was con- Voter impressions of ... Trump Biden
both the Black Lives Matter saw Mr. Biden as far more than who agreed, 36 percent, exactly
movement and the police. just acceptable was black voters. ducted from June 17 to 22. The matched Mr. Trump’s existing Very Very Very Very
The picture of Mr. Biden that Fifty-six percent of black re- margin of sampling error is support in the presidential race. favorable unfavorable favorable unfavorable
emerges from the poll is one of a spondents in the poll said they plus-or-minus three percent- Lindsay Clark, 37, who lives in
broadly acceptable candidate saw Mr. Biden very favorably, a age points. the suburbs of Salt Lake City, was ALL REG. VOTERS (n=1,337) 27% 50% 26% 27%
who inspires relatively few far more enthusiastic judgment among the voters who said she
strong feelings in either direction. than from any other constituency. would probably vote for Mr. NONWHITE
He is seen favorably by about half The limited passion for Mr. Bi- crat” and “anti-science.” Trump because she was unsure
of voters and unfavorably by 42 den among other Democratic Age 18 to 29 (88) 11% 68% 21% 15%
“We all have to compromise,” Mr. Biden was “physically and
percent. Only a quarter said they constituencies does not appear to said Mr. Angelos, who described mentally up to the task” of being Age 30 to 44 (100) 15% 61% 29% 14%
saw him very favorably, equaling be affecting his position against himself as very liberal. He added president. But Ms. Clark ex-
the share that sees him in very Mr. Trump. Though only 13 per- of Mr. Biden, “I don’t think he’s pressed little admiration for Mr. Age 45 to 64 (150) 22% 62% 45% 19%
negative terms. cent of people under 30 said they anything special.” Trump, whom she called unpresi-
Mr. Trump, by contrast, is seen had a very favorable opinion of For the moment, voters also dential. Age 65 and older (85) 13% 70% 60% 16%
very favorably by 27 percent of the former vice president, that appear unpersuaded by one of
voters and very unfavorably by group is backing Mr. Biden over Ms. Clark, who voted for a
the primary attack lines Mr. third-party candidate in 2016,
50 percent. Mr. Trump by 34 percentage Trump and his party have used WHITE
Harry Hoyt, 72, of York County points. said she was hard-pressed to
against Mr. Biden: the claim that, Age 18 to 29 (89) 23% 46% 4% 28%
in Southern Maine, said he has Nicholas Angelos, a 20-year- name something she really liked
at age 77, he is simply too old for
sometimes voted for Republican old voter in Bloomington, Ind., about Mr. Trump, eventually set-
the presidency. Mr. Trump, 74, Age 30 to 44 (156) 17% 58% 20% 22%
presidential candidates in the who said he supported Senator has mocked Mr. Biden’s mental tling on the idea that he ex-
past and cast a grudging vote for Bernie Sanders in the Democrat- acuity frequently over the last pressed himself bluntly.
Age 45 to 64 (305) 36% 39% 22% 35%
Mrs. Clinton in 2016. He felt better ic primaries, said he would vote few months and his campaign has “I was just trying to think if I
this time about his plan to vote for for Mr. Biden as the “lesser of two run television advertisements could think of something off the Age 65 and older (320) 42% 38% 27% 38%
Mr. Biden. evils.” He said he believed the for- that cast Mr. Biden as absent- top of my head that I was like,
“Biden would be a better candi- mer vice president would “try his minded and inarticulate. ‘Yes, I loved when you did that!’ ”
Sample sizes may not add to the total because some demographic characteristics of respondents
date than Trump, simply because best,” in contrast to Mr. Trump, But whatever reservations vot- she said of Mr. Trump. “And I kind are unknown. Based on a New York Times/Siena College poll of 1,337 registered voters from June
he’s a nice person,” Mr. Hoyt said. whom he described as “an auto- ers may have about Mr. Biden’s of just can’t.” 17 to June 22. THE NEW YORK TIMES
A20 N THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2020

Some Feminist Scholars

Say New Assault Policy
Is Fair to the Accused
By MICHAEL POWELL not see the full evidence against
Education Secretary Betsy De- them. The rules defined sexual
Vos fired a shot last month in the harassment broadly as “any un-
nation’s culture wars, overhauling welcome conduct of a sexual na-
how colleges handle investiga- ture.”
tions of sexual assault and ending Perhaps most controversially,
what she called Obama-era “kan- Obama officials encouraged uni-
garoo courts” on campus. versities to appoint a single offi-
The new Education Depart- cial who acted as detective, pros-
ment rules give more protections ecutor, judge and jury. And they
to the accused, primarily young set a lower bar to determine guilt,
men who face discipline or expul- changing from “clear and convinc-
sion as a result of allegations of ing” to “more likely than not,”
sexual misconduct. known colloquially in legal circles
The move set off a liberal up- as the “50 percent plus a feather”
roar, denounced by unions repre- test.
senting teachers and college pro- Advocates applauded the direc-
fessors, by the National Organiza- tives as sensitive to the trauma of
tion for Women and by an array of victims and a righting of the
Democratic senators, The Trump scales of justice. But Professor
rules, they said, constitute a radi- Halley and like-minded scholars
cal rollback of protections for vic- viewed these rules as dangerous
tims who seek justice after sexual overreach, encouraging an arbi-
assaults. trary and unfair system.
But Ms. Devos’s actions won Supporting the Trump adminis-
praise from a surprising audi- tration’s revamping of the rules
ence: an influential group of femi- comes laden with risk, as more
nist legal scholars who applauded than a few liberal critics accuse DAVID DEGNER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

the administration for repairing these feminists of having lost their “Many people think I’m a bad feminist and thus not a feminist, but that does not follow,” said Prof. Janet Halley of Harvard Law.
what they viewed as unconsciona- way. Yet some of the strongest fe-
ble breaches in the rights of the ac- male voices in legal circles occupy
the Obama era,” Ms. Tabacco Mar puts it, these activists have traded students. To cite two examples: step forward without wrongdo-
cused. this hill of dissent.
said of the DeVos changes. “It cod- the megaphone for the gavel. In one case, two gay freshmen ing,” she said. “It was all about our
“The new system is vastly bet- Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg ifies the historical skepticism of Jeannie Suk Gersen and her at Brandeis College fell into a ro- acceptance of prevailing dogma.”
ter and fairer,” said Prof. Janet has said in speeches and inter- institutions as applied to rape.” husband, Jacob E. Gersen, also mantic relationship that lasted That understanding has in-
views that the Obama-era regula- The precise number of women Harvard professors, have joined nearly two years. They broke up formed her view of the Obama-era
tions deny due process and a fair assaulted on college campuses is in the critique of Title IX. They and, six months later, one student Title IX regulations. Sexual de-
hearing to the accused. Nadine itself a subject of debate. Advo- wrote a law review article critiqu- accused the other of sexual mis- sire, to her view, is messy and idio-
A battle over Trump’s Strossen, a past president of the cates point to federal surveys sug- ing the creation of a federal “sex conduct, including looking at his syncratic and laden with ambiva-
American Civil Liberties Union,
rules for campus cases said on a National Review podcast
gesting that one in five female stu-
dents have experienced assault
bureaucracy,” which they said
leveraged “sexual violence and
private parts while they took
showers and kissing him while he
lence, and it is folly to think that
institutions can sort campuses
that the new regulations from Ms.
on sexual misconduct. DeVos represented “a step for-
while in college, which amounts to
about 400,000 students. Even ac-
harassment policy to regulate or- was asleep. Brandeis’s examiner into a regulated world of victims
dinary sex.” Professor Suk did not tell the accused student of and perpetrators.
ward in due process for every- counting for a likely high rate of Gersen’s assessment of the DeVos the nature of the charges and de- To their critics, Professor Hal-
body.” underreporting, however, the changes appeared in The New nied him a chance to question wit- ley and her colleagues want noth-
Halley, who specializes in gender Ms. Strossen’s former organiza- Federal Clery Act, which requires nesses.
Yorker. ing more than to topple the pillars
and sexuality at Harvard Law tion, the A.C.L.U., takes a different colleges and universities to report
The Obama-era policy on Title The student was found guilty of upholding critical feminist re-
School. “The fact that we’re get- view and has filed suit to block the crimes on campuses, reported far
IX not only incited intense debate; “sexual violence.” forms. Prof. Lama Abu-Odeh at
ting good things from the Trump Trump regulations. Ría Tabacco fewer rapes, with 8,529 in 2018. A
it also set off a flurry of legal chal- In 2016, a federal judge allowed Georgetown described Ms. Halley
administration is confusing, but Mar, director of the organization’s separate Justice Department
lenges. that student to sue Brandeis, ob- in a2018 essay as a sexual libertar-
isn’t it better than an unbroken av- Women’s Rights Project, said that study from 2013 found nearly
It was once vanishingly rare for serving tartly: “If a college stu- ian who used a “cunning bull-
alanche of bad things?” about one-third of the cases cur- 28,000 students had reported
students accused of sexual mis- dent is to be marked for life as a ishness” to pursue an anti-femi-
There are few more contested rently investigated under Title IX rapes, attempted rapes and as-
conduct to challenge their univer- sexual predator, it is reasonable to nist deregulation of sexual har-
cultural battlegrounds than col- would not qualify for considera- saults.
sities. But for several years now, require that he be provided a fair assment.
lege campuses and the rules that tion under the new standards. The Professor Halley, the first gen-
such students have filed lawsuits opportunity to defend himself.” A prominent defense attorney,
govern sexual misconduct and Trump administration rules, for der and sexuality theorist to get The accused student eventually Wendy Murphy, delivered a with-
example, would require colleges tenure at Harvard Law School, arguing lack of due process at a
due process, and thorny questions dropped the case. ering criticism of Professor Gert-
to investigate only incidents said has long been a woman willing to rate of twice a week, according to
of how to define sexual consent. In another case, a football play- ner, who had written a 2015 cri-
to have occurred within dorms stick a dissenting head into a lion Professor KC Johnson at Brook-
Most often this battle is framed er at Michigan State, Keith tique of the Obama regulations for
and university buildings or in fra- cage of liberal orthodoxy. Too lyn College, a critic of Title IX reg-
as Left versus Right, feminist Mumphery, used an online app in The American Prospect, titled
ternities and sororities, and not in many feminists, in her view, have ulations who monitors such legal
against traditionalist. But that is 2015 to hook up with a female stu- “Sex, Lies and Justice.” (The
private off-campus and overseas abandoned liberating freedoms challenges. And federal judges
to miss a fierce and complicated dent for sex. The other student lat- women had a history: In 1991,
apartments. for the allure of governmental have found that regulations tram-
struggle within feminist and liber- er accused Mr. Mumphery of sex- they squared off against each
al circles. Several colleagues who “This is a dramatic break with power and punishment. As she pled on the constitutional rights of other as Ms. Gertner successfully
ual assault; the police and the uni-
teach and write on gender and the versity’s Title IX office examined argued the appeal of a man ac-
law have joined Professor Halley Mr. Mumphery’s text messages, cused of raping a fellow freshman
in donning the cloth of heretics. took a DNA swab and talked to at Brandeis.)
“I’m a feminist, but I’m also a nurses, and cleared him. “If you can’t stop using your
defense attorney who recognizes After he graduated and entered self-described status as a feminist
the importance of due process,” the National Football League, the to hurt women,” Ms. Murphy
said Prof. Nancy Gertner, a retired female student appealed that ver- wrote in a 2015 open letter to Pro-
federal judge and lecturer in law dict with Michigan State, and Title fessor Gertner, “then please just
at Harvard, who opposed the IX officials reopened the case. Mr. stay silent.”
Obama-era rules. “These are Mumphery knew nothing of this. Do such attacks sting? Profes-
fences I’ve straddled all my life.” He was found guilty of sexual as- sor Gertner paused. She worried
The battle began in April 2011 sault, and when the decision be- about Ms. DeVos’s motives in re-
when the Obama administration came public, the Houston Texans working Title IX. But she saw too
sent a letter to 4,600 colleges and football team cut him loose. many flaws in the Obama-era reg-
universities, directing changes to Two years later, after a pro- ulations. “This notion that I am a
Title IX, the 1973 law that pro- tracted legal battle, Michigan ‘so-called feminist’ because of my
hibits sex discrimination in educa- State wiped Mr. Mumphery’s views on due process?” She
tion. There was an urgent need to record clean and paid him an un- chuckled dryly. “I call that the fas-
act: Recent decades had offered disclosed sum of money. But his cism of the women’s movement.”
too many examples of college ad- N.F.L. career apparently is over. Nor does Professor Halley shy
ministrators and professors who Professor Halley experienced from intellectual battle. She
shrugged off complaints of sexual her own epiphany on these ques- waves off the notion that fighting
violence as kids will be kids. tions years ago: She had a female for the rights of the accused, and
The Obama administration di- colleague, she said, who lodged grappling with the complications
rectives created a system cen- complaints against several male of sexual behavior, is somehow
tered on the person making the faculty members. Ms. Halley and anti-feminist and anti-woman.
complaint. They discouraged uni- other professors believed her at “Many people think I’m a bad
versities from giving the accused first, before coming to doubt her feminist and thus not a feminist,
the right to question accusers or allegations. but that does not follow,” she said.
to learn the identity of witnesses. ERIK JACOBS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
“We feminists were surprised; “It’s just that we disagree about
In some cases, the accused could Prof. Nancy Gertner, a retired federal judge, said she “recognizes the importance of due process.” we assumed no woman would what to do in the feminist frame.”

Senate Democrats Block Republican Police-Reform Bill, Citing It as Inadequate

By CATIE EDMONDSON solutions to a very real problem.” that they were demanding, but until the election,” Mr. Scott said of tors who had gathered there to “That is a stiff charge,” Mr.
WASHINGTON — Senate “This movement will not accept that they had refused to accept. Democrats. “You know why? Be- hear him speak stood to applaud Kaine said. “I voted not on the
Democrats on Wednesday anything less than real, real sub- Privately, Democrats noted that cause they believe the polls reflect him. One of them, Senator Tim ‘what’ and not on the ‘who.’ I voted
blocked a narrow Republican bill stantial, substantive solutions, revising the bill would have also a 15-point deficit on our side, Kaine, Democrat of Virginia, who on the ‘how.’ We tried it the wrong
to incentivize police departments which are the solutions we have required the approval of 60 sena- therefore they can get the bill they said he had come to listen to Mr. way. Let’s try it the right way.”
to change their tactics, refusing offered,” Ms. Harris said. tors, a threshold they feared they want in November.” Scott in appreciation of his work, The Republican bill would en-
even to open debate on a measure Republicans were livid at Dem- would not be able to meet. “The actual problem is not what launched into his own impas- courage state and local police de-
they denounced as an insufficient ocrats’ refusal to even allow the “Instead of going forward and is being offered, it is who is offer- sioned speech, denying that the partments to change their prac-
and irredeemably flawed answer measure to reach the floor for a getting what you want now, ing it,” he continued. outcome had been politically driv- tices, including penalizing depart-
to the problem of systemic racism debate and accused them of delib- they’ve decided to punt this ball As Mr. Scott left the floor, sena- en. ments that do not require the use
in law enforcement. erately sinking the bill for political of body cameras and limiting the
The vote, 55 to 45, was a setback purposes. It would have needed use of chokeholds. It would not al-
in the effort to pass legislation this 60 votes to advance in the Senate, ter the qualified immunity doc-
year to address excessive use of where a three-fifths supermajor- trine that shields officers from
force and racial discrimination by ity is necessary for most major ac- lawsuits or place new federal re-
the police, amid a groundswell of tion. But only two Democrats, strictions on the use of lethal
public sentiment in favor of over- Senators Doug Jones of Alabama force.
hauling law enforcement. The and Joe Manchin III of West Vir- The measure that the House
Democratic-led House is set on ginia, as well as Senator Angus will consider on Thursday, the
Thursday to pass its own sprawl- most aggressive intervention into
King, independent of Maine,
ing legislation, but Senate Repub- policing that lawmakers have pro-
joined Republicans in supporting
lican leaders have said they will posed in recent memory, would in
moving it forward.
not take up that measure, setting effect eliminate qualified immuni-
“If you don’t think we’re right, ty, make it easier to track and
the stage for a bitter stalemate on
make it better. Don’t walk away,” prosecute police misconduct, re-
the issue.
Senator Tim Scott of South Car- strict the use of lethal force and
Expressing their deep opposi-
olina, who spearheaded the legis- aim to force departments to elimi-
tion to the bill, Democrats de-
manded on Tuesday that Republi- lation, said before the vote. He nate the use of chokeholds.
cans negotiate a more expansive urged Democrats to support ad- Wednesday’s vote did not fore-
package that both parties could vancing the bill “so that we have close the possibility of reviving
support, citing the opposition of an opportunity to deal with this the policing measure. Senator
dozens of civil rights groups to the very real threat to the America Mitch McConnell, Republican of
measure as drafted and arguing that is civil, that is balanced.” Kentucky and the majority leader,
that it was an unacceptable start- “This is an opportunity to say used a procedural maneuver that
ing point for discussion. yes,” he said. would allow him to bring it up
Senator Kamala Harris, Demo- After the measure failed, a visi- again in the future, changing his
crat of California, told reporters bly frustrated Mr. Scott returned vote from “yes” to “no” so he could
that Democrats’ decision to block and delivered extended remarks, later call for its reconsideration.
the bill was an effort “to not take saying that he had offered to give But a flurry of private bipartisan
crumbs on the table when there is Democrats as many as 20 votes on AL DRAGO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
talks to strike a deal on the issue
a hunger that America has for real proposed modifications to his bill Senator Kamala Harris said the movement for racial justice demanded substantive solutions. had not borne fruit.
 THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2020 N A21

Struggle for Racial Justice Technology

A Facial Recognition Tool Led to a Black Man’s Arrest. It Was Wrong.

terest.
From Page A1 “We’ve been active in trying to
first piece of paper. It was a still sound the alarm bells around fa-
image from a surveillance video, cial recognition, both as a threat to
showing a heavyset man, dressed privacy when it works and a racist
in black and wearing a red St. Lou- threat to everyone when it does-
is Cardinals cap, standing in front n’t,” said Phil Mayor, an attorney
of a watch display. Five time- at the organization. “We know
pieces, worth $3,800, were shop- these stories are out there, but
lifted. they’re hard to hear about be-
“Is this you?” asked the detec- cause people don’t usually realize
tive. they’ve been the victim of a bad fa-
The second piece of paper was a cial recognition search.”
close-up. The photo was blurry, Two weeks after his arrest, Mr.
but it was clearly not Mr. Williams. Williams took a vacation day to
He picked up the image and held it appear in a Wayne County court
next to his face. for an arraignment. When the
“No, this is not me,” Mr. case was called, the prosecutor
Williams said. “You think all black moved to dismiss, but “without
men look alike?” prejudice,” meaning Mr. Williams
Mr. Williams knew that he had could later be charged again.
not committed the crime in ques- Maria Miller, a spokeswoman
tion. What he could not have for the prosecutor, said a second
known, as he sat in the interroga- witness had been at the store in
tion room, is that his case may be 2018 when the shoplifting oc-
the first known account of an curred, but had not been asked to
American being wrongfully ar- look at a photo lineup. If the indi-
rested based on a flawed match vidual makes an identification in
from a facial recognition algo- the future, she said, the office will
rithm, according to experts on decide whether to issue charges.
technology and the law. A Detroit police spokeswoman,
Nicole Kirkwood, said that for
A Faulty System now, the department “accepted
the prosecutor’s decision to dis-
A nationwide debate is raging miss the case.” She also said that
about racism in law enforcement. the department updated its facial
Across the country, millions are
recognition policy in July 2019 so
protesting not just the actions of
that it is only used to investigate
individual officers, but bias in the
violent crimes.
systems used to surveil communi-
The department, she said in an-
ties and identify people for pros-
ecution. other statement, “does not make
Facial recognition systems arrests based solely on facial rec-
have been used by police forces ognition. The investigator re-
for more than two decades. Re- viewed video, interviewed wit-
cent studies by M.I.T. and the Na- nesses, conducted a photo lineup.”
tional Institute of Standards and On Wednesday, the A.C.L.U. of
Technology, or NIST, have found Michigan filed a complaint with
that while the technology works the city, asking for an absolute dis-
relatively well on white men, the missal of the case, an apology and
results are less accurate for other the removal of Mr. Williams’s in-
demographics, in part because of formation from Detroit’s criminal
a lack of diversity in the images databases.
used to develop the underlying After this article was published
databases. online on Wednesday, the Wayne
Last year, during a public hear- County prosecutor’s office said
ing about the use of facial recogni- Mr. Williams could have the case
tion in Detroit, an assistant police and his fingerprint data ex-
chief was among those who raised punged. “We apologize,” the pros-
concerns. “On the question of ecutor, Kym L. Worthy, said in a
false positives — that is absolutely statement, adding, “This does not
factual, and it’s well-docu- in any way make up for the hours
mented,” James White said. “So that Mr. Williams spent in jail.”
that concerns me as an African- The Detroit Police Department
American male.” “should stop using facial recogni-
This month, Amazon, Microsoft tion technology as an investiga-
and IBM announced they would tory tool,” Mr. Mayor wrote in the
stop or pause their facial recogni- complaint, adding, “as the facts of
tion offerings for law enforce- Mr. Williams’s case prove both
ment. The gestures were largely that the technology is flawed and
PHOTOGRAPHS BY SYLVIA JARRUS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
symbolic, given that the compa- that DPD investigators are not
nies are not big players in the in- Robert Julian-Borchak Williams with his wife, Melissa, and daughters, Rosie and Julia. The police handcuffed him in front of his family. competent in making use of such
dustry. The technology police de- technology.”
partments use is supplied by com- the Detroit police, according to NEC and by Rank One Comput- data from his phone or proof that chairs and looked at one another. Mr. Williams’s lawyer, Victoria
panies that aren’t household their report. ing, based in Colorado, according he owned the clothing that the One detective, seeming cha- Burton-Harris, said that her client
names, such as Vigilant Solutions, Five months later, in March to Mr. Pastorini and a state police suspect was wearing. grined, said to his partner: “I is “lucky,” despite what he went
Cognitec, NEC, Rank One Com- 2019, Jennifer Coulson, a digital spokeswoman. In 2019, algo- In this case, however, according guess the computer got it wrong.” through.
puting and Clearview AI. rithms from both companies were “He is alive,” Ms. Burton-Harris
image examiner for the Michigan to the Detroit police report, inves- They turned over a third piece
Clare Garvie, a lawyer at State Police, uploaded a “probe included in a federal study of over tigators simply included Mr. of paper, which was another photo said. “He is a very large man. My
Georgetown University’s Center 100 facial recognition systems experience has been, as a defense
image” — a still from the video, Williams’s picture in a “6-pack of the man from the Shinola store
on Privacy and Technology, has that found they were biased, false- attorney, when officers interact
showing the man in the Cardinals photo lineup” they created and next to Mr. Williams’s driver’s li-
written about problems with the ly identifying African-American with very large men, very large
cap — to the state’s facial recogni- showed to Ms. Johnston, Shinola’s cense. Mr. Williams again pointed
government’s use of facial recog- black men, they immediately act
tion database. The system would and Asian faces 10 times to 100 loss-prevention contractor, and out that they were not the same
nition. She argues that low-quality out of fear. They don’t know how to
have mapped the man’s face and times more than Caucasian faces. she identified him. (Ms. Johnston person.
search images — such as a still im- de-escalate a situation.”
searched for similar ones in a col- Rank One’s chief executive, declined to comment.) Mr. Williams asked if he was
age from a grainy surveillance
lection of 49 million photos. Brendan Klare, said the company free to go. “Unfortunately not,”
video — should be banned, and
that the systems currently in use The state’s technology is sup- had developed a new algorithm ‘Computer Got It Wrong’ one detective said. ‘It’s Humiliating’
should be tested rigorously for ac- plied for $5.5 million by a com- for NIST to review that “tightens Mr. Williams was kept in cus-
pany called DataWorks Plus. the differences in accuracy be- Mr. Pastorini was taken aback tody until that evening, 30 hours Mr. Williams and his wife have
curacy and bias. not talked to their neighbors
“There are mediocre algo- Founded in South Carolina in tween different demographic co- when the process was described after being arrested, and released
2000, the company first offered horts.” to him. “It sounds thin all the way on a $1,000 personal bond. He about what happened. They won-
rithms and there are good ones, der whether they need to put their
and law enforcement should only mug shot management software, After Ms. Coulson, of the state around,” he said. waited outside in the rain for 30
said Todd Pastorini, a general police, ran her search of the probe Mr. Klare, of Rank One, found minutes until his wife could pick daughters into therapy. Mr.
buy the good ones,” Ms. Garvie Williams’s boss advised him not to
said. manager. In 2005, the firm began image, the system would have fault with Ms. Johnston’s role in him up. When he got home at 10
to expand the product, adding provided a row of results generat- the process. “I am not sure if this p.m., his 5-year-old daughter was tell anyone at work.
About Mr. Williams’s experi-
face recognition tools developed ed by NEC and a row from Rank qualifies them as an eyewitness, still awake. She said she was wait- “My mother doesn’t know about
ence in Michigan, she added: “I
by outside vendors. One, along with confidence or gives their experience any ing for him because he had said, it. It’s not something I’m proud of,”
strongly suspect this is not the
When one of these subcontrac- scores. Mr. Williams’s driver’s li- more weight than other persons while being arrested, that he’d be Mr. Williams said. “It’s humiliat-
first case to misidentify someone
tors develops an algorithm for cense photo was among the who may have viewed that same right back. ing.”
to arrest them for a crime they
didn’t commit. This is just the first recognizing faces, DataWorks at- matches. Ms. Coulson sent it to the video after the fact,” he said. John She has since taken to playing He has since figured out what
time we know about it.” tempts to judge its effectiveness Detroit police as an “Investigative Wise, a spokesman for NEC, said: “cops and robbers” and accuses he was doing the evening the
by running searches using low- Lead Report.” “A match using facial recognition her father of stealing things, in- shoplifting occurred. He was driv-
quality images of individuals it “This document is not a positive alone is not a means for positive sisting on “locking him up” in the ing home from work, and had
In a Perpetual Lineup knows are present in a system. identification,” the file says in bold identification.” living room. posted a video to his private Insta-
Mr. Williams’s case combines “We’ve tested a lot of garbage out capital letters at the top. “It is an The Friday that Mr. Williams gram because a song he loved
flawed technology with poor po- there,” Mr. Pastorini said. These investigative lead only and is not sat in a Detroit police interroga- came on — 1983’s “We Are One,”
lice work, illustrating how facial checks, he added, are not “scien- probable cause for arrest.” tion room was the day before his
Getting Help by Maze and Frankie Beverly. The
recognition can go awry. tific” — DataWorks does not for- This is what technology 42nd birthday. That morning, his The Williams family contacted lyrics go:
The Shinola shoplifting oc- mally measure the systems’ accu- providers and law enforcement al- wife emailed his boss to say he defense attorneys, most of whom, I can’t understand
curred in October 2018. Katherine racy or bias. ways emphasize when defending would miss work because of a they said, assumed Mr. Williams Why we treat each other in this
Johnston, an investigator at “We’ve become a pseudo-ex- facial recognition: It is only sup- family emergency; it broke his was guilty of the crime and quoted way
Mackinac Partners, a loss preven- pert in the technology,” Mr. Pas- posed to be a clue in the case, not a four-year record of perfect attend- prices of around $7,000 to repre- Taking up time
tion firm, reviewed the store’s sur- torini said. smoking gun. Before arresting ance. sent him. Ms. Williams, a real es-
With the silly silly games we
veillance video and sent a copy to In Michigan, the DataWorks Mr. Williams, investigators might In Mr. Williams’s recollection, tate marketing director and food
play
software used by the state police have sought other evidence that after he held the surveillance vid- blogger, also tweeted at the Amer-
Aaron Krolik contributed report- incorporates components devel- he committed the theft, such as eo still next to his face, the two de- ican Civil Liberties Union of Mich- He had an alibi, had the Detroit
ing. oped by the Japanese tech giant eyewitness testimony, location tectives leaned back in their igan, which took an immediate in- police checked for one.

Mr. Williams was accused of shoplifting $3,800 in timepieces from Shinola, an upscale boutique in Detroit, and he was kept in custody at the Detroit Detention Center for 30 hours.
A22 N THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2020

Struggle for Racial Justice Deadly Violence

Joy. Hope. Men Accused

And Then Of Murdering
Black Jogger
A Graduate Are Indicted
Shot Dead. By RICHARD FAUSSET
ATLANTA — The three white
By ASHLEY SOUTHALL men accused of killing Ahmaud
and DANIEL E. SLOTNIK Arbery, a black man who was shot
A hundred people gathered on a dead after being chased in a South
recent Friday night at a park in Georgia neighborhood, have been
the Bronx, where two friends were indicted on murder charges by a
hosting a party to celebrate their Georgia grand jury, the prosecu-
recent graduations. tor in the case announced on
Tyana Johnson, a 19-year-old Wednesday.
business major who had com- The men — Gregory McMi-
pleted her associate degree, was chael, 64; his son Travis McMi-
selling cocktails she had made chael, 34; and their neighbor
and labeled Tipsy T. Her friend William Bryan, 50 — were ar-
Ahmad Branch, who had just fin- rested and charged last month
ished high school, was deejaying. with murder and other crimes in
R&B, hip-hop and dancehall connection with Mr. Arbery’s
death, which prompted nation-
tracks rose in the cool air in
wide protests and indignation,
Shoelace Park on June 12. People
particularly after a graphic video
happily danced on the grass and
of his Feb. 23 killing was released
relaxed on park benches.
online.
The good times lasted a few
On Wednesday, the office of Dis-
hours. Then, around 11 p.m., a sil-
trict Attorney Joyette M. Holmes
ver BMW pulled up. Two men got
of Cobb County announced that a
out of the car and fired eight shots
GREGG VIGLIOTTI FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES grand jury in Glynn County had
into the crowd, the police said. Ms.
Ahmad Branch with a placard honoring his friend Tyana Johnson, 19, who died this month in the hospital where she was born. returned an indictment with nine
Johnson, 19, was struck in the
counts against each of the three
head and killed. Two teenage boys
defendants: malice murder, four
and a man were also wounded. in shootings that has become a dancing man in the back seat, Jacqueline Ruegger, a school shooting, mourners turned a mon- counts of felony murder, two
More than a week later, investi- flash point in a debate over police where he was joined by a fourth spokeswoman, said. ument to William White Niles, a counts of aggravated assault,
gators are still searching for the reform in the city. man. Ms. Allen said her daughter critical figure in the history of false imprisonment and criminal
gunmen, who sped off in the car Natasha Allen, Ms. Johnson’s The car lurched forward, nearly wanted to start a business and be- parkland in the Bronx, into a me- attempt to commit false impris-
with three other men, according to mother, said her daughter was a striking a bystander. A fifth man come a millionaire by the time she morial for Ms. Johnson. onment.
surveillance video from a nearby budding entrepreneur who de- jumped in the back seat and the turned 21. Ms. Johnson promised They placed more than 200 can- The men could face life sen-
building. The police have in- spised violence. She had partici- driver sped off. her mother that she would never dles around the statue along tences without parole.
creased the reward for informa- pated in recent protests in Man- Mr. Branch said he heard the have to work again. Bronx Boulevard at 226th Street, “This is another step forward in
tion about the shooting to $10,000. hattan around the police killing of gunshots as he was playing “Re- “She was very ambitious and and held red, pink and white bal- seeking justice for Ahmaud,” Ms.
“She wasn’t the intended tar- George Floyd in Minneapolis. turn of the Mack,” and he mistook she was a go-getter for whatever loons. A few held gold-foil balloons Holmes said in a statement, add-
get,” Rodney Harrison, the chief of “She was very adamant about it,” them for fireworks that people at she wanted to achieve,” Ms. Allen spelling Tyana. ing, “We will continue to be inten-
detectives, said in an interview, Ms. Allen said. the party had been setting off. said. In unison, they said her name tional in the pursuit of justice for
adding that it made no difference. Ms. Johnson and Mr. Branch “I’m on the microphone saying, Ms. Allen, who immigrated and released the balloons. In one this family and the community at
“Her family is torn apart. So we had announced the party to their ‘Calm down, y’all,’ ” he said. from Jamaica, said she had moved video of the vigil, a man could be large as the prosecution of this
really need somebody to come for- friends on social media. Hours be- “That’s when my friend came up her family to Connecticut three heard shouting, “Tyana, we love case continues.”
ward to help us with the investiga- fore the party, Ms. Johnson wrote to me and said, ‘Tyana got shot.’ ” you!” as a woman wept. Mr. Arbery, 25, was spotted in
tion.” on Facebook: “It’s a ‘function/ They rushed over to Ms. John- Flowers and empty bottles of te- the Satilla Shores neighborhood,
Chief Harrison posted the video vibe’ everyone wear a mask son. Blood poured from her head, quila and cognac sat between the outside of Brunswick, Ga., while
of the gunmen on Twitter and
pleaded for the public’s help. He
paaaaaleaseee.”
A few hours later, she shared a
Mr. Branch said. They picked her
up and put her into a car that
Few leads in the killing candles last week, and wax drip-
pings formed the shape of a heart
running on a Sunday afternoon. A
surveillance camera showed that
said that there were no cameras
inside the park to capture the
video of her drinks, called nut-
crackers, in the freezer. The bot-
drove her to the hospital. of a teenager hosting a next to the letter T on the memori- Mr. Arbery stopped for a few min-
“I saw her face, I saw all the al’s stone base. utes inside a house under con-
shooting and that witnesses were tles were labeled with flavors like blood on it,” Mr. Branch recalled. party at a Bronx park. Photographs of Ms. Johnson struction before resuming his jog.
unable to identify the gunmen, Mango Madness, Watermelon, “I have all of her blood on my shirt, were taped to black poster board Gregory McMichael later told the
who covered their faces in hoods Patrón Strawberry Lemonade my pants, my shoes. I have not that held Crime Stoppers posters authorities he thought Mr. Arbery
and masks. Just one tip had come and Buddy Water. “Y’all ready?” been able to clean it off.” offering a reward for information was a suspect in a series of break-
in through the Police Depart- she wrote in the caption. Ms. Johnson was transferred to years ago to raise her children in a about the shooting. Her friends ins in the neighborhood.
ment’s Crime Stoppers tip line, he Shania Herbert, 23, said she had Jacobi Medical Center, where safer environment with more op- had written things like “rest easy He and Travis McMichael
said, but it had not helped to solve sometimes helped Ms. Johnson emergency room surgeons tried portunities. Ms. Johnson was the baby,” “pretty girls live forever,” armed themselves, they told the
the crime. prepare her concoctions, which to save her, her family said. The oldest of her four children and her and “may tipsy-t live on in your police, got into a pickup truck, and
Seven months ago, the killing of also included Jell-O shots and doctors finally told her family only daughter. name.” tried to catch Mr. Arbery. Mr. Bry-
a white college student in Manhat- shots in syringes. members she wouldn’t survive “The Bronx is very busy and the Ms. Branch and Ms. Herbert an, who is known as Roddie, also
tan drew the Police Department’s “She made those with love,” Ms. and allowed them into operating crime rate is high,” she said. “I just visited to add more candles. De- gave chase in his vehicle, a state
highest-ranking officials to the Herbert said. “She made it so ev- room, her mother said. wanted to give the kids a better tectives stopped by in the after- investigator said, and used his
crime scene and months of media erybody could enjoy it, have fun.” There, in the hospital where she life.” noon to hand out more fliers to cellphone to film the killing of Mr.
coverage. But the death of Ms. The surveillance video that the was born, Ms. Johnson died with Ms. Johnson loved to eat people gathered at the memorial. Arbery.
Johnson, who is black, during a police released showed three men her mother holding her hand. seafood, and her favorite restau- Her friends lingered by the memo- The video shows Mr. Arbery
pandemic and national uprisings walking close to the silver BMW “There’s no words that can de- rant was Sammy’s Fish Box on rial into the evening. One of them running toward a pickup truck
over police brutality and racism after it pulled up near the party. scribe that,” her mother said. City Island, where she would or- kept a supply of the posters in a with Travis McMichael standing
has drawn far less attention. One reached inside the front pas- “They took a piece of me.” der shrimp, crab and lobster, her bag, in case they needed to re- next to it. Mr. Arbery tries to run
Ms. Johnson was one of more senger window and another ap- Ms. Johnson had finished her mother said. She also liked trying place the ones on the monument. to the other side of the truck to
than 20 people killed in the first peared to be dancing. associate degree in business ad- new hairstyles and made her own “We just got out of quarantine. avoid Mr. McMichael, who is
three weeks of June amid a surge After the shooting, the video ministration at Monroe College wigs, including a hot pink wig in a Everybody had a smile on their armed with a shotgun. But the two
showed the three men get into the last fall and had started taking on- photo widely circulated after her face,” Mr. Branch said. “The fact struggle, and Mr. McMichael soon
Susan C. Beachy contributed re- car, one in the driver’s seat, one in line classes toward a bachelor’s death. that that happened to her don’t shoots Mr. Arbery.
search. the front passenger seat and the degree in business management, At a vigil the day after the make no sense.” In a court hearing this month,
Richard Dial, an investigator with
the Georgia Bureau of Investiga-
tion, said Mr. Bryan heard Mr. Mc-

Tucson Police in Turmoil Over Death of Handcuffed Latino Man Michael use a racial slur after
shooting Mr. Arbery.
According to the six-page in-
By SIMON ROMERO gruesome episode on April 21. Be- cardiac arrest and died at the dictment, which was returned
fore his death, Mr. Lopez is seen scene. While he was restrained, Wednesday morning, the men are
The police chief of Tucson, Ariz., charged with trying to “unlaw-
abruptly offered to resign on handcuffed while pleading repeat- Mr. Lopez told the officers he
edly in English and Spanish for could not breathe. fully confine and detain” Mr. Ar-
Wednesday while releasing a vid- bery while chasing him, using
eo in which a 27-year-old Latino water and for his nana, or grand- The autopsy report said the
cause of death was a combination their vehicles “offensively” and in
man, Carlos Ingram Lopez, died in mother.
of physical restraint and cardiac a manner “likely to cause serious
police custody two months ago. Chief Chris Magnus said offi- bodily injury.”
cers did not use a chokehold on arrest involving cocaine intoxica-
The video, taken by police offi- The most serious charge is mal-
tion. Three officers resigned from
cers’ body cameras and not made Mr. Lopez. But he said they vio- ice murder, which under Georgia
the department last Thursday,
public until Wednesday, depicts a lated training guidelines by re- law is “the intentional killing of a
Chief Magnus said.
straining the victim in a prone po- The disclosure of Mr. Lopez’s person with malice of fore-
Jennifer Valentino-Devries con- sition, face down, for about 12 min- death comes at a time when many thought,” said Charlie Bailey, an
tributed reporting. utes before Mr. Lopez went into Latinos around the United States Atlanta-area lawyer and former
are calling for changes in how po- assistant district attorney in Ful-
lice treat their communities, echo- ton County, Ga.
Mr. Bailey noted that this mal-
Corrections ing similar calls by African-Amer-
icans. Last week in California, out- ice did not need to have been de-
rage emerged over the killing of veloped over a long period of time.
FRONT PAGE N.B.A.’s Washington Wizards. He Andres Guardado, an 18-year-old JOSH GALEMORE/ARIZONA DAILY STAR, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS “Malice can be formed in an in-
Latino student and security Chief Chris Magnus of the Tucson police offered to resign during stant,” he said.
An article on Wednesday about is John Wall, not Kevin.
guard, by a Los Angeles County The shooting death of Mr. Ar-
testimony before the House Ener- a Wednesday news conference with Mayor Regina Romero.
sheriff’s deputy. The episode in bery has become an integral part
gy and Commerce Committee on ARTS of the broader wave of protests
Tucson occurred about a month
the new surge in coronavirus An article on Wednesday about a before George Floyd, a black man, death until Tuesday, when Ms. Ro- likely to die suddenly of positional against racism, racial profiling
cases misspelled the given name letter to the director of the was killed by a police officer in mero canceled a Council meeting asphyxia because they have diffi- and the police killings of black
of one of the doctors testifying. Guggenheim from the museum’s Minneapolis, igniting protests after watching the video. culty expanding their chest to people that have broken out
He is Adm. Brett P. Giroir, not curators calling for greater diver- throughout the country. Before the release of the video, bring in air. across the country in recent
Brent. sity in its staff, board and exhibi- Mayor Regina Romero of Tuc- Chief Magnus had publicly de- This is particularly true if they weeks.
tions misstated the timing of the son appeared shaken while dis- scribed the Tucson police force as are showing signs of mental dis- On Tuesday, the State Senate in
TRACKING AN OUTBREAK Guggenheim Museum’s decision cussing Mr. Lopez’s death at a one of the more progressive de- tress or intoxication with stimu- Georgia, largely because of Mr.
to hire Ashley James as a curator. news conference on Wednesday. partments in the country. It had lant drugs, a condition sometimes Arbery’s killing, passed a hate
An article on Tuesday about
It was days after a panel discus- She spoke in Spanish, offering previously banned chokeholds referred to as excited delirium. crimes bill that had been ap-
Nordic countries that have closed and required officers to partici-
sion in November 2019, not sev- condolences to Mr. Lopez’s family, Guidelines for such circum- proved last year by the House.
their borders to Sweden because pate in cultural awareness and cri- Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican,
eral months later. while expressing indignation in stances usually call for officers to
of concerns about the coronavirus sis intervention training. said he would sign it into law
English over what happened. move people onto their side or sit
misspelled the given name of the “I am deeply troubled and out- Chief Magnus said that officers pending a legal review.
OBITUARIES them up as soon as possible.
editor in chief of Altinget, a politi- raged,” said Ms. Romero, who is were responding to a call regard- Benjamin Crump, one of the
The autopsy report noted that
cal website, and incorrectly ren- An obituary on Wednesday about the first Latina to serve as mayor ing “disorderly conduct” by Mr. lawyers representing Mr. Ar-
Mr. Lopez had been restrained in a
dered a portion of a quote from the movie producer and financier of the heavily Latino city. “These Lopez, who was unclothed and bery’s family, said in a statement
prone position with a spit hood, a
him. The editor is Jakob Nielsen, Steve Bing referred incorrectly to officers would have been termi- seemed to be acting erratically that the indictments confirmed
mesh covering that goes over the
not Jacob. Mr. Nielsen referred to his relationship with Lisa Bonder, nated had they not resigned.” when the officers arrived at the “what Ahmaud’s father has been
head. The officers tried adminis-
the divide between Denmark and the mother of his daughter. It was Two of the officers who resigned scene. At one point, an officer told saying for months — that this was
tering CPR to revive Mr. Lopez
Sweden as the “deepest since the not the case that they had been are white and one is African- Mr. Lopez he would be shocked a lynching.”
with a stun gun if he failed to co- and also injected him with Nar-
Second World War,” not the deep- married and were divorced. The American, said Lane Santa Cruz, a The three suspects remain in
operate. can, a drug used to revive people
est since “the First World War.” obituary also included an incom- City Council member who had custody in Glynn County and have
In the news conference, Chief overdosing on opioids. not been arraigned. Lawyers for
plete list of Mr. Bing’s survivors. been briefed on the episode. The
Magnus said he had asked the Latino leaders in Tucson ex- the McMichaels could not be
SPORTS In addition to those named, he is police chief identified them as
Samuel Routledge, Ryan Star- F.B.I. to review the episode, which pressed dismay and anguish after reached on Wednesday afternoon,
A picture caption with an article survived by his parents. the video was released. Ms. Santa
buck and Jonathan Jackson. has been under internal investiga- but Kevin Gough, a lawyer for Mr.
on Saturday about a German Chief Magnus’s own offer to re- tion in the department. He said Cruz, the councilwoman, said the Bryan, reiterated that his client
league’s sequestered competition Errors are corrected during the press episode underscored how “we are
sign seemed to catch Ms. Romero, the officers involved had not met was innocent.
during the pandemic, misstated run whenever possible, so some errors disproportionately being killed by
who was standing by his side, by the standards established in train- “We’re disappointed that the
noted here may not have appeared in the police.”
the given name of a player on the surprise. She said she would ex- ing for what he described as a district attorney chose to indict
all editions. She emphasized how desperate
amine the details of what hap- mental health crisis involving “ex- Mr. Bryan,” he said. “But at the
pened before taking action. cited delirium.” Mr. Lopez had been while being same time we’ve been demanding
Contact the Newsroom: Editorials: [email protected] The department’s handling of For years, many departments restrained, calling for his nana. a speedy trial from Day 1. The pre-
[email protected] Newspaper Delivery: the issue is now coming under in- have trained officers that people “In our culture, nanas are the ma- sentation of this case to the grand
or call 1-844-NYT-NEWS [email protected] or call tense scrutiny. Authorities did not held face down, in what is known triarchs,” she said. “He was call- jury brings us one step closer to
(1-844-698-6397). 1-800-NYTIMES (1-800-698-4637). disclose details about Mr. Lopez’s as “prone restraint,” are more ing out for his lifeline.” our day in court.”
 THE NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARIES THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2020 N A23

