Models urge Victoria’s Secret CEO to take a stand on sexual misconduct allegations
More than 120 of the biggest names in fashion have signed an open letter to Victoria’s Secret, expressing their “concern for the safety and wellbeing of the models and young women who aspire to model for Victoria’s Secret.”
The likes of Doutzen Kroes, Christy Turlington Burns, Milla Jovovich and more all signed the letter from The Model Alliance and addressed it to Victoria’s Secret CEO John Mehas.
“In the past few weeks, we have heard numerous allegations of sexual assault, alleged rape, and sex trafficking of models and aspiring models. While these allegations may not have been aimed at Victoria’s Secret directly, it is clear that your company has a crucial role to play in remedying the situation,” the letter begins.
The letter calls out any alleged connection between Victoria’s Secret, its parent company L Brands and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Epstein has pleaded not guilty to charges of sexually exploiting and abusing dozens of minor girls at his Upper East Side mansion and his home in Palm Beach, Florida. He faces up to 45 years in prison if convicted. His trial is set for sometime next year.
The letter also addresses “allegations of sexual misconduct by photographers.”
“It is deeply disturbing that these men appear to have leveraged their working relationships with Victoria’s Secret to lure and abuse vulnerable girls,” the letter states. “We stand with the courageous women who have come forward and shared their stories, despite fears of retaliation or harm to their careers. It breaks our hearts to keep hearing these stories. We can and must do better. It is time for RESPECT.”
Ava Smith, a former Victoria’s Secret model, said it’s easy for photographers to try to push acceptable boundaries with models.
“How many other jobs can you expect to be asked to, you know, out of the blue, pose nude or topless, etc.?” Smith said. “And so I think one of the things to us is the inconsistency about how it’s done, which you know you’re almost never prepared for.”
“There are multiple photographers who are known for their work for Victoria’s Secret who have been accused of sexually assaulting models,” Sara Ziff, founder of the Model Alliance, told ABC News. “And in addition to that there has been a lot in the news recently about L Brand CEO Leslie Wexler’s close personal and professional relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, who has multiple allegations against him of child sex trafficking and of luring girls and young women under the pretense that he was a recruiter for Victoria’s Secret. So in the face of all of these very serious allegations we felt that we couldn’t just sit silently and not say anything.”
The Alliance lays out the new Respect Program in its letter.
“Signatory companies make a binding commitment to require their employees, agents, vendors, photographers and other contractors to follow a code of conduct that protects everyone’s safety on the job, and reduces models’ vulnerability to mistreatment. Models have access to an independent, confidential complaint mechanism, with swift and fair resolution of complaints and appropriate consequences for abusers,” it explains.
Smith is one of the women to sign on to the Alliance.
“There’s a responsibility for all of us to sort of come together, because it is really an industry-wide issue with all of this,” Smith told ABC News. “So I think that it’s fantastic that we do have major models that are are stepping up and saying, ‘Hey this is an issue; we need to talk about this.'”
The letter asks the company to enact the Respect program and move “to be a leader, to use its power and influence to bring about the changes that are urgently needed in our industry.”
“If Victoria’s Secret were to take a stand against these abuses and commit to meaningful change by joining the RESPECT Program, this would go a long way in helping our industry chart a new path forward,” it closes.
A request for comment from Victoria’s Secret was not immediately returned to ABC News.
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Man gets life for impregnating 10-year-old in South Carolina
HAMPTON, S.C. — A 37-year-old man in South Carolina will spend the rest of his life in prison for impregnating a 10-year-old.
Prosecutors said Tony Orlanda Singleton was found guilty Wednesday of first-degree criminal sexual assault.
Authorities say they took DNA evidence from the fetus after the girl had an abortion and it proved Singleton was the father.
The 14th Circuit Solicitor’s Office said in a news release that Singleton came into a room while she was watching cartoons in a home in Estill in April 2016, turned off the lights and raped her.
Prosecutors said jurors deliberated less than an hour Wednesday before finding Singleton guilty. Circuit Judge Carmen Mullen then handed down the life sentence without parole.
