It's the Brian Laird Show on WNYC. I'm Matt Katz from the WNYC and Gothamist

Newsroom and I'm filling in for Brian today. Coming up coming up on today's show

WNYC and Gothamist reporter Jesse Edwards will join us. She'll share

her investigative reporting into hundreds of lawsuits alleging sexual

assaults by correction officers on Rikers Island.

She found one officer who is alleged to have assaulted 24 different women.

Despite that, it appears city officials have been reluctant to investigate these claims.

Plus, in about an hour, we'll be talking about the political beliefs and behaviors

of the youngest group of voters in the country, members of Gen Z.

It's a big diverse group, and many of them will be voting in their first presidential

election coming up this November. So stay tuned for that and we'll wrap up

today's show with the news at the New York Botanical Garden lost one of its oldest trees

in flooding earlier this week. The Garden's Vice President of Urban Conservation

will talk about how losing even one old tree can damage the broader ecosystem and how they're coping with more

extreme weather at the gardens and the Bronx. But first some news from the

United Kingdom that you may have missed given the extraordinary political events in the US over the last several weeks.

Last month a horrific mass stabbing left three children dead in the seaside town of Southport.

Fueled by disinformation about the perpetrator of the stabings,

a wave of anti-immigrant violence has erupted in cities across Britain

and explicitly has targeted migrants, Muslims, and other minorities.

This is some of the most severe unrest the nation has seen in over a decade.

We're going to talk about the extent of the unrest, the role of

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