Robert M. Laughlin, Preserver of a Mayan Language, Is Dead at 85

By NEIL GENZLINGER
Robert M. Laughlin, an anthro-
pologist and linguist whose exten-
sive work in the state of Chiapas in
southern Mexico documented and
helped revitalize Mayan lan-
guages and culture, died on May
28 in Alexandria, Va. He was 85.
His son, Reese, said the cause
was the new coronavirus.
Dr. Laughlin spent much of his
professional life doing fieldwork
in Chiapas, beginning in the late
1950s. He learned the Tzotzil (also
spelled Tsotsil) language as a
graduate student with the Har-
vard Chiapas Project, a long-term
ethnographic field study that had
just been started by Professor
Evon Vogt and was focusing on
the town of Zinacantán. After
years of painstaking work, in 1975
Dr. Laughlin published The Great
Tzotzil Dictionary of San Lorenzo
Zinacantán, with 30,000 entries.
Indigenous languages in the re-
gion — there are many — had
JOHN SWOPE/NATIONAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL ARCHIVES, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
been under siege since the Span-
ish conquest, and Dr. Laughlin’s
dictionary helped spur a revival of
interest in them. The dictionary,
published by the Smithsonian In-
stitution in Washington, where Dr.
Laughlin was curator of Meso-
american ethnology, was not sim-
ply a compilation of which Tzotzil
word equals which English word.
It was a deep dive into word ori-
gins, how the language had mutat-
ed and more.
“The term ‘dictionary’ hardly
does the work justice,” Judith Ais-
sen, professor emerita of linguis-
tics at the University of California,
Santa Cruz, said in an email. “It is
a rigorous work of linguistic schol-
arship, but through its entries, JAMES DI LORETO/SMITHSONIAN
also the repository of a great deal Robert M. Laughlin in 2005 in his office at the Smithsonian In-
of cultural knowledge.”
stitution. Top, in traditional garb, with Anselmo Peres, one of his
The dictionary, created with
two local collaborators, Romin
Tzotzil collaborators during field work in Mexico’s Chiapas State,
Teratol and Anselmo Peres, set an circa 1965; and, left, in 1981 at a traditional wedding in Chiapas.
example for the field. “It has been JOHN B. HAVILAND

the cornerstone of so many efforts

in language and knowledge revi- “To her distress, the first skit Maya communities of highland among the Mazatec, an Indige- common denominator; page after he is survived by his wife; a
talization ever since,” Igor Krup- they chose to perform was a folk Chiapas a sense of ownership of nous people in the state of Oaxaca. page of one letter per line ar- daughter, Liana Laughlin; and
nik, chair of the anthropology de- tale that tells of a newlywed their own literary legacy.” His interest piqued, he enrolled ranged in a single column. This three grandchildren.
partment at the Smithsonian’s Na- whose wife’s head mysteriously Robert Moody Laughlin was at Harvard, where he received a was followed by all the Latin When Dr. Laughlin’s dictionary
tional Museum of Natural History, disappears at night to eat born on May 29, 1934, in Prince- master’s degree in anthropology names neatly decapitated and ar- was published, Senator William
said by email. corpses,” he wrote in “Monkey ton, N.J., to Ledlie and Roberta in 1961 and a Ph.D. in it in 1963. In ranged alphabetically according Proxmire, the prominent Wiscon-
But it was only the beginning Business Theater,” a 2008 book Howe Laughlin. His father was as- 1960 he married Miriam Elizabeth to the second letter.” sin Democrat, gave it one of his
for Dr. Laughlin. He wrote or col- about the troupe. But the group sistant dean of admissions at Wolfe, and after he joined the “My dictionary,” he added, “be- Golden Fleece Awards, which he
laborated on various collections of caught on and was soon in high de- Smithsonian in 1965, they had al- came known around the museum used to call attention to projects
folk tales and dreams, an 18th- mand, performing throughout the ternated between living in Chia- as The Great Tzotzil Disaster.” he considered frivolous. Col-
century Tzotzil dictionary (with region and beyond. pas and Alexandria, Va., for dec- Modest efforts to resurrect In- leagues said Dr. Laughlin had con-
John B. Haviland, an anthropolo- One of Dr. Laughlin’s most re-
cent collaborations was “Mayan
A seminal dictionary, ades.
Almost as challenging as com-
digenous languages had been go-
ing on for several decades when
sidered the award a badge of hon-
or — “perhaps out of general con-
gy professor at the University of
California, San Diego), and more. Tales From Chiapas, Mexico” published in 1975 after piling his monumental 1975 dictio- the dictionary appeared, but the trariness,” Thor R. Anderson, his
And in 1982, when some Indige- (2014), in which he and two trans- nary was physically producing it, Tzotzil language and its cousins friend and sometimes collabora-
nous friends asked him for help in lators recorded 42 folk tales as years of field work. given the complexity of the ma- were primarily oral traditions; tor, wrote in an appreciation, “but
creating a cultural association, he told by the same woman, Fran- terial, the multiplicity of symbols speakers of such languages were also because, at the height of that
became one of the founders of Sna cisca Hernández Hernández, the and unusual letter combinations, illiterate in them. The dictionary particular contretemps, fellow
Jtz’ibajom — or, in English, the only Tzotzil speaker remaining in and the limitations of the rela- helped change that. scholars rushed to his defense.”
Princeton University, and his
House of the Writer, a collective her village. The book presented tively primitive computers used “A potential audience had In 1988, when Dr. Laughlin and
mother was a homemaker.
that promoted local writings and the stories in English, Spanish to produce it. slowly been building for material Dr. Haviland published their co-
He grew up in Princeton, gradu-
publications. and Tzotzil. ated from South Kent School in “When I went to pick it up,” Dr. in Tzotzil, Tzeltal and about 30 lonial-era dictionary, “The Great
An offshoot of that, a few years In the foreword, Gary H. Connecticut in 1952 and earned a Laughlin wrote in the introduc- other Mayan languages,” a 1992 Tzotzil Dictionary of Santo Do-
later, was Monkey Business The- Gossen, professor emeritus of an- bachelor’s degree in English liter- tion, describing the first attempt article in Smithsonian magazine mingo Zinacantán, With Gram-
ater, a troupe that performed folk thropology and Latin American ature at Princeton in 1956. The to print a proof copy, “I discovered noted. “Laughlin’s dictionary con- matical Analysis and Historical
tales and other works. He brought studies at the University at Al- next year he enrolled in a summer that the Tzotzil-English section tributed a standardized template Commentary,” careful readers
in the American puppeteer Amy bany, the State University of New graduate program in anthropolo- was very much as I had desired. for writing down the Mayan may have noted the dedication on
Trompetter to help local partici- York, wrote of Dr. Laughlin’s ca- gy at the Escuela Nacional de But the English to Tzotzil section sounds.” Page 7:
pants use puppets in their story- reer: “He has earnestly and suc- Antropología e Historia in Mexico of The Great Tzotzil Dictionary Dr. Laughlin died in a hospital in To William E. Proxmire
telling. cessfully returned to the native City, which included fieldwork had been reduced to the lowest Alexandria. In addition to his son, For the fun of it!

Sergei N. Khrushchev, 84, Rocket Scientist and the Son of a Former Soviet Premier
By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE In addition to his work with mis-
Sergei N. Khrushchev, a former siles, he worked on military and
Soviet rocket scientist and the son research spacecraft and moon ve-
of Nikita S. Khrushchev, the Sovi- hicles.
et leader during the Cold War of He was part of an exchange pro-
the 1950s and ’60s, died on June 18 gram at Brown University’s Cen-
at his home in Cranston, R.I. He ter for Foreign Policy Develop-
was 84. ment and later became a senior
The Rhode Island medical ex- fellow at Brown’s Thomas J. Wat-
aminer’s office said the cause was son Institute for International
a gunshot wound to the head, ac- Studies and a fellow at Harvard’s
cording to The Associated Press. John F. Kennedy School of Gov-
The police said there were no ernment. He also taught at the Na-
signs of foul play. His wife, val War College in Newport, R.I.
Valentina Golenko, had called the In addition to his wife (he had
police to report an emergency, and an earlier marriage to Galina Mi-
he was pronounced dead at the khailovna), his survivors include
scene. a son, Sergei, as well as a grand-
NAT FARBMAN/THE LIFE PICTURE COLLECTION VIA GETTY IMAGES M. SPENCER GREEN/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mr. Khrushchev was a rocket daughter. Another son, Nikita,
scientist before he moved to Sergei N. Khrushchev, above, was a young man when he visited an I.B.M. plant in the United States in 1959, accompanying his
from a previous marriage, was a
Rhode Island in 1991, shortly after father, the Soviet leader, on a tour of America. In 2007, right, he spoke about the launch of Sputnik I at an exhibition in Chicago. journalist who died of a stroke in
the dissolution of the Soviet Un- 2007 at 47.
ion, to lecture on the Cold War at cal reforms, U.S.-Soviet relations hung over the planet. Iowa and holding an ear of corn. (His father had six children alto-
Brown University in Providence. from 1950 to 1964, and the history The premier brought his son, Sergei Nikitich Khrushchev gether, by two wives.) Sergei held
He remained a senior fellow there. of the Soviet space program. then 24, with him on the trip. was born on July 2, 1935, in Mos- several advanced engineering de-
He and his wife became natu-
He also helped his father write “Americans who have observed cow. His mother was Nina Petrov- crees, including a doctorate from More obituaries
ralized United States citizens in and talked with him,” The New na (Kukharchuk) Khrushcheva. the Moscow Technical University. appear on Page A26.
his four-volume memoir in Rus-
1999 and held dual citizenships. York Times observed of Sergei
Mr. Khrushchev said in 2001 that sian and then translated it into
English. Khrushchev, “think he gives no
his becoming an American citizen sign of following in his father’s
Nikita Khrushchev was first
would not have displeased his fa-
secretary of the Communist Party footsteps.” Deaths Deaths Deaths
ther, who, in 1956, in the depths of Sergei Khrushchev said years
the Cold War, famously declared of the Soviet Union from 1953 to Gora, Jack Lane, Sally GREENBAUM—Sol, passing of our esteemed
later, in the interview with The alumna, Shirley Adelson
to Western officials, “We will bury Providence Journal, that during
Greenbaum, Sol Siegel, Shirley Siegel '37. A recipient of Bar-
nard's 2019 Medal of Distinc-
you!” that trip his family felt as if they tion at Radio City Music Hall
By the time his son became an had landed on Mars, seeing things
where she was given a stand-

American citizen, the Cold War A naturalized U.S. they had never imagined. “It was
ing ovation, Shirley was ack-
nowledged for her “trailblaz-
ing career as a brilliant civil
was long over.
“I’m not a defector,” Sergei citizen who wrote and palms, cars, highways, every-
thing,” he said. He took home
GORA—Jack.
The Hampton Synagogue
GORA—Jack.
UJA-Federation of New York
rights lawyer, a pioneer in the
fight for the rights of others
mourns the passing of our mourns the passing of Jack and as one who never failed
Khrushchev told The Providence
Journal in 2001. “I’m not a traitor. I
lectured extensively. movies of it all, including Times cherished Benefactor and vi-
sionary Founder. As a Holo-
Gora, beloved husband of
Paula. His legacy will live on
to pursue what is fair, to de-
mand what is just.” Shirley
Square. caust survivor, Jack was pas- in his family's exemplary Adelson Siegel was re-
did not commit any treason. I They were especially baffled by sionate about building and leadership and generosity introduced to Barnard in “Un-
growing Jewish life in the within the Jewish communi- deterred,” a 2018 Barnard Ma-
work here and I like this country.” the concept of Disneyland, then Hamptons. To his beloved ty. We extend our deepest gazine article which brought
Still, he said, he felt that becom- 1964 and chairman of the Council four years old and already a top at- wife Paula, to his children, condolences to Paula, his her new campus friends and
devoted admirers. The entire
Mona and David, and Bonnie daughters Mona Sterling
ing an American citizen had given of Ministers, or premier, from 1958 traction in Southern California. and Tod, and to the entire fa- (David) and Bonnie
95, Mensch, extraordinary
husband, father, grandfather,
Barnard community sends its
condolences to her son, Eric,
him a new lease on life. “I’m feel- to 1964, when he was deposed and When told that his family would mily, our heartfelt sympathy.
His memory will always be
Greenfield (Todd), his grand-
children, great-grandchildren,
great-grandfather. A CPA by daughter Ann, and grandson,
profession, now he numbers
ing like a newborn,” he told The relegated to obscurity. He died in not be allowed to visit the park out a source of blessing and in- and the entire family. among the stars. Private bur-
Samuel Fischer. She will be
spiration. Amy A. B. Bressman, missed by all.
A.P. “It’s the beginning of a new 1971 at 77. of concerns for their safety, the Marc Schneier, President;
ial, celebration of life at a la- Cheryl G. Milstein
ter date. Donations in his ho-
life.” Americans had a close-up look premier exploded in anger: Founding Rabbi David L. Moore, nor may be made to
Chair, Board of Trustees
Sian Leah Beilock
Avraham Bronstein, Rabbi Chair of the Board;
As a rocket engineer and com- at the Soviet leader and his family “What is it? Is there an epidemic Carol Levin, President Eric S. Goldstein, CEO Springbrookny.org. Full obi- President, Barnard College
tuary at
puter scientist in the Soviet Union, in 1959, when he visited the United of cholera there or something? Or http://www.legacy.com/Link.
Mr. Khrushchev played an active States at the invitation of Presi- have gangsters taken hold of the asp?I=LS000196382858X. In Memoriam
role in developing guidance sys- dent Dwight D. Eisenhower. place?” LANE—Sally Kuser,
MARONEY—Catherine T.
born December 15, 1924; died
tems for missiles, including cruise Times were tense: The Soviets At his office at Brown, Sergei June 7, 2020. Widow of Arthur January 7, 1926 - June 25, 2019.
Beloved aunt, cousin and
missiles launched from sub- had beaten the Americans into Khrushchev kept on his wall a S. Lane, mother of seven.
murphyfh.com/obituaries/ friend. Always in our hearts.
marines, from 1958 to 1968. space, launching Sputnik in 1957, framed cover of Life magazine Sally-Lane/
SARACCO—Rudolph.
He then took up writing and lec- and American schoolchildren with an enduring image from that SIEGEL—Shirley Adelson. Died June 25th, 2019. Gone
With heartfelt sadness, the from our lives. Fondly re-
turing. His areas of expertise in- practiced duck-and-cover drills as historic, if somewhat carnival-like Trustees and Administration membered by Paul Burkhart
cluded Soviet economic and politi- the threat of nuclear annihilation trip: his father visiting a farm in of Barnard College mourn the and Carl Koivuniemi.
A24 THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2020

GAIL COLLINS LETTERS

Trump Speaks! And Speaks. And Speaks . . . Are We Getting Too Much Health Care?
TO THE EDITOR: emotional strength. That relation-
Re “The Best Care May Be No ship needs regular attention and
Care,” by Sandeep Jauhar (Op-Ed, needs to develop over time. Medi-
June 23): cine is not Jiffy Lube. It is about
As a physician, I read this Op-Ed people and relationships, and both
with horror. Dr. Jauhar notes that need careful nurturing.
many people have been putting off STEPHANIE TAYLOR, CARMEL, CALIF.
routine medical care during the
The writer, a doctor, practices holistic
coronavirus pandemic because of
medicine.
fear of contracting the virus. He
then proclaims that most people
are doing fine despite not having TO THE EDITOR:
this routine care, citing a survey Dr. Sandeep Jauhar is on to some-
showing that most Americans thing. Americans have hugely
think their health has not been “overmedicalized” everyday life
affected. This shortsighted analy- and normal aging. Many of my
sis has the potential to do harm if contemporaries are desperately
readers are persuaded to forgo seeking medical help because (in
care that they need. their seventh decade) they just
Much of the routine care people don’t have the same “energy” as at
receive in the outpatient setting is 30, or because they have developed
done before a disease manifests a few little aches and pains. None of
symptoms in order to catch it when them have any expectation that
it is more easily treatable. Further- their cars, computers or cellphones
more, ignoring symptoms can have will survive in prime pristine condi-
devastating consequences. Dr. tion until the end. So why should
Jauhar focuses on the cost-saving their shoulders, knees, hearts or
implications of skipping “unneces- brains?
sary” care without explaining the I would expect to find that many,
nuanced but very important differ- or perhaps most, of the millions of
ence between inappropriate and elective treatments postponed
appropriate care. because of Covid-19 were for life-
It is too soon to declare with style rather than health reasons.
confidence the impact of the coro- Let’s start using our vaunted wis-
navirus pandemic on non-Covid- dom of age by looking more hon-
related care. The results of these estly at our expectations. After
decisions will play out over many nearly 70 years, I can’t imagine
years and will certainly not be why anyone would harbor any
reflected in a survey being con- expectation of life with no incon-
ducted just a few months into the veniences, difficulties or annoy-
pandemic. ances. We need to stop trying to
“fix” normalcy.
ERIC SCHWABER, NEW HAVEN, CONN.
DAVID VANDERPOOL, CINCINNATI

TO THE EDITOR:
TO THE EDITOR:
While it is likely true that a small
PETE MAROVICH FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
percentage of surgeries and visits No rushing for the train, bus, air-
are unnecessary, that percentage is plane, no fuming in traffic, no regu-
not the main cause of the increase lating the day by some corporate
DONALD TRUMP THINKS we’re out to get Yeah, Fox News announced “a whop- Even if they’re a little dodgy on the idea of work schedules, no packed
in health care spending. Instead, it
him. ping 7.7 million total viewers” had tuned facts side, the rallies are at least a good elevators. No wonder most people
is administrative costs. Let’s not
“You could say 10 speeches. One little in to listen to Trump speak. Pretty im- way to keep Trump distracted. In Tulsa, with nagging health issues and
blame the doctors.
word, they’ll say: ‘He’s lost it,’ ” the presi- pressive, particularly if you ignore the he was fretting about the ongoing dem- chronic conditions are doing all
If you have ever been ill, you
dent complained during a speech in fact that most of the nation has been onstrations in Seattle. He asked a con- right, as Dr. Sandeep Jauhar says.
know it is long-established, well-
Phoenix this week. locked up at home in a world without gressman who was traveling with him on Maybe better than they were before
cultivated medical relationships
That would presumably be an inaccu- sports broadcasting, having already re- the plane whether he ought to “just go in” the pandemic struck.
that sustain and give comfort and
rate little word. Or something very watched every episode of “Star Trek” and do something to stop the protesters. Had the medical profession un-
weird, like his claim at a famously under- and “Friends.” The reply was: “No, sir, let it simmer fairly been profiting from some
attended event in Tulsa that he’d ordered Still, many of us will remember Tulsa for a little while.” Darned good advice, al- unnecessary appointments, pro-
as That Rally Where Two-Thirds Of The though if he’d gone the other way, maybe cedures, monitoring? Possibly. But
a slowdown in coronavirus testing to Jabs Against Older People those people whose work life
make it seem as if the infection rate was Seats Were Empty. His next appearance, the congressman could have added,
TO THE EDITOR: stopped or took a homeward turn,
smaller. in Arizona, was much more Trump’s cup “And be sure to bring a Bible.” in spite of major inconveniences,
Desperate presidential spinners said of tea: a megachurch packed with cheer- One other thing about that story — it’s Re “Microaggressions: Death by a
financial woes, and the loneliness
that was just a joke. “I don’t kid,” Trump an example of how Trump likes to lace Thousand Cuts” (Smarter Living,
and boredom of staying home
retorted. his rallies with anecdotes in which peo- June 15):
month after month, have in the
Hahna Yoon provides many
Tulsa was, according to the president,
the beginning of his re-election cam-
At least those rallies keep ple call him “sir.” There were 11 “sirs” in
the Tulsa speech alone. examples of these seemingly small
main been living a far less stressful
life.
paign. He’s actually shot off the starting him off the streets. Daniel Dale, a CNN reporter who’s jabs thrown at us because of un-
derlying assumptions about gen- LISA MCCANN
gun several times before. But it does feel been following this tic for a long time, REDDING RIDGE, CONN.
as if we’re in a new phase. Those big ral- theorized that “sir” was a hint that what- der and ethnicity. But left out were
ing fans who generally ignored all the of- examples of the microaggressions
lies are Trump’s very favorite part of be- ever anecdote Trump was telling was ac-
ficial pleas for masking. thrown at older people.
ing the leader of the most powerful na- tually fictional. But it’s also pretty clear
Older Americans are regularly
tion on the globe. He’s been locked down Most of the audience was young. Hav- that the president just loves stories in
asked by strangers, “Are you re- E.U. Plan to Bar Americans
for months now, confined mainly to gath- ing lured them into endangering their which people are addressing him as if he
health for his ego, Trump entertained tired?” Organizations dealing with TO THE EDITOR:
erings in which other people occasion- were, say, a general.
large populations of older people Re “As E.U. Opens, It Aims to Keep
ally get to talk. them with tales of his heroic efforts to Trump’s been spending a lot of time often assume that all their clients Americans Out” (front page, June
He needs his screaming fans, even if drain the political swamp. “I never knew trying to beat down that image of him at have hearing problems, setting the 24) and “Trump to Halt Worker
this is a terrible idea, healthwise. Six it was so deep — it’s deep and thick and a West Point this month, leaving the stage default volume for automated
lot of bad characters,” he confided. Visas Through 2020” (front page,
members of Trump’s advance team got with an old-guy totter down the ramp. phone responses painfully high.
Well, there aren’t many swamp crit- June 23):
sick while doing the planning, and now at The fake news, he insisted, cut off all the And of course store clerks may use President Trump has issued an
least two other staffers tested positive. ters more appalling than Roger Stone, film that showed him running — run- “diner talk” like “sweetie” when executive order to deny work visas
You’re not going to get this guy to stay the political fixer who spent part of the ning! — for the last 10 feet. “I looked very addressing older people. to foreigners, and now it seems as
home. He needs to compliment himself in 2016 presidential campaign trying to get handsome,” he observed to the crowd. Finally, the behavior of older though the E.U. has a message of
front of thousands of people. Lacing into information for the Trump forces about Later, Trump asked Melania what the people is often monitored, espe- its own that counters his. Ameri-
the Democratic “elite,” Trump assured Hillary Clinton’s emails. reaction to his West Point speech was. cially in regard to the use of com- cans may be blocked from entering
his audience that he is more elite than Stone was convicted of lying to Con- She assured him that the media wasn’t puters, which it is assumed that E.U. countries because the United
anybody. “I look better than them. Much gress and attempting to intimidate a wit- saying much about his address but “they they are inept at. The recent States has failed to keep the
more handsome. Got better hair than ness — in part by threatening to kidnap mention the fact that you may have switch to working from home spread of Covid-19 under control.
they do. I got nicer properties. I got nicer the guy’s therapy dog. Parkinson’s disease.” brought with it seemingly innocent Imagine, the United States is
houses. I got nicer apartments. I got As swamp residents go, Stone would He referred to Melania as “my wife,” checks on older workers like: “I lumped with Brazil and Russia as
nicer everything.” maybe be the equivalent of a 5-foot-11- which is, I guess, nicer than “the old ball know you don’t like being online. countries unable to stop the spread
And, for sure, a bigger ego. After he inch mosquito. But on Wednesday a fed- and chain.” Interesting, though, that she How are you doing? Are you going of the virus.
finished raging to his staff about the tiers eral prosecutor told Congress that he didn’t feel compelled to deliver any good to be OK?” What sweet justice this must be
of empty seats in Tulsa, the president an- and his associates had been told they news. Maybe when you have to live with Younger employees probably for all those who have been or will
nounced the night had been a historical could be fired if they didn’t go easy when an ego that large, you try to chip away don’t receive that. be denied entry to the United
smash hit: “No. 1 show in Fox history for it came to sentencing. On account of how, every little chance you get. REBECCA S. FAHRLANDER
States.
a Saturday night.” you know, Stone was the president’s pal. And she didn’t call him “sir.” 0 BELLEVUE, NEB. DORIS FENIG, BOCA RATON, FLA.

ROSS DOUTHAT

The Second Defeat of Bernie Sanders

THREE MONTHS AGO, Bernie Sanders tugged Sanders toward the cultural left, heart of the current protests doesn’t fit is suggestive of its limits. The tumult is buying up the works of Ibram X. Kendi
lost his chance at the Democratic nomi- dooming his quest for a broader work- this caricature. But the action around it, obviously a threat to certain people’s aren’t going to bus their kids to minority
nation. But the developments of the last ing-class insurgency. the anti-racist reckoning unfolding in jobs: The revolutionaries need scape- neighborhoods. In five years, 2020’s leg-
month, the George Floyd protests and Now we’re watching a different sort of colleges, media organizations, corpora- goats, wrongthinkers to cast down, su- acy will probably be a cadre of commis-
their cultural repercussions, may prove insurgency, one founded on an intersec- tions and public parks, may seem more perannuated figures to retire with preju- sars getting people fired for unwise Twit-
his more significant defeat. In the winter tional and racial vision that never came unifying than the Sanders revolution dice. But they aren’t out to dissolve Har- ter likes, not any dramatic interracial
he merely lost a nomination; in the sum- naturally to Sanders. Rather than Medi- precisely because it isn’t as threatening vard or break up Google or close The wealth redistribution.
mer he may be losing the battle for the care for All and taxing plutocrats, the ral- to power. New York Times; they’re out to rule You can dismiss this critique as the
future of the left. lying cry is racial justice and defunding The fact that corporations seem par- these institutions, with more enlighten- usual conservative allergy to the fresh
Throughout his career, Sanders has the police. Instead of finding nemeses in ticularly enthusiastic is perhaps the tell. ment but the same fundamental powers. air of revolution. But it’s also what old-
stood for the proposition that left-wing corporate suites, the intersectional revo- It’s not that corporate America is deeply And many changes the protesters seek, guard leftism would predict of a revolu-
politics after the 1970s allowed its central lution finds them on antique pedestals the establishment can happily accom- tionary movement that has the estab-
purpose — the class struggle, the war and atop the cultural establishment. modate: Few influential people will feel lishment on board.
against the “millionaires and billion- particularly threatened if statues of pre-
aires” — to be obscured by cultural bat-
So far, this revolution has been more
unifying than Sanders’s version — unit-
He may be losing World War II presidents and Franciscan
The destiny of liberalism, for some
time now, has looked like handshake
tles and displaced by a pro-Wall Street
economic program. This shift has made
ing the Democratic establishment that the battle for the missionaries come crashing down.
So the likely endgame of all this turbu-
agreements among corporate, academic
once closed ranks against him, earning and media power centers, with progres-
left-of-center parties in the West more
upper class and conservatism more blue
support from just about every major cor- future of the left. lence is some redistribution of high-pro-
file jobs to a more racially diverse young- sive rhetoric deployed either reassur-
collar, but Sanders argued that the trans- porate and cultural institution, sending er generation, the abolition of perceived ingly or threateningly to keep discon-
formation need not be permanent: A left anti-racism titles rocketing up the best- committed to racial equality; even for impediments to the management of elite tented factions within the elite in line.
that recovered the language of class con- seller list. woke capital, the capitalism comes first. diversity (adieu, SAT) and the inculca- The promise of the Sanders campaign
flict could rally a majority against plutoc- All this, from one perspective, vindi- Rather, anti-racism as a cultural curricu- tion of a new elite language that will de- was that the insights of the older left, on
racy and win. cates critics who said Sanders’s revolu- lum is relatively easy to fold into the lineate the professional class more deci- class solidarity above all, could alter this
The 2016 Sanders primary campaign, tion was too class-bound and race-blind mechanisms of managerialism. The idea sively from the unenlightened proles be- depressing future and make the newer
which won white, working-class voters all along. of retraining your employees so they can low. left more than just a diversifier of capi-
who had been drifting from the Demo- But the longer arc of this insurgency work together without microaggressing Yes, critics of structural racism have talism’s corporate boards.
crats, seemed to vindicate this argu- may still end up vindicating the socialist isn’t Marxism; it’s just a form of an agenda for economic reform as well. The current wave of protests will have
ment. The 2020 version, however, made critique of post-1970s liberalism — that Fordism, with white-fragility gurus in But that agenda isn’t what’s being ad- unpredictable consequences. But right
it look more dubious: His most passion- it’s obsessed with cultural power at the place of efficiency experts. vanced: Chuck Schumer will take a knee now, their revolution’s conspicuous elite
ate supporters — highly educated, eco- expense of economic transformation. In our cultural institutions, too, the of- in kente cloth, but he isn’t likely to pass a support seems like strong evidence that
nomically disappointed urbanites — The demand for police reform at the ficial enthusiasm for the new radicalism reparations bill, and the white liberals Bernie Sanders failed. 0
 THE NEW YORK TIMES OP-ED THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2020 N A25

The Deadly
may vote Democratic and plant racial soli-
darity signs in their front yards, but often
resist higher densities that can increase
the affordable housing supply.

Fantasy Civil rights issues, particularly meas-

ures to combat anti-black racism, can be
subsumed by broader social justice agen-
das. The city’s most prominent voice on

Of Brexit the left in recent years is Kshama Sawant,

a socialist elected to the City Council in
2013. She has focused much of her ire on
Seattle’s high-tech employers and the poli-
Samuel Earle ticians who support them. As protests es-
LONDON calated in recent weeks, Ms. Sawant frus-
trated some allies by renewing her push

B
ORIS JOHNSON was supposed to for an “Amazon tax” on large employers to
be the prime minister to “liber- bolster homelessness initiatives. After the
ate” Britain, not to lock it down. tax became a rallying cry at a recent Sa-
When he was elected in De- want-led demonstration at City Hall, one
cember, his mandate was simple: “Get protester asked in exasperation, “I want
Brexit done.” But on Jan. 31, as Britain for- to tax Amazon too, but can we please for
mally left the European Union, it quietly once focus on black lives?”
recorded its first two cases of Covid-19. Similar patterns have shaped politics
Covid-19 has now officially claimed and opportunity in other seemingly pro-
more than 43,000 lives in Britain. That’s gressive cities. In Minneapolis, the pov-
more than anywhere else in Europe, and erty and police violence that killed George
one of the highest death tolls per capita in Floyd are legacies of a century of racial
the world. segregation, enforced by restrictive cov-
As Britain reopens — a major loosening enants, zoning and an Interstate highway
of restrictions was announced on Tuesday that sliced through the city’s largest black
— the conclusion is unavoidable: Mr. neighborhood. A comparable mix of public
Johnson and his cabinet have mishandled policies and local prejudice have main-
the pandemic, with devastating conse- tained segregation and inequality in Oak-
quences. But as the death toll mounts, the land and San Francisco, Chicago and
dream of Brexit and its toxic legacy live Washington, Los Angeles and New York.
on. The fantasies behind Brexit — of na- Nevertheless, this looks like a moment
tional captivity and liberation — have pro- when Seattle and other cities like it might
pelled Britain toward its current calamity. RUTH FREMSON/THE NEW YORK TIMES move past their histories of racism and ex-
In the fever dreams of many British clusion. Almost every day for weeks, Se-

Seattle Is No Progressive Paradise

Conservatives, the country has been in attle has had peaceful marches, organized
lockdown for decades. Long before the co- and led by black and minority activists,
ronavirus forced everyone to shelter in but drawing heavily white crowds. Silent
place, they believed the entire country marches organized by Black Lives Matter
was a captive of the European Union, brought nearly 85,000 people to the re-
which wielded a power both arbitrary and population but well over half of the drug- he assured anxious readers, “law and or-
Margaret O’Mara related arrests. The Police Department der are supreme in our city.” gion’s streets one recent, rain-drenched
pervasive over a once sovereign state. SEATTLE Friday. “B.L.M.” and “Silence=Violence”
Escaping captivity was a central theme was placed under federal oversight in 2011 Paul Schell, who was mayor during the
after incidents of excessive use of force on 1999 protests, was less pugnacious in his signs have sprouted along the roads in af-

S
of the 2016 Brexit campaign and of negoti- EATTLE’S police-free “autono- fluent suburbs. Similar scenes are playing
nonwhite residents. The public schools analysis but remained reluctant to con-
ations with the bloc. In March 2019, Mr. mous zone” is coming to an end. out across the country.
here are more segregated than they were demn the police. “I wish everybody had
Johnson called on Prime Minister The- After two largely peaceful This extraordinary swell of activism is
three decades ago. Less than three weeks behaved themselves,” Mr. Schell later re-
resa May to “say to Pharaoh in Brussels: weeks, shootings over the last sev- happening in Seattle for many of the same
ago, the police sprayed protesters with flected. “And that it would have been more
‘Let my people go.’” eral days near the Capitol Hill Organized reasons it is happening elsewhere: horror
tear gas on the same streets now given civilized.”
Alas, Mrs. May failed to free our people. Protest area, CHOP for short, left a 19- at police violence, anger at Covid-19’s in-
over to the teach-ins and community gar- But the story here goes beyond political
But Mr. Johnson, her successor, promised year-old man dead and three others dens of CHOP. leadership. It involves deep, systemic ra- equities, the pent-up energy created by
to deliver our long-awaited liberation. He wounded. Mayor Jenny Durkan an- There is, to be sure, a radical streak in months of lockdown. Another factor is the
campaigned for the December general nounced on Monday that the city would the city’s history. In 1919, Seattle shut energy unleashed during the Trump era.
election on a promise to “unleash” Britain. retake the abandoned police precinct at down for five days as 60,000 unionized From the Women’s Marches to March for
Under a Conservative government led by the heart of the zone and wind down the workers walked off the job in a general The city has a history Our Lives to Black Lives Matter, progres-
Mr. Johnson, Britain would break free. occupation.
The Conservative Party romped home. In its brief life, CHOP has reinforced Se-
strike. In the 1930s, the Communist Party
was so ascendant here that James Farley,
of racism. This could sives have gotten familiar with inking up
protest signs and putting on their march-
With a towering new majority, Mr. John-
son appeared to be unassailable.
attle’s reputation as a quirky left-coast
bastion of strong coffee and strong pro-
a close adviser to President Franklin
Roosevelt, said that “there are 47 states in
be a turning point. ing shoes.
What comes next? Will Seattle and
Then came the pandemic. Unable to gressive politics. Many white Seattleites the Union, and the Soviet of Washington.” other cities embrace the changes neces-
tamp down his trademark combination of like to think of their city that way too. But Huge anti-globalization marches cial inequalities baked into the fabric of sary to end racist policing? Will citizens
bluff and bravado, Mr. Johnson struggled its progressive appearance is deceiving. greeted delegates to the World Trade Or- this overwhelmingly white city. change their everyday lives to match the
to match the seriousness of the situation. It is a city and region with a long history ganization meeting here in 1999, causing a “For most of its history,” James Greg- ideals that propelled them out into the
Boasting of shaking hands with Covid-19 of racism, of violent marginalization, and partial shutdown of the conference and ory, a historian, observes, “Seattle was a streets?
of pushing back against more radical such a ferociously violent police response segregated city, as committed to white su- Clearly something remarkable is
movements for social change. It is, in that the chief was forced to retire. premacy as any location in America.” blooming in this season of pandemic and
Britain’s lockdown short, much like the rest of America. But these movements often have been Discriminatory mortgage lending and protest. It is forcing our city to reckon with
The global protests of the last few squelched by pushback from political racially restrictive covenants limited Se-
animates Brexiteers more weeks have rightly generated the feeling leaders, even those who once were allies. attle’s nonwhite population to a single
truths that can and should make white cit-
izens like me uncomfortable, and that re-
than anything else. that the world is at a turning point on re-
dressing racial inequities. This moment
Mayor Ole Hanson, who led Seattle during
the 1919 general strike, once had been a la-
neighborhood, the Central District. Fair
housing laws opened up new parts of the
mind us just how much Seattle is like the
rest of America: impossibly divided, and
has great possibilities, but the history of bor-friendly moderate, but quickly turned city and suburbs to minority homeowners impossibly full of hope. 0
Seattle and other seemingly progressive into an implacable union foe. “The Soviet and renters after the 1960s, but Seattle’s
patients, he demurred from imposing a places should make us realize that change government of Russia, duplicated here, overwhelmingly single-family zoning lim- MARGARET O’MARA is a professor of his-
nationwide lockdown, even as cases be- is not that simple. was their plan,” he wrote in an essay pub- ited the housing available to new buyers. tory at the University of Washington and
gan to stack up. A 2008 report found that black people lished on the front page of The New York Such zoning has been remarkably diffi- the author of “The Code: Silicon Valley
“We live in a land of liberty,” Mr. John- make up less than 10 percent of Seattle’s Times shortly after the strike’s end. Now, cult to change. The region’s homeowners and the Remaking of America.”
son said on March 18, as countries across
Europe followed Italy into lockdown. Two
days later, as he announced the closing of
pubs, bars and restaurants, he noted “how
it seems to go against the freedom-loving
NICHOLAS KRISTOF
instincts of the British people.”
The people disagreed. When a lock-
down was declared on March 23, public
support for the policy was at 93 percent. It
Trump Is Feeding America’s Coronavirus Nightmare
remained high for the next two months, PRESIDENT TRUMP SAYS the coronavirus is “fading Covid-19 Cases On the Rise
even as much of the press focused on eas- away” and pats himself on the back for “a great job on
ing restrictions. Britons, it turned out, did The hardest-hit states in the Northeast and Midwest saw declines, but most saw cases rise in June.
CoronaVirus” that saved “millions of U.S. lives.”
not value their liberty above their lives. “It’s going away,” Trump said Tuesday at a packed Change in new cases
But Mr. Johnson did, to lethal effect. megachurch in Phoenix where few people wore masks.
-75 0 +25 +50 +75%
Twenty thousand people, according to one That’s what delusion sounds like. We need a Churchill
estimate, would still be alive if the prime to lead our nation against a deadly challenge; instead,
minister had imposed lockdown sooner. we have a president who helps an enemy virus infiltrate
It was a calamitous misjudgment, but our churches and homes. Churchill and Roosevelt
not necessarily a surprising one. Mr. John- worked to deceive the enemy; Trump is trying to deceive
son’s reluctance to institute a lockdown us.
and his enthusiasm for Brexit are of a For a reality check, look at this map by my colleague
piece. Brexit is born of a mind-set that, at Nathaniel Lash showing how much of America is trend-
root, doesn’t like being told what to do: It ing in the wrong direction.
imagines a dream state where neither the A few glimpses of the challenge:
island nation nor its citizens are responsi- ■ Texas, California, Arizona and four other states re-
ble to anyone except themselves. ported record numbers of cases this week.
This freewheeling style of politics ■ Some 27 states, by the count of the Times tracker, are
comes naturally to Mr. Johnson, but it is ill reporting increasing numbers of new cases. Ten states In 11 states,
suited to dealing with a pandemic. One of and Washington, D.C., are reporting declining numbers, new cases
more than
the infamous claims of the Brexit cam- with the rest holding steady. doubled.
paign was that “the people in this country ■ Arizona, where Trump held his rally, now has the high-
have had enough of experts.” Now Mr. est number of new cases per day per million population,
Johnson, who contracted Covid-19 in and the highest share of positive test results.
March and has since recovered, and his Black Lives Matter protests do not seem to have
band of true believers appear at news con- spread the virus much, perhaps because they were held
ferences flanked by scientists from SAGE, outside and many participants wore masks. The virus is
Note: Compares the average of new cases for the 14 days ending June 8 with the 14 days ending June 22.
the Scientific Advisory Group for Emer- spreading most quickly in Trump Country in the South Source: New York Times collection of data from state and local health agencies and hospitals THE NEW YORK TIMES
gencies. and Southwest and in both red and blue states in the
The dissonance, jarring to observe, has West.
produced an incoherent response. Claim- “The next couple of weeks are going to be critical in United States Failing to Flatten the Curve
ing at all times to be “led by the science,” our ability to address those surges that we’re seeing in Other regions that saw a similar steep rise in cases have
the government has frequently changed Florida, in Texas, in Arizona, and other states,” Dr. An- ‘It’s going away’ only in brought their epidemics under control.
its position and then denied doing so, of-
fering the public confusing and ambigu-
thony Fauci told a congressional hearing on Tuesday.
The rest of the world is watching aghast.
the president’s delusion. 100 new cases
ous guidance. “What’s happened in the U.S. is utterly tragic, and per million people United
Testing was the order of the day, and seems like a consequence of appalling leadership and in- States
fied then by how few Arizonans wore masks. Now we see
then it wasn’t, and then was again. Masks competent government,” said Devi Sridhar, an Ameri- 80
the consequences.
were not to be worn, until they were (and can who is a professor of global health at the University
of Edinburgh. “Those of us abroad are watching in hor- Deaths are still below their peaks because for now it’s
then only sometimes). People were told disproportionately younger people getting sick. That
not to go to work, unless they could. ror, disbelief and pity.” 60 European Union
“This is a warning to other countries of the dangers of may change.
Schools could safely return, and then “I wonder how many fathers got a Father's Day
they couldn’t. Britain would have a “world the virus going out of control,” she said.
The European Union is even preparing to bar Ameri- present from their kids — this virus,” reflected Michael Canada
beating” tracing system, except it would- 40
can visitors because of the United States’ failure to man- T. Osterholm, a University of Minnesota epidemiologist.
n’t. And so on, for everything from quaran-
age the coronavirus properly. Visitors from countries While some epidemiologists expect a second wave to
tining new arrivals to pursuing a policy of
that have controlled the virus better, like Vietnam, Cuba arrive this fall, Osterholm foresees more of a relentless
“herd immunity.” 20
and Uganda, will be welcome. toll of sickness and death. He anticipates spikes in this
Even now, with so many dead and
That’s humiliating for the United States, but it should city or that — he fears Houston may become the next Australia
around 1,000 new cases of infection each
be a wake-up call as well. Europe is right to fear Ameri- New York — but not much of a reprieve.
day, it’s Britain’s lockdown that animates
can visitors. The United States hasn’t brought down case “I think it’s going to keep going on,” he told me. But he
Brexiteers more than anything else. No March 15 June 24
numbers the way European countries have, and seems also emphasizes that even the experts don’t really un-
surprise there: They have been locked up
to simply accept a vast continuing toll of deaths. derstand the virus or know what to anticipate.
for decades, trapped in the prison of their Note: Shows 7-day rolling average of newly reported cases.
Look at this graph of new Covid-19 cases in the Euro- His advice: Be humble and be bold, and make rigorous Source: Our World in Data
own anxieties, and still hanker to be set THE NEW YORK TIMES
pean Union versus the United States, with Canada and preparations.
free.
Australia thrown in for good measure: We don’t know for sure, but the post-peak experience
The irony is that, according to mod- “With smaller testing, we would show fewer cases!”
eling, Britain’s lockdown would have been The United States is now reporting new cases at nine from New York and Europe as well as from street pro-
times the rate of Europe, per million people. tests offers some guidance: If people wear masks, dis- Yes, and by ending cancer screenings, we would re-
briefer if it had been imposed earlier. Lib- duce cancer rates. By locking hospital doors, we would
erty and lives were lost because of Mr. In the New York region, memories are fresh, people tance as much as possible and avoid mixing indoors, it
are scared and the virus is under control. But in much of just might be possible to keep the virus in check. reduce hospitalizations. And if we stopped issuing death
Johnson’s avowed love of liberty.
the rest of the country, the virus initially seemed remote, Instead, our president refuses to wear a mask and certificates, Americans would achieve immortality!
It’s a grim irony, and it exposes an un-
and people relaxed in ways that are now leading to a cri- brings people together indoors to cheer his newest pro- That’s the kind of strategizing that has led the United
happy truth. The biggest threat to Brit-
ain’s freedom is Britain itself. 0 sis. posed strategy, which in his words is “slow the testing States, with 4 percent of the world’s population, to expe-
I passed through Phoenix twice last month to report down.” After aides rushed to say he was joking, Trump rience one-quarter of the deaths worldwide from the co-
SAMUEL EARLE is a journalist. on Covid-19 cases in the Navajo Nation, and I was horri- denied that, saying, “I don’t kid.” He amplified in a tweet: ronavirus — and instead of “fading away,” it’s surging. 0
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Kirk R. Smith, a Towering Figure in Environmental Science, Is Dead at 73

By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE firewood, charcoal and cow dung few decades, several other coun- was 4 when his parents divorced.
When Kirk R. Smith began his to heat stoves threatened the tries have moved to cleaner cook- His mother married James Smith,
research career in the 1970s, he health of people in underdevel- ing fuels. an engineer, in the mid-1950s, and
was studying the health risks oped rural areas. Dr. Smith’s advances were Robert Kirk Nisbet soon changed
posed by nuclear power. But after As part of that work, he made widely recognized. He was elected his name to Kirk Robert Smith.
a trip to rural parts of Asia, he de- the startling discovery that on av- to the National Academy of Sci- He grew up in and around
tected an even bigger threat, af- erage, cookstoves release the ences in 1997 and won numerous Berkeley and Oakland until the
fecting more people: toxic fumes smoke equivalent of 400 ciga- awards, including the 2012 Tyler family moved to Marin County in
being spewed from the solid fuels rettes per hour. Prize for Environmental Achieve- the late ’50s. His new next-door
that heat the humble chulha, a About three billion people cook ment, often called the Nobel Prize neighbor, Joan Diamond, became
small indoor cooking stove made with and heat their homes with of environment. his wife in 1977.
of mud and clay and used by more these dirty fuels, according to the She and their daughter survive
As it happened, Dr. Smith was
than 40 percent of the world’s pop- World Health Organization, which him, as do two grandchildren and
also a recipient of an actual Nobel.
ulation. has said that the effects of house- three half brothers, Scott Nisbet
As part of a team of scientists, he and Mark and Thaddeus Smith.
He then began to focus on what hold pollution kill four million peo- shared the Nobel Peace Prize in
ple a year. They die of strokes, Kirk Smith earned three de-
he called household air pollution. 2007 with former Vice President
heart disease, lung cancer, pneu- grees from Berkeley: a bachelor
When asked why he was turning Al Gore. The team — the Intergov-
monia and other ailments. of arts in physics and astronomy
away from nuclear power, he ernmental Panel on Climate
Dr. Smith saw that the fumes in 1968, a master of public health
would reply, “The risks are too Change, a United Nations body —
from cookstoves threatened not
AJAY PILLARISETTI in environmental health sciences
small.” was cited by the Nobel committee
only the people who work around Kirk R. Smith in 2017. He was among the first scientists to identify in 1972 and a doctorate in biomedi-
This led to his mantra and be- for creating “an ever-broader in- cal and environmental health in
came the advice he gave to his stu- the stoves all day — mostly poor the health hazards caused by cookstoves in developing nations.
formed consensus about the con- 1977.
dents: “Follow the risk.” women and children — but the en- nection between human activities That year he moved to Hawaii,
In doing just that, Dr. Smith was tire planet, with toxic emissions top scholar,” Justin Remais, chair health in India and Nepal, said in where he founded and led the en-
among the first scientists to iden- contributing to outdoor air pollu- of the division of environmental an interview. He understood, she ergy program at the East-West
tify the health hazards caused by tion and exacerbating the effects health sciences at the Berkeley said, that if the new stoves were Center, an institution for research
cookstoves in developing nations.
With scores of studies and meticu-
of climate change.
“We’ve realized that pollution
School of Public Health, said in an
email.
only marginally better, people
wouldn’t use them, and that only
‘We’ve realized that and education on problems in the
Asia-Pacific region.
lous measurements, he defined may start in the kitchen, but it
doesn’t stay there,” he said in an
In addition to identifying prob- something with more obvious pollution may start in Back in Berkeley in the late
the field of household air pollution lems, Dr. Smith sought solutions. benefits would make a difference. ’90s, he joined the faculty of the
and established such pollution as interview last year with Berkeley He initially thought the answer In a major pivot, unusual for the kitchen, but it Berkeley School of Public Health.
one of the leading causes of dis- News, the university’s news web-
ease and death in the developing site. “It goes outside, it goes next
to household air pollution was bet-
ter cookstoves. But he came to see
such a prominent scientist, Dr.
Smith reset his goal and cam- doesn’t stay there.’ He was the founder and director of
the university’s global health and
world. door, it goes down the street, and it that replacing old stoves with new paigned instead for cleaner fuels environment program and the as-
He also raised an early voice of becomes part of the general out- ones would take decades, particu- like liquefied petroleum gas, or sociate director for international
warning about the impact of cli- door air pollution.” larly on the massive scale needed, LPG. programs at the university’s Cen-
and global warming.”
mate change on public health. He found that at least one- and that many lives would be lost In India, where 700 million peo- ter for Occupational and Envi-
Berkeley has a tradition of giv-
Dr. Smith died on June 15 at his fourth of the diseases in the world before such a transformation ple relied on the old stoves, he ronmental Health.
are caused by environmental fac- ing parking spaces to its Nobel
home in Berkeley, Calif. He was 73. could take place. spent years collaborating with He was a man of many inter-
tors like air pollution, water pollu- laureates. Dr. Smith joked that be-
His wife, Joan Diamond, said Moreover, he realized, the new colleagues and building relation- ests, including beekeeping. But
tion, lack of sanitation and chemi- cause he was one of hundreds of
the cause was cardiac arrest fol- stoves, at least those that were af- ships. He was finally able to help the environment remained his
lowing a stroke. cals in the workplace — all factors persuade local governments to scientists on the winning team, he
fordable, would not dramatically overriding focus.
Dr. Smith was a pre-eminent that could be controlled. improve health. make LPG more widely available. should get a parking space for one
Along with his scientific
global health researcher at the “Kirk led the world to greater “He spent a lot of time thinking In 2016, Dr. Smith said, India in- day a year. courses, he taught a beloved un-
University of California, Berkeley, understanding of the envi- about and learning from the expe- stituted a national program to dis- Dr. Smith was born Robert Kirk dergraduate seminar on envi-
where he taught in the School of ronment’s outsized role in health, riences of the people he was try- tribute clean-burning stoves and Nisbet on Jan. 19, 1947, in Berke- ronmental disasters in postapoca-
Public Health. He was best known not the least of which was due to ing to help,” his daughter, Nadia propane to 80 million impover- ley. His father, Robert Nisbet, was lyptic fiction. And his idea of a va-
for recognizing and quantifying the burning of dirty household fu- Diamond-Smith, who works in ished households, or about 500 a lawyer, and his mother, Ruth cation was to take his family to
how toxic emissions from burning els, on which Kirk was the world’s global maternal and reproductive million people. And over the last (Griffin) Nisbet, a homemaker. He Chernobyl.