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Texas police chief apologizes after horseback officers lead man by rope
GALVESTON, Texas (AP) – Galveston’s police chief is apologizing after two of his officers, mounted on horseback, led a handcuffed trespassing suspect by a rope through downtown streets.
Photos of the Saturday incident went viral on social media. The two officers linked the rope to handcuffs worn by 43-year-old criminal trespass suspect Donald Neely and led him around the block to a mounted patrol staging area.
In a statement Monday, Police Chief Vernon Hale said “this is a trained technique and best practice in some scenarios,” such as with crowd control. However, he said he believes his officers “showed poor judgment in this instance and could have waited for a transport unit at the location of arrest.” He said his department has “immediately changed the policy” to prevent use of the technique.
Neely is free on bond. He has no listed telephone number and couldn’t be reached for comment.
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Ads Pulled for Gory Universal Thriller ‘The Hunt’ in Wake of Mass Shootings
Comcast unit is pausing its ad campaign for ‘The Hunt,’ due in September, and reviewing materials
In the wake of a trio of deadly massacres, the studio is evaluating its strategy for the R-rated Blumhouse satire in which elites stalk “deplorables.”
“Did anyone see what our ratfucker-in-chief just did?” one character asks early in the screenplay for The Hunt, a Universal Pictures thriller set to open Sept. 27. Another responds: “At least The Hunt’s coming up. Nothing better than going out to the Manor and slaughtering a dozen deplorables.”
In the aftermath of mass shootings within days of one another that shocked and traumatized the nation, Universal is re-evaluating its strategy for the certain-to-be-controversial satire. The violent, R-rated film from producer Jason Blum’s Blumhouse follows a dozen MAGA types who wake up in a clearing and realize they are being stalked for sport by elite liberals.
Over the Aug. 3 weekend, ESPN pulled an ad for the film that it had previously cleared, while AMC ran the spot during the season premiere of its drama The Preacher. It’s unclear whether the ads were identical, but the one yanked by ESPN opened with a sound resembling an emergency broadcast signal. A rep for ESPN parent Disney declined to comment on the move, but an ESPN source says no spots for the film will appear on the network in the coming weeks.
The Hunt stars Betty Gilpin from GLOW and Hilary Swank, representing opposite sides of the political divide. It features guns blazing along with other ultra-violent killings as the elites pick off their prey. The script from Damon Lindelof and Nick Cuse reviewed by The Hollywood Reporter revolves around third-rail political themes. (Original title: Red State Vs. Blue State.)
A studio source says that even before the recent attacks, which left 34 dead in El Paso, Texas; Dayton, Ohio; and Gilroy, California, some reshoots were done based on a recent rough cut. Universal and Blumhouse declined to comment.
While one high-level Universal source says the studio has pulled some ads that are beginning to air and appear online “for content and placement,” others say the matter is still under discussion internally. A major ad blitz on television and the web had been planned for the beginning of September, says one insider. A trailer is already online.
Given the fraught political climate — particularly in the wake of the attack in El Paso, which was motivated by anti-immigrant bigotry — studio sources say Universal is evaluating its plans in what one called “a fluid situation.” A high-level insider says top executives want to stand by Blum, one of the studio’s most prolific and successful producers, as well as filmmaker Craig Zobel, and see the project as a satire addressing an issue of great social importance. But this person says plans could change “if people think we’re being exploitative rather than opinionated.”
From a business perspective, The Hunt presents a gamble for Universal in these divided times. The satire Assassination Nation, which also pitted the woke versus the unwoke in uber-violent fashion, represented the top sale at Sundance 2018 at $10 million. But the film fizzled upon its release later that year, earning just $2 million with no international rollout. Says one person involved with that film, “We thought people would get the joke.”
The Hunt made some executives at Universal skittish back in May 2018, when film chief Donna Langley acquired the script and fast-tracked it at a modest $18 million budget. It is unclear whether there were any other bidders on the property, the sale of which was brokered by CAA, but insiders at several studios told THR at the time that they did not pursue it because of the explosive premise. One executive says he didn’t even read the script, noting, “The idea seemed crazy.”
