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Oregon School Shooting, Meta Apologizes, Officer Cleared in Baby's Death · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: And new questions about how a teenage gunman got the
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  Speaker 1: weapon used in a deadly elementary school shooting in Oregon.
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  Speaker 2: Our officers were on scene at approximately 1.02 p.m.
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  Speaker 1: And Metta is apologizing after shutting down a major anti-Trump
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  Speaker 1: protest group's Instagram account.
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  Speaker 3: But organizers aren't satisfied.
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  Speaker 4: And in the middle of that joyful experience at the
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  Speaker 4: protest locally, I got word from my team that Mark
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  Speaker 4: Zuckerberg's meta had suspended the Instagram account for the No
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  Speaker 4: Kings Coalition.
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  Speaker 1: And a Mississippi police officer is cleared in the wrongdoing
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  Speaker 1: of a one-year-old baby boy. His family is still demanding answers.
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  Speaker 1: It's Tuesday, October 20th. From the Black Effect Podcast Network,
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  Speaker 1: I'm Amy Brown. This is Front Page, and here are
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  Speaker 1: the day's biggest stories.
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  Speaker 3: Stay with me.
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  Speaker 1: We're learning more about the 16-year-old gunman who killed three
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  Speaker 1: children and a teacher at an elementary school in Bend, Oregon.
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  Speaker 1: Police say he was a former student at the school.
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  Speaker 1: The three children killed were just 5, 8, and 11
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  Speaker 1: years old. A 25-year-old teacher was also killed, and two
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  Speaker 1: others were injured. And police are now revealing new details
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  Speaker 1: about the children who were targeted and the gunman's connection
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  Speaker 1: to the school.
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  Speaker 3: I can answer that that classroom was a special needs
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  Speaker 3: classroom and the suspect was a special needs student in
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  Speaker 3: that school.
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  Speaker 1: Police say the teenager shot through a locked school door
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  Speaker 1: to get inside. One teacher fought him trying to take
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  Speaker 1: the gun away. Police say she likely saved other lives.
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  Speaker 1: The gunman was eventually shot and killed by a bystander,
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  Speaker 1: and investigators are now looking into how he got the weapon.
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  Speaker 1: Two law enforcement officials tell NBC News the teenager's mother
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  Speaker 1: bought the shotgun around his birthday in August. She's cooperating
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  Speaker 1: with investigators, but police have not released a motive. Our
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  Speaker 1: hearts go out to the families who lost their loved ones.
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  Speaker 1: And Meta is apologizing for taking the No Kings Instagram
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  Speaker 1: account offline. On the same day, the movement held protests
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  Speaker 1: across the country. Saturday was the third round of No
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  Speaker 1: Kings protests. Thousands of events from Seattle and San Diego
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  Speaker 1: to Chicago, Atlanta and New York protested President Trump's deportation push,
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  Speaker 1: the war in Iran and other policies. Organizers also used
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  Speaker 1: the day to push for early voting. But the account
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  Speaker 1: organizers and protesters relied on was down for more than
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  Speaker 1: an hour. And Meta says it took even longer to
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  Speaker 1: restore organizers' access.
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  Speaker 4: It was joyful. It was powerful. There were people singing
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  Speaker 4: songs and waving banners, alerting the community that it's time
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  Speaker 4: to get out and vote. It's time to get ready
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  Speaker 4: to early vote. This is indeed the largest early vote
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  Speaker 4: effort in American history, with more than 3,000 events all
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  Speaker 4: over the world this weekend. And in the middle of
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  Speaker 4: that joyful experience at the protests locally, I got word
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  Speaker 4: from my team that Mark Zuckerberg's Meta had suspended the
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  Speaker 4: Instagram account for the No Kings Coalition. They suspended it.
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  Speaker 4: We didn't have access to it. We couldn't post to it.
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  Speaker 4: Nobody could go to the page. That was for about
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  Speaker 4: an hour and a half during the height of the mobilization.
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  Speaker 1: Meta spokesperson Andy Stone says its security system spotted an
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  Speaker 1: AI tool reading profiles, posts, and hashtags in sudden heavy bursts.
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  Speaker 1: He said it looked like bot traffic and a system
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  Speaker 1: shut down the account by mistake. Stone said, quote, We
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  Speaker 1: want to reiterate our sincere apology for the error. No
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  Speaker 1: Kings organizers say that explanation, quote, doesn't add up. They
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  Speaker 1: say they also got reports that No Kings and early
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  Speaker 1: voting content was blocked, restricted, or hidden across Meta's platforms.
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  Speaker 1: The coalition said, quote, Weeks before an election, an apology
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  Speaker 1: isn't enough. The public needs answers, accountability, and concrete safeguards.
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  Speaker 1: Election day is November 3rd. And finally, the officer who
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  Speaker 1: shot and killed one-year-old Cohen Wiley in Mississippi will not
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  Speaker 1: face criminal charges. The Mississippi Attorney General's Office says the
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  Speaker 1: shooting was legally justified, but it did not name the
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  Speaker 1: officer and it did not explain the evidence behind the decision.
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  Speaker 1: Cohen was killed in June outside a Walmart in Mississippi.
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  Speaker 1: Police were responding to a reported theft of diapers and
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  Speaker 1: baby clothes. Cohen was in a car with his mother,
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  Speaker 1: Valicia Wiley, and another woman when the officer opened fire.
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  Speaker 1: State investigators say the driver moved the car, bored officers,
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  Speaker 1: and nearly hit one. Cohen's mother disputes that. She also
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  Speaker 1: denies they stole anything.
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  Speaker 3: Neither woman was charged with death.
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  Speaker 2: The police were called and they shot into a car
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  Speaker 2: that they knew two women and an infant baby was in.
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  Speaker 2: They tried to claim it was for the officer being
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  Speaker 2: in fear of his life. multiple witnesses said the car
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  Speaker 2: was not headed towards the officers. In fact, it was
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  Speaker 2: heading away from the officers. And we know through our
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  Speaker 2: independent autopsy and objective evidence that baby Cornwallis was shot
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  Speaker 2: from the side right window of the car. The bullet
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  Speaker 2: going from right to left. This one-year-old infant child. And
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  Speaker 2: we know Mimi, that if a car, I mean, he
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  Speaker 2: shot from the right side, the officer can't be in
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  Speaker 2: harm's way if he shot from the right side. And
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  Speaker 2: also the driver of the car was shot.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators have police video and Walmart surveillance video.
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  Speaker 3: None of it has been released to the public.
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  Speaker 1: Family attorney Ben Crump and Van Turner have been demanding
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  Speaker 1: the video for months. An independent autopsy for the family
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  Speaker 1: ruled Cohen's death was a homicide, meaning he died at
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  Speaker 1: the hands of another person.
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  Speaker 3: That's not the same finding that a crime was committed.
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  Speaker 1: And the Mississippi Legislative Black Caucus also called for accountability.
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  Speaker 1: Chairman Kabir Kareem said, quote, Cohen Wiley was only one
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  Speaker 1: years old. He deserved answers. Officials have not said whether
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  Speaker 1: more evidence will be released. Cohen would have turned two
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  Speaker 1: on November 1st. That's your front page. I'm Mimi Brown.
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