WILLIAM ABRANOWICZ WILLIAM ABRANOWICZ

Paul Fortune’s boldface clients included Holly and Eric Montgomery, for their home in the Berkshires, left, and Charlotte Ronson and Nate Ruess, for their home in Lower Manhattan, right.

Paul Fortune, 69, Interior Designer to the Stars and Ringmaster of a Social Circus
By GUY TREBAY cite cactus lamps (Barbra called, his brother, Mark Fearon, “Paul’s taste was so extraordi- Neutra house in Los Angeles. “He
Streisand bought one for a baby said in an email. Mr. Fearon and nary and singular,” said Marc Ja- cared about it as a life-enhancing
While the terms that tended to
attach themselves to Paul Fortune shower), who directed music vid- Deploying charm, his Mr. Brock are his survivors. cobs, whose triplex in Paris, town- thing.”
— style guru, epitome of taste, eos in the early days of MTV, and
who photographed Annie Lennox
chiseled good looks As a youth, Mr. Fortune often
dragged his three siblings to coun-
house in New York and new home
— Frank Lloyd Wright’s 1955 Hoff-
That was clearest at his home in
Laurel Canyon, an ongoing ex-
acme of chic, arbiter elegantia-
rum — had about them a whiff of for a Eurythmics album cover. and an English accent try house sales and auctions, Mr. man House in Rye, N.Y. — were all periment improvised within the
P.T. Barnum, his tax returns said As a devoted hedonist with a Fearon explained, not only help- designed by Paul Fortune. “I’m so eccentric frame of a hillside haci-
“interior designer,” a job descrip- can-do spirit, he helped create and as his tools. ing his parents furnish Cranwood, stubborn about what I want, but enda built by the man who once
tion that failed to capture his promote two of Los Angeles’s but also showing an unwavering there are a few people, very few, designed the sets for “Mutiny on
larger calling as a self-appointed more celebrated night clubs. conviction about the correctness who make me rethink something I the Bounty.”
ringmaster in the social circus of The first, the louche Fake Club While he would eventually ac- of his own taste. This was to be an like. In that sense, Paul was a per- With its cozy Paul McCobb
Los Angeles. of the early 1980s, was situated in quire some of the affectations of a earmark of his design practice fect sparring partner.” chairs, earth-toned colors and
Mr. Fortune died on June 15 in a Trailways bus depot on a stretch swell, he was born Paul Stephen and recurring theme in “Notes on The director Sofia Coppola, warmly enveloping domestic
Ojai, Calif., at 69. His death, of car- of Cahuenga Boulevard where Fortune Fearon on Sept. 5, 1950, in Décor, Etc.,” a 2018 book he wrote whose New York townhouse was aura, the Laurel Canyon house —
diac arrest, was first announced sidewalk stabbings were not un- a suburb of Liverpool, England, to that was equal parts portfolio, designed by Mr. Fortune, added, where he lived for 35 years before
on the website of Architectural Di- known. “Come as you aren’t,” was Frances (Fortune) Fearon, a tele- memoir and how-to. “I’m such a control freak, but with selling it in 2013 to the musician
gest, where he was regularly the unwritten code of the Fake phone operator, and Kevin Mr. Fortune, who was of Irish Paul, I just said, ‘Do whatever you Nate Ruess and his wife, the de-
listed among the top 100 profes- Club, which opened in 1982, four Fearon, a production manager at descent, attended Catholic school think.’” signer Charlotte Ronson — was a
sionals in his field, and confirmed years after Mr. Fortune first drove a company that supplied Christ- and served as an altar boy, then In reality Mr. Fortune seldom visual antidote to the steroidal
by his husband, the ceramist across country to a city where, as mas hampers to Harrods. fled to London and had a brief considered doing otherwise, an bloat now blighting residential
Chris Brock. he explained to Vanity Fair in Jan- When he was still a boy, Mr. For- stint in art school before continu- approach that may have cost him Los Angeles.
Both professionally and person- uary: “There was space, freedom, tune’s family relocated to a large ing his journey to New York and, as many clients as it gained. And it served as a proving
ally, Mr. Fortune attracted to him a more sunshine than I knew was and ramshackle house in eventually, the West. “I just “What I love about Paul is that ground for concepts he would de-
wide array of types, including the possible. It was like a big, weird Cheshire, England, within earshot wanted to take drugs and have sex he just didn’t give a damn about ploy most successfully at the
boldface clients (Sofia Coppola, blank canvas and I could paint of the lion’s roar at the Chester and run around and have a good design as a career,” said David Tower Bar: brass-inlaid panels
Marc Jacobs, David Fincher, Bri- myself into the picture.” Zoo. “Paul’s natural flair was a time,” Mr. Fortune said on a de- Netto, a designer who chose Mr. that frame geometric Art Deco
an Grazer, Aileen Getty) on whom The second club, the moody Les driving force” in the restoration of sign podcast last year. But he was Fortune as his collaborator when windows with cinematic views
he staked his reputation; billion- Deux Café, was created in collabo- Cranwood, as the house was more serious than that. he restored a landmark Richard over the city; lampshades lined in
aires and busboys; socialites and ration with the designer Michèle puce-colored silk that cast flatter-
drug dealers; artists and writers; Lamy and installed at Mr. For- ing light on even the most surgi-
celebrities and the attractive no- tune’s direction inside an Arts and cally adjusted of faces; Ultra-
bodies that still flock to Los Ange- Crafts bungalow cum crack house, suede banquettes that soften to
les seeking fame. resurrected and transported by whispers ruthless conversations
Back when he was taking his truck across a parking lot to a new about status recalibrated daily in
first steps toward stardom, a cer- locale. the trades.
tain unknown British actor named And it was at Les Deux Cafe, “Paul understood the framing,”
Daniel Craig bunked in the guest with its self-aware design quota- Jeff Klein, the owner of the Sunset
room of Mr. Fortune’s storied Lau- tions from Old Hollywood Tower hotel and its Tower Bar,
rel Canyon house. nightspots like Chasen’s, Scandia said.
With his square-jawed good and the Brown Derby, that Mr. One of Mr. Fortune’s inspired
looks, English accent and acerbic Fortune laid the groundwork for strokes in designing Tower Bar,
wit, Mr. Fortune was himself a what is probably his signal Mr. Klein noted, was to comb local
character who seemed plucked achievement: the design of the memorabilia shops for movie
from Central Casting, the kind of Tower Bar, the clubby, walnut- stills, which he then annotated
actor capable of slotting into any paneled dining establishment that and had framed.
role. opened in 2007 and quickly be- “He would go to all these old
And he played many parts in his came the Hollywood power nexus junk shops and buy black-and-
varied design career, including it remains. white photos of nobody actors,”
that of the man who planted the Like so many other newcomers Mr. Klein said. “He didn’t want
FRANCOIS HALARD DEWEY NICKS
first vintage Cadillac nose first in to the land of self-invention, Mr. stills of the stars. He said, ‘Actors
the facade of the Hard Rock Café, Fortune adjusted and burnished “Paul’s taste was so extraordinary and singular,” said Marc Jacobs, whose triplex in Paris, left, town- that never made it — that’s the
who designed a line of spiky Lu- his biography as he went along. house in New York and 1955 Hoffman House in Rye, N.Y., were all designed by Mr. Fortune, above. real Hollywood.’”
3 ENVIRONMENT 6 VIRUS FALLOUT 11 SPORTS

The I.R.S. is clarifying rules The Times’s chief restaurant Bryson DeChambeau is
on tax breaks for companies critic goes in search of his pumped for the PGA Tour,
that use carbon capture to first sit-down restaurant meal and we mean that in a very
fight climate change. since the March shutdown. literal way.

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Race Issues
Grow Louder
At Amazon
By KAREN WEISE
SEATTLE — Last week, Jeff Bezos,
Amazon’s chief executive, wrote a
rare note to all of the company’s
employees. His leadership team
had been reflecting on the “sys-
temic racism” facing black com-

Roundup’s maker
munities, he said, and he urged
employees to take time to learn
and reflect on Juneteenth, the hol-
iday marking the end of slavery in
the United States.
“I’m canceling all my meetings

agrees to pay
on Friday, and I encourage you to
do the same if you can,” he said.
But some of Amazon’s employ-
ees said there was one big prob-
lem with his suggestion: For the
vast majority of Amazon’s black
workers, canceling a meeting is

more than $10 billion

not an option. They work in Ama-
zon’s fulfillment operations, pack-
ing, shipping and delivering prod-
ucts to millions of customers.
Several other retailers, like Tar-
get, J.C. Penney and Nike, made

to settle thousands
Juneteenth a paid holiday. At Am-
azon, many warehouses recog-
nized the day by encouraging
workers to dress in black.
“What does a black shirt do for
anybody in terms of social jus-

of claims that
tice?” said Adrienne Williams, a
black contract driver for Amazon
in the Bay Area, who organized a
vigil for Juneteenth. Better pay,
she said, would do far more. “That
would cut down the pre-existing
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the weedkiller Automakers

causes cancer. Pulling Out
Of a Skid
By NEAL E. BOUDETTE
Just two months ago, the auto in-
dustry was bracing for disaster.
As the coronavirus spread, au-
tomakers shut down plants, and
car sales plunged.
But the industry is starting to
breathe a little easier. Factories
are churning out trucks and sport
utility vehicles, with many of the
plants nearly back to production
levels that prevailed before the
pandemic took hold. While some
factory workers have tested pos-
itive for the coronavirus, au-
tomakers have reported no major
outbreaks. Perhaps most impor-
tant, vehicle sales have perked up
more than many industry execu-
tives had expected.
“At the end of March, it did seem
like we were heading for a dooms-
day scenario,” said Jessica Cald-
well, a senior analyst at Edmunds,
a research firm. “But people are
starting to buy cars now. June
sales will still be well off record
levels, but they will be OK. It’s
pretty encouraging.”
A rebound in the auto industry
CONTINUED ON PAGE B5

Comey Show
To Precede
Monsanto’s legacy to Bayer. Election Day
By RACHEL ABRAMS
ViacomCBS has reversed course.
By PATRICIA COHEN separate agreements with 25 lead law firms whose Days after announcing that its
When Bayer, the giant German chemical and phar- clients will receive varying amounts. television adaptation of “A Higher
maceutical maker, acquired Monsanto two years “It’s rare that we see a consensual settlement with Loyalty,” the best-selling book by
ago, the company knew it was also buying the that many zeros on it,” said Nora Freeman En- the former F.B.I. director James B.
world’s best-known weedkiller. What it didn’t antici- gstrom, a professor at Stanford University Law Comey, would appear after the
pate was a legal firestorm over claims that the weed- School. election, the company has moved
killer, Roundup, caused cancer. Bayer, which inherited the litigation when it the broadcast to September.
Now Bayer is moving to put those troubles behind bought Monsanto for $63 billion, has repeatedly The director, Billy Ray, sent an
it, agreeing to pay more than $10 billion to settle tens maintained that Roundup is safe. email to cast members on Monday
of thousands of claims while continuing to sell the Most of the early lawsuits were brought by home- expressing disappointment that
product without adding warning labels about its owners and groundskeepers, although they account the mini-series had been sched-
safety. for only a tiny portion of Roundup’s sales. Farmers uled to broadcast in late Novem-
The deal, announced Wednesday, is among the are the biggest customers, and many agricultural as- ber on the ViacomCBS cable net-
largest settlements ever in U.S. civil litigation. Nego- sociations contend glyphosate, the key ingredient in work Showtime. In the email,
tiations were extraordinarily complex, producing CONTINUED ON PAGE B7 which was reviewed by The New
York Times, the director said he
had completed the project in the
spring with the expectation that it
would air before Election Day,
Nov. 3.
The two-part, four-hour pro-
gram, “The Comey Rule,” was
adapted by Mr. Ray, the screen-
CONTINUED ON PAGE B4
B2 N THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2020

The Digest

COMPANIES revenue source.

GNC plans a “dual-path” re-
Vitamin Chain GNC structuring where it would either
Files for Bankruptcy be sold as a going concern, or im-
prove its balance sheet by shed- S&P 500 INDEX
ding more than $300 million of
GNC, the 85-year-old, Pittsburgh-
debt. –2.59%
based vitamin and herbal supple- 3,050.33
ment retailer, has filed for Chapter GNC said it has agreed in prin-
ciple with many lenders to sell it-
11 bankruptcy, with plans to close
self to an affiliate of its largest
at least 800 to 1,200 locations and shareholder, Harbin Pharmaceu-
possibly sell itself. tical Group, for $760 million in a
GNC had been trying to reduce court-supervised auction, subject
its nearly $900 million debt load to higher bids.
amid falling sales at its stores It also said it has lined up $130
when the coronavirus pandemic million in new financing, includ-
forced thousands of them to close ing support from Harbin. DOW JONES INDUSTRIALS
temporarily, cutting off a major REUTERS
–2.72%
25,445.94

AIRLINES

Major Pilots Union Seeks

Subsidy for Empty Seats
A major pilots union said Wednes-
day it had begun discussing with
lawmakers a plan for the govern- NASDAQ COMPOSITE INDEX
ment to buy seats on each flight to
prevent passengers from having
–2.19%
9,909.17 JASON HENRY FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
to sit next to strangers. The deletion settings for existing Google accounts will stay the same, but users will have the ability to change them.
The idea, by the Allied Pilots As-
sociation, which represents 15,000

Google Will Erase Data After 18 Months

KYLE GRILLOT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
pilots for American Airlines, is
aimed at easing a return to pre-
pandemic passenger levels while social distancing would encour-
creating a level playing field age passengers to fly more and By DAISUKE WAKABAYASHI did not alter the settings for exist- user data is important to person-
across the airline industry. airlines to operate more flights, ing accounts because it did not alize products and make it more
OAKLAND, CALIF. — After years of
Some airlines in the United thus preserving more jobs in the criticism about how it keeps a want to upset users with an unex- useful.
States are blocking middle seats 10-YEAR TREASURY YIELD
critical aviation industry. record of what people do online, pected change. However, the com- In the announcement on
or capping the number of seats Under the plan, the price of 0.69% Google said it would start auto- pany said it planned to alert users Wednesday, Sundar Pichai, chief
they are selling on each flight in empty seats would be based on in- –0.03 points matically deleting location history to the ability to change the dele- executive of Google’s parent com-
order to allow for more space be- dustry average costs for 2019. As and records of web and app activi- tion settings in emails and promo- pany Alphabet, said the company
tween passengers. immunity to Covid-19 rose, the ty as well as voice recordings on tions on its products. was “challenging ourselves to
In a statement, the A.P.A. presi- number of seats bought by the new accounts after 18 months. make helpful products with less
dent, Eric Ferguson, said uniform government would fall. REUTERS The limited change, announced data.”
on Wednesday, comes after A policy that changes Google said it would also
Google introduced an option last change the default setting on new
year to allow users to automati- the default settings YouTube accounts to erase view-
SOCIAL MEDIA tweeted last week, used footage
from a CNN story from last year
cally delete data related to their
web searches, requests made with
only for new users. ing history after three years, al-
though users can choose to delete
Twitter Bars Meme Maker about the friendship of two tod-
CRUDE OIL (U.S.)
the company’s virtual assistant that record after three months, 18
For Copyright Violations dlers, one black and one white. $38.01 and their location history. At the The shift addresses the power months or choose not to delete it
Cook doctored the clip, set it to –$2.36 time, it offered users the ability to of defaults, or predetermined at all.
A conservative social media user ominous music and inserted a erase the data after three months choices made for the user, to guide The company also announced
whose far-right memes have been fake misspelled CNN caption or 18 months. people’s behavior in how they use other efforts aimed at making it
reposted by President Trump has reading “Terrified todler runs The policy sets Google accounts online services. Some users never easier to manage online privacy,
been kicked off Twitter for re- from racist baby,” then a clip from to delete that data by default on tinker with the settings, which including new features to make it
peated copyright violations. the original video before showing new accounts, instead of requir- means they do not exercise choice easier to enable “incognito” mode
Logan Cook, a Kansas man who the message “America is not the ing users to go into the product’s in the level of privacy or data col- — a more private form of brows-
posts under the name Carpe problem. Fake news is the prob- settings to change to an option to lection that they prefer. ing — in several of its products.
Donktum, was permanently lem.” delete. The settings on existing ac- While critics have argued that Google said it would also add a
barred from the platform Tuesday, Mr. Cook said that his posts are GOLD (N.Y.)
counts will remain unchanged. Google collects an abundance of feature to help users learn their
days after he posted a video that satirical and are therefore exempt Google, which boasts that it has data to improve the targeting of privacy settings from its search
used doctored footage from CNN. from copyright rules. $1,765.80 more than one billion monthly us- advertisements to make more engine by typing in a query like
The clip, which Trump re- ASSOCIATED PRESS –$6.30 ers for seven of its services, said it money, the company has said that “Google Privacy Checkup.”

What Happened in Stock Markets Yesterday

POWERED BY

S&P 500 3050.33 2.6% Nasdaq Composite Index 9909.17 2.2% Dow Jones industrials 25445.94 2.7%

30,000
3,400 10,000
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3,200 +20% +20% +20%

+15% 9,000 +15% 26,000 +15%

3,000
+10% +10% +10%
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Apr. May June Apr. May June Apr. May June

TOTAL
Best performers Worst performers Most active Long- and intermediate-term TOTAL RETURN
ASSETS
VOLUME
S&P 500 COMPANIES CLOSE CHANGE S&P 500 COMPANIES CLOSE CHANGE S&P 500 COMPANIES CLOSE CHANGE IN MIL. government bonds 1 YR 5 YRS IN BIL.

1. Kroger (KR) $32.82 +2.2% 1. Nrwn Crs Ln (NCLH) $15.80 –12.4% 1. GE (GE) $6.53 –6.7% 143.8 1. Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Adm(VBTLX) +8.9% +4.3% $113.9
2. Tractor Supp (TSCO) 131.34 +1.6 2. Royal Carib C (RCL) 48.24 –11.3 2. American Airl (AAL) 13.04 –6.9 140.1 2. Dodge & Cox Income(DODIX) +8.4 +4.7 63.2
3. CH Robinson (CHRW) 78.54 +1.6 3. Carnivl (CCL) 16.00 –11.1 3. Nrwn Crs Ln (NCLH) 15.80 –12.4 76.9 3. PIMCO Total Return Instl(PTTRX) +8.4 +4.4 52.5
4. Tyler Tech (TYL) 338.47 +1.2 4. Wynn Resorts (WYNN) 75.21 –11.0 4. Ford Motor (F) 5.95 –3.3 75.3 4. Fidelity US Bond Index(FXNAX) +8.9 +4.3 50.7
5. T-Mobile US (TMUS) 108.43 +1.2 5. TripAdvisor (TRIP) 18.15 –9.8 5. BofAML (BAC) 23.81 –4.0 75.3 5. Metropolitan West Total Return Bd I(MWTIX) +9.1 +4.3 48.0
6. Gilead Scien (GILD) 75.93 +1.2 6. Cimarex Energ (XEC) 26.82 –9.5 6. T-Mobile US (TMUS) 108.43 +1.2 66.6 6. Fidelity Series Investment Grade Bond(FSIGX) +9.2 +4.8 32.3
7. Dollar General (DG) 191.85 +1.0 7. Diamondback (FANG) 41.90 –9.5 7. AT&T (T) 29.42 –2.7 65.5 7. American Funds Bond Fund of Amer A(ABNDX) +10.0 +4.4 25.9
8. Chipotle (CMG) 1047.95 +0.9 8. Gap (GPS) 10.42 –9.3 8. United Arlns (UAL) 33.07 –8.3 65.0 8. Baird Aggregate Bond Inst(BAGIX) +9.2 +4.7 25.0
9. CenterPnt Ene (CNP) 18.33 +0.8 9. Devon Energy (DVN) 11.25 –9.1 9. Wells Fargo (WFC) 26.12 –4.1 57.2 9. Baird Core Plus Bond Inst(BCOIX) +8.8 +4.9 23.6
10. Public Strg (PSA) 189.45 +0.6 10. Occidental (OXY) 18.00 –9.0 10. Boeing (BA) 176.69 –6.0 56.2 10. Vanguard GNMA Adm(VFIJX) +5.6 +3.1 18.5
Source: Morningstar

Sector performance How stock markets fared yesterday in Asia … … in Europe … and in the Americas.
S&P 500 SECTORS
+1.0
–0.9 Utilities +0.5
Shanghai +0.3%
–1.6 Consumer staples
0.0
–2.0 Consumer discretionary
Tokyo –0.1%
–0.5
–2.3 Information technology
–2.5 Communication services –1.0
Frankfurt –3.4%
–2.7 Real estate –1.5
Toronto –1.7%
–2.7 Health care –2.0
–3.0 Materials London –3.1% New York –2.6%
–2.5
–3.5 Industrials
–3.0
–3.5 Financials Major stock market indexes
–3.5
–5.5 Energy
6 p.m. E.T. 8 10 12 a.m. 2 4 6 a.m. 8 10 12 p.m. 2 4 6 p.m.

What Is Happening in Other Markets and the Economy

Bonds Currencies Consumer rates Commodities Economy

10-year Treas. Key rates 1 euro = $1.1252 Crude oil Unemployment Rate Consumer confidence
3% $1.3
6% $100 a barrel
10% 120
1.2 Borrowing rate
2
30-year fixed mortgages
Fed Funds 5 50
2-year Treas. 1.1 5 100
1

0 1.0 4 0 0 80
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3
Yield curve $1 = 107.04 yen Corn New-home sales Industrial production
3% 120 $6 a bushel
2 700 thousand
1-YEAR AGO 260
2 110 Savings rate 4
600
1 1-year CDs
YESTERDAY 240
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0 Maturity 90 0 0 400 220

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 THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2020 N B3

ENVIRONMENT | HEALTH CARE

Projects to Bury Carbon Dioxide Get a Lift Hospitals Sued to Keep

By BRAD PLUMER
WASHINGTON — Carbon capture, a
Prices Secret. They Lost.
rarely tested strategy to fight cli- By SARAH KLIFF
mate change, is attracting grow- and MARGOT SANGER-KATZ
ing interest in the United States
after the Trump administration A federal judge has upheld a The Upshot provides news, analysis
began clearing a longstanding Trump administration policy that and graphics about politics, policy
roadblock to subsidizing the tech- requires hospitals and health and everyday life.
nology. insurers to publish their negoti- nytimes.com/upshot
In 2018, Congress approved a ated prices for health services,
lucrative tax break for companies numbers that are typically kept ean gasoline and Danish ready-
that trap carbon dioxide produced secret. mix concrete, has found that
by industrial sites before the gas The policy is part of a major publishing negotiated prices can
escapes into the atmosphere and push by the administration to sometimes backfire in markets
heats the planet. But for years, po- improve transparency in health where there are few competitors,
tential carbon capture projects care. Insurers and health raising prices.
stalled because the Internal Reve- providers usually negotiate deals Judge Nichols conceded that
nue Service had yet to clarify how, behind closed doors, and patients “the evidence in the record is not
exactly, the tax credit worked. rarely know the cost of services definitive” in proving that trans-
That’s starting to change. In until after the fact. parency lowers prices, but that it
May, the I.R.S. finally issued pro- Administration officials said was “more persuasive than a
posed regulations, outlining the more price transparency would decades-old case study involving
rules companies would have to lead to lower and more predict- Danish ready-mixed concrete
follow when burying their emis- able prices in an industry that contracts.”
sions underground, as well as the has huge ranges in what insurers The hospital rule is part of the
penalties they would face if the pay for services. A simple blood administration’s bid to control
gas leaked back out. test, for example, can cost $11 or
“That was one of the keys we’ve $1,000. Coronavirus tests show a
been waiting for,” said Robert similar variation, with prices
McLennan, chief executive of from $27 to $2,315. ‘Informed customers
Minnkota Power Cooperative, an
electric utility planning to retrofit
But in a lawsuit, the American
Hospital Association said the
would put pressure
a coal plant in North Dakota. The administration did not have the on providers to lower
project aims to capture 3 million legal authority to require the
tons of carbon dioxide per year, publication of negotiated prices, costs and increase
equivalent to the pollution from
640,000 cars, and bury the gas
arguing that the publication of
the prices could have perverse
the quality of care.’
more than a mile underground. At effects. On Tuesday, the judge, Judge Carl Nichols
an estimated cost of $1 billion, he Carl Nichols, disagreed.
said, the venture wouldn’t be fi- In his decision, Judge Nichols
nancially viable without the cred- found that the hospitals were health costs through transparen-
it. “attacking transparency meas- cy, an effort that has become a
But the complex effort still ures generally” in a bid to limit health policy priority for Presi-
faces hurdles. patients’ insight into medical dent Trump. The hospital rule
Minnkota needs to find finan- prices. was preceded by an executive
cial partners who can take advan- “Hospitals may be affected by order on price transparency in
tage of the tax break, and Mr. market changes and need to health care unveiled at a White
McLennan said the I.R.S. rules respond to a market where con- House event where patients
may need further changes to sumers are more empowered,” spoke about their experiences
make investors feel confident be- he wrote, stating that was not with surprise medical bills.
fore they are finalized. The coro- reason enough to “make the rule It is not the only part of that
navirus pandemic has also dis- unlawful.” transparency effort to encounter
rupted some engineering work. ADRIA MALCOLM FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Judge Nichols, who was ap- legal obstacles. A federal appeals
“But, on balance, the rules are Leaders in Farmington, N.M., want to use carbon-capture technology to keep the San Juan Generating Station open. pointed to the D.C. District Court court has thrown out another
helpful,” he said. “We’re optimistic last year, also rejected the hospi- rule that would have required
we can move forward.” tals’ other arguments: that the drug makers to include the price
Across the country, companies Carbon capture remains a con- losses from the shutdown, a say they fear it may give false of medications in television ad-
tentious idea. Coal, oil and gas nearby city, Farmington, has pro- hope to local coal workers and di- new rules would create over-
have proposed at least 30 carbon whelming administrative bur- vertisements.
capture projects to date. In Indi- companies have backed the ap- posed taking over the plant with vert investment from proven al-
dens and that more transparency Alex Azar, the secretary of
ana, Wabash Valley Resources proach as less disruptive than Enchant Energy and installing ternatives like wind and solar
might actually drive up prices. Health and Human Services,
aims to produce greener fertilizer abandoning fossil fuels entirely. carbon capture technology to power.
“Traditional economic analysis applauded the court’s decision:
by stashing its emissions under- Some Democrats and envi- keep it running through 2035. “This is a community that’s
suggested to the agency that “With today’s win, we will contin-
ground. In Texas, Occidental Pe- ronmentalists say the technology Peter Mandelstam, the chief op- struggling and badly needs to di-
informed customers would put ue delivering on the president’s
troleum plans to capture carbon could prove crucial for reducing erating officer of Enchant, said versify its economy, not double
pressure on providers to lower promise to give patients easy
dioxide from two ethanol plants emissions from industrial sources carbon capture could reduce the down on risky coal technology,”
said Mike Eisenfeld of the San costs and increase the quality of access to health care prices.
and inject the gas into its oil wells like cement or steel plants that are plant’s emissions by 90 percent,
Juan Citizens Alliance, a group care,” Judge Nichols wrote. Especially when patients are
to dislodge more crude, a process difficult to clean up. enabling it to comply with the
that advocates for clean air and Among health economists and seeking needed care during a
known as enhanced oil recovery. But critics warn that carbon state’s climate rules. The $1.3 bil-
water. other experts, the effects of price public health emergency, it is
The company says emissions capture could just entrench fossil-
Enchant plans to use technol- transparency policies remain more important than ever that
from that oil would be partly offset fuel use, particularly if the cap-
by the injected carbon dioxide tured gas is mainly used to extract Clarifying a tax credit ogy previously tested at a carbon unsettled. The Trump adminis-
tration has argued that published
they have ready access to the
actual prices of health care serv-
that would stay below ground. more oil from the ground. And the capture facility near Houston,
For years, polluters had little in- technology has been overhyped that could help the completed in 2017 with help from prices will help empower individ- ices.”
an Energy Department grant. ual patients as well as employers The hospital association said it
centive to trap their planet-warm-
ing emissions. The tax credit
before: In the 2000s, several early
carbon-capture projects backed
fossil fuel industry. There, exhaust from a coal plant is that buy health insurance for would appeal the decision. “The
by the federal government were run through chemicals that bind their workers, creating market proposal does nothing to help
shifts that calculus: It is worth up patients understand their out-of-
never finished after billions of dol- lion proposal aims to capture 6 to the carbon dioxide, which is pressure to discourage over-
to $50 for each ton of carbon diox-
lars of investments and delays. then piped to nearby oil wells. charging. pocket costs,” said Melinda Hat-
ide captured and permanently million tons of carbon dioxide
each year and either sell the gas to But Enchant’s project would be But research on price trans- ton, a senior vice president and
stored underground, and up to $35 Those arguments are on display
in New Mexico, where the utilities nearby oil fields or bury it in a sa- more than quadruple the size, and parency in health care, which is general counsel for the associa-
per ton if the captured gas is bur-
that own the San Juan Generating line aquifer to claim the tax credit. the company still needs to negoti- limited, has not shown large tion. “It also imposes significant
ied during enhanced oil recovery.
Station, an 847-megawatt coal ate with the plant’s current own- effects: A study of a New Hamp- burdens on hospitals at a time
For large projects, that break Critics have questioned
plant, plan to abandon it in 2022 as whether the company can build ers, find buyers for its electricity shire law requiring published when resources are stretched
could be worth hundreds of mil-
lions of dollars over the measure’s the state imposes stricter emis- the complicated project on time and carbon, and bring in invest- prices for common services thin.”
12-year lifetime. sions rules. Worried about job and be financially viable. They ors. Enchant recently began showed very modest price reduc- The price transparency rule is
working with Bank of America to tions. And a body of research scheduled to go into effect in
advise it through the process. from other fields, including Chil- January.
“I’m a big fan of more wind and
solar,” Mr. Mandelstam, a former
wind developer, said. “But we ha-
ven’t yet figured out how to run a
grid entirely on renewable energy.
Until that happens, this project of-
fers a reasonable way to keep the
lights on, preserve jobs and re-
duce the plant’s environmental
impact.”
It remains unclear how many
carbon capture projects will actu-
ally get built, particularly as
Covid-19 roils the economy and oil
prices plummet. The clock is tick-
ing: Under current rules, the
projects need to begin construc-
tion before 2024 to claim the tax
credit.
Keith Martin, a lawyer at Nor-
KEVIN MOHATT/REUTERS
ton Rose Fulbright who special-
izes in tax-financing deals for Prices in the health care industry vary widely in what insurers pay for
wind and solar, said he had seen services. Covid-19 tests, for example, can range from $27 to $2,315.
increased interest in carbon cap-
ture from investors looking to Dennis F. Dunne, Esq., Andrew M. Leblanc, Esq., Tyson M. Lomazow, Esq.,
Lauren C.Doyle,Esq.,MILBANK LLP, 55 Hudson Yards,New York,New York
before the General Bar Date or the Governmental Bar Date at the following
address:IF BY MAIL: OneWeb Global Limited, et al.Claims Processing, c/o
lower their tax burdens. But, he 10001,Telephone: (212) 530-5000, Facsimile: (212) 530-5219, Counsel to Omni Agent Solutions, 5955 De Soto Ave., Suite 100, Woodland Hills, CA
theDebtorsandDebtorsinPossession 91367; Or IF BY HAND: United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern
added, there are still technical as- UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT District of New York,300 Quarropas Street,White Plains,New York 10601-
LUKE SHARRETT/BLOOMBERG pects of the I.R.S. rules, like how SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK 4140.
) Chapter 11 PROOFSOFCLAIMSUBMITTEDBYFACSIMILEOR
financial partnerships should be In re:
OneWeb Global Limited, et al. ) Case No. 20-22437 (RDD) ELECTRONICMAILWILLNOTBEACCEPTED.
structured, that need to be clari- Debtors.1 ) (Jointly Administered) Contents of Proofs of Claim. Each proof of claim must: (i) be written
in English; (ii) include a claim amount denominated in United States
fied. NOTICE OF DEADLINES FOR THE FILING OF PROOFS OF
CLAIM, INCLUDING REQUESTS FOR PAYMENTS UNDER
dollars;(iii) clearly identify the Debtor against which the claim is asserted;
(iv) conform substantially with the Proof of Claim Form provided by
“The deals we are working on SECTION 503(b)(9) OF THE BANKRUPTCY CODE the Debtors or Official Form 410; (v) be signed by the claimant or by an
THE GENERAL BAR DATE IS AUGUST 11, 2020
are largely stalled at the moment,” THE GOVERNMENTAL CLAIMS BAR DATE IS
authorized agent or legal representative of the claimant; and (vi) include
as attachments any and all supporting documentation on which the claim
Mr. Martin said, “because the pro- SEPTEMBER 24, 2020 is based. Please note that each proof of claim must state a claim against
posed regulations did not answer PLEASETAKE NOTICE OFTHE FOLLOWING: only one Debtor and clearly indicate the specific Debtor against which
Deadlines for Filing Proofs of Claim. On June 23, 2020, the United the claim is asserted. To the extent more than one Debtor is listed on the
all the questions we have.” States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of NewYork (the“Court”) proof of claim, a proof of claim is treated as if filed only against the first
entered an order (the “Bar Date Order”) establishing certain deadlines listed Debtor, or if a proof of claim is otherwise filed without identifying
In the wake of the pandemic, for the filing of proofs of claim, including requests for payment under a specific Debtor, the proof of claim may be deemed as filed only against
some policymakers have said that section 503(b)(9) of the Bankruptcy Code, in the chapter 11 cases of the OneWeb Global Limited. Proofs of Claim must not contain complete social
security numbers or taxpayer identification numbers (only the last four
following debtors and debtors in possession (together, the “Debtors”):
carbon capture may need a fur- DEBTOR, CASE NO.: OneWeb Global Limited, 20-22437; OneWeb digits),a complete birth date (only the year),the name of a minor (only the
ther boost. In a recent infrastruc- Holdings LLC, 20-22434; WorldVu JV Holdings LLC, 20-22435; WorldVu minor’s initials) or a financial account number (only the last four digits of
Development LLC, 20-22436; OneWeb Communications Ltd, 20-22438; suchfinancialaccount).
ture bill, House Democrats pro- WorldVu Satellites Ltd, 20-22439; OneWeb Limited, 20-22440; 1021823 Electronic Signatures Permitted. Proofs of claim signed by the
BC Ltd.,20-22441;Network Access Associates Ltd,20-22442;OneWeb Chile claimant or an authorized agent or legal representative of the claimant
posed extending the tax credit’s SpA,20-22443;WorldVu Australia Pty Ltd, 20-22444;WorldVu Unipessoal using an electronic signature will be deemed acceptable for purposes of
deadline by two years and allow- Lda, 20-22445; OneWeb Norway AS, 20-22446; OneWeb ApS, 20-22447; claims administration. Copies of proofs of claim or proofs of claim sent by
facsimileorelectronicmailwillnotbeaccepted.
OneWeb Network Access Holdings Ltd, 20-22448; OneWeb GK, 20-22449;
ing direct payments to develop- OneWeb Ltd,20-22450;WorldVu Mexico S.De R.L.de CV,2022451;WorldVu Section 503(b)(9) Requests for Payment. Any proof of claim
and/or priority asserting a claim arising under section 503(b)(9) of the
ers. Supporters hope that addi- SouthAfrica(Pty)Ltd,20-22452.
The Bar Dates. Pursuant to the Bar Date Order, all entities (except Bankruptcy Code must also (i) include the value of the goods delivered to
tional aid could help carbon cap- governmental units), including individuals, partnerships, estates, and and received by the Debtors in the twenty (20) days prior to the Petition
trusts who have a claim or potential claim against the Debtors that arose Date;(ii) attach any documentation identifying the particular invoices for
ture go mainstream, much as fed- prior to March 27, 2020 (the “Petition Date”), no matter how remote or which such 503(b)(9) claim is being asserted;and (iii) attach documenta-
eral subsidies have done for wind contingent such right to payment or equitable remedy may be,including tion of any reclamation demand made to the Debtors under section 546(c)
oftheBankruptcyCode(ifapplicable).
requests for payment under section 503(b)(9) of the Bankruptcy Code,
and solar. MUST FILE A PROOF OF CLAIM on or before August 11, 2020, at 5:00 Additional Information. If you have any questions regarding the
p.m., prevailing Eastern Time (the“General Bar Date”). Governmental claims process and/or you wish to obtain a copy of the Bar Date Notice, a
“Getting this first round of entities who have a claim or potential claim against the Debtors that arose proof of claim form or related documents you may do so by: (i) calling the
projects up and running is criti- prior to the Petition Date,no matter how remote or contingent such right Debtors’ restructuring hotline at (866) 680-8121 (toll free); and/
to payment or equitable remedy may be, MUST FILE A PROOF OF CLAIM or (ii) visiting the Debtors’restructuring website at:https://www.
cally important,” said Kurt on or before September 24, 2020, at 5:00 p.m., prevailing Eastern omniagentsolutions.com/onewebglobal.
Waltzer, managing director at the Time(the“GovernmentalBarDate”).
ANY PERSON OR ENTITY WHO FAILS TO FILE A PROOF OF CLAIM,
1
The Debtors in these cases, along with the last four digits of each
Debtor’s federal tax identification number, if any, are: OneWeb Global
Clean Air Task Force, an advocacy INCLUDING ANY REQUEST FOR PAYMENT UNDER SECTION 503(b)(9) Limited (N/A); OneWeb Holdings LLC (5429); OneWeb Communications
group. “But if carbon capture is OF THE BANKRUPTCY CODE ON OR BEFORE THE GENERAL BAR DATE OR Limited (9487);WorldVu Satellites Limited (7802);WorldVu Development
GOVERNMENTAL BAR DATE, AS APPLICABLE, SHALL NOT BE TREATED AS A LLC (9067); WorldVu JV Holdings LLC (N/A); 1021823 B.C. LTD (8609);
going to play a big role in decar- CREDITOR WITH RESPECT TO SUCH CLAIM FOR THE PURPOSES OF VOTING Network Access Associates Limited (8566); OneWeb Limited (8662);
ANDDISTRIBUTIONONANYCHAPTER11PLAN. WorldVu South Africa (Pty) Ltd.(1867);OneWeb Chile SpA (2336);WorldVu
bonization all over the world, in Filing a Proof of Claim. Each Proof of Claim must be filed, including AustraliaPtyLtd.(5436);WorldVuUnipessoalLda.(2455);OneWebNorway
ADRIA MALCOLM FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES places like China or India, we’ll supporting documentation,by electronic submission through the website
of the Debtors’ claims agent at https://www.omniagentsolutions.com/
AS (0209);OneWeb ApS (9191);OneWeb Network Access Holdings Limited
(8580); OneWeb G.K.(1396); OneWeb Ltd (8661);WorldVu Mexico S.DE R.
Top, carbon-capture equipment at a generating station in Thompsons, Texas. Above, the city of Farmington, which, need to think on a much bigger onewebglobal,or if submitted through non-electronic means by U.S.Mail L.DE C.V. (1234). The Debtors’headquarters is located at 195 Wood Lane,
scale.” or other hand delivery system,so as to be actually received by Omni on or WestWorksBuilding,3rdFloor,London,W127FQ,UK.
hoping to save jobs, wants to install similar equipment to keep the San Juan plant running through 2035.
B4 N THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2020

WORKPLACE | MEDIA

MANDEL NGAN/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES

Jeff Bezos has been urged to diversify Amazon’s leadership team.

