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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Bin News this hour. I'm Terry McCready coming up. The
black mayor of Washington, DC is reacting to President Trump's
crime actions in the nation's capital. Illinois leaders are weighing
in on the President's threat to deploy the Guard to
the Windy City. A federal judge in San Francisco is
considering evidence to decide whether the Trump administration deployed National

(00:22):
Guard troops and US marines to Los Angeles unlawfully. But first,
here's Bia news.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Now. Three people are dead and a shooting that happened
at a target store in Austin, Texas. Police Chief Lisa
Davis says the suspect carjacked to car, but then crashed
as he tried to escape, then hijacked another car. He
was then found by Austin ped where he was taken
into custody after a chasing. She says the suspect had
a history of mental health issues. A federal judge in
San Francisco is hearing if President Trump broke the law

(00:51):
by sending troops to a lay during immigration protests. Black
activists say the move echoes past abuses of military force
in communities of color. California wants control of its guard
back and a ban on military policing. And Johnny Reid,
a sixty two year old black athlete from Naples, Florida,
just broke a national record at the National Senior Games
in Iowa, running one hundred meters in thirteen point six seconds.

(01:11):
She also set a fifty meter record in twenty twenty three.
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Speaker 1 (01:21):
President Trump says he's rescuing Washington, DC.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
Under the authorities vested in me as the President of
the United States. I'm officially invoking Section seven forty of
the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, you know what
that is, and placing the DC Metropolitan Police Department under
direct federal control.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
Trump is activating the National Guard to help local law enforcement.
Black Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser speaking out after Trump placed
the DC police under federal control and activated the National Guard,
Bowser insisting her police chief is still in charge.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
Chief Pamela Smith is the chief of the Metropolitan Police Department.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
Bowser says she's cooperating with the Trump administration, but adds
the president's actions are just a reminder that DC should
be granted full statehood. Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker and
Chicago's black mayor Brendan Johnson are weighing in over the
president's threat to deploy the National Guard to Chicago to
fight crime. Pritzker said Trump has no right and no

(02:22):
legal ability to send troops into the city.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
That's not surprising to me that he suggests violating the law.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
He's done it many times and been convicted of it
thirty four times.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
Johnson pointing out that homicides and shootings are down in
Chicago since he took office. The mayor also noted that
the president has cut another one hundred and fifty eight
million dollars in funding for violence prevention programs in cities
like Chicago. Meanwhile, a federal judge in San Francisco, California,
is considering evidence to decide whether the Trump administration deployed

(02:53):
National Guard troops and US Marines to Los Angeles during
immigration protests unlawfully. The di's black mayor, Karen Bass, problems
in about two square miles.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
It lasted for a couple of days. I initiated a curfew.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
We have had no problems or for weeks, so why
were they here?

Speaker 1 (03:13):
The Department of Defense deployed around four thousand California National
Guard troops and seven hundred Marines to Los Angeles. About
two hundred and fifty troops remain on duty. California is
asking the court to return control of the troops to
the state. Five men accused of murdering fifty worshipers and
wounding over one hundred others in a terrorist attack on

(03:35):
a Catholic church in southwestern Nigeria in twenty twenty two
are pleading not guilty. Defendants appearing in federal court in
Abuja yesterday where they were charged with nine counts of terrorism.
They allegedly joined the East African terrorist group Al Shabab
in twenty twenty one and plotted the attack near a mosque,
gunmen storming Saint Francis Church and opening fire. Nigerian authorities

(03:57):
initially blamed Islamic state West Africa Province for the massacre.
In Nigeria has eaten a spike in violence by Islamist groups,
including Boko Haram in recent months, which has forced thousands
of people from their homes. Stay informed, stay connected and
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