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• Body cam shows Salt Lake City officers shot a 22-year-old man more than 20 times as he ran away

  05-06-2020 23:49
  
  Salt Lake City police officers fired at least 20 shots at a 22-year-old man who was running away from them two weeks ago, body camera footage released Friday shows.Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal, 22, of Salt Lake City, was killed in the early morning of May 23 after police responding to a call of a gun threat chased him for several blocks when he ran from a motel.Body camera footage released Friday afternoon showed the officers encountered Palacios-Carbajal at the Utah Village Motel, 271 W. 900 Sout
  
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• NCAA hits Oklahoma St. with postseason ban in basketball corruption case

  05-06-2020 23:41
  
  Oklahoma State has become the first school to be punished by the NCAA in the fallout from the federal corruption investigation into college basketball. The school plans to fight — and likely won’t be the only one.The Cowboys' men's basketball team was banned from the upcoming postseason among numerous penalties handed down Friday by an NCAA infractions committee panel, which found that former assistant coach Lamont Evans accepted up to $22,000 in bribes intended to help steer athlete
  
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• The coronavirus pandemic accelerates Latter-day Saint missionaries’ transition online

  05-06-2020 23:27
  
  Brigham City • Wearing dress shirts, ties and name tags, three missionaries with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sit around the kitchen table inside a Utah apartment planning how they’ll spread their gospel that day.Seth Rather, a 19-year-old from Wichita, Kansas, reads aloud as he types on a smartphone: “During this time, we must put our faith in God to deliver us through these unprecedented times. How has putting your faith in God helped you in your life?&ldquo
  
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• Reports: NBA players association approves plan to resume season

  05-06-2020 23:14
  
  Utah Jazz guard Mike Conley (10) is fouled by Oklahoma City Thunder guard Chris Paul (3) as the Utah Jazz opens the 2019-20 season with the Oklahoma City Thunder at Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret News SALT LAKE CITY — The NBA’s return is officially a go.
  The Athletic’s Shams Charania and ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported Friday that the National Basketball Players Association voted to pass the plan tha
  
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• NBA players association approves plan to resume season

  05-06-2020 23:14
  
  Utah Jazz guard Mike Conley (10) is fouled by Oklahoma City Thunder guard Chris Paul (3) as the Utah Jazz opens the 2019-20 season with the Oklahoma City Thunder at Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret NewsSALT LAKE CITY — The NBA’s plan to return continues to move forward.
  The National Basketball Players Association Friday approved the league’s proposed 22-team format to resume the 2019-20 season contingent on det
  
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• Utah lawyer promoted filming police with #ShootTheCops hashtag. Despite changing it, police group wants him punished.

  05-06-2020 23:08
  
  A Salt Lake City attorney is urging Utahns to record video of police officers but, faced with withering criticism from the Utah Fraternal Order of Police, he’s changed the hashtag from #ShootTheCops to #RecordTheCops.“We’ve changed our strategy because the [FOP] has mischaracterized what our message was,” said criminal defense attorney Jesse M. Nix.The FOP, however, is still demanding that Nix be removed from a commission that nominates lawyers to become state judges. In
  
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• Utah National Guard troops deployed to D.C. moved to new hotel amid political skirmish

  05-06-2020 22:57
  
  Washington • Sen. Mike Lee took to Twitter and Fox News on Thursday night to blast the “ungrateful mayor” of the District of Columbia for evicting Utah National Guard soldiers deployed to the nation’s capital from their hotel.But Mayor Muriel Bowser’s decision — which left the some 200 Utah soldiers homeless for a few hours — appears to be more nuanced, though she did call for Guard soldiers not from the District of Columbia to leave the city.The Utah sol
  
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• Utah stays at yellow, Herbert says, after setting another one-day record in new COVID-19 cases

  05-06-2020 22:56
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber. For the second Friday in a row, Utah set a one-day record for new cases of COVID-19, with a Cache County meatpacking plant accounting for what state epidemiologist Dr. Angela Dunn calls “an ongoing outbreak.”The continuing s
  
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• Stephen Handy and Suzanne Harrison: During COVID-19, the fight for cleaner cars and cleaner air continues

