When Jim Buckner’s father Clarence became a dentist in Vicksburg, Mississippi, in the 1920s, Black medical professionals there had trouble finding an office in which to practice.
“He actually practiced dentistry out of his car and would drive to a patient’s house and help them that way,” said Jim Buckner’s son, Jordan Buckner.
After moving north to Chicago, Mr. Buckner, like his father, worked as a dentist.
He also opened grocery stores and travel agencies and served on the board of the City Colleges and Seaway, one of Chicago’s first and largest Black-owned banks, and occasionally ferried the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to and from O’Hare Airport, his family said.
Mr. Buckner also served as president of the Chicago Urban League, for which he lobbied to get more Black workers into the building trades, and hosted meetings at his home for Operation Breadbasket, which pushed for Black hiring at major companies.
Mr. Buckner, 86, died June 7 at his Hyde Park home of kidney failure, according to his daughter JaSaun Buckner.
James D. Montgomery, a Chicago lawyer and former City Hall corporation counsel, said, “He was an all-around good citizen.”
Always active, Mr. Buckner learned to skydive, scuba dive and ride a motorcycle in his 70s and was a soccer mentor for hundreds of kids in Hyde Park, coaching and refereeing games for decades.
“A week before he died,” his partner Kimberly Eddington-Nance said, “he was on the soccer field keeping score.”
Young Jim grew up in Vicksburg, where he attended “the Black school,” Bowman High School.
“Everything was segregated,” said his friend and fellow Vicksburg native Bettye Odom, founder of Bettye O day spa in Hyde Park.
He went to Virginia State University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, then studied dentistry at the University of Illinois in Chicago, taking classes at its old location at Navy Pier, according to his daughter,
Mr. Buckner operated a dental office at 50th Street and State Street and another at the Harbor Point condominiums near the Columbia Yacht Club. His patients included singer Cissy Houston, the mother of Whitney Houston.
Mr. Buckner owned Food Basket grocery stores at 87th Street and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and on 79th Street in South Shore, according to his daughter, who said he also operated travel agencies at Harbor Point and on 87th Street.
When his sons Jordan and Justin got involved with soccer, he started coaching American Youth Soccer Organization teams. His players would practice on the Midway Plaisance and play at Jackson Park. Over the years, Mr. Buckner also coordinated schedules and rosters and refereed for traveling teams and University of Chicago Lab School teams.
When soccer parents got riled up, as soccer parents sometimes do, he’d stay calm and softspoken. Max Shuftan, 33, one of his former players, remembers his team once playing a lackadaisical final game of the club season. At halftime, the score was 3-0.
“He didn’t give us a long, loud or angry speech,” Shuftan said. “He simply looked at us and said, ‘Guys, we’re down 3-0. It’s the last game. Many of your parents are here. So what have we been playing for all year? I need you to score at least three goals in the second half.’
“Sure enough, we scored four goals in the second half to win 4-3. Getting that result, instead of us losing, earned us first place in our division.”
After a heart attack about a decade ago, “He just went out and tried to do all the kinds of things he wanted to do, which included a motorcycle license and skydiving,” his daughter said.
“In his 80s, we went zip-lining,” Eddington-Nance said. “We went whale-watching in Portugal and Hawaii. He was planning to do a 118-day cruise next year despite being on dialysis. He was trying to work on whether to send the equipment ahead of time.”
Jim Bucker exploring the Dominican Republic.Kimberly Eddington-Nance
Mr. Buckner also traveled to the Amazon basin, Ghana, Italy and South Africa and went whitewater rafting in the Grand Canyon.
“We have touched every continent except Australia and the Antarctic,” Eddington-Nance said.
In addition to his three children and partner, Mr. Buckner is survived by three grandchildren.
A wake is planned for 9:30 a.m. June 25 followed by a service at 10 a.m. June 25 at Leak and Sons Funeral Home in Country Club Hills, with burial at Oak Woods Cemetery.
State environmental officials are asking Attorney General Kwame Raoul to take legal action against the company Chemtool after its chemical plant near Rockford exploded earlier this week and continued to burn Tuesday.
Raoul should “pursue legal action and require Chemtool to immediately stop the release” of pollution, the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency said.
The legal move was announced as firefighters continued to battle a blaze that began with a Monday morning explosion in the village of Rockton. Dozens of employees escaped just before the blast, residents were evacuated and a large cloud of black smoke was still rising from the site Tuesday as the fire raged.
In a statement, Chemtool’s owner said: “We understand this action, and we will of course work with State and Federal regulators to address the concerns raised in the referral. This would include working to address any pollution issues as we have since this incident began and executing a site clean-up once the fire has been extinguished.”
The state EPA also wants Raul’s office to force the company to turn over records that may determine “the cause of the fire and an estimate of the nature and amount of any emissions of sulfuric acid mist, particulate matter and other air contaminants as a result of the fire.”
Authorities evacuated residents within a one-mile radius and told people as far away as 3 miles from the now-destroyed facility to wear a mask for protection. Federal officials are testing the air.
Trump weakened environmental protections
Also on Tuesday, safety advocacy groups said they are hopeful that a new review being led by the Biden Administration may result in strengthening laws in hopes of preventing the type of disaster like the one in Rockton.
Critics say weak federal oversight exacerbated by relaxed regulation under Donald Trump’s Administration contributes to such accidents.
The Rockton plant makes lubricating greases and industrial fluids but it’s unclear exactly what caused the fire or what’s being emitted, a concern of environmentalists who say government oversight of the chemical industry is too lax.
“You have no idea what’s in the air,” said Jane Williams, a Sierra Club activist in California who tracks chemical disasters nationally. The firefighters at the scene “are completely in the dark to what they are being exposed to, which is so wrong.”
Williams and others hope that a review in Washington that could take years will lead to more preventative measures taken by government and companies. For its part, Lubrizol, the company that owns the plant, says it has operated safely since 2012 after it bought Chemtool. Lubrizol is owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway.
A black smoke cloud from the massive industrial fire at Chemtool on Prairie Hill Road in Rockton billows over a house on S. Bluff Road Monday, June 14, 2021, in South Beloit, Ill. AP
“We’re just really heartbroken by what happened and its impact on the community in particular,” Bill Snyder, vice president of operations for Lubrizol, said at a press conference Tuesday.
