Hello and welcome to Background Briefing, available 24-7 at background briefing.

I'm Ian Masters, and today we'll look into a number of stories and issues in the news.

We'll begin with the killing of a 37-year-old woman, a legal observer in Minneapolis today by an ice agent who shot her dead through the window of her SUV, while the spokeswoman for Department of Homeland Security claims the victim had weaponized her car and was attempting to run down the

ice agent who clearly was not in front of her car, which the video makes clear.

Joining us from Minneapolis to describe what happened and examine the claims by DHS, which the

Minneapolis mayor calls Bull bleep, is Anna Patras Acosta, a professor of law at Mitchell

Hamline School of Law and a clinical professor of law at the University of Minnesota, focusing on

immigration law and human rights law. She previously practiced as an immigration attorney for the Lutheran Social

Services of New York Immigration Legal Services Program and at the Stinson-Lennard Street as an attorney

in the Immigration Law Group, where she represented clients in employment-based immigration

matters and supervised non-immigration attorneys on pro bono immigration matters.

Then we'll speak with Dr. Alan Francis, a professor emeritus and former chair of

psychiatry and behavioral science at Duke University.

He's the author of the award-winning international bestseller saving normal and the reference work essentials of psychiatric diagnosis.

And his latest book is Twilight of American Senity.

A psychiatrist analyzes the age of Trump, now out in an updated paperback version.

He joins us to discuss how no tyrant in history, whether it be seasoned Napoleon or Hitler,

has the power to destroy like Trump has at his fingertip.

Then finally, we will speak with Una Hathaway, a professor international law at Ilao Law School,

and a non-resident scholar at the Canadian Dammar for International Peace.

She has been a member of the Advisory Committee on International Law for the Legal Advisor at the United States Department of State since 2005,

and from 2014 to 2015, she took leave to serve a special counsel to the General Counsel at the United States Department of Defense,

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