In The Streets with Beverley Smith: Living in America (Episode 90) - a podcast by the LMC Radio Network

Living in America


This week we focus on the news featuring various state legislation. Also news regarding our new US Attorney General Jeffrey Beauregard Sessions and the role of the Department of Justice and civil rights.


New York state lawmakers have agreed to raise the age at which suspects can be charged as adults, from 16 to 18.


A Maplewood, Missouri city ordinance punishes domestic violence victims who call for help more than twice by forcing them out of the city.


NYPD officers clandestinely accessed Black Lives Matter activists' texts in 2014 and 2015.


Working-class communities - mostly in the South and Midwest - will be affected when 220 cities will lose train transportation, due to the Trump budget.


A federal judge in Indiana shot down an anti-abortion bill signed by then-governor Mike Pence in 2016, calling it "likely unconstitutional".


A judge issued a formal rebuke to Officer Betty Jo Shelby, who shot unarmed Terrance Crutcher to death on video,after his car broke down.


Last week, on LGBTQ Equality Day, the Nevada state legislature passed two new civil rights bills.


This and more. Tuesday, April 11, 2017. 6pm PST


 


 


 

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