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‘I'm willing to die': Baseball coach says he defended kids from ICE
'I'm willing to die': Baseball coach says he defended kids from ICE CNN's Erin Burnett talks with Youman Wilder, a youth baseball coach in New York City, who says that he protected his students from ICE agents. 01:25 - Source: CNN Automated CNN Shorts 11 videos 'I'm willing to die': Baseball coach says he defended kids from ICE CNN's Erin Burnett talks with Youman Wilder, a youth baseball coach in New York City, who says that he protected his students from ICE agents. 01:25 - Source: CNN MTG warns of 'big' blowback in MAGA world over handling of Epstein case CNN's Manu Raju spoke with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) who is demanding "transparency" from President Donald Trump's administration when it comes to information related to accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and warned that the issue could stoke "significant" blowback from the right wing of the party. 01:04 - Source: CNN Man shoots woman in the street in Guadalajara Surveillance video captures the moment a man killed a woman in the street in Guadalajara, Mexico after an altercation between the two. The Jalisco Prosecutor's Office said the video is part of a femicide investigation and they're working to find the perpetrator. 00:52 - Source: CNN Assisted facility resident describes terror in burning building CNN's Jason Carroll reports from the scene of the Gabriel House fire in Fall River, Massachusetts, where a blaze that broke out Sunday night killed 9 residents of the assisted living facility. 01:42 - Source: CNN Trump demands Russia reach peace deal within 50 days President Donald Trump made several announcements on Monday aligning him more firmly with Ukraine's defense against Russia's invasion than ever before. CNN's Nick Paton Walsh breaks down the two main developments that could drastically impact the ongoing war. 01:34 - Source: CNN Hackers post about Jeffrey Epstein on Elmo's X account Hackers took over Elmo's X account and posted expletive-filled antisemitic and anti-Trump statements. The posts have since been deleted. A spokesperson for Sesame Workshop told CNN they are working to restore full control of the account. 00:45 - Source: CNN Watch: Trump stays on stage at FIFA Club World Cup final President Donald Trump stayed on stage to celebrate the trophy raise with FIFA Club World Cup final winners, Chelsea. He was also met with boos from some audience members as he presented the squad with medals. 00:50 - Source: CNN Trump announces novel plan to send weapons to Ukraine In an Oval Office meeting, President Trump announced that the US will sell weapons to European nations who will then send them to Ukraine. The president also threatened new trade consequences if no peace deal is reached with Ukraine within 50 days. 00:26 - Source: CNN Canadian kindness breaks the internet A viral ad campaign from the Eastern Townships Tourism Association has a message for American travelers hoping to come to Canada. 01:16 - Source: CNN Deadly fire at Massachusetts assisted living facility Nine people died Sunday night after an assisted living facility caught fire in Fall River, Massachusetts, officials said, with elderly people begging for help from first responders as smoke poured out of the building. 00:37 - Source: CNN
CNN
a day ago
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‘I'm willing to die': Baseball coach says he defended kids from ICE
'I'm willing to die': Baseball coach says he defended kids from ICE CNN's Erin Burnett talks with Youman Wilder, a youth baseball coach in New York City, who says that he protected his students from ICE agents. 01:25 - Source: CNN Automated CNN Shorts 11 videos 'I'm willing to die': Baseball coach says he defended kids from ICE CNN's Erin Burnett talks with Youman Wilder, a youth baseball coach in New York City, who says that he protected his students from ICE agents. 01:25 - Source: CNN MTG warns of 'big' blowback in MAGA world over handling of Epstein case CNN's Manu Raju spoke with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) who is demanding "transparency" from President Donald Trump's administration when it comes to information related to accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and warned that the issue could stoke "significant" blowback from the right wing of the party. 01:04 - Source: CNN Man shoots woman in the street in Guadalajara Surveillance video captures the moment a man killed a woman in the street in Guadalajara, Mexico after an altercation between the two. The Jalisco Prosecutor's Office said the video is part of a femicide investigation and they're working to find the perpetrator. 00:52 - Source: CNN Assisted facility resident describes terror in burning building CNN's Jason Carroll reports from the scene of the Gabriel House fire in Fall River, Massachusetts, where a blaze that broke out Sunday night killed 9 residents of the assisted living facility. 01:42 - Source: CNN Trump demands Russia reach peace deal within 50 days President Donald Trump made several announcements on Monday aligning him more firmly with Ukraine's defense against Russia's invasion than ever before. CNN's Nick Paton Walsh breaks down the two main developments that could drastically impact the ongoing war. 01:34 - Source: CNN Hackers post about Jeffrey Epstein on Elmo's X account Hackers took over Elmo's X account and posted expletive-filled antisemitic and anti-Trump statements. The posts have since been deleted. A spokesperson for Sesame Workshop told CNN they are working to restore full control of the account. 00:45 - Source: CNN Watch: Trump stays on stage at FIFA Club World Cup final President Donald Trump stayed on stage to celebrate the trophy raise with FIFA Club World Cup final winners, Chelsea. He was also met with boos from some audience members as he presented the squad with medals. 00:50 - Source: CNN Trump announces novel plan to send weapons to Ukraine In an Oval Office meeting, President Trump announced that the US will sell weapons to European nations who will then send them to Ukraine. The president also threatened new trade consequences if no peace deal is reached with Ukraine within 50 days. 00:26 - Source: CNN Canadian kindness breaks the internet A viral ad campaign from the Eastern Townships Tourism Association has a message for American travelers hoping to come to Canada. 01:16 - Source: CNN Deadly fire at Massachusetts assisted living facility Nine people died Sunday night after an assisted living facility caught fire in Fall River, Massachusetts, officials said, with elderly people begging for help from first responders as smoke poured out of the building. 00:37 - Source: CNN
Yahoo
a day ago
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Youth Baseball Coach Says He Caught ICE Questioning Kids At Practice
