7. Homewood police claim 18-year-old Jabari Latrell Peoples was shot dead after fighting with a police officer investigating the smell of marijuana coming from his car. Peoples is alleged to have broken free from the officer to retrieve a gun from his vehicle, but his family disputes this, demanding body cam footage which HPD says they will provide.
6. Lawyers for Alabama lieutenant governor candidate Nicole Wadsworth requested media outlets remove stories questioning her academic credentials, calling them misleading, although the stories are factually accurate and unlikely to be removed.
5. The Department of Homeland Security is touting the raid in Gulf Shores at a high school construction site where they detained 33 suspected illegal immigrants, as a warning to employers exploiting cheap labor.
4. U.S. Magistrate Judge Barbara Holmes ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia to be released from custody on his own recognizance but insisted that he undergo anger management counseling, be placed in home detention with monitoring, drug testing, and no contact with MS-13 gang members. But he isn’t going anywhere as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will take him into custody.
3. ICE detained an Iranian man in Alabama who has become the national face of our lax immigration policies after he was found to be a sniper in the Iranian Army, even though his wife insists he’s not a threat and fought ISIS.
2. U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) filed a bill, the “Safe and Open Streets Act,” which would make blocking public roads a federal crime and boosted President Donald Trump’s “Golden Dome” missile defense project, which saw a successful component tested yesterday in Alaska.
1. The U.S., Israel, and Iran agreed that U.S. strikes severely damaged Iran’s nuclear facilities, delaying its program up for years, despite a leaked intel report downplaying the impact which was given a “low confidence” ranking.
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Dale Jackson is a thought leader for Yellowhammer News and hosts a talk show from 5-9 a.m. weekdays on WVNN.