Amazon Workers Want

Bezos’ Words on Race
Matched With Actions
FROM FIRST BUSINESS PAGE business with Amazon.
condition that is poverty,” she “Dave,” Mr. Bezos wrote,
said. “you’re the kind of customer I’m
Ms. Williams and more employ- happy to lose.”
ees and contractors are arguing Johnnie Corina III, who last
that Amazon, one of the nation’s week filed a discrimination com- PHILIP CHEUNG FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
largest employers, needs to do plaint accusing Amazon of foster- More than a quarter of Amazon’s
much more to address racial in- ing a hostile work environment for employees in the U.S. are black,
equality within its own walls. The black warehouse employees, said most of whom work in its fulfillment
calls for change — including di- it was hard to consider those centers, like those in Eastvale, Calif.,
versifying its top ranks and ad- statements as more than lip serv- above, and Staten Island.
dressing racism in its warehouses ice.
— have generated an unusual de-
“The ‘in’ thing right now is
gree of turmoil inside the tech gi- black employees work, the con-
Black Lives Matter and equal jus-
ant. cerns of some workers can be
tice,” Mr. Corina said. “You can tell
Many other large businesses even more explicit. Mr. Corina, in
when something is genuine and
also face calls for change from his discrimination complaint filed
something is not.”
within. But Amazon stands out be- in California, said Amazon repeat-
An Amazon spokeswoman, Jaci
cause it has a large percentage of edly failed to adequately respond
black employees — more than a Anderson, said that the company
to racist graffiti in bathrooms of
quarter of its 500,000-person do- stood in solidarity with the black the warehouse where he works
mestic work force, most of them in community, and that it was “com- east of Los Angeles.
hourly jobs at its sprawling logis- mitted to helping build a country
Mr. Corina, who is involved with
tics operations, where they earn and a world where everyone can
the local branch of the National
far less than their corporate coun- live with dignity and free from
Association for the Advancement
terparts. That percentage is fear.” She said employees had
of Colored People, said that since
slightly higher than among Wal- been free to take vacation or ac-
November he had repeatedly re-
mart’s employees in the United crued unpaid time off to attend ported racist graffiti and that the
States, and far higher than at Juneteenth events. “We respect language worsened after Mr.
other big tech companies. At and encourage their choice to do Floyd’s death. Some used racial
Facebook, for example, less than 4 so,” she said. epithets to express hatred toward
percent of its work force is black. This month, the company said it black people and said that they
And few executives have been would temporarily stop selling its should “go back to Africa.”
as blunt in their public support of facial recognition software, which He said Amazon had not ad-
the Black Lives Matter movement researchers have found to HIROKO MASUIKE/THE NEW YORK TIMES
dressed the warehouses’ employ-
as Mr. Bezos, the world’s richest misidentify people of color, to po- ees to say such behavior was un-
person. On Instagram, Mr. Bezos lice departments. The one-year was a half-step — pointing out Mr. Zapolsky had said his com- Mr. Bezos’ leadership team in
acceptable, nor had he seen any
posted disturbing messages he moratorium was striking because that the company did not directly ments were “personal and emo- recent weeks has been holding
evidence that Amazon has investi-
had received in response to his Amazon had long denied prob- acknowledge concerns about the tional” and that he did not know “listening circles” with black em-
gated who wrote the racist graffiti,
support of racial equality, includ- lems and resisted calls to slow its technology nor did it stop selling the employee was black. But in ployees, and many Amazon exec-
even though he had asked.
ing an email from a person named deployment. the tools to federal law enforce- their email, the corporate employ- utives have written personal
ment offices. ees said it “was not an isolated in- emails to their departments. The result, he said, left him
Dave, who used racist slurs and But Amazon’s critics, including scared to go to work. “To not do
said that he would no longer do some employees, say even that The pause is a “great start,” one cident, but rather a symptom of a Some teams have moved away
bigger problem.” from biased technical terms, any interventions is really not a
employee wrote on an internal
ditching phrases like “black lists” safe environment for a black per-
website. But the goal, the person They said Amazon adopted the
and “white lists” to connote net- son,” he said.
wrote, should be broader, to en- entrenched racism that plagued
sure the products Amazon builds America, evidenced by the work access, according to an In another complaint filed last
“are not directly at odds with pro- “homogeneity” of the its leader- email shared among some em- week with California’s fair em-
moting inclusion and diversity ship compared with “the rich ra- ployees. ployment agency, a black janitori-
and perpetuating biases and in- cial and ethic diversity amongst But many employees want al contractor at the same ware-
justices to black and brown com- our hourly worker population.” more to be done. They have been house said he was fired in early
munities.” The group proposed almost a collaborating on a document to June because Amazon thought he
Employees and some share- dozen specific changes, including propose that Amazon make diver- had taken a photo of new racist
holders have long groused about conducting a third-party audit of sity a new “leadership principle,” graffiti that a colleague posted on
the lack of diversity on Mr. Bezos’s bias, releasing detailed figures on the guiding list of attributes Ama- Twitter.
senior leadership team, a group zon uses to hire, review and pro- The contractor, Donald Archie
known as the “S-Team” that has 22 mote workers. II, said that Amazon had not tried
executives, none of whom are ‘What does a black In the document, dozens of em- to uncover who wrote the racist
words.
black. ployees anonymously cited expe-
At a town hall in 2017, after Mi- shirt do for anybody riences of discrimination in daily “They are firing a black guy be-
cause of their perception that he
chael Brown, Philando Castile and
Sandra Bland had already become
in terms of social work interactions. When a black
employee “said something hon- was responsible for calling out
household names, an employee justice?’ est, he was told, ‘You’re not earn- racism in their facility,” said Den-
nis Moss of Moss Bollinger, the
asked Mr. Bezos about the lack of ing trust,’” one wrote. “But when a
Adrienne Williams, a contract lawyer representing Mr. Corina
diversity on his team. Mr. Bezos White Stanford M.B.A. said the
driver, on the sartorial recognition exact same thing, he got an acco- and Mr. Archie.
said his top deputies had been by
of Juneteenth at Amazon lade.” Others wrote about being Amazon said it told warehouse
his side for years, and he saw the
low turnover as an asset. Any warehouses. passed over for promotions, or not employees about “unacceptable
transition on the team, he said, being mentored. graffiti” in December, and then
would “happen very incremen- race and promotions, establishing The document was earlier re- discussed it again in February.
tally over a long period of time.” goals for representation in man- ported by Business Insider. The company said it started to in-
In April, before George Floyd agement and leadership roles, Ms. Anderson said that the an- vestigate the markings in June.
was killed in police custody in and having the head of diversity ecdotes “do not reflect our val- Mr. Archie was removed from Am-
Minneapolis, a group of midlevel be a member of Mr. Bezos’s S- ues.” The company does not toler- azon buildings for not escalating
employees wrote to Mr. Bezos and Team. ate workplace discrimination, she concerns about the graffiti and vi-
his senior team, saying there was Amazon said that senior lead- said, and it investigates all claims olating the company’s cellphone
“a systemic pattern of racial bias ers offered resources to help the reported through official chan- use policy, the company said.
that permeates Amazon,” accord- group develop their suggestions nels. She added that the current On June 16, a colleague sent Mr.
ing to emails viewed by The New into a formal proposal. leadership principles encouraged Archie a photo from the bathroom,
York Times. They said they were On Tuesday, Microsoft, one of diversity because they “remind with racist phrases once again
prompted to write after a leak of Amazon’s top competitors for tech team members to seek diverse scrawled on the wall. Below it was
meeting notes showed that David talent, said it would spend $150 perspectives, learn and be curi- an internal newsletter that quoted
Zapolsky, Amazon’s general coun- million on diversity efforts and ous, and constantly earn others’ Amazon’s public statement from
JIM WILSON/THE NEW YORK TIMES sel, had called a black warehouse planned to double the number of trust.” May 31, reading, “The inequitable
Adrienne Williams, a contract driver for Amazon in the Bay Area, is among employee in Staten Island “not black managers and senior em- In the warehouses where Ms. and brutal treatment of Black peo-
those urging the company to do much more to address racial inequality. smart or articulate.” ployees by 2025. Williams and the bulk of Amazon’s ple in our country must stop.”

In Reversal, Trump-Comey Mini-Series to Air Before Election Day

FROM FIRST BUSINESS PAGE tacked the book and its author, a mini-series that would have
writer of “Shattered Glass,” “Cap- calling him an “untruthful slime starred Diane Lane as Hillary
tain Phillips” and “Richard Jew- ball” in a tweet. Clinton before it was filmed.
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INVESTING | VIRUS FALLOUT

Labor Dept. Seeks Virus Briefing

Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia
warned against retirement plans
that “promote a social or political
end” at the expense of risk or yield.

Social Goal Limits ditional regulation and enforce-

ment, such action would typically
ENERGY

Spread of Virus Expected

In Retirement Plans
be better aimed at investment
companies marketing such funds, To Dampen Gas Demand
rather than employers and their Demand for gasoline is a proxy
plan administrators. for economic activity, and the
By NOAM SCHEIBER as well.
George Sepsakos, a lawyer who recent surge in coronavirus cases
and RON LIEBER Under the Employee Retire-
advises employer plans about in states like Arizona, Florida and
The Labor Department is seeking ment Income Security Act of 1974,
their legal responsibilities, said Texas could stem a rise in gas
a new federal regulation that known as ERISA, administrators
the Securities and Exchange prices.
could discourage retirement overseeing employee retirement
Commission had been reviewing
funds from making investments plans — usually an employer’s fi- In Texas, the second-most
disclosure from E.S.G. funds to
based on environmental, social nancial or human resources offi- populous state after California,
cials — are required to act in the make sure their marketing accu-
and governance considerations. prices could fall sharply after Gov.
strict financial interests of work- rately reflected their investing
The department said in a news strategies. “Right now the defini- Greg Abbott on Tuesday urged
release Tuesday evening that it ers. That typically means they can people to stay at home to reduce
add a mutual fund option that em- tion can mean different things to
was taking the action to “provide different people,” Mr. Sepsakos the spread of the virus.
clear regulatory guideposts.” La- phasizes social and environmen- Demand for gasoline has recov-
tal goals only if they expect it to
POOL PHOTO BY LEAH MILLIS/EPA, VIA SHUTTERSTOCK said.
bor Secretary Eugene Scalia, in an ered more than half of the drop it
perform at least as well as an op- He said that if an investment
opinion article Wednesday in The Even if the proposal does not In the Labor Department re- suffered when the coronavirus
tion that does not focus on those company had misrepresented po-
Wall Street Journal, said the move come to pass, he said, employers lease, Mr. Scalia said the proposed spread widely in April and many
factors while taking similar risk. might decide to avoid E.S.G. in- tential returns or fees from an
“reminds plan providers that it is rule was meant to ensure that so- states and cities ordered people to
“The Department of Labor has vestments because they see them E.S.G.-focused fund, the invest-
unlawful to sacrifice returns, or cial goals would not come at the
always taken the position that ment company rather than the stay at home and businesses to
accept additional risk, through in- as a potential political minefield. expense of returns to participants
plans can take into account other The proposed rule says that en- employer would typically be lia- shut down, IHS Markit, a consult-
vestments intended to promote a in retirement plans, and the re-
social or political end.” factors, such as social and envi- vironmental, social and govern- lease says employers cannot in- ble. “The plan fiduciary can only ing and research firm said on
Investments based on social ronmental, as long as they don’t ance concerns can be taken into vest in E.S.G.-focused funds that make investment decisions based Wednesday.
goals can consider, for example, a increase risk or sacrifice return account independent of factors seek to “subordinate return or in- on what they know or should have A survey of 15,000 gasoline
company’s efforts to reduce its for the plan,” said Olena Lacy, who like risk and return only if they act crease risk for the purpose of non- known at the time,” he said. stations by IHS taken before the
carbon footprint or to promote ra- served as assistant labor secre- as a kind of tiebreaker when in- financial objectives.” A 2015 academic paper examin- new rise in cases found that use of
cial and gender diversity among tary in charge of the agency over- vestments are otherwise finan- The department did not re- ing decades of research and over gasoline was down about 22 per-
its directors and executives. seeing employee benefits during spond to a request seeking exam- 2,000 other studies found that cent in the second week of June
Such investments have grown the Clinton administration. ples of employers that have pur- about 90 percent of the work compared with the same week a
immensely in recent years, to Ms. Lacy said Democratic and A proposed rule that sued such strategies. showed no negative connection year ago. That’s a stark improve-
Republican administrations had between E.S.G. principles and
roughly one of every four dollars
under management, according to simply differed over the years in
might inhibit Jerome Schlichter, a lawyer
who has successfully pursued nu- corporate financial performance.
ment over the second week of
April, when gas purchases were
the US SIF Foundation, a nonprof- framing the obligations of employ- investment options. merous employers on behalf of A large majority showed positive
findings.
down nearly 50 percent.
it focused on the category. While ee plan administrators. workers over excessive fees in So far this year, gasoline sales
little of that was in workplace re- “Democrats say the standard is their 401(k) plans, said he was not As a result, said Mr. Hale of
cially indistinguishable. In that have fallen the most in the North-
tirement plans, some experts that it’s OK for you do to this as aware of employers who had Morningstar, the proposed rule
case, the rule would require plan east, where the pandemic spread
think 401(k) plans will play an in- long as it comes out the same,” she sought to pursue E.S.G. goals at could end up being counterpro-
administrators to document the ductive. “Not only could invest- widely in March and April, caus-
creasing role in such investing. said, referring to risk and returns. the expense of financial returns.
investment analysis that led to the ments that focus on the long-term ing tens of thousands of deaths.
But experts said the proposed “Republicans say it’s illegal for “That has not been something
you to do this unless it comes out conclusion. sustainability of companies lead Demand is down by about a third
rule would not meaningfully that we’ve seen,” Mr. Schlichter
change employers’ obligations. the same.” The department acknowledged said. “It hasn’t been done by fidu- to truly long-term outperfor- in Massachusetts. By comparison,
And Morningstar has found that Jon Hale, the head of sustain- that the provision might create ciaries in any broad way, in part mance because you’re picking sales are down about 26 percent
funds based on environmental, so- ability research at Morningstar, additional burdens for employers, due to concerns about exposure better quality companies,” he in California.
cial and governance goals — said the practical effect of the new but said in a background docu- for litigation.” said. “But there is also the sys- The average price for regular
known as E.S.G. factors — outper- framing could be to deter plan ad- ment that it “does not expect this Other lawyers said that while tems argument, that you’re help- gasoline nationwide on Wednes-
formed conventional offerings ministrators from adding E.S.G. requirement to impose a signifi- the growth in E.S.G. investment ing to create a financial system day was $2.16 a gallon, down from
during the first quarter of this options to 401(k) plans for fear of cant cost as these situations are options and their rising popularity and economy that will be more $2.66 a year earlier, according to
year and going back several years violating the law. rare.” among workers could require ad- successful.” AAA. Prices at the pump have
been rising in recent weeks. Oil
prices remain roughly a third
below at the start of the year.

Automakers, Pulling Out of a Skid, Ramp Up Production COMMODITIES

FROM FIRST BUSINESS PAGE
would probably help the economy. Price of Gold Surges
It is the nation’s largest manufac- As Investors Seek Haven
turing sector and employs
roughly 1.5 million people in man- Gold prices are within spitting
ufacturing, sales and service. distance of record highs, after a
That said, auto sales will be surge of buying pushed the pre-
down sharply this year, more than cious metal up 17 percent this
in any year since at least 2009; Al- year.
ixPartners, a consulting firm, ex- Early on Wednesday, futures
pects sales of new vehicles to fall prices hovered around $1,780 an
about 19 percent this year, to 13.7 ounce, up more than 1.5 percent
million. Experts worry that a this month. Gold is now a bit more
surge in coronavirus cases in than 5 percent away from reach-
places like Arizona, Florida and ing the record levels of nearly
Texas could drop sales further as $1,900 an ounce it touched in
more people stay home to avoid August 2011.
getting sick or making others ill. Gold traditionally is viewed as
In addition, more than 20 mil- a hedge against potential infla-
lion Americans were out of work tion, and a safe asset for investors
in May, according to the Labor De-
to have in their portfolios during
partment, and unlikely to be in the
times of growing political and
market for new cars. Rental car
economic uncertainty.
companies, which have been hit
hard by the drop in travel and typi- With multiple crises, including
cally account for up to 20 percent the biggest surge in unemploy-
of the new car market, have all but ment since the Great Depression,
stopped buying vehicles. Hertz, hammering the United States
which operates a fleet of more economy ahead of highly con-
than 500,000 cars in the United tentious presidential election in
States, filed for bankruptcy pro- November, demand for the metal
tection last month. has picked up.
“Will we see rental orders come Some in the markets also view
back in the fall?” asked Charles the rapid expansion of the money
Chesbrough, a senior economist supply by the Federal Reserve as
at Cox Automotive. “We don’t a reason to expect future inflation
know yet, but is seems like most to be higher, making gold an
business travel is going to be on FCA, VIA REUTERS attractive investment.
hold at least until the end of the Fiat Chrysler factories in Windsor,
year.” Ontario, above, and Warren, Mich.
Yet automakers and car dealers Most G.M., Ford and Fiat Chrysler TRAVEL
say they are feeling optimistic be- plants are in the Midwest, where
cause sales of new cars to individ- virus cases have been falling. India Airlines Criticized
uals and families, the industry’s
main customer base, have re- For ‘Repatriation’ Flights
bounded strongly. doors.
India is coming under increased
So far, production appears to be
pressure to open its airspace to
ramping up with few major dis-

19%
The expected decrease in new car
ruptions. Ford said it now ex-
pected to have all its U.S. plants
back on normal shift schedules
international carriers after the
United States and some European
nations accused it of discrimina-
sales this year, to 13.7 million. this Monday, two weeks sooner tory practices under the garb of
than expected. G.M. has returned “repatriations” flights.
all of its truck and S.U.V. plants to The U.S. Department of Trans-
“There’s pent-up demand,” said portation said on Monday that the
three shifts a day, and most of its
Doug Waikem, owner of six new- Indian charter flights — orga-
other plants are on the schedules
car franchises in Massillon, Ohio. nized by the government to bring
they were on before the pandemic
“There are people who were
took hold. Ninety percent of the Indian nationals home amid
ready to buy, and then the virus
company’s hourly workers are global travel restrictions — go
hit. They put it on hold, but some
are starting to come back.” back to work, the company said. beyond “true repatriations.” It
Auto manufacturers have lured G.M., Ford and Fiat Chrysler accused India’s national carrier,
buyers back to dealerships with have most of their assembly Air India, of selling tickets in the
generous financial incentives. For plants in the Midwest, where coro- open market, even while New
a time, several companies, includ- navirus cases have been falling or Delhi officials keep U.S. airlines
ing General Motors, Ford Motor PAUL SANCYA/ASSOCIATED PRESS are flat. But even foreign au- from flying to India. Future char-
and Fiat Chrysler, were offering tomakers, which have most of tered flights, American officials
government put a lot of money prefer to sedans these days, has many this summer, freeing up
zero-interest loans for 84 months their plants in the South where said, would require Washington’s
into the market, and now people been particularly tight. G.M. has some cash.
on most or all of their vehicles. are spending money on cars.” an especially short supply of cases are rising, said factories approval.
“So I thought, I should probably
Most automakers have phased Sales have rebounded so fast Chevrolet and GMC trucks, deal- get a better car,” Mr. Watkins said. were more or less back to normal. The Indian government sus-
out those offers, but interest-free that automakers are working to ers said, because its production Last week, he traded in his beat- Honda, which makes cars in pended international air travel
loans for up to 72 months are still ramp up production to restock was halted by a 40-day strike by up Hyundai Accent with 163,000 Alabama, Indiana, Ohio, North operations on March 22 after
available on many models. dealerships. Inventories dwin- the United Auto Workers union miles for a 2017 Volkswagen Golf Carolina and South Carolina, said
imposing a nationwide lockdown
Many consumers appear to be dled over the last few months be- last fall. SportWagen with almost every it had planned to halt production
to curb the spread of the coro-
buying cars with the help of some cause so few cars were produced. High-quality used cars are also option imaginable. for three days at the end of June as
navirus. On many occasions, it
of the $1,200 federal stimulus pay- The industry made just 4,840 vehi- scarce. “Our used sales have ex- To reopen their factories, au- part of the July Fourth holiday but
failed to greenlight chartered
ments and money they saved cles in North America in April, ac- ploded,” Mr. Waikem said. “A tomakers developed new pro- would now keep its plants run-
ning. flights operated by American
when they cut other spending in cording to Automotive News. Out- $10,000 to $14,000 used car is cedures to screen workers for co-
March, April and May, said Pete “Honda has seen a steady climb carriers.
put jumped in May, but the gold.” ronavirus symptoms and reduce
DeLongchamps, senior vice presi- month’s total, 371,551 cars and in customer traffic at our dealer- India’s ministry of civil aviation
Robert Watkins, a production interactions between employees.
dent of manufacturer relations at light trucks, was still far below the supervisor at a manufacturing These included allowing time for ships over the last month,” the said in a tweet on Tuesday that it
Group 1 Automotive, a large deal- 1.5 million produced in the same company in New Hampshire, is cleaning work places, staggering company said in a statement. “We was considering easing those
ership group based in Houston. month in 2019. among those buying a used car. arrival times, adding transparent saw a strong sales recovery in restrictions to allow flights from
“It’s certainly not as bad as we The supply of pickup trucks and Because of the virus, he and his barriers to assembly lines and in- May, and we expect this to last American, French, British and
feared right now,” he said. “The S.U.V.s, which American drivers wife had to cancel a trip to Ger- stalling no-touch faucets and into the summer sales season.” German carriers.
B6 N THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2020

VIRUS FALLOUT

Global Economic Dip

Is Worse Than Thought
By ALAN RAPPEPORT need for additional lockdowns.
WASHINGTON — The International The pandemic has not spared
Monetary Fund warned on advanced or developing econo-
Wednesday that the global econ- mies. Economies in the eurozone
omy faces an even deeper down- are projected to shrink 10.2 per-
turn than it previously projected cent this year and expand 6 per-
as the pandemic continues to sow cent next year. In China, where
uncertainty and businesses the virus originated and which im-
around the world struggle to oper- posed draconian containment
ate amid the virus. measures, the economy is ex-
The forecast underscores the pected to expand 1 percent this
scale of the task that policymak- year and 8.2 percent in 2021.
ers are facing as they try to dig out Yet the Trump administration
from what the I.M.F. has de- continues to suggest a more bull-
scribed as the most severe eco- ish outlook for the U.S. economy.
nomic contraction since the Great Larry Kudlow, the director of
Depression. Even as countries be- the National Economic Council,
gin reopening their economies, it said Tuesday that he expected a V-
is increasingly evident that the re- shaped recovery, meaning a
covery will be uneven and pro- sharp, steady economic uptick on
tracted as cases continue to surge the heels of recession. And Treas-
and consumers remain wary of re- ury Secretary Steven Mnuchin
suming normal activity. said that he could foresee the re-
More than 35,000 new coro- cession being over in the United
navirus cases were identified States by the end of the year.
across the United States on Tues- “I think you’re going to see a
day, according to a New York spectacular rebound off the bot-
Times database, the highest sin- tom in the third quarter,” Mr.
gle-day total since late April and Mnuchin said in a virtual confer-
the third-highest total of any day ence on Tuesday.
of the pandemic. Other countries Prolonged economic pain could
EMON HASSAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
are also experiencing surges in increase pressure on the Trump
Veselka was one of the first East Village restaurants offering outdoor seating on Monday, the first day since March that on-site dining was permitted. new cases, complicating plans to administration and U.S. lawmak-
reopen the global economy. ers to move forward with another
In an update to its World Eco- round of stimulus measures.

Chow, Drinks and Clinks: Dining in the Streets nomic Outlook, the I.M.F. said it
expected the global economy to
shrink 4.9 percent this year — a
House Democrats want a $3 tril-
lion economic support package,
but Republicans are increasingly
By PETE WELLS sharper contraction than the 3 wary of the long term impact of
On Monday, I had lunch at percent it predicted in April. such spending on the deficit. Mr.
Veselka in the East Village. Nor- The fund noted that, even as Mnuchin said this week that fu-
mally I wouldn’t bother you with businesses began to reopen, vol- ture measures should be targeted
this fact. I’ve done the same untary social distancing and en- to help industries that have been
thing at least a hundred times hanced workplace safety stand- hit hardest by the pandemic. Pres-
before. But this lunch, I’m pretty ards were weighing on economic ident Trump has suggested he
sure, I’ll remember for the rest of activity. Moreover, the “scarring” would be open to another round of
my life. It was the first restau- of the labor force from mass job stimulus checks, which could land
rant food I’ve had since March cuts and business closures means in peoples’ bank accounts just
that didn’t come out of a paper that the world economy will re- ahead of the November election.
bag. cover much more slowly, with the The I.M.F. cautioned that its
When I say I had lunch at I.M.F. projecting 5.4 percent forecast was more uncertain than
Veselka, I don’t mean that I sat global growth in 2021, far below its usual because the trajectory of the
inside, of course. I was seated at pre-pandemic projections. pandemic remained hard to pre-
one of the eight tables spread out Overall, the I.M.F. expects that
along the East Ninth Street the cumulative loss of total output

CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK
for the global economy this year
and next year will top $12 trillion.
“We are definitely not out of the
$12T
The expected loss of total output
sidewalk, the one just below the woods,” said Gita Gopinath, direc- for the global economy this year.
neon sign that says “Open 24 tor of the I.M.F.’s research depart-
Hours.” Veselka’s dining room is ment. “This is a crisis like no other
NYC DOT
still a dark, empty cavern. Like and will have a recovery like no dict. It praised robust fiscal and
many others in New York City, it Above, an illustration showing other.” monetary policy responses
remains off limits to customers criteria for setting up outdoor The I.M.F. forecast is more grim around the globe for helping to
in an effort to tamp down the seating in New York City. Left. than global projections outlined contain the economic fallout, but
local Covid-19 outbreak. But on Melba’s Restaurant in Harlem. earlier this month by the Organi- warned that mounting debt could
June 18, Mayor Bill de Blasio zation for Economic Cooperation constrain additional support as
announced that starting Monday, country right now.” and Development. And its U.S. governments began to worry
restaurants could start serving Transportation commissioners forecast for 2020 is also less opti- about ballooning deficits.
outdoors, where the risk of trans- have not historically had much mistic than what the Congres- The I.M.F. report notes that,
mitting the virus is lower. jurisdiction over restaurants, but sional Budget Office and the Fed- even in countries where infection
Restaurants had been waiting the outdoor dining program eral Reserve have projected. rates are declining, major obsta-
for this decision — calling for it happens to dovetail with the The I.M.F. now projects that the cles to a resumption of normal ac-
with mounting desperation, in department’s wider effort to turn U.S. economy will shrink 8 per- tivity persist. Travel and mobility
fact. The mayor’s announcement some of the city’s streets over to cent this year before expanding remain depressed, and the virus
still caught them off guard, walkers, runners and skate- 4.5 percent next year. has dealt a blow to consumption
though. They had just three days boarders. That list now includes The Fed in June projected a par- and business investment.
to get special city authorizations eaters and drinkers, which any- ticularly sharp economic hit in “In most recessions, consumers
to place tables, at least six feet body who enjoys the spectacle of 2020, with officials expecting out- dig into their savings or rely on so-
apart, on sidewalks and in curb- life played out in public will put to contract by 6.5 percent at cial safety nets and family support
side street-parking spaces. recognize as a promising move. the end of this year compared to to smooth spending, and con-
By Tuesday morning, more EMON HASSAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
There are even signals ema- the final quarter of 2019, before re- sumption is affected relatively
than 4,100 restaurants had been nating from City Hall that some bounding by 5 percent in 2021. A less than investment,” the I.M.F.
to cars and trucks under a city has had a sidewalk cafe for sev-
approved. But shortly after noon of this new street and sidewalk May report from the C.B.O. fore- said. “But this time, consumption
program, called Open Streets, eral years, and had been packing
on Monday, when I began dining could, conceivably, possi- cast a 5.6 percent contraction in and services output have also
which has temporarily given 43 food for takeout and delivery for
searching the streets of China- bly, outlast the pandemic. “This the United States this year. dropped markedly.”
miles of pavement to walkers some time. So when Monday
town, the Lower East Side and will be a great conversation to Charles Evans, president of the The pandemic has also cur-
and cyclists. It would be a good arrived, all it needed to do was to
the East Village for a place to have towards the end of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, tailed the flow of global trade,
spot to eat a knoblewurst or two, install the metal pen around its
eat, not many had outdoor seat- outdoor space and leave more summer,” Ms. Trottenberg said. said on Wednesday that he ex- which the fund estimated had con-
ing yet. Wu’s Wonton King was but outdoor dining won’t be tracted 3.5 percent in the first
room than usual between the “We’ll have lots of information pects a “broad recovery will take
dark. expanded to the Open Streets quarter from a year earlier.
tables. then about how well it’s worked.” some time” in the United States,
A few doors down East Broad- blocks until July. That is in line with an estimate
Restaurants in Midtown and My own view is that change adding that “the future is more un-
way at Mission Chinese Food, There was more plywood certain now than at any other by the World Trade Organization,
the financial district that rely on can’t come fast enough. Restau-
Kate Bolster, a manager, was along Avenue A. Sheets of it rants need to make money. New time” in his professional career. which said that global trade had
were being unscrewed from the office workers may not find the
helping to put finishing touches new outdoor dining rules very Yorkers need to get out of their “My forecast assumes growth is fallen sharply in the first half of
on a new planter box, five feet windows of TabeTomo, a tsuke- apartments, even if it means held back by the response to inter- the year. That trajectory did not
helpful. Places targeting out-of-
tall and clementine-colored, that men specialist across from wearing masks, carrying hand mittent localized outbreaks which seem quite as bad as the group
towners are in a tough spot, too.
had been fabricated over the Tompkins Square Park. There sanitizer and talking across might be made worse by the fast- had previously projected.
But coffee shops, sandwich
weekend. It was going to be were tables outside — a two-top longer-than-usual distances. er-than-expected reopenings,” Trade in goods shrank 3 percent
joints, pizzerias and other main-
installed at the edge of a triangle and a four-top, each with its own stays of residential areas are well None of this bothered me at Mr. Evans said. year on year in the first quarter,
across the street called Straus patio umbrella. The afternoon positioned to take advantage of Veselka. I took off my mask for “Usually, we are able to look to while initial estimates indicate
Park. Along with five identical was warm and getting warmer, outdoor dining. about 15 minutes and then retied the past for guidance on what is in that it fell 18.5 percent in the sec-
boxes, the planter would cordon and the prospect of a plate of “This is a time, in some cases, it again when I’d finished lunch: store for the future. But in this sit- ond quarter, the steepest decline
off a small dining area where chilled noodles and cold dipping where if you’re a neighborhood cold borscht and a mixed plate of uation, there is simply no relevant on record. But those declines
customers could bring kung pao sauce in the shade held a power- restaurant and you rely on peo- boiled pierogies, half cheese and benchmark.” could have been much worse, the
pastrami, mapo tofu and other ful attraction. But TabeTomo, like ple who live in the community, half blueberry. Ms. Gopinath said in a news organization said. Trade needs to
items from the Mission Chinese a number of other restaurants you may fare a bit better,” said I liked it all, especially the briefing that the world was facing grow only modestly for the rest of
Food canon, all packed in takeout Andrew Rigie, the executive slightly scouring tartness of the the worst downturn since the the year to meet the organiza-
containers. director of the New York City cherry lime rickey, but if there Great Depression. However, she tion’s more optimistic outlook of a
“It’s been 48 hours since the A restaurant critic is Hospitality Alliance. Mr. Rigie, had been any problems I would- said that the depth and duration of 13 percent contraction in 2020,
command came down the line,” whose group rarely sees eye to n’t tell you about them. Now is the economic collapse were not versus a more pessimistic poten-
Ms. Bolster said. “It’s been fun, served for the first eye with bureaucrats, seemed a not the time for criticizing. Any expected to be as severe, given tial decline of 32 percent.
but it’s been some late nights.” Roberto Azevêdo, the director
But the first lunch service
time since March. little astonished on Monday.
Ordinarily, acquiring a sidewalk
restaurant that is serving food
now is a good restaurant.
the strength of the economy going
into the crisis and the relative sta- general of the World Trade Orga-
wouldn’t take place until cafe permit takes around six But it is a time for imagining. bility of the financial system. nization, said the development is a
Wednesday, and I was hungry around the city, had set up out- months and costs roughly $5,000. Once we don’t need to fear The path of the recovery is diffi- “silver lining” but governments
now. I headed for Orchard Street, door seating for its takeout In a single weekend, thousands Covid-19, what would the city cult to track, she added, noting need to be on guard and continue
in ordinary times one of the most customers earlier this month, of restaurants had been cleared look like if more of our dining that much will depend on the de- to stimulate the economy.
promising stretches on the before it was officially allowed. I with no application fee. spaces spilled over into the side- velopment of a vaccine or cure for
Lower East Side for anyone admired the enterprise, but I “I’ve been fighting bureaucra- walks and streets? Would it look the coronavirus pandemic or Ana Swanson and Jeanna Smialek
prospecting for a good meal. wanted to eat at a table that was cy and red tape for a long time, like the crazy, whirling, profane whether future waves create the contributed reporting.
Some restaurants were closed just seeing its first action of the and this program really cuts out outdoor feast of “Fellini’s Roma,”
because it was Monday, others season. the red tape and costs for restau- with swaddled babies passed
because they never serve lunch, In the end, Veselka came rant owners,” he said. “It’s really around in baskets and conversa-
but tape measures and power through for me as I knew it remarkable.” tions that revolve almost entirely
tools were out in front of Regina’s would, as it had so often over the Polly Trottenberg, who as around sex, excrement and cacio
Grocery and Cheeky Sand- years for me and anybody else commissioner of the Department e pepe shouted from table to
wiches. It was takeout-only at who needed a dose of Ukrainian of Transportation is overseeing table? New York is too fancy for
Russ & Daughters Cafe. Contrair hospitality. The East Village the new approval process, was that now. (By 1972, when Fellini
— the ad hoc merger of Contra never feels more like a village almost giddy at how quickly it conjured it up, Rome was proba-
and Wildair that takes online than inside Veselka’s walls, was moving, as if she were the bly too fancy for it.) But those of
pickup and delivery orders for where people reading Ferrante owner of a golf cart who’d just us who love restaurants have
crab congee, chipotle-braised sit across from people reading discovered it could reach high- been unsettled lately by how
tripe and bottles of far-flung Polish newspapers, where soli- way speed. many new ones have taken the
natural wines — was still empty. tary types can hide and new “It was quite clear that a form of whispery, darkened,
At the corner of Rivington, the couples can pretend to hide, process in which we would have expensive cloisters. A little spa-
Roman sandwich shop where young men dress like to survey and certify everything ghetti in the streets couldn’t hurt.
Trapizzino hid behind plywood. roadies and old men dress like — we would never be able to do There was one small glitch at
Katz’s was doing a brisk take- retired cardsharps, and all of that in real time,” she said. “So Veselka. It took longer than
out business, all things consid- them drink coffee. we leaned into a different model, usual for the check to arrive —
ered, but there were no tables That was more or less the which I’ll admit is unusual in long enough that my server
out on Houston or Ludlow scene yesterday, although it took New York City and is probably apologized. She didn’t need to. I WANG ZHAO/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES
Streets. Ludlow Street is blocked place outside the walls. Veselka one of the most liberal in the would have waited all day. Even as businesses reopen, the path to economic recovery is uncertain.
 THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2020 N B7

TECHNOLOGY | LITIGATION

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Bayer Agrees to Pay $10 Billion to Settle Claims That a Weedkiller Causes Cancer
FROM FIRST BUSINESS PAGE ceive payments of $5,000 to 2015 when the International essence, was asking whether
Roundup, is safe, effective and $250,000, according to two people Agency for Research on Cancer, glyphosate has the potential to
better than available alternatives. involved in the negotiations. an arm of the World Health Orga- cause cancer. Its researchers
The settlement covers an esti- The coronavirus outbreak, nization, announced that judged the chemical “probably
mated 95,000 cases and includes which has closed courts across the glyphosate could “probably” carcinogenic to humans,” and
$1.25 billion for potential future country, may have pushed the cause cancer. added it to a list that already in-
claims from Roundup customers plaintiffs and the company to Monsanto denounced the find- cluded beef, pork, mobile phone
who may develop the form of can- come to an agreement. ings, arguing that years of re- use, dry cleaning and working
cer known as non-Hodgkin’s lym- “The pandemic worked to the search in laboratories and in the night shifts. Glyphosate escaped a
phoma. advantage of settlement because field had proved glyphosate’s stronger classification — “carcin-
The company is taking a calcu- the threat of a scheduled trial was safety. Regulators in a string of ogenic to humans” — that in-
lated risk that the benchmark set- unavailable,” Mr. Feinberg said. countries in Asia, Australia, Eu- cludes bacon, red wine, sun expo-
tlement will largely resolve its le- Talks began more than a year rope and North America have sure, tobacco and plutonium.
gal problems. Bayer still faces at ago at the prompting of Judge mostly backed Monsanto’s — and Government regulators, by
least 30,000 claims from plaintiffs Vince Chhabria of U.S. District now Bayer’s — position. contrast, are looking at the risk
who have not agreed to join the Court in San Francisco, who was The longest and most thorough that glyphosate will actually
settlement. overseeing hundreds of federal study of American agricultural
cause cancer given most people’s
Werner Baumann, Bayer’s Roundup lawsuits. workers by the National Institutes
levels of exposure. Sharks, for ex-
chief executive, said that the two Judge Chhabria appointed Mr. of Health, for example, found no
ample, are potentially dangerous.
critical conditions for a settlement Feinberg to lead negotiations for association between glyphosate
and overall cancer risk, though it But people who stay out of the wa-
were that it was financially rea- an agreement that would include
did acknowledge that the evi- ter are not at much risk of being
sonable and that it would bring all the cases, including thousands
of others filed in state courts and dence was more ambiguous at the attacked.
closure to the litigation. JOSH EDELSON/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES
In court, lawyers argued over
“We are totally convinced” this other jurisdictions. highest levels of exposure.
The $1.25 billion set aside for fu- The Environmental Protection the available scientific evidence.
does both, Mr. Baumann said in an Perhaps most damaging for the
interview on Wednesday. There is ture plaintiffs will be applied to a Agency ruled last year that it was
class-action suit being filed in a “false claim” to say on product defendants, though, were revela-
money put aside for existing tions that reinforced Monsanto’s
claimants outside of the agree- Judge Chhabria’s court on behalf labels that glyphosate caused can-
of those who have used Roundup cer. The federal government of- image as a company that people
and may later have health con- fered further support by filing a le- love to hate.

