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News Wrap: New York governor will not remove Eric Adams from office

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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In our news wrap Thursday, New York Gov. Hochul decided not to remove NYC's mayor from office, six prison workers in New York were indicted for murder in the beating of a handcuffed inmate, South Korea's president appeared in court and the former head of Spain's soccer federation was found guilty of sexual assault for kissing a player without her consent. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

We start the day's other headlines in New York, where the state's governor, Kathy

0:04.6

Hokel, has decided not to remove the mayor of New York City from office, at least for now.

0:10.0

However, Hockel said she will push for increased oversight of Mayor Eric Adams and his administration.

0:16.0

The decision follows a fierce blowback over the Justice Department's push to have the mayor's corruption

0:21.6

case dropped so Adams can focus on helping President Trump's immigration agenda.

0:26.7

Governor Hokel said today that New York is already facing a grave threat from Washington

0:31.1

and that the city's residents should be allowed to decide their own future.

0:35.0

It is up to the voters of this great city to determine who they want to continue as their

0:40.3

leader or bring in a new leader.

0:42.3

It is up to them.

0:43.3

That is a sacred right that they have, and I will not deny them that.

0:46.3

Adams was indicted last September on bribery and other charges.

0:50.3

He's pleaded not guilty and said in a hearing just yesterday that he hasn't committed

0:55.3

any crime. Staying in New York, six prison workers were indicted today for second-degree murder

1:02.0

in the fatal beating of a handcuffed inmate. Four others were charged with lesser crimes.

1:07.7

Body cameras caught multiple officers beating 43-year-old Robert Brooks hours after he was

1:13.5

transferred to Marcy Correctional Facility in December. He died the next day. In a statement,

1:19.3

Governor Kathy Hochel said, quote, the brutal attack was sickening. The perpetrators have been

1:23.8

rightfully charged with murder. Even before this incident, a watchdog group had found

1:28.9

rampant abuse by staff at the medium security prison. In South Korea, embattled President Yun-Suk Yul

1:36.4

appeared in two different courts today for hearings related to his imposition of martial law last year.

1:42.9

In the first, his legal team contested his

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