One Shift: Officers Patrol An Anxious America

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Clinton Introduces Kaine,
Drawing Roars but Unease
Despite Praise, Running Mate Is Criticized
by the Left for Backing Trade Deals
By AMY CHOZICK and ALAN RAPPEPORT
MIAMI — Hillary Clinton debuted her running mate, Senator
Tim Kaine of Virginia, to boisterous and bilingual cheers here on
Saturday, calling him a “progressive who likes to get things done”
even as some liberal Democrats
began making clear that they
were disappointed with her
choice.
“I have to say, Senator Tim
Kaine is everything that Donald
Trump and Mike Pence are not,”
Mrs. Clinton said, drawing a quick
contrast with the Republican
ticket as she introduced her own
No. 2 to the nation.
Appearing comfortable in his
new role as Mrs. Clinton’s top
cheerleader and weapon against
Mr. Trump, Mr. Kaine bounded up
to the microphone, then slipped
easily between English and Spanish as he animated the mostly
Latino audience by mixing political talk with homey reflections
on his life.
“Fe, familia y trabajo,” he told
the crowd of more than 5,000 people at Florida International University, explaining that faith, family and work defined his life.
But as Mr. Kaine sought to flex
his language skills to appeal to
Hispanic voters, he and Mrs. Clinton were also trying to mollify a
growing backlash from the left
against his record of support for
global trade deals, which many
voters in Rust Belt states blame
for the loss of American manufacContinued on Page 15
Foe of Death Penalty, Kaine
Carried It Out as a Governor
KEVIN D. LILES FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Dwayne Hewett, a pastor in Hiram, Ga., pulled over to pray for the safety of Deputy Matt Stachowicz of Paulding County.
One Shift: Officers Patrol
An Anxious America
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG and THOMAS KAPLAN
Kevin Green’s lawyers were
pleading with the governor for
mercy.
It was spring 2008, and Mr.
Green, a 31-year-old who had shot
and killed a grocery owner, was on
Virginia’s death row. His woes, his
lawyers said, dated to childhood;
he was born with his umbilical
cord wrapped around his neck, repeated three years of elementary
school and never learned to tie his
shoes.
His was precisely the kind of execution a young Tim Kaine, a Harvard-educated lawyer with a
deeply felt revulsion for capital
punishment, would have worked
himself to the bone to stop.
“Murder is wrong in the gulag,
in Afghanistan, in Soweto, in the
mountains of Guatemala, in Fairfax County,” he once declared, as
one of his clients was about to be
put to death. “And even the Spring
Street Penitentiary.”
But on the night of May 27, Mr.
Green was led into the execution
chamber at the Greensville Correctional Center, strapped to a
gurney and hooked up to intravenous lines.
Shortly after 10 p.m., he became
Continued on Page 15
RUTH FREMSON/THE NEW YORK TIMES
Hillary Clinton with Senator Tim Kaine in Miami on Saturday.
Officials Say No Terrorist Link
Is Found for Munich Gunman
By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI and MELISSA EDDY
MUNICH — He had been bullied at more than one school. He
played violent video games, and
developed a fascination with mass
shootings. He kept a copy of the
German edition of “Why Kids Kill:
Inside the Minds of School Shooters,” a study by an American academic psychologist, and he was
treated for psychiatric problems.
Somewhere along the way, Ali
Sonboly got his hands on a 9-millimeter Glock handgun, and hundreds of rounds of ammunition for
it. And at 5:52 p.m. on Friday, at a
McDonald’s in Munich a few miles
from where he lived with his
mother, father and brother, he
started shooting.
Mr. Sonboly, 18, moved on to a
shopping mall across the street,
then to the top level of an adjacent
parking garage. By the time his
rampage was done, he had killed
eight other young people and one
middle-aged person. Then, in
front of two police officers, he
killed himself with his own gun,
the police said.
It was the third mass attack in
Europe in little over a week, after
the killings of 84 people in Nice,
France, and an attack by a young
refugee wielding an ax and a knife
in Germany that left five people
wounded.