95,000
The approximate number of cases
cerns.
Part of the $1.25 billion will be
used to establish an independent
gal brief on the chemical manufac-
turer’s behalf in its appeal of the
Hardeman verdict. It said the can-
Monsanto’s aggressive tactics
to influence scientific opinion and
discredit critics undercut the com-
expert panel to resolve two criti- cer risk “does not exist” according pany’s credibility. It had taken aim
covered by the settlement.
cal questions about glyphosate: to the E.P.A.’s assessment. at hundreds of activists, scien-
Does it cause cancer, and if so, Then in January, the agency is- tists, journalists, politicians and
ment, he said, and a structure to what is the minimum dosage or sued another interim report, even musicians. At one point, a
deal with future claimants that exposure level that is dangerous? which “concluded that there are team monitored Neil Young’s so-
could emerge. If the panel concludes that no risks of concern to human cial media postings after he re-
Fletch Trammell, a Houston- glyphosate is a carcinogen, Bayer health when glyphosate is used leased an album, “The Monsanto
based lawyer who said he repre- will not be able to argue otherwise according to the label and that it is Years,” in 2015 and a short film
sented 5,000 claimants who de- in future cases — and if the ex- not a carcinogen.” that attacked the company and ge-
clined to join, disagreed. “This is perts reach the opposite conclu- This week, a federal judge in netically modified food.
nothing like the closure they’re sion, the class action’s lawyers California referred to the agency’s “Monsanto didn’t seem con-
trying to imply,” he said. “It’s like will be similarly bound. pronouncement when it ruled that cerned at all about getting at the
putting out part of a house fire.” Pressure on Bayer for a settle- JEFF CHIU/ASSOCIATED PRESS the state could not require a can- truth of whether glyphosate
But Kenneth R. Feinberg, the ment has been building over the In 2018, a California jury awarded $289 million to Dewayne Johnson, top, a cer warning on Roundup, writing caused cancer,” Judge Chhabria of
Washington lawyer who oversaw last year after thousands of law- school groundskeeper, after concluding that glyphosate caused his cancer. that “that every government reg- the U.S. District Court in San
the mediation process, said he ex- suits piled up and investors grew Above, Edwin Hardeman, with his wife, Mary, won an $80 million verdict. ulator of which the court is aware, Francisco said when he reviewed
pected most current claimants to more vocal about their discontent with the exception of the I.A.R.C.,
the Hardeman verdict last sum-
eventually sign on to the settle- with the company’s legal ap- has found that there was no or in-
more than $2 billion to a couple, Wednesday’s settlement. mer.
ment. proach. sufficient evidence that
Alva and Alberta Pilliod, who ar- Glyphosate was introduced in glyphosate causes cancer.” With Bayer’s purchase in 2018,
“In my experience, all those Just weeks after the deal to pur-
gued that decades of using Round- 1974, but its journey to becoming the Monsanto brand ceased to ex-
cases that have not yet been set- chase Monsanto was completed in Critics have countered that reg-
2018, a jury in a California state up caused their non-Hodgkin’s the world’s No. 1 weedkiller ulators based their conclusions on ist, but the shadows over one of its
tled will quickly be resolved by
settlement,” said Mr. Feinberg, court awarded $289 million to De- lymphoma. gained momentum in 1996 after flawed and incomplete research marquee products persisted.
best known for running the fed- wayne Johnson, a school grounds- “Plaintiffs have gone to the Monsanto developed genetically provided by Monsanto. Several Bayer announced Wednesday
eral September 11th Victim Com- keeper, after concluding that plate three times and hit it out of modified seeds that could survive cities and districts around the that it would separately spend up
pensation Fund. “I will be sur- glyphosate caused his cancer. the park,” Ms. Engstrom at Stan- Roundup’s concentrated attacks world have banned or restricted to $400 million to settle claims
prised if there are any future tri- Monsanto, jurors said, had failed ford said. “When you see they’re on weeds. glyphosate use, and some stores stemming from another Mon-
als.” to warn consumers of the risk. batting a thousand, and thou- Farmers quickly latched onto have pulled the product off its santo chemical, dicamba, that can
Bayer said the amount set aside In March 2019, a second trial, sands more cases are waiting in the agricultural products to re- shelf. drift after it is sprayed and dam-
to settle current litigation was $8.8 this time in the federal court in the wings, that spells a very bleak duce costs and increase crop Part of the discrepancy be- age other crops. Bayer also put
billion to $9.6 billion, including a San Francisco, produced a similar picture for Monsanto.” yields. In the United States, for ex- tween the international agency’s aside $820 million to settle long-
cushion to cover claims not yet re- outcome for Edwin Hardeman, a All three monetary awards ample, 94 percent of soybean conclusions and so many other in- standing lawsuits related to toxic
solved. It said the settlement in- homeowner who used Roundup were later reduced by judges and crops and roughly 90 percent of vestigators’ findings is related to chemicals in the water supply
cluded no admission of liability or on his property, and an $80 million Bayer appealed the verdicts, but cotton and corn now come from differences in the questions that known as PCBs — for polychlori-
wrongdoing. verdict. the losses rattled investors and genetically altered seeds. were asked and the way the data nated biphenyls — that were
Individuals, depending on the Two months later, a third jury the stock price tumbled sharply. But long-simmering anxieties was selected and analyzed. banned in the United States four
strength of their cases, will re- delivered a staggering award of Those cases are unaffected by over possible hazards exploded in The international agency, in decades ago.
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Highlight: The Weekend Outlook National Forecast Metropolitan Almanac

A few afternoon showers and thunder- In Central Park, for the 16 hours ended at 4 p.m. yesterday.
Showers storms will dot the eastern Great Lakes
and Ohio Valley and interior Northeast Temperature Precipitation (in inches)
Rain and Mid-Atlantic. More numerous show- Record Yesterday ............... 0.00
L JET STREAM
high 96° Record .................... 1.46
ers and storms will rumble across the (1888)
L Deep South and western Gulf Coast area. 90° 85°
3 p.m.
For the last 30 days
Actual ..................... 1.08
A large plume of Saharan dust will also Normal .................... 4.53
arrive, along much of the Gulf Coast, Normal For the last 365 days
leading to hazy skies and worsening the high 82° Actual ................... 41.17
80° Normal .................. 49.92
air quality. Severe thunderstorms will
H erupt in the northern Plains, bringing the LAST 30 DAYS

threat of damaging wind gusts, hail and Air pressure Humidity

Thunderstorms High ........... 29.76 1 p.m. High ............. 84% 1 a.m.
flash flooding. Sizzling heat and high 70° 74°
Low ............ 29.66 3 a.m. Low .............. 31% 3 p.m.
humidity will also begin to build north 2 a.m. Normal
Unusually Unusually
low 66°
warm cool through much of the Plains. Cooling Degree Days
The West will also stay very hot, with An index of fuel consumption that tracks how
spotty afternoon thundershowers in the 60° TUE. YESTERDAY far the day's mean temperature rose above 65
A storm over southern New England will bring showers and thunderstorms to the Northeast Rockies. The exception will be the imme- Record Yesterday................................................................... 15
and into the eastern Great Lakes region this weekend. Wet weather will also affect the diate West Coast, where conditions will low 52° So far this month...................................................... 196
(1932) So far this season (since January 1) ........................ 240
Pacific Northwest and showers and thunderstorms will erupt along the Gulf Coast. remain comfortable. 50° Normal to date for the season ................................. 221

4 12 6 12 4
p.m. a.m. a.m. p.m. p.m. Trends Temperature Precipitation
Little Rock 85/ 66 0 88/ 71 PC 88/ 68 PC New Delhi 93/ 82 0 99/ 82 T 98/ 84 PC
Cities Los Angeles 81/ 64 0 80/ 63 PC 80/ 63 PC Riyadh 104/ 77 0 108/ 80 PC 111/ 81 PC Average Average
High/low temperatures for the 16 hours ended at 4 Louisville 84/ 65 0 86/ 68 PC 89/ 74 PC Seoul 75/ 70 1.00 78/ 67 R 81/ 69 PC Avg. daily departure Avg. daily departure Below Above Below Above
p.m. yesterday, Eastern time, and precipitation (in inches) Memphis 85/ 69 0 88/ 70 S 86/ 72 T Shanghai 85/ 77 1.29 80/ 74 T 87/ 77 T from normal from normal Last 10 days
for the 16 hours ended at 4 p.m. yesterday. Miami 94/ 81 0.08 93/ 82 PC 92/ 80 PC Singapore 84/ 79 0.48 87/ 78 C 86/ 78 T this month
...................... +2.2° this.........................
year +2.4°
Milwaukee 75/ 60 Tr 82/ 64 PC 86/ 69 PC Sydney 66/ 47 0.03 66/ 47 S 63/ 50 PC 30 days
Expected conditions for today and tomorrow.
Mpls.-St. Paul 78/ 61 0 86/ 68 PC 80/ 65 T Taipei City 95/ 82 0.05 99/ 82 PC 95/ 81 T 90 days
C ........................ Clouds S .............................Sun Nashville 85/ 66 0 87/ 68 PC 87/ 71 T Tehran 101/ 73 0 101/ 75 PC 98/ 72 PC Reservoir levels (New York City water supply) 365 days
F............................. Fog Sn ....................... Snow New Orleans 85/ 78 0.89 87/ 77 T 90/ 79 PC Tokyo 76/ 70 0.39 77/ 72 PC 82/ 74 C
H .......................... Haze SS .......... Snow showers Norfolk 88/ 71 0 81/ 69 T 88/ 72 PC Yesterday ............... 94% Chart shows how recent temperature and precipitation
Oklahoma City 88/ 62 0 89/ 68 PC 90/ 69 PC Europe Yesterday Today Tomorrow
I............................... Ice T............ Thunderstorms Est. normal ............. 97% trends compare with those of the last 30 years.
Omaha 84/ 65 0 92/ 73 PC 87/ 67 T Amsterdam 84/ 60 0 83/ 67 S 86/ 63 S
PC ............. Partly cloudy Tr ......................... Trace Athens 82/ 69 0.01 87/ 73 T 87/ 71 S
Orlando 96/ 76 0 97/ 74 PC 94/ 73 PC
R ........................... Rain W ........................ Windy Berlin 75/ 54 0 81/ 62 PC 82/ 61 T
Philadelphia 87/ 67 0.08 86/ 67 PC 88/ 69 S
Sh ................... Showers –............... Not available Brussels 86/ 60 0 84/ 64 S 86/ 64 S
Phoenix
Pittsburgh
111/
75/
82
55
0 111/ 83 PC
0.05 79/ 60 PC
108/
82/
84
65
S
PC Budapest 77/ 57 0 80/ 64 S 81/ 66 T
Recreational Forecast
N.Y.C. region Yesterday Today Tomorrow
Portland, Me. 78/ 60 0.02 81/ 61 S 79/ 59 PC Copenhagen 75/ 58 0 78/ 64 PC 77/ 64 S
New York City 85/ 74 0 85/ 69 PC 88/ 72 S Portland, Ore. 80/ 61 0 86/ 61 PC 85/ 62 S Dublin 68/ 55 0 71/ 58 T 70/ 52 C Sun, Moon and Planets Beach and Ocean Temperatures
Bridgeport 87/ 70 0 83/ 67 PC 85/ 68 S Providence 85/ 64 0.15 84/ 65 PC 83/ 65 PC Edinburgh 79/ 56 0 78/ 55 PC 72/ 53 T
Caldwell 89/ 72 0.08 88/ 65 PC 88/ 65 S Raleigh 88/ 70 0 85/ 66 T 89/ 69 S Frankfurt 82/ 59 0 81/ 62 PC 86/ 65 S First Quarter Full Last Quarter New
Danbury 84/ 67 0.05 83/ 59 Sh 84/ 58 S Reno 95/ 63 0 93/ 63 S 97/ 67 S Geneva 84/ 59 0 84/ 61 T 83/ 61 PC Today’s forecast
Islip 87/ 70 0.05 84/ 67 PC 85/ 66 S Richmond 88/ 67 0 83/ 64 T 88/ 67 PC Helsinki 82/ 56 0 85/ 59 S 82/ 58 S
Newark 89/ 74 0.05 88/ 68 PC 90/ 67 S Rochester 74/ 57 0.04 78/ 60 PC 84/ 62 S Istanbul 79/ 68 0.25 81/ 70 PC 80/ 68 S
Trenton 86/ 71 0 85/ 64 PC 87/ 64 S Sacramento 97/ 62 0 99/ 61 S 98/ 61 S Kiev 78/ 63 0.05 82/ 59 S 83/ 62 S June 28 July 5 July 12 July 20
White Plains 86/ 69 0.05 84/ 64 PC 86/ 64 S Salt Lake City 95/ 68 0 87/ 63 PC 88/ 66 S Lisbon 79/ 63 0 77/ 60 S 73/ 63 PC 12:43 a.m. 1:32 p.m.
United States Yesterday Today Tomorrow San Antonio 92/ 73 0.17 93/ 72 T 89/ 75 T London 90/ 63 0 89/ 65 S 81/ 59 T Kennebunkport
San Diego 72/ 65 0 71/ 64 PC 72/ 65 PC Madrid 93/ 69 0.16 96/ 66 S 92/ 62 PC Sun RISE 5:26 a.m. Moon R 9:50 a.m. 78/59 Mostly sunny
Albany 85/ 60 0.04 84/ 63 PC 84/ 62 S Moscow 77/ 56 0 79/ 59 PC 82/ 66 S
San Francisco 73/ 56 0 72/ 56 PC 75/ 57 PC SET 8:32 p.m. S 12:05 a.m.
Albuquerque 94/ 65 0 97/ 68 S 95/ 65 PC Nice 79/ 70 0 78/ 68 S 78/ 68 S
San Jose 85/ 59 0 83/ 60 PC 86/ 60 S NEXT R 5:26 a.m. R 11:00 a.m. Cape Cod
Anchorage 62/ 50 0.06 63/ 49 C 64/ 50 C Oslo 82/ 56 0 79/ 56 PC 82/ 60 S 50s
San Juan 88/ 80 0.07 90/ 79 W 90/ 81 T 83/67 Partly sunny
Atlanta 79/ 66 0.20 77/ 69 PC 80/ 68 T Paris 90/ 63 0 91/ 68 S 83/ 64 T Jupiter S 7:11 a.m. Mars R 12:47 a.m.
Seattle 75/ 58 0.02 80/ 58 PC 81/ 59 S
Atlantic City 84/ 70 0.08 81/ 69 PC 84/ 69 PC Prague 66/ 51 0.34 72/ 56 PC 74/ 59 T R 9:43 p.m. S 12:30 p.m.
Sioux Falls 83/ 61 0 88/ 69 PC 82/ 60 T L.I. North Shore
Austin 90/ 70 0.05 93/ 72 T 92/ 73 PC Rome 86/ 62 0 82/ 63 S 84/ 63 S
Spokane 86/ 60 0 83/ 62 PC 87/ 63 PC Saturn S 7:41 a.m. Venus R 3:49 a.m.
Baltimore 86/ 66 0.04 86/ 64 PC 88/ 66 S St. Petersburg 78/ 60 0.07 82/ 63 S 80/ 64 S 85/67 A thunderstorm in spots
St. Louis 83/ 67 0 90/ 72 PC 94/ 75 PC R 10:02 p.m. S 6:03 p.m.
Baton Rouge 80/ 70 0.93 82/ 73 T 87/ 74 PC Stockholm 82/ 56 0 85/ 57 S 82/ 59 S
St. Thomas 90/ 81 0.27 90/ 79 PC 91/ 82 C
Birmingham 79/ 67 0.05 80/ 69 T 82/ 71 T Vienna 73/ 55 0.02 75/ 61 PC 82/ 62 PC L.I. South Shore
Syracuse 79/ 57 0 80/ 61 PC 84/ 63 S Boating
Boise 96/ 63 0 90/ 62 S 92/ 64 S Tampa 94/ 79 0 96/ 80 S 96/ 78 T Warsaw 72/ 59 0.31 79/ 63 PC 81/ 64 T 80/69 A thunderstorm in spots
Boston 84/ 66 0.19 82/ 65 S 83/ 67 PC Toledo 79/ 58 0.05 82/ 58 Sh 88/ 72 PC
North America Yesterday Today Tomorrow From Montauk Point to Sandy Hook, N.J., out to 20
Buffalo 69/ 57 0.04 75/ 61 PC 79/ 64 S Tucson 108/ 76 0 109/ 73 PC 105/ 72 PC N.J. Shore
Burlington 85/ 58 0.13 83/ 61 PC 85/ 62 PC nautical miles, including Long Island Sound and New York 60s
Tulsa 90/ 68 0 92/ 73 S 92/ 75 S Acapulco 85/ 78 0.10 88/ 79 T 90/ 78 T 81/69 A thunderstorm in spots
Casper 90/ 51 0 84/ 47 PC 79/ 50 PC Harbor.
Virginia Beach 84/ 70 0.05 79/ 69 T 85/ 71 PC Bermuda 82/ 75 0.01 81/ 75 PC 81/ 75 PC
Charlotte 86/ 69 0 83/ 65 PC 90/ 66 PC Washington 87/ 71 0 86/ 68 PC 88/ 71 S Edmonton 66/ 55 0.52 76/ 51 PC 71/ 49 Sh Wind will be from the west, then from the south, at under Eastern Shore
Chattanooga 83/ 68 0.01 85/ 70 PC 86/ 69 T Wichita 92/ 67 0 94/ 71 S 96/ 70 PC Guadalajara 80/ 61 0.23 78/ 62 T 77/ 58 T 10 knots. Waves will be a foot or less on Long Island
Chicago 79/ 60 0 84/ 66 PC 91/ 73 PC 84/66 A shower or thunderstorm
Wilmington, Del. 85/ 66 0 84/ 64 PC 87/ 64 S Havana 93/ 76 0 93/ 75 PC 90/ 75 PC Sound and New York Harbor and 2-3 feet. Visibility will be
Cincinnati 80/ 60 0.05 83/ 64 PC 88/ 71 PC Kingston 91/ 78 0 91/ 79 W 91/ 81 W reduced in spotty showers. Ocean City Md. 70s
Cleveland 75/ 59 0.05 79/ 61 PC 84/ 71 PC Africa Yesterday Today Tomorrow Martinique 90/ 76 0 90/ 80 T 89/ 79 W 79/68 A thunderstorm in spots
Colorado Springs 86/ 56 0 88/ 56 PC 77/ 53 T Algiers 88/ 61 0 92/ 66 PC 87/ 65 PC Mexico City 73/ 54 0.05 74/ 56 T 74/ 54 T High Tides
Columbus 78/ 58 0.10 83/ 62 PC 87/ 71 PC Cairo 93/ 73 0 91/ 71 S 94/ 72 S Monterrey 93/ 73 0 92/ 71 PC 89/ 73 T Virginia Beach Color bands
Concord, N.H. 83/ 57 0.15 85/ 57 S 84/ 55 PC Cape Town 68/ 45 0 66/ 53 R 61/ 54 Sh Montreal 78/ 68 0.20 79/ 59 W 79/ 62 PC Atlantic City .................. 11:23 a.m. ............ 11:30 p.m. indicate water
79/69 A shower or thunderstorm
Dallas-Ft. Worth 88/ 68 0 89/ 71 PC 91/ 72 PC Dakar 91/ 79 0 87/ 79 PC 86/ 78 S Nassau 90/ 77 0.15 89/ 78 PC 89/ 79 PC Barnegat Inlet ............... 11:43 a.m. ............ 11:49 p.m. temperature.
Denver 90/ 61 0 91/ 55 PC 78/ 55 T Johannesburg 66/ 36 0 63/ 40 PC 63/ 40 PC Panama City 88/ 75 0.23 88/ 72 T 87/ 75 T The Battery ................... 12:24 p.m. ......................... ---
Des Moines 81/ 60 0 87/ 72 PC 87/ 69 T Nairobi 75/ 58 0 74/ 54 PC 74/ 58 PC Quebec City 76/ 68 1.58 74/ 55 W 76/ 57 PC Beach Haven ................ 12:20 a.m. .............. 1:13 p.m.
Detroit 77/ 58 0 80/ 60 PC 86/ 70 PC Tunis 91/ 66 0 95/ 72 S 95/ 72 S Santo Domingo 90/ 74 0 91/ 75 T 91/ 76 T Bridgeport ...................... 2:41 a.m. .............. 3:22 p.m.
El Paso 98/ 73 0 101/ 75 PC 103/ 76 C Toronto 73/ 59 0 78/ 61 PC 83/ 68 S City Island ....................... 2:22 a.m. .............. 3:02 p.m.
A sunny and mild day will unfold along the
Fargo 82/ 62 0 88/ 65 T 82/ 59 C Asia/Pacific Yesterday Today Tomorrow Vancouver 66/ 60 0.19 70/ 56 PC 68/ 57 Sh
Hartford 87/ 62 0.04 85/ 61 S 86/ 60 PC Baghdad 108/ 81 0 106/ 77 PC 111/ 80 PC Fire Island Lt. ................ 12:41 p.m. ......................... --- New England beaches, with low humidity
Winnipeg 77/ 52 0 80/ 64 T 80/ 58 PC
Honolulu 87/ 76 0 87/ 72 PC 88/ 75 S Bangkok 95/ 79 0.08 95/ 80 T 95/ 79 PC Montauk Point .............. 12:23 a.m. .............. 1:07 p.m. and a gentle breeze. Elsewhere, there will
Houston 82/ 72 1.20 86/ 73 T 88/ 76 PC Beijing 91/ 64 0.39 80/ 68 T 87/ 69 PC South America Yesterday Today Tomorrow Northport ....................... 2:44 a.m. .............. 3:20 p.m.
Indianapolis 79/ 59 0 83/ 64 PC 87/ 71 PC Damascus 93/ 57 0 96/ 61 PC 98/ 63 PC Buenos Aires 57/ 51 0.06 54/ 40 S 54/ 40 PC Port Washington ............. 2:31 a.m. .............. 3:06 p.m. be clouds and sunshine, with showers or
Jackson 79/ 67 1.31 80/ 69 T 87/ 70 PC Hong Kong 91/ 84 0.26 91/ 83 T 92/ 83 C Caracas 86/ 74 0 86/ 75 PC 85/ 74 T Sandy Hook .................. 11:55 a.m. ............ 11:57 p.m. thunderstorms in spots. These can occur
Jacksonville 93/ 70 0 95/ 74 PC 95/ 73 PC Jakarta 88/ 76 0 92/ 75 PC 92/ 76 C Lima 65/ 60 Tr 66/ 60 PC 66/ 60 PC Shinnecock Inlet ........... 11:35 a.m. ............ 11:50 p.m.
Kansas City 84/ 67 0 89/ 71 PC 90/ 69 PC Jerusalem 82/ 60 0 79/ 64 S 82/ 63 S Quito 68/ 47 0.03 70/ 50 R 67/ 49 Sh Stamford ........................ 2:42 a.m. .............. 3:18 p.m.
at any time near Virginia Beach, but are
Key West 91/ 84 0 90/ 82 PC 89/ 82 T Karachi 99/ 84 0 98/ 87 PC 97/ 88 S Recife 84/ 75 0.07 85/ 72 PC 85/ 74 S Tarrytown ....................... 1:08 a.m. .............. 2:13 p.m. more likely in the afternoon farther north.
Las Vegas 107/ 82 0 106/ 83 PC 102/ 83 S Manila 95/ 82 0.01 95/ 81 T 95/ 81 C Rio de Janeiro 79/ 66 0 83/ 71 PC 79/ 70 PC Willets Point .................... 2:24 a.m. .............. 3:06 p.m.
Lexington 81/ 60 Tr 83/ 63 PC 85/ 70 T Mumbai 90/ 81 0.14 91/ 82 C 91/ 81 T Santiago 54/ 38 0.30 54/ 38 PC 58/ 39 C

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N

The Race Is Over Before It Begins Now, There’s

No Spitting
In Baseball
By JAMES WAGNER
Coronavirus testing every other day
for players and coaches. Wet rags for
pitchers’ pockets to prevent them from
licking their fingers. Masks in the dugout
and bullpen for any non-players. And no
public transportation to the stadium,
communal food spreads, saunas, fight-
ing, spitting, smokeless tobacco or sun-
flower seeds.
Got all that?
These are among the many new rules
that Major League Baseball teams will
have to follow for the shortened 2020
season. This week, after months of hag-
gling over pay and how many games to
play, M.L.B. and the players’ union com-
pleted their season plan, including a 113-
page operations manual that will govern
this unprecedented 60-game season
without fans in the stands.
“There’s a lot of stuff to get used to,”
Mets pitcher Seth Lugo said.
Unlike some other professional
leagues that will play in a single, seques-
tered environment, M.L.B. will play
games at teams’ home stadiums, with
the regular season beginning either July
23 or 24 after a second round of spring
training starting July 1.
Even before any players have offi-
cially reported to their camps, several
teams — including the Philadelphia
Phillies, the Toronto Blue Jays, the Col-
orado Rockies and the Yankees — have
reportedly had positive coronavirus
tests among their players and staff mem-
bers.
DON HOGAN CHARLES/THE NEW YORK TIMES “This is a challenging time, but we will
1970 Gary Muhrcke, the first-place finisher, nearing the tape at the first New York City Marathon, which was run entirely in Central Park. meet the challenge by continuing to
work together,” read part of the introduc-
tion to the M.L.B. manual, a copy of
which was obtained by The New York
Times. “Adherence to the health and
safety protocols described in this manual
will increase our likelihood of being suc-
cessful.”
Dr. Michael Saag, an infectious dis-
eases expert at the University of Ala-
bama at Birmingham, commended base-
ball’s health and safety plan, calling it
“fairly detailed” in a telephone interview
on Wednesday.
“A player’s risk, based on what they’re
planning, is probably greater for acquir-
ing this infection in the community than
while engaged in baseball-related activi-
ties,” Saag said.
To facilitate testing, the Sports Medi-
cine Research and Testing Laboratory,
which normally helps run the league’s
antidoping testing, has converted a por-
tion of its space for virus tests, promising
a 24-hour turnaround on results.
Before arriving at spring training,
players and key staff members must be
screened for any symptoms and poten-
tial exposure to the virus, as well as a
separate examination that includes a sa-
liva or oral/nasal swab test and a blood
sample for an antibody test.
During spring training and the season,
players and select staff members will
have their temperatures and symptoms
checked twice per day at club facilities.
Those with temperatures at or above
100.4 degrees will not be allowed to enter
a team facility.
Players and on-field personnel will be
tested for the virus every other day,
while other key staff members will be
tested “multiple times per week.” Anti-
body testing will happen about once a
month.
If anyone tests positive for the virus,
BENJAMIN NORMAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
he or she will receive medical attention
and be required to self-isolate. Contact
2019 Thousands of runners pounded their way across the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge at the start of the five-borough race. tracing will be conducted and the team
facility will be disinfected.
By MATTHEW FUTTERMAN money. Teams’ medical staffs must identify
New York Road Runners carries can- players and key staff members who are
A public health crisis that has proved
to be treacherous for large events The Pandemic Forces New York cellation insurance for the marathon, at higher risk of contracting the virus —
which will help ease a significant blow. because of age or medical history, for ex-
claimed two more of the world’s biggest
marathons on Wednesday, with organ-
And Berlin to Cancel Their Marathons The marathon is the signature event ample — or who live with someone who
izers in New York and Berlin canceling and among the main revenue genera- is at a higher risk. Those individuals
their races this year because of the tors for the organization, which collects could receive special treatment, like sep-
spread of the coronavirus. He said he and other organizers had to the race during the next three years. a little more than $100 million each year arate travel arrangements.
The cancellations left the sport with- held out hope that their race could hap- They will also have the option to run the but had to cancel two other major If a higher-risk player still wants to opt
out three of its six most important races pen. They decided to cancel it before race virtually from Oct. 17 to Nov. 1. Or- events in the spring: the New York City out of playing this season after consult-
in 2020 — the Boston Marathon was having to spend more money to orga- ganizers said they would announce de- and Brooklyn half marathons. Accord- ing with the team doctor, he would be
called off in May — and increased con- nize it. tails of the virtual event in July. ing to tax filings, those races accounted placed on the “Covid-19 Related Injured
cerns that interruptions to the endur- “There was hope, but that turned to In the New York marathon, the run- for the bulk of the running organiza- List” and would still receive service time
ance sports world would continue until uncertainty, and given what we have ners and thousands of volunteers are tion’s $41 million in race entry fees in and pay. The Covid-19 list will have no
there was a medical solution to the cri- seen the past months, this was really transported to a starting line village at 2018, the last year for which figures are time limits and will also be open to play-
sis. the only decision,” Capiraso said. Fort Wadsworth on Staten Island, available. ers who test positive for the virus, were
White House officials have issued where they huddle and wait for hours to When the race was canceled in 2012, exposed to a confirmed case or exhibit
The New York City Marathon, one of
warnings about another wave of infec- be called to the start at the foot of the the organization infuriated runners by symptoms.
the most prestigious and lucrative
events of its kind, would have celebrat- tions this fall. And while infection rates Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge. The run- insisting until just two days before the The manual includes 11 pages of dia-
ed its 50th anniversary in November. It in the New York metropolitan area are ners then cram into a series of starting race that it would take place. By then, grams to ensure social distancing during
is one of the highlights of fall in New now among the lowest in the country, corrals while they wait for a cannon thousands of runners had traveled from on-field drills and in dugouts, batting
York and a spectacle for endurance the virus is spreading at concerning sound to signal the start of the race. across the United States, Europe and cages and bullpens. Among the other
sports, attracting more than 50,000 run- rates in areas that have not heeded the Remaining six feet apart simply can- Asia, only to have to return home with- measures in the manual:
ners, 10,000 volunteers and roughly a advice of public health officials to con- not happen. out racing after training for months. ■ Players should keep at least six feet
million fans, who line nearly every ac- tinue to practice social distancing, avoid Organizers canceled the race once be- The cancellation was a major disap- away from one another in the clubhouse;
cessible yard of the 26.2-mile course public gatherings and wear masks. As fore, in 2012, after Hurricane Sandy pointment for Aliphine Tuliamuk, who
of Wednesday, cases were rising in 27 hammered the region just days before won the U.S. Olympic marathon trials in ■ Players are “discouraged but not pro-
through the five boroughs.
City officials and New York Road states over the previous two weeks. the race. They decided against having February. After the Tokyo Games, hibited” from showering in the club-
Runners, which owns and organizes the Following coronavirus health guide- only an elite field this year in part be- which have been postponed a year, to house;
event, decided holding the race this lines while holding a major race is sim- cause they feared crowds would gather 2021, she had planned to run New York, ■ Clubhouse food must be served in indi-
year would be too risky. Public health ply impossible, leaving the endurance on the streets and because of the uncer- where she proved to herself in 2017 and vidual to-go containers;
experts have said mass events, espe- sports business economically devastat- tainty of international runners being 2019 that she could be a world-class
cially those that bring people together ed this year. able to travel to the United States. marathoner. When the Olympics were ■ Players (or managers) who leave their
from across the globe, will remain a “I worry about their ability to get The London and Chicago marathons postponed, she wanted to use New York positions to argue with umpires or come
danger until a treatment or a vaccine for through the pandemic,” Rich Harsh- remain scheduled for the fall, but organ- to stay sharp ahead of the Games in within six feet of them or an opposing
Covid-19, the disease caused by the vi- barger, the chief executive at Running izers have yet to commit to holding 2021. player or manager face ejection and dis-
rus, is widely available, a stance that U.S.A., an industry trade group, said of them. The Tokyo Marathon went for- Without a race on the horizon, she cipline;
makes it difficult to envision major pub- the organizations that manage races. ward in early March with only elite run- said she was “training for the love of ■ Any ball in play or touched by multiple
lic marathons coming back without one. “The question isn’t how do we respond, ners, but that is not a long-term solu- training.” players will be replaced;
“At some point, we are going to be it’s how do we get through this?” tion; without ticket sales in the sport, “I sort of knew this was coming,” Tu-
waiting for runners on finish lines Runners who had signed up for this organizers need money from casual liamuk said. “After what we have been ■ Hotel room visits are permitted for
again,” said Michael Capiraso, the chief year’s race in New York will be able to participants to help pay for the elite through the past four months, it’s the only other members of a traveling party
executive of New York Road Runners. receive a refund or to defer their entry field’s appearance fees and prize right call.” or immediate family.
B10 N THE NEW YORK TIMES SPORTS THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2020

SOFTBALL PRO BASKETBALL S C O R E B OA R D

Team’s Tweet Knicks Hire Outsider to Help Their Inside Game SOCCER

BUNDESLIGA

To President By SOPAN DEB

The Knicks, persistently in the
has almost entirely been linked to
his networking ability.
ing the organization toward a suc-
cessful future.”
Team GP W D L GF
t-Bayern . . . . . 33 25 4 4 96
Dortmund . . . . 33 21 6 6 84
RB Leipzig . . . 33 17 12 4 79
GA
32
37
36
Pts
79
69
63

Leads Players But his meticulously low profile The most pressing decision fac- Monchengladbch 33 19 5 9 64 39 62
market for credibility, clout and Leverkusen . . . 33 18 6 9 60 44 60
connections, made a move to ad- belies what many have described ing the Knicks’ front office is who Wolfsburg . . . . 33 13 10 10 48 42 49
as the huge sway he wields in bas- Hoffenheim . . . 33 14 7 12 49 53 49
dress all three shortcomings on will be the team’s coach next sea- Freiburg . . . . . 33 12 9 12 44 47 45

To Quit Series Wednesday by adding one of bas-

ketball’s best-known outsiders to
ketball.
Before joining C.A.A., the sports
and entertainment giant, a decade
son. On this front, Wesley’s hiring
may provide a signal. One of his
former C.A.A. clients, Tom Thi-
Eintracht . . . . . 33 12 6 15 56
Hertha Berlin . . 33 11 8 14 47
Schalke . . . . . 33 9 12 12 38
Union Berlin. . . 33 11 5 17 38
58
57
54
58
42
41
39
38
the team’s front office. Mainz . . . . . . . 33 11 4 18 44 64 37
By NATALIE WEINER
The new hire, William Wesley, is ago to work alongside Rose, Wes- bodeau, has been heavily linked to Cologne . . . . . 33 10 6 17 50 63 36
ley was already known for his ties Augsburg . . . . 33 9 9 15 44 61 36
For a few hours this week, soft- more commonly known in N.B.A. the Knicks’ job in recent months. Fortuna Dusseldrf 33 6 12 15 36 64 30
ball had a shot at something it has to top N.B.A. figures like LeBron Beyond that, Wesley and Rose, Bremen . . . . . 33 7 7 19 36 68 28
circles by his nickname, World SC Paderborn . 33 4 8 21 35 71 20
pursued for decades: the spot- James and Michael Jordan, and whose hiring was announced in
Wide Wes. He joined the Knicks as t-clinched title
light. The USSSA Pride and Scrap for leading recruitment efforts on March, just before the N.B.A. sus- Tuesday, June 16
an executive vice president and
Yard Fast Pitch, two independent behalf of college coaches, espe- pended its season, hope to lever-
Monchengladbach 3, Wolfsburg 0
senior basketball adviser, the Bremen 0, Bayern 1
professional softball teams that cially John Calipari, who is now at age their relationships with play- Freiburg 2, Hertha Berlin 1
team said, but already had deep Kentucky. Union Berlin 1, SC Paderborn 0
feature some of the top players in ties to the organization’s leader- ers to lure them into making the
Wesley is occasionally seen at Wednesday, June 17
the world, began what was sup- ship. Knicks a prime free-agent desti- Eintracht 2, Schalke 1
posed to be a seven-game series in major sporting events, often spot- Dortmund 0, Mainz 2
Wesley is a longtime associate nation again. RB Leipzig 2, Fortuna Dusseldorf 2
Melbourne, Fla., facing little com- ted next to celebrities including Leverkusen 3, Cologne 1
of the Knicks’ president, Leon JOHNNY NUNEZ/WIREIMAGE
Jay-Z, and he was on the floor in In recent decades, the Knicks Augsburg 1, Hoffenheim 3
petition from other live sports. have had persistent problems at-
Rose, a relationship that dates to William Wesley has long- 2004 trying to protect Metta San- Saturday, June 20
Instead, the first day of the se- tracting star players. Aside from
their high school days in Cherry standing ties with Leon Rose. diford-Artest, then known as Ron
Bayern 3, Freiburg 1
ries ended with all 18 players for trading for and re-signing a will-
RB Leipzig 0, Dortmund 2
Hill, N.J. Most recently, Wesley Artest, during the brawl that Hoffenheim 4, Union Berlin 0
Scrap Yard Fast Pitch cleaning out Fortuna Dusseldorf 1, Augsburg 1
worked as a recruitment consult- broke out between the Indiana ing Carmelo Anthony in 2011 and
their lockers and pledging to he will be a tremendous asset and
Hertha Berlin 2, Leverkusen 0
ant for Creative Artists Agency, Pacers and the Detroit Pistons in 2014 and acquiring Amar’e Mainz 3, Bremen 1
never play again for the organiza- resource to both myself and the Schalke 1, Wolfsburg 4
where he worked alongside Rose. Detroit. Stoudemire in 2010, the Knicks Cologne 1, Eintracht 1
tion, after its general manager New York Knicks.”
bragged to President Trump on “We are very excited to an- “My long history with and re- have mostly swung and missed on SC Paderborn 1, Monchengladbach 3

nounce the hiring of William Wes- For decades, Wesley has been spect for Jim Dolan and Leon many of their biggest targets. Saturday, June 27
Twitter during the game that the Dortmund vs. Hoffenheim
ley, someone that I have known known as one of the most powerful Rose, as well as the chance to be Last year, Kevin Durant, who Leverkusen vs. Mainz
team was standing during the na- Monchengladbach vs. Hertha Berlin
tional anthem. for over 40 years and consider to outsiders in the industry. His actu- part of the New York Knicks, opted to go to the Nets instead of Wolfsburg vs. Bayern
The tweet, sent from the team’s be family,” Rose said in a state- al influence has been a source of made this an opportunity I the Knicks, said in a radio inter- Eintracht vs. SC Paderborn
Bremen vs. Cologne
official account by Connie May, ment. “He is one of the most well- much speculation and puzzlement wanted to pursue,” Wesley said in view that the “whole brand of the Freiburg vs. Schalke
Augsburg vs. RB Leipzig
the team’s general manager, said: connected and respected people — he rarely gives interviews or a statement. “I look forward to Knicks is not as cool as, let’s say, Union Berlin vs. Fortuna Dusseldorf
“Hey @realDonaldTrump Pro in the basketball community and talks about his business — and joining the current staff and mov- the Golden State Warriors.”
ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE
Fastpitch being played live . . . Ev-
Team GP W D L GF GA Pts
eryone standing for the FLAG!” Liverpool . . . . . 31 28 2 1 70 21 86
Trump has frequently criticized Man City. . . . . 30 20 3 7 76 31 63
athletes who kneel during the na-
tional anthem to protest racial in-
justice and police brutality, a
For Some Players in the League, Leicester. . . . . 31 16 7 8
Chelsea . . . . . 30 15 6 9
Man United . . . 31 13 10 8
Wolverhampton 31 12 13 6
Tottenham. . . . 31 12 9 10
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44
50
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40
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55
51
49
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There Is Never a Day of Rest

Sheffield United 31 11 11 9 30 31 44
movement started by quarter- Crystal Palace . 31 11 9 11 28 36 42
back Colin Kaepernick in the Everton. . . . . . 31 11 8 12 38 46 41
Arsenal . . . . . . 30 9 13 8 41 41 40
N.F.L. that spread throughout the Burnley . . . . . . 30 11 6 13 34 45 39
league and led to bitter divisions Newcastle . . . . 31 10 9 12 29 42 39
Southampton . . 30 11 4 15 38 52 37
among sports fans. Brighton . . . . . 31 7 12 12 34 41 33
After Monday’s game, players Watford . . . . . 30 6 10 14
West Ham . . . . 31 7 6 18
28
35
45
54
28
27
said, they returned to the locker Bournemouth . . 31 7 6 18 29 50 27
room to discover a slew of text Aston Villa. . . . 31 7 6 18 36 59 27
Norwich . . . . . 31 5 6 20 25 56 21
messages and alerts about May’s Friday, June 19
post. Norwich 0, Southampton 3
Tottenham 1, Man United 1
“It was a shock,” said pitcher
Saturday, June 20
Cat Osterman, 37, an Olympic gold Watford 1, Leicester 1
medalist. “An actual, genuine, Brighton 2, Arsenal 1
West Ham 0, Wolverhampton 2
speechless shock took over our Bournemouth 0, Crystal Palace 2
locker room.” Sunday, June 21
Newcastle 3, Sheffield United 0
Then the players started talk- Aston Villa 1, Chelsea 2
ing to one another, pinpointing Everton 0, Liverpool 0
what they felt was most troubling Monday, June 22
Man City 5, Burnley 0
about the post: that May had spo- Tuesday, June 23
ken for all of them without their Leicester 0, Brighton 0
Tottenham 2, West Ham 0
consent, and that she ascribed po-
Wednesday, June 24
litical intent to their actions dur- Man United 3, Sheffield United 0
ing the anthem that suggested op- Newcastle 1, Aston Villa 1
Norwich 0, Everton 1
position to the Black Lives Matter Wolverhampton 1, Bournemouth 0
movement. Liverpool 4, Crystal Palace 0
The tweet was quickly deleted, Thursday, June 25
Burnley vs. Watford
apparently after it had drawn Southampton vs. Arsenal
Chelsea vs. Man City
backlash online. May and Scrap
Saturday, June 27
Yard Fast Pitch did not respond to Aston Villa vs. Wolverhampton
requests for comment.
The players spent an hour dis- NATIONAL WOMEN'S
cussing the issue in the locker SOCCER LEAGUE
room, and decided that they could CHALLENGE CUP SCHEDULE
no longer play under the Scrap All Times E.D.T.
Yard name. “The more we talked Saturday, June 27
about it, the angrier I got, and I fi- North Carolina Courage vs. Portland
Thorns, 12:30 p.m. (CBS)
nally just said, ‘I’m done, I’m not Chicago Red Stars vs. Orlando Pride, 10
p.m.
going to wear this jersey,’ ” Oster- Tuesday, June 30
man said. “We were used as JEFFREY SWINGER/USA TODAY SPORTS, VIA REUTERS
Washington Spirit vs. Utah Royals, 12:30
p.m.
pawns in a political post, and OL Reign vs. Sky Blue, 10 p.m.
that’s not OK.” Joe Ingles (2), who has not missed a game since Dec. 16, 2015, dribbling past DeMar DeRozan in February. Wednesday, July 1
Portland Thorns vs. Orlando Pride, 12:30
The players were supported in p.m.
their decision by the coaching By MICHAEL PINA used a nearby field for condition- North Carolina Courage vs. Houston Dash,
10 p.m.
staff. Little will be ordinary when the ing drills. Saturday, July 4
It was not the first time that abbreviated 2019-20 N.B.A. sea- “I knew I wasn’t going to take Washington Spirit vs. OL Reign, 12:30 p.m.
Chicago Red Stars vs. Utah Royals, 10
May’s politics had been a topic of son resumes as expected on July time off, but I didn’t know how p.m.
hard I should go,” Bridges said. Sunday, July 5
discussion among the team, which 30. Games will be played at the Houston Dash vs. Sky Blue, 12:30 p.m.
is made up of 18 women ranging in Walt Disney World Resort inside a “Am I just going OD hard for noth- North Carolina Courage vs. Orlando Pride,
10 p.m.
age from 22 to 37. When Scrap so-called bubble, a plan that does ing? It was awkward because if Wednesday, July 8
Yard released a statement about away with playoff basketball’s the season didn’t come back I Utah Royals vs. OL Reign, 12:30 p.m.
Washington Spirit vs. Portland Thorns, 10
the killing of George Floyd while normal hallmarks of rigorous think I was going to keep working p.m.
in police custody in Minneapolis, travel, home-court advantage and out and then treat it like the sea- Thursday, July 9
Chicago Red Stars vs. Houston Dash,
it read, “We believe black lives the motivational fuel provided by son was still there.” 12:30 p.m.
Denver Nuggets guard Monté Orlando Pride vs. Sky Blue, 10 p.m.
matter, as do all lives,” causing screaming fans. Sunday, July 12
some consternation among the How it will look and feel to the Morris, 24, sat zero games during Utah Royals vs. North Carolina Courage,
12:30 p.m.
players. participants once they get there is four years at Iowa State and has Portland Thorns vs. OL Reign, 10 p.m.
The tweet on Monday, though, a mystery. But in an era of basket- not missed one since the start of Monday, July 13
Chicago Red Stars vs. Sky Blue, 12:30 p.m.
struck a raw nerve. “I never really ball defined by load management the 2018-19 season. “It’s really, re- Washington Spirit vs. Houston Dash, 10
thought that she didn’t care about — the practice of deliberately RICH PEDRONCELLI/ASSOCIATED PRESS ally, really important that I stay in p.m.

my life or Kiki’s life until that holding stars out of some regular- “I’m in a routine,” Tobias Harris said of playing every game. my rhythm,” he said in an inter-
view. “I’ve always been a guy GOLF
post,” said Kelsey Stewart, one of season games to keep them
two black players on the team, healthy for playoff runs — there who’s able to find a way. Even
that includes a treadmill and exer- said Houston Rockets forward P.J. WORLD GOLF RANKINGS
along with Kiki Stokes. exists a faction of N.B.A. players when the gyms weren’t open.”
cise bike, Ingles has tried to recre- Tucker, 35, who hasn’t missed a Through June 21
May came to talk with the team, who pride themselves on rarely, if A couple of months ago, Morris 1. Rory McIlroy, NIR . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.05
ate a recognizable groove for him- game since 2017. “You get a day off
and again repeated that “all lives ever, missing a game. They will reached out to Ann Najjar, a box- 2. Jon Rahm, ESP . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.11
self. Every night, he massages when the schedule permits.” 3. Justin Thomas, USA . . . . . . . . . . 7.42
matter,” players said, a phrase now have to navigate their return ing trainer, on Instagram and 4. Brooks Koepka, USA . . . . . . . . . 7.39
himself after workouts with a vi- Their motivations vary: Some 5. Webb Simpson, USA . . . . . . . . . 7.11
that has been criticized as a way to without being moored to the grind asked her to fly in from her home
brating foam roller or a massage want to defy an injury-prone repu- 6. Dustin Johnson, USA . . . . . . . . . 6.15
invalidate the specific concerns of of an 82-game season. in San Diego to work out in his 7. Patrick Reed, USA . . . . . . . . . . . 5.96
gun — he owns several — and tation, fulfill a sense of duty to fans 8. Adam Scott, AUS . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.81
black people. At the forefront of that group is backyard.
then, usually while watching a and teammates, or avoid perma- 9. Patrick Cantlay, USA . . . . . . . . . 5.80
“People got very, very angry,” Utah Jazz wing Joe Ingles, 32, who When the N.B.A. in early June 10. Xander Schauffele, USA . . . . . . . 5.46
movie in bed with his wife, slips nently losing their minutes to a re- 11. Bryson DeChambeau, USA . . . . . 5.42
said Stewart, 25, who phoned into has played in all of his team’s approved a proposal to send 22 12. Tommy Fleetwood, ENG . . . . . . . 5.40
into NormaTec compression placement player. Many also cited
the meeting after missing the games since Dec. 16, 2015, the teams to play in Florida, concerns 13. Justin Rose, ENG . . . . . . . . . . . 5.23
pants, which aid muscle recovery. their love of basketball and an ob- 14. Tiger Woods, USA . . . . . . . . . . . 5.21
game for personal reasons. longest active streak in the about spreading the coronavirus 15. Marc Leishman, AUS . . . . . . . . . 4.66
“I had days where I was meant sessive attentiveness to their
Most Scrap Yard players are league. When the season was sus- were shared widely among play- 16. Tyrrell Hatton, ENG . . . . . . . . . . 4.64
to lift and I didn’t because it’s hard body as reasons they’ve em- 17. Tony Finau, USA . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.57
white, but Stewart said they still pended in March, Ingles quaran- ers, including those who see play- 18. Gary Woodland, USA . . . . . . . . . 4.36
to get that motivation when you’re braced the monotony that invades 19. Matt Kuchar, USA . . . . . . . . . . . 4.34
forcefully challenged May’s com- tined for two weeks with his preg- ing every game as an obligation.
doing it at your house,” he said. the N.B.A. lifestyle. 20. Sungjae Im, KOR . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.14
ments both directly and on social nant wife, Renae, and their infant “Going into a hub, I think the 21. Louis Oosthuizen, SAF . . . . . . . . 4.13
“I’m not going to a game tomor- Since he was traded to the Phil- 22. Shane Lowry, IRL . . . . . . . . . . . 4.05
media. twins. Everyday life was dis- hardest part for me is I know I’ll 23. Hideki Matsuyama, JPN . . . . . . . 4.02
row, I’m not going to a practice to- adelphia 76ers midway through
“It was nice to know that Kiki, rupted overnight, and Ingles, do the right thing and I’m assum- 24. Abraham Ancer, MEX . . . . . . . . . 4.00
morrow. I’m just going to do the the 2018-19 season, forward Tobi- 25. Paul Casey, ENG . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.92
who’s black, didn’t have to do all without any idea when, or if, bas- ing my teammates will, but we’re
same thing tomorrow. Again.” as Harris, 27, has checked in with
the talking — that I didn’t have to ketball would come back, turned all relying on 22 teams, 17 players TRANSACTIONS
A sprinkling of other players team staffers to look at his per-
do all the talking,” Stewart said. his focus to his family. Every per team,” Ingles said before the
who have similarly committed to formance analytics, since any de-
Stewart, who was set to play in morning, he made breakfast for league last week distributed an BASEBALL
playing full seasons are dealing crease would suggest a need to
her first Olympics this summer his children, and he tucked them 113-page guidebook of health pre- M.L.B.
with the N.B.A. shutdown and re- rest to prevent injury. But Harris
before the Tokyo Games were in at night, enjoying parenting cautions needed to make the re- American League
sumption plan in their own way. said that taking time off when he BOSTON RED SOX — Signed C Jose Garcia,
postponed until 2021, said racism pleasures that had been mostly sumption work. He worries that a INF Cuba Bess, INF Jake MacKenzie, RHP
Since the league expanded the feels well enough to compete
in softball “has been an issue for impossible during the season. player contracting the virus is in- Merfy Andrew, RHP Jacinto Arredondo, RHP
schedule to 82 games, its current tends to have an adverse effect. Maceo Campbell, RHP Jordan DiValerio, RHP
me as long as I can remember,” His professional life has re- evitable. “I want to be there to Graham Hoffman, RHP Robert Kwiatkowski,
normal length, before the 1967-68 “I feel if I don’t play, it’s kind of RHP Cole Milam and RHP Brian Van Belle to
from assumptions that she plays volved around the same practice- play the games with my team, but
season, going the distance has be- like hurting me a little bit,” Harris minor league contracts.
outfield or is unusually fast to rac- game-practice-game routine I’m definitely not 100 percent DETROIT TIGERS — Agreed to terms with LF
come an increasingly rare said in an interview before the Daniel Cabrera on a minor league contract.
ist slurs on social media. The sport since he first signed a professional comfortable going.” TEXAS RANGERS — Signed RHP Tekoah
achievement, partially owing to shutdown. “I’m in a routine and a
is mostly white, especially at the contract at 17 years old. He has Players and team staff mem- Roby and SS Thomas Saggese to minor
advances in sports science that rhythm. That’s the type of guy I league contracts.
highest levels, and after Floyd’s spent his off-seasons from the bers are expected to remain on the National League
have informed teams about the am.” Harris was inactive for the fi-
death that imbalance seemed N.B.A. playing for the Australian premises nearly at all times and COLORADO ROCKIES — Agreed to terms
myriad harmful consequences nal game of the 2018-19 regular with OF Zac Veen, LHP Sam Weatherly
more urgent than ever, she said. national team. In the past few cannot enter other people’s hotel and SS Jack Blomgren on minor league
seven straight months of profes- season, but still played in 82 total contracts.
“I talked to some of my black years, he became one of the rooms, among other regulations
sional basketball can have on a games after logging 55 with his PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Signed SS Nick
softball sisters like, we can’t be N.B.A.’s ironmen, tightly regulat- while in Florida. Ingles prioritizes Gonzales to a minor league contract.
human body. former team, the Los Angeles ST. LOUIS CARDINALS— Signed 3B Jordan
quiet anymore — it’s not really an ing his daily regimen to maximize his family’s safety at such a pre- Walker to a minor league contract.
In the 2018-19 season, less than Clippers.
option for us,” Stewart said. the amount of basketball he could carious time, but acknowledges
4 percent of the league (21 play- Phoenix Suns wing Mikal BASKETBALL
The players said they felt confi- play. Before the pandemic, he that he does not want to let his
ers) appeared in 82 games. Inju- Bridges, 23, has not missed a
dent in their decision despite the made a habit of getting to prac- team or fans down by not playing. N.B.A.
ries, personal issues, coaches’ de- game in his first two seasons as a OKLAHOMA THUNDER — Signed G
fact that Scrap Yard is one of very tices an hour early so he could get “I know people aren’t paying Luguentz Dort to a multi-year contract.
cisions and scheduled rest can pro. He is disposed to a strict daily
few organizations sponsoring top- a massage, stretch and do correc- money to come watch me play — N.B.A. G League
take the choice of playing out of a routine, and once the season Named Martin Schiller 2019-2020 N.B.A.
tier professional softball teams. tive exercises. After practice, he’d they’re coming to watch Donovan G League Dennis Johnson Coach of the
player’s hands, but those who are stopped, he immediately mapped
“We’re not going to tolerate that stay an extra hour for treatment. play,” he said, referring to his Year. Named Bart Taylor 2019-2020 N.B.A.
healthy enough to have the option out a plan that could best replicate .G League Basketball Executive of the Year.
in our sport,” Osterman said. “It “If I knew 10 years ago what I teammate Donovan Mitchell.
to play at every opportunity know its physical drudgery while he
wasn’t as hard of a decision as ev- know now, maybe I would still be “But if I’m healthy and can get out FOOTBALL
they are a rarity. was home. Bridges did body
eryone thinks it was, because we dunking,” he said. there, then I should play.” N.F.L.
“It’s very challenging. That’s weight exercises and used DETROIT LIONS — Signed G Jonah Jackson.
knew it was the right thing to do.” Today, with a full gym at home why there’s only a few that do it,” weights already in his home, and SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Signed Jauan
Jennings to a four-year deal.
 THE NEW YORK TIMES SPORTS THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2020 N B11