  05-06-2020 22:00
  
  In the middle of a public health crisis that attacks respiratory function, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler announced another attack on our lungs with his final rollback of America’s clean car standards. These critical standards have protected the health and wallets of families in Utah and throughout the country by reducing tailpipe pollution and saving drivers money at the pump.Now, this dangerous rollback will foul our air and make us more vulnerable to r
  
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• Another one-day record in COVID-19 cases, with an outbreak in a meatpacking plant, as Gov. Herbert keeps Utah’s risk level at ‘yellow’

  05-06-2020 21:42
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber. For the second Friday in a row, Utah set a one-day record for new cases of COVID-19 — with a Cache County meatpacking plant accounting for what state epidemiologist Dr. Angela Dunn calls “an ongoing outbreak.”The conti
  
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• Kyle Whittingham says Ute football’s diversity, trust between players and coaches will help them through current unrest

  05-06-2020 21:36
  
  Like everyone else, Kyle Whittingham has seen the May 25 video of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin pressing his knee against George Floyd’s neck for almost nine minutes until he died.The University of Utah football coach says he found it grotesque and sad before finally landing on tragic as the best way to describe the situation.The fallout from Floyd’s death has been stark, wide-ranging and has stretched from coast-to-coast. None of what has gone has been lost on Whit
  
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• Father’s Day gifts for the Utah Jazz fan

  05-06-2020 21:28
  
  Father’s Day is nearly here. Don’t wait until the last possible moment to get dad something awesome. Instead, get him a Utah Jazz gift. Father’s Day is June 21. It’s time to celebrate dad for being… well, dad. For all the tidbits of knowledge given, for all the time spent… it’s time to say thanks. […]
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• Huntsman in quarantine after campaign staffer tests positive for COVID-19

  05-06-2020 21:08
  
  A staff member working on Jon Huntsman’s gubernatorial campaign has tested positive for COVID-19, and the former governor has gone into temporary quarantine and canceled his in-person public events until he can also be checked for the virus.“The health of each member of our team and the public is our primary concern,” Huntsman said in a prepared statement. “We will follow the instructions of health experts and not put politics and campaign concerns ahead of health and saf
  
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• Montana’s tribal nations preserve COVID restrictions to preserve their cultures

  05-06-2020 20:51
  
  As Montana plows forward with its reopening, including throwing open the doors to tourism on June 1, the outlook is starkly different for members of the state’s Native American nations, which have approached the coronavirus with greater caution and stricter controls.For members of the state's far-flung tribes, who make up nearly 7% of Montana's population of roughly 1 million, protective attitudes toward elders and cultural heritage have shaped a pandemic response around defending the most
  
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• Utah lawyer promotes filming police with #ShootTheCops hashtag. Police group wants him punished.

  05-06-2020 20:20
  
  A Salt Lake City attorney is urging Utahns to record video of police officers with the hashtag #ShootTheCops — and the Utah Fraternal Order of Police is demanding that he be removed from a commission that nominates lawyers to become state judges.In return, criminal defense attorney Jesse M. Nix accused the Utah FOP’s president and executive director of “purposely mischaracterizing” his message and said they “must resign.”On Thursday, Nix and his law partner, K
  
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• As COVID-19 cases continue to spike, Gov. Gary Herbert keeps most of Utah at yellow for health restrictions

  05-06-2020 20:14
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber. Utah’s current risk levels from COVID-19 remain in effect for now under a new order issued Friday by Gov. Gary Herbert.The communities of Salt Lake City, Bluff and Mexican Hat will stay at “orange,” reflecting a modera
  
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• The ins and outs of the NBA and Utah Jazz’s return to play

  05-06-2020 20:06
  
  The NBA is coming back, officially.The full set of National Basketball Players Association team representatives are expected to vote on and pass the NBA’s proposal to restart the season come July 31st. The plan would see the season resume with eight “seeding games” for 22 of the NBA’s teams at Walt Disney World, before heading into a familiar 16-team, best-of-seven playoff format. If necessary, Game 7 of the NBA Finals would be on October 12.How will the Jazz fare in the
  
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• Trent Staggs: It’s time for Salt Lake County to lead the way

