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The Killing of Kohen Wiley, The Wallet, and Howard to the NFL · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: A one year old baby has been shot and killed
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  Speaker 1: by police in Mississippi, and civil rights attorney Ben Crump
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  Speaker 1: is now representing the family.
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  Speaker 2: I raised my baby trying to show them the hs
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  Speaker 2: in the car.
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  Speaker 1: And a new Federal Reserve survey shows Americans are feeling
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  Speaker 1: worse about their finances. I don't know if it's going
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  Speaker 1: to get any better or what's going to happen, but
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  Speaker 1: it's not looking promising. And Howard University strength coach is
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  Speaker 1: making history in the NFL. It's Thursday, June eighteenth from
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  Speaker 1: the Black Effects podcast network. I Mean Me Brown. This
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  Speaker 1: is front paid and here are the days biggest stories
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  Speaker 1: plus on the underplate. The Justice Department is quietly backing
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  Speaker 1: away from something that could impact thousands of people. Stay
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  Speaker 1: with me. The mother of a one year old boy
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  Speaker 1: killed during a police shooting is now sharing her side
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  Speaker 1: of what happened. Melissio Wiley says she was leaving a
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  Speaker 1: Walmart and Senatobia with her son, Cohen, when officers approached
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  Speaker 1: a vehicle her and her friend had gotten into. Wiley
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  Speaker 1: says she was holding her baby up, trying to show
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  Speaker 1: officers there was a child in the car when gunfire erupted.
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  Speaker 1: State investigators tell a different story. The Missouri Bureau of
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  Speaker 1: Investigations said the driver moved the vehicle for the officers
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  Speaker 1: as they tried to stop it, nearly hitting one of them,
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  Speaker 1: and that's when they opened fire. Now, Cohen's family is
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  Speaker 1: demanding the release of bodycam footage and Walmart's surveillance video.
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  Speaker 1: The attorneys say they want a full and transparent investigation
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  Speaker 1: and are questioning why officers fired into a vehicle they
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  Speaker 1: allegedly knew a child was inside. The officer who fired
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  Speaker 1: the shots has been placed on administrative leave while the
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  Speaker 1: state investigates. So far, Wiley says she has not been
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  Speaker 1: charged with any crime. The shooting has sparked protests in Senatobia,
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  Speaker 1: with demonstrators demanding answers and accountability. Walmart temporarily closed the
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  Speaker 1: store during one protest as tensions grew between protesters inside
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  Speaker 1: the police. Policeay officers were responding to a reported shoplifting
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  Speaker 1: call when all of this happened. Senatobia is about forty
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  Speaker 1: miles south of Memphis. Residents say this isn't just about
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  Speaker 1: one tragic incident, It's about years of complaints and routine
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  Speaker 1: encounters with police that often escalate. A new Federal Reserve
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  Speaker 1: survey shows a lot of Americans are feeling financially stuck
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  Speaker 1: right now.
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  Speaker 2: I have to be very careful and very cautious and
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  Speaker 2: where I go throughout my day to make sure I'm
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  Speaker 2: not overusing my gas.
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  Speaker 1: Nearly half of people's surveys say they are worse off
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  Speaker 1: financially than they were a year ago. That's the highest
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  Speaker 1: number in more than two years. People are also feeling
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  Speaker 1: less hopeful about the future.
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  Speaker 2: It angers me to the core. I'll go to the
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  Speaker 2: shower and cry it out like I normally do, but
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  Speaker 2: my kids are the ones that suffers. I've spoken to
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  Speaker 2: so many parents, and the sufferings that we go through,
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  Speaker 2: that our kids go through because they can't have it
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  Speaker 2: angers me.
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  Speaker 1: Fewer Americans believe their finances will improve over the next year,
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  Speaker 1: as high gas prices, expensive groceries, and rising rent continue
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  Speaker 1: putting pressure on house budgets.
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  Speaker 3: My grocery bill has definitely increased about fifty dollars.
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  Speaker 1: The survey also found more workers are worried about losing
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  Speaker 1: their jobs, while confidence and finding a new job is
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  Speaker 1: starting to drop.
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  Speaker 3: It's depressing because I'm there's nights where I cry because
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, Oh, I want to do stuff for her,
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  Speaker 3: and I want to make sure that she has everything
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  Speaker 3: she needs, and I can't make that happen at this
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  Speaker 3: moment because finances are just not matching.
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  Speaker 1: It's very hard and as families keep relying on credit
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  Speaker 1: cards to cover everyday expenses, late credit card payments are
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  Speaker 1: now at their highest level since twenty eleven. Every Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: on Front Page one story that didn't get the coverage
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  Speaker 1: it deserves. Here's today's pick. Since February, the Trump administration
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  Speaker 1: has been quietly walking away from the federal rights agreements
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  Speaker 1: signed with police departments after George Floyd's murder. These agreements
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  Speaker 1: are called consent decrees. They are how the federal government
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  Speaker 1: forces police reform. They cover Minneapolis, Louisville, Memphis, Mount Vernon,
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  Speaker 1: and others. Under President Biden, the Justice Department signed binding
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  Speaker 1: agreements that required these departments to overhaul training, use of force, policy,
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  Speaker 1: and oversight. Under President Trump, the Justice Department has been
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  Speaker 1: moving to dismiss those agreements, refusing to defend them withdrawing
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  Speaker 1: federal monitors. Translation, the federal government is walking out of
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  Speaker 1: the room. We talked about the Elijah McCain ruling on Monday,
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  Speaker 1: two paramedics walking on the most serious charges. We're talking
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  Speaker 1: about the Carmelo Anthony trial, a jury with zero black
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  Speaker 1: members weighing in on self defense. And the thing connecting
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  Speaker 1: those stories is the slow disappearance of federal accountability over
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  Speaker 1: local policing. This is happening right now. That's the underplayed
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  Speaker 1: Let's end the show with something good. Michelle Boating, a
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  Speaker 1: strength and conditioning coach at Howard University, just completed a
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  Speaker 1: two week fellowship with the Washington Commanders, giving her the
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  Speaker 1: chance to work inside the NFL facility alongside the team's coaching.
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  Speaker 1: Boating earned the opportunity through the NFL's Bill Walsh Diversity
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  Speaker 1: Coaching Fellowship, a program designed to help open doors for
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  Speaker 1: women in minority coaches trying to break into the professional
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  Speaker 1: football game. She was selected from more than a thousand applicants,
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  Speaker 1: and for Boating, the daughter of Ganaian immigrants, the moment
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  Speaker 1: also reflects how much the league has changed. There were
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  Speaker 1: no full time women coaches in the league. Now there
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  Speaker 1: are women coaching across the NFL, including several black women.
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  Speaker 1: Boating says help inspire her journey and for a lot
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  Speaker 1: of women watching, especially young black women interant listed in
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  Speaker 1: sports stories like this show, there is finally a path
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  Speaker 1: into rooms that once fell completely out of reach. That's
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  Speaker 1: your front page. I'm Mimi Brown. This podcast was brought
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  Speaker 1: to you by The Black Effect Podcast Network