The accident follows the start of a review by federal environmental officials to evaluate safeguards at chemical plants. The day Joe Biden took the White House Jan. 20, he signed an executive order to strengthen chemical plant oversight following Trump Administration directives to relax rules. At the urging of the chemicals industry, the EPA under Trump worked to undo safeguards put in place just before he took office. Those rollbacks prompted a lawsuit against the Trump Whitehouse by Illinois and 14 other states as well as legal challenges from national environmental organizations.
Limited oversight
Even if Trump had not acted to scale back regulations, the Rockton plant still had limited oversight. Inspections are conducted by the Illinois EPA but it’s unclear how often and records are not easily publicly accessible. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspects facilities when there is a complaint and has done so three times since 2012. In 2013, the company paid one fine of $4,900 after OSHA cited it for failing to make sure dangerous machinery doesn’t start up and potentially injure workers. Another OSHA inspection was opened last month after an unspecified complaint, records show.
More than 30 years ago, jarred by a deadly gas-leak accident that killed thousands in Bhopal, India, Congress passed a law to strengthen the government’s hand in preventing chemical disasters. The Chemical Safety Board was created as part of that law passed in 1990 and the investigative body has been making recommendations for years, advocates say. But tougher rules weren’t put in place until the very end of Barack Obama’s presidency.
The Obama rules drew a rebuke from the American Chemistry Council, the industry trade group that later praised Trump’s rollback of the guidelines.
“Trump reversed all prevention measures,” said Emma Cheuse, a lawyer for the group Earthjustice. “The program right now is weak.”
Brett Chase’s reporting on the environment and public health is made possible by a grant from The Chicago Community Trust.
JERUSALEM — Israeli airstrikes hit militant sites in the Gaza Strip early Wednesday and Palestinians responded by sending a series of fire-carrying balloons back across the border for a second straight day — further testing a fragile cease-fire that ended last month’s war between Israel and Hamas.
The latest round of violence was prompted by a parade of Israeli ultranationalists through contested east Jerusalem on Tuesday. Palestinians saw the march as a provocation and sent balloons into southern Israel, causing several blazes in parched farmland. Israel then carried out the airstrikes — the first such raids since a May 21 cease-fire ended 11 days of fighting — and more balloons followed.
The airstrikes targeted facilities used by Hamas militants for meetings to plan attacks, the army said. There were no reports of injuries.
“The Hamas terror organization is responsible for all events transpiring in the Gaza Strip, and will bear the consequences for its actions,” the army said. It added that it was prepared for any scenario, “including a resumption of hostilities.”
By Wednesday afternoon, masked Palestinians sent a number of balloons, laden with fuses and flaming rags, into Israel.
The unrest has provided the first test of the cease-fire at a time when Egyptian mediators have been working to reach a longer-term agreement. It comes as tensions have risen again in Jerusalem, as they did before the recent war, leading Gaza’s Hamas rulers to fire a barrage of rockets at the holy city on May 10. The fighting claimed more than 250 Palestinian lives and killed 13 people in Israel.
The flare-up also has created a test for Israel’s new government, which took office early this week. The diverse coalition includes several hard-line parties as well as dovish and centrist parties, along with the first Arab faction ever to be part of an Israeli government.
Keeping the delicate coalition intact will be a difficult task for the new prime minister, Naftali Bennett.
In Tuesday’s parade, hundreds of Israeli ultranationalists, some chanting “Death to Arabs,” paraded in east Jerusalem in a show of force. Hamas called on Palestinians to “resist” the parade, which is meant to celebrate Israel’s capture of east Jerusalem in 1967. Palestinians consider it a provocation.
In a scathing condemnation on Twitter, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, who heads the centrist Yesh Atid Party, said those shouting racist slogans were “a disgrace to the Israeli people.”
Bennett, who will hand over the prime minister’s job to Lapid after two years, is a hard-line Israeli nationalist who has promised a pragmatic approach as he presides over a delicate, diverse coalition government.
Though there were concerns the march would raise tensions, canceling it would have opened Bennett and other right-wing members of the coalition to intense criticism from those who would view it as a capitulation to Hamas.
Mansour Abbas, whose Raam party is the first Arab faction to join an Israeli coalition, said the march was “an attempt to set the region on fire for political aims,” with the intention of undermining the new government.
Abbas said the police and public security minister should have canceled the event.
While the parade provided the immediate impetus for the balloons, Hamas is also angry because Israel has tightened its blockade of the territory since the cease-fire. The restrictions include a ban on imports of fuel for Gaza’s power plant and raw materials.
Israel imposed the blockade after Hamas, a militant group that seeks Israel’s destruction, seized control of Gaza from the internationally recognized Palestinian Authority in 2007. Israel and Hamas have fought four wars and numerous skirmishes since then. Israel says the blockade, enforced with Egypt, is needed to prevent Hamas from importing and developing weapons.
One of the masked activists firing the balloons said they launched hundreds of them Tuesday and will continue sending them in response to what he described as Israeli provocations in east Jerusalem.
After capturing east Jerusalem in 1967, Israel annexed the area in a move not recognized by most of the international community. It considers the entire city its capital, while the Palestinians want east Jerusalem to be the capital of their future state. The competing claims over east Jerusalem, home to Jewish, Christian and Muslim holy sites, lie at the heart of the conflict and have sparked many rounds of violence.
In a separate episode, the Israeli military shot and killed a Palestinian woman who it said tried to ram her car into a group of soldiers guarding a West Bank construction site on Wednesday.
In a statement, the army said soldiers opened fire at the woman in Hizmeh, just north of Jerusalem, after she exited the car and pulled out a knife. The statement did not say how close the woman was to the soldiers, and the army did not release any photos or video.
In recent years, Israel has seen a series of shootings, stabbings and car ramming attacks against Israeli soldiers and settlers in the West Bank. Most have been carried out by Palestinians with no apparent links to organized militant groups.
Palestinians and Israeli human rights groups say the soldiers often use excessive force and could stop the assailants without killing them. In some cases, they say that innocent people have been identified as attackers and shot.
