themselves well it's a part. of the common ground. greetings and sal you. are right the u.s. justice system is a humming this week as 2 major court cases are captivating the headlines for all the right fully wrong and wrongfully right reasons the 1st comes down from all the way down in that old lone star state where texas attorney general ken paxton poked the proverbial hornet's nest this week when he decided to call a november's presidential election results and dive headfirst into a trump giuliani spoiled sore loser crybaby act that's been masquerading as

legitimate conspiracy theory for about a month now yes the texas attorney general filed a lawsuit with the u.s. supreme court on tuesday alleging that under the cover of covert would leaders in the state of pennsylvania georgia michigan and wisconsin usurp their legislatures authority and unconstitutionally revised their state's election statutes all in an effort to steal the election for one joe biden it goes on to declare that without dependent states combined 72 electoral votes president trump presumably has 232 electoral votes and for a vice president biden presumably has 234 thus these defendants states electors will determine the outcome of the election. when the minute you known some something seems off of what this the attorney general put in there something just doesn't feel right you know you know what you know what. oh it

would appear the texas attorney general paxton forgot to double check his electoral math as a supreme court legal reporter. i'll dennistoun points out on key point it says it is challenging for states combined 72 electoral votes but those 4 only have 62 electoral votes pennsylvania 20 georgia and michigan 62 in wisconsin 10. but you know really a bit of point are we are really all that surprised what with the you know all the 4 seasons landscaping porno shop press conferences and drunken karen witness testimonies. but sadly that hasn't stopped 17 other trump supporting state attorney generals from joining this ludicrous rule being brought before the supreme court but thankfully it wasn't just trump's legal dancing that made headlines this week as federal regulators and a coalition of nearly 45 state attorney generals filed a pair of lawsuits against facebook on wednesday arguing that the social media

giant has become an illegal monopoly. not shocking we kind of knew that for a while so with the elections potentially hanging in the balance along with facebook stranglehold over all of social media i think it's a good time to start watching the home. on a city street you want to. see this joyce state see. graves see this least systemic deception is show which we saw with julie. welcome or watching dogs. and i'm of the cross so obvious to look at this all these lawsuits fly on the left and right we've got facebook going after you know we've got people going after baseball for monopoly we've got texas attorney generals and battles drum you know trying to get the supreme court the throw out the election

lots of legal fun this week oh absolutely i think the one non surprising one here is because historically at this point we've seen regulators go after facebook now for close to 7 years and facebook has only grown there and the extent of their their monopoly power the buying of what's app the buying of instagram the buying basically everything that they see is having some sort of major communication channel specifically those that have garnered a lot of attention abroad as well so i think that you know for facebook they have made things up a bird sit before congress and make statements that are particularly interesting in the same over and over again and he denies that this is actually happening he denies that they have undue influence when we know that it's just back and correct new york attorney general james declared facebook used its powers to suppress competition so it could take advantage of users and make billions by converting personal beta into a cash cow i mean this feels like

a perfect storm going against facebook right now because you have the netflix documentary about it which kind of led to those the. following social media really shocked everyone like only make money off of us i never knew that. but now you see all these a.g.'s coming down and charging that the company illegally montagne power by deploying a buyer berry strategy and that's what they're going to hopefully sensually you know facebook out of the news and i'm so proud of leticia james on so many levels sometimes you know not only going after trump we're seeing her now go for what she knows when it comes to this monopoly power of facebook as well i think that you raise an interesting point in particular about what they're doing with the data that they're sourcing because facebook has such millions upon millions of people's personal information not only you know in america but also in countries across the globe and they're able to tell your preferences your friends the things that you view the things that she'd like versus don't like and on top of that they're selling this information we know this because they're 3rd party groups that are

