1. You’re listening to AshevilleFM at WSFM-LP, 103.3, Asheville. It's 7 o’clock on Thursday,
September 8, 2016 ​and you're listening to the AFM News Hour.
This program is brought to you in part by…#UNDERWRITER
This is news team correspondent Keith Fletcher, and the news staff includes Scott Owen, TJ
Amos, Geronimo Owen, David Forbes, Trevon Dunn, Gerry Leonard, Andrew Rainey, Rachel
Herman, Emma Hutchens, Erin Dalton, Elizabeth Garland and Alex Heisey.
On tonight’s edition of the AFM News Hour…
The Weekend CalCast brought to you by Asheville FM and the Mountain Express
Chris Brooks from the ACLU, Kara Irani from the MANNA Food Bank
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now, for this week’s headlines...
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In National News:
Headline 1: ​NASA plans space probe to Asteroid Bennu
Headline 2:
An American Indian Standing Rock Sioux Tribe succeeded Tuesday in getting U.S. District
Judge James Boasberg to temporarily stop construction on some, but not all, of the $3.8 billion
Dakota Access Pipeline oil pipeline which will cross North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa and
Illinois.
He also said he will rule by the end of Friday on the Tribe's challenge of federal regulators'
decision to grant permits to the Dallas, Texas-based operators of the Dakota Access Pipeline, A
weekend confrontation between protesters and construction workers near Lake Oahe prompted
the tribe to ask Sunday for a temporary stop of construction. Four private security guards and
two guard dogs received medical treatment, officials said, while a tribal spokesman noted that six
people — including a child — were bitten by the dogs and at least 30 people were

2. pepper-sprayed. Dakota Access attorney Bill Leone said during Tuesday's hearing that if it
weren't for the stoppages, the section in question would be finished by the end of this week.
The Camp of the Sacred Stones and Red Warrior Camp, currently defending against the Dakota
Pipeline, are calling on allies across the world to take action from September 3rd to 17th on the
pipeline companies and financial institutions working to build the pipeline in ND.
In Asheville there will be a meeting Friday the 9th at 3pm at Pritchard Park to rally and march to
TD Bank.
Headline 3:
NC News: ​The Macon County school board has decided to end a corporal punishment policy,
making paddling a thing of the past. This policy change leaves Graham County as the only
Western North Carolina county to still use paddling in high schools and middle schools.
Paddlings were not a frequently used punishment in Macon, seeing only 14 uses in the
2015-2016 school year.
Macon County Superintendent Chris Baldwin said that paddling was used (quote) “so
minimally” that the board felt it was no longer needed, adding (quote) “It’s just not something
that our schools are comfortable doing anymore.”
Macon County’s change shows a progressive trend in corporal punishment in schools. A study
by NC Child reported corporal punishment being used 71 times among three counties; down
from 891 times in 17 counties in the 2010-2011 school year.
Headline 2:
Despite the July court decision to overrule NC Voter Suppression Laws, ​Election boards in 23 of
the state’s 100 counties have reduced early voting hours, in some cases to a small fraction of
what they were in the 2012 presidential election, according to ​an analysis by The Raleigh News
& Observer​. Boards in nine counties voted to eliminate Sunday voting. Both early voting and
Sunday voting are used disproportionately by black voters.
While boards in 70 counties voted to expand the number of early-voting hours, the counties that
moved to cut hours back account for half of the state’s registered voters. In heavily Democratic
Mecklenburg County — the state’s largest, with about one million residents — Republican ​board
members voted​ to eliminate 238 early-voting hours despite near-unanimous appeals from the
public to add more. In 2012, African-Americans in Mecklenburg used early voting at ​a far higher
rate​ than whites.
In Local News:
Headline 1: ​On Monday night, ​Cherrell Mooney posted a nine-second phone video she captured
of 16-year-old Kacee Fleming in an altercation with Officer Shalin Oza on her Facebook page.
Witnesses say the officer used excessive force. The Asheville Police Department released a
statement saying, (quote) “The nine second video is only a small portion of a much longer

3. incident. The Asheville Police Department is in the process of conducting a full administrative
investigation that will review all evidence, including the video circulating on social media and
body worn camera footage, in our review.”(end quote) Despite requests, the APD has not
released the body cam footage from Monday night. On Tuesday evening APD held a moderated
discussion with community members at the First Congregation United Church of Christ.
Headline 2:
Chad Campbell, 46, of West Asheville and a former professional cyclist, remains in the intensive
care unit at Mission Hospital after being struck by a pickup truck on Newfound Road, off
Leicester Highway. According to Trooper Brandon Miller of the N.C. State Highway Patrol, a
pickup truck driven by Jerry Plemmons, who lives on Newfound Road, hit Campbell at a speed
of 55 mph.
Campbell was hit from behind on a slight curve, Miller said. Miller charged Plemmons with
reckless driving, which requires a mandatory court hearing. Campbell’s injuries are very serious.
Headline 3:
It was announced today that Donald Trump will host a public rally at Asheville's U.S. Cellular
Center on Monday Sept. 12. Doors open at 3 p.m., and the event begins at 6 p.m. Tickets are
available free of charge on Mr. Trump’s campaign website and there are already plans for local
protests.
(PLAY) CalCast
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(PLAY) ACLU
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Read: ​The following clips are from a moderated discussion that APD held with community
members at the First Congregation United Church of Christ on Tuesday evening.
(PLAY) Clips from forum.
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(Read PSA)
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(PLAY) MANNA
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