The official Palestinian news agency Wafa confirmed the woman’s death, identifying her only as a 29-year-old resident of Abu Dis, a West Bank town on the eastern outskirts of Jerusalem.
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Associated Press journalists Wafaa Shurafa in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, and Fares Akram in Cairo contributed to this report.
One by one, the family of Denice Mathis walked up to the police tape on the block in Englewood and reached out to each other. Some sobbed, others cursed.
Down the street, inside a two-story house with a gray stone front, lay Mathis and the bodies of two women and a man killed in a shooting that seriously wounded four other people early Tuesday.
Mathis, 35, was a mother of four boys and a girl, and had just taken her children to Six Flags over the weekend.
Also killed was Shermetria Williams, 19, the mother of a 2-year-old daughter. She was set to graduate from Country Club Hills Trade & Tech Center on Tuesday.
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The third woman who died in the attack was Ratanya Aryiel Rogers, 28, who lived in Rogers Park, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s officer.
The fourth fatality was Blake Lee, 35, who lived in the home and did odd jobs in the neighborhood, relatives said. He had recently lost his mother to diabetes and grandmother to several illnesses, including a bad heart.
The attack is the third mass shooting in Chicago in a little over a week and came at the end of a burst of violence that saw more than 25 people shot across the city in 10 hours.
The attack prompted Mayor Lori Lightfoot to say Chicago has joined a “club of cities to which no one wants to belong: cities with mass shootings.”
Chicago police officials investigate inside a house in the 6200 block of South Morgan, where eight people were shot, four fatally, during an argument inside the Englewood building, Tuesday afternoon, June 15, 2021.Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Sun-Times
Lightfoot — as she repeatedly has done — decried lack of federal action aimed at “eliminating opportunity for criminals, for children, to get access to illegal guns so that petty disputes turn into mass shooting events, as we’ve seen over and over and over again.”
The Rev. Donovan Price, who regularly goes to shooting scenes to provide support for gun violence victims and their loved ones, said he’s never seen anything like the last 10 days in the more than five years he’s worked as a street pastor.
“This is the worst ever,” said Price, whose voice quivered at times as he spoke of Tuesday’s tragedy. “It’s worse now than it’s ever been. It’s devastating.”
Chicago police released few details of how the eight people were shot but said it occurred when an argument broke out inside the home. They reported no new developments Wednesday morning.
Four of the victims were pronounced dead at the scene shortly before 6 a.m., and four others were taken to hospitals, at least two of them in critical condition. A 2-year-old girl in the home at the time was taken to Comer Children’s Hospital for observation. She was not shot.
A witness told police there were two volleys of gunshots inside the home, hours apart.
A woman crying, “That’s my baby! That’s my baby!” is escorted by community activists, including Andrew Holmes (left), to a vehicle after she tried to cross police tape at West 63rd Street and South Morgan Street, Tuesday morning, June 15, 2021. Four people were shot and killed inside a home in the 6200 block of South Morgan in an incident that left four others wounded.Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Sun-Times
The first was around 2 a.m., when the ShotSpotter system alerted police to gunfire near the Morgan address, according to Police Supt. David Brown. He did not say if police responded to the alert.
The witness heard shots again around 5 a.m., around the time officers arrived to find the victims. Police recovered shell casings inside the house and a large capacity “drum magazine.”
There was no sign of forced entry, Brown said. At least one of the victims lived at the address, a barber who cut hair out of the house.
Brown did not elaborate on the relationships of the victims and the shooter, or what the argument was about.
Brown said the victims taken to hospitals had not yet been interviewed by detectives, and the investigation still was “very preliminary.”
“All we know about this residence is there’s been several calls there for disturbances,” Brown told reporters. “Overall, the block where this residence is located is fairly quiet, not much activity going on that requires a police response.”
As officers worked the scene into the late morning, a crowd of distraught relatives and neighbors gathered along the police tape blocking off Morgan Street.
Chicago police keep watch and crime scene tape hangs outside a house in the 6200 block of South Morgan, where eight people were shot, four fatally, inside the Englewood building, Tuesday afternoon, June 15, 2021.Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Sun-Times
Mathis’ family said she was a devoted mother. “She was a good person — a free-spirited person,” said a cousin, Vickie Smith. “She loved her family.”
Mathis lived on the South Side, but the family didn’t know what brought her to the gathering on South Morgan.
A man who said he was Mathis’ brother said his sister had been to the house many times before. “She was a good girl — none of these knuckleheads,” the brother said.
Demetrius Williams said he was at home in Maywood, putting on a shirt and tie for his daughter Shermetria’s graduation when he heard she had been killed.
“This is unbelievable — a massacre,” said Williams, struggling to compose his thoughts as officers took down the crime tape around the Englewood house. “Why? Why did this have to happen?”
Williams still held the ticket for his daughter’s graduation. Back home were red roses and balloons that said, “Congratulations.”
A woman — identifying herself as a family member of one of the women who was killed — receives a hug from a supporter outside the crime scene tape at West 63rd Street and South Morgan Street, Tuesday morning, June 15, 2021.Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Sun-Times
“All she wanted to do was take care of her daughter and be successful in life,” the father said. “She meant the world to me. That was my baby girl.”
Also standing and waiting for answers outside the police tape was Raheem Hall, who grew up in Englewood and always had words of caution for his nephew, Blake Lee.
“I told him just to be careful out here. Stay away from the wrong crowd,” Hall said.
Blake lived in the house where the attack occurred. “He was a good guy,” said Hall, who now lives in Indiana. “He did no harm to no one. He was just trying to live his life as an ordinary guy.”
“He wasn’t really a guy that started trouble or anything like that, if anything, he’d try to diffuse a situation… he just got caught up in a tragic moment,” Hall said.
Blake had had a hard life, his uncle said, but he was also enjoying things recently, having traveled to Miami on vacation, his uncle said.
Price, founder and executive director of solutions and resources|Street Pastors, spent most of the morning on the Morgan block, praying over the victims and their families as well as comforting people who lived in the area.
He said he spoke to a young boy who said his mother was one of the victims who died. “The whole thing is bad. There’s a lot of family,” Price said. “This is a terrible situation and a lasting and damaging situation for the South Side [and] for the city.”
