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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Bin News this hour, Doug Davis coming up, Trump's DOJ
indicts format FBI director Comey and hints up there will
be others. Plus, I'm just so overwhelmed AND's so happy.
Police officer is charge after killing a black college Georgia
Mann during a high speed chase, and a black liberation
legendary leader is gone. But first, here's bin News now.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Black Saint Petersburg, Florida Mayor Ken Welch is reflecting on
Hurricane Helen's impact one year later.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
However, it's in the immediate aftermath of these hurricanes that
we saw the true spirit of Saint Pete.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
So the ice stayed offshore. The storm brought record surge
and severe damage. Welsh praised community support but said recovery
remains massive. So far, the city's received fifty four million
dollars in FEMA and insurance reimbursements. Atlanta's Hartsfield Jackson Airport
is losing thirty seven point five million dollars in federal
grants for refusing to cut DEI programs. The Mayor's office

(00:54):
as the airport will seek other funding and will still
receive long standing federal support for air traffic control and
runway maintenance and black hip hop producer Metro Booman has
been found liable in a civil sexual assault case where
a woman accused him of drugging and raping her during
a twenty sixteen studio session, but Metro denied it was
anything but consensual. A Los Angeles jury deliberate at less
than two hours before unanimously siding with him. I'm Amber

(01:17):
Payton with BI in News. Now back to you, Doug,
all right, thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
Former FBI Director James Comy was indicted on two counts
for lying to Congress and obstruction of the charge of
stem from his twenty twenty testimony about the FBI's Russian investigation.
President Trump, who fired Comy in twenty seventeen, is celebrating
the indictment and hence that there will be others.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
It's also about the fact that you can't let this
go on. They are sick, radical love.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
People, and they can't get.

Speaker 4 (01:45):
Away with us.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
So the question remains, if the Justice Department is supposed
to be independent, well, how do Trump's statements shape public
perception and possibly the outcome? And MISSNBC Today spoke with
former federal prosecutor and Kush Kodori about this very question.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
Supposed to be talking about pending criminal cases. There are
pre trial publicity problems within the jurisdiction itself. He could
taint the jury. He is not supposed to be doing it.
It's all very, very unusual. It suggests that this is
a political project, not a legal exercise. That is on
the level.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
Trump publicly pressuring the Justice Department to go after his
critics as part of what many say is his redemption tour.
Comy says he's innocent and ready for trial. Meanwhile, in Atlanta, Georgia,
African American officer Donnie Smith of the College Park Police
Department is in jail, charged with vehicular homicide and hit
and run. This after a month old high speed chase
on I eighty five that resulted in the car crash,

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taking in the life of two, including African American Matthew Benton.
His mother, in tears, tells Atlantin News First she's hoping
that justice will be served.

Speaker 4 (02:43):
I'm just so happy, Goes. I was told that it
wasn't a chase. I just don't know. I didn't I
didn't know what to think. I couldn't breathe, I couldn't eat.
I couldn't sleep. My kids they are going through and
my grandkids, all of us, we're a family, so it's
like it's very hard.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
Smith drove away from the fatal collision and failed to
report the crash, and that decision has now lended him
in jail. And finally she challenged a justice system and
became a legend. Black America is mourning the loss of
Asada Shakur, who became a global symbol of black resistance.
Cuban officials confirmed she died Thursday at the age of
seventy eight from health complications. Shakkur, not to be confused

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with Tupac Shakur's mother, Affini, but was his godmother, was
a leading figure in the Black Panther Party and the
Black Liberation Army. She was convicted in a controversial case
involving the death of a New Jersey State trooper. In
a rare interview seen only on NBC News, she spoke
about the case and says she was framed by racist cops.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
Did you shoot warn a foster?

Speaker 3 (03:46):
No, I did not.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
I was shot with my arms in the air, then
shut again in the back and then left on the
ground to die.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
Aside escape from prison and lived in Cuba for decades
under political asylum. Her activism had her exiled Cuba have
shaped how we understand resistance about US. Autobiography became a
cornerstone in black studies and activist circles. Rest in power
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(04:15):
Davis for the Black Information Network.