  05-06-2020 19:53
  
  Salt Lake County is the engine of Utah’s economy, accounting for nearly one half of state GDP. Like the rest of the state and country, that engine has sustained quite a blow during this pandemic, with the unemployment rate at nearly 11%.Despite efforts by the federal government to inject liquidity into the economy, there is still much more we must do to recover from the devastation we have seen in our state – and Salt Lake County needs to lead the way.Here are some specific ways in w
  
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• Megan Rapinoe will skip NWSL tournament in Utah, coach says

  05-06-2020 19:18
  
  Megan Rapinoe, the biggest star in women’s soccer, will not be on the field when the National Women’s Soccer League becomes one of the first American sports leagues to resume competition later this month, her coach said.Rapinoe’s apparent decision to sit out a monthlong tournament in Utah — neither Rapinoe; her agent; or her team, OL Reign; would confirm she had made a binding decision not to play — was revealed by her new coach, Farid Benstiti, in an interview with
  
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• A woman is shot by Provo police Thursday night after officers say she aimed a gun at them

  05-06-2020 19:12
  
  A woman was shot by police Thursday night in Provo after she reportedly aimed a handgun at them.According to police, they received a report of a woman waving a gun at Utah Lake State Park near 4400 W. Center St. When officers arrived, they located the woman and ordered her to drop her weapon.“After ignoring repeated verbal commands,” the Provo Police Department tweeted, “the female pointed the gun at officers, and she was shot.”Police did not say how many officers fired o
  
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• Utah County commissioners hope to advance virus safety level

  05-06-2020 18:53
  
  Provo • Utah County commissioners hope the state will move the county from yellow to green in its system rating risk levels for the coronavirus.The Daily Herald reports that Commissioner Bill Lee on Wednesday called for the Utah County Commission to discuss supporting an upgrade of the county's status in the state’s color-coded health guidance system.Lee originally wanted commissioners to appeal directly to Republican Gov. Gary Herbert and Jefferson Burton, acting director of the Utah
  
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• Two Salt Lake City liquor stores reopen after cleaning. Employee had tested positive for COVID-19.

  05-06-2020 18:29
  
  Two Salt Lake City liquor stores that closed earlier this week reopened Friday at 11 a.m., according to the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control.On Monday, the DABC temporarily shuttered the stores at 205 W. 400 South and 1255 W. North Temple, after an one employee — who worked at both outlets — tested positive for the coronavirus.DABC spokesman Terry Wood said the stores were professionally cleaned and sanitized, and the agency is shuffling employees from other outlets to f
  
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• Park City’s Kimball Art Center picks Kentucky museum boss to be its executive director

  05-06-2020 18:17
  
  The heart of Park City’s arts community, the nonprofit Kimball Art Center, has picked its new leader.Aldy Milliken, most recently in charge of the KMAC Museum in Louisville, Ky., has been named executive director of the Kimball, the organization announced this week. He starts his new job July 1.Dan Lemaitre, the Kimball’s board chairman, said in a statement that Milliken “is a true arts visionary who comes with community-building experience. … Aldy has a proven track rec
  
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• Both Gach is gone. Is Timmy Allen next? Rest easy Ute basketball fans. He’s probably sticking around.

  05-06-2020 17:35
  
  The University of Utah men’s basketball team still has one major piece of offseason business in the wind. He is home in Arizona, mostly in a holding pattern at the moment.Utes junior guard Timmy Allen declared for the NBA Draft to zero fanfare. No tweet, no social media announcement, his name simply appearing on the list of early-entry candidates the NBA released on April 28.Some clarity on the situation was expected this week with the NCAA deadline for underclassmen to withdraw their name
  
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• Utah National Guard troops deployed to D.C. evicted from hotel, Sen. Mike Lee says

  05-06-2020 17:06
  
  Washington • Utah National Guard soldiers and other forces from states deployed to the nation’s capital were forced out of their hotels on Friday morning in what Sen. Mike Lee called an eviction by an “ungrateful mayor.”The mayor of the District of Columbia, Muriel Bowser, said this week that she wanted National Guard troops out of the district, which has seen days of protests — some of which have been violent — over racial injustice and the death of black Amer
  