Similar scenes played out through the day at the hospitals where the wounded were taken.
A group of about 10 people waited outside the University of Chicago Hospital, where a 25-year-old woman was taken in critical condition after being shot on Morgan.
A 45-year-old man said his daughter remained in surgery as of 12:45 p.m. The man said his daughter worked at Lawrence’s Fish & Shrimp.
After he walked away, several women began to weep. One woman dropped to the ground and buried her face in her hands.
A crew removes one of four bodies from a house in the 6200 block of South Morgan after they were all shot to death when an argument broke inside the Englewood building, Tuesday afternoon, June 15, 2021. Four other people were wounded in the shooting.Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Sun-Times
One person wrapped her arms around another and rubbed their back to comfort them as they stood against a chain-linked fence and faced the emergency room entrance.
“She got shot in the head,” another person sobbed on the phone as they walked away.
Outside Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, relatives said the man who lived in the home, James Tolbert, 41, was “alert and coherent.”
Tolbert operated a barbershop from his home after COVID-19 restrictions closed down the shop where he worked. The 2-year-old girl taken to Comer for observation is his daughter, according to Tolbert’s sister, Michelle Tolbert.
Waiting outside the emergency room entrance, Michelle Tolbert said she learned her brother had been shot from a Facebook post and feared the worst.
“There were a lot of people putting up ‘RIP’ posts, so I was worried,” she said.
Hospital staff would not let her up to her brother’s room but said Tolbert no longer was in critical condition. “They told me he’s awake, he’s responsive.”
Michelle Tolbert said her brother had a jovial “barbershop” personality and had studied to be an EMT before going to barber college.
“He’s a good person,” she said. “He definitely didn’t deserve this.”
The attack is the third mass shooting in Chicago in little over a week and came just hours after gunfire erupted at a party in the Back of the Yards neighborhood on the South Side, killing a man and wounding two women.
People watch as a crew removes four bodies from a house in the 6200 block of South Morgan after they were all shot to death Tuesday when an argument broke inside the Englewood building, according to police. Four other people were wounded in the shooting.Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Sun-Times
The weekend before, six men and two women were wounded when someone in a silver car opened fire in a shooting in the 8900 block of South Cottage Grove Avenue in the Burnside neighborhood.
There have been 390 homicides in Cook County so far this year, according to the medical examiner’s office, nearly 300 of them in Chicago. This time last year, the county had recorded 342.
Lightfoot blamed the violence on the lack of national laws that would curb the flow of illegal guns.
“When gun [laws] are so porous that they can come across our borders with such ease, as we see every single day in Chicago, we know that we have to have a multi-jurisdictional, national solution to this horrible plague of gun violence,” she said. “And that starts with eliminating opportunity for criminals, for children to get access to illegal guns so that petty disputes turn into mass shooting events, as we’ve seen over and over and over again–not just this year, but every year.”
Lightfoot bristled when asked how the steady stream of mass shootings might impact her efforts to reopen the city and encourage Chicagoans to come downtown to dine and shop and patronize the stores and restaurants in their own neighborhoods.
She noted that the Englewood shooting happened “inside a single residence” — not out on the street or in a large outdoor gathering.
“The reality is, our city is safe,” the mayor said. “And I stand by that. We have done yeoman’s work over the course of a very difficult year where every major city — New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington D.C., Atlanta and on and on the list goes — has seen similar surge in violence.”
Pressed about the perception of safety, she said, “What I’m concerned about is the fact that people lost their lives this morning. I’m concerned about the fact that there are people who are dead in an act of violence that makes no sense to me.”
Asked whether she believes Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx is doing a good job prosecuting gun offenders, Lightfoot pointed to what one of the state’s attorney’s top aides said about the Chicago Police Department during a recent webinar for reporters.
“The conclusion of her policy person was that the Chicago Police Department is arresting the wrong people who possess guns. I fundamentally disagree with that,” she said. “We are a city that’s awash in illegal guns. Those illegal guns cause deep pain and injury and death.”
MUNICH — Greenpeace has apologized and Munich police are investigating after a protester parachuted into the stadium and injured two people before Germany’s game against France at the European Championship.
The protester used a powered paraglider with a motor attached to his back but lost control and hit overhead camera wires attached to the stadium roof, careening over spectators’ heads before he landed on the field ahead of Tuesday’s game. Debris fell on the field and main grandstand, narrowly missing France coach Didier Deschamps.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s spokesman on Wednesday slammed the Greenpeace stunt and said those behind it should reflect on what had happened.
“This was an irresponsible action that put people in great danger,” Steffen Seibert said, adding that it was a relief nothing more serious had happened.
Greenpeace spokesperson Benjamin Stephan apologized for the botched protest and the injuries caused.
“The paraglider didn’t want to go into the stadium yesterday. The pilot wanted to fly over the stadium while maintaining the necessary safety distance and only let a balloon float into the stadium with a message to Volkswagen, a main sponsor, with the demand that they get out of the production of climate-damaging diesel and gasoline engines quicker,” Stephan said.
“And there was a technical problem during the flight over — the hand throttle of the electric para motor failed, and because there was no more thrust, the glider suddenly lost height.”
Stephan said the pilot had no option but to make an emergency landing on the field after striking the steel cables attached to the stadium’s roof.
“We are in the process of clarifying this and are working with everyone and of course we take responsibility and would like to emphasize again that we’re very sorry, and that we apologize to the two people who were harmed,” Stephan said.
Seibert called on the organizers to “critically reflect on the purpose of such actions, which are about maximum spectacle for maximum PR-effect. This leads to such situations which potentially endanger the public.”
Local police had earlier blasted “such irresponsible actions in which a considerable risk to human life is accepted.”
Police spokesman Andreas Franken said the two men who were hurt both sustained light head injuries and have since been discharged from the hospital. They had been working at the game.
The 38-year-old pilot, who has an address in the southwestern state of Baden Wurttemberg, was unharmed. He was released late Tuesday but remains under investigation for a string of charges, including interfering with air traffic and bodily harm, as well as breaching the peace, Franken said.
Franken said security measures will be toughened for Saturday’s match between Germany and Portugal, but declined to give further details.