This is not the first time a studio has been faced with real-life events that rendered a film release more complicated. Following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, for example, Warner Bros. moved back the Arnold Schwarzenegger starrer Collateral Damage and abandoned a trailer that featured a bomb attack in the U.S. The 2017 Death Wish remake was delayed several months in response to a mass shooting in Las Vegas. And Oliver Stone’s 1994 satire Natural Born Killers was criticized for inspiring copycat killings.
Certainly, satire can be a dicey genre for studios to pull off. Just ask Sony, which became the target of a 2014 hack blamed on the North Koreans over the Seth Rogen comedy The Interview.
The script for The Hunt features the red-state characters wearing trucker hats and cowboy shirts, with one bragging about owning seven guns because it’s his constitutional right. The blue-state characters — some equally adept with firearms — explain that they picked their targets because they expressed anti-choice positions or used the N-word on Twitter. “War is war,” says one character after shoving a stiletto heel through the eye of a denim-clad hillbilly.
“Employees in different departments were questioning the wisdom of making such a movie in these times,” says one filmmaker with ties to Universal. “In light of the horrific [recent shootings], is this not the most craven, irresponsible, dangerous exploitation?”
That point is countered by a Universal executive, who says the movie “is meant to show what a stupid, crazy world we live in,” adding, “It might even be more powerful now.”
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Scientists can now manipulate brains using smartphones: study
Mind control has never been so high-tech.
Scientists have created a tiny, smartphone-controlled brain implant capable of selectively manipulating brain cell circuits — and uncovering neurological problems, such as Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, addiction and depression, a new study finds.
A team of engineers with the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology and neuroscientists from the University of Washington published their joint research Monday in the journal Nature Biomedical Engineering.
“We are eager to use the device for complex pharmacological studies, which could help us develop new therapeutics for pain, addiction and emotional disorders,” says University of Washington professor Michael Bruchas.
Using “Lego-like replaceable drug cartridges and powerful Bluetooth” energy, the tech works by targeting specific neurons using drugs and light, Science Daily reports. The replaceable cartridges allow the same brain circuits to be studied for months.
The tech has only been studied in mice so far, with the implant inserted into the rodents’ brains via a hair-thin probe. Scientists then controlled the implant with their smartphone, changing drug quantities and light sequencing with the touch of a finger and manipulating the mice’s movement for over a month.
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Man who killed wife in Queens salon hugged her after fatal stabbing
The man who stabbed his estranged Queens salon worker wife to death was seen on video standing over her with the knife and then hugging her before he was arrested and charged with murder.
Video obtained by The Post shows William Rivas, 39, laying on top of his bleeding estranged wife, 35-year-old Carmen Iris Santiago, after stabbing her repeatedly around 7 p.m. Wednesday inside the Jackson Heights shop.
“We tried to get him off of her but his strength was greater than ours,” explained Tu S’tilo Salon SPA owner Lourdes Salazar, through tears. “And then he tried stabbing us.”
The footage later shows plainclothes police officers arriving at the scene and pulling Rivas away from his dying wife as bystanders look on, some even videotaping the tragic aftermath.
Santiago, a mother of two boys who also goes by the name Iris Rodriguez, was rushed to Elmhurst General Hospital, but could not be saved.
A memorial was set up Thursday at Santiago’s work station within the salon, where co-workers placed a framed photograph of the woman, surrounded by candles, as well as a bouquet of white and purple roses, a cross and a wreath of white flowers.
A second dedication was arranged outside the store, where the same framed picture was placed on top of a donation box and lined with more candles and flowers.
The salon owner’s son, 21-year-old Freddy Chavez, described Santiago as a “single parent” who came to the country from the Dominican Republic about five years ago.
“Iris, she was a really good person, she was very caring,” he said. “They always talk about how good of a mother she was, being a single parent, coming to this country. She put them (her children) first.”
Rivas — who was hospitalized following the stabbing for an injury he suffered during the attack — was charged Thursday with murder and criminal possession of a weapon.
He has no criminal history with the NYPD and there is no documented history of domestic incidents between the couple.
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‘He Got Baby Feet’: T.I.’s Photo With Wife Tiny Harris Derails After Folks Notice His ‘Miniature’ Feet
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Rapper T.I. is getting clowned all over social media for apparently being a part of the “disadvantaged shoe size gang.”
