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ANINDITO MUKHERJEE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Being tested in Masli, Tripura, in eastern India. The coronavirus is hitting towns and villages where resources are scant. Page A4.‘Rural Surge’ in India

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — One offi-cer wrote in his arrest report thathe knew that Daniel Prude hadbeen “previously suicidal” beforehis disastrous encounter with po-lice and had spent hours a day ear-lier in a psychiatric ward.

Police body-camera footageshows that after officers re-strained Mr. Prude, they stoodaround him, smiling and laughing

as he made delusional comments.He could be seen shouting inco-herently as he lay naked, hand-cuffed and hooded, in the street ona frigid night.

A lieutenant later acknowl-edged in internal police docu-ments that Mr. Prude had “actedin a fashion consistent with an in-dividual in some form of mentaldistress.”

The death of Mr. Prude, whosuffocated after three officers

placed the hood over his head, hasintensified scrutiny of the policetreatment of Black people, touch-ing off weeks of protests and offi-cial soul-searching in this RustBelt city of 206,000 on Lake Ontar-

io.But it has also highlighted an-

other deep-seated problem inmany police departments: Armedpolice officers, intensely drilled intechniques to subdue violent sus-pects, often seem ill-equipped todeal with people who are mentallyill or in a drug-induced delirium.

Around the country, the Prudecase has helped to galvanize thedebate over police department

Rochester Case Puts Focus on Police Failures With Mental IllnessBy EDGAR SANDOVAL ‘Suicidal’ Suspect and a

Deadly Encounter

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Storming the State Capitol. In-stigating a civil war. Abducting asitting governor ahead of the pres-idential election.

Those were among the plots de-scribed by federal and state offi-cials in Michigan on Thursday asthey announced terrorism, con-spiracy and weapons chargesagainst 13 men. At least six ofthem, officials said, had hatched adetailed plan to kidnap Gov.Gretchen Whitmer, a Democratwho has become a focal point ofanti-government views and angerover coronavirus control meas-ures.

The group that planned the kid-napping met repeatedly over thesummer for firearms training andcombat drills and practiced build-ing explosives, the F.B.I. said;members also gathered severaltimes to discuss the mission, in-cluding in the basement of a shopthat was accessible only through a“trap door” under a rug.

The men spied on Ms. Whit-mer’s vacation home in Augustand September, even looking un-der a highway bridge for placesthey could place and detonate abomb to distract the authorities,the F.B.I. said. They indicated thatthey wanted to take Ms. Whitmerhostage before the election in No-vember, and one man said theyshould take her to a “secure loca-tion” in Wisconsin for a “trial,”Richard J. Trask II, an F.B.I. spe-cial agent, said in the criminalcomplaint.

Mr. Trask said that one of those

Whitmer SaidTo Be TargetedIn Kidnap Plot

This article is by Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, Shaila Dewan andKathleen Gray.

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About 35 years ago in New Or-leans, a young lawyer for Shell OilCompany received an opportunitythat should have been a triumph:a prestigious transfer to the mainoffice in Houston, and a signifi-cant raise. On paper, the promo-tion was a stroke of good fortunefor the father of six. In reality, itwas devastating. He broke thenews to his wife in the driveway oftheir home. “This is awful,” he toldher. “A move to Houston meanslife for our family will never be thesame.”

The family’s life in Louisiana re-volved around an unusually tight-knit young Christian community.

Members worshiped and social-ized together for several hours ev-ery Sunday. They often shared thesame houses, or the same neigh-borhoods. Some consulted leaderson everything from their house-hold budget to whom they shouldmarry.

For about three months, MikeConey gutted it out, commutingbetween Texas and Louisiana.Then he quit the job. “Our life was

in a covenant community in NewOrleans,” he reflected much laterin a magazine published by thecommunity, which would later be-come known as the People ofPraise. “For the sake of our chil-dren and ourselves, we neededcommitted relationships withother Christians who were seriousabout their faith.”