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• Michael A. Kalm: How psychiatry can help in the present crisis

  05-06-2020 17:00
  
  Sigmund Freud, asked what the goals of psychotherapy were, replied, “Just two. Empower the individual to love and to work.”Just as educators have their “three R’s” — reading, ‘riting and ‘rithmetic” — we psychiatrists have our “three R’s” for empowerment – reality testing, reframing and risking. Never have the three R’s been more important than now in the era of COVID-19, climate change and persistent racia
  
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• U.S. unemployment drops unexpectedly to a still-high 13.3%

  05-06-2020 16:17
  
  Washington • The U.S. unemployment rate fell unexpectedly in May to 13.3% — still on par with what the nation witnessed during the Great Depression — as states loosened their coronavirus lockdowns and businesses began recalling workers.The government said Friday that the economy added 2.5 million jobs last month, driving unemployment down from 14.7% in April.The May job gain, which confounded economists' expectations of another round of severe losses, suggests that thousands of
  
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• Woman is shot by Provo police. Officers say she aimed a gun at them.

  05-06-2020 16:15
  
  A woman was shot by police Thursday night in Provo after she reportedly aimed a handgun at them. Her condition has not been released.According to police, they received a report of a woman waving a gun at Utah Lake State Park near 4400 W. Center St. When officers arrived, they located the woman and ordered her to drop her weapon. “After ignoring repeated verbal commands,” the Provo Police Department tweeted, “the female pointed the gun at officers, and she was shot.”Police
  
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• Study on safety of malaria drugs for coronavirus retracted

  05-06-2020 15:49
  
  Several authors of a large study that raised safety concerns about malaria drugs for coronavirus patients have retracted the report, saying independent reviewers were not able to verify information that’s been widely questioned by other scientists.Thursday’s retraction in the journal Lancet involved a May 22 report on hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine, drugs long used for preventing or treating malaria but whose safety and effectiveness for COVID-19 are unknown.The study leaders als
  
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• State senator who backs Spencer Cox questions Huntsman’s Utah residency

  05-06-2020 15:31
  
  Over the past decade, gubernatorial contender Jon Huntsman has bounced from an ambassadorship in China to a D.C. think tank to a diplomatic posting in Russia.Now, one of Huntsman’s most vocal critics is questioning if, somewhere in this shuffle, the candidate lost his Utah residency — a constitutional imperative for anyone planning on serving as the state’s governor.“I think it is important for those questions to be asked of a candidate,” said state Sen. Todd Weiler
  
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• David Brooks: To do reparations right, give the money to neighborhoods

  05-06-2020 15:08
  
  This moment is about police brutality, but it’s not only about police brutality. The word I keep hearing is “exhausted.”People are exhausted by and fed up with the enduring wealth disparities between white and black, with the health disparities that leave black people more vulnerable to COVID-19, with the centurieslong disparities in violence and the threat of violence, with the daily indignities of African Americans and the stains that linger on our nation decade after decade.
  
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• Salt Lake City teen stuck in Colombia due to COVID-19 travel bans

  05-06-2020 15:06
  
  Classes start in August at Arizona State University, but Jonny Vizmeg isn’t sure if he’ll make it in time. The Salt Lake City teen doesn’t even know when he’ll return to the United States.Vizmeg took a gap year between graduating from West High School and starting college. He left for South America at the end of last summer to work as a guide for a tourism company and planned to return to Salt Lake City last month. But now, in early June, the 19-year-old is essentially st
  
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• Paul Krugman: Donald Trump is no Richard Nixon

  05-06-2020 15:06
  
  On May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard opened fire on student protesters, killing four. The 50th anniversary of the Kent State massacre passed with little notice in a nation preoccupied with COVID-19 — but now, suddenly, echoes of the Nixon era are everywhere. And Donald Trump seems to be deliberately invoking Richard Nixon’s legacy, tweeting out “LAW & ORDER!” in the apparent hope that it will magically rescue his political fortunes.And given Trump’s determina
  
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• Helping Heroes program donates 1,000th meal to front-line Utah workers