“Of course this will lead to us looking at our measures again and if necessary adapting them,” Franken said. “This must disturb and alarm us, and lead to us reviewing our concept.”
The protester’s parachute had the slogan “KICK OUT OIL!” and “Greenpeace” written on it.
The parachutist managed to land on the field and Germany players Antonio Rudiger and Robin Gosens were the first to approach him. He was then led away by security stewards.
UEFA called the action “reckless and dangerous” and said “law authorities will take the necessary action.”
The German soccer federation also condemned the action.
“It could probably have turned out much worse,” Germany team spokesman Jens Grittner said.
UEFA and one of its top-tier tournament sponsors, Russian state energy firm Gazprom, have previously been targeted by Greenpeace protests.
In 2013, a Champions League game in Basel was disrupted when Greenpeace activists abseiled from the roof of the stadium to unfurl a banner protesting Russian oil and Gazprom, which sponsored the visiting team, German club Schalke.
Greenpeace later donated money to a charity supported by Basel, which was fined by UEFA for the security lapse.
UEFA defended its environmental credentials in a statement on Tuesday after the incident.
“UEFA and its partners are fully committed to a sustainable Euro 2020 tournament,” UEFA said, “and many initiatives have been implemented to offset carbon emissions.”
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The U.S. Army has hidden or downplayed the extent to which its firearms disappear, significantly understating losses and thefts even as some weapons are used in street crimes.
The Army’s pattern of secrecy and suppression dates back nearly a decade, when The Associated Press began investigating weapons accountability within the military. Officials fought the release of information for years, then offered misleading answers that contradict internal records.
Military guns aren’t just disappearing. Stolen guns have been used in shootings, brandished to rob and threaten people and recovered in the hands of felons. Thieves sold assault rifles to a street gang.
Army officials cited information that suggests only a couple of hundred firearms vanished during the 2010s. Internal Army memos that AP obtained show losses many times higher.
Efforts to suppress information date to 2012, when AP filed a Freedom of Information Act request seeking records from a registry where all four armed services are supposed to report firearms loss or theft.
The former Army insider who oversaw this registry described how he pulled an accounting of the Army’s lost or stolen weapons, but learned later that his superiors blocked its release.
As AP continued to press for information, including through legal challenges, the Army produced a list of missing weapons that was so clearly incomplete officials later disavowed it. They then produced a second set of records that also did not give a full count.
Secrecy surrounding a sensitive topic extends beyond the Army. The Air Force wouldn’t provide data on missing weapons, saying answers would have to await a federal records request AP filed 1.5 years ago.
The broader Department of Defense also has not released reports of weapons losses that it receives from the armed services. It would only provide approximate totals for two years of AP’s 2010 through 2019 study period.
The Pentagon stopped regularly sharing information about missing weapons with Congress years ago, apparently in the 1990s. Defense Department officials said they would still notify lawmakers if a theft or loss meets the definition of being “significant,” but no such notification has been made since at least 2017.
On Tuesday, when AP first published its investigation, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., demanded during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing that the Pentagon resurrect regular reporting. In a written statement to AP, the Pentagon said it “looks forward to continuing to work with Congress to ensure appropriate oversight.”
Blumenthal also challenged Army Secretary Christine Wormuth on her branch’s release of information.
“I’d be happy to look into how we’ve handled this issue,” Wormuth replied. She described herself as “open to” a new reporting requirement and said the number of military firearms obtained by civilians is likely small.
Poor record-keeping in the military’s vast inventory systems means lost or stolen guns can be listed on property records as safe. Security breakdowns were evident all the way down to individual units, which have destroyed records, falsified inventory checks and ignored procedures.
Brig. Gen. Duane Miller, the No. 2 law enforcement official in the Army, said that when a weapon does vanish the case is thoroughly investigated. He pointed out that weapons cases are a small fraction of the more than 10,000 felony cases Army investigators open each year.
“I absolutely believe that the procedures we had in place absolutely mitigated any weapon from getting lost or stolen,” Miller said of his own experience as a commander. “But does it happen? It sure does.”
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The Associated Press began investigating the loss and theft of military firearms by asking a simple question in 2011: How many guns are unaccounted for across the Army, Marines Corps, Navy and Air Force?
AP was told the answer could be found in the Department of Defense Small Arms and Light Weapons Registry. That centralized database, which the Army oversees, tracks the life cycle of rifles, pistols, shotguns, machine guns and more — from supply depots to unit armories, through deployments, until the weapon is destroyed or sold.
Getting data from the registry, however, would require a formal Freedom of Information Act request.
That request, filed in 2012, came to Charles Royal, then the longtime Army civilian employee who was in charge of the registry at Redstone Arsenal in Alabama.
Royal was accustomed to inquiries. Military and civilian law enforcement agencies would call him thousands of times each year, often because they were looking for a military weapon or had recovered one.
In response to AP’s request, Royal pulled and double-checked data on missing weapons. Royal then showed the results to his boss, the deputy commander of his department.
“After he got it, he said, ‘We can’t be letting this out like this,'” said Royal, who retired in 2014, in an interview last year.
His boss didn’t say exactly why, but Royal said the release he prepared on weapons loss was heavily scrutinized within the Army.
“The numbers that we were going to give was going to kind of freak everybody out to a certain extent,” Royal said — not just because they were firearms, but also because the military requires strict supervision of them.
AP was unable to reach Royal’s supervisor and an Army spokesman had no comment on the handling of the FOIA request.
In 2013, the Army said it would not release any records. The AP appealed that decision and, nearly four years later, Army lawyers agreed that registry records should be public.
It wasn’t until 2019 that the Army released a small batch of data. The records from the registry showed 288 firearms over six years.
Though years in the making, the response was clearly incomplete.
Standing in the stacks at the public library in Decatur, Alabama, last fall, Royal reviewed the seven printed pages of records that Army eventually provided AP.
“This is worthless,” he said.
Told that in multiple years, the Army reported just a single missing weapon, Royal was skeptical. “Out of the millions that they handled, that’s wrong,” he said in a later interview. AP has appealed the FOIA release for a second time.
