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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Bid News this hour, Doug Davis coming up. When the
President called Baltimore too far gone, African American mayor of
Brandon Scott fired back with facts. Also, DC's black police
chief says more support is needed after Trump's federal takeover
of DC Metro. Some wonder if the district is being
helped or hijacked. And he walked out at prison after
seventeen years, declared innocent by a federal judge. Now, African

(00:24):
American timers clarity of Nashville is back behind bars, but first,
here's bin news. Now.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Black Washington, DC mayor Muria Bowser says she's working with
President Trump as National Guard troops deployed to the city
for his crime crackdown.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
The executive order is pretty clear, and so is the law.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Bowser, who earlier called Trump's actions unsettling, now says she
wants the Guard well used to help drive down crime.
Shawn Dinny Combs has doubled his defamation lawsuit against Courtney
Burgess from fifty million dollars to one hundred million dollars,
accusing him of lying about alleged sexual assault videos. During
a twenty twenty three News Nation interview, says the claims
were false and damaging, and he's also suing News Nation

(01:03):
for airing the interview. In Washington, DC's historic Metropolitan Ambing
Church is suing the Hudson Valley Proud Boys to stop
them from using the group's name, logo and colors. The
church gained control of the Proud Boys trademark after the
group failed to pay nearly three million dollars in damages,
and now uses the yellow and black scheme for its
own merchandise, with slogans like stay Proud, Stay Black. I'm

(01:25):
Amber Payton with Bi in News. Now back to you.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Doug, all right, thank you. President Trump took a swing
at Baltimore this week, calling the city so far gone
on crime that it's not even worth mentioning. But Baltimore's Mayor,
Brandon Scott, who was black, wasn't having it. He jumped
on CNN to clear the air and report on the
city's declining rate of crime.

Speaker 4 (01:43):
In my city, in Baltimore, we have the fewest amount
of homicides through this date on record. Maybe we are
too far gone, too far gone from the broken right
wing policies of zero talents policing and all the things
that did not make our cities safer for all those
many years to drive down bonds and cities has been proving.
Mayor's across the country have brought together law enforcement, the

(02:07):
legal community, the actual community to reduce vounds across this country.
Other president could learn a lot from us instead of
throwing things at us.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
Scott called Trump's attack on black run major cities like
Baltimore and distraction from the real issues. The young African
American leader added by saying that this is the safest
Baltimore has been in the half a century and that
the President should turn off the propaganda and look at
the facts. Something tells me whether Mayor Scott Trump is
well aware of your progress. And of course, President Trump
declared Liberation Day in DC from the White House yesterday

(02:38):
while announcing a federal takeover of the city's police department,
and as the nation watches, Police Chief Pamela Smith, along
with Mayormirel Bowser, both Black, addressed reporters today saying that
they'll follow the law.

Speaker 5 (02:49):
I think this is going to be a good effort.
Is going to be an effort that's supported by both teams,
the Metropolitan Police Department as well as our federal partners.
I think it's something that is doable. We know that
we have to get illegal guns off of our street,
and if we have this influx or enhanced a presence,
it's going to make our city even better.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
Mayor Bouser said she's now focused on the surge of
federal support entering her city.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
And how to make the most of the additional officer
support that we have. We have the best in the
business and MPD and Chief Pamela Smith to lead that
effort and to make sure that the men and women
who are coming from federal law enforcement are being well used.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
Juvenile arrests in DC have dropped nearly twenty percent from
this time last year, and DC Metro implemented a summer
curfew for teams in an effort to quell crime, which
is apparently working. And finally, African American Thomas Clardy of
Nashville spent seventeen years in prison for a murder he
says he didn't commit. In twenty twenty three, a federal
judge agreed, calling the evidence against him weak, and overturned

(03:51):
his conviction, but Tennessee's appeal court reversed that ruling, but
not because he was proven guilty. But because of a technicality,
the appeals judge agreed and him back to prison. His
lawyers say an eyewitness account was flawed and that there
was no physical evidence tying him to the crime. Now
he's asking Governor Bill Lee for clemency. Stay informed, stay connected,
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(04:14):
your podcasts. I'm Dooc Davis for the Black Information Network.