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Speaker 1: Clime the Lord I Nancy Grace breaking crime is now

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Speaker 1: Ellis County, Texas. Attention officer Isaiah Bias escorts inmate Aaron

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Speaker 1: Thompson back to a cell after an hour of yard time.

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Speaker 1: Then Thompson, the inmate, suddenly attacks Bias, punching him, knocking

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Speaker 1: him to the ground, gets on top of him and

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Speaker 1: chokes him, continuing to hit and kick him in the

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Speaker 1: head and face. When Bias stops struggling, Thompson sits at

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Speaker 1: a nearby table, leaving Bias in a huge pool of blood.

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Speaker 1: Isaiah Bias just twenty eight rush to the hospital, but

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Speaker 1: dies of his injuries.

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Speaker 2: Nancy Ellis County Sheriff Brad Norman said in a press

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Speaker 2: conference that officers usually work with good people having bad

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Speaker 2: days and occasionally see bad people, but what Bias encountered

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Speaker 2: an Aaron Thompson was pure evil. Thompson's original charges included

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Speaker 2: three counts of assaulting a public servant and evading arrest.

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Speaker 2: Bias was well liked by coworkorkers and generally respected by inmates.

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Speaker 2: He served as a detention officer for six years, previously

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Speaker 2: interning with the Sheriff's office, until he came of age for.

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Speaker 1: The rule inmate Aaron Thompson, forty five, now charged with

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Speaker 1: capital murder as he should be. A Florida man rushed

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Speaker 1: to a hospital after a mysterious explosion outside his uhaul van.

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Speaker 1: The man suffers a serious injury to his hand. Surges

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Speaker 1: reportedly have to amputate two fingers. As police investigate the explosion,

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Speaker 1: they find a stockpile of illegal commercial grade fireworks in

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Speaker 1: the van. Cops get the man's friend to admit he

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Speaker 1: was selling them when the accident occurred. Some of the

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Speaker 1: fireworks so dangerous the bomb squad has to come in

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Speaker 1: and dispose of them. The man may face charges for

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Speaker 1: illegal fireworks once he is released from the hospital. Well

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Speaker 1: he went out with a bang. Lower crimeing justice news

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Speaker 1: after this the latest climate justice in breaking means climate

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Speaker 1: lines in John Leamlight.

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Speaker 3: The former US marine acquitted in the subway death of

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Speaker 3: Jordan Neely, is moving to dismiss a civil lawsuit filed

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Speaker 3: by Neely's father. Let's Get Right to Crime online Sidney

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Speaker 3: Sumner for more.

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Speaker 2: Daniel Penny's legal team submitted the request disputing claims that

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Speaker 2: the twenty six year old Penny is liable for civil

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Speaker 2: damages after putting Neely in a chokehold during a chaotic

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Speaker 2: incident on a New York City subway last May. The

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Speaker 2: thirty year old Neely had reportedly been shouting and acting

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Speaker 2: erradically on the train when the confrontation occurred. The lawsuit,

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Speaker 2: filed by Andre Zachary, accuses Penny of negligence, assault, and battery,

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Speaker 2: saying his actions cause Neely's death, but Penny's attorney, Stephen Reiser,

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Speaker 2: argues Neely's own behavior led to the incident. In the statement,

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Speaker 2: Riser defended Penny, describing the civil case as ill conceived

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Speaker 2: and reaffirming his client's innocence, citing last month's criminal acquittal

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Speaker 2: as validation of Penny's right to act in self defense. Zachary,

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Speaker 2: who was seeking unspecified damages, has not publicly commented, though

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Speaker 2: his attorneys have previously noted the lower burden of proof

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Speaker 2: required in civil cases compared to criminal trials. The case

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Speaker 2: has drawn national attention and sparked fierce debate. Supporters of

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Speaker 2: Penny see him as someone who acted to protect others,

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Speaker 2: while critics label him a vigilante. Penny, a Long Island

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Speaker 2: native and former marine, did not testify during his trial,

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Speaker 2: but has said he felt compelled to intervene that day

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Speaker 2: Penny was acquitted of criminally negligent homicide by a Manhattan.

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Speaker 3: Exxon Mobile has filed a federal defamation lawsuit against California

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Speaker 3: Attorney General Rob Bonta and several environmental groups, including the

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Speaker 3: Sierra Club and San Francisco Baykeeper. The lawsuits, submitted in

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Speaker 3: Texas Eastern District, accuses Bonta and the groups of conspiring

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Speaker 3: to damage the company's reputation by questioning the effectiveness of

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Speaker 3: its plastic recycling technology. The legal action comes months after

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Speaker 3: Bonta's sued Exxon Mobile, alleging the company misled the public

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Speaker 3: for decades about the recyclability of its plastic products. Bonta's

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Speaker 3: lawsuit claims that less than five percent of plastic in

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Speaker 3: the US is ever recycled despite being labeled as such,

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Speaker 3: contributing to a global pollution crisis. In response, a spokesperson

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Speaker 3: for the California Department of Justice called exon Mobil's defamation

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Speaker 3: suit a distraction from its alleged deception and vowed to

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Speaker 3: fight the case vigorously. Exon Mobil is seeking damages and

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Speaker 3: retractions of what it describes as defamatory statements.

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Speaker 1: Thanks John fort Smith. Arkansas firefighters respond to a huge

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Speaker 1: house fire on North thirty seventh around three am. Homeowner

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Speaker 1: Bill Parker's car is in the driveway and front door

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Speaker 1: of the home is locked from inside. Firefighters call out

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Speaker 1: for Bill. No answer. By the time the flames are

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Speaker 1: put out, the whole building's destroyed. Firefighters com the wreck

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Speaker 1: is for any sign of Bill, don't find a body.

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Speaker 1: According to his family, he followed strict routines. He was

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Speaker 1: known as a homebody. Bill's beloved dog who goes everywhere

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Speaker 1: with him also nowhere to be found dead, er alive.

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Speaker 1: Fire Marshals call the blaze suspicious. The home had no

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Speaker 1: working utilities. Nothing obviously started the fire. Bill Parker fifty

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Speaker 1: six five eleven, one hundred and sixty pounds long, brown

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Speaker 1: hair usually in a ponytail, hazel eyes, a grain goatee.

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Speaker 1: If you have info on Bill Parker, please call fort Smith,

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Speaker 1: Arkansas PD four seven nine seven eighty five four to

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