The data weren’t even accurate when compared to Army criminal investigation records. Using the unique serial numbers assigned to every weapon, AP identified 19 missing firearms that were not in the registry data. This included a M240B machine gun that an Army National Guard unit reported missing in Wyoming in 2014.
The Army could not explain the discrepancy.
Reporters also filed another records act request for criminal cases opened by Army investigators.
In response, Army’s Criminal Investigation Command produced summaries of closed investigations into missing or stolen weapons, weapons parts, explosives or ammunition.
Army spokesman Lt. Col. Brandon Kelley said that the records were “the Army’s most accurate list of physical losses.” Yet again, the total from the records provided — 230 missing rifles or handguns during the 2010s — was a clear undercount.
The records did not reflect several major closed cases and excluded open cases, which typically take years to finish. That meant any weapons investigators are actively trying to track down were not part of the total.
Army’s first two answers — 288 and 230 — are contradicted by an internal analysis, one that officials initially denied they had done.
Asked in an interview whether the Army analyzes trends of missing weapons, Miller said no — there were breakdowns of murders, rapes and property crimes, but not weapons loss or theft.
“I don’t spend a lot of time tracking this data,” Miller said.
In fact, in 2019 and 2020, the Army distributed memos describing military weapons loss as having “the highest importance.” The numbers of missing “arms and arms components remain the same or increased” over the seven years covered by the memos, called ALARACTs.
A trend analysis in the document cited theft and “neglect” as the most common factors.
The memos counted 1,303 missing rifles and handguns from 2013-2019.
During the same seven years, the investigative records the Army said were authoritative showed 62 lost or stolen rifles or handguns.
Army officials said that some number they couldn’t specify were recovered among the 1,303. The data, which could include some combat losses and may include some duplications, came from criminal investigations and incident reports. The internal memos are not “an authoritative document,” and were not closely checked with public release in mind, Army spokesman Kelley said.
Members of Miller’s physical security division were tracking the data, though Miller said he wasn’t personally aware of the memos until AP brought them to his attention. He said that that if he were, he would have shared them.
“When one weapon is lost, I’m concerned. When 100 weapons are lost, I’m concerned. When 500 are lost, I’m concerned,” Miller said in a second interview.
Each armed service is supposed to inform the Office of the Secretary of Defense of losses or thefts. That office also has not released data to AP, but spokesman John Kirby gave approximate numbers of missing weapons for the past few years. The numbers were lower than AP’s totals.
“There is no effort to conceal,” Kirby said. “There is no effort to obstruct.”
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Hall reported from Nashville, Tennessee; LaPorta reported from Boca Raton, Florida; Pritchard reported from Los Angeles. Also contributing were Lolita Baldor and Dan Huff in Washington; Brian Barrett in New York; and Justin Myers in Chicago.
PARIS — France on Wednesday eased several COVID-19 restrictions, with authorities saying it’s no longer always mandatory to wear masks outdoors and halting an 8-month nightly coronavirus curfew this weekend.
The announcement by French Prime Minister Jean Castex comes as France is registering about 3,900 new virus cases a day, down from 35,000 a day in the March-April peak.
Castex welcomed “very good news” and said the curfew will be lifted on Sunday, 10 days earlier than expected.
Wearing a mask will still remain mandatory outdoors in crowded places like street markets and stadiums, he said. People are required to wear a mask indoors in public spaces, including at work — with an exception for restaurants and bars.
“We have not known such a low level of virus spreading since last August,” Castex said, adding that the situation was improving in all of France’s regions.
“Those positive evolutions are due to the mobilization of the French and to the vaccination campaign,” he said.
Over 58% of France’s adult population has received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose. On Tuesday, the European Union nation opened its vaccination programs to those 12 to 18 as part of a push to protect residents as restrictions are gradually being lifted.
The French have been living under night-time curfews since mid-October. When the numbers of infections were at their highest level from mid-January to mid-May, the curfew was from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m., with shops closed down and exceptions only for workers and quick walks for pets. It had been gradually pushed back to start at 11 p.m.
Terraces at restaurants and cafes, theaters, cinemas and museums all reopened on May 19. Last week, France reopened indoor spaces in restaurants and cafes as well as gyms and swimming pools.
Major sports and cultural events can have a maximum of 5,000 people, and all need to show a vaccination certificate or a negative test within the last 48 hours.
The nation has reported 110,563 confirmed virus deaths, one of the highest tolls in Europe.
Daily Cubs Minors Recap: Hermosillo delivers again in Iowa win; Morel homers; An 8-run inning propels South Bend to win; Pinango records another multi-hit game
Starter Joe Biagini, who has been battling injuries, got through one inning unscathed. He was followed by sidearmer Scott Effross who delivered three shutout innings to earn the win as Iowa managed to triumph on a bullpen day.
The insanely hot hitting Michael Hermosillo continued to carry the offense. A double and another home run raised his average to .394 and slugging percentage to .758. By reaching just twice, his OBP did drop (to .524). He must be slipping. He’s reached base 22 times in 10 games. The veteran missed the first five weeks of the season, but has hit everything hard since his return.
Top Performers
Scott Effross: 3 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 2 HBP, 5 K (W, 2-1, 6.35)
Jake Jewell: 2 IP, H, 0 R, BB, 3 K (4.34)
Kyle Ryan: 1.1 IP, H, 0 R, BB, K (S, 1, 2.04)
Michael Hermosillo: 2-4, 2B, HR (3), R, 2 RBI (.394)
Tony Wolters: 1-2, 2 BB, CS (1) (.200)
Ian Miller: 0-2, 2 BB, SB (4) (.236)
Injuries, Updates, and Trends
The Cubs announced Robert Stock will be called up to make today’s start against Jacob de Grom and the New York Mets.
Starting Pitcher Kohl Stewart was sent back to Iowa.
Trent Giambrone has returned from the temporary inactive list and should make his Iowa debut soon. The veteran utility man has been on personal leave since the season began. Iowa could sure use his versatility and power/speed combo in the lineup right now.
Alex Katz made an emergency start for Tennessee, and pitched pretty well for the first two innings, but was then tagged for four runs in the 3rd.j A two-run Christopher Morel home run in the bottom of the 3rd, and then a solo shot by Nelson Maldonado in the 5th brought Tennessee back within reach, but the Chattanooga pen shut the door with three innings of no-hit ball to stymy the comeback.