The Coney family’s eldestdaughter, Amy, spent formativeyears of her childhood embeddedin that intense faith community inLouisiana. She later attended lawschool in South Bend, Ind., thegroup’s national hub. She marrieda man named Jesse Barrett whohad himself been raised in SouthBend’s People of Praise communi-

Close-Knit Faith Group Helped Shape BarrettBy RUTH GRAHAM

and SHARON LaFRANIERE

Amy Coney Barrett, the Supreme Court nominee, spent formative years in the People of Praise.ANNA MONEYMAKER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

A Community Notablefor the Intimacy of

Its Family Ties

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When the Trump administra-tion suspended federal funding in2019 for most new scientific re-search projects involving fetal tis-sue derived from abortions, offi-cials argued that whatever the sci-entific benefits, there was a press-ing moral imperative to findalternative research methods.

“Promoting the dignity of hu-man life from conception to natu-ral death is one of the very top pri-orities of President Trump’s ad-ministration,” the Department ofHealth and Human Services saidin a statement released at thetime.

Yet the treatment for Covid-19received by Mr. Trump — a cock-tail of monoclonal antibodies hedescribed as a “cure” in a celebra-tory video posted on Twitter —was developed using human cellsderived from a fetus aborted dec-

ades ago.Remdesivir, an antiviral drug

that the president received latelast week, was also developedwith those cell lines. At least twocompanies racing to create a vac-cine against the coronavirus,Moderna and AstraZeneca, arealso relying on the cells. Johnson& Johnson is testing its vaccine inanother so-called cell line origi-nally produced from fetal tissue.

As participants in the WhiteHouse’s Operation Warp Speed,all three vaccine-makers have re-ceived federal funding.

A Trump administration officialargued on Thursday that the pres-ident’s embracing of the treat-ments was not a contradiction.The administration’s policy on fe-tal tissue research “specificallyexcluded” cell lines made before

Trump’s Covid Cocktail ReliedOn Cells Derived From a Fetus

By APOORVA MANDAVILLI and NATHALIA HOLT

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WASHINGTON — ElliottBroidy already had a record whenhe became a major fund-raiser forthe Trump campaign in 2016. Nowhe has become the latest Trumpally to face criminal charges, thistime accused of evading foreignlobbying laws while trying tomake money off his access to theadministration.

Mr. Broidy was charged with asingle count of conspiring to vio-late the Foreign Agents Registra-tion Act as part of an influence op-eration that prosecutors saysought to use his political ties tohelp Malaysian and Chinese inter-ests, according to federal court fil-ings that became public on Thurs-day.

The case centers on an accusa-tion that Mr. Broidy accepted $6million from an unnamed foreignclient to lobby administration offi-cials to end a federal investigationrelated to the looting of the 1Ma-

laysia Development Berhad fund,known as 1MDB. The court filingalso accuses Mr. Broidy of seekingthe extradition of a Chinese citi-zen from the United States. He didnot succeed in either effort.

While the foreign client was notidentified, people familiar with thecase said he was the Malaysian fi-nancier Jho Low, who the federal

Trump Fund-Raiser Is AccusedOf Trying to Cash In on Access

By KENNETH P. VOGEL

Elliott BroidyALEX BERLINER/BEI, VIA SHUTTERSTOCK

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WASHINGTON — PresidentTrump berated his own cabinet of-ficers on Thursday for not pros-ecuting or implicating his politicalenemies, lashing out even as heannounced that he planned to re-turn to the campaign trail on Sat-urday just nine days after hetested positive for the coronavi-rus.

In his first extended public com-ments since learning he had thevirus last week, Mr. Trump wenton the offensive not only againsthis challenger, former Vice Presi-dent Joseph R. Biden Jr., but theDemocratic running mate, Sena-tor Kamala D. Harris, whom hecalled “a monster” and a “commu-nist.” He balked at participating inhis debate next Thursday with Mr.Biden if held remotely as the or-ganizers decided to do out ofhealth concerns.

