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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Bi In news this hour, Doug Davis coming up. House
Majority leader Mike Johnson is calling for the center of
California Senator Padilla following yesterday's fiasco at an event with
DHS Secretary Christy Noam. A black woman from South Florida
previously convicted of killing her boyfriend could potentially have a
second chance at freedom, and a pioneering black leader was

(00:22):
laid to rest today. But first, here's Bigian news. Now.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Janilius is cracking down on
this use of license plate data after Texas police allegedly
used it to track a woman over abortion care.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
When this data is being used to track people getting abortions,
or for ice to use to track down individuals based
on immigration policy, that is a very slippery slope.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
Illinois now has cut off access to out of state
agencies violating the rules. In North Carolina, police fossely accused
a black tow truck driver of stealing a car he
legally towed. Officers tried to seize the vehicle from Casey's
Towing in Greensboro, but backed off after a city attorney intervene.
The incident is now under internal investigation and the black
missing North Carolina teen has been found safe after fleeing

(01:06):
home in a paranoid state for several days. Seventeen year
old Deonte James had smoked synthetic marijuana. His family is
now warning others about the dangers of synthetic drugs. Skippi
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the iHeartRadio app. Here's Doug Davis.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
Hey, thanks bri. As many of us know the force will.
Removal of Senator Alex Padilla from a DHS press conference
in Los Angeles yesterday sent shockwaves through political circles and
households nationwide. He spoke on what transpired at that meeting
while speaking to MSNBC not long ago.

Speaker 4 (01:37):
I spoke up. I introduced myself and said I had
a question. Look, they said I was wearing my pen
my polo says United States Senate. There was no threat,
there was no lunging. I raised my voice to ask
a question, and it took what maybe half a second
before multiple agents were on me. I didn't barge into
the room. I didn't even open the door. The door
was opened for me, and I spent a few minutes

(01:58):
in the back of the room, listening in until the rhetoric.
The political rhetoric got to be too much to take,
so I spoke up.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
The Senator was quickly forced out of that room and
was pushed to the ground by agents in a hallway
and was placed in handcuffs. In a shocking announcement earlier today,
House Majority Speaker Mike Johnson is calling for a padia
to be censured.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
You don't charge a sitting cabinet secretary. Think there needs
to be a message sent by the body as a
whole that that is not what we are going to do.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
That's not how we're going to act. MSNBC reports. Johnson
made the statement just before members of the Congressional Hispanic
Caucus arrived at his office to protest the incident. Meanwhile,
in South Florida, for nearly two years, African American Natoya
Holmes sat in a prison cell, convicted of manslaughter for
the shooting death of her boyfriend, but a new ruling
has reopened her case, giving her another chance to fight

(02:46):
for her freedom. Holmes was sentenced to thirteen years in
prison last year for killing Verdell Goings and what she
claimed was an act of self defense. Yes, I'm responsible
for the death of verdil Band. Prosecutors say she killed
Goings in a jealous rage, but in a surprise announcement,

(03:07):
the Third District Court of Appeals found that her trial
was tainted by faulty evidence presented by prosecutors when they
accused her of shooting another person years ago. Her attorney
tails NBC's South Florida she would have been acquitted if
those details were not shared with jurors.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
Jury should never have heard many of these details that
she was found legally justified in a prior incident for
several years prior. I have no doubt that once the
prosecution was able to get into details of this prior
bad act allegation, that changed the trajectory and the course
and ultimately the outcome of this trial.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
Now, with the conviction overturn, she's preparing for a new
trial in hopes of convincing a jury that her actions
were justified. And finally, Saint Patrick's Cathedral and Manhattan was
filled with mourners this morning paying their respects to Black
Congressman Charles Wrangeld, an amazing champion of black justice and
civil rights, known as the Line of Lenox Avenue. Rangell

(04:02):
spent nearly half of a century in the House of Representatives,
becoming a pillar in the fight for racial and economic justice.
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