Top Performers
Christopher Morel: 1-4, HR (5), R, 2 RBI (.184)
Nelson Maldonado: 1-3, HR (1), R, RBI (.220)
Carlos Sepulveda: 2-4, 2 2B (.235)
Luis Lugo: 3 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 4 BB, 5 K (9.15)
Wyatt Short: 2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 3 K (7.31)
Injuries, Updates, and Trends
We are beginning to see some positive development at the plate for Christopher Morel, despite his still sub-.200 batting average. He is not only drawing walks for the first time since rookie ball, but he is also putting the ball in play. His infectious energy and multi-positional defensive value (he’s started at 5 positions this year, including SS and CF) have long been known. We’ve also seen the pop in his bat, but the plate discipline was always lacking. His recent improvements bode well for him to take a more substantial offensive jump in the near future. Morel is likely two years away from the Majors, but his talent and versatility could allow him to make it sooner if things fall into place for him.
South Bend broke the game open in the top of the 3rd. They amassed eight runs on a pair of walks and seven hits. Tyler Durna, who singled home a run in that 3rd inning barrage, hit a solo shot the following inning to expand the lead.
Starter Brad Deppermann is still getting stretched out after opening the year in EXST and then moving to the pen in South Bend. The 25-year old was the Cubs 7th rounder in 2019, and has flashed a good breaking ball in his 28 career innings, but he is now showing a bit more velocity on his heater, hitting 95+ while pitching effectively up in the zone. He’s also getting good downward plane when working the lower half, thanks to his overhand delivery, and is generating plenty of grounders this year. I’m not sure he can stick as a starter, but he gives the Cubs another interesting power arm to keep an eye on as a future reliever.
Top Performers
Tyler Durna: 2-5, HR (4), 2 R, 2 RBI (.233)
Jake Slaughter: 3-4, 2B, R, 2 RBI, SB (3) (.219)
Bradlee Beesley: 2-4, R, RBI (.259)
Bradd Deppermann: 4 IP, 3 H, R, 0 BB, 6 K (3.86)
Jose Albertos: 2.1 IP, 2 H, R, 2 BB, 4 K (W, 2-0, 5.63)
Injuries, Updates, and Trends
Considered one of the top undrafted free agents Baseball America last year, Bradlee Beesley is an undersized but speedy outfielder who has run into some plate discipline issues in his first 14 career games, but has also flashed some good bat control and even a bit of pop. The results have not been impressive as yet, but there are some tools to work with there. He strikes me as more of a future org player, but potentially one who can help out in the upper levels in the near future.
Chalk this one up as a rough outing by Manuel Espinoza. The starter has an advanced feel for his age (20), and hit has translated into a handful of good outings this year (), but there is a ceiling on his stuff. He needs to have command to be effective, and in this one he just seemed to catch too much plate, and the RiverDogs hammered him for seven runs on seven hits in less than four innings.
The Myrtle Beach offense continues to flash sings of life however. Ryan Reynolds hit another homer, power hitting 1B Matt Mervis is beginning to heat up, and Yohendrick Pinango recorded another multi-hit game.
Top Performers
Ryan Reynolds: 1-2, HR (3), R, 3 RBI, BB (.262)
Pablo Aliendo: 2-4, 2B, R, 2 RBI (.298)
Yohendrick Pinango: 2-4, R (.282)
Ezequiel Pagan: 1-3, R, HBP (.333)
Injuries, Updates, and Trends
Nineteen year old Yohendrick Pinango (.282/.343/.405) continues to impress this season. After putting up a 145 wRC+ as a 17-year old in the DSL in 2019 there was a decent amount of excitement to see him stateside this year, and he hasn’t disappointed. The youngest player on the team, Pinango offers an old school opposite fields approach to hitting, but he also isn’t against turning on one and lining it into right field. He’s hit his first two career homers this year and as he gains more experience, he should learn how to drive a few more pitches into the gaps and over the wall. Few, if any hitters in the system, have as good of a feel for the barrel as Pinango. He is top 20 prospect in the system right now.
Pinango has smacked multiple hits in 4 of his last 5, and 6 of his last 9 games (slashing .429/.487/.629).
Matt Mervis (.206/.320.324) extended his hitting streak to 6 games. He’s been bit some by the BABIP dragon this year, but Mervis offers a powerful left-handed bat, and pretty good athleticism too for a 1B. He isn’t a top prospect, but he is another UDFA from last year who should eventually make it to the upper levels, and may even have MLB upside.
Twenty-six people were hit by gunfire in Chicago Tuesday, one of the most violent days of the year with eight shot in a house in Englewood and five wounded on the street in West Garfield Park.
A total of eight people were killed, the most homicides in a single day this year, according to Sun-Times data.
The day also saw the city’s third mass shooting in little more than a week. Around 5:40 a.m., four people were shot and killed and four others were seriously wounded when an argument apparently broke out inside a home in the 6200 block of South Morgan Street, according to Chicago police.
Four people were pronounced dead at the scene, three women and a man who lived there. The four others were taken to hospitals, at least two of them in critical condition. A 2-year-old girl was taken from the home and brought to Comer Children’s Hospital for observation, but did not appear injured, police said.
Tuesday night, five people were wounded in West Garfield Park. The group was outside in the 3800 block of West Monroe Street when they were shot, possibly by more than one gunman, about 9:20 p.m., according to police.
A 29-year-old woman was struck in the back, a 39-year-old man was shot in the shoulder and leg, and a 40-year-old man was struck in the shoulder. They were all taken to Mt. Sinai Hospital, where they are all in good condition. A 38-year-old man and a 33-year-old man were both shot in the legs and taken to Stroger Hospital, where the older man is in critical condition and the younger man is in good condition.
Other shootings
About 10:15 p.m., officers found a 26-year-old man on the sidewalk in the 3800 block of West Flournoy Street with gunshot wounds to his head and abdomen, police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Minutes earlier, a 16-year-old boy was killed and a man was wounded in a shooting in Gage Park on the Southwest Side. The teen and the 20-year-old man were walking in the 5200 block of South Artesian Avenue when someone approached and opened fire about 10:10 p.m., police said. The boy was struck multiple times and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. He has not yet been identified. The man suffered three gunshot wounds to the back and was taken to the same hospital, where he was in critical condition. Police said the attacker was wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt and blue jeans.