The “You Don’t Know Me” rapper took to Instagram early Wednesday morning and posted a photo of himself and his wife Tiny Harris lounging around together on a chaise lounge. The image showed the “King” propping his legs and feet across his wife’s lap as she’s facing in the opposite direction from where he was lying.
“Busy doing nothing,” T.I. captioned the photo.
However, the “Trap King’s” sweet photo with his wife took an unexpected turn when fans called him on the carpet for his seemingly tiny feet. Some even mistook his yellow shoes for Tiny’s until they noticed his legs over her lap.
“So no one gonna ask why he got baby feet ??”
“I thought those were Tiny’s feet but naw them tip’s ?”
“Damn brah what u were a size 4? Them miniture ass feet boi ?.”
“Your feet look so little wittle ?.”
A few fans defended the rapper, claiming it was the photo angle.
“I don’t think that’s really how his feet look it’s the damn angle y’all ? enjoy the damn pic.”
“He is little though what u expect his feet fit his body you haters ?. Tiny ain’t complaining.”
T.I. and Tiny were spotted on vacation last week for their nine-year anniversary although their whereabouts were unknown. The pair doted on each other in style at a luxurious beachfront villa, which was all captured on camera by the “Big Things Poppin” rapper himself.
The Xscape singer bragged about their love and luxurious vacation in a post from Aug 2., writing, “9yrs later & it feels like we on our honeymoon!! This love is crazy, unexplainable, passionate,rare, & real. I’m in love with the way u love me!! Happy Anniversary Big Daddy @troubleman31 #18yrsStrong.”
T.I. and Tiny share seven children, including Major, King, and baby Heiress, whom the couple share together, sons Domani and Messiah and daughter Deyjah Harris from T.I.’s previous relationships, and Pullins from Tiny’s former relationship.
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Sales of Bulletproof Backpacks Surge in Wake of Last Week’s Mass Shootings, Companies Say
It’s a fear particularly potent among parents of young children and especially now, days away from the start of the school year. It’s not unwarranted — CNN examined 10 years of shootings on K-12 campuses and found two sobering truths: School shootings are increasing, and no type of community is spared.
Instead of letting their children choose a plastic backpack covered in Hello Kitty or Spider-Man, some parents are purchasing bags that double as shields in case kids get caught in gunfire.
Companies like Guard Dog Security, Bullet Blocker and TuffyPacks designed bulletproof backpacks to quell those concerns.
The retailers said backpack sales spike during the back-to-school season, and all three said they they saw a significant uptick in the aftermath of mass shootings.
Bulletproof backpacks are a ‘consumer favorite’
Joe Curran founded Bullet Blocker 12 years ago after a shooting at Virginia Tech killed 33 people.
To protect his two school-aged children, the former sheriff’s deputy inserted body armor into their backpacks, he said. Classmates’ parents asked for inserts for their children’s bags, and it grew into a business.
The company’s website calls the bulletproof backpack a “consumer favorite.” Prices range from $160 to $490. Most are JanSport or High Sierra backpacks retrofitted with ballistic panels sewn into the back. The smallest offering, the “Junior Pack,” is suggested for preschoolers.
Sales have increased 200% since the mass shootings last weekend, Curran said.
Demand increased after Parkland
Yasir Sheikh, president of Guard Dog Security, said the company launched a line of bulletproof backpacks in 2013. And since 2018, they’ve cropped up in major retailers like Office Depot and Bed Bath & Beyond.
They’re marketed as “bulletproof” or “bullet-resistant,” depending on the store, but the two are synonymous, he said. The bags retail for between $119.99 and $299.99.
Sheikh couldn’t draw a direct correlation between mass shootings and sales increases, but he said there was a significant rise in demand after the Parkland, Florida, school shooting last year.
“What we’re finding is, sometimes, events trigger heightened awareness of the product,” he said.
The Florida company builds and designs its bulletproof backpacks and tests them at a facility accredited by the National Institute of Justice, a research branch of the Department of Justice.