buying it from facebook but also from other entities facebook being the largest at this point because they control the largest market share of all of social media and it's interesting because part of the what these 45 states and they're seeking to go game space because also to get them to roll back their acquisition of what happened instagram which i mean that goes back a while and they paid a 1000000000 for instance for. instagram back in. was a 2012 and then you know from 19000000000 for what's up in 2014 i mean it feels a little after the fact because remember congress and all that had to approve those say you know or not congress but they had to approve the government to approve those sales back then and now suddenly to you know years later maybe we were wrong to do that but i remember people like elizabeth warren who were actually on the trail in 2012 as well he spoke out against that we didn't have this huge of a colorado as we do now when it turns to voices but i think part of that is because the general public didn't fully recognize the power of the social media giants want to go back to the trump thing to cause is just hilarious on all fronts they

couldn't even get the model or total votes they were looking to overturn right but what's interesting is. he's even had his own appointed judges now throughout his case is a judge in pennsylvania the president versus pennsylvania trumper president respond to a judge a stephanos by boss a conservative judge appointed by trump and 2017 threw out one of his many cases saying calling an election unfair does not make it so charges require specific allegations then proof we have neither here and now they're taking it to the supreme court which just this week throughout one of trump's cases the funniest part about this is that the fix was in before the election even happened president trump went on and on and talked about how the supreme court how is nomination picks they were going to help him had he said this election not going to favor he was going to use them to change it and we know that he's appointed several judges several federal judges as well and he assumed that those people were going to be the people to break this for him and at the end of the day everything is going against the grain here and upholding the fact that donald trump lost this election

it's interesting so you know what's the big question is why did all these attorney generals and the 17 state attorney generals jump into this and according according the new york times are reporting that some fear if they don't make it clear they are on the president's side they could open themselves up to a primary challenge or end up or end any hope for attaining higher office in the future so the answer to that question why did 17 state attorney generals jump on this cowardice and fear i think is probably what answer is best and do you really want that in your attorney general cowardice and fear. it's a mounting concern throughout the united states and now with the number of missing indigenous women in the state of montana rising party correspondent natasha this week takes a look at the issue to see why the numbers are trending upward. 16 year old celina shelley fade not afraid is just one of many indigenous women who went missing in the state of montana this year a 16 year old was last seen at a rest stop near billings according to the montana department of justice on new

year's day that they still you know went missing there were 46 other missing a digit. people in this state but as you can see in this facebook page the issue has been plaguing natives for years and the vice documentary about missing native americans volunteer search or carry lance said in all the previous cases that i've been involved with it's always been a recovery it's never been a happy ending and according to the department of justice one of 3 native american women will be raped in their lifetime according to the vice documentary approximately half of the cases involve the murder of a dangerous woman in montana have been misclassified for causes like suicide overdose and exposure all reported causes of these missing woman very something many of these cases have in common is a confusing jurisdiction depending on where the body is found it could fall on more than one agency so whether it's state federal or tribal authorities some families claim these intersecting agencies contribute to more questions than answers for the

missing and also bringing about more delays and of americans in montana make it 6.7 percent of the state's population it reportedly accounts for 26 percent of people who make up the missing persons reports as time passes the state legislature and congress have taken notice 10 a legislature passed hannah's act which helps local law enforcement when working with a missing persons case after congress passed the savannah acts the president signed the act into law last october that helped to establish better law enforcement practices when dealing with these cases while a distillation has passed the lives of many natives continues to be unaccounted for reporting for watch in the hocks natasha sweet r t. fascinating and tragic report and i want to point out that this isn't something just contained to montana we're seeing reports of another an epidemic across the country remember caliber of these missing or murdered indigenous women girls and

it's really frightening it's frightening and it's problematic because the level of investigation the level of a 2. that is paid when somebody goes missing is not given to indigenous women the resources aren't there well the resources are there they're just not segmented to this group and it's something that they've been experiencing for years now this isn't a new issue at all and from the report we just heard you know a lot of these are misclassified or missed class by purposely it seems in some cases where they're calling it anything but what it actually is i want let's be real too when it comes to coverage of cases like this when it comes to media attention of cases like this we get far more media attention to the blonde white girl in her twenty's who disappears which is also tragic it's nothing less tragic about anyone any woman disappearing you know but the media's attention to things kind of only goes in one direction so when you don't have any light whatsoever put on a situation like we're seeing in montana and other states across this country for indigenous women that's absolutely correct and i think that this this also talks and speaks to

