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

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  Speaker 1: New video raising questions, and a police shooting in Delaware
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  Speaker 1: that's already sparking outrage.
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  Speaker 2: Bro he's shot. Why y'all doing that? He's shot?
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  Speaker 1: Brown and rapper Bootsy says he paid hundreds of thousands
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  Speaker 1: of dollars for a presidential pardon. Now he wants his
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  Speaker 1: money back.
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  Speaker 3: I would give a damn if Flavor Flave was the president.
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  Speaker 3: I'm glad slow damn what?
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  Speaker 1: And Netflix maybe bringing back something a lot of us
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  Speaker 1: thought was dead. It's Tuesday, July fourteenth, from the Black
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  Speaker 1: Effect podcast Network. I'm Mimi Brown. This is front page,
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  Speaker 1: and here are the day's biggest stories. Stay with me.
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  Speaker 1: There are new developments in the cakes of nineteen year
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  Speaker 1: old Kadeer Skinner, the Delaware teenager who was shot in
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  Speaker 1: the back and killed by a Wilmington police officer last month.
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  Speaker 1: Police officers were responding to reports of a man with
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  Speaker 1: a gun when they saw Skinner pointing a handgun for
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  Speaker 1: a crowd. They say Skinner ran when officers approached him,
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  Speaker 1: leading to a footchase that ended when an officer opened fire.
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  Speaker 1: But Skinner's family says the public has only heard one
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  Speaker 1: side of the story and says that's not true. They're
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  Speaker 1: represented by civil rights attorney Ben Crump and Harry Daniels,
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  Speaker 1: who have spent weeks demanding the release of the officer's
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  Speaker 1: body camera footage, saying it could answer the biggest questions
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  Speaker 1: about what happened that night. Nothing on that video justify this.
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  Speaker 3: I'm aggravated.
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  Speaker 2: They need to release the video. Clearly on the video
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  Speaker 2: shows him being shot from a high.
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  Speaker 1: Now, the family's legal team has released witness recorded cell
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  Speaker 1: phone video taken moments after the shooting.
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  Speaker 2: He's shoting to extra happy Buddie. He was just running, bro,
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  Speaker 2: he shooting. Why y'all shooting? Bro? He's shot? Why y'all
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  Speaker 2: doing that doing? He shot? He shot? Yeah, he's shotting.
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  Speaker 2: He shot. Why you won't even like that? Get off
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  Speaker 2: from me? Shot? See if he okay? See if be okay?
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  Speaker 2: See if he okay? You tell me I can't breathe
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  Speaker 2: zif bro, pull you shooting us? We need your bas number,
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  Speaker 2: We need your bag number.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. The video appears to show Skinner alive, handcuffed and
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  Speaker 1: lying on the ground, while bystanders can be heard shouting
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  Speaker 1: he's dying. His attorneys say officers failed to provide medical
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  Speaker 1: peer before placing him in a police cruiser. The newly
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  Speaker 1: released video is adding even more pressure on the Delaware
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  Speaker 1: Police Department to release the bodycam footage. So far, the
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  Speaker 1: department has declined, saying the investigation is still ongoing. Now,
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  Speaker 1: to a story that sounds almost too wild to believe,
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  Speaker 1: rapper Bootsy Badass says he paid six hundred thousand dollars
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  Speaker 1: to secure a presidential pardon from President Trump, and now
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  Speaker 1: he's trying to get half of that money back. So
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  Speaker 1: According to Notice, Bootsy hired a Washington lobbying firm last
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  Speaker 1: year to help him seek a pardon for his federal
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  Speaker 1: gun conviction. His attorney says the firm later told him
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  Speaker 1: the pardon had already been signed and that they were
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  Speaker 1: waiting for the White House to announce it. Well, that
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  Speaker 1: announcement never came. A White House aid later told Bootsy's
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  Speaker 1: attorney that they couldn't find any record that a pardon
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  Speaker 1: request had even ever been filed. Now, Bootsy is demanding
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  Speaker 1: the return of three hundred thousand dollars. According to the contract,
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  Speaker 1: half of the six hundred thousand dollars fee was refundable
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  Speaker 1: if a pardon wasn't secured by a certain deadline.
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't give a damn if Flavor Flave was the president.
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  Speaker 3: I don't give a damn if bl Burger was the president.
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  Speaker 3: I'm glad, slow, damn what every president come up here?
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  Speaker 3: I don't give a damn.
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  Speaker 1: The lobbying firm disputes that it owes Bootsy a refund,
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  Speaker 1: saying it can't pay because it's dealing with millions of
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  Speaker 1: dollars in fines and other debts. The dispute is now
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  Speaker 1: headed to arbitration. As you may remember, Bootsy pled guilty
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  Speaker 1: last year to being a felon in possession of a
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  Speaker 1: firearm after a gun was found during a music video
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  Speaker 1: shoot in San Diego. He avoided prison and was sentenced
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  Speaker 1: to supervised release, community service, and a fifty thousand dollars fine.
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  Speaker 1: His attorney has since submitted a separate pardon request directly
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  Speaker 1: to the White House. So while the fight over money continues,
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  Speaker 1: Bootsy is still hoping to receive a pardon. And finally,
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  Speaker 1: remember when Netflix changed the way we all watched TV, Well,
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  Speaker 1: now it may be taking a page out of cables playbook.
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  Speaker 1: According to the Wall Street Journal, Netflix executives are considering
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  Speaker 1: adding live always on channels, so instead of spending ten
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  Speaker 1: minutes scrolling for something to watch, you could simply turn
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  Speaker 1: on a comedy channel, a reality channel, or a true
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  Speaker 1: crime channel and watch whatever is already playing. The idea
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  Speaker 1: isn't exactly new services like Pluto TV and two B
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  Speaker 1: already do it, but it's a shit for the company
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  Speaker 1: that built its business on letting viewers watch whatever they wanted,
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  Speaker 1: whenever they wanted. So why the change. Well, competition. YouTube
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  Speaker 1: now reaches a bigger share of TV viewers than Netflix,
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  Speaker 1: and free streaming services like two B is continuing to grow.
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  Speaker 1: Netflix is also reportedly looking at adding more live content,
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  Speaker 1: short form videos, video podcasts, and even bundling other streaming
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  Speaker 1: services into its app. In other words, the streaming wars
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  Speaker 1: are entering a new phase. The company that disrupted traditional
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  Speaker 1: television is now borrowing some of its oldest ideas. That's
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