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  Speaker 1: BIN News at Sauer, I'm Andrea Coleman. Coming up, the
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  Speaker 1: NAACP works to make elections safe.
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  Speaker 2: This is completely unacceptable for it to take place in Dallas,
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  Speaker 2: and we're going to do everything that we need to
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  Speaker 2: do to get everyone in custody as responsible for this.
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  Speaker 1: The investigation continues into the deadly mass shootings in Dallas
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  Speaker 1: over the weekend and.
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  Speaker 2: We should not be here for this tonight for census
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  Speaker 2: acts that are happening across the city.
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  Speaker 1: Members of an HBCU in another city gathered to remember
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  Speaker 1: a student killed in a Halloween shooting there. But first,
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  Speaker 1: here's BIN News Now.
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  Speaker 3: Black Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and her challenger, Councilwoman
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  Speaker 3: Nithya Raman, made their final pitches to voters ahead of
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  Speaker 3: what could be a close election. Rahman criticized Bass over
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  Speaker 3: homelessness and infrastructure, while Bass raised questions about Rahman's campaign controversies,
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  Speaker 3: including a staffer's remarks about black voters.
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  Speaker 1: I would be very concerned about what you would get
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  Speaker 1: from a Rahman administration who is not able to build
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  Speaker 1: affordable housing.
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  Speaker 3: Rahman says the staffer was fired. California Governor Gavin Newsom
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  Speaker 3: and former Vice President Kamala Harris reunited on the campaign
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  Speaker 3: trail Sunday. Both spoke at a Hollywood rally supporting Democratic
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  Speaker 3: gubernatorial candidate Javier Becerra. The event marked their first joint
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  Speaker 3: appearance in nearly a year amid speculation about their possible
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  Speaker 3: 2028 presidential ambitions. And a Minnesota Burger King is facing
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  Speaker 3: backlash after a viral Halloween video showed a white employee
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  Speaker 3: wearing blackface while working the drive-thru. The employee was seen
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  Speaker 3: defending the makeup in the video. I'm Amber Payton with
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  Speaker 3: BIN News Now. Back to you, Andrea.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, The NAACP has filed a lawsuit seeking to
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  Speaker 1: prevent the Justice Department from dispatching federal agents to polling
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  Speaker 1: places today. Kristen Clark, the NAACP's general counsel, told the
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  Speaker 1: Griot that the organization believes the presence of any federal
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  Speaker 1: agents at polling places could be intimidating to voters. She
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  Speaker 1: went on to say the NAACP is taking action to
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  Speaker 1: ensure voters, particularly black ones, don't experience any harassment when voting.
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  Speaker 1: Last week, the DOJ said no FBI or ICE agents
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  Speaker 1: would serve as monitors. Instead, workers from the Bureau of Prisons,
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  Speaker 1: Drug Enforcement Administration, and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and
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  Speaker 1: Explosives would be assigned the tasks, and no agents would
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  Speaker 1: carry weapons. Voters who experience problems or concerns at polling
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  Speaker 1: places can contact the organization at 1-866-OUR-VOTE. You can also
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  Speaker 1: report concerns through the NAACP's website at naacp.org forward slash vote. Well,
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  Speaker 1: federal agents are getting involved in the investigations of deadly
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  Speaker 1: shootings over the weekend. Federal and local authorities say they
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  Speaker 1: are increasing their presence in Dallas' Deep Ellum Entertainment District
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  Speaker 1: following three separate Halloween weekend shootings that left four people
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  Speaker 1: dead and 15 others injured. Dallas Police Chief Daniel Como,
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  Speaker 1: who is black, is asking for the public's help.
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  Speaker 2: If you have video, if you have pictures, anything from
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  Speaker 2: social media, anything, please contact us with this so we
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  Speaker 2: can try to piece this together and bring justice here.
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  Speaker 1: Como says the investigation will take some time. Investigators have
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  Speaker 1: not determined whether the incidents are connected. One man was
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  Speaker 1: arrested after allegedly pointing a loaded gun toward a crowd,
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  Speaker 1: but police say he was not responsible for the shootings. Well, meantime,
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  Speaker 1: the FBI is assisting in the investigation of a shooting
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  Speaker 1: at a Jackson, Mississippi nightclub that same night. Two people
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  Speaker 1: were killed and six others injured in the incident. Last night,
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  Speaker 1: hundreds gathered on the campus of historically black Jackson State
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  Speaker 1: University for a candlelight vigil honoring 18-year-old Jada Henderson, who
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  Speaker 1: was killed alongside 20-year-old loved Dave Poindexter during a Halloween
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  Speaker 1: party at the Hideaway nightclub early Sunday. Dr. Denise Jones-Gregory,
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  Speaker 1: president of JSU, calling the situation tragic.
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  Speaker 2: The mother of my.
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  Speaker 1: But I want the family to come together, Jackson State
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  Speaker 1: family to come together, let our students know that we're
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  Speaker 1: here for them. They don't have to go through this alone.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators say two masked suspects entered the club before one
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  Speaker 1: opened fire on the crowd. Police Chief Rochelle Brackney says
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  Speaker 1: two of the 600 victims remain hospitalized. The nightclub's operations
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  Speaker 1: have been suspended and Jackson State has canceled undergraduate classes
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  Speaker 1: through today while offering counseling services to students. This is
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  Speaker 1: BIN News This Hour. Be sure to follow us wherever
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  Speaker 1: you get your podcasts. I'm Andrea Coleman on the Black
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  Speaker 1: Information Network, home of Black News First.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.