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ByJesseJ.Holland TheAssociatedPress WASHINGTON A major- ity of blacks in the United States — more than 3 out of 5 — say they or a family member have personal ex- perience with being treated unfairly by the police, and their race is the reason. Half of African-Ameri- can respondents, includ- ing 6 in 10 black men, said they personally had been treated unfairly by police because of their race, com- pared with 3 percent of whites. Another 15 percent said they knew of a fam- ily member who had been treated unfairly by the po- lice because of their race. This information, from a survey conducted by the As- sociated Press-NORC Cen- ter for Public Affairs Re- search, comes as the Mi- chael Brown shooting in Ferguson, Missouri, ap- proaches its first anniver- sary and the nation con- tinues to grapple with po- lice-related deaths of black Americans. White Americans who live in more diverse com- munities — where census data show at least 25 per- cent of the population is non-white — were more likely than other whites to say police in their commu- nities mistreat minorities, 58 percent to 42 percent. And they're more likely to see the police as too quick to use deadly force, 42 per- cent to 29 percent. Larry Washington, 30, of Merrillville, Indiana, described his encounter with a white police offi- cer when he was arrested for theft in Burbank, Illi- nois, as a teenager. "When I got to the police station, the officer who arrested me told me that I looked like I wanted to do something about it," Washington said, adding, "And he kept call- ing me 'nigger.'" "It's been like this for a long time," Washington said. "It's just now that ev- erybody starting to record it and stuff, it's just hitting the spotlight. Most Cauca- sians, they think it's just starting to go on when it's been like this." The AP-NORC poll also showed: • More than two-thirds of blacks — 71 percent — thought police are treated too leniently by the crim- inal justice system when they hurt or kill people. A third of whites say police are getting away with it, while nearly half — 46 per- cent — say the police are treated fairly by the crim- inal justice system. • Sixty-two percent of whites said a major rea- son why police violence happens is that civilians confront the police, rather than cooperate, when they are stopped. Three out of 4 blacks, or 75 percent, said it is because the conse- quences of police miscon- duct are minimal, and few officers are prosecuted for excessive use of force. More than 7 in 10 blacks identi- fied problems with race re- lations, along with poor po- lice-community relations, as major reasons for police violence. • Nearly 3 out of 4 whites — 74 percent — thought race had nothing to do with how police in their commu- nities decide to use deadly force. Among blacks, 71 percent thought police were more likely to use deadly force against black people in their communities, and 85 percent said the same thing applied generally across the country. Fifty- eight percent of whites thought race had nothing to do with police decisions in most communities on use of deadly force. Seventy-two percent of whites said they always or often trust police to do right by them and their community, while 66 per- cent of blacks said they only sometimes, rarely or never trust the police to do what is right. POLL Ha lf o f bl ac ks s ay p ol ic e ha ve t re at ed t hem u nf ai rl y By Erik Schelzig The Associated Press ANTIOCH, TENN. A suspect wielding a hatchet, gun and pepper spray inside a Nash- ville-area movie theater died after exchanging gun- shots with a SWAT team as he tried to escape through the theater's rear door, po- lice said Wednesday. The suspect, whom po- lice identified as a 51-year- old white local man, was armed with a gun and a hatchet or an ax during a showing of "Mad Max" at the Carmike Hickory 8 the- ater in Antioch, said Don Aaron, a spokesman for Metro Nashville police. Aaron said the suspect was carrying a backpack on his chest and was wearing a surgical mask, Aaron said. He said three people were blasted with the spray and treated. One of those peo- ple also had a superficial wound that could have been caused by a hatchet, said fire department spokes- man Brian Haas. No one was taken to a hospital. Aaron said an offi- cer came into the theater, where at least 20 people were present, seconds was fired upon by the suspect. The officer shot back, then backed off. About two dozen gunshots could be heard in a 10-second period in raw video footage posted online by WKRN TV. TENNESSEE Po li ce : Suspect with gun dead at theater By Jeff Amy The Associated Press AUGUSTA,MISS. Investiga- tors