A New York City youth baseball coach said he intervened to inform armed Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers of his players' constitutional rights after the officers approached kids during a practice at a local park last month. Youman Wilder, a founder of Harlem Baseball Hitting Academy, told MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace that practice was wrapping up at Riverside Park in New York's Upper West Side when he saw several officers — armed with guns and Tasers — walking up to players, asking them where they and their parents were from. 'I just stepped in and said, 'This is very inappropriate to ask these kids anything,'' explained Wilder, noting that he advised the agents that the players would implement their Fifth Amendment rights. Wilder, who claimed that one agent referred to him as 'another YouTube lawyer,' said the agents then 'kept changing the goalposts.' In a separate interview with New York-based news site West Side Rag, Wilder said the officers began talk of 'obstruction of justice' on his part, entertained the idea of cuffing him and claimed that if the kids — 11 U.S. citizens in middle and high school with African, South American and Mexican families — 'were here legally [then] what do they have to lose by answering' questions. 'It's all about civics. If you don't know your rights, they will trample on them,' explained Wilder, adding that there was 'no moment of hesitation' when it came to pushing back at the officers. Wilder, who holds a master's degree in law, told Wallace that it shouldn't take someone with his educational background to know people's rights and stressed that such an encounter could 'happen to anybody.' Wilder — a coach of over 20 years in the Upper West Side who has worked with dozens of draft picks and a number of players in Major League Baseball — said there's now just one kid showing up to practice, which is at a new location and time since the encounter. He choked up as he expressed his disappointment with the 'cowards' who were nearby and didn't intervene, noting that he fears predominantly-Latino schools in the area will be agents' next target. He added that people have to continue 'speaking up.' 'The only way you can protect people is understanding that the Constitution has a role. And we have to rely on that. And we can't cherry-pick it,' Wilder said. ICE is set to receive billions of dollars in additional funding since President Donald Trump signed his 'big, beautiful bill' into law earlier this month. Already, immigration arrests in the New York City area have reportedly 'rapidly accelerated' in recent weeks as the president looks to deliver on his mass deportation agenda. ICE has turned its attention to immigrants with no criminal history since May, according to The City in an analysis of federal records provided by the Deportation Data Project. HuffPost has reached out to ICE, which was not immediately available for comment. Trump Held On To Flashy Gold FIFA Trophy... Leaving Soccer Champs With A Replica Trump Leveled A Baffling Threat At Rosie O'Donnell — Experts Explain Why It's Truly Terrifying Trump Mocked For Claiming 'Big Beautiful Bill' Helps Ugly Rich Guys Stay Married
Yahoo
4 days ago
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ICE Is So Out of Control, They Tried to Raid a Kids' Baseball Practice
Then they came for the children: even in self-designated sanctuary cities such as Manhattan, apparently no one is safe from the ire of federal immigration agents under the Trump administration. Youman Wilder, a baseball coach for middle and high school students, was leading a group of 11 kids through batting cage practice near 72nd Street in Riverside Park last month when he caught ICE agents interrogating some of the minors. 'I go over quickly and the agents are asking the kids inappropriate things like where they are from, their country of origin, so I say, 'Whoa, whoa,' and I tell the officers that their questions are inappropriate, and that I'm going to tell my kids not to answer them,' Wilder told the West Side Rag. Wilder said the officers identified themselves as ICE agents, were armed with guns and tasers, and had 'ICE' printed across the front of their tactical vests. The coach—who received his master's degree in law—told the kids that they didn't need to answer the agents' questions, instructing them to instead line up on the opposite side of the batting cages. But ICE didn't like that: Wilder said that's when one of the agents raised their voice at him, accusing him of being a 'YouTube lawyer.' 'I said no, I just know how the Constitution works,' Wilder told Eyewitness News. But the agents continued to threaten him, per Wilder, talking about cuffing the coach and openly questioning what the kids would 'have to lose by answering' if they were in the U.S. legally. 'I told them that they still have their Fifth and Fourth Amendment rights, and that they don't have to speak to you or help with any investigation,' Wilder told the Rag. All the kids, according to Wilder, were born in the U.S. and are U.S. citizens, born to parents from Africa, South America, and Mexico. 'It's all about civics. If you don't know your rights, they will trample on them,' Wilder told the Rag. The coach also expressed his shock and dismay at the amount of people who watched the interaction but failed to intervene. 'There were people watching and the agents were telling them to move back, that they would be arrested for interfering, and not to take pictures,' Wilder told the Rag. 'The worst thing is that the six or seven people who were watching, followed their orders!' 'I never in my life thought this was going to happen in the Upper West Side in New York City,' Wilder told Eyewitness News. 'That whole thing, until it happens to you, you're not aware? It happened to us.' Wilder has since changed the location and practice times for his team, but some kids and their parents have been so rattled by the event that they haven't returned to practice. 'I knew that they could arrest me, but I knew that they couldn't keep me,' he said. 'My whole thing is that I'm African American, and most of my kids are Latino and Black, so it was all about how do I get these kids home. I never raised my voice. I just talked about the law. And I was just focused on how can I get these kids to where they need to go, when they are in my care.' Wilder was 'the only thing that stood between those kids in Riverside Park and a Florida detention center buried deep in the Everglades,' Upper West Side Assemblymember Linda Rosenthal wrote in a newsletter earlier this month. Rosenthal told Eyewitness News that Wilder was right to intervene and had the legal authority to do so. Although President Donald Trump has heaped endless praise on the federal deportation agency, ICE agents have reportedly never been so miserable, forced to primarily detain noncriminal immigrants in order to meet their quota: 3,000 arrests per day, per Homeland Security adviser Stephen Miller's demands.
