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Speaker 2: Fifty nine degrees in Boston at four o'clock. Good afternoon,
Speaker 2: and thanks for joining us. I'm Suzanne Salsville. Here's what's happening.
Speaker 2: We start this hour with new developments on the buffer
Speaker 2: zone outside the Karen Reid retrial in Denham. A group
Speaker 2: of free Karen Reid supporters sued Judge Beverly Cononi and
Speaker 2: state police in federal court last month, arguing that the
Speaker 2: court ordered buffer zone requiring them to stay hundreds of
Speaker 2: feet from the courthouse violates their First Amendment rights. A
Speaker 2: federal judge ruled against the protesters, but yesterday an appeals
Speaker 2: court vacated that ruling. The appeals court is now sending
Speaker 2: the case back to district court to revisit the buffer
Speaker 2: zone to see if there is a way to allow
Speaker 2: peaceful protests. The trial resumes on money Day. Now for
Speaker 2: a legal victory for Tuff's grad student rumesa ozturk Oz
Speaker 2: Turk is out on bail from an ICE detention center
Speaker 2: in Louisiana, where she was held for more than a
Speaker 2: month after Ice agents grabbed her off the streets of Somerville.
Speaker 2: She was greeted by a crowd of supporters yesterday afternoon
Speaker 2: when she left the facility, I never.
Speaker 3: Said you're being here on thanks so much for all
Speaker 3: the sport on love.
Speaker 2: The Trump administration accuses oz Turk of engaging in activities
Speaker 2: that support Hamas, citing an op edge she co wrote
Speaker 2: last year that called for Tufts to divest from Israel.
Speaker 2: Her lawyers argue her detention violated her First Amendment rights.
Speaker 2: A federal judge in Vermont sided with os Turk's lawyers,
Speaker 2: ordering her immediate release with no travel restrictions that allows
Speaker 2: her to return to Somerville and continue her studies while
Speaker 2: her case plays out. Meantime, Worcester residents are outraged after
Speaker 2: ice detained two people on Eureka Street Thursday. CBS News
Speaker 2: Boston's Beth Germano has details.
Speaker 3: As crowds began to swarm around federal agents. A witness
Speaker 3: describing what she saw the.
Speaker 4: Mom as she was being detained too, she was screaming.
Speaker 4: I don't know if she was being hurt, and as
Speaker 4: she was handcuffed, I don't know, well, you know, but
Speaker 4: she was truly screaming. Those are the streams that I
Speaker 4: have ingrained in my ears right now.
Speaker 3: Another relative, believed to be her daughter, flailing in front
Speaker 3: of the ICE vehicle in a scene that rapidly grew
Speaker 3: into chaos in front of agents. Some masked and witnesses
Speaker 3: say they had no answers about the arrest. We were
Speaker 3: all asking for a warrant.
Speaker 