another dark underbelly of america where indigenous people have never received the respect or the attention they deserve anyway we know that the resources when it comes to education when it comes to just boot acquisition when it comes to housing that these things are provided as readily to indigenous people and now we're seeing these these crimes. and it's sadly i want to see it in his side but i'm not quite sure that we will because again the process to actually finding these criminals and bringing them to bear is not something that it seems like we're willing to follow through on but one thing that we are willing to follow through on is continuing coverage of this story and in future upcoming watching the example so that we will dig deeper into the story with some people who have dealt with it 1st all right everybody as we go to break remember that you can also start watching the hawks on demand for the brand new portable t.v. which is available on all platforms coming up we delve into one of the most controversial cases of this justice of wrongful imprisonment the side of a 21st century civil rights lawyer to keep the armstrong joins us to discuss the

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enjoy the bombs from the work and the miscommunication. good god jean. is going to be us soon gave you. say his name my on a real he's never been a trending hashtag and he didn't die at the hands of the police but 2 decades of his freedom did for many outside of minneapolis burrell story is new but the organizers and civil rights advocates on the ground just as well it's been a long time coming a legal panel of experts released a report tuesday recommending the immediate release of my amaryl who was convicted in the killing of a young girl hit by

a stray bullet in 2002. the panel's findings weren't exactly new revelations the associated press and a.p.m. reports earlier this year included a lot of the jaw dropping information that should have ultimately led to. a litany of wrongs led to the railroading of a young black man things like unreliable testimony from a sole eyewitness heavy reliance on jail informants who all had a lot to gain and since reductions in exchange for their testimonies and a failure to retrieve surveillance video from the corner store that would have prevented the row from spending any time in prison. but when it comes to crimes of picking them on a black face it seems investigative protocol goes out of the window when police investigators and prosecutors want to fast track someone they will find a way to make them guilty regardless of the lack of evidence that's what happened to broke that 8 member panel reviewing his case didn't even get all the evidence it requested but they recommended the case be hated over to the state's new conviction review unit making note of the substantial missing items that could yield new

evidence of innocence or due process issues be mindful that burrell was a teen when convicted he had no prior criminal record his sentence has been viewed as extremely harsh in this criminal justice reform area with a lot of weight placed on sentencing over reach for juveniles case is one to watch some of the alarming issues surrounding the conviction or no hard evidence was presented no gun no d.n.a. no fingerprints codefendant said he wasn't even at the see and video show the lead homicide detective offering a man in police custody $500.00 burrell's name and here to tell us more civil rights attorney is the chemo levy optional welcome to. all new came up based on the lack of hard evidence what we know are failures of eyewitness testimony and the fact that as a teen with 0 priors not only became a prime suspect but it served over 2 decades can you explain what happened and why

this case is just now receiving a national spotlight. well part of why this happened minneapolis in the 1990 s. was given the moniker a murder murder happened because there was either better game by once that was happening and so that led to a crackdown on the part of police and prosecutors are typically young black men and unfortunately even though my amber road was a teen at the time and 11 year olds i wish it edwards was he was treated like a grown man by the criminal justice as in stably the lead prosecutor of unit in county durham. was standing or any close shark the reason that this case has now gained national international attention is because any close shark used this case to campaign for office to be reelected as the county attorney to run for the u.s. senate and ultimately soran for president of the united states and so activists in

the twin cities students out of their early with my family in demanding that any call bush are either addressed. bogus case that happened to my wound or step down from running for president of the united states and we disrupted many events including the one the night before she decided to withdraw from the presidential race i want to ask you as was highlighted as you mention and talk about quote which are you know what if you're looking at her role we know about as you laid out what role she played in holding up burrell's conviction and how she going to war that as a badge of she was running for various offices you know has as shoes shown any acknowledgment for justice for this young man since as has she would want to see this wrong right righted in any possible way. whatever. initially she was pretty silent about this case as she was running for president