  05-06-2020 15:06
  
  Helping Heroes — a program launched out of necessity in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic — recently donated its 1,000th meal to front-line workers in Utah.In March, when restaurants and bars were prohibited from offering sit-down service to prevent the spread of COVID-19, Salt Lake City-based food distributor Nicholas and Co. found itself with thousands of pounds of perishable fruits, vegetables and other food items with nowhere to go, said Nicole Mouskondis, co-CEO with hu
  
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• South Salt Lake to explore creation of independent citizen police review board

  05-06-2020 15:01
  
  Amid national and local unrest over racialized policing and officer brutality, South Salt Lake will explore the creation of an independent citizen review board to probe complaints against its officers and initiate an evaluation of several department policies and practices.Who does data show police are stopping? How are officers working to divert people away from jail? How do the trainings someone must complete before putting on a badge address culture, race, disability, housing status and other
  
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• Bob Rees and Clifton Jolley: We are lucky to be white in America

  05-06-2020 15:00
  
  "When the looting starts, the shooting starts” — Donald TrumpOur alarm during the past week is evidence of how little we understand that the destruction, damage and despair we are witnessing on our city streets is the fruit of the deep-rooted and cankered tree of racism that has been growing in American soil for four centuries.Our alarm betrays how brief is our interest, how shallow our resolve, how unlikely we are to accomplish change.Our alarm is evidence we can still be surprised
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: Awkward! ‘9-1-1’ actor gets stupid online, and his co-stars call him out

  05-06-2020 14:00
  
  I like Fox’s “9-1-1.” A lot. No, it’s not “Masterpiece Theatre” and the writing is sometimes sort of dopey, but it’s entertaining and the cast is likable. But something tells me they’re going to have to be REALLY good actors now that Ryan Guzman got REALLY stupid on social media.Guzman’s fans found old tweets his fiancee, Brazilian actress/model Chrysti Ane, posted in 2011 that included the N-word. She apologized, but not without offering exc
  
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• Letter: The world has enough strongmen

  05-06-2020 14:00
  
  The president of the United States to governors: “You have to dominate. You know, when other countries watch this, they’re watching this, the next day, wow, they’re really a pushover. And we can’t be a pushover.”What, exactly, is strength?The president is right. The world certainly is watching, so in the face of protests and unrest, what would demonstrate to the world that America is strong? That it is a force to be reckoned with but also a country whose governance
  
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• Letter: The gender pay gap will close when male CEOs start scrubbing their own toilets

  05-06-2020 14:00
  
  Despite remarkable gains in education and employment, women are still shouldering the majority of household chores and childcare responsibilities. This has a real impact on their ability to pursue career opportunities with the same energy and focus as their male counterparts.Utah is dead last for gender pay equality.Gender bias shows up in many forms in the workplace. Working mothers aren’t offered the same opportunities for promotions as men, in part due to the benevolent sexism of the ve
  
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• Letter: Support the social contract

  05-06-2020 14:00
  
  Thank you for sharing Terry Marasco’s opinion article of May 24. It makes us think of our great declaration. “All men are created equal … with certain unalienable rights,” but not the right to do anything we want.The “social contract” that Marasco refers to reminds us that we don’t have the right to do whatever we want, but that we should cooperate for social benefits because we are part of society. When we support the social order, it can support us. E
  
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• Letter: Powerful white voices are needed to end racism

  05-06-2020 14:00
  
  As our nation is collapsing under the weight of structural and institutional racism, we need to hear the powerful white voices of those who drive capitalism and control the majority of our country’s wealth.Those voices have been decisive and persuasive during the COVID-19 pandemic in shaping our nation’s response to the virus. News outlets have clamored to hear from the rich and powerful and their views on public health and how to protect our country from viral infection.Now that we
  
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• Letter: A threat to civilization

  05-06-2020 14:00
  
  To the Minneapolis Police Department: How could any fellow officer stand by and not demand the arrest of Officer Derek Chauvin and the three other officers involved in the brutal murder of George Floyd? Make no mistake about this: Those who sit idly by are just as guilty of murder. What you do to others you've already done to yourself. Those who abuse power and position are a threat to the entirety of civilization. The worth of one soul is far greater than your job security.Please believe me tha
  
