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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Bin News this hour, I'm Terry McCready coming up. Is
the country moving in the wrong direction? Former President Obama
is weighing in. LA's mayor isn't happy about additional National
Guard troops deployed to the city. A black former employee
at a popular hardware store is filing a million dollar
racial discrimination lawsuit. But first, here's bin News now.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Chicago's black mayor, Brandon Johnson, isn't backing down against threats
at President Trump will target his city with militarized immigration enforcement.
Johnson says, chicagoans quote have to go as far as
necessary end quote to protect the constitution, whether.

Speaker 3 (00:41):
It's in the courts, whether it's in the streets.

Speaker 4 (00:42):
With policy, We're going to continue to defend in center.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
For working people.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
The organizers of the No Kings protests say the next
nationwide demonstration will take place Unduly seventeenth. More than two
thousand No Kings protests took place across the US on Saturday,
reportedly drawing millions of a mayor to protest President Trump's
Washington military parade, and today is June teenth. On this day,
back in eighteen sixty five, more than two thousand inslaated

(01:08):
black people in Texas found out that they were free.
I'm Alexandria Ikamoni with Bin News. Now back to you, Terry.

Speaker 4 (01:17):
We start drifting into something that is not consistent with
American democracy. It is consistent with autocracies, although.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
He says we aren't there yet. Former President Barack Obama
is questioning the path he says American democracy appears to
be on. Speaking in Connecticut this week, Obama warning that
the current political climate is inconsistent with American democracy and
he's raising concerns about a single person holding absolute power.

Speaker 4 (01:50):
Democracy is not self executing.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
But Obama says he's still the hope guy and says
there's a healthy outrage we should be exhibiting in terms
of what's currently happening here and around the world. Two
thousand additional National Guard troops in La Black. Mayor Karen
Bass discussing the negative impact from the ice raids.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
Given that we are a city of immigrants and immigrants
from all countries, anybody is subject to being detained and
that's why it's created a pall over the city of Fear.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
Defense Secretary Pete Henkseeth activating the troops under an Army
code which US Northern Command says allows the president to
call the National Guard into federal service when the US
is under invasion. California Governor Gavin Newsom says the action
is really just political theater created by President Trump that
is diverting soldiers from critical wildfire work. A black former

(02:44):
employee of an ACE hardware store in Arlington, Texas, has
filed a million dollar lawsuit against the company. Devondrick Hartsfield
is alleging racial discrimination and says he was terminated after
reporting that his white manager hung a black back pack
from a noose in the warehouse on Juneteenth back in
twenty twenty three. Hartsfield took pictures of it, which he

(03:05):
later included with a report to the store's human resources department.
After filing a discrimination complaint, human resources representatives told Hartsfield
there would be an investigation, but he was later suspended
indefinitely without pay. Hartsfield's position was later filled by a
non black worker. Heavy fighting in Sudan continues as a

(03:27):
direct result of the continued flow of arms into the country.
The Independent International fact Fighting Mission for the Sudan says
that means the war won't be ending anytime soon. The
organization is emphasizing a spike in the use of heavy
weaponry in populated areas and an increase in sexual violence.
Humanitarian relief is being weaponized and hospitals are under siege,

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according to investigators whose mandate was established by the Human
Rights Council about two years ago. In al Fascier, civilians
have been a song, alted, detained, and killed, while villages
are being burned and looted by the rapid support forces paramilitary.
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