Guard Dog’s backpacks offer Level IIIA protection, a National Institute of Justice standard that means they were tested to withstand 9-mm, .44 magnum and shotgun ammunition. They’re not built to protect against the ammunition of rifles or assault weapons.
Lightweight inserts double as shields from bullets
Steve Naremore, CEO of TuffyPacks, said he launched the company in 2015 after his daughter, who teaches fourth grade, told him how frequently her school required her to perform active shooter drills with her students.
Although the company sells some retrofitted backpacks, it specializes in lightweight, removable ballistic shields.
The Level IIIA-rated shields are made of a ballistic-rated synthetic fiber that’s five times stronger than steel, according to the website. The 24-layer inserts last up to five years.
About 95% of the company’s customers are parents and grandparents who buy them for children, Naremore said.
“We always see spikes in sales in the days or weeks after shootings,” he said. TuffyPacks’ sales rose nearly 300% over the past week, according to Naremore.
There’s a mixed reaction from consumers
The weekend’s mass shootings are a painful reminder for parents
Raquel K.W. Donahue decided to purchase a bulletproof insert for her 6-year-old son before he starts first grade. She opted for the insert instead of the pricier backpack because he’ll outgrow a bag quickly, and the insert was marketed to last 20 years, she said.
Donahue is a reference and instruction librarian at Prairie View A&M University in Texas. About an hour and a half away is Santa Fe, Texas, where 10 people were killed at a high school in May 2018; 10 hours away is El Paso, where a gunman killed 22 people at a Wal-Mart on Saturday.
Her campus, like all public college campuses in the state, is legally required to allow adults over 21 who have concealed carry permits to carry a handgun on school grounds.
Gun violence is something she’s thought about fleetingly, she said, but the horror in El Paso and in Dayton, Ohio, brought it to the forefront, not just for her son but for her family.
Her brother lives in El Paso, and it wasn’t until Monday that she heard from him and learned that he was uninjured. And with racist sentiment swirling in the state and beyond, being Mexican American has become an “added concern” to gun violence, she said.
“I dislike the additional level of anxiety that’s sort of randomly interjected into my life,” she said.
An uncomfortable truth
“There is the morbidity factor,” Naremore acknowledged of the product’s purpose.
The very existence of a bulletproof backpack forces parents confront an uncomfortable reality, but it’s a conversation many children are having in schools and an essential one for parents who want to protect them, Sheikh said.
“When I was in school, there was no such thing as active shooter drills,” he said. “But times have changed.”
Donahue’s son brought it up first. He came home from an active shooter drill in kindergarten and shared what he’d learned to do if a “bad guy comes to hurt him,” she said.
“He’s worried about things I never dreamed of,” she said. “It makes me sad — and angry.”
She’s had active shooter trainings at work, too. After a 2014 shooting in a library at Florida State University in Tallahassee — the same town where a gunman would kill two women in a yoga studio four years later — Donahue her fellow librarians have planned what they’d do in case of an attack.
“It’s sort of incredible how this is impacting both my personal and professional life.”
Companies like Guard Dog make bulletproof bags for Donahue, too. Although their more popular items are children’s backpacks, they manufacture laptop bags and heavier, larger packs, modeled by men in suits.
Donahue and her son’s father saw the backpack inserts emblazoned with the Avengers and Disney princesses — TuffyPacks stopped selling them after Disney released a statement saying it hadn’t authorized the use of the characters — but they chose a black AR500 Level III bulletproof insert. Unlike the children’s packs sold in Office Depot, her son’s plate can withstand rifle ammunition.
“I think we’re both upset that this is the reality, but we feel it’s important to address the reality,” she said. “It’s not a guarantee, but it’s some measure we can take to feel just a little bit better about sticking him on that school bus every day.”
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Mass Shootings Can Be Contagious, Research Shows
There were three high-profile shootings across the country in one week: The shooting in Gilroy, Calif., on July 28, and then the back-to-back shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, this past weekend.
That’s no surprise, say scientists who study mass shootings. Research shows that these incidents usually occur in clusters and tend to be contagious. Intensive media coverage seems to drive the contagion, the researchers say.
