Good morning. This is Recoured with the Daily Beast. It's Friday, June 25th, and these are the top stories the Chi Chi team is watching right now Florida Governor Ron DeSantis declared a state of emergency Thursday in response to the overnight collapse of the Miami Beach condominium complex that left one person dead and 99 missing Authorities expect the death toll to rise. Nearly three dozen people were pulled alive from the wreckage of the 12-story building The declaration opens the gates for federal funding disaster recovery The building had been experiencing issues for years And it was even the subject of a scientific study last year that warned of it sinking into the earth It was the subject of at least one lawsuit over the maintenance of the structures out of walls in addition the building attracted the attention of scientists Alarmed over flooding and land erosion In response to the George Floyd protests of summer 2020 the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff reportedly had to reject multiple demands for violent military intervention From former president Donald Trump According to a new book by Wall Street Journal reporter Michael Bender General Mark Millie would push back on Trump's outburst of quote crack their skulls and quote just shoot them The former president would reportedly point approvingly to videos of municipal police using violence against protesters asking the military to do the same And more a statue honoring George Floyd and Brooklyn was vandalized Thursday morning with black spray paint in the name of a white supremacist group Patriot front Patriot front has claimed responsibility for vandalizing of mural commemorating Floyd and Philadelphia as well The Brooklyn statute was unveiled less than a week ago on Juneteenth Floyd's brother Terrence was in attendance Terrence Floyd told HuffPost that the defacement quote is a perfect example of why we are so diligent in promoting change The NYPD hate crimes task force said it was investigating the incident Former staffers from Joe Biden's presidential campaign have sued Trump supporters who surrounded their bus on a Texas highway in October 2020 The dangerous Trump train maneuver which the Biden staffers called in ambush forced the Biden staffers to cancel their planned campaign event The passengers allege that the people who harass them quote terrorize and menace them in violation of the Ku Klux Klan act Which prohibits election obstruction and voter intimidation nonetheless the bullying tactic due praise from conservatives like Senator Marco Rubio of Florida Who would have thought that this would be what ministers are up to in their spare time?
The Department of Justice announced Thursday that it has charged a Florida pastor and his minister's son in connection with the January 6 riot at the US Capitol According to the criminal complaint the father and son were each charged with illegal entry in a federal building Desertly conduct and violent behavior at the Capitol get this the pair's involvement was disclosed to the FBI by a congregate of their church Who was also at the Capitol and later interviewed by the feds as a bit There's no word on whether divine intervention prompted the father son duo to storm the Capitol CCTelfer a hurdler who happens to be transgender will be barred from competing in the US Olympic trials after failing to meet eligibility requirements established by the world Athletics in 2019 world athletics released guidelines requiring female runners testosterone levels to be under five nanomoles per liter For 12 months prior to some competitions Telfur was a 2019 division 2 national champion and 400 meter hurdles in 2018, but did not compete the year prior as she transitioned Telfur says she aims to use her platform to inspire black lgbtqu That's all for this morning check back every weekday morning and after neighborhood the nation need to know find us where every list in the podcast