NEWS OF THE DAY
From Across the Nation
❶ Border wall: President Trump is scheduled to visit Yuma, Ariz., on Tuesday to mark the completion of the 200th mile of the border wall system between the U.S. and Mexico. White House officials said the president will receive a briefing on the construction, then participate in a discussion with local community and elected leaders on border security. After the roundtable, Trump will tour the border wall and thank Border Patrol and law enforcement for their efforts and then fly to Phoenix to speak at a Students for Trump convention at Dream City Church. Trump’s last appearance in Yuma was in 2017 when he visited with U.S. Marines.
❷ Atlanta shooting: A public viewing for Rayshard Brooks, who was shot and killed by an Atlanta police officer, took place Monday at Ebenezer Baptist Church, which was the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s congregation. The church is also set to host Brooks’ funeral Tuesday. Officer Garrett Rolfe fatally shot Brooks in the back after Brooks fired a Taser in his direction while running away after a struggle with officers outside a fast food restaurant on June 12. Rolfe, 27, is white. Brooks, 27, was Black. Rolfe was fired and another officer, Devin Brosnan, was placed on desk duty following the shooting. Rolfe faces 11 charges, including felony murder.
❸ Chicago violence: Thirteen people, including five children, were killed as more than 100 people were shot in a wave of gunfire in Chicago over the Father’s Day weekend that produced the city’s highest number of shooting victims in a single weekend this year. Police Superintendent David Brown said officers are working to track down those responsible for the violence in several Chicago communities. He said “gangs, guns and drugs” are the common thread in the attacks. In all, 106 people were shot from Friday afternoon to Monday morning, the Chicago SunTimes reported.
❹ Protest probe: An Interior Department watchdog office will investigate law enforcement and security forces’ violent clearing of protesters from a square in front of the White House earlier this month. The department’s U.S. Park Police and other forces released chemical agents and at times punched and clubbed a largely peaceful crowd of demonstrators to drive the public from Lafayette Square on June 1, during nationwide protests over the police killing of George Floyd. Several Democratic lawmakers had asked Interior Department Inspector General Mark Lee Greenblatt to investigate the actions that night of the Park Police, who oversee some of the nation’s most iconic national monuments. Greenblatt agreed.
❺ Presidential debates: The University of Michigan will withdraw from hosting a presidential debate in October, a source said Monday night. The university is pulling out of hosting the second presidential debate, scheduled for Oct. 15, because of concerns about bringing large hordes of media and campaign officials to the Ann Arbor campus amid the pandemic, according to the Detroit Free Press. Two sources familiar with debate planning said the event will be moved to Miami, which hosted the first debates of the 2020 Democratic primary season last summer.