A woman was fatally shot in Bronzeville on the South Side. About 6:15 a.m., the 21-year-old was found in an alley with one gunshot wound to the head in the 4500 block of South Wabash, police said. A witness told police they heard a gunshot and found the woman. She was pronounced dead at the scene. The woman has not yet been identified.
A man was found shot to death, and another seriously wounded, in a car that crashed into a light pole on Lake Shore Drive in Gold Coast. The silver Nissan Sentra was in the northbound lanes of Lake Shore Drive when it crashed in the 1100 block of North Lake Shore Drive around 12:45 a.m., police said. Two of the three people inside had been shot. A 32-year-old man was struck twice in the torso and was taken to Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. He has not yet been identified. A 20-year-old man was struck twice in the arm and taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where his condition was stabilized. The third person, a 25-year-old man, had minor injuries from the crash and was in good condition.
A 19-year-old boy was shot and wounded while waiting for a bus on the border of Gresham and Grand Crossing on the South Side. The teen was standing in the 1000 block of East 79th Street when two gunmen came up and started shooting around 9:10 a.m., police said. Struck in both legs, paramedics took him to the University of Chicago Medical Center for treatment.
Seven others were wounded in shootings across the city.
Three people were killed, and 18 others wounded in shootings Monday in Chicago.
It hasn’t been an easy year for any dance company, but for Chicago’s Ensemble Espanol Spanish Dance Theater, COVID-19 hit with particularly cruel timing. When the lockdown went into effect last year, it was barely 13 months after the death of Dame Libby Komaiko, the revered, founding artistic director of the thriving, 45-year-old troupe dedicated to the art of flamenco dance.
But the ensemble’s inarguable perseverance the in the face of seismic change is evident in the upcoming Zafiro Flamenco 45th Anniversary Festival this weekend. The company will perform in person on an outdoor stage in the parking lot of Skokie’s North Shore Center for the Performing Arts.
Zafiro Flamenco 45th Anniversary Festival
When: 7:30 p.m. June 18 – 20
Where: Parking lot, North Shore Center for the Performing Arts, 9501 Skokie Blvd., Skokie
Note: An online livestream of the 7 p.m. June 19 concert only will be available June 19-27. Tickets, $20, for the virtual presentation are available here.
The dancers have been rehearsing and learning their choreography via Zoom for months. They’re primed for the moment when they can dance on stage, backed by live musicians. Defined by sultry, percussive movements and unabashed sensuality, flamenco relies on chemistry as well as technique. Capturing the former on Zoom can be tough.
“The process has been a hard one. It can be frustrating. We’ve done so much Zooming. It’s exhausting and I know I’m not alone in feeling that,” said Irma Suarez-Ruiz, who became Ensemble Espanol’s artistic director after Komaiko’s passing.
“But we push through because we’re warriors and because this is what we live for, the love of the art. It’s explosive. It’s passionate. It’s sensual and emotional and exciting,” she said of flamenco. “I remember when I saw Ensemble Espanol for the very first time. Watching it, it felt like a trance,” she said.
Ruiz’ ensemble is smaller than usual as it prepares to dance the world premiere of “Tangos de Granada,” choreographed by Wendy Clinard, founder and artistic director of her Chicago-based namesake, Clinard Dance. Usually, Ensemble Espanol has 18 dancers in its adult company.
Contemporary flamenco choreographer and Grammy Award winner Nino de los Reyes (center) has four works scheduled at the Zafiro Flamenco Festival this weekend.Photo courtesy of the artist
“I have nine right now, and the musicians,” Ruiz said. Among the latter that will be performing with the dance ensemble: Singer/guitarist Paco Fonta; dancer, singer, percussionist and guitarist Jose Mareno; singer Patricia Ortega and guitarist David Chiriboga.
Rehearsing virtually — in isolated rooms, everyone reduced to a square on a screen — has indeed been challenging, said choreographer Nino de los Reyes, who worked virtually with the dancers in Chicago from his home in Mexico until he flew in for a week of in-person rehearsals before the opening. De los Reyes became the only dancer to win a 2020 Grammy Award for dancing, his footwork a creating a percussive, rhythmic current driving Chick Corea’s album “Antidote. ” He has four works on the flamenco festival program: “Farruca,'” “Martinete,” “Jaleos,” and “Solea.”
“We had just won that Grammy — and had all these expectations of touring — before everything shut down,” de los Reyes recalled. “I have a studio at home here in Mexico, so I tried to practice a lot, learn new technology and make the best of it. I’ve been able to teach people from Japan, China, the U.S., South America — so that’s been very cool,” he said.
Over lockdown, Clinard set to researching the history and endless forms flamenco can take.
Ensemble Espanol are pictured performing “No Me Olvides (Do Not Forget Me) Romeros.”Dean Paul
“There are over 100 forms of flamenco, each one kind of embodies a certain human experience. There’s this beautiful division at the waistline — you’re rooted deep in the ground below it, reaching for the heavens above it,” Clinard said. “You go back and look at traditions, the history and the geography and you can find out where each gesture came from, how they talked with their bodies. Now flamenco is a national treasure for Spain, but it started as the dance of the outcast,” she said.
Clinard described her piece for the festival as “very positive, very joyful.”
“I really hope a vibe of community and togetherness comes through. Like a party,” she said.
In Mexico, de los Reyes echoed that sentiment.
“My goal is for the audience to feel what I’m feeling, the same joy and love for the art. If I can express that, I’ll be happy,” he said.
Editor’s note: According to Jorge Perez, the company’s executive and associate artistic director, who was asked about the wearing of masks in an email following the lifting of statewide COVID restrictions by Gov. Pritzker, the dancers and musicians “were given the choice of wearing masks or not. At this time it appears all performers will not be wearing masks when performing but will don them when they are off stage.
“As for the audience: with the governor’s reopening as of last Friday, audience members will not be required to wear masks when viewing the performance. However if they need to enter the North Shore Center building for any reason, a mask will be required.”
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