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  Speaker 1: BIA News This Hour, I'm Andrea Coleman. Coming up.
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  Speaker 2: It was over a period of time. You had one
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  Speaker 2: shooting and then I think approximately 30 minutes to maybe
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  Speaker 2: an hour later you had another shooting.
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  Speaker 1: Police officers in several cities are investigating a rash of
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  Speaker 1: shootings over the weekend that claimed the lives of dozens
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  Speaker 1: of people. A Florida police officer is without a job
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  Speaker 1: today after tasing a black man during a medical emergency. And.
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  Speaker 3: Not only are young folks voting, we have cadres of
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  Speaker 3: young folks that are ready to sign up to become
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  Speaker 3: poll workers because there's a generational shift happening.
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  Speaker 1: The black youth vote. Are young voters casting ballots this
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  Speaker 1: election cycle? We'll take a look. But first, here's BIN
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  Speaker 1: News Now.
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  Speaker 4: Virginia Republican Senator Bryce Reeves is calling for an investigation
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  Speaker 4: into black Democratic Senator Louise Lucas following her federal indictment.
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  Speaker 4: Reeves has asked a Senate committee to review the allegations
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  Speaker 4: and determine whether they want her expulsion. He argues elected
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  Speaker 4: officials should be held to a higher standard. Chicago City
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  Speaker 4: Council has voted 44-6 to use $ 75 million from a
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  Speaker 4: parking meter deal to pay down pension debt instead of
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  Speaker 4: covering next year's budget deficit. The money comes from a
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  Speaker 4: recent transfer of the city's parking meter lease. Black Mayor
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  Speaker 4: Brandon Johnson had questioned whether the original agreement required the
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  Speaker 4: funds to be used specifically for pensions. And Maryland's Black
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  Speaker 4: Governor Wes Moore is investing another $ 500, 000 into community safety
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  Speaker 4: programs across the state. The funding will support crime prevention
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  Speaker 4: efforts and expand opportunities for young people. It builds on
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  Speaker 4: a two-year pilot program that improved coordination between state agencies
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  Speaker 4: and local communities to address public safety. I'm Amber Payton
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  Speaker 4: with BIN News Now. Back to you, Andrea.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. Halloween proved to be deadly in several cities
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  Speaker 1: across the country this weekend. At least 24 people are
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  Speaker 1: dead and another 100 are wounded in shootings over Halloween weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Three shootings in Dallas alone early Sunday morning killed four people,
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  Speaker 1: while one in Jackson, Mississippi, left two dead. Other shootings
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  Speaker 1: were reported in states from Delaware to California. A pregnant
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  Speaker 1: woman was killed and six others injured in a mass
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  Speaker 1: shooting at a Halloween spirit store in Northern California. Dallas
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  Speaker 1: Police Chief O.C. Como calling the situation there unacceptable.
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  Speaker 2: This is a really big scene and it is spread
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  Speaker 2: out and we are interviewing some individuals right now that
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  Speaker 2: we have arrested, still trying to figure out exactly how
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  Speaker 2: it ties into this particular, all the shootings out here, right?
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  Speaker 2: So it's really all over the place right now. We
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  Speaker 2: have to bring it together and bring it all in
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  Speaker 2: that square box. But I guarantee you, we will do that.
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  Speaker 1: Shots also rang out at a Spirit Halloween store in Michigan,
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  Speaker 1: leaving a 21-year-old Detroit man dead on Friday. Many of
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  Speaker 1: the weekend shootings took place at clubs, around school campuses
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  Speaker 1: and retail centers. Meanwhile, Chief Cuomo, who is black, is
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  Speaker 1: asking for anyone with video from any of the scenes
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  Speaker 1: to please contact his department. A Chattahoochee, Florida police officer
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  Speaker 1: has been fired for tasing a man who may have
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  Speaker 1: been having a seizure. Dwight Jackson's brother told WCTV that
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  Speaker 1: he called for help after Jackson collapsed and started having
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  Speaker 1: a seizure while putting up Halloween decorations last week. At
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  Speaker 1: some point after paramedics arrived and were attending to Jackson,
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  Speaker 1: a Chattahoochee police officer arrived and tased him. The police
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  Speaker 1: chief later explaining that the officer thought Jackson was being
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  Speaker 1: combative with paramedics. Jackson was held in a police vehicle
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  Speaker 1: for a while and then released. He told WCTV that
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  Speaker 1: he feared for his life and is now considering taking
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  Speaker 1: legal action against the officer, whose name was not included
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  Speaker 1: in the news report. Early voting among young Black voters
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  Speaker 1: in Georgia reached 80 percent during the state's early voting period,
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  Speaker 1: which ended Friday. John Robert Taylor III with the Black
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  Speaker 1: Male Initiative says we shouldn't be surprised. Black youth are voting, but... Just.
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  Speaker 3: Because they turn out, that does not mean that they
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  Speaker 3: vote all the way down the ballot. So there's education
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  Speaker 3: that we have to do. Every day we spend time
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  Speaker 3: talking to folks about the PSC and make sure that
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  Speaker 3: they understand what the Public Service Commission does.
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  Speaker 1: In Georgia, eight Black women are on the ballot in
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  Speaker 1: statewide elections. Down-ballot voting has been urged for their success.
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  Speaker 1: Join VIN tomorrow night for our special election coverage. Black
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  Speaker 1: America Votes, the midterms 2026, begins at 7 p.m. Eastern.
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  Speaker 1: This is VIN News This Hour. I'm Andrea Coleman on
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  Speaker 1: the Black Information Network, home of Black News First.