But Mr. Trump secured a state-ment from the White House physi-cian clearing him to return to pub-lic engagement on Saturday andthen promptly said he would holda campaign rally in Florida, twodays earlier than the doctor hadoriginally said was needed to de-termine whether he was truly out

of danger. The president again dis-missed the virus, saying, “whenyou catch it, you get better,” ignor-ing the more than 212,000 whohave died from it in the UnitedStates.

Dr. Sean P. Conley, the WhiteHouse physician, reported thatMr. Trump “has responded ex-tremely well to treatment” andthat by Saturday, “I fully expectthe president’s return to public en-gagement.” Dr. Conley, who haspreviously acknowledged provid-ing a rosy view of the president’scondition to satisfy his patient,contradicted his own timeline of-fered when Mr. Trump was re-leased from the hospital, when hesaid doctors wanted to “getthrough to Monday.”

Mr. Trump has not been seen inperson since returning from thehospital on Monday, but he soughtto reassert himself on the publicstage with a pair of telephone in-terviews with Fox News and FoxBusiness, a video and a series ofTwitter messages. Even for him,they were scattershot perform-ances, ones that advisers said re-flected increasing frustration over

President Lashes OutAt His Aides With CallsTo Indict Political Rivals

Trump Argues for an In-Person DebateAfter His Doctor Issues Clearance

By PETER BAKER and MAGGIE HABERMAN

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Late Edition

VOL. CLXX . . . . No. 58,841 © 2020 The New York Times Company NEW YORK, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2020

At The Times and other New Yorkpapers, Jim Dwyer wrote with flair tofight injustice. He was 63. PAGE B10

OBITUARIES B10-11

Pulitzer-Winning CrusaderAmy Sillman’s new show offers a mas-ter class in how abstraction can capturethe fraught spirit of 2020. PAGE C1

WEEKEND ARTS C1-12

A Painter’s Productive Year

Decades of budget cuts laid the ground-work for a wave of death in Swedishnursing homes. PAGE B1

BUSINESS B1-6

Holes in Sweden’s Safety NetLouisiana is preparing for its seventhmajor storm this year as HurricaneDelta strengthens in the Gulf. PAGE A18

NATIONAL A18-25, 28

In a Storm’s Sights, AgainSee how, months into the pandemic,government officials at the WhiteHouse shunned public health guidanceas infections spread. PAGE A6

TRACKING AN OUTBREAK A4-13

Ignoring Basic Precautions

Stephen E. Barnes, 61, and his partnermade it big in personal injury law witha catchy commercial. PAGE B10

A Lawyer With a JingleIn “Time,” Garrett Bradley’s documenta-ry, a woman fights for her family and herincarcerated husband’s release. PAGE C9

Moving Portrait of Prison’s Toll

Some corporate bosses who receivedstock awards this year are sitting ongains of millions of dollars. PAGE B1

A Deluge of Riches to C.E.O.s

Paul Krugman PAGE A26

EDITORIAL, OP-ED A26-27

Seven police officers are in jail, in a rareofficial action to investigate child sexualabuse claims in Afghanistan. PAGE A16

INTERNATIONAL A16-17

A Boy’s Rape, and a Rare Arrest

Louise Glück, lauded for her “unmistak-able” voice, is the first female poet to beawarded the prize since 1996. PAGE A21

American Poet Wins Nobel

Sofia Kenin, the 21-year-old AustralianOpen champion, will face the rising butunseeded Iga Swiatek, 19, in the wom-en’s final of the French Open. PAGE B8

SPORTSFRIDAY B7-9

In Paris, Youth Will Be Serving

The governor and mayor faced confu-sion and anger over shutdown orders inparts of New York City. PAGE A13

Ire and Lawsuits Over Closures

Today, mostly sunny, chilly early,then seasonable, a light breeze, high68. Tonight, partly cloudy, low 59.Tomorrow, partly sunny, warmer,high 77. Weather map, Page B12.

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