Water investigations test Biden racial equity pledge

(26 Oct 2022)

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ARCHIVE: Jackson, Mississippi - 8 September 2022
1.Tight of water faucet pushing water out
ANNOTATION: The Environmental Protection Agency is investigating whether Mississippi state agencies discriminated against the state's capital city.
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ARCHIVE: Jackson, Mississippi – 31 August 2022
2.Tight of slow water pouring
ANNOTATION: Mississippi's refusal to fund water system improvements played a role in Jackson losing running water for several days in late summer.
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ARCHIVE: Jackson, Mississippi – 1 September 2022
3.Various drone aerials over water pump station
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ARCHIVE: Jackson, Mississippi – 31 August 2022
4.Water dripping from shower in apartment complex.
5.Water dripping from bathroom sink
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Jackson, Mississippi - 24 October 2022
6.SOUNDBITE (English) U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, (D) Mississippi:
"The questions that came up tonight as a broader view, talking about the health of its citizens, whether or not it was being tested properly."
ANNOTATION: On Monday, U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson spoke at a meeting sponsored by the NAACP in Jackson.
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Jackson, Mississippi - 24 October 2022
7.Various of town hall meeting hosted by NAACP
ANNOTATION: More than 80% of the city's 150,000 residents are Black and about a quarter of the population lives in poverty.
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Jackson, Mississippi - 8 March 2020
8.STILL image of Joe Biden speaking at New Hope Baptist Church
ANNOTATION: The meeting was in the same church where President Biden told a congregation in 2020 that he would help people who had been oppressed.
++PARTIALLY COVERED SOUNDBITE++
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Jackson, Mississippi - 24 October 2022
9.SOUNDBITE (English) U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, (D) Mississippi:
"There's issues about testing. There's issues about what's in the water. So there are a number of rightful issues that customers have that we have not heard in the general discussion."
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ARCHIVE: Jackson, Mississippi – 8 September 2022
10.Aerial drone shot of Mississippi State Capital
ANNOTATION: The EPA could withhold money from the state if it finds wrongdoing — potentially millions of dollars.
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Jackson, Mississippi - 24 October 2022
11.SOUNDBITE (English) Derrick Johnson, NAACP:
"In twenty five years with the state of Mississippi receiving federal funds for water, the city of Jackson received funds only three of those twenty five years. That's an inequity that this administration said they were going to address."
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Jackson, Mississippi - 8 March 2020
12.STILL image of Joe Biden standing with U.S. Representative Bennie Thompson
ANNOTATION: The civil investigation is expected to take about four months.
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ARCHIVE: Jackson, Mississippi – 31 August 2022
13.Water dripping from kitchen sink
STORYLINE:
Federal investigations into public spending on the failing water system in Mississippi's majority-Black capital city are a test of President Joe Biden's commitment to racial equity, one of his congressional allies told hundreds of people at a town hall meeting hosted by the NAACP.
"President Biden has made a fundamental policy in his administration to talk about equity. And this is an issue of equity and fair treatment about the citizens of Jackson," Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson said Monday night at Jackson's New Hope Baptist Church — the same spacious sanctuary where Biden spoke during the 2020 campaign.
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