Issue link: https://www.epageflip.net/i/723444
ByAmyAnthony The Associated Press PROVIDENCE,R.I. Hermine twisted hundreds of miles offshore in the Atlantic Ocean on Monday, creating large waves in some south- ern New England beach waters that lured in surf- ers despite the rough surf and rip currents that kept most beachgoers away on the last day of the holiday weekend. "These are more sea- soned surfers who live for the thrill of these waves," said Kim Buttrick, a me- teorologist with the Na- tional Weather Service in Taunton, Massachusetts. Hermine's position Mon- day southeast of Nantucket created 20-foot waves and wind gusts of up to 50 kph about 55 miles southeast of the island, Buttrick said. Hermine was expected to stall over the water before weakening again. Even as Hermine weak- ens, wind gusts of 30 to 50 mph were expected across southern Rhode Island and southeastern Massa- chusetts on Monday, But- trick said. Governors along the Eastern Seaboard an- nounced emergency prep- arations. A tropical storm warning was in effect from New York's Long Island to Massachusetts. New York officials extended beach closures beyond Labor Day because of continued deadly rip currents. The New York Post said police issued $80 tickets to at least four surfers at the Rockaway Beach surf spot. An emergency worker who dived into the Atlan- tic Ocean at Coney Island to save a swimmer who violated the ban told the Post the current felt like a "300-pound guy pulling me back out to sea." Whipping winds didn't keep some beach seekers from walking along the New Jersey shore, but La- bor Day vacationers quickly took to boardwalks as an aggressive high tide moved into the area. The waves eroded some of the shore, creating sand dune cliffs where kids climbed. Warnings of po- tentially dangerous riptides temporarily cleared the wa- ter Monday, but a couple of dozen beachgoers and a handful of surfers returned to the water in Atlantic City by the afternoon. A rougher surf cleared portions of the beachfront. MD Mahabub Khan has worked as a taxi cart pusher at the shore for 27 years and said he still at- tracted some business over the weekend, but the smaller crowds were no- ticeable. "People from New York and New Jersey are kind of stuck here (during bad weather), so they can still come," if forecasts don't play out as predicted, Khan said. Hermine rose over the Gulf of Mexico and hit Florida on Friday as a Cat- egory 1 hurricane before weakening to a tropical storm across Georgia. It has caused at least three deaths, inflicted wide- spread property damage and knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of people from Florida to Vir- ginia. Since sea levels have risen to a foot because of global warming, the storm surges pushed by Hermine could be even more dam- aging, climate scientists say. "We are already expe- riencing more and more flooding due to climate change in every storm," said Michael Oppenheimer, a geosciences professor at Princeton University. "And it's only the beginning." Michael Mann, at Penn- sylvania State University, said the 1-foot rise that New York City has expe- rienced over the past cen- tury caused an additional 25 square miles and several billions of dollars of dam- age with Superstorm Sandy in 2012. No flooding or other damage had been reported as of Monday afternoon in some of the worst Sandy- hit areas, including Point Pleasant Beach, Bay Head, Mantoloking and Brick. On Saturday, high winds tipped over an 18-wheeler, killing its driver and shut- ting down a bridge in North Carolina's Outer Banks. EAST COAST Herminelingersoffshore, bringing rough waves JENNIFERPELTZ—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS Beachgoers stand at the edge of the water Sunday in Bridgehampton, N.Y., on the southeastern shore of Long Island, where the effects of storm system Hermine could be seen in the rough surf and a ban on swimming. EVAN VUCCI — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE A man wears a hoodie which reads, "Black Lives Matter" as stands on the lawn of the Capitol building on Capitol Hill in Washington during a rally to mark the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March. By Jesse J. Holland and Emily Swanson The Associated Press WASHINGTON Support for the Black Lives Matter movement has increased among young white adults, according to a poll that sug- gests a majority of white, black, Asian and Hispanic young adults now support the movement calling for accountability for police in the deaths of African-Amer- icans. Fifty-onepercentofwhite adults between the ages of 18 and 30 say in a GenFor- ward poll they now strongly or somewhat support Black Lives Matter, a 10-point in- crease since June, while 42 percent said they do not support the movement. But most young whites also think the movement's rhetoric encourages vio- lence against the police, while the vast majority of