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Ilhan Omar Speaks Out After FBI Raid, Leaked Kohen Wiley Video, LSU Student Says School Failed Her · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is breaking her silence after federal agents
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  Speaker 1: searched her home. She's now raising serious questions about why
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  Speaker 1: they came knocking so early in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think I was able to call my attorney
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  Speaker 2: until about an hour into the search.
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  Speaker 1: A newly leaked video is raising questions about the police
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  Speaker 1: shooting that killed a one-year-old boy in Mississippi.
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  Speaker 3: I watched my baby take his first breath, and I
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  Speaker 3: watched my baby take his last breath.
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  Speaker 1: What officers said afterwards is now getting attention. A retired
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  Speaker 1: NYPD detective accused of killing a man on the George
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  Speaker 1: Washington Bridge is facing a lesser charge than expected. Now
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  Speaker 1: the victim's family is demanding answers. And an LSU student
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  Speaker 1: says the university failed her after finding a football player
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  Speaker 1: responsible for rape. He's still playing football and now police
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  Speaker 1: are getting involved. It's Friday, October 23rd. From the Black
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  Speaker 1: Effect Podcast Network, I'm Amy 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: Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is speaking out for the first time
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  Speaker 1: since federal agents raided her home in Washington, D.C. She
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  Speaker 1: says the way they showed up was meant to scare her.
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  Speaker 1: Omar told MSNOW Chris Hayes that agents came pounding on
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  Speaker 1: her door early on October 12th. She said she had
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  Speaker 1: only been asleep for about two and a half hours.
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  Speaker 1: She says the banging was so loud she thought something
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  Speaker 1: was on fire. But when she opened the door, federal
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  Speaker 1: agents were there with a search warrant. Omar says at
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  Speaker 1: least 25 agents spent four to five hours searching her home.
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  Speaker 1: They took 17 items, including her cell phone, old photos
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  Speaker 1: belonging to her family, her husband's notebooks, a camera, and
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  Speaker 1: even a child's Somali language book. She also claims agents
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  Speaker 1: tried to get her to sign away certain constitutional protections
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  Speaker 1: she has as a member of Congress. She refused.
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  Speaker 4: Are you allowed to talk to your attorney at the
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  Speaker 4: initiation of the search?
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  Speaker 2: I don't think I was able to call my attorney
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  Speaker 2: until about an hour into the search.
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  Speaker 4: So you're just there watching them search helplessly?
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah. I sat on the couch staring at the
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  Speaker 2: warrant and trying to make sure that they were staying
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  Speaker 2: within the bounds of what the warrant allowed them to do.
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  Speaker 4: What did you, when you talked to your lawyers, what
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  Speaker 4: was your, was there any moment at which you sort
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  Speaker 4: of had any understanding of what exactly was happening to you?
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  Speaker 2: No, I don't think anybody still has an understanding of
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  Speaker 2: what is happening.
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  Speaker 4: What do you mean by that?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it doesn't make any sense that they would
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  Speaker 2: raid a house to take my phone because essentially that's
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  Speaker 2: kind of the warrant was for like electronics. And so
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  Speaker 2: to come that early to take my phone just sounded obnoxious.
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  Speaker 2: It still sounds obnoxious.
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  Speaker 1: So why was the federal government searching her home? Well,
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  Speaker 1: the Department of Justice says agents had a warrant approved
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  Speaker 1: by a judge as part of an ongoing criminal investigation.
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  Speaker 1: According to reports, investigators are looking into possible immigration fraud,
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  Speaker 1: including questions about whether Omar or her late father gave
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  Speaker 1: false information about her age when she became a U.S. citizen.
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  Speaker 1: Omar fled Somalia's civil war as a child. She spent
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  Speaker 1: four years in a refugee camp in Kenya before coming
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  Speaker 1: to the United States as 12. She became an American
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  Speaker 1: citizen at 17. And Omar says the idea that she
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  Speaker 1: was somehow involved in an immigration conspiracy as a child
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  Speaker 1: is ridiculous. And what's also important here is that this
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  Speaker 1: isn't the first time the federal government has looked into
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  Speaker 1: her immigration history. The Washington Post reports immigration officials reviewed
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  Speaker 1: her case during Trump's first term but didn't find enough
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  Speaker 1: to open a full investigation. The Wall Street Journal reports
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  Speaker 1: the Biden administration also looked into the matter but did
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  Speaker 1: not move forward. Omar has denied wrongdoing and says this
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  Speaker 1: latest investigation is politically motivated. No charges against her were
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  Speaker 1: identified in the reporting provided. New video is showing the
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  Speaker 1: moments before a Mississippi police officer opened fire, killing a
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  Speaker 1: one-year-old boy. His name was Cohen Wiley. We told you
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  Speaker 1: about his death earlier this week. Now we're getting a
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  Speaker 1: closer look at what happened that day. The shooting happened
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  Speaker 1: back in June at a Walmart in Centovia, Mississippi. Police
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  Speaker 1: were responding to a report of two women accused of
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  Speaker 1: stealing diapers and baby clothes. Cohen was with his mother
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  Speaker 1: sitting in her arms inside a car. Surveillance video shows
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  Speaker 1: after police approached the women inside the store, they rushed
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  Speaker 1: to the car and tried to leave the parking lot.
