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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Bion News this hour. I'm Terry mccreey. Coming up. California
lawmakers introducing a measure prohibiting law enforcement from covering their faces.
A Minnesota state senator targeted by a gunman who killed
another lawmaker is thanking police for saving her life. A
disturbing case involving the black mayor of Atlantic City. But first,
here's BION News.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Now we now have the price tag so far for
the LA anti ice protests. They've cost the city almost
twenty million dollars. One military veteran told KTLA he fought
for the right for people to protest.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
I serve in this country to defend the constitution, so
it gives people like these folks as well as the
Mega folks that and right to express themselves. Does matter
if people agree with this or they agree with Mega,
everyone has that right here in this country.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
LA is a little over eight percent black. Obrian K. Williams,
of former Los Angeles deputy mayor, pleaded guilty Monday to
reporting a fake bomb threat to city hall last year.
Sentencing is in October, and President Trump is back in
the US earth after leaving the G seven Summit, leading
some to speculate that he's planning on talking with Israel
about the bombing of Iran. French President Emmanuel McCrone told

(01:09):
reporters that he heard that Trump was leaving to work
on a cease fire. Trump took the social media disputing
that claim. I'm Tammy Eswick would be I in news
now back to you, Terry.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
California lawmakers are introducing a bill that would prohibit all
levels of law enforcement officers from covering their faces. Democratic
Senator Scott Wiener says the bill stems from federal law
enforcement operations in Los Angeles and other parts of the
state in which agents' faces are obscured.

Speaker 4 (01:35):
It's all new and unprecedented. We have not had an
aspiring fascist dictator in this country with a who's trying
to create a police state with secret police. That's what's
happening right now. A year ago, people would have called
me melodramatic for saying that it's not melodramatic.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
Wiener says some law enforcement officers are grabbing people off
the streets and throwing them into vans. There are exceptions
to the measure, known as the No Secrets Act. Wiener
says riot gear would be okay because the mask is
a transparent face shield. He adds officers and fire zones
wearing masks and medical masks in natural disasters would also

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be allowed. The city's black mayor, Karen Bass, meanwhile, has
this message as protests continue.

Speaker 5 (02:17):
My message to Angelino's is that we have to stand together.
My message as mayor is is that I respect and
honor our tradition here, which is we are a city
of immigrants, and I think, frankly that that is our strength.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
Since June seventh, the LAPD has arrested nearly six hundred
people in connection with ongoing protests against federal immigration raids.
A Minnesota state senator who was targeted by the man
who killed another lawmaker says the quick action of police
saved her life. Minnesota State Senator and Rest says she
was made aware that Van S. Belter was parked near

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her home early Saturday. He left after an officer arrived
to conduct a wellness check. Instead, Belcher went to the
home of Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, who he
allegedly shot and killed. Builder is facing federal and state charges.
The black mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey, and his
wife were back in court yesterday as the disturbing case

(03:11):
leveled against them is getting underway. Marty an laquite As
Small are accused of violently abusing their teenage daughter and
then conspiring to destroy evidence. The teen took the stand
as a judge wade what is permissible before jury next month.
The hearing focused on recordings made on an iPad by
her boyfriend during a telephone conversation and whether those recordings

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are legal because they're miners. New York City Democratic mayoral
candidates are cross endorsing each other as early voting continues.
Several candidates are working together to strategize how to defeat
former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who has been the
front runner in several polls.

Speaker 6 (03:48):
Sego fifty to fifty, AM go with Cuomo, but then
zol I'm on the other side.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
I feel like he's.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
Younger, so he will understand the younger people's side of
you to it.

Speaker 6 (03:55):
I feel very comfortable in my choice, and I do
not believe in the vision that Mandani has, so it
was very easy for me not to vote for Mandani.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
Hugandan born Zaran Mom Donnie has crossed endorsed Michael Blake
in an attempt to combine support in the rank choice
voting system. I'm Terry McCready for the Black Information Network