are questioning a per- son of interest after shots were reportedly fired a second consecutive day near a military facility in southern Mississippi, of- ficials said Wednesday. There were no reported injuries. About 8 a.m. Wednes- day, soldiers training at the Camp Shelby Joint Forces Training Center reported shots fired into the air, said Lt. Col. Christian Pat- terson. It was in the same area where soldiers re- ported gunshots fired from a pickup truck a day earlier, Patterson said. The description of the shooter was the same in both instances, Patterson said: a white male in a red pickup truck. Later in the day, Missis- sippi Bureau of Investiga- tion agents stopped a per- son of interest and took that person into custody for questioning, said MBI spokesman Warren Strain. Strain would not identify the person or say where the person was being ques- tioned. Video from two television stations show authorities taking a man into custody. A small maroon pickup truck is pulled off the side of the highway. CAMP SHELBY Pe rs on o f interest a er shots fired near base By Seth Borenstein The Associated Press WASHINGTON Heat-trap- ping pollution from U.S. power plants hit a 27-year low in April, the Depart- ment of Energy announced Wednesday. A big factor was the long-term shift from coal to cleaner and cheaper nat- ural gas, said Energy De- partment economist Allen McFarland. Outside ex- perts also credit more re- newable fuel use and en- ergy efficiency. Carbon dioxide — from the burning of coal, oil and gas — is the chief green- house gas responsible for man-made global warm- ing. "While good news for the environment, we cer- tainly would not want to assume that this trend will continue and that we can simply relax," said John Reilly, co-director of MIT's Joint Program on the Sci- ence and Policy of Global Change. Electric power plants spewed 141 million tons of carbon dioxide in April, the lowest for any month since April 1988, according to Energy Department fig- ures. The power plants are responsible for about one- third of the country's heat- trapping emissions. April emissions peaked at 192 million tons in 2008 and dropped by 26 percent in seven years. Carbon pollution from power plants hit their peak in August 2007 with 273 million tons; summer emissions are higher be- cause air conditioning re- quires more power. In past years, experts said the U.S. reduction in carbon dioxide pollution was more a function of a sluggish economy, but Mc- Farland said that's no lon- ger the case. The price of natural gas has dropped 39 per- cent in the past year, he said. Federal analysts predict that this year the amount of electric- ity from natural gas will increase 3 percent com- pared to last year while the power from coal will go down 10 percent. Those reductions were calculated before this week's announcements of new power plant rules. The new rules aim to cut car- bon pollution from elec- tricity generators another 20 percent from current levels by 2030. ENVIRONMENT Power plant carbon pollution hits 27-year low DYLANLOVAN—THEASSOCIATEDPRESSFILE The Paradise Fossil Plant stands in Drakesboro Ky., is shown. By Alan Fram The Associated Press WASHINGTON A lead- ing Republican senator proposed a National Ri- fle Association-backed bill Wednesday that he said would make the federal background check system for gun buyers more effec- tive and bolster programs for treating people with mental illness. The measure drew criti- cism from groups advocat- ing stricter controls over firearms, who singled out provisions they said would make it easier for some unstable people to obtain deadly weapons. But it was backed by the National Al- liance on Mental Illness, which advocates for men- tally ill people, and groups representing police organi- zations, correctional work- ers and social workers. No. 2 Senate Republi- can John Cornyn of Texas unveiled the legislation in the wake of last month's mass shooting in a Louisi- ana movie theater by a gun- man with mental problems. That and other recent fire- arms attacks have called at- tention to holes in the back- ground check system and programs for people with psychological difficulties. Cornyn said that while past bills have been de- signed to "drive a politi- cal wedge" on the issue, his was aimed at helping people with mental health issues to "hopefully pre- empt them from commit- ting an act of violence." The bill's background check provisions are far weaker than Senate leg- islation that Republicans and the NRA killed two years ago; that legislation would have required the checks for firearms bought at gun shows and online. 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