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  Speaker 1: And here's what the video shows next. Five officers running
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  Speaker 1: toward the car, yelling for the driver to stop. The
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  Speaker 1: driver backs into a parked vehicle, then pulls forward as
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  Speaker 1: officers surround the car with their guns drawn. Now, police
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  Speaker 1: say the driver was headed toward the officer and nearly
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  Speaker 1: hit him. But the video shows an officer opening fire
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  Speaker 1: as the car approaches. then appearing to fire several more
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  Speaker 1: shots after the car has already passed him.
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  Speaker 3: I watched my baby take his first breath, and I
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  Speaker 3: watched my baby take his last breath. I'm still in
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  Speaker 3: disbelief about the traumatizing event that occurred that took my
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  Speaker 3: one and only child, baby Cohen. I ask that you
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  Speaker 3: keep my family in your prayers and justice.
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  Speaker 4: For baby Cohen.
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  Speaker 1: One-year-old Cohen was killed and the driver was seriously injured.
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  Speaker 1: The body cam footage comes from two other officers at
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  Speaker 1: the scene. We still haven't seen the body cam footage
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  Speaker 1: from the officer who actually fired the shots. And in
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  Speaker 1: the footage recorded afterwards, officers can be heard saying they
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  Speaker 1: didn't know a baby was inside the car. One officer said, quote,
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  Speaker 1: nobody knew the baby was in there. All I saw
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  Speaker 1: was two females in the car. But Cohen's mother says
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  Speaker 1: she held her baby up so officers could see him.
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  Speaker 1: Mississippi Attorney General announced Monday that the officers would not
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  Speaker 1: face criminal charges. Cohen's family has spent months demanding answers.
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  Speaker 1: The state says it plans to meet with the family
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  Speaker 1: before publicly releasing additional footage. Family attorney Ben Crump and
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  Speaker 1: Van Turner say they're reviewing the video with Cohen's relatives.
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  Speaker 1: And finally, an LSU student says her university failed to
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  Speaker 1: protect her after finding a football player responsible for raping her.
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  Speaker 1: And now a year after she first reported the assault,
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  Speaker 1: police are investigating. The student is Kendall Francis. She says
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  Speaker 1: LSU football player Damian Shanklin sexually assaulted her on campus
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  Speaker 1: in October of 2025. Francis reported what happened to the university,
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  Speaker 1: which launched what's called a Title X investigation. Now, Title
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  Speaker 1: X is a federal law that requires school receive federal
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  Speaker 1: funding to address sexual discrimination, including sexual harassment and sexual violence.
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  Speaker 1: And here's what's becoming important about this case. After investigating,
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  Speaker 1: LSU found Shanklin responsible for what the university called, quote,
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  Speaker 1: forcible rape. The school initially suspended him for one year,
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  Speaker 1: but Shanklin appealed that decision. And even though the finding
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  Speaker 1: was that he was responsible for rape remained in place,
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  Speaker 1: his punishment was reduced. Instead of being suspended, he was
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  Speaker 1: put on probation with no restrictions. That meant he could
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  Speaker 1: stay in school, participate in campus activities, and continue playing football.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, he played three more games after the alleged assault,
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  Speaker 1: including the Texas Bowl. Francis says she was devastated by
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  Speaker 1: the university's decision. She went on to publicly tell her
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  Speaker 1: story on TikTok last month. She says she was sitting
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  Speaker 1: in class when she received the decision of Shanklin's appeal.
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  Speaker 1: She said, quote, It said that he was still responsible
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  Speaker 1: for rape, but he was going to be able to
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  Speaker 1: play football, join organizations, and everything like that. In an
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  Speaker 1: interview with WAFB in Baton Rouge, she made it clear
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  Speaker 1: what she wants to happen next. Quote, I would like
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  Speaker 1: to see him in jail. I would like to see
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  Speaker 1: something done about the way the university handled the situation.
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  Speaker 1: And now here's a major distinction here. LSU's Title IX
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  Speaker 1: investigation is a university disciplinary process. It's separate from a
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  Speaker 1: criminal investigation. So while the school found Shanklin responsible for rape,
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  Speaker 1: that does not mean he has been convicted of a crime.
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  Speaker 1: And now LSU campus police and the district attorney are investigating.
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  Speaker 1: Shanklin's attorney says he maintains his innocence and is cooperating
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  Speaker 1: with investigators. They say, quote, what has been portrayed on
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  Speaker 1: social media and in the news thus far is not
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  Speaker 1: a full account. Shanklin remains on LSU's football team, and
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  Speaker 1: Frances says she wants accountability, both for what she says
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  Speaker 1: happened to her and for how the university handled her case.
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  Speaker 1: If you know someone who has experienced sexual assault, help
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  Speaker 1: is available through the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE.
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