The McClain Reversal, The Jobs Gap, and The Garden Tonight
The Breakfast Club
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🗓️ 8 June 2026
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Mimi Brown breaks down the day. A Colorado appeals court overturns the homicide convictions of two paramedics in the killing of Elijah McClain. The May jobs report says the economy is strong but Black unemployment is nearly double the national rate, and people are not feeling this report. And tonight, at Madison Square Garden, President Trump and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani are both at Game 3 of the NBA Finals, sitting in very different sections. Plus, your Monday Brief, your Ring doorbell may be storing your face, the SpaceX IPO is days away, and measles is closing in on a record.
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| 0:00.0 | A Colorado appeals court has overturned the convictions of two paramedics in the death of Elijah |
| 0:10.7 | McCain. |
| 0:11.7 | They claim Elijah McLean had excited delirium, which isn't even a thing. |
| 0:18.0 | The latest jobs report beat expectations, but black unemployment remains nearly double the national |
| 0:23.3 | rate. |
| 0:23.9 | Black worker is really going to do well as one of those factories opened. |
| 0:27.1 | And tonight at Madison Square Garden, President Trump and New York Mayor Zoran Mondani |
| 0:31.9 | will both be at the NBA finals, just not together. |
| 0:35.9 | I will be in a very different section of the stadium. |
| 0:39.5 | It's Monday, June 8th. |
| 0:41.5 | From the Black Effect Podcast Network, I'm Mimi Brown. |
| 0:44.7 | This is Front Page, and here are the day's biggest stories. |
| 0:48.7 | Plus, your Monday brief, the stories you need to know this week. |
| 0:53.4 | Stay with me. A Colorado appeals court has thrown out |
| 0:59.7 | the homicide conviction against two paramedics involved in the death of Elijah McCain. The young black |
| 1:05.6 | man whose case became a national rallying cry during the Black Lives Matter protest. Elijah McCain was 23 years old |
| 1:12.9 | when he was stopped by police while walking home in Aurora, Colorado back in 2019. Someone had called |
| 1:19.4 | 911 saying he looked, quote, sketchy. McCain was unarmed. He had anemia, so he often wore a ski mask |
| 1:26.3 | because he got cold easily. Police restrained |
| 1:29.2 | him on the ground, then paramedics injected him with ketamine, a powerful sedative. McCain went |
| 1:35.3 | into cardiac arrest and died days later. In 2023, two paramedics were convicted of criminally negligent |
| 1:42.8 | homicide, but now an appeals court says the |
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