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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Bion News this hour, the Davis coming up.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
It doesn't feel like home anymore. Yeah, I think it
may be time to move out of DC from when
I'm not wanted and two is just is not safe.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
D he S's Black residents are sounding the alarm after
Trump's decision to federalize police efforts. Also, the five hundred
and fifty million dollars sable trial over Tyree Nichols's death
won't begetting until November twenty twenty six, and cheap air
flights might be a thing of the past. We'll fill
you in on the details coming up later, but first
here's bin News now.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
Illinois Governor J. P. Pritzker says President Trump has no
legal authority to send National Guard troops to Chicago.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
That's not surprising to me that he suggests violating the law.
He's done it many times and been convicted of it
thirty four times.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
Black Mayor Brandon Johnson adds that homicides and shootings are
down since he took office and criticized Trump for cutting
one hundred and fifty eight million dollars from violence prevention
programs in cities like Chicago, Olympic sprinter Shakirie Richardson is
taking accountability after her July ar rests in an alleged
domestic violence incident involving her boyfriend Christian and Coleman. In
an Instagram post, she apologized to Coleman vout personal growth

(01:04):
and said she's focused on facing challenges head on for herself,
her family, and her fans. And Danielle Spencer, who played
d on the nineteen seventy sitcom What's Happening, has died
at sixty after a battle with cancer. Her co star
Heywood Nelson announced she passed Monday at a hospital in Virginia.
Spencer later became a veterinarian before being diagnosed with breast
cancer in twenty fourteen. I'm Amber Payton with bi in News.

(01:26):
Now back to you, Doug, all right.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
Thank you. Following President Trump's move to fedilize DC's Metro
Police Department, some black residents feel well, DC isn't the
Chocolate city it used to be, and that it may
be time for them to move away from the place
they call home.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
It just feels like a microscope is now on like
black people and every city that he named Chicago, Oakland, Baltimore.
Who's by the way, Baltimore's crime is down fifty percent.
All of them are black cities. So it just feels
not only like a target on DC's back, but also
mine as a black man in DC. It's just it
doesn't feel like home anymore. For when I'm not wanted.

(02:00):
Two is just is not safe and its kind of
I kind of was like speechless because it's just this
isn't home anyone. It doesn't feel like home anyone.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
Leader of the National Action Network Out Sharpton earlier today
on MSNBC laid into Trump placing DC police under federal control.

Speaker 4 (02:15):
The data says that crime and violent crime is going
down in Washington. He's gonna send out the National Guard. Well,
whyn't he sent it out January sixth. This is clear
politics is aimed at black males, and it is drama
that is at the expensive people. And it's said, we're
going to end up with stopping frisk in DC. He

(02:35):
would take it to other cities.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
Trompton calls the deployment of national troops and federal control
of DC's police force a disgusting, dangerous, and derogatory action. Meanwhile,
the civil trial over Tyree Nichols, the black Memphis man
killed by police is now being delayed after a judge
granted the request from his mother, who was suing the
city for five hundred and fifty million dollars, accusing officials
of ignoring the violent tactics of a now disbanded scorpion unit.

(03:00):
Lead attorney for Nichols family, Ben Crump said a while
back that the amount of damages requested in the lawsuit
is a warning shot to cities everywhere.

Speaker 5 (03:08):
If it happens in your city, we're coming to your
city too, because, let me be clear and unambigorous about it,
it is our mission to make it financially unsustainable for
these police oppression units to unjustly kill black people in

(03:29):
the future.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
Crump said that he's happy with the judge's decision, as
Tyree's mom or von Wells request of the delay to
allow time for new evidence to be reviewed, citing new
fundings from the DOJ's investigation into the Memphis Police Department.
And Finally, Spirit Airlines has long been the go to
for black travelers looking to save a buck or two,
but now the airline says it's facing substantial doubt about

(03:51):
its future despite cutting costs and launching new strategies. Spirit
is still losing money. Frontier Airlines earlier this year had
offered a merger deal, hoping to combine forces, but Spirit
rejected it, bending on its own comeback and for Black
Americans budget traveled, it's more like a lifeline. Spirit says
they may not survive the next twelve months. Stay informed,
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(04:14):
you get your podcasts. I'm Doug Davis for the Black
Information Network