It's Wednesday, June 17th. I'm Achilles Hughes.

And I'm Gideon Ressnick and this is what a day where we are reminding you that brunch tastes just the same at home and it costs like $3.

That's right. And you can start whenever you want. You don't have to wait for everybody in front of you because they all want brunch.

I hate waiting for brunch. It's dumb. So why don't you just like cook it at home?

The line for the Pop Tart in the Toaster is just one person. Me.

On today's show, a conversation with Congresswoman Iana Presley about legislation to end police violence, then some headlines.

But first the latest.

That was President Obama singing amazing grace during a eulogy for Reverend and South Carolina State rep Clementa Pinkney.

He was one of nine black people killed during the mass shooting at the mother and manual AME church in Charleston.

Today marks five years since that tragic event.

And there are remembrances and marches taking place today to honor the lives that were lost and to continue calling for racial justice.

In news, we are continuing to see local action being taken towards police departments in the wake of weeks long protests against police brutality and systemic racism.

In Atlanta, Mayor Kisha Lance Bottom signed a series of executive orders aimed at restricting the use of deadly force.

In Baltimore, the city council approved more than $22 million in police spending cuts for the next year, about a 5% cut, and an albacurky where an armed extremist was arrested yesterday after shooting a protester, the mayor created a new public safety department to respond to nonviolent calls.

We've also seen a lot of action out of DC. So let's start with what Trump did yesterday.

A press conference and executive order on policing.

Yeah, so this executive order seems like it's going to do very, very little.

And there's not really anything that is immediately enforceable in it.

But basically it functions as a set of principles that are supposed to incentivize police departments to adopt reforms.

But as an example of how watered down this is, Trump said that the Justice Department would prioritize federal grants to police departments that meet certain practices,

including the banning of chokeholds with one major caveat, quote, accept if an officer's life is at risk.

Yeah, which they always claim it was at risk when they are, you know, doing those sort of illegal chokeholds.

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