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• Here are 17 black-owned restaurants, food trucks and bakeries to support in Utah

  05-06-2020 14:00
  
  While thousands are making a statement about injustice at marches, protests and vigils, many Utahns have found an additional way to fight racial inequity.They are spending their dining dollars at restaurants, food trucks and bakeries owned by people of color.“For a white person who is not comfortable going to a protest,” said Rita Magalde, owner of Sheer Ambrosia Bakery, “this is another way to support black Americans.”Magalde said the number of people following her home-
  
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• Crowds line Ogden streets Thursday during a police memorial procession honoring slain officer Nate Lyday

  05-06-2020 06:34
  
  With a pandemic raging and limits on social gatherings, grieving as a community has become hard to do. But Ogden residents found a way as the sun set Thursday.Crowds lined streets throughout the city, candles in hand, as a police memorial procession rolled by landmarks in the life of fallen officer Nate Lyday.His childhood home on Custer Avenue, where his mother still lives. Weber State University, where he graduated with a degree in criminal justice in 2018. Ogden Police headquarters, where the
  
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• Thousands of protesters march down State Street on Thursday, lie down near public safety building for eight minutes of silence

  05-06-2020 06:09
  
  Daud Mumin, an 18-year-old Westminster College student, stood in front of a burgeoning crowd of about a thousand protesters on Washington Square on Thursday night and called out Gov. Gary Herbert and Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall for “being cowards.”“Every single day we’ve been out here in these streets for the past almost week and we’ve been chanting, screaming for change. The time for conversation simply has passed,” Mumin said. “We’re not
  
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• Thousands of protesters march down State Street on Thursday; city and county leaders kneel as they walk by

  05-06-2020 05:32
  
  Daud Mumin, an 18-year-old Westminster College student, stood in front of a burgeoning crowd of about a thousand protesters on Washington Square on Thursday night and called out Gov. Gary Herbert and Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall for “being cowards.”“Every single day we’ve been out here in these streets for the past almost week and we’ve been chanting, screaming for change. The time for conversation simply has passed,” Mumin said. “We’re not
  
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• Hundreds of protesters march down State Street on Thursday; city and county leaders kneel as they walk by

  05-06-2020 05:09
  
  Daud Mumin, an 18-year-old Westminster College student, stood in front of a burgeoning crowd of about a thousand protesters on Washington Square on Thursday night and called out Gov. Gary Herbert and Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall for “being cowards.”“Every single day we’ve been out here in these streets for the past almost week and we’ve been chanting, screaming for change. The time for conversation simply has passed,” Mumin said. “We’re not
  
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• Gail Collins: Trump’s magic word

  05-06-2020 05:00
  
  Have you noticed how almost every other word out of Donald Trump’s mouth lately seems to be some variation on “dominate?”“If you don’t dominate, you’re wasting your time,” he told America’s governors. “They’re going to run all over you. You’ll look like a bunch of jerks.”This, of course, was in that telephone rant about protesters. There is something about crowds of people willing to take to the streets to denounce racism th
  
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• Man who drew bow and arrow on Salt Lake City protesters is in jail, charged with three felonies

  05-06-2020 04:26
  
  Brandon E. McCormick has said he showed up at Saturday’s downtown protest, armed with a bow and arrow, to protect police from unruly demonstrators.Now the 57-year-old Taylorsville man, who has spent nearly two decades of his life behind bars in California and once was convicted of battery against a public safety officer, faces three felony counts for, widely shared video has shown, aiming his weapon at protesters.All three counts are Utah’s lowest grade of felony. Each is punishable
  
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• Kaysville City Council decides not to call for resignation of Mayor Katie Witt, but censures her instead

  05-06-2020 04:25
  
  The Kaysville City Council backed off plans it signaled to call Thursday for the resignation of Mayor Katie Witt — a 1st Congressional District candidate — and instead unanimously issued her a letter of censure related to her actions supporting a concert aimed at protesting and defying COVID-19 restrictions.“Personally I’m not ready to ask for the mayor’s resignation, but if she want to offer it — I fully support that,” said City Council member Mike Blac
  
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