NEWS OF THE DAY
From Across the Nation
1 Confederate statue: In the former capital of the Confederacy, demonstrators toppled a statue of Gen. Williams Carter Wickham from its pedestal after a day of mostly peaceful demonstrations. Most of the demonstrators had dispersed when a rope was tied around the Confederate statue, which has stood since 1891. In 2017, some of Wickham’s descendants urged the city to remove the statue. Confederate monuments are a major flash point in Virginia. Last week, Gov. Ralph Northam announced that a stateowned statue of former Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee would be removed from its perch “as soon as possible.”
2 Inmate escape: Authorities searched Sunday for an inmate who was shackled when he escaped custody from a hospital in Bakersfield. The Kern County Sheriff ’s Office said Jason Ralls was last seen Saturday night at Kern Medical. The 42yearold was wearing a jumpsuit. His wrists were cuffed to a waist chain, and his legs were shackled. Officials didn’t say why Ralls was at the hospital.
3 Racial profiling: Officials apologized to a firefighter in Providence, R.I., who says he was racially profiled by a pair of police officers who approached him with guns drawn as he sat in a car outside his own fire station. Terrell Paci said he was on duty, in uniform and chatting Tuesday night with a friend who was dropping off food when the officers approached, demanding to know whether he was armed. “I was dressed in full uniform and had my radio in hand,” said Paci, 23. Paci said one of the officers searched his friend’s car before driving off. Hours later, he said, a Providence police sergeant apologized after having viewed body camera footage. Mayor Jorge Elorza called Paci’s account “deeply disturbing” and said the city has opened an investigation. The Fraternal Order of Police said the car matched the description of one used by robbery suspects.
4 Treasure found: Art and antiquities collector Forrest Fenn, who hid more than $1 million in treasure in the Rocky Mountain wilderness a decade ago, said Sunday that the chest of goods has been found. Fenn, 89, told the Santa Fe New Mexican that a treasure hunter located the chest a few days ago. “The guy who found it does not want his name mentioned. He’s from back East,” Fenn said, adding that it was confirmed from a photograph the man sent him. Fenn did not reveal exactly where it had been hidden. Fenn posted clues to the treasure’s whereabouts online and in a 24line poem. Hundreds of thousands have hunted in vain across remote corners of the West for the bronze chest filled with gold coins, jewelry and other valuable items.
5 Tribal reservation: A judge has stopped the federal government from rescinding its reservation designation for a Native American tribe’s land in Massachusetts, ordering the Interior Department to review the matter and issue new findings. The the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe learned in March that the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs would be rescinding its reservation designation. But the court found the move was arbitrary. Cedric Cromwell, the tribe’s chairman, said the judge “righted what would have been a terrible and historic injustice.”