The McClain Reversal, The Jobs Gap, and The Garden Tonight

 Mimi Brown breaks down the day. A Colorado appeals court overturns the homicide convictions of two paramedics in the killing of Elijah McClain. The May jobs report says the economy is strong  but Black unemployment is nearly double the national rate, and people are not feeling this report. And tonight, at Madison Square Garden, President Trump and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani are both at Game 3 of the NBA Finals, sitting in very different sections. Plus, your Monday Brief, your Ring doorbell may be storing your face, the SpaceX IPO is days away, and measles is closing in on a record.

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Speaker 1 (00:05):
A Colorado appeals court has overturned the convictions of two
paramedics and the death of Elijah McCain.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
They claim Elijah McLean had excited delirium, which is this evening.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
The latest jobs report beat expectations, but black unemployment remains
nearly double the national rate.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
Black worker is really going to do us when those
factories open.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
And tonight at Madison Square Garden, President Trump and New
York Mayor Zoron Mondaani will both be at the NBA Finals,
just not together. I will be in a very different
section of the stadium. It's Monday, June eighth, from the
Black Effects Podcast Network.

Speaker 4 (00:43):
I'm Mimi Brown.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
This is front page and here are the day's biggest stories,
plus your Monday breath. The stories you need to know
this week.

Speaker 4 (00:53):
Stay with me.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
A Colorado appeals court has thrown out the hummicide conviction
against two paramedics involved in the death of Elijah McCain,
the young black man whose case became a national rallying
cry during the Black Lives Matter protests. Elijah McCain was
twenty three years old when he was stopped by police
while walking home in Aurora, Colorado, back in twenty nineteen,

(01:18):
someone had called nine to pet one saying he looked
quote sketchy.

Speaker 4 (01:22):
McCain was unarmed.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
He had anemia, so he often wore a ski mask
because he got cold easily. Police restrained him on the ground,
then paramedics injected him with ketamine, a powerful sedative. McCain
went into cardiac arrest and died days later. In twenty
twenty three, two paramedics were convicted of criminally negligent homicide,

(01:43):
but now an appeals court says the jury was given
the wrong legal instructions during the trial.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
For the Port of Appeals to say that this was
about jury instructions on the standard of care.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
It's funny because I was at every day of.

Speaker 4 (01:59):
The tribe and I understood that instruction.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
The paramedics knew the dosage that they were giving a
one hundred and forty three pound young man. They knew
the dosage was enough to sedate a full bred horse.
They claim Elijah McLean had excited delirium, which isn't even
a thing. So if the Court of Appeals watched the

(02:22):
same footage that we watched, the same transfris that we
witnessed coming to Bold, we can only interpret that the
Court of Appeals is yielding to an agenda of the
brand of the Verifire and Rescue.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
The court says jurors should have judged the paramedics based
on what a trained paramedic would reasonably do, not what
an average person would do. Because of that, the homicide
convictions have now been overturned and the case is expected
to be retried. One assault conviction against one of the
paramedics still stands. The jobs report is out, and on paper,

(03:03):
the economy looks good. The US added one hundred and
seventy two thousand jobs last month. That's more than economists expected,
and the national unemployment rate held study at four point
three percent. But here's the part of the story that
actually matches what you're living through. Black unemployment is now
at seven point three percent, nearly double the national rate.

(03:24):
President Trump was asked about that gap at the White
House and what black workers should expect moving forward.

Speaker 4 (03:30):
Well, we're doing very well.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
With the black jobs, African American jobs.

Speaker 5 (03:35):
We're doing well. I saw some numbers that we're doing
really well. But we're really going to do well is
when all these plants are open. You know, we're building
many car plants. We're bringing cars back from Germany. We're
bringing you know, we lost the car industry years ago.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
Fifty four percent of the industry went to Germany, Japan,
Canada and Mexico. It's all coming back. It's amazing. And
where you're black worker is really to do was when
those factories open. So I think they're going to be great.
We've been doing it's been a big focus for me.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
Economists say black workers have been hit especially hard in
recent months by federal workforce cuts, the rollback of DEI programs,
and the layoffs and industries where many Black Americans work.
And while the headlines are calling this a strong economy,
a lot of families say it does not feel that
way when rent, groceries, insurance, and everyday costs keep rising

(04:27):
faster than paychecks. It's Monday, which means it's time for
your Monday Brief. Every Monday on front page, I give
you a quick rundown of the stories you need on
your radar this week.

Speaker 4 (04:42):
So let's get into it first.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
A new lawsuit against Amazon claims Ring's facial recognition feature
has been collecting and storing the faces of people walking
past cameras, including neighbors, delivery workers, and kids without their consent.
The lawsuit says those face prints can be stored for
up to six months. Second SpaceX is expected to go
public as early as this week in what would become

(05:07):
the biggest IPO in history. Annalysts say if you have
a retirement account or index fund, your money could eventually
be tied to it, whether you buy the stock or not. Third,
the CDC says the country has now passed two thousand
confirmed measles cases, putting America close to its worst measles
outbreak in decades. Health officials say the overwhelming majority of

(05:29):
cases are among people who are unvaccinated.

Speaker 4 (05:33):
And finally, a few things to watch this week.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
The Carmelo Anthony murder trial is expected to continue in Texas.
The NBA Finals between the Knicks and the Spurs continued
this week, and we are now officially days away from
the UFC event. President Trump says he wants at the
White House for his birthday. That's your Monday brief. You
can now walk into the week well informed. Game three

(05:58):
of the NBA Finals tips off tonight at Madison Square Garden,
and the Knicks are not the only.

Speaker 4 (06:03):
Story inside the building.

Speaker 1 (06:05):
President Trump is expected to attend tonight's game from a
luxury suite after being invited by Nick's owner James Dolan.
A New York City mayor's Aron Mandani says he'll be
there too, just not anywhere near Trump.

Speaker 3 (06:17):
I will be at Game three. I will be in
a very different section of the stadium.

Speaker 1 (06:22):
Now, beyond basketball, this is also about politics. What makes
this more interesting is despite their political differences, the two
men have reportedly communicated before and even work together behind
the scenes on immigration related issues involving New Yorkers. But tonight, though,
all of that lands inside Madison Square Garden during one
of the biggest Knicks games in decades. So between the celebrities,

(06:44):
secret service, politics, and the playoff energy, the cameras may
spend just as much time looking into the crowd as
they do the court.

Speaker 4 (06:53):
That's your front page. I Mimi Brown.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
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