AU T O R AC I N G GOLF

Noose Incident Recalls Episodes of Racism

By JULIET MACUR way, according to a lawsuit Scott
and ALAN BLINDER filed against NASCAR in 2006.
Darrell Wallace Jr. said he was Two white employees of top
relieved to hear the F.B.I. say he NASCAR drivers showed up at the
had not been the target of a hate door of his motor home, and one
crime at Talladega Superspeed- had pulled a pillowcase over his
way last weekend, after a noose head to impersonate a Ku Klux
hanging in his garage stall was Klan member, the suit said. When
found to have been there since at Scott opened the door, the two
least last fall. men screamed.
In a statement on Twitter on One of the men said, “Hey,
Wednesday, Wallace, known as Scotty, we wanted to light the
Bubba, thanked NASCAR and the grass on fire so it would give it a
F.B.I. for taking the threat seri- better effect.” About 10 other mo-
ously. “We’ll gladly take a little tor home drivers witnessed the in-
SAM GREENWOOD/GETTY IMAGES
embarrassment over what the al- cident and laughed, the lawsuit
ternatives could have been,” said said. Scott feared for his life. Bryson DeChambeau, who has added 40 pounds and now
Wallace, the sole black driver in “What happened with Bubba is weighs 240, routinely hits drives 50 yards past the competition.
NASCAR’s top series. bringing back a lot of bad memo-
The national turmoil over race ries for both of us,” Scott said on
and serial injustice has compli-
cated both Wallace’s reaction and
Wednesday, adding that his wife,
Deirdre, worked for NASCAR in
the licensing department until
That’s Not a Linebacker.
the public’s response to the F.B.I.’s
findings. With the government’s
investigation closed and no
charges filed, Wallace has found
CHRIS GRAYTHEN/GETTY IMAGES
2003. “We’ve lost a lot of sleep
over the last few days.”
The two white men involved in
It’s Bryson DeChambeau.
himself all but forced to defend Bubba Wallace and his crew preparing for the start of the the incident were fired, and By BILL PENNINGTON DeChambeau, who is ranked 11th
himself from baseless speculation NASCAR race at Talladega Superspeedway on Monday. NASCAR reminded teams that it
When Bryson DeChambeau ar- in the world and has won five
that he or his supporters staged had a zero-tolerance policy for times on the PGA Tour, may be re-
rived on the PGA Tour four years
the incident to garner publicity. from Birmingham, and began re- where conspiracy theories have racism. Scott’s lawsuit in 2006 making the paradigm of a top golf-
ago as the reigning United States
While NASCAR characterized viewing evidence. A crucial clue greater currency than facts and claimed that the association had er. Will the sport’s future players
amateur champion, all anyone
the noose as a pull rope for a ga- was an assertion on Monday patience,” said Brian Levin, a for- not given him a job he had been be shaped more like N.F.L.
wanted to talk about were his
rage door that was “fashioned like morning by an employee of Wood mer New York City police officer promised. A judge dismissed the linebackers? And consequently,
many eccentricities in the sport.
a noose,” some people insisted the Brothers Racing, another who is now the director of the San case in 2008, the same year will the next generation of young
A physics major at Southern
noose was just a rope with a han- NASCAR team, that he had no- Bernardino center. “This has be- NASCAR settled a lawsuit involv- golfers adopt heavy weight lifting
Methodist, he was barred by rules
dle, and that Wallace and stock- ticed the tied rope at a race last come a game of gotcha rather ing the first black woman to work regimens to mimic DeCham-
officials from using a protractor
car racing executives had overre- fall, long before Wallace had been than an earnest search for truth.” as a NASCAR technical official. beau’s beefy frame?
during rounds to accurately deter-
acted. Wallace said on NBC’s “To- assigned to the garage stall for There was good reason for Wal- That official, Mauricia Grant, mine hole locations, and he would Social media has already found
day” show on Wednesday that the this week’s Geico 500. lace and his team to be sensitive to sued NASCAR for $225 million for soak golf balls in Epsom salts to a new nickname for a trending
noose was not functional, but that Through a spokeswoman, the anything that could be perceived racial discrimination, sexual har- determine their center of gravity. golfer: #DeChambeauFlex.
the sight of it “makes the hair on United States attorney for the assment and wrongful termina- DeChambeau signed autographs In many ways, the link between
as racist. His own parents were
the back of your neck stand up.” Northern District of Alabama, Jay tion. In her lawsuit, Grant, who backward with his left hand even golf and modern strength training
concerned for his safety after he
The debate over the episode E. Town, declined to be inter- went by the first name Mo, said though he is right-handed. owes its genesis to Tiger Woods’s
spoke out this month, saying the
was hardly deterred by the time- viewed on Wednesday. But the she endured “virulently racist “I’m a total nonconformist; for heyday. Woods added muscle in
Confederate flag was a symbol of
line of the case, the Justice De- Justice Department said Tuesday comments” and “ugly racist big- me, it’s about going down rabbit relentless weight room sessions
hate, and not heritage. Those
partment’s conclusions or the his- that officials were certain that the otry” by co-workers who called holes,” DeChambeau said in a tele- and outworked his contemporar-
safety concerns were focused on
tory of a sport that long has bat- noose had been in the garage her names like “Nappy Headed phone interview Tuesday. “I have ies, helping to create a new recre-
tled racism both inside and out- since at least October, and that Mo,” “Mohammed” and “Simple- to chase down the most scientif- ational genre: golf fitness.
side of the garage, including by “nobody could have known Mr. ton.” Some fellow officials dis- ically efficient way to get the golf Woods’s body also eventually be-
cussed the Ku Klux Klan, she said,
fans who proudly flew the Confed-
erate flag at competitions until
Wallace would be assigned to ga-
rage No. 4” that far in advance.
‘Conspiracy theories and it scared her.
ball in the hole.” trayed him, leading to multiple
knee reconstructions and four
This year, DeChambeau, 26, is
Wallace called for NASCAR to ban
it on June 8. NASCAR barred the
“The 43 team had nothing to do have greater currency Grant, who didn’t respond to
messages, once rode in a car with
roiling the professional golf world back surgeries.
Does a similar fate await
with this,” Phelps said in a telecon- with his gaudiest experiment yet.
battle flag two days later. ference with reporters, referring than facts.’ another official at Talladega who In the past eight months, in- DeChambeau?
Wallace wasn’t the first person to Wallace’s Richard Petty Motor- told her to duck. According to cluding 90 days when he was “I have a concern; I would look
to notice the noose in his garage, sports team. He said that court documents, he said, “I don’t bored while isolating during the a little deeper into the safety of his
or even the fourth. The accounts NASCAR was still investigating want to start a riot when these coronavirus pandemic, DeCham- swing,” said Joey Diovisalvi, who
of Wallace and others within who might have tied the noose last the reaction of fans in the predom- fans see a black woman in my car.” beau threw himself into an ex- for two decades has trained scores
NASCAR indicated that he was at year, or perhaps even earlier. inantly white sport, but history Another official at Talladega, the treme weight lifting routine that of pro golfers — including one of
least the fifth person to be made Hate crime hoaxes are extraor- has shown that racism also exists lawsuit said, “jokingly” threat- added 40 pounds to his physique, the PGA Tour’s longest hitters,
aware of the noose after it was dinarily rare. Just 11 of more than inside the stock-car circuit. ened to sic the garage’s bomb- most of it in his upper body.
found on Sunday, and that he first 7,000 reported hate crimes in 2018 In early 1999, David Scott, one sniffing dog on Grant because she DeChambeau is now 240
learned about it from Steve turned out to be deliberately false of two black crew members in could be perceived as a criminal. pounds — the world’s top-ranked
Phelps, NASCAR’s president. reports, according to data com- NASCAR, described in a news re-
port that other crew members of-
While Wallace hasn’t directly player, Rory McIlroy, is listed at An iron-pumping
According to racing officials, a piled by the Center for the Study faced similar daily racism within 160 — and routinely hitting drives
member of Wallace’s crew noticed of Hate and Extremism at Califor- ten called him names like Leroy NASCAR, he has acknowledged 50 yards past the competition. His player’s latest physics
the suspicious rope and reported nia State University, San and Lemont, and also called him that whatever he does or says will
it to Jerry Baxter, the crew chief Bernardino. But researchers said racial slurs. be placed under a microscope and
golf ball often travels at speeds ap-
proaching 200 miles an hour, and
experiment: himself.
and a fixture of the sport. Baxter that when potential hate crimes, “I expected that coming here,” criticized by fans who might not he envisions drives regularly fly-
alerted Jay Fabian, a senior reported in good faith, are found Scott, who drove the motor home want him to be in the sport. While ing 400 yards. Last week, when he
NASCAR official. Ultimately, not to have been plainly motivated for a top owner, told The Orlando enduring the backlash from the was hitting balls on a tournament Dustin Johnson — in the bi-
Phelps met Wallace at the driver’s by bias or malevolence, observers Sentinel. “I just figure that’s the noose episode, he has had to re- practice range, he was forced to omechanics of the sport. “It’s im-
motor home and tearfully told him are often quick to react with skep- way it is.” mind himself that he can’t please back up 15 yards because his shots portant to understand what the ef-
what had been found. ticism — and sometimes false ar- That harassment culminated everybody. were sailing over a mammoth net fects are. Let’s make sure your
F.B.I. agents traveled to Tal- guments — particularly online. with an incident in July 1999 at “I will always have haters,” meant to protect a neighborhood body can handle that.”
ladega, less than an hour’s drive “We are now in a world today New Hampshire Motor Speed- Wallace said on CNN. hundreds of yards away. Diovisalvi, who operates a golf
And DeChambeau is not done. training center in Jupiter, Fla.,
He dreams of getting bigger and said he admired how DeCham-
PRO FOOTBALL swinging harder during the next
off-season.
beau had highlighted athleticism
in golf but acknowledged that he
“If I could get to 260 pounds and had recently heard from many
swing it upward of 210 miles an

Redskins Cling to Name but Erase Former Owner’s

young golfers who wondered if
hour and control the ball, that DeChambeau’s regimen was
would be amazing,” said DeCham- worth pursuing.
beau, one of the favorites at the
“Lifting too many weights or
By KEN BELSON logos that referred to Native and Appeal Board, part of the litical leaders in Washington have Travelers Championship, which
having too much load or stress on
Americans, most notably the United States Patent and Trade- also pushed for a change in recent begins Thursday at T.P.C. River
George Preston Marshall, the tendons, ligaments or skeletal
Cleveland Indians, which dropped mark Office, stripped the team of weeks. “I think it’s past time for Highlands in Cromwell, Conn.
original owner of the N.F.L. team structure at an early age is dan-
its Chief Wahoo logo in 2018. This federal protections for six of its the team to deal with what offends It is a prediction that might put
in Washington that was the last gerous,” Diovisalvi said. “You
year’s Super Bowl brought new trademarks. The decision was so many people,” Mayor Muriel E. a fright in his colleagues who are
franchise to integrate its roster, have to remember that Bryson is a
scrutiny to the so-called toma- largely symbolic because the Bowser of Washington said. already gobsmacked by what they
will have his name removed from grown man.”
hawk chop used by the Kansas team could still use its name and City officials have said that until have seen in the two weeks of
the team’s stadium and website. DeChambeau insists he is care-
City Chiefs to celebrate. The team enforce its trademarks, using the name is changed they will not tournaments since the PGA Tour
The decision comes amid pres- resumed on June 11. fully monitoring the demands that
sure on the team to acknowledge said it would work with Native common-law rights. agree to the team building a new his golf swing imparts on his body
Americans “to create awareness But in 2017, the United States stadium and headquarters inside “It was crazy, it was nuts, it’s un-
Marshall’s resistance to signing believable,” McIlroy said, describ- with the aid of fitness specialists.
and drafting African-American and understanding, as well as cel- Supreme Court ruled that the gov- the city, where land is owned by
ing DeChambeau’s tee shots. “He “We have a protocol that I go
players and his decision in 1933 to ebrate the rich traditions of multi- ernment may not deny a trade- the federal government and
hit it like 375 into the wind.” through to ensure that my back
ple tribes with a historic connec- mark registration for potentially leased to the District. Snyder has
name the team the Redskins, This being golf, where the ob- and body are OK,” said DeCham-
tion to our region.” offensive names. Snyder celebrat- been looking to replace FedEx
which some Native Americans ject is to knock a little ball into a beau, who then recalled 2017,
The controversy over the Red- ed the decision, which centered on Field, where the team has played
and others consider a racist term. hole roughly four inches wide, when he was ranked 99th.
skins’ name is perhaps the most an Asian-American band called since 1997.
On Wednesday, Marshall’s DeChambeau’s prodigious power “I had debilitating back pain,”
the Slants that had lost its trade- The removal of Marshall’s
name was removed from the Ring has not yet translated to a victory he said. “Three years later, I’m 40
mark protection. name and image from the team’s
of Fame inside FedEx Field, the this year, although he has four top- pounds heavier and generating 20
N.F.L. Commissioner Roger stadium and its website may be a
team’s stadium in Landover, Md. or 25 miles an hour more ball
The team said it would rename the ‘The Redskins are on Goodell, who has said he grew up
rooting for the team, defended
way to soothe critics pushing for
five finishes in his last five events.
Accurate putting still remains an speed. I’m as strong and as good
the team to re-examine its history.
lower bowl of the venue for Bobby
Mitchell, the franchise’s first Afri-
an island and the Snyder in the past. An N.F.L. Marshall bought the Boston
essential skill, and a balky putter as I’ve ever been. Clearly, some-
thing is working.”
spokesman did not return a re- in the final round of the Charles
can-American star player. Earlier glaciers are melting.’ quest for comment on whether the
Braves in 1932 and renamed the
team the Redskins the following
Schwab Challenge in mid-June In the end, however, DeCham-
in the week, Marshall was re- league still maintains that sup- kept him one stroke behind the beau concedes he is doing some-
moved from the team’s “history year. He moved the team to Wash- eventual winner, Daniel Berger. A thing familiar: chasing down an-
port.
wall” at its training facility in Ash- ington in 1937 and was the last week later, DeChambeau also other rabbit hole.
But calls for the N.F.L. to re-
burn, Va., and the team began “de- fraught in American sports, yet franchise owner in the league to blamed a lack of touch on the “And if I get bit in that hole,
move the name have grown in re-
leting him from all aspects of our the team’s current owner, Dan sign a black player, doing so in greens for finishing tied for eighth that’s actually a good thing,” he
cent weeks amid heightened scru-
website,” according to Sean De- Snyder, has for years resisted 1962 only after the federal govern- at the RBC Heritage. said. “I’ll learn from it. Most peo-
tiny of racism in American society.
Barbieri, a team spokesman. calls to change it, arguing that the ment threatened to revoke the But with his superhero build, ple are afraid of failure. I love fail-
This month, Goodell, in a mea
The moves come less than a name represents tradition and is a team’s lease on its stadium. That and quirky charisma, there is a ure because it tells me where to go
culpa, admitted that the league
week after a memorial of Mar- term of respect. Though some Na- change came a decade and a half sense in the golf community that next.”
had not listened to players who
shall, which had stood in front of tive American groups oppose the protested social injustice and po- after other N.F.L. teams began
R.F.K. Stadium, the team’s former name, many fans of the team still lice brutality against African- signing and drafting black play-
home, was removed by a city support it. American people. ers.
agency after being defaced. “We’ll never change the name,” A nonprofit group called Illumi- Despite the fight over the
Amid nationwide protests Snyder told USA Today in 2013. Native, whose stated goal is to team’s name, the Redskins remain
against police brutality and sys- “It’s that simple. NEVER — you challenge stereotypes about Na- one of the most valuable fran-
tematic racism, statues and mon- can use caps.” tive Nations, has urged Snyder to chises in sports. The team was
uments of figures with racist pasts In 2014, the Trademark Trial change the team’s name. Some po- worth $3.4 billion last year, up 10
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3 NEWS 5 BOOK REVIEW

Court will hear Bill Cosby’s Reclaiming a

appeal. BY GRAHAM BOWLEY
2 THEATER
rebellious Victorian
A playwright tells his back woman from the
story. BY ELISABETH VINCENTELLI footnotes. BY PARUL SEHGAL

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HIROKO MASUIKE/THE NEW YORK TIMES

Jon Batiste on the steps

Jon Batiste
of the Brooklyn Library
Star-Spangled Banner.” at a Juneteenth event
By ALAN SCHERSTUHL
“We all know that Francis Scott Key this month.
Jon Batiste, the jazz pianist and “The Late owned slaves,” Mr. Batiste said of the song’s
Show With Stephen Colbert” bandleader, lyricist in a Zoom interview last week. In
has spent the last three weekends marching Mr. Batiste’s hands, the national anthem

Is Taking It
in the streets of New York, leading musi- seethes, mourns and aspires, drawing on
cians and protesters through hymns and the rollicking stride piano of Fats Waller
songs like “We Shall Overcome” and “Down and the volcanic eruptions of Art Tatum.
by the Riverside.” Those without a horn or “The way that Jimi Hendrix took the
drum sing and, at Mr. Batiste’s exhortation, song, the way that Marvin Gaye or Whitney

To the Streets
say their names: George Floyd. Breonna took it — that tradition is what I am thinking
Taylor. And many others. of when I play it,” Mr. Batiste, 33, added.
On June 12, however, Mr. Batiste opened “The diaspora that they infused into it is a
his protest concert, part of a series called response to the toxic ideologies that are em-
“We Are,” seated at an upright piano in front bedded in the song and thus in the culture.”
of the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, wearing The history of jazz is in many ways a his-
The jazz pianist and ‘Late Show’ a mask and bright-blue protective gloves. tory of protest, of celebrating blackness and
bandleader gets his musical message out. Unaccompanied, surrounded by hundreds insisting on individual freedom. The com-
of silent protesters, he dug deep into a song poser and bass player William Parker, who
that he says demands reinvention: “The CONTINUED ON PAGE C7

ESSAY

Vietnamese Lives, American Imperialist Views Met Museum

Spike Lee’s ‘Da 5 Bloods’ tells Is Grappling
Black soldiers’ stories, but falls
back on Hollywood war tropes. With Protests
By VIET THANH NGUYEN A curator’s remarks prompt
All wars are fought twice, the first time on charges of systemic racism.
the battlefield, the second time in memory.
This is certainly true for what Americans By ROBIN POGREBIN
call the Vietnam War and what the victori-
ous Vietnamese call the American War. The turmoil coursing through cultural insti-
Both terms obscure how a war that killed tutions around the country on the subject of
more than 58,000 Americans and three mil- race has made its way to the biggest mu-
lion Vietnamese was also fought in Laos seum of them all: the Metropolitan Mu-
and Cambodia, killing hundreds of thou- seum of Art.
sands more and leading directly to the Cam- A top curator’s Instagram post that
bodian genocide. seemed critical of the Black Lives Matters
In its own typically solipsistic, American- movement and protests over monuments —
centered, whitewashed fashion, Hollywood shared on Juneteenth — has ignited objec-
has been waging this war on celluloid ever tions by staff members, and a larger inter-
since John Wayne’s atrocious “Green Be- nal critique. On Tuesday, 15 Met staff mem-
rets” in 1968, a film so nakedly propagan- bers sent a letter urging the museum’s lead-
distic it could have been made by the Third ership to acknowledge “what we see as the
Reich. expression of a deeply rooted logic of white
Born in Vietnam but made in America, I supremacy and culture of systemic racism
have a personal and professional interest in at our institution.”
Hollywood’s fetish about this war. Unfortu- The episode is the latest example of how
nately, I have watched almost every “Viet- arts institutions are grappling with issues of
nam War” movie that Hollywood has made. equity and diversity amid protests over the
It’s an exercise I recommend to no one. killing of George Floyd and an intensifica-
Watching “Vietnam War” movies is my DAVID LEE/NETFLIX
tion of activity by the Black Lives Matter
own personal “Groundhog Day” experi- movement.
Spike Lee’s “Da 5 Bloods,” with, from left, Johnny Tri Nguyen (as a Vietnamese guide), Isiah On Sunday, the American Museum of
ence, because I know, without fail, how Hol-
Whitlock Jr., Jonathan Majors, Clarke Peters, Norm Lewis and Delroy Lindo, depicts a brotherhood
lywood will represent the Vietnamese and Natural History in New York announced
of African-American veterans who served together in Vietnam and return in country on a mission.
Americans. For Americans, Hollywood that its equestrian statue of Theodore
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C2 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2020

Megalomania
And Misery
There’s a fervid tone By ELISABETH VINCENTELLI
to David Adjmi’s It took David Adjmi 10 years to write his
new memoir tracing new memoir, “Lot Six” (HarperCollins).
The last four months were spent ensuring
how he became a there were no legal issues.
playwright. “I never wanted to write a roman à clef
but it ended up being that because you can’t
use all these names,” the playwright said re-
cently. “I had enough trouble already,” he
added, laughing.
Perhaps he was alluding to his satire
“3C,” which brought on a legal battle with
the copyright holder of the sitcom “Three’s
Company.” (Adjmi won the case in 2015.) Or
perhaps the reference was to his experience
at Juilliard, when he fell on the bad side of a
teacher he calls Gloria in the book.
Adjmi’s Off Broadway debut, “Stunning,”
in 2009, drew from his childhood in a Syrian-
Jewish enclave in Brooklyn. The “Lot Six”
title refers to a pricing code for three, an odd
number associated with gayness — “as in
three-dollar bill,” he said. The stylized, bit-
ingly funny show, and its author’s unortho-
dox back story, attracted the attention of
HarperCollins. Adjmi, now 47, set out to
compose essays about his cultural influ-
ences, but started sliding toward more per-
sonal territory — a move his publisher en-
couraged.
“They said, ‘You need to make it about
how you became a writer,’ ” he recalled.
Adjmi may be a relatively niche play-
wright (the memoir ends with the closing of
“Stunning”), but his lifelong devotion to art
as an identity-defining tool of self-expres-
sion gives the book a fervid tone that is hard
to resist; his talent for laugh-out-loud funny
set pieces does the rest.
He is the same in conversation, pin-
balling from raucous laughter to tears, and
sending an interviewer to the dictionary to
check out what “agon” means (it’s ancient
Greek for conflict, naturally).
“David is so witty and he’s also quite pre-
cise,” said the actress Cristin Milioti, who
counts “Stunning” as one of the best shows
she’s ever done. “The way he writes is so
rhythmic.”
It’s not a surprise, then, that music fea-
ERIK CARTER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

David Adjmi, above, is known for “Stunning”

(far left, with Charlayne Woodard, left, and
Cristin Milioti) and “Marie Antoinette” (near
left, with David Greenspan and Marin Ireland).

After I left Juilliard, I was so broken. I

thought, “I’m going to write five plays and
maybe I’ll just pitch myself off a building or
something.” Who would have thought that
Lincoln Center was going to put on this vio-
lent, stylized, crazy play about Syrian Se-
phardic Jews? Some of the people [from
that community] behaved really badly. The
actors would tell me stories of people wait-
ing for them outside of the theater, saying,
“Are you Jewish?” Or people screaming,
“Dyke! Dyke!” That was in the stage man-
ager’s report. It was pretty hard-core.
Your last show in New York was “Marie
Antoinette” in 2013. What have you been up
SARA KRULWICH/THE NEW YORK TIMES SARA KRULWICH/THE NEW YORK TIMES to since then?
I’m working on a trilogy about 20th-century
tures prominently in Adjmi’s new stage what it means to be an artist.” What is that? times that feeling blocks you and some- American music. One play that’s almost
projects. These are edited excerpts from the I wrote “Elective Affinities” for her and she times it fuels you. done is called “The Stumble,” about the
conversation, by FaceTime from Los Ange- did it at Juilliard. I was asked to leave the composer Oscar Levant and his obsession
I had this feeling of displacement from
les. program and I sort of had a breakdown. I with George Gershwin. Another one, I’m
when I was a young kid, and also from being
was blocked, I was very depressed, I just getting the rights to someone who is alive.
Your life has not always gone smoothly but gay in a very homophobic, Republican cul-
felt so lost. One day the phone rang . . . I feel Then there’s “Stereophonic,” which is done
the Juilliard period, with the instructor you ture in the 1980s. People think, “Oh, homo-
call Gloria, stands out as a painful low. How like I’m going to cry [pause]. It was her. She and was supposed to happen on Broadway
phobia, whatever,” but it was a very, very in-
did you recover? said, “I just want you to know that I will al- next spring but I don’t know now. We’ve
tense thing. But then I also felt this endoge-
ways be part of your circle and you will al- done workshops with Cristin, so who
To this day, I talk to my peers about that ex- nous, strangely insistent feeling that I did
ways be part of mine.” [He tears up, com- knows? It’s a four-act play with music about
perience and they’re like, “No, she likes you, have worth. I didn’t know if I was delusional
poses himself.] She was something for me a 1970s band making an album, which
she cares about you.” I think I was looking or megalomaniacal, I didn’t understand
to latch on to in terms of the idea of the in- you’re watching take shape: They’re cut-
for a certain kind of permission, and I had to why I felt my voice had any value. That al-
ting songs, changing the arrangements,
give myself the authority. Art is a disrup- tegrity of an artist. She was so gracious and terity set in motion a series of experiences
bringing riffs. And then it’s like Chekhov
tion, you’re declaring war in a certain way, generous to me, and I try to do that for that gave my life meaning and gave me an
where their lives are falling apart. Will But-
you’re telling everybody else, “This is my younger artists, to make myself available to advantage that I think is incredibly pre-
ler from Arcade Fire is writing the concept
point of view.” them. cious and hard-won.
album. I’m so excited to show it to people —
In the acknowledgments you thank the You write about your “essential worthless- What was the impact of “Stunning” in your I’ve worked on it for such a long time and
actress Marian Seldes “for teaching me ness as a person.” But it feels as if some- old community? I’m really proud of it.

A Facebook Shift on Antiquities Sales

Citing looting concerns, the rules, and starting today, we now prohibit
the exchange, sale or purchase of all histori-
the investigative project she helps direct
features screenshots and videos from Face-
company will ban the trading cal artifacts on Facebook and Instagram.” book pages showing brazen instances of
of illegally excavated items. The Facebook policy defines historical looting and thousands of objects put up for
artifacts as “rare items of significant his- sale.
torical, cultural or scientific value” that in- Ms. Paul and her co-director, Amr al-
By TOM MASHBERG
clude ancient funerary items, coins, tomb- Azm, a professor at Shawnee State Univer-
Responding to criticism that its site has be- stones, engraved seals, scrolls and manu- sity in Ohio, have been capturing images
come a bazaar for the sale of looted Middle scripts. and video from the Facebook groups for
Eastern antiquities, Facebook said on Tues- In many cases, according to video footage several years. In a report last year titled
day it would remove any content “that at- obtained by the Antiquities Trafficking and “Facebook’s Black Market in Antiquities,”
tempts to buy, sell or trade in historical arti- Heritage Anthropology Research Project — the pair said, “Facebook has become a
facts.” an investigative study endeavor led by an- sprawling digital black market, facilitating
The decision came after archaeologists tiquities experts — the middlemen running illicit trade in antiquities from across the
and activists who monitor the illicit antiqui- the Facebook groups give real-time instruc-
ties trade said they had identified at least Middle East and North Africa.”
tions to looters on which items to excavate
200 Facebook groups with nearly two mil- Ms. Paul said Facebook had been slow to
and steal.
lion members who were using the platform admit the problem and lax in policing crimi- OMAR SANADIKI/REUTERS
Katie Paul, co-director of the project, said
to find black market buyers and to offer tu- in an interview: “They literally will post pic- nal activity online. “For years, Facebook Artifacts said to have been taken from the ancient ruins of Palmyra in Syria have
torials on how best to dig up and deliver the tures from auction catalogs and say, ‘See, has served as a massive outlet for antiqui- been offered for sale on Facebook, the kind of activity a new ban addresses.
most sought-after items. this is how much this stuff can sell for, so go ties looters and traffickers as they seek to
Common examples include burial relics, for it guys.’” Online traffickers, she added, feed material into a widening global net-
stone sculptures, mosaics and in some in- will also try to reassure illicit buyers that work,” she said. as good as its enforcement.”
stances entire sarcophagi from Syria, they are getting genuine items by posting But she said the recent decision by Face- Mr. Azm said he wants Facebook to pre-
Egypt, Iraq and North Africa. photos or videos showing the objects being book “represents an important shift in their serve all evidence of trafficking rather than
Greg Mandel, public policy manager at unearthed in situ. position on the trade in cultural heritage simply delete it.
Facebook, said, “We’ve long had rules pre- Ms. Paul said buyers and sellers will use and demonstrates that they recognize that “The photos and videos of artifacts we
venting the sale of stolen artifacts.” But, he coded language to discuss the antiquities, this is an illegal and harmful activity that is see posted on Facebook, often while still in
added, “To keep these artifacts and our us- then move to an encrypted app where they occurring on their platform.” the ground, may be the only evidence of that
ers safe, we’ve been working to expand our can complete the deal. The Twitter feed for She added, however, that “a policy is only object’s existence,” Mr. Azm said.
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is charged with forcible rape to anyone who watches my show.

and sexual battery by restraint I know that this will not be the
in one case and with sexual last I hear of this and that it will
penetration by use of force and be used again to try to quiet me.”
sexual penetration by intoxicat- Kimmel made his remarks
ing substance in the second. after several weeks of sustained
A fourth woman said that criticism on social media that he
Jeremy raped her at the same and other entertainers have
bar last year, the news release faced for using blackface.
said. On June 1, Jimmy Fallon, the
The district attorney’s office host of “The Tonight Show” on
said that it had decided against
NBC, apologized on his program
prosecuting an additional case
for a “Saturday Night Live”
related to an incident in 2016
because of insufficient evidence. sketch from 2000 in which he had
Jeremy is scheduled to be appeared in blackface to imper-
arraigned on Friday, and pros- sonate Chris Rock.
ecutors recommended setting Tina Fey, the creator of the
bail at $6.6 million. If convicted, NBC comedy “30 Rock,” said that
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he could face a maximum sen- she and her co-showrunner, MATT ROURKE/ASSOCIATED PRESS

tence of 90 years to life in pris- Robert Carlock, had asked for Bill Cosby, who was found guilty in 2018 of drugging and sexually assaulting a woman in 2004.
on, the district attorney’s office several episodes of that show to
Ron Jeremy Is Charged said. be pulled from streaming serv-

With Rapes and Assault

The pornographic film actor Ron
JULIA JACOBS ices because they depict charac-
ters in blackface. Fey said in a
statement: “As we strive to do
the work and do better in re-
Pennsylvania High Court
Jimmy Kimmel Sorry
To Hear Cosby Appeal
Jeremy has been charged with
raping three women and sexu- gards to race in America, we
ally assaulting a fourth, the Los For Blackface Sketches believe that these episodes fea-
Angeles County district attor- After weeks of criticism, the turing actors in race-changing
ney’s office said on Tuesday. ABC late-night host Jimmy makeup are best taken out of
According to the criminal Kimmel has addressed his past circulation. I understand now Arguments on whether the Such testimony by other accusers played a
role in the Harvey Weinstein case, where
complaint, the attacks date back use of blackface in comedy that ‘intent’ is not a free pass for testimony of five women their testimony was sought to demonstrate
to as far as 2014, with the most sketches, saying on Tuesday white people to use these im-
recent having occurred in July that he apologized “to those who ages.”
should have been allowed. a pattern of predatory behavior by Mr.
Weinstein. Mr. Cosby’s lawyers, however,
2019. Three of the incidents were genuinely hurt or offended Episodes of other comedy argue that he was denied a fair trial because
detailed in the charges hap- by the makeup I wore or the shows like “Little Britain” and By GRAHAM BOWLEY
the allegations by the other women were
pened at the same bar in West words I spoke.” “The Mighty Boosh” have also Pennsylvania’s highest court on Tuesday too remote in time and too dissimilar to the
Hollywood, the district attor- Kimmel, below right, the host been pulled from streaming said it agreed to hear part of Bill Cosby’s ap- case for which he was being tried.
ney’s office said in a news re- of “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” used services amid concerns about peal of his 2018 sexual assault conviction. The court will review whether the jury
lease. blackface to play celebrities like blackface. In December, a panel of three appellate should have heard testimony about Mr. Cos-
Allegations of sexual assault Karl Malone and Oprah Winfrey Kimmel, who is slated to host judges unanimously rejected his appeal to by’s use of quaaludes as part of his efforts to
against Jeremy, above, one of on “The Man Show,” a Comedy the lower Superior Court, upholding his
the Emmy Awards in September, have sex with other women, including his
the few in the pornographic film Central series he starred in from 2018 conviction in the drugging and sexual
announced last week that he own testimony in a separate civil case. And
industry whose name is familiar 1999 to 2003. assault of Andrea Constand at his home out-
would be taking a vacation from it said it would also review the judge’s deci-
in the mainstream, first surfaced Kimmel said in a statement side Philadelphia in 2004.
“Jimmy Kimmel Live” and would sion to allow the trial to go ahead even after
in the early days of the #MeToo that his impersonation of Ma- But in January, his lawyers petitioned the
have guest hosts fill in for him a former district attorney had given what
movement, when he was the lone had started when he was a Pennsylvania State Supreme Court to re-
throughout the summer. His the district attorney said was a binding as-
subject of a 2017 Rolling Stone radio host for KROQ in Los view that decision, highlighting several is-
statement on Tuesday said that surance that Mr. Cosby would not be
article in which more than a Angeles in the mid-1990s. When
this vacation had been planned sues where they said the panel had erred in charged in the case. The Superior Court
dozen women came forward he brought that impersonation
“for more than a year and in- supporting the trial judge’s decision. panel said that a district attorney did not
with accusations. Jeremy denied to TV, Kimmel said: “We hired
all of them to the magazine, cludes the next two summers off The state’s Supreme Court does not nec- have the authority to make such a promise.
makeup artists to make me look essarily have to take up an appeal, and its
saying, “I have never raped as well,” adding that he would Mr. Cosby, 82, is serving a three- to 10-
as much like Karl Malone as justices typically grant few of them. It re-
anyone.” return to the show in September. year sentence at SCI Phoenix, a maximum-
possible. I never considered that
Golden Artists Entertainment, DAVE ITZKOFF jected some of the issues Mr. Cosby’s lawyer security facility outside Philadelphia.
this might be seen as anything
the management company that raised, but it said it would review the trial Ms. Constand reacted to the Supreme
other than an imitation of a
represented Jeremy, stuck with judge’s decision to allow testimony from Court’s decision, saying it was right that the
fellow human being, one that
him after the 2017 report, believ- five other accusers — women who, like Ms. five other women were heard.
had no more to do with Karl’s
ing that he had shown them Constand, said Mr. Cosby had drugged and “While everyone deserves for their cries
skin color than it did his bulging
proof of his innocence. But on muscles and bald head.” sexually assaulted them. and appeals to be heard, even convicted
Tuesday, Dante Rusciolelli, the Kimmel, who did not use the The decision means Mr. Cosby’s lawyers criminals, if anyone’s cries matter most
owner of Golden Artists Enter- word “blackface” in his state- will now have another opportunity to chal- right now, it’s the women who have lifted
tainment, announced that the ment, said that as he looked lenge a verdict that represented one of the their voices and selflessly put themselves in
company was dropping Jeremy back on his previous comedy most high-profile convictions of the harm’s way, such as the prior bad act wit-
as a client. Jeremy’s lawyer did sketches, many of them had #MeToo era. nesses in my case,” she said in an emailed
not immediately respond to a become “embarrassing, and it is In particular, it gives them the chance to statement.
request for comment. frustrating that these thought- fight the decision to include the testimony In a separate statement, Mr. Cosby’s
According to the complaint, less moments have become a from the so-called “prior bad acts” wit- spokesman said, “We’re extremely thankful
Jeremy, 67, is accused of raping weapon used by some to dimin- nesses, which many experts considered to to the State Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
a 25-year-old woman at a West ish my criticisms of social and be one of the most significant moments of for agreeing to review Mr. Cosby’s appeal.”
Hollywood home in 2014. other injustices.” the criminal trial. The Montgomery County District Attor-
He is also accused of two He added in the statement: “I In Pennsylvania and many other states, ney’s office said, “We look forward to brief-
attacks that prosecutors said believe that I have evolved and testimony concerning prior alleged crimes ing and arguing these issues and remain
took place in 2017 at the same matured over the last 20-plus is allowed if, among other conditions, it confident in the Trial Court and Superior
bar in West Hollywood. Jeremy years, and I hope that is evident demonstrates a signature pattern of abuse. Court’s previous decisions.”
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Vietnamese Lives, American Imperialist Views

