Melissa Fato
speaker
81 appearances
12 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard 19 Aug
Melissa Fato’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Eric Andre in Clayton English say Clayton County police unlawfully profiled them in a practice where officers would intercept boarding passengers on the jet bridge.
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The policing project at New York University says the county regarded these encounters as consensual and random and necessary to fight drug trafficking.
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But in reality, travelers were pressured to go through with questioning and search of their belongings.
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As part of the settlement,
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The county has agreed to end that practice and have all officers assigned to the airport wear a body camera, which Andre called a major victory.
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In a statement, Clayton County says the settlement includes no admission of liability, and that all parties agreed to move on.
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Friend Pierre News, I'm Melissa Fato in Atlanta.
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Court documents show back in February, 18-year-old Carter Camacho traveled from his home in Smyrna, Georgia to Washington, D.C., where he put on a tactical vest and camouflaged clothing and charged toward the Capitol building holding a loaded shotgun with the safety off.
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Armed law enforcement stopped him before he could enter.
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No one was injured.
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Camacho pled guilty to two charges, illegal possession of a firearm on Capitol grounds,
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which carries a maximum penalty of up to five years in prison, and based on a later search of his phone, for receipt or distribution of child pornography, which could put him away for up to 20 years.
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His sentencing is scheduled for December.
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For NPR News, I'm Melissa Fato in Atlanta.
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Fulton County officials argued a DOJ subpoena requesting the names and information of every county employee and poll volunteer was meant to harass and intimidate them.
They asked a federal judge to intervene.
In his decision, U.S.
District Judge William Wray called the subpoena highly burdensome and unreasonable.
He also noted the statute of limitations has long since passed, so the feds couldn't use the information to charge anyone with a crime.
Wray scolded the DOJ for trying to use grand jury powers to gain private information without a legitimate purpose.
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