The Kadir Skinner Video, Boosie's $300K Fight, and Netflix Wants to Be Cable Again

Attorneys for Kadir Skinner, the nineteen-year-old shot in the back by Wilmington Police —release bystander video showing him handcuffed and alive on the ground with no medical attention. Rapper Boosie is fighting to get three hundred thousand dollars back from a Washington lobbying firm after a Trump pardon he was told had been signed never came. And Netflix,  the company that killed cable is now looking to bring it back with live channels, bundles, and a possible Letterboxd deal.

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Speaker 1 (00:05):
New video raising questions, and a police shooting in Delaware
that's already sparking outrage.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Bro he's shot. Why y'all doing that? He's shot?

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Brown and rapper Bootsy says he paid hundreds of thousands
of dollars for a presidential pardon. Now he wants his
money back.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
I would give a damn if Flavor Flave was the president.
I'm glad slow damn what?

Speaker 1 (00:28):
And Netflix maybe bringing back something a lot of us
thought was dead. It's Tuesday, July fourteenth, from the Black
Effect podcast Network. I'm Mimi Brown. This is front page,
and here are the day's biggest stories. Stay with me.
There are new developments in the cakes of nineteen year

(00:49):
old Kadeer Skinner, the Delaware teenager who was shot in
the back and killed by a Wilmington police officer last month.
Police officers were responding to reports of a man with
a gun when they saw Skinner pointing a handgun for
a crowd. They say Skinner ran when officers approached him,
leading to a footchase that ended when an officer opened fire.

(01:10):
But Skinner's family says the public has only heard one
side of the story and says that's not true. They're
represented by civil rights attorney Ben Crump and Harry Daniels,
who have spent weeks demanding the release of the officer's
body camera footage, saying it could answer the biggest questions
about what happened that night. Nothing on that video justify this.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
I'm aggravated.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
They need to release the video. Clearly on the video
shows him being shot from a high.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
Now, the family's legal team has released witness recorded cell
phone video taken moments after the shooting.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
He's shoting to extra happy Buddie. He was just running, bro,
he shooting. Why y'all shooting? Bro? He's shot? Why y'all
doing that doing? He shot? He shot? Yeah, he's shotting.
He shot. Why you won't even like that? Get off
from me? Shot? See if he okay? See if be okay?

(02:09):
See if he okay? You tell me I can't breathe
zif bro, pull you shooting us? We need your bas number,
We need your bag number.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
Yeah. The video appears to show Skinner alive, handcuffed and
lying on the ground, while bystanders can be heard shouting
he's dying. His attorneys say officers failed to provide medical
peer before placing him in a police cruiser. The newly
released video is adding even more pressure on the Delaware

(02:49):
Police Department to release the bodycam footage. So far, the
department has declined, saying the investigation is still ongoing. Now,
to a story that sounds almost too wild to believe,
rapper Bootsy Badass says he paid six hundred thousand dollars

(03:10):
to secure a presidential pardon from President Trump, and now
he's trying to get half of that money back. So
According to Notice, Bootsy hired a Washington lobbying firm last
year to help him seek a pardon for his federal
gun conviction. His attorney says the firm later told him
the pardon had already been signed and that they were
waiting for the White House to announce it. Well, that

(03:32):
announcement never came. A White House aid later told Bootsy's
attorney that they couldn't find any record that a pardon
request had even ever been filed. Now, Bootsy is demanding
the return of three hundred thousand dollars. According to the contract,
half of the six hundred thousand dollars fee was refundable
if a pardon wasn't secured by a certain deadline.

Speaker 3 (03:54):
I wouldn't give a damn if Flavor Flave was the president.
I don't give a damn if bl Burger was the president.
I'm glad, slow, damn what every president come up here?
I don't give a damn.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
The lobbying firm disputes that it owes Bootsy a refund,
saying it can't pay because it's dealing with millions of
dollars in fines and other debts. The dispute is now
headed to arbitration. As you may remember, Bootsy pled guilty
last year to being a felon in possession of a
firearm after a gun was found during a music video
shoot in San Diego. He avoided prison and was sentenced

(04:31):
to supervised release, community service, and a fifty thousand dollars fine.
His attorney has since submitted a separate pardon request directly
to the White House. So while the fight over money continues,
Bootsy is still hoping to receive a pardon. And finally,

(04:51):
remember when Netflix changed the way we all watched TV, Well,
now it may be taking a page out of cables playbook.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Netflix executives are considering
adding live always on channels, so instead of spending ten
minutes scrolling for something to watch, you could simply turn
on a comedy channel, a reality channel, or a true
crime channel and watch whatever is already playing. The idea

(05:15):
isn't exactly new services like Pluto TV and two B
already do it, but it's a shit for the company
that built its business on letting viewers watch whatever they wanted,
whenever they wanted. So why the change. Well, competition. YouTube
now reaches a bigger share of TV viewers than Netflix,
and free streaming services like two B is continuing to grow.

(05:37):
Netflix is also reportedly looking at adding more live content,
short form videos, video podcasts, and even bundling other streaming
services into its app. In other words, the streaming wars
are entering a new phase. The company that disrupted traditional
television is now borrowing some of its oldest ideas. That's

(05:58):
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