But unlike those two attacks,
the one in Munich appeared,
based on initial evidence, to have
no overt links to the Islamic State
or other terrorist groups, officials
said Saturday. Nor did it seem to
be directly linked to the wave of
migration that has fueled racial,
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By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Policing in America today is a rib dinner paid for by a stranger, and a protester kicking a dent into your
patrol car door. It’s warning a young man speeding down a country road to beware of errant deer, and
searching through trash cans for a gun on the streets of a big city.
It’s your 8-year-old daughter calling
repeatedly to ask if you’re safe. It’s
your mother wishing you could wear
plainclothes again. And it’s a kiss and a
goodbye that you promise won’t be
your last.
But it’s also watching a video in your
Facebook feed when another officer
shoots a black man — a therapist,
hands raised, trying to help a client
who is autistic; a young man stopped
for a traffic violation; a man selling
CDs. And it’s facing the protests that
follow, which are prompting introspection and even more of an attitude of usversus-them.
Adapting — it’s that, too. Being a
warrior one minute, on guard at all
times, and minutes later answering
the most banal questions: You know a
good restaurant around here? How do
I get to the highway?
About 477,000 sworn officers serve
in the roughly 12,000 police departments in the United States. The demands, challenges, resources and cultures of each police force vary. But
there are also commonalities.
With the exception of some cities
still awash in violence, crime has
dropped, and the job has changed. And
after the fatal ambushes of police officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge, La. —
as well as years of intensifying
protests about the deaths of black
men, women and children at the hands
of the police — officers everywhere are
under pressure to change still more.
On the streets of every town and
city, each shift is a search for safety.
Here’s a look at one such shift, compiled through ridealongs last week
with officers in 10 departments — big,
small, rural, suburban — across the
United States.
Bullets and Beginnings
Officer Michael Virgilio’s shift has
just begun. He is already on high alert.
He slowly eases his vehicle out into
the alley of a precinct in Seattle (population: 684,451), scanning left and right
as the precinct’s metal garage door
trundles down behind him.
The brick alley has recessed alcoves
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Kisses and Fear
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From Fox News
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Hospitals treated the
many Afghans wounded
Saturday when suicide
bombers struck a demonstration in Kabul, the
capital. At least 80 people
were killed in the attack,
the Islamic State’s first on
the city, which raised fears
that the group was extending its reach. Page 6.
This article is by Jim Rutenberg,
Emily Steel and John Koblin.
ADAM FERGUSON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Ranchers Say Wall Won’t Help Chaos at Border
NACO, Ariz.
John Ladd has two old pickups
he uses to bang around his
ranch, which rambles for
10 miles beside the Mexico line. One’s a red
Chevy that not long ago
carried the body of yet
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who had died on his
property. The other is a blue
Dodge with better shocks, and
that’s what he is driving now,
along an unpaved road in an
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unincorporated place called
Naco.
To his immediate right, cattle
roam the mesquite and grass of
his family’s 16,000-acre ranch. To
his left, a mix-and-match set of
interlocking fences slices into the
distance, this one 12 feet high,
this one 18 feet high, this one a
metal mesh, this one a vertical
grille, section after section after
section.
Mr. Ladd, 61, looks and acts the
way a rancher is expected to,
with brush mustache, hard
squint and matter-of-fact affect,
all kept tight under a sweatstained cowboy hat. Bouncing
westward, he points to spots
where fencing had been peeled in
the past like an upturned can of
Spam. In the last four years, he
says, more than 50 vehicles have
rumbled through fence cuts and
across his property.
What is the protocol when you
encounter armed drug smugglers driving on your land? “You
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In 2006, after nearly a decade at
CNN, Rudi Bakhtiar came to the
Fox News Channel’s headquarters in New York with a command
of foreign policy, an appealing personality and a delivery that easily
switched between light and serious.
After a six-month freelance arrangement, the network signed
her to a three-year deal. Pretty
quickly, she said, she was spending half her time in Washington,
where the network sent her to fill
in temporarily as a weekend correspondent, a post she hoped to
win permanently.
Her break seemed to come a
few months later, she said, when
she met for coffee in the lobby of
her Washington hotel with a
friend and colleague, Brian Wilson. He told her he would soon beContinued on Page 4
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as part of a project to understand the
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