young blacks say it does not. And young whites are more likely to consider vi- olence against police a se- rious problem than say the same about the killings of African-Americans by po- lice. Black, Hispanic and Asian youth already had expressed strong major- ity support for the Black Lives Matter movement in the June poll. Eighty-five percent of African-Ameri- can young adults now say they support the protesters. Sixty-seven percent of Asian and 62 percent of Hispanic young adults agreed with that sentiment. The GenForward survey of adults age 18 to 30 is con- ducted by the Black Youth Project at the University of Chicago with the Asso- ciated Press-NORC Cen- ter for Public Affairs Re- search. The first-of-its-kind poll pays special attention to the voices of young adults of color, highlighting how race and ethnicity shape the opinions of a new gen- eration. Sean Bradley, 26, of Clearwater, Florida, said watching several encoun- ters between police and black suspects online helped cement his support for Black Lives Matter. As a white male, he said, he also has had run-ins with the police and witnessed officers trying to cover for what he considered illegal conduct by other officers. "The fact is that the police target blacks and they discriminate against blacks," Bradley said. "Be- cause of how they've treated blacks over the years, of course they (blacks) don't trust them (police) and I know for a fact that some of the things the police do are illegal. I would be up- set as well." The Black Lives Mat- ter movement emerged in 2012 after Florida neigh- borhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman was acquitted in the fatal shoot- ing of an unarmed black teenager, Trayvon Martin. It gathered strength in en- suing years following the deaths of other black men at the hands of police in New York, South Carolina, Balti- more and elsewhere. The August GenFor- ward poll came after po- lice in Baton Rouge, Louisi- ana, fatally shot Alton Ster- ling after pinning him to the ground, and after Phi- lando Castile was shot and killed by a white police offi- cer during a traffic stop in a suburb of Minneapolis. Asked specifically about recent killings of black peo- ple by the police, 72 per- cent of African-American young people, 61 percent of Asian-Americans, 51 per- cent of Latinos and 40 per- cent of whites said they con- sider those killings part of a larger pattern, rather than isolated. But young blacks are much more likely than young whites to call killings of black people by the po- lice a very or extremely se- rious problem, 91 percent to 43 percent. Sixty-three per- cent of young whites think that violence against police is a serious problem, similar to the 60 percent of young African-Americans who say so. Poll: Support for Black Li ve s Mat te r gr ow s among white youth SOCIAL MOVEMENT By David Sharp The Associated Press PORTLAND, MAINE No law enforcement statistics even come close to backing up Republican Gov. Paul LeP- age's assertion blacks and Hispanics account for "90- plus percent" of heroin traf- ficking arrests in his state. LePage, who previously told the Portland NAACP chapter to "kiss my butt" and blamed out-of-state drug dealers for impreg- nating "young white" girls, sparked another racial up- roar when he said Aug. 24 that data he'd collected indi- cate out-of-state blacks and Hispanics accounted for "90-plus percent" of heroin trafficking arrests in Maine. FBI data contradict LeP- age's assertion, and a crim- inologist called the gover- nor's data "laughable." Meanwhile, members of the black community in Maine, the whitest state, fear LePage's comments strengthen racial stereo- types and tacitly approve of racial profiling. "I think this fear-mon- gering and these us-against- them kind of statements do not advance the community conversation, do not ad- dress the real issue of drug abuse," said the Rev. Ken- neth I. Lewis Jr., pastor at the Green Memorial A.M.E. Church, Maine's oldest Af- rican-American congrega- tion, in Portland. The Maine Department of Public Safety doesn't in- clude race when compiling and analyzing crime data. And the most recent crime data from the FBI suggest the governor's claim doesn't pass muster. The FBI data show that blacks accounted for 14 per- cent of a total of 1,211 drug sale and manufacturing ar- rests and 7.4 percent of 5,791 total drug arrests in Maine in 2014, the most recent numbers available. Broken down by type of offense, the data showed that blacks accounted for 36 percent of arrests for selling or manufacturing cocaine, opium and their derivatives and 26 percent when synthetic narcotics including most prescription narcotics were included in the tally. The FBI doesn't in- clude a category for Hispan- ics in its statistics. MAINE St at s on t ra ffi ck in g, r ac e don't back up governor | NEWS | REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2016 4 B