CONTINUED FROM PAGE C1 ity of the American male soldier’s experi-
turns a defeat by Vietnamese people into a ence, mostly in white and now in Black.
conflict that is actually a civil war in the Making a “Vietnam War” movie in this clas-
American soul, where Americans’ greatest sic mold, except with Black men, Lee can-
enemies are actually themselves. In one of not overcome the imperialism that is as
the stranger twists in self-aggrandizement, American as slavery and genocide. He
Hollywood renders Americans as the anti- overlooks the more radical possibility that
heroes, which might seem odd given that King outlined in “Beyond Vietnam” when
Hollywood is America’s unofficial ministry he called on Americans to listen to the
of propaganda. “voiceless ones.” King meant the Vietnam-
The reason for this troubling treatment is ese, but the “voiceless ones” are anyone the
simple: For Hollywood, and for Americans, United States confronts with its massive,
it is better to be the villain or antihero rather multicultural war machine, including, now,
than virtuous extra, so long as one occupies Iraqis and Afghans. “Here is the true mean-
center stage. For Vietnamese people, as ing and value of compassion and nonvio-
well as Laotians, Cambodians and Hmong, lence,” King said, “when it helps us to see
their role is almost always that of the extra, the enemy’s point of view, to hear his ques-
their function: to be helpful, rescued, tions, to know his assessment of ourselves.”
blamed, analyzed, mocked, abused, raped, King knew that the only way to save a ra-
killed, spoken for, spoken over, misunder- cially divided America from itself was to
stood or all of the above. have white Americans listen to Black peo-
So, when Spike Lee’s new movie “Da 5 ple, and he knew the only way to save an
Bloods” was announced, my feelings were imperial America from itself was to have
mixed. On the one hand, I am an admirer of Americans listen to those it normally
many of Lee’s movies. On the other hand, I prefers to kill and silence through massive
feared that Lee, despite being a Black firepower, whether ordered by the Penta-
American with a powerful, necessary voice, gon or Hollywood. I wrote about this in my
would, in the end, be an American. Could his 2015 novel, “The Sympathizer,” which in-
antiracist critique overcome the invest- cludes a depiction of a Hollywood “Vietnam
ment in American imperialism that most War” spectacle that looks suspiciously like
Americans have without knowing it? “Apocalypse Now,” but with a little tweak-
Unfortunately, the answer is no. “Da 5 ing — change the white guys to Black guys
Bloods” is a lesser Lee movie — honestly, — could be “Da 5 Bloods.” I created a narra-
it’s a mess — whose characterizations of tor who was as complex as Delroy Lindo’s
Vietnamese people are inextricable from its Paul, who spoke back in tragedy and an-
political failures. guish to American racism and imperialism.
I feel almost churlish writing this, given The novel was rejected by 13 out of 14 edi-
the urgency of Black Lives Matter that Lee tors. The one who bought it was British.
gestures to and given how Hollywood — I suspect that one reason for these rejec-
and America in general — has mostly tions is that for Vietnamese people, we are
erased, ignored or distorted the history of often only heard by Americans when we are
Black people. It’s been a decades-long apologetic for our existence and grateful for
struggle for Black talent in film to tell Black our rescue by Americans. It is bad manners
stories with Black actors as stars and with to point out, as I have done, that we wouldn’t
Black writers, directors and producers be- have needed rescuing by Americans if we
hind the scenes. In this context, “Da 5 hadn’t been invaded by Americans in the
Bloods” rightfully deserves its moment as it first place. The reality, however, is that it is
recounts, in unique Spike Lee fashion, the up to us to tell our own stories and create
experiences of some of the Black soldiers our own narrative plenitude. Other Ameri-
who fought in disproportionate numbers cans won’t do it for us, even those Black
during a war whose racism cut both ways, Americans like Lee who understand too
against Black (and Brown and Indigenous) well the pain of narrative scarcity.
American soldiers and also against the Viet- But the true urgency here is not only for
namese (and Cambodians, Laotians and self-representation and the need to recog-
Hmong). nize ourselves so that others will recognize
I stand with Black Lives Matter and us, too. What is also crucial is the need to tell
against anti-Black racism, but still, as I stories differently. “The master’s tools will
watched the obligatory scene of Vietnam- never dismantle the master’s house,” Audre
ese soldiers getting shot and killed for the Lorde once wrote, and indeed, a war story
thousandth time, and as I felt the same hurt that repeats a purely American point of
I did in watching “Platoon" and “Rambo” view will just help ensure that American
and “Full Metal Jacket,” I thought, Does it wars continue, only with more diverse
make any difference if politically conscious American soldiers and ever-newer targets
Black men kill us? to be killed or saved. What kind of war story
“Da 5 Bloods” remains a “Vietnam War” Top, from left: Norm Lewis, boring onscreen, and Lee understands that ese “Gooks.” Yes, Black soldiers used this sees through the other’s point of view, hears
movie about fighting an American dirty war Delroy Lindo, Johnny Tri basing a Black story on such an experience slur, and the slur says a great deal about her questions, takes seriously her assess-
again, except that it puts Black men in the Nguyen and Clarke Peters in is a losing proposition. His strategy in “Da 5 Paul’s traumatized internalization of rac- ment of ourselves? Would it even be a war
spotlight, and it eliminates the worst of the Spike Lee’s “Da 5 Bloods.” Bloods” echoes Francis Ford Coppola’s in ism. But Paul’s justification rings hollow story? And isn’t that the story we should
anti-Asian, Yellow Peril racism that charac- The film puts Vietnamese “Apocalypse Now,” which he makes refer- when he says that if Black people can call tell?
terizes the genre. What remains, however, characters in secondary ence to often — reserve the starring role for themselves by the worst slur possible, he
is evidence that while Lee means well, he positions. Middle, the movie, American men who struggle with their own can use the Vietnamese slur. No. Black peo-
also does not know what to do with the Viet- with Chadwick Boseman, heart of darkness. In a brilliant perform- ple can call themselves whatever they
namese except resort to guilty liberal feel- left, and Lindo, echoes the ance, Lindo becomes a kind of Black Ahab, wish; that is their right. But we don’t get to
ings about them. approach of “Apocalypse driven by demons until he meets his fate. call Black people a racial slur, and they don’t
As a result, the Vietnamese appear as the Now” in some respects. “Da 5 Bloods” shows Black men as agents of get to call us one either. Lee’s attempts to
tour guide, the sidekick, the “whore,” the American subjectivity is at their own destiny, capable of both heroism provide anti-racist alternatives — another
mixed-race child, the beggar and the face- the center of the film, as in and horror, as we all are as human beings Black veteran connecting with his mixed-
less enemy, all of whom play to American this scene, above, with Le Y whose inhumanity is an inextricable part of race daughter, or a donation to a demining
desires and fears. In a particularly absurd Lan and Peters. ourselves. This complex subjectivity is effort — fall under the category of liberal
moment, a Vietnamese gangster threatens
the Black veterans as he recounts the My
what white Hollywood has mostly denied
Black people, and it is what they deserve.
condescension, the rescue narrative with
Black saviors instead of white ones. CLUE OF THE DAY
Lai massacre. While acknowledging the But so do the Vietnamese, Laotians, Cam- But don’t listen to me. Listen to the Rev.
Being a victim, over and
massacre of 500 Vietnamese civilians is im-
over again, besides being
bodians and Hmong. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose impor- CHARACTERS
ART IN
portant, it is also a clumsy exercise in Amer-
traumatic in real life, is
Perhaps this is asking too much from a
Black story, but it’s Lee himself who sets the
tant speech “Beyond Vietnam” is quoted at
the film’s end. The fact that most Americans
CHILDREN’S LIT
ican guilt that relegates the Vietnamese to
victimhood, which is how Americans prefer really boring onscreen. high bar. “Da 5 Bloods” clearly aspires to be know “I Have a Dream” but not “Beyond
to remember them, except when they re- a movie that jabs at American racism and Vietnam” is testimony to the depth of Amer- THIS WINGED
member them as Vietcong. imperialist warmongering, but whereas it ican propaganda, the willingness of Ameri- CHARACTER FROM
The sense that Vietnamese people must succeeds at the former, it fails at the latter. cans to want to feel good about the Ameri-
Why? In putting Black subjectivity at the can Dream and their reluctance to confront AN EARLY 20TH
be victims also plays out in an episode
center, Lee also continues to put American the American Nightmare. In the American CENTURY WORK IS SO
where a vendor tries to force one of the
Black veterans, Paul (played by Delroy subjectivity at the center. If one can’t disen- Nightmare, the severity of anti-Black rac- NAMED “BECAUSE SHE
Lindo), to buy a live chicken (something tangle Black subjectivity from dominant ism is inseparable from the endurance of MENDS THE POTS AND
that no Vietnamese I know has ever heard American (white) subjectivity, it’s impossi- American imperialism. As King said, Black KETTLES”
of ). The situation escalates rapidly, and the ble to apply a genuine anti-imperialist cri- Americans were sent to “guarantee liber-
vengeful native screams at the Black veter- tique. Hence the marginalized Vietnamese ties in Southeast Asia which they had not
ans that they killed his mother and father. continuing to serve their role as excuses for found in southwest Georgia and East FOR THE CORRECT
While this might have happened, it’s ex- a Black drama staged against America’s Harlem.” He condemned not just racism, RESPONSE, WATCH
tremely rare. Many American visitors to Black-white divide. but also capitalism, militarism, American JEOPARDY! TONIGHT
Vietnam remark in amazement that the This is not an argument for more Viet- imperialism, and the American war ma- OR LOOK IN THIS
Vietnamese have seemed to let the past go. namese inclusion. It’s a demand that we chine, “the greatest purveyor of violence in SPACE TOMORROW
This is true. We have no time to hate Ameri- recognize how decolonization and anti-im- the world today.” In another speech, he de- IN THE TIMES.
cans because we hate one another more, perialism are impossible if we keep reiterat- manded that we question our “whole soci-
given that our war was actually a civil war ing the imperial country’s point of view, ety,” which means “ultimately coming to see
(plus, the Vietnamese really hate the Chi- even from the minority perspective. that the problem of racism, the problem of Yesterday’s Response:
nese the most). The Americans and the The political ambitions of Lee’s movie are economic exploitation, and the problem of WHAT IS ALBANY?
French, our former colonizers, are seen as clear from the two Black intellectuals he in- war are all tied together.”
walking wallets, not to be offended. cludes at the beginning and ending. The “Vietnam,” meaning the “Vietnam War,”
Being a victim, over and over again, be-
sides being traumatic in real life, is really
film starts with the classic anti-racist, anti-
imperialist quote from Muhammad Ali
continues to haunt this country, which was
built on war and for war. American cinema Watch JEOPARDY!
Viet Thanh Nguyen is the author of “Nothing
about the Vietcong: “They never called me
nigger.” It’s sad, then, that Paul’s response
and storytelling play their role in these
wars, including our current “forever war,”
7 p.m. on Channel 7
Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War.” to the chicken seller is to call the Vietnam- by reiterating, again and again, the central-
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Met Museum Grapples With Protests

CONTINUED FROM PAGE C1 Mr. Ligon said on Instagram: “I know it’s
Roosevelt would be removed because it had #nationalreachouttoblackfolksweek but
come to be seen as symbolic of a painful leg- could y’all just stop . . . Or ask me first?”
acy of colonial expansion and racial dis- On June 12, Mr. Hollein and Daniel H.
crimination. Weiss, the museum’s president and chief
On Monday, the Guggenheim Museum’s executive, sent an email to the staff that dis-
curatorial department in a letter described cussed how “we are moving the museum
a work culture of “racism” and “white su- forward in our work to address issues of di-
premacy.” On Tuesday, current and former versity and racism within our institution.”
employees accused the San Francisco Mu- The measures included convening a se-
seum of Modern Art of “racist censorship” ries of discussions on racial justice; aiming
and “discrimination.” to further diversify the staff; hiring a chief
And on Friday, the director of the Mu- diversity officer; instituting mandatory
seum of Contemporary Art Cleveland for 23 anti-racism training; and declaring June 24
years, Jill Snyder, resigned after apologiz- as a Museum Day of Reflection. Their email
ing to the artist Shaun Leonardo for cancel- also added, “we will continue to explore
ing his exhibition dealing with police themes of representation and diversity
killings of black and Latino boys and men. through our programming.”
Now, Met Museum employees are sound- On Tuesday, Mr. Christiansen issued his
ing their own alarm, prompted by a person- own apology in an email to the entire staff.
al Instagram posting on Friday by the mu- “I will make no excuses except to say that
seum’s powerful chairman of European I had in mind one thing and lacked the
paintings, Keith Christiansen, who has awareness to self-reflect on how my post
worked at the Met since 1977.
could go in a very different direction, on a
Below a pen-and-ink image of the French very important day . . . and would cause fur-
archaeologist Alexandre Lenoir, who de- ther hurt to those experiencing so much
voted himself to saving France’s historic pain right now,” he wrote. “I want to be clear
monuments from the ravages of the French
on my view that monuments of those who
Revolution, Mr. Christiansen wrote:
promoted racist ideologies and systems
“Alexandre Lenoir battling the revolution-
should never be glorified or in a location
ary zealots bent on destroying the royal
where they can cause further harm.”
tombs in Saint-Denis. How many great
In an interview on Wednesday, Mr. Chris-
works of art have been lost to the desire to
tiansen further elaborated that he had in-
rid ourselves of a past of which we don’t ap-
prove. tended to address “the losses that occur to a
fuller understanding of a complicated and
“And how grateful we are to people like
sometimes ugly past” when major works of
Lenoir,” Mr. Christiansen continued, “who
art are destroyed by “war, iconoclasm, revo-
realized that their value — both artistic and
historical — extended beyond a defining lution and intolerance.” He added, “I very
moment of social and political upheaval and stupidly pulled out of my image bank the
change.” While Mr. Christiansen appeared figure of Alexandre Lenoir intervening in
to be arguing for the preservation of monu- Saint-Denis to save the royal tombs in 1791.”
ments, his remarks also struck some as in- But the Instagram post had touched a
sensitive and tone deaf. VINCENT TULLO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES nerve. A group of staff members at the Met
The post was criticized in a Twitter post followed up with a letter to Mr. Hollein and
Mr. Weiss. “All of us were angered that the
by the advocacy group of arts workers, Art ‘Monuments of those who promoted racist ideologies and systems should post seemed to equate Black Lives Matter
+ Museum Transparency: “Dear @metmu- never be glorified or in a location where they can cause further harm.’
seum, one of your most powerful curators protesters with ‘revolutionary zealots’ — a
suggested that it’s a shame we’re trying to KEITH CHRISTIANSEN position made crueler by its posting on
CHAIRMAN OF EUROPEAN PAINTINGS, Juneteenth,” said the letter, which was
‘rid ourselves of a past of which we don’t ap- METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
prove’ by removing monuments — and, signed by the 15 “ERG Co-Convenors,” a ref-
worse, making a dog whistle of an equation erence to the museum’s employee re-
of #BLM activists with ‘revolutionary zeal- sources groups, an outgrowth of the Met’s
ots.’ This is not OK.” diversity efforts.
Responses to the tweet were similarly Questioning how many other managers
critical. “This is disgusting,” one comment might share such views, the letter said:
said, “not acceptable.” “While we understand that a private Insta-
Mr. Christiansen subsequently took gram account does not necessarily reflect
down the post and removed his Instagram the views of the institution for which Chris-
account. tensen works — our Met — his position of
Asked to respond to the uproar over the power within it, and the decision-making he
post on Wednesday, Max Hollein, the Met’s affects as a department head and senior cu-
director, said in a statement to The New rator with regard to programming, staff hir-
York Times: “There is no doubt that the Met ing, and institutional direction, is more to
and its development is also connected with our point.”
a logic of what is defined as white suprema- In his response to the letter’s authors, Mr.
cy. Our ongoing efforts to not only diversify Weiss acknowledged that “we have moved
our collection but also our programs, narra- too slowly in building an institution that
tives, contexts and staff will be further ac- more honestly reflects the communities we
celerated and will benefit in urgency and serve or that honors our aspirations.”
impact from this time.” Citing the additional complications of the
A day earlier, he had apologized directly “toxic and polarizing language of our na-
to the European paintings department in an tional political leadership” and the Met’s
email, calling the Instagram post “not only large staff of more than 2,000, Mr. Weiss
not appropriate and misguided in its judg- added, “Sometimes, mistakes will be made
ment but simply wrong.” — including by us.”
“Keith is a very valued member of our Mr. Hollein and Mr. Weiss plan to meet
community and while this post was on Kei- with the employee resources group on Tues-
th’s personal Instagram account, it is cer- day. Whether such efforts by the Met —
tainly also part of our institutional conver- which just announced that it would reopen
sation and we need to reflect on that,” Mr. on Aug. 29 — will succeed in calming the
Hollein added. waters remains to be seen.
It was Mr. Hollein’s second apology this “The path forward will be challenging,”
month; he also conveyed one to the artist Mr. Weiss said in his statement, “but for the
Glenn Ligon, about the Met’s use of one of VIA BRIDGEMAN IMAGES first time in many years there is a collective
his works in a social media post, at the start An Instagram post by Keith Christiansen, top, a Met museum curator, included an image of Alexandre Lenoir, above, who tried to save will to build a better community, one that
of the protests over George Floyd’s killing. monuments during the French Revolution. It drew criticism from museum staff members; Mr. Christiansen promptly apologized. works for all.”

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corset, a camisole over the corset, up to six
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models included fierce 19th-century femi-
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Books. $17.95. grew up educated, resourceful and indiffer- and, depending on the decade, a whalebone
D. H. LAWRENCE once sent his wife, Frieda, a ent to public opinion (a little of her own crinoline or bustle,” Johnson writes. “What-
curious little present — a drawing of Jonah husband, the writer George Meredith, au- money helped). ever we are able to make of Mary Ellen’s
confronting the whale. He captioned it: thor of the 19th-century feminist novel In Victorian England, Mary Ellen Pea- adulterous behavior, we will not be able to
“Who will swallow whom?” “Diana of the Crossways.” She is known, if cock Meredith had the gall to believe herself excuse it on the grounds of impulse; there
Not the most heartwarming gesture, to at all, as a footnote in their stories. Biogra- to be an utterly fantastic creature: a person. could hardly have been such a thing as an
be sure, but you must admire its bluntness. phers have treated her “as if she were In her suite of novels about Americans impulsive sexual irregularity for women so
“Who will swallow whom?” has been the formed for George’s youth by some vaguely abroad — “Le Mariage,” “Le Divorce,” encumbered.”
decisive question of that literary couple. malign spirit seeking to try him,” Johnson “L’Affaire” — Johnson has explored how That distinctive voice: fond, amused, out-
History is a body count of the acceptable writes. “The Comic Spirit, perhaps, whose culture inflects our romantic expectations. raged. Johnson writes as if taking revenge
casualties of genius, chief among them sole interest lay in providing George with (Along with Stanley Kubrick, she wrote the for her subject. It is not only Mary Ellen’s
wives who possessed the touching temerity those formative experiences so essential to screenplay for the adaptation of Stephen daring that so compels us, but her biogra-
to harbor ambitions of their own. What a a coming great writer.” King’s “The Shining,” perhaps the most viv- pher’s. Johnson discovers new ways to
grim sorority they make — thwarted artists Those formative experiences were, in id cautionary tale about taking up with a write her way into history’s silences. “In-
turned protectors of the solitude of Great short order: humiliation, betrayal and scan- writer.) In this book, in telling the story of spired conjecture,” in Vivian Gornick’s
Men, guardians of the legacy. They kept the dal. Mary Ellen Peacock was already a the rebellious life of one woman, she maps phrase from the book’s introduction, is
inkwell filled, and creditors and children at mother and a widow when the pair met and the painful, peculiar strictures of the age.
Johnson’s mode, her tools those helpful ad-
bay. They went mad with startling fre- married in 1849. After nine uninspiring “Common sense urges us to suppose that
verbs: “perhaps” and “possibly.” Criticism
quency. years together, the vigorous and clever beneath the Victorians’ public postures of
and biography must learn from the nov-
In recent years, a flurry of studies has Mary Ellen took a hard look at her gloomy rectitude, formality and reserve, beneath
paid homage to the hidden lives and talents elist’s practice of imaginative empathy,
husband, their narrow rooms and narrower the bustles and beards, lurked beings much
of these women — sisters and daughters as like ourselves,” she writes. “But closer in- Johnson argues. Every passing character
prospects. She declared the marriage a fail-
well as spouses: Dorothy Wordsworth, ure and eloped with the painter Henry spection (books, letters, statistics) sug- snares her attention, and she rues the
Jane Carlyle, Zelda Fitzgerald, Lucia Joyce, Wallis. Three years later, she succumbed to gests that our sympathy is misplaced. They stories she can’t tell. Tracing Meredith’s lin-
Frieda Lawrence herself. A new form of bio- kidney disease. Her funeral was sparsely were not like us.” eage, she mentions a grandfather, a bank-
graphical criticism flourishes in books like attended. It was the age of “biological martyrs.” rupt tailor who “took up with the servant
Phyllis Rose’s beloved “Parallel Lives,” George Meredith married again, and his Women would routinely bear 20 children girl, Matilda Bucket (how one longs to know
which treat a writer’s work as continuous second wife proved a more placid mate. and die in the process. Sex — loathed and more about Matilda Bucket).” There are no
with his private life, detecting the mytholo- Arguing with her, he once wrote, was like feared by many women — was a prelude to lesser lives in this tale.
gies and political assumptions governing “firing broadsides into a mud fort.” But death, and death a constant, capricious In one eerie scene, Johnson imagines the
both. Mary Ellen haunted his work in the recur- force in their lives. ghosts of Mary Ellen’s spiritual godmothers
Diane Johnson’s “The True History of the rent character of a worldly, faithless woman This was the context in which Mary Ellen — Mary Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft
First Mrs. Meredith and Other Lesser — she is “Mrs. Mount” or, more kindly, staged her mutiny, all the more astonishing — attending her grave: “They are angry on
Lives” is a foundational text of the genre. “Mrs. Lovell.” The year after Mary Ellen at a time when divorce was unspeakable Mary Ellen’s behalf. Their impatient feet
First published in 1972, the book passed into died, George wrote his caustic masterpiece, and children remained the property of their tap, they pace over the grave. Must it al-
obscurity and has been happily reissued the 50-sonnet sequence “Modern Love,” on fathers. This is to say nothing of the practi- ways be this way for women? Here was one
this month, fresh as ever — a seething, marriage as shipwreck. cal hindrances of having an affair. they thought might persevere in woman’s
stylish reclamation of a forgotten life. Johnson depicts Mary Ellen’s betrayal, so “It must be kept in mind at all times that name. She had promise. She had courage.”
In life, as in death, Mary Ellen Peacock scandalous in its time, as strangely or- the women we are concerned with con- A century after her death, she was re-
Meredith was eclipsed by her father, the dained. “The ideal Victorian woman was ducted their lives, had thoughts, went trav- warded with a biographer who possesses
novelist Thomas Love Peacock, and her innocent, unlearned, motherly,” Johnson eling, ate dinner and fell in love while en- the same traits in abundance, and who, per-
writes. “Women then were fascinating in tirely encased beneath their gowns in the severing in her name, lifts her from ignomi-
Follow Parul Sehgal on Twitter: @parul_sehgal. their indolence. Indeed, they had to be spe- following articles of clothing: a chemise, a ny into stardom.
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Jon Batiste
Is Taking It
To the Streets

PHOTOGRAPHS BY HIROKO MASUIKE/THE NEW YORK TIMES

CONTINUED FROM PAGE C1 their name from “We Are,” his new single, a
has taken free jazz from community centers pop gospel showcase written and recorded
to Town Hall, traces this spirit to works like last year that features the marching band
Duke Ellington’s 1943 “Black, Brown and from St. Augustine High School in New Or-
Beige” to later suites by Max Roach and leans. He recorded “The Star Spangled
Sonny Rollins, and the free jazz and loft jazz Banner,” with all that thunder, on the 2013
movements of the 1960s and ’70s. Then album “Social Music.” And at the marches
came the ’80s, when “everybody went to the music is indisputably social.
Jon Batiste, above, has the sleep thinking that we had accomplished “It was such a powerful day,” the saxo-
support of his “Late Night” something, but all we really got were the phonist Grace Kelly, a frequent Batiste col-
colleague Stephen Colbert, who leftovers,” Mr. Parker said in a Zoom inter- laborator, said of Mr. Batiste’s June 6 march
has discussed the recent view. Artists like Mr. Parker, of course, have from Union Square to Washington Square
protests on his TV show. Right, performed and recorded revolution-minded Park, which organizers say drew 5,000 peo-
“Now there’s a chance for a real “fire music” through the 1980s and up to the ple. “There were over 10 tubas, 30-plus
collective consciousness present, and the last decade has seen a re- trumpets, and maybe 50 saxophones. It was
shifting,” says Mr. Batiste, surgence in political jazz music, especially louder than we could speak. Louder than we
shown outside Barclays Center. from the downtown, avant-garde and could sing.”
Brooklyn scenes. Mr. Batiste and his organizers are weigh-
It’s certainly rare, though, to see a jazz ing the logistics of taking the “We Are” pro-
musician with a household name and a na- tests to cities across the United States in the
tional platform like Mr. Batiste inviting coming months, focusing on a practical
‘There are three thousands into the streets. And the pianist goal: voter registration and the exposure of
has the support of Mr. Colbert, who has voter suppression.
candidates that we’re carved out time on his broadcast to discuss “There are three candidates that we’re
dealing with. Donald his musical director’s activism. dealing with,” Mr. Batiste said. “Donald
Trump, Joe Biden and “In the present darkness that constitutes Trump, Joe Biden and the candidate of apa-
the candidate of apathy. so much of the national conversation, Jon, thy. Apathy’s insidious. It comes from hav-
by his example and his spirit, gives me hope ing a weight on our collective shoulders for dow opens up and things can happen,” Mr. Mr. Batiste believes it’s his responsibility
Apathy’s insidious. It I might do my job and maintain my own hu- centuries that has made us feel that we Parker, 68, said. “But we have to have num- to use his platform to keep the crowds
comes from having a manity,” Mr. Colbert said in an email. “I be- don’t matter, that we’re not seen and that bers, we have to be persistent, and we have awake. That platform is also expanding. Mr.
weight on our collective lieve long after no one knows who I am, the our vote doesn’t count.” to really lay it out in the consciousness of Batiste’s fingers will power the music in
shoulders for centuries.’ name Jon Batiste will be spoken with admi- Like many of the city’s jazz players, Car- people.” “Soul,” the first Pixar feature to center on a
ration. I’m grateful to know him.” oline Davis, a saxophonist and composer, Last week, on Bandcamp he released the black lead, slated for a Nov. 20 release. He
JON BATISTE
A genre-crossing virtuoso and crowd- has protested at several Brooklyn and Man- searing and mournful “Baldwin,” a track has maintained the kind of proudly unpre-
pleaser, Mr. Batiste is particularly suited for hattan rallies in recent weeks. “It’s inspir- from a coming 10-disc box set of new ma- dictable career common to 21st-century
a moment of protest in the streets: He’s ing to be with people who are in this for the terial dedicated to “those who want to elimi- jazz musicians. In 2019 he released a pair of
from New Orleans, where the city’s famed long haul,” she said, after marching with Mr. nate hate, racism, sexism, greed and lies.” in-the-tradition Verve albums recorded at
Second Line marches have built a tradition Batiste on June 6, the first time she’s gotten He’s not alone in sharing fresh music the Village Vanguard. Since then he’s de-
of “catharsis and release,” he said, in which to play music with colleagues in person keyed to the cause: The drummer Johna- buted a funk-favoring band of all-women
music lifts anguish or outrage toward a col- since March. than Blake and the vibes player Joel Ross
collaborators on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts
lective joy. He grew up surrounded by musi- Ms. Davis co-teaches a course in jazz and both released pre-Covid commissioned con-
and improvised on an independent release,
cal relatives and draws special inspiration gender at the New School and feels a re- certs from the Jazz Gallery on YouTube. The
from his grandfather, the president of a New “Meditations,” with the guitarist Cory
sponsibility to honor jazz’s history of pro- sets, titled “My Life Matters” and “Being a
Orleans postal workers union, who Young Black Man,” come with requests for Wong.
test. “I feel that, as Nina Simone said, it’s the
marched and organized for his workers. artist’s job to reference the time in which we donations to Black Lives Matter and the Despite his personal success, he remains
“Jon is walking in that lineage, and not live,” she said. NAACP Legal Defense Fund. And the poet focused on the inequality he’s committed to
just musically,” said Brian Blade, a drum- Mr. Parker has dedicated his career to Camae Ayewa shouts: “Enough! Enough! fighting. “Four hundred and one years of
mer and composer with his own strong New nurturing that activist spirit. He has Enough!” over the free-jazz squall of “Irre- people and their voices being completely
Orleans connection. “It’s in the essence of marched dozens of times since 2016 with the versible Live in Berlin” on a pair of blister- marginalized has led to systemic racism
our feet on the ground, moving forward, Artists for a Free World marching band, a ing live sets from the protest-minded quin- and sexism that has been perpetuated even
gathering a movement through example.” loose collective organized by Arts for Art, tet Irreversible Entanglements. in our triumphs,” he said. “The idea that we
A spirit of collective humanity has always the nonprofit organization that hosts the an- “Music is a wake-up call,” Mr. Parker can have triumphs and also perpetuate
powered Mr. Batiste’s art. His “Late Show” nual Vision Festival and is currently said. “After the protest, you listen to it and it toxic ideologies is a nuance that we have yet
band, Stay Human, is a diverse ensemble presenting Zoom concerts and salons. helps keep you awake. Because the problem to explore in the public dialogue. But now
known for marching right into the crowd “I’ve been talking for the last, oh, 40 years is not to wake up — it’s not to go back to there’s a chance for a real collective con-
during performances. The protests take or so about how every once in a while a win- sleep.” sciousness shifting.”

The Museum of Jewish Heritage Resorts to Wide Layoffs

Over 40 percent of staff members lose their jobs as the By COLIN MOYNIHAN
with the aim of “educating diverse visitors
about Jewish life before, during and after
staff reductions, he told the employees.
Mr. Kliger said that the museum had tak-
museum struggles with finances in the pandemic. The president and chief executive of the the Holocaust.” en steps to shore up its finances, starting a
Museum of Jewish Heritage imparted some An audio recording of the Zoom meeting campaign to raise money and obtaining a
grim news to just over 50 of the institution’s that was obtained by The New York Times grant from the New York Community Trust
employees on Monday. included questions from employees. One and a loan from the federal Paycheck Pro-
“Two weeks ago, I shared with you that asked: “What, if any pay cuts, were imple- tection Program.
the museum was facing an existential crisis mented at the executive and senior man- In a telephone interview on Tuesday, Mr.
caused by the coronavirus pandemic,” the agement level?” Kliger said that those who were being laid
president, Jack Kliger, said during a Zoom There were no pay reductions for execu- off included employees who worked in vis-
conference, according to a record of his re- itor services and who were involved in
tive and senior managers, Mr. Kliger
marks provided by the museum, in Lower tours.
responded.
Manhattan. “By now, you know that this cri- That was a reflection of the fact that even
sis has forced us to make some very difficult The layoffs came as an especially severe
when the museum reopens, he said, it will
decisions in order to ensure the museum’s blow at the museum given the accolades it
not likely have as many visitors as it did be-
survival.” has received for its Auschwitz exhibition,
fore the pandemic, partly because of health
Apologizing for the news, Mr. Kliger went which went up in 2019 and drew more vis- and safety guidelines and partly because it
on to inform the workers that 32 of them — itors than ever before to the institution. plans to be open three days a week instead
more than 40 percent of the staff — would be Mr. Kliger said in the Zoom call that “as of six.
laid off, according to the record from the soon as we closed on March 15, we knew we That was steering something of a restruc-
museum. would face financial hardship and began turing within the museum, Mr. Kliger said,
In addition, he said, some of those who re- preparing for the possibility of layoffs,” ac- adding that the institution was concentrat-
mained with the museum would have to cording to the museum’s record, but added ing on virtual online exhibitions and devel-
adapt to “new roles or reduced hours.” that the museum held off on layoffs as long oping digital programs that would help
The layoffs, changed job functions and as it could and would extend health benefits teachers instruct students about the
planned budget cuts of almost 40 percent to those who were being laid off through Holocaust.
were first reported by The Forward. The Sept. 30, which was as long as the budget “The museum will still be the museum,”
ANNIE TRITT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES museum, which describes itself as “a living would allow. he said. “If they can’t come to the museum,
The Museum of Jewish Heritage is dealing with “very difficult decisions.” memorial to the Holocaust,” was formed The museum was not planning further the museum will come to them.”
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(N) Bream (N) Tonight pursuits — and his methods, with an em-
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FX Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014). Colin Firth, Michael Caine. Spy agency hides behind tailor shop. Extreme Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017). Colin Firth, Julianne Moore. Surviving Kingsman agents
violence, delivered with a shrug. (R) join American counterparts. Numbingly glib. (R)
FXM Men of Honor (2000). Navy’s first black diver. Square and Thank You for Your Service (2017). Miles Teller, Haley Bennett. Iraq veterans Thank You for Your Service (2017). Miles Teller, Haley Bennett. Iraq veterans
sentimental, but at least it’s not cynical. (R) (5:45) come home to Kansas. Earnest macho weepie. (R) (8:25) come home to Kansas. Earnest macho weepie. (R) (10:40)
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Men (14) Men (14) Men (14) Men (14) Men (PG) Men (14) Men (14) Men (14) Men (14) Men (14) Men (14) auteur, is one of the minds behind this
LIFE I Am Somebody’s Child: The Regina Twist of Faith (2013, TVF). Toni Braxton, David Julian Hirsh. Gospel communi- l Variety’s Power of Women: Front- The Simone Biles Story: Courage to Soar (2018, TVF). reboot of “The Twilight Zone,” Rod Serling’s
Louise Story (2019, TVF). (6) ty helps man whose family was murdered. line Heroes (N) (PG) Jeanté Godlock. Life of the superstar gymnast. (11:03)
LIFEMOV My Nightmare Landlord (2020, TVF). Inconceivable (2017). Gina Gershon, Faye Dunaway. A nanny becomes obsessed with her em- Psycho Stripper (2019, TVF). Karissa Lee Staples. Bach- Inconceivable
anthology series. The reboot’s first season,
Caroline Harris, Ignacyo Matynia. (6) ployers’ daughter. (R) elorette party dancer is obsessed with bride-to-be. (2017). (R) which debuted last year, included stories of
7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30 12:00 mystery — a disappearing flight, an alien
LOGO . Legally Blonde (2001). Reese RuPaul’s Drag Race: All Stars “Get a Room!” Boutique RuPaul’s Drag Race “Secret Celebrity Edition 104.” Comedy Cabaret Gay Skit Happens Gay Skit Happens abduction — with winks to the original
Witherspoon, Luke Wilson. (PG-13) (6) hotel suite experiences. (14) RuPaul saves the best for last. (14) (14) (14)
series. (“We take ourselves seriously but
MLB M.L.B. From Oct. 28, 1989. (6) M.L.B. From Oct. 27, 2018. All-Time Games
never too seriously,” Peele said of the show
MSG MSG 150-Home Best of Spree Best of Spree From Jan. 26, 2002. MSG 150-Home Best of Jagr
last year in an interview with The Times.
MSGPL Devils Rewind (6:30) Islanders Rewind From March 10, 2014. MSG 150-Home Islanders Rewind From Dec. 29, 2013.
“It can’t go so dark that it makes us want to
MSNBC MSNBC Live: Decision 2020 (N) All In With Chris Hayes (N) The Rachel Maddow Show (N) The Last Word The 11th Hour Rachel Maddow
curl up in a ball.”) The new, second season
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includes episodes with Billy Porter, Topher
NBCS 2016 Paralympic Games 2016 Paralympic Games 2016 Paralympic Games Gold medal game. Mecum Pre Mecum Auto Auctions
Grace, Sky Ferreira, Tony Hale and other
NGEO Titanic: The Final Word With James Cameron (PG) Titanic: 20 Years Later Back to the Titanic (PG) (10:03) Save Titanic: Treasures Nazi
familiar faces.
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NY1
OVA
News/Evening Inside City Hall News/Evening News/Evening News/Evening
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News/Evening News/Evening
Tremors (1990). Kevin Bacon. (PG-13)
News/Evening News All Night News All Night News All Night
Tremors II: Aftershocks (1996).
What’s on TV
OWN 20/20 on OWN “Haunting Words.” 20/20 on OWN (14) 20/20 on OWN (Part 1 of 2) (14) 20/20 on OWN (Part 2 of 2) (14) 20/20 on OWN (14) 20/20 on OWN
VARIETY’S POWER OF WOMEN: FRONTLINE
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HEROES 10 p.m. on Lifetime; streaming on
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Facebook. Cate Blanchett, Patti LuPone and
SCIENCE Strange Evidence (PG) Strange Evidence (PG) Strange Evidence (N) (14) Strange Evidence “Omen of the Nuke Mutants.” (N) (14) Evidence
Janelle Monáe are the honorees at this
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year’s edition of Variety’s Power of Women,
SNY Mets Classics From Oct. 13, 2015. (6:30) Amazin Finish Baseball Night Mets Classics From Oct. 15, 2015.
an event hosted by Variety magazine to
STZENF Ice Age: The Meltdown (6:27) . My Girl 2 (1994). Anna Chlumsky. (PG) (7:59) . Field of Dreams (1989). Kevin Costner, Amy Madigan. (PG) (9:39) Problem Child 2 (1991). (11:26)
recognize philanthropic efforts. The broad-
SUN Law & Order “Enemy.” An Afghan war- Law & Order “Fixed.” A motorist strikes Law & Order “Mammon.” Detectives Law & Order “Ain’t No Love.” Shooting Law & Order “Fluency.” Fake flu vac- Law & Order “Ob-
lord is suspected. (14) a child-murderer. (14) suspect the victim’s wife. (14) death of a rap legend. (14) cine. (14) session.” (14) cast will also pay tribute to doctors, nurses,
SYFY The Mummy Returns (2000). Archaeologists and son in action adventure. . John Wick (2014). Keanu Reeves, Michael Nyqvist. Ex-assassin takes ex- SYFY Wire’s the Edge of Tomorrow (2014). Tom teachers and others on the front lines of the
Makes Indiana Jones seem like Henry James. (PG-13) (6:05) treme revenge. Stylish and brilliantly simple. (R) Great Debate (N) Cruise, Emily Blunt. (PG-13) (11:31) pandemic, and will feature virtual appear-
TBS The Big Bang The- The Big Bang The- The Big Bang The- The Big Bang The- The Big Bang The- The Big Bang The- The Big Bang The- The Misery Index Conan (14) The Misery Index Seinfeld “The ances by some of the event’s past honorees,
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including Tiffany Haddish, Nicole Kidman
TCM Hollywood My Hometown (1965). New Orleans (1947). Arturo de Cordova. A jazz story, with . Lady Sings the Blues (1972). Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams. Lurid biotrash but wonderful Ross as Billie Holiday.
Documentary. plenty of it. Billie sings six songs, sublimely. (R) (9:45) and Natalie Portman.
TLC Hoarding: Buried Alive (PG) Hoarding: Buried Alive (PG) Hoarding: Buried Alive (PG) Hoarding: Buried Alive (PG) Hoarding: Buried Alive (PG) Hoard-Buried GABE COHN
TNT Bones “The Diamond in the Rough.” Rush Hour (1998). L.A. detective and Hong Kong supercop on kidnapping Rush Hour 2 (2001). Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker. Detectives battle Hong Kong Rush Hour 3
(14) case. Kick-happy buddy film, delivered with prankster’s ease. (PG-13) gangster and henchmen. Ramshackle sequel, but fun to watch. (PG-13) (2007). (PG-13)
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Definitions of symbols used in Ratings:
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6 STEALTH ART, WITH FLOWERS 2 DESIGNER D.I.Y.

‘Who isn’t looking for a little Rick Owens embroiders a

joy?’ BY JESSICA SHAW handkerchief. BY GUY TREBAY
2 CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK 2 EVERYTHING MUST GO

The message in the president’s Long Tall Sally will shut down
untied tie. BY VANESSA FRIEDMAN after 44 years. BY JESSICA TESTA

FASHION BEAUTY NIGHTLIFE THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2020 D1

N

She is busier than

ever, and a lot more
serene than you
might expect.
By GUY TREBAY
There are so many Naomi Campbells, you
never know which you will get.
There is goddess Naomi, whose verified
superpowers (ask any eyewitness) include
an ability to part seas of people and alter the
electrical charge in a room. There are cover
girl Naomi, campaign Naomi and runway
Naomi, whose catwalk strut is unlikely to
ever be outclassed. There is vulnerable Na-
omi, the unexpectedly bashful human who
first appeared on the modeling scene at the
tender age of 15.
There is activist Naomi, who called Nel-
son Mandela Granddad, and there is party
girl Naomi, who wears a string of playboy
and oligarch heads strung from her belt.
There is golden-hearted Naomi who “would
give you the Prada off her back,” as an old
friend recently noted. And there is cold-
hearted Naomi who, when a close friend
needed funds for heroin rehab, turned her
back.
“Fighting on arrival, fighting for sur-
vival,” the modeling agent Bethann Hardi-
son, Ms. Campbell’s lifelong guide and pro-

11 Things
tector, once said of her.
And despite struggles with the race-
based inequalities too long unchecked in
fashion, Ms. Campbell has not only re-
mained in the public eye for three decades
— light-years in the modeling business —
but has also reinvented herself, after 50

About
years on earth, as a digital media phenom-
enon.
Her show, “Being Naomi,” is both vacant
and mesmerizing, almost Warholian level,
and a canny master class for the aspiring
brand-building narcissist.
Ms. Campbell, who was born in London
and recently turned 50, has kept busy dur-

Naomi
ing and beyond lockdown at a friend’s house
in Los Angeles. She shares her daily work-
outs with the Ocho System founder Joe
Holder on Instagram, attends virtual recov-
ery meetings, has become the first face of
the Pat McGrath Labs makeup line and
tapes “No Filter” interviews with old

Campbell
friends and colleagues like Sharon Stone,
Marc Jacobs and Cindy Crawford. Just this
week she conducted a disarmingly frank
beauty tutorial for Vogue’s YouTube
channel.
Reached by phone on a Friday evening in
early June, Ms. Campbell talked about what
it is like to be Naomi.
CONTINUED ON PAGE D3

Naomi Campbell, who has kept busy during

and beyond lockdown at a friend’s house
in Los Angeles, via FaceTime.

GIONCARLO VALENTINE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Changing of the Guard at CrossFit

A plan to sell the company is
announced amid reports of
sexism and other mistreatment.
By KATHERINE ROSMAN
When Greg Glassman resigned this month
as chief executive of CrossFit, excoriated
for comments about George Floyd’s death
on Twitter and in a Zoom meeting, people
who have worked there were surprised his
downfall was tied to accusations of racism.
They had assumed the reason would be rou-
tine and rampant sexual harassment.
Interviews with eight former employees,
and four CrossFit athletes with strong ties
to the company, reveal a management
culture rife with overt and vulgar talk about
women: their bodies; how much male em- VIA MERRELL

ployees, primarily Mr. Glassman, would

like to have sex with them; and how lucky
the women should feel to have his rabid
interest.
Sandals Step Up
VICTOR J. BLUE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES According to the dozen interviewed, Mr. Water shoes go from the rivers
Greg Glassman, the former chief executive of CrossFit, at an event in Brooklyn in 2013. CONTINUED ON PAGE D4 to city streets. Page 5.
D2 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2020

Designer D.I.Y. Rick Owens EVERYTHING MUST GO

A Few Strands of Love Long Tall Sally, ‘Rocked’

By GUY TREBAY
“During my mom’s Mexican youth, girls used to embroider their
boyfriend’s initials on a handkerchief with their own hair,” Rick
By Pandemic, Is Closing
Owens wrote in an email from Paris, where he and his wife, Michèle herself to ask them to make
Lamy, live. Though hair can be a disconcerting substance when not For 44 years, the British sleeves two inches longer. But the
attached to one’s own head, it has a rich history of use as a memen- retailer has outfitted first store was “almost immedi-
to mori, used through the ages by artists, hobbyists, fetishists and
smitten teens. leggy shoppers to a T. ately successful,” she said.
“It was powered by feminism
“I loved that story,” Mr. Owens said. “So I asked my mom to
and a crusade and a pioneering
embroider a handkerchief with her hair for me.” By JESSICA TESTA
Years later, when the designer’s friends started having children, he plucked strands of spirit — because I felt tall women
There have never been many were being discriminated
his signature raven locks and embroidered the newborns’ initials on baby blankets that
places to buy a pair of black against,” Ms. Rich said. “I have
he gave to the new parents as gifts.
Though the baroque atmospherics of the instructions below are not required (Mr. leather ankle boots in size 13 — had the experience of going into
Owens may have been, as he wrote, on magic mushrooms when he composed them), it about four sizes larger than the stores and people looking at me
probably helps to be in some kind of swoon while you sew. widely accepted average size for and shaking their heads.”
ILLUSTRATIONS BY SAMANTHA HAHN
women’s shoes. Now, with the clo- Ms. Rich, who sold the company
sure of Long Tall Sally, there are in 2005, learned of Long Tall
even fewer. Sally’s closure a few days before
That news, announced by the the public was told. She wasn’t
44-year-old British retailer, re- surprised by the thousands of dis-
sulted in “a quite tangible out- appointed comments left on social
pouring of grief,” said Vicky Shep- media. (“So sad to hear,” Crystal
herd, the company’s spokeswom- Langhorne, a W.N.B.A. player,
an. wrote on Instagram. “You will be
Long Tall Sally sells women’s truly missed.”) The store may
wear and accessories for tall peo- never have become a household
ple: pants with extended inseams, name, but if you were a tall woman
tops designed for longer torsos, who liked to shop online, you very
shoes up to size 15. The clothes are likely knew it.
uncomplicated and office friendly, One vocal contingent among
appealing to broad swaths of the many mourners was tall trans-
shoppers — more Gap than Fash- gender women, who had for years
ion Nova, though at a higher price praised Long Tall Sally’s selection
point. It is the only retailer of its while swapping shopping tips on-
kind, where tall shoppers can line.
browse a diverse inventory with- “When I go to Long Tall Sally, I
out worrying about hemlines know I’m going to find something
landing three inches above the
Step 1 Step 2 point they’re supposed to land.
that can fit me,” said Rachel
Wheeler, 39, a shopper in southern
Wash your silky hair in the milk of a don- “Air-dry your hair by hanging it off a They’re not confined to one de-
key, “just as Claudette Colbert did while balcony in morning sun, combing and England who often bought basics
Your Tool Kit partment in a shop; everything is
playing Empress Poppea,” Mr. Owens untangling it with a fine-toothed mother- (like jeans and shoes) from the
■ Three long strands of your own hair made for them. store.
wrote, referring to the actress’s racy turn of-pearl comb while the Montserrat Ca-
■ One 35-by-35-inch silk handkerchief The store will cease operations “I am stuck,” she said. “I have
in “The Sign of the Cross,” Cecil B. De- ballé version of Camille Saint-Saëns’s
■ One Clover No. 3-9 gold-eye embroi- at the end of August, citing in its no idea what I’m going to do.”
Mille’s 1932 pre-Code epic. TREsemmé ‘Mon coeur s’ouvre a ta voix’ plays in the
dery needle would probably work just as well if you background,” Mr. Owens wrote. closing announcement the “very
■ An embroidery hoop can’t find donkey’s milk in the dairy aisle. sudden and very profound impact
of Covid-19.”
Even before the global pan-
demic, Long Tall Sally was strug-
gling, largely because of growing
competition from affordable e-
commerce behemoths like Asos
offering tall categories, Ms. Shep-
herd said. In 2018, the company
began moving entirely online,
closing the brick-and-mortar
stores that were once spread
across Britain, Germany and
North America. (The United
States presently accounts for 35
percent of sales, according to Ms.
Shepherd.)
“We really, really tried to make
it work,” Ms. Shepherd said. “But
the curse of Covid — it has rocked
us, and we can’t see how we can
claw back from it.”
Long Tall Sally was founded in
London in 1976 by Judy Rich, then
a 33-year-old American entrepre-
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Lightly pencil the desired initials on the Take three long healthy strands of hair Slip on a thimble and start embroidering since she was 13. She named her
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prettiest” embroidery hoop. the needle simultaneously. “Using a single cozy place to sit outside under a tree,” Mr. Richard song, initially offering Sally 1982 fall collection,
strand will take forever,” he said. Owens said. “This could very well take all three sizes. Back then, she had to shown at the Weig House
day.” knock on manufacturers’ doors Gallery, London.

CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK

In a Tie Undone, Seeing the Truth About Trump

A presidential accessory
becomes a symbol after a
campaign rally in Oklahoma.
By VANESSA FRIEDMAN
It is the picture of the tie, like the echo of the
words, that lingers. The tie no longer se-
cured in its big, boastful knot, but rather
hanging limply around the neck, like a
boxer on the ropes. The tie that has been as
close to a sartorial spirit animal as Presi-
dent Trump has had, along with his red
MAGA hat and his elaborately constructed
hair, completely untied.
The tie as it was in the small hours of Sun- TRANSFORMING
day morning as the president arrived at An- WHAT WA S ONCE
drews military base from his ill-fated cam- A CLEAR SIG N OF
paign rally in Tulsa, Okla., later landing by STRENGTH INTO
helicopter at the White House and striding ONE OF D EFEAT.
across the South Lawn, MAGA cap crushed
in one hand. The tie as most observers could
never remember seeing it before, at least
around the neck of this president.
Together, the two accessories created an
image as striking as those of the sparsely
populated rows in Tulsa, and the empty
overflow area outside. And as potentially
symbolic, though probably not in the way
Mr. Trump would like.
After all, this is not a president who as-
cribes to the shirt-sleeves photo op. Not
someone who invites his electorate in to see
him, jacket tossed aside, elbows deep in
work at his desk. Not someone interested,
DOUG MILLS/THE NEW YORK TIMES
like former President Barack Obama and
former Prime Minister David Cameron of
Britain or even former Vice President Jo- staged march across Lafayette Park to St. everyone of the party’s Reagan heyday; of bolism gets pretty loaded. As one observer A sartorially relaxed
seph R. Biden Jr., who seems equally com- John’s Church in response to the protests in the good old times when everyone dressed tweeted, “I mean, when does a baseball President Trump arriving
fortable with or without a tie, in announcing Washington. according to establishment role; represent- coach scrunch up their team cap — it ain’t at Joint Base Andrews in
his sensitivity to the younger generation It’s a tenet that was clearly on display in ing, in all its ridiculous, below-the-belt when they’re winning, is it?” Maryland early on Sunday.
and their value system by willingly reject- Tulsa not just in his own uniform — the flag- length — well, who knows? Something! Nope. It’s usually when they are about to
ing the suit. reflecting blue suit, white shirt, red tie — Manhood or power or Mr. Trump’s willing- throw it on the ground and jump up and
He is, rather, someone who believes but in supporting acts that included Lara ness to stretch the rules (he also Scotch- down on it in frustration and disgust, be-
deeply in the pageantry of his office, of air- Trump, his son Eric’s wife and a Trump taped the back, remember?). The psycho- cause nothing is going according to plan. At
brushed calculation (see: Ivana, Melania, campaign adviser, in a white wrap dress; logical speculation has been endless, and least in the movies, from which Mr. Trump
even Jared), branding and the power of cos- Kimberly Guilfoyle, his son Donald Jr.’s girl- varied. does seem to derive most of his cues.
tume. Be that pageantry in the generals friend and chairwoman of the Trump Vic- The problem is, when the tie becomes a Which is why, through all the bombast
whom he famously once lauded as “straight tory Finance Committee, in bright blue sign of victory, it can also be a sign of defeat. and brouhaha, the denialism and accusa-
from central casting” or his disastrously wrap dress; and Kayleigh McEnany, the So it looked Sunday morning. Sure, it was tions, that both characterized the flop in Ok-
White House press secretary, in red, like a very early. You can understand why a tie lahoma and followed it, the unplanned
CORRECTION matching patriotic array. might be undone. But Mr. Trump under- photo op stood out as a rare moment of
An article last Thursday about recent online And when it comes to Mr. Trump’s cos- stands as well as anyone that he is always truth, caught on camera. It was real Reality
jewelry auctions misstated the clarity of a tume, the tie matters. Especially the bright on display, always playing his part. There TV.
diamond being auctioned by Christie’s. As red tie, which he made his doppelgänger isn’t really a backstage in his job, especially The campaign rally was supposed to be
stated elsewhere in the article, it is graded during the 2016 campaign, glowing in all its during his entrance and exit moments. the start of a new stage (pun intended).
VVS1; it is not flawless. Republican glory; subliminally reminding Add to that the cap in hand, and the sym- Maybe it actually will be.
 THE NEW YORK TIMES, THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2020 N D3

11 Things About Naomi Campbell

CONTINUED FROM PAGE D1

1. Unconscious bias was never

unconscious.
“Of course, it is race-based,” Ms. Campbell
said of the bias in fashion that kept the deck
stacked against the black creators who
Anna Wintour recently conceded had not
been given enough “space” in places like
Vogue.
“But I never expected things to come to
me easy,” said Ms. Campbell, a woman
whom the chiffon warrior, André Leon Tal-
ley, once called “a self-made cyclone of ener-
gy, style and drama.”

2. She dealt with it in the usual way.

“I knew I had to work extra hard, and when
I think about it now, I’m grateful to have had
a lot of strong women in my family showing
me how to stay strong physically and men-
tally if you want to survive and strive,” Ms.
Campbell said. “I’ve always been raised, by
my mother, my nana, the wonderful strong
women in my family, from this strong ances-
try to understand that whatever I was going
to do, I had to do it 110 percent.”
Ms. Campbell’s heritage is a combination
of Afro-Jamaican and Chinese-Jamaican.
(Her Chinese-Jamaican grandmother was
Pearline Ming.)
‘The point is to
3. But don’t call her a survivor.
try to make the
“It’s adaptation,” she said. “Back in the day, best of the
I would say: ‘Why am I doing this if I’m not
getting treated the same as my counter- situation you’re
parts? Why am I not earning the same
money?’ Luckily, I had wonderful people dealing with.’
like Bethann that I would call, and she
would explain to me why it would be benefi-
cial to go forward and do it and we’ll see the
results in the long run.”

4. Maybe say pragmatist instead. iarity and routine to keep your mind and
“If I thought things were unjust, I had to say spirit in a safe space.” You also need, to
something,” said Ms. Campbell, whose judge by Ms. Campbell’s Vogue YouTube
record on the subject is somewhat mixed. tutorial, a foolproof 10-minute method for
True, she was a founder of the Black Girls beating your face with skills so refined that
Coalition, a group organized to address they may give Bianca Del Rio pause.
race-based inequities in fashion. It is also
true that she once tried to squelch the ca- 10. The Federal Aviation Administration
reer of a newcomer named Tyra Banks. should hire her.
“This is to do with me I am talking about, “I never made that to go viral,” Ms. Camp-
my career,” she said. “The point is to try to bell said of the 2019 video of her flight sani-
make the best of the situation you’re dealing tizing ritual, which has more than 2.9 mil-
with. I don’t look at it as surviving. I look at lion views on YouTube and which, though it
it as life.” may once have seemed extreme, ought to
be required viewing for anyone planning to
5. She has depended on the kindness of board a plane again.
strangers. Ms. Campbell began routinely wearing
“I am blessed with the people I’ve had in my face masks to fly in the early years of the
life, the influences of their wonderful great century. “In Japan I was seeing everyone in
minds and spirits and beings,” said a wom- these masks, and I thought, ‘This makes
an whose Rolodex — if people still kept such sense,’ ” she said. Some 15 years on, her
things — would be the size of a tire on a 16- methodology stops just short of traveling
wheeler. with a decontaminating Aerosolizer
“I think of Azzedine Alaïa and Nelson (though she has been seen in a hazmat
Mandela. I got to meet them, live with them, suit).
know them, be around them, consider them “I thought, ‘I can bring my wipes and
family. You sometimes don’t realize when wipe it all down, no insult to any airline,’ ”
people are here that you could never think GIONCARLO VALENTINE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
she said. “It was what I needed to do to
of the planet without them. Then, when they make myself feel comfortable.”
go, suddenly the panic sets in: What do I
“I am blessed with the 7. She believes in that second A. vidual relationship to time, and who was, for 11. She understands that wherever you
do? Who do I run to?”
people I’ve had in my life, “I’m very proud of my recovery and proud instance, two hours late for the Zoom photo go, there you are.
the influences of their to be in recovery and would never hide that session for this article; who was once fired
6. She found spirituality, but only after “This virus, the lives it has taken, is devas-
the drugs.
wonderful great minds and fact,” said Ms. Campbell, whose much publi- at first meeting by the producer-director
tating, and yet being still, being in one place,
spirits and beings,” Naomi cized anger management issues may have Lee Daniels for being three hours late to an
“What I found is that this strength comes,” Campbell said. can be amazing,” said Ms. Campbell, who
been fueled in part by chemical depend- audition (an incident that resulted in a
Ms. Campbell said. “All the connections, ev- has logged more planetary orbits than most
ence. (Alexander McQueen used to joke to screaming match followed by an acting gig satellites. “If there is one thing that I’ve
erything you ever had with them, comes to
friends that they should hide their phones and an enduring friendship); and who nev- learned in this lifetime so far, it is that
you in another form. They’re still here and
when Ms. Campbell came to visit.) ertheless must own a very big alarm clock, there’s no getting away from anything.
pushing you. When Papa passed away, it
“We’re not supposed to promote recov- since she has somehow managed to rise on We’ve got to face our fears and go through
was such a shock.” Mr. Alaïa, the Tunisian
ery, but I am not in denial of any of that,” she time to be photographed for the 300 maga- the emotions.”
couturier who effectively parented Ms.
Campbell throughout her career, died in said. “It has been a great help to me in other zine covers that have been graced with her “Many things in life didn’t work out for
2017 at 82. “I was really thrown,” she said. areas of my life.” image. “That’s how I function best.” me. It’s OK. I tried. It’s a good thing to be
able to look at yourself in that mirror, no
“But then this strength came to me from 8. The steps in 12-step programs are 9. She is a routine queen. running or rushing about — just me, myself
somewhere, I don’t know, I can only say more than metaphor. “I have a routine I kept during quarantine,” and I. At the end of the day, you have got to
from him. I realized I had to do more, help “I’m the kind of person that needs struc- she said. “Get up, pray, shower, work out. In be able to sit with yourself in solitude, or you
more, be there more.” ture,” said Ms. Campbell, who has an indi- times like this, you need that sense of famil- aren’t alive.”

Provocative
Purchases
Sales of lingerie have been
thriving during lockdown.
By RACHEL FELDER
When lockdown began a few months ago, as
some women adopted sweatpants and Two items from
worn-in tees as a virtual uniform, others Journelle’s Natalia
were buying apparel that’s considerably collection.
more alluring: lacy push-up bras, slinky
thongs and other undergarments that are
more characteristically reserved for P.P.E.-
free, socially undistanced activities.
On La Perla’s website, for example, sales the wearer’s derrière to the imagination, think of lingerie as the new “occasion-wear.” sexy lingerie is self-care,” said Todd Mick,
were up nearly 50 percent in April and May
of the Ambra collection, an assortment of
pieces that includes delicate balconette
Hmm. Should I over the two preceding months. The terms
The emotional boost it provides, she said, is
different from what comes with picking up a
NPD’s innerwear analyst. And, Mr. Mick
noted, shopping online is conducive to the
bras and high-cut panties adorned with
French Leavers lace, increased 200 percent
go with the N95 “ouvert” and “crotchless” are now among
the Top 10 search terms on its website.
T-shirt bra or multipack of utilitarian briefs.
“It’s all about making you feel great from
sale of racier pieces.
“You can purchase sexy stuff in the pri-
in the period between April 1 and mid-May
compared with the six weeks that preceded
mask, or some On the Kiki de Montparnasse website,
sales from March 22 to May 27 of several op-
the inside out,” Ms. Burt said. vacy of your home,” he said. That, he said, is
Or as Pascal Perrier, the chief executive also driving sales.
it. racy lace? tions of panties and bras with exposed areas of La Perla, put it: “What else can you do For those who are social distancing alone,
Figleaves, the British online lingerie re- topped the sales of those styles for all of last from home actually? Do you buy a Gucci buying seductive lingerie is more of an em-
tailer, reports that sales in the United States year, according to a representative for the handbag? No, because you have plenty al- powering indulgence than an amorous ac-
of its Pulse collection, which includes or- brand. Fleur du Mal, which designs and ready, and you don’t go out. You buy food — cessory. Take, for instance, Tracy Henry, 46,
nately detailed low-cut bras and sheer-back sells lingerie that’s both luxurious and sug- OK, that box is ticked. ‘How about myself? a health care executive who has been alone
Brazilian panties, more than doubled be- gestive, quickly sold out of four styles of its What can I buy for myself that I’m going to in her Weehawken, N.J., apartment since
tween March and April, and nearly doubled crotchless panties online after its New York enjoy?’” mid-March, working remotely. She recently
again between April and May. City boutique closed on March 15. That enjoyment can come at a steep bought several ultrafeminine items from
Between March and the end of May, “Anything that’s on that racier, sexier side price: Many of La Perla’s bras are around
the Journelle website, including a sheer
thong sales on Le Mystère’s website more — our strappy bondage styles, our open bra $400, and Fleur du Mal’s “cheeky” lace un-
mesh and lace underwire bodysuit that she
than doubled compared with the same peri- styles, garter belts — is moving,” said Jenni- derpants, with an especially high-cut back,
fer Zuccarini, the Fleur du Mal founder. wears during Zoom calls, tucked discreetly
od last year. (It’s worth nothing that in the are just under $100. But then, alluring lin-
Guido Campello, the co-chief executive of underneath a blazer and jeans.
lingerie business, sales are usually slow in gerie is available at many price points, in-
the weeks after Valentine’s Day.) Journelle, offered an explanation, suggest- cluding at mass retailers like Walmart and “The thing of it is, irrespective of our cir-
More risqué styles proved popular, too. At ing that for some couples, confinement may Target. cumstances and the quarantine situation, I
Journelle, a lingerie merchant that, until re- be encouraging intimacy that is outside of Overall, sales of lace bras increased 37 think it’s really so important to celebrate
cently, had been selling solely online after typical comfort zones. “They’ve gotten to percent between the first half of April and you,” Ms. Henry said.
its boutiques closed on March 17, purchases know each other and gotten a lot closer, and the second, according to NPD Group, the “A part of that celebration is wearing
of its Natalia Ouvert style, a skimpy bikini they’ve gotten more creative,” he said. market research company. that,” she added, referring to enticing un-
with a large open section that leaves little of Jenni Burt, who heads Figleaves, likes to “What I think is really happening is that derwear. “It makes me happy.”
D4 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2020

Female Gamers
Tell of Sexism
And Harassment
Allegations on Twitter prompt
companies and streamers to
respond with action.
By TAYLOR LORENZ
and KELLEN BROWNING
More than 70 people in the gaming industry,
most of them women, have come forward
with allegations of gender-based discrimi-
nation, harassment and sexual assault
since last Friday. They have shared their
stories in statements posted to Twitter,
YouTube, Twitch and the blogging platform
TwitLonger.
The outpouring of stories from competi-
tive gamers and streamers, who broadcast
their gameplay on platforms like Twitch for
money, led to the resignation of the chief ex-
ecutive of a prominent talent management
company for streamers and a moment of re-
flection for an industry that has often con-
tended with sexism, bullying and allega-
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tions of abuse.
Already, the response has been a far cry Gamers at TwitchCon, a major streamer conference, in 2018. Fellow streamers, fans and companies have shown support for the women speaking out.
from Gamergate in 2014, when women
faced threats of death and sexual assault for
critiquing the industry’s male-dominated, within the streaming community. formers Group, announced that she would frain from using the platform on Wednes-
“I’m not casting judgment or asking any- be stepping away at the end of her contract.
sexist culture. Now, some are optimistic
that real change could come. ‘I feel that one to witch hunt those who are named,” She said that in light of Ms. Ayala’s allega-
day to pressure the company to address
racism and sexual misconduct.
Gamers began sharing their stories after
a Twitter user who posts as Hollowtide
it’s my Ms. Richey said. “I’m trying to give sur-
vivors of these issues a voice so they don’t
tions and the way Mr. Dariani responded,
she no longer wanted to be associated with
That night, the chief executive of Twitch,
Emmett Shear, shared an internal company
tweeted about an unnamed “top” player of
the online game Destiny on Friday night, re-
responsibility feel alone or gaslit based on their experi-
ences in this industry.”
the company.
She noted that sexism and misconduct in
email on Twitter that stated that Twitch was
“looking into all the incidents and will be co-
ferring to the person as a “scum lord.” Three
female streamers, JewelsVerne, SheSnaps
to speak up.’ Molly Fender Ayala, a Twitch streamer
and community development lead for the
the industry ran deeper than one person or
one company. “When it’s one call-out, it’s a
operating with law enforcement.”
“We support people coming forward,
and SchviftyFive, saw the post and decided video game Overwatch, posted a message problem with a person,” Ms. Thorne said. commend their bravery in doing so, and
to come forward about their experiences on Twitter on Sunday morning in which she “When there’s a ton of call-outs, it’s a prob- know there are many others who have not,”
with the gamer in question, who is known accused Omeed Dariani, the chief executive lem with the industry.” he continued. “The gaming industry is not
online both as Lono and SayNoToRage. of Online Performers Group, a talent man- As more allegations surfaced over the unlike others that have had to reckon with
The women posted their allegations, in- agement agency that works with many weekend, gaming companies and corporate systemic sexism, racism, and abuse that re-
cluding nonconsensual touching, proposi- streamers, of acting inappropriately toward partners struggled to respond. “It’s not just wards certain people and disadvantages —
tioning for sex and harassment, on Twitter her and propositioning her for a threesome other members of the streaming communi- even harms — others. The status quo needs
using their streamer handles. (The stream- in 2014. (Ms. Ayala denied a request for ty taking notice,” said Chase, the head of to change.”
ers did not provide their legal names to The comment. Mr. Dariani did not respond to communications at Stream Elements, a Gaming scholars said the community
New York Times. Previously, women in multiple requests for comment.) livestreaming tools provider, who goes by might be more receptive to addressing alle-
gaming who have spoken out against the in- “I feel that it’s my responsibility to speak only his first name. “Brands and companies gations of sexual misconduct this time
dustry using their legal names have been up,” Ms. Ayala wrote, so that other women that work with streamers are seeing who around after embracing social activism dur-
subjected to further harassment, hacking in the streaming and gaming world “know these individuals are and might not want to ing the recent Black Lives Matter protests.
and doxxing.) that this isn’t ‘just how the industry is.’ ” associate with them on future endeavors.” “It did seem like there is a wellspring of
In interviews with The New York Times, Mr. Dariani responded to Ms. Ayala’s alle- This isn’t the first time gaming has been support that might have been there in the
when asked to describe their experiences gations in a Twitter thread on Sunday. “I do said to be having its #MeToo moment. Last past, but because of the times we’re in, it
with Lono, the streamers asked a reporter not specifically recall the conversation ref- summer, several game developers went seemed to me even more profound and sup-
to refer to their public statements on Twit- erenced, but I’m not going to sit here and public with accusations of sexual assault, portive,” said Jennifer Jenson, who studies
ter, TwitLonger and Twitch. argue about whether or not it happened,” he harassment and abuse, and they were met video games and gender at the University
Lono responded to their Twitter accusa- wrote. “Because I promised I would believe with a swift backlash from the gaming com- of British Columbia.
tions in a YouTube video posted on Satur- women. Even, and probably most espe- munity. The reaction has been different this It’s also possible that “we’ve just hit a
day. “There is no excuse for my behavior,” cially when I’m the person being called out. time. critical mass of these allegations coming
he said in the video. “There is no way to And I do believe her. So as far as I am con- Streamers, fans and companies have out over and over,” Ms. Gordon said.
gloss over it. The things I did were unac- cerned, this happened.” shown support for the women speaking out. The gaming industry is particularly con-
ceptable. Being inappropriate with these That night, he stepped down as chief ex- Kenzie Gordon, a Ph.D. candidate at the ducive to a culture of misogyny and sexual
people robbed them of their sense of safety ecutive. University of Alberta who studies gaming harassment, Ms. Gordon said, because
and security and it broke trust, and I am “OPG is a special company,” he wrote on in relation to prevention of sexual and do- straight white men have “created the iden-
deeply sorry.” (He declined to speak to a re- Twitter. “It has created opportunity where mestic violence, said that “if studios get to tity of the gamer as this exclusive property.”
porter from The Times on Monday and none existed before. The talented women the point where people are actually being When women, people of color or L.G.B.T.Q.
would not share his last name.) and men who work there pour their hearts fired for these accusations and stepping people try to break into the industry, she
After those accusations, other streamers into it daily. Give them a chance. Please down and there’s some actual structural said, the “toxic geek masculinity” pushes
began to open up about their experiences don’t destroy it because you’re angry at change happening,” that would be evidence back in ways that often lead to sexual abuse
with high-profile men in the industry, in- me.” of a “watershed” moment. and bullying.
cluding fellow streamers, YouTubers, game Some of the accusations saw a swift re- Twitch released a Twitter statement on Gaming studios are often reluctant to
developers and talent managers. sponse. At least one company, Astro Gam- Sunday saying that the company took “ac- defy those fans, Ms. Gordon said, but re-
Jessica Richey, 28, a streamer and con- ing, said it would stop sponsoring Lono and cusations of sexual harassment and mis- cently it has become clear that there is a de-
tent creator in New York City, began compil- two other streamers who had faced accusa- conduct extremely seriously” and was mand for a variety of video games that ap-
ing the allegations into a Twitter thread. tions. High-profile streamers and clients “looking into the accounts concerning peal to all types of people, which requires
Ms. Richey said in an interview on Sun- quickly cut ties with the Online Performers streamers affiliated with Twitch and will more diversity among game designers and
day that she received more than 50 direct Group. Facebook Gaming temporarily sus- work with law enforcement where applica- could necessitate changes in the industry.
messages from people asking that their pended one streamer after public allega- ble.” A Twitch spokeswoman declined to “I think there really needs to be this top-
stories be added to her thread. On Monday tions of domestic abuse. comment further. down reorganization,” she said. “Setting up
morning, she compiled all of the allegations Brooke Thorne, 32, a streamer and gamer On Monday, streamers began calling for a a diversity committee is not going to solve
in a Medium post, which was shared widely in Britain who is managed by Online Per- “Twitch blackout,” in which users would re- this problem.”

Changing of the Guard at CrossFit

CONTINUED FROM PAGE D1 CrossFit employee to a former one that was
Glassman, 63, has verbally demeaned reviewed by The New York Times. (Mr.
women, pulled at their clothes to try to peek Glassman denies the accusation, his
at their cleavage and aimed his phone’s spokeswoman said.)
camera to snap photos of their breasts while Another former employee, who re-
they traveled with him for work (some- quested anonymity because he didn’t have
times pressuring them to consider sharing permission from his current employer to
hotel rooms or borrowed houses with him). speak to the media, defended Mr. Glass-
Through a company spokesman and man. “I’m not into painting someone into an
spokeswoman, Mr. Glassman denied such evil person just because he might have been
conduct. The spokeswoman said Mr. Glass- misogynistic,” he said.
man had treated her only respectfully. She In 2012, Mr. Glassman agreed to pay a fi-
suggested that people speaking out against nancial settlement to Julie Kelly, a former
Mr. Glassman are doing so to lessen the employee whose lawyers threatened to file
worth of his company and then buy it from a sexual harassment lawsuit, according to
him. “There is a collective effort to devalue three people in the CrossFit community
the company and buy it for scraps,” she with direct knowledge of the situation.
said. Among other incidents, they related, during
After this article was published online, a company get-together at a bar, Mr. Glass-
the company’s chief executive, Dave Cas- man stood next to Ms. Kelly and made a vul-
tro, sent a message to affiliate gym owners gar and obscene comment about her to an-
that Mr. Glassman intends to sell the fitness other man. (Mr. Glassman denies this, the
brand to Eric Roza, the former senior vice spokeswoman said, and would not com-
president and general manager of Oracle
ment on the settlement.)
Data Cloud and an owner of a CrossFit gym COOPER NEILL FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Also that year, Mr. Glassman was being
in Boulder, Colo.
driven to the airport by Andy Stumpf, a for-
The former employees say reporting the Mr. Castro, a longtime deputy of Mr. people’s hopes and dreams and even their A CrossFit workout in
mer member of the Navy SEALs with five
harassment was not an option. Mr. Glass- Glassman’s, declined to speak for this arti- businesses? CrossFit is not just about fit- Dallas. The company has
man has been the sole owner of CrossFit. Bronze Star medals and a Purple Heart who
cle. ness. It becomes your friends, your family, been accused of tolerating a
oversaw CrossFit’s partnership with
Perhaps the most powerful female execu- The spokespeople noted that the CrossFit your community. People create their entire work environment that’s
tive there, Kathy Glassman, the affiliate di- Reebok and who also worked as Mr. Glass-
Games, a professional competition intro- lives around it.” hostile to women.
rector, is Mr. Glassman’s sister, and they man’s pilot.
duced by the company in 2007, rewards men Away from the local gyms where he is
were reluctant to complain to her. There “We were in the car, and he was chuck-
and women with equal prize money, and venerated, though, the picture of Mr. Glass-
was no human resources manager until ling,” said Mr. Stumpf, in an interview. “I
that the method encourages women to cele- man clouds quickly. “There was a constant
2013. That manager left the company in Jan- asked why he was in such a good mood, and
brate strength and fitness regardless of narrative about women,” the former corpo-
uary and has not been replaced. body type or weight. rate employee said. She described his using he said, ‘I finally finished up with the bull-
Even those critical of CrossFit’s culture vulgarities frequently to refer to women, shit with Julie; I had to pay that whore.’ ”
A Devoted Community praised its rigorous exercise method, which enumerating which he wanted to have sex Ms. Kelly declined an interview request.
Now with headquarters in Scotts Valley, is taught in thousands of mom-and-pop with and which he didn’t.
Calif., CrossFit was created in 2000. It is pri- gyms around the country that have licensed This attitude was so entwined with opera- ‘A Very Elegant Solution’
vately held and currently employs 72 peo- the CrossFit trademark. For some of its dev- tions that the Wi-Fi password at a company In an interview, Lauren Jenai, Mr. Glass-
ple full time, down from 137 two years ago. otees, CrossFit is a near religion. office in San Diego used to be a sexist ob- man’s former wife who founded CrossFit
The coronavirus pandemic and a shift in the “There is so much positive in the CrossFit scenity, according to three former employ- with him, said that the employees and ath-
company’s focus from competitive games to community,” said one former employee ees. letes were accurately describing the corpo-
health initiatives have resulted in layoffs. who, like many others interviewed for this Male employees would rank female pro- rate atmosphere she witnessed before di-
Most departing workers receive severance article, was granted anonymity because she fessional CrossFit athletes according to vorcing Mr. Glassman in 2013. She also con-
only if they signed nondisclosure agree- fears legal retribution from Mr. Glassman. how much the men wanted to have sex with firmed that Mr. Glassman entered into a fi-
ments. “Do you want to be the person who ruins them, according to an email from a current nancial settlement with Ms. Kelly to avoid a
 THE NEW YORK TIMES, THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2020 N D5

Weird Times Call for Even Weirder Footwear

More refined than Crocs, pocked cutouts, for air flow, could set off a
trypophobic response.
water shoes are making the Some see the Hydro Moc as an enlight-
leap from hikers to city dwellers. ened response to the reign of the Croc, a mo-
ment defined by comfort at the cost of func-
tion and remorseless ugliness.
By NATHAN TAYLOR PEMBERTON
“The Croc is so destroyed — it’s played
While there may not be any one word to de- out,” said Chris Black, a partner at the Pub-
scribe our collective state of limbo, one lic Announcement brand consultancy, who
footwear category has emerged, like a gen- noted the Croc’s own cultural upcycle, from
tle intervention, to help us stand astride the suburban mom standard to Balenciaga nov-
void. It’s a water shoe moment. elty. “I think people will buy the Hydro Moc
Water shoes, or amphibious footwear, as because they look crazy and they’re not a
those in the industry refer to it, were made Croc,” he said. “Plus, they’re new and very
for moments defined by being in between. cheap, making them immediately appeal-
Not quite a sneaker, not simply a sandal and ing to a wider swath of consumers.”
unequivocally not a Croc, water shoes were Merrell introduced the Hydro Moc to sat-
designed for ease of movement between isfy demands from its “hard-core” hikers,
water and land, without emphasizing one who wanted a shoe that could be worn
over the other, all the while allowing feet to around a campfire after a day on the trail.
dry quickly so as to prevent athlete’s foot. This required a featherweight approach to
As far as footwear comes, it is the closest the design, and at 14 ounces, the Hydro
thing to a cure for uncertainty. Or as Teva, Mocs are lighter than most bottles of water.
the pioneering company in amphibious “This shoe was designed for the kind of
footwear, used to say: “Free your feet and hiker that saws the handle off their tooth-
your mind will follow.” brush to save space in their kit,” said Scott
The present-day demand for footwear Portzline, the Merrell vice president for de-
that offers no inhibition has spurred luxury sign, who oversaw the shoe’s production.
brands and performance footwear makers Achieving the ultimate goal of versatility is
to reimagine the category for strange times. the main reason the shoe has made the
Earlier this year, before the coronavirus jump from hikers to city dwellers.
brought daily life to a halt, Balenciaga sent “‘Versatility’ is a word I love to hate,” Mr.
its models splashing down the runway in Portzline said. “But it’s still awesome. It
water shoes, an ode to climate change. means you’re getting more out of less, and
For the last year, Kanye West’s Yeezy people are embracing that more than ever.
brand has been teasing a “foam runner,” From a fashion perspective, it’s when we
made in part from hydroponically produced knew we were on to something.”
algae, which is reportedly planned for a Since its release last fall, the Hydro Moc
2020 release. has become one of Merrell’s best sellers.
In March, the leap became most visible “We don’t see the Hydro Moc going away in
when Hoka One One, a forward-thinking the near future, even if consumers move on
T H EY ’ R E to the next thing,” said Lindsey Lindemul-
French maker of running shoes, introduced
R E L AT I V E LY VIA KAMA0040
der, the company’s marketing director for
its Hopara line of high-performance water
CH E A P A N D E A SY lifestyle. “It will remain a part of the
shoes, made to “fly” over terrains as di-
TO OBTA I N, A footwear landscape, theoretically for the
verse as “remote forests” or “urban jun-
RA R I T Y I N T H E rest of time, because it’s such a new space
gles.” Built on a paunchy mound of rubber-
WOR L D OF D ROPS for consumers.”
ized ethylene-vinyl acetate (EVA), the
A N D OV E R H Y PE D Mr. Black, for his part, doesn’t think wa-
Hopara arrived in the mold of the compa-
F OOT WE A R . ter shoes, and the Hydro Moc specifically,
ny’s tumescent running shoes, whose
strange geometry has helped attract a fa- are immune to trend cycles. In a Strategist
natic fan base. column in New York Magazine, he short-
listed the Hydro Moc as an ideal “house
The Hopara veers into less familiar terri-
shoe” for anyone locked into the cycle of
tory with cutouts slashed into its sides, for
working, dining and dressing up in their
easy water drainage, and a rubberized toe-
homes.
cap that looks like a small plate of armor, to
Will this iteration of the water shoe cycle
protect against riverbed rocks. Despite its sold quickly at hype-driven street wear bou-
become another casualty of whiplashing
bulky appearance, the shoes weigh only 12 tiques, like Bodega in Boston. REI, a more hype cycles? Or is its flummoxing ascen-
ounces. traditional retailer, focused on outdoor gear, sion, timed to the weirdness of our world,
What the Hopara makes clear is that the had so much success selling Hoparas online more timeless? The question may best be
water shoe is moving into that final evolu- that it plans to move the shoe into its stores answered by the man who first dreamed up
tionary stage of footwear: the street wear in 2021. the amphibious footwear category, Mark
grail. In this case, a grail worn predomi- This kind of crossover success, for a shoe Thatcher.
nantly by those who will most likely never as fashion defiant as the Hopara, is further In 1982, this former river guide and geolo-
reach the trails and streams for which the evidence that consumers aren’t looking for gist founded Teva, and patented the sports
shoes are intended. footwear that serves a singular need. sandal design after recognizing the need for
Kaitlin Phillips, a publicist and writer They’re drawn to the water shoe as a func- a shoe that could be worn in and out of water
who lives in New York but who was born tion of the “abjection trend cycle,” said with maximum ease. Today Mr. Thatcher
and raised in Montana, home to a big hiking Thom Bettridge, the Highsnobiety editor. In VIA MERRELL spends his days in quasi-retirement on the
community, prefers to walk around Manhat- this cycle, the ugly is embraced unironically rivers of Sedona, Ariz., while conjuring the
tan in her Chaco water shoes because they by daring consumers, and in the process, next innovative leap in water shoe design
are so comfortable. “I don’t know how many they relieve a serious amount of pent-up for his newest endeavor, the Sazzi, which he
pairs I have,” she said. fashion shame. expects to be available next year.
Ms. Phillips said she has witnessed the “Recent histories are embarrassing,” Mr. Top, Hoka’s line of the world of drops and overhyped footwear. As may be expected of someone who has
rise of the water shoe on New York streets, Bettridge said. “When you look at the water high-performance water The Hopara starts at $120, and Mr. West’s spent his life predominantly focused on the
specifically among people in the arts scene. shoes you wore five to 10 years ago, you feel shoes has made the leap to foam runners are anticipated to sell for $75. sports sandal, Mr. Thatcher hasn’t aban-
She pointed out that Camilla Deterre, an disgusted. But you can conquer what once the street. Above, Merrell The Hydro Moc is even more affordable. doned the ethos behind Teva’s old slogan. In
artist and model, recently flaunted her new embarrassed you. You conquer it by loving Hydro Mocs, designed for A water shoe released last fall by Merrell,
hard-core hikers, are now an
other words, it’s less a question of the times
Merrell Hydro Mocs on Instagram. And them again, and now you’re seeing people the maker of high-performance hiking or the moment than human nature. It’s all in
Brendan Dugan, the owner of the Karma starting to indulge in their out-of-place- ideal “house shoe,” some boots, it has a list price of $40 and is some-
adherents say. our minds.
gallery in the East Village, is often seen at ness.” thing of a Croc gone wild. “Footwear connects you to the earth, to
openings in Birkenstock EVA sandals. While some may find this pop psychology It is constructed from a single piece of feelings of well-being, agility and health in
After Hoparas were recommended in GQ less than convincing, Mr. Bettridge noted rubberized EVA, with the exception of a general,” Mr. Thatcher said. “People will
(which suggested wearing them with socks that this new wave of water shoes offer an- rubber heel strap. It’s offered in eight differ- buy them for fashion, but it always comes
“and maybe a suit”) and listed by the street other form of mental relief: They’re rela- ent tie-dye colorways, styled to mimic wa- back to a deep subconscious thing. Freeing
wear publication Highsnobiety, the shoe tively cheap and easy to obtain, a rarity in ter’s hazy emulsions. The shoe’s array of your feet can open up parts of your mind.”

sexual harassment lawsuit. (Ms. Jenai re- the drain. I’ve talked to reporters because if from Reebok, which was valued at about I had never experienced anything like that.”
ceived $20 million from Mr. Glassman as I say nothing, I’m complicit. If I talk to peo- $100 million over the last 10 years.
part of their divorce settlement, in ex- ple and don’t tell the truth, I’m a liar.” The negatives By the time the deal with Reebok was
CrossFit also sometimes flaunted a
raunchy attitude toward women in its own
change for her ownership of the company.)
“He’s the father of my kids,” Ms. Jenai
The anticipated sale to Mr. Roza derails
this proposal.
are encroaching struck in 2010, CrossFit already had a repu-
tation.
promotion.
In a podcast interview for CrossFit Jour-
said. “I care about Greg and about CrossFit,
but this should be addressed.” ‘A Metric Ton of Inappropriate Behavior’
on a company’s Lindsey Johnson, a CrossFit athlete hired nal conducted in January 2018, Sevan
Matossian, a longtime deputy of Mr. Glass-
by Reebok to train its executives, turned
Of the constant sexualized assessment of CrossFit’s first workouts were held in a ga- positives. down an opportunity to do additional work man’s, interviewed Stacie Tovar, an affiliate
women, she said, “100 percent. That hap- rage in Santa Cruz, Calif. The county sher- for CrossFit. owner in Omaha and a popular, retired pro-
pens every day, all day.” iff’s department was among Mr. Glassman’s “I had heard too many stories about too fessional CrossFit athlete.
Ms. Jenai said the vulgar Wi-Fi password earliest clients. The method has been popu- many things I didn’t want to be a part of,” Mr. Matossian asked her if she was sexu-
was also used in the home she shared with lar among the police and the military, in- Ms. Johnson said, including “straight-up ally active with her husband and if she took
Mr. Glassman and was in keeping with the cluding those assigned to elite teams like bullying and sexual harassment of women. birth control pills. He told her he preferred a
office patois. “They are nasty about women, Green Berets and Navy SEALs, enhancing We’ve heard this story before, this isn’t a bathing suit photo of her on her website to
and they talk freely in front of them, and it the fitness program’s credibility. brand-new situation, someone at the top one showing her in athletic competition.
does make my skin crawl,” she said, but not with a God complex.” “Your body is freakishly amazing,” he said.
At the beginning of 2020, there were more
always. “I think it does need to be said that After Mr. Glassman’s inflammatory tweet Lamenting changes brought about by the
than 14,000 affiliate gyms, according to Jus-
both Greg and I, and our friends, have raw and comments about Mr. Floyd, Reebok an- MeToo movement, he said, “You can’t even
tin LoFranco, founder of Morning Chalk Up,
senses of humor. There is a lot of that banter nounced that it would not renew the Cross- ask your significant other for” oral sex any-
a newsletter that covers the CrossFit com-
that I don’t find offensive, but the difference more.
munity. Affiliated gyms pay CrossFit an an- Fit deal. Morning Chalk Up reported that
was, I was in a position of leadership so my “A fitness industry is different from an ac-
nual fee of $3,000 or less. more than 1,200 affiliates had plans to disas-
job didn’t depend on how I responded to counting firm,” the CrossFit spokeswoman
The company also draws revenue from sociate themselves from the CrossFit
those remarks.” said, regarding the podcast.
CrossFit Games and sponsorships, like one brand.
Ms. Jenai said people were punished for That summer, the company hosted a
Recently, scrutiny of the company inten-
challenging the culture. “If you didn’t agree CrossFit Health Conference in Madison,
sified after Mr. Stumpf, a speaker on leader-
with Greg, you would be ostracized, espe- Wis. A blown-up poster on social media and
cially if you were a female,” she said. ship, devoted an entire episode of his pod- near the entrance of the conference fea-
The CrossFit spokeswoman said that Ms. cast, “Cleared Hot,” to what he saw while tured an illustration of a doctor with money
Jenai was motivated to lessen the compa- working for CrossFit from 2010 to 2014. coming out of his doctor’s coat, surrounded
ny’s value so she could try to buy it. The “I cannot count the number of times that by scantily dressed, buxom women, includ-
spokesman forwarded an email sent by Ms. derogatory and specifically sexual com- ing one with dollar bills coming out of her
Jenai to Matt Holdsworth, CrossFit’s chief ments were made about female staff mem- short-shorts as she grasps the doctor’s
financial officer, on June 15, less than a week bers directly in my presence,” Mr. Stumpf crotch.
after Mr. Glassman had resigned. said, urging Mr. Glassman and the company Ms. Jenai, who now runs Manifest, which
“My interest and intentions are solely to release former employees from nondis- provides testing kits and personal coaching
based on wanting to help with current is- closure agreements. to help people deal with chronic health is-
sues CrossFit is facing,” Ms. Jenai wrote. “I The former employees interviewed by sues, said that Mr. Glassman’s putting Mr.
do not want to see the company or brand The Times said much of the mistreatment Castro in charge will not solve CrossFit’s
suffer. I’m looking at $50M as an offer — or happened openly, which made them ques- problems, since Mr. Glassman retains own-
thereabouts. Is this something CrossFit Inc tion their own reactions and wonder if they ership.
would consider?” were being too sensitive. Some worried that “He is a yes man,” she said of Mr. Castro.
On Saturday, Ms. Jenai confirmed this. “I speaking out would cost them their jobs. “I believe Dave being put in this position,
was approached by an investment com- “There was a metric ton of inappropriate there is no change. It is the status quo.”
pany who wants to back me in buying behavior, but even worse, there was a sys- The CrossFit spokesman said it was un-
CrossFit,” she said. “In people’s minds, in- tematic problem of undermining women,” true that Mr. Glassman would still be calling
VICTOR J. BLUE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
cluding mine, it would be a very elegant so- one former employee said. “The systematic the shots. “He wants to retire and home-
lution. I don’t want to see this thing go down Greg Glassman, who resigned this month, has denied treating women crudely. way they chip away at your self-confidence, school his kids,” he said.
 D6 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2020

Long Night of ‘Flower Flashing’

PHOTOGRAPHS BY NINA WESTERVELT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Lewis Miller finishing an installation at the corner of Fulton Street and South Portland Avenue in Brooklyn, above, where the Barclays Center area, top, also
got a floral tribute from his team. Center right, the flash tour van starting to empty out. Above right, flower preparation at George Rallis Wholesale Florist.

fallen petals and a bonus used cotton swab. to L.A., and it’s just not the same. There are
A beloved New York florist and “During good times, flowers are awe-
some; we all know that,” Mr. Miller said. Before bolting he grabbed a mister of certain things that just work best in New
guerrilla artist is reanimating “But now more than ever we need flowers in Lewis Miller Crowning Glory from the van to give the ar- York.”
rangement a spritz, because like so many But street art doesn’t always cooperate.
the slowly reopening city. the city. Who isn’t looking for a little joy?”
“This is the most beautiful thing I’ve seen
knows we need New Yorkers, lilies need extra hydration. Dismayed by a dark patch of wall not pro-

By JESSICA SHAW
in a long time,” said an observer who had
ventured over from Fourth Avenue, a rick-
blooms now Crossing the illuminated Manhattan
Bridge to the third site, in SoHo, Mr. Miller
viding adequate color contrast, Ms. Arakas
Greenbaum pulled Mr. Miller aside to dis-
It was 3:37 a.m. on Atlantic Avenue in ety cane in each arm. more than ever. pondered the future. “What’s our city going
to look like in three months?” he said. Al-
cuss options. Move the heart? White spray
paint? Mr. Miller came up with another so-
Brooklyn when Lewis Miller let out a sigh of Irini Arakas Greenbaum, whose job in-
cludes scouting locations for Mr. Miller most all of this year’s gigs were canceled, lution involving what some consider to be
relief. and early 2021 events were already being the floral equivalent to a vending machine
“Right here is my happy place,” said Mr. (“I’m always on the hunt for the Kate Moss
of garbage cans,” she said), offered him a postponed. Though Mr. Miller has paid for hamburger.
Miller, a 46-year-old florist and guerrilla past flashes himself, he accepted 1,200 roses “Carnations have gotten a bad rap,” he
free spirit rose.
artist. After zhushing a coral peony and donated from a fan with a farm in Ecuador said, after adding a few white and purple-
“Nah,” he said. “I’m so super pretty al-
throwing in a few gerbera daisies, he stood for this one, as well as some funding from tipped ones he had on hand. “They’re beau-
ready.” She insisted. “OK,” he said. “I’m go-
back to consider the framing of his 6-by-4- L.E.A.F., an organization that puts on flower tiful flowers that smell like nutmeg and
ing to see a homeless girl and give it to her.
foot orange-hued flower heart: black pave- festivals. have a high petal count.” (If any stem snobs
Spread the love!” Mr. Miller told the man to
ment, white crosswalk lines, a “No Turns” “I’m not opposed to taking money,” he are wondering, Mr. Miller would take a car-
stay safe. Then he jumped into a large white
sign, the marquee of Barclays Center cast- said, noting his installations for Equinox, nation any day over a moth orchid or even,
van carrying some 12,000 flowers in the
ing a quote from the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther Old Navy and one businessman who re- he whispered, the “overrated” calla lily.)
back.
King Jr. — “The time is always right to do quested a custom flash for his wife as a The cobblestone plaza on Gansevoort
“It’s like driving around a hundred wed-
what is right” — into the early-morning lunch-break surprise. “But for these there Street was the final stop, empty at 5:21 a.m.
ding cakes,” said Manny Mejia from behind
dark. the wheel. Despite a few potholes, the daisy needs to be integrity or my joy is dead.” The team lay down giant cardboard stencils
“We’re good,” he said. “Let’s go.” mums and stardust roses emerged un- By 4:47 a.m. on Spring Street, the deep of Milton Glaser’s “I  NY” logo on the
The heart was one of four “flower flashes” scathed at the second installation site, in hum of garbage trucks was serenading Mr. street and replaced them with bold blooms.
— Lewis Miller Design’s signature — that Fort Greene. Mr. Miller zip-tied the heart Miller’s crew as they placed a purple heart Mr. Miller poked and prodded the red heart,
New Yorkers would wake up to on June 16. onto a green C train entrance under the eye against a blood-red wall of graffiti: “We yanking out a rose here, situating a caladi-
Though he has surreptitiously placed these of “Comandante Biggie,” a mural of the No- may be alone, but together we’ll conquer.” um leaf there. Ms. Arakas Greenbaum
elaborate arrangements for years, Mr. torious B.I.G. flanked by white doves. Mr. Miller rounded out the design with climbed to a fifth-floor walk-up’s fire escape
Miller’s pandemic-era flashes, around a As Tawana Schlegel, a florist with the rhododendron while Ms. Schlegel threw in to get the aerial view as four pigeons wan-
hospital lamppost or in a Midtown garbage company, softened the heart’s curves with an extra allium, the onion-family flower that dered by.
can, have been met with particular enthusi- lilies placed in messy perfection, Mr. Miller could double as a Willy Wonka lollipop. “I wish it looked like St. Mark’s Square,”
asm. Social media viewers from around the noticed a Cellino & Barnes ad above the sub- “We always joke about how a good flash is Mr. Miller said, sprinkling his breakfast
world have sent him hundreds of heartfelt way entrance. “Is that even a real phone both confident and cavalier, but the true se- granola bar over the work. By 6:27 a.m., the
letters and fan art. Bette Midler raves about number?” he asked no one in particular cret sauce is the city,” Mr. Miller said. “I’ve morning flocks, avian and human, were
his work on Instagram. about all those eights, while sweeping up seen street art everywhere from Nashville milling.