but as the case gain more and. moments some more people around the country including other elected officials started to ask him closer about his case as well as national media so she was ultimately forced to address the issue after she stepped down from her run for president and she met with a group of birth i was present along with the most recent president minneapolis to leslie redmond and my humble rose family and we have an opportunity to talk to enclosure about our concerns about her mishandling of my amber rose case and where we wanted her to take a public stance on the issue so she wrote a letter to the current hibbing county attorney mike freeman basically saying that she was open to the case being investigated as a matter of justice she laughed finally reached out to mike freeman and talked to

him about the need for reevaluation of the case we have not heard her since been but she's taken as far as iraq to visit actually does work for those that would serve russell and mccain may you have been toiling the soil on this for a very long time at this point along with several civil rights leaders the legal panel didn't receive all of the evidence kerry documents that they had requested but they're still calling for burrell's immediate release based on the facts they do have what message does this send and what do you think is the likelihood that he'll be released. or whatever and shout out to my arrows family because they have actually been on the front lines carrying the torch and they allowed us as activists to come alongside a bit. and beyond my and them self with the growth of earth for his own freedom i think the decision by this legal you know serious assume minnesota

criminal justice is that we are. far cry from being a just system we need a conviction integrity unit which recently there was funding for it acted so claims we need to reopen all of these cases that involve the minneapolis police department and you have defendants that are saying bad they are innocent of the crimes for which they have been convicted so my hope is that this causes a cascade of changes within our criminal justice system in hennepin county and the state of minnesota is long overdue yeah i want to ask you about those changes because let you know minneapolis became the center of the spotlight after the george florida murder of the summer and i know that you were right there on the ground and from fighting i'm working hard to get the city of minneapolis to change its ways to get the city to be you know be from the police and change and go to a different style of policing in the city what is there and when you look at what

happened to broke through that falls into this pattern where is the city of minneapolis on this what has come from the protests that we saw this summer are they following through with the promises we saw all of them make when we saw that photo op where they all stood up on the stage the submarine's that all we're going to change are we policing the city are we seeing that change. well or that. low this summer i'm not a little. they made a declaration that they were just mansell many of them aren't even though they give a legal authority to do so and so what we have seen since that time is it's our who are between the minneapolis mayor and she and the members of city council there was recently a budget hearing in which it was agreed upon that $8000000.00 will be cut from the police department budget so some people are cheering those cuts because the police are heavily funded and

a lot of those resources could go towards social services and mental health and other needs and. we've last seen over a 100 officers who have taken medical leave. from the minneapolis police department and some good she is saying that they are short staffed as a result you've seen a slowdown of 911 and we've had unfortunately one. struggle with waves of. shootings since george floyd was killed and so here ben and a host of issues that are still have these are we're still on the front lines demanding change and many just. and hoping their elected officials will do the right thing or get out of those became more the good people like you on the front lines i do see a change cope with coming to the city of minneapolis state of minnesota and the rest of this country thank you again so much for coming on and for the good work that you're doing up there are keep up the fight. in iraq and.

all right everyone before we go c'mon admit it when you 1st saw the images of that notorious giant murder hornets and found out they were hit in the u.s. shores in 2020 seriously you can you can you could have made it yourself you proved yourself a little bit scary scary hornets well it's ok because you don't have to be embarrassed about that because you're in good company in fact who just might be what saves the honeybee from these brutes new research of discover that asian honey bees when faced with the threat of these giant hornets of the best but genus have been smearing animal feces around the entrance to their hives yes apparently giant murder hornets are just as turned off by a front door step filled with who is the rest of us are in fact one study in vietnam found the beehives anointed with feces were never even successfully overrun by the giant hornets. yes i'm sure who would have bunk with

a little. a little feces on the doorstep was enough to ward off the murder hornets ingenuity growth engine you know there's a smart a smart species. it blows my mind i'm still trying to figure out how that 1st be a little honey bee was like this works i'm just saying that they go through what they figured out this was the new it shows that innovation is what you have to do when faced with a threat from above especially dangerous threat like that maybe we could do that for climate change we could not be to we go into something like that anyway that is our show for you today remember everyone in this world your best and told that we are loved so i tell you all i love you i am to open to and i'm on the keep on watching all those hawks out there and have a great day and night everybody. that's

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