Back in 2014 and 2015, researchers at Arizona State University analyzed data on cases of mass violence. They included USA Today‘s data on mass killings (defined as four or more people killed using any means, including guns) from 2006 to 2013, data on school shootings between 1998 and 2013, and mass shootings (defined as incidents in which three people were shot, not necessarily killed) between 2005 and 2013 collected by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.
The lead researcher, Sherry Towers, a faculty research associate at Arizona State University, had spent most of her career modeling the spread of infectious diseases — like Ebola, influenza and sexually transmitted diseases. She wanted to know whether cases of mass violence spread contagiously, like in a disease outbreak.
So, she plugged each data set into a mathematical model.
“What we found was that for the mass killings — so these are high-profile mass killings where there’s at least four people killed — there was significant evidence of contagion,” says Towers. “We also found significant evidence of contagion in the school shootings.”
In other words, school shootings and other shootings with four or more deaths spread like a contagion — each shooting tends to spark more shootings.
“So one happens and you see another few happen right after that,” says Jillian Peterson, a criminologist at Hamline University in Minnesota and founder of the nonpartisan think tank, The Violence Project. She wasn’t involved in the Arizona State research but has found similar patterns in her own research.
Towers and her colleagues also found that what set apart shootings that were contagious was the amount of media coverage they received. “In the incidences where there were four or more people killed, and even school shootings, those tended to get national and even international media attention,” says Towers.
She also found that there is a window when a shooting is most likely to lead to more incidents — about two weeks. Towers and her team published their results in 2015.
It’s a form of social contagion, says Peterson, somewhat like a suicide contagion — that’s when a high-profile suicide leads to more people to take their own lives. For example, following the suicide of actor Robin Williams, researchers documented a 10% spike in suicides in the months following his death. Vulnerable individuals who are already struggling with suicidal thoughts read or watched news reports of the actor’s death and then took their own lives.
Mass shooting contagion is similar, she says.
Peterson has interviewed living mass shooters in prison and people who knew such perpetrators and has found that these individuals often start out feeling suicidal.
“We can show about 80 percent were actively suicidal prior to the shooting,” she says.
Now, the vast majority of people who are suicidal don’t attack others. And people with any kind of mental health problems aren’t more likely to be violent than others. In fact, they are more likely to be victims of violence than those without mental illness.
But Peterson says that in very rare cases, a tiny minority of people considering suicide go down the path of violence toward others. She has come to think of mass shootings as a form of suicide. “They’re angry, horrible suicides that take a lot of people with them,” she says. “The shooter never intends to live; there’s never a getaway plan. Typically they tend to think of this [as] their kind of last moment.”
Other researchers have documented the same in studies of active shooters.
“About half of the school shooters I’ve studied died by suicide in their attack,” Peter Langman, a clinical psychologist in Allentown, Pa., told NPR earlier this year. “It’s often a mix of severe depression and anguish and desperation driving them to end their own lives.”
Vulnerable individuals who are also angry and already considering violence may read or watch the news of a mass shooting and identify with the shooter and be inspired by them.
“So a mass shooting happens and then vulnerable individuals who are actively suicidal and in crisis and hear about the shooting and see this as kind of a script that they could also follow,” she says.
Access to guns and a venue allows them to follow that script.
“There is this element of wanting notoriety in death that you don’t have in life,” Peterson says. “So when one happens and it makes headlines and the names and pictures are everywhere and the whole world is talking about it, that becomes something that other people see as a possibility for themselves.”
Now it’s hard to know yet whether the shooter in Dayton, Ohio, was consciously influenced by the shooter in El Paso, the one in Gilroy, Calif., or another shooting.
But Sherry Towers notes that there’s clear evidence that the shooter in El Paso, Texas, was inspired by the shooting at a mosque in New Zealand back in March.
“It’s in his manifesto that he published online,” says Towers. “He mentions that he wanted to emulate the Christchurch, New Zealand, shooting.”
Peterson and other researchers who study mass shootings think the media should avoid showing the shooters’ images and dwelling on their life histories and motives. “The fact that we give them that notoriety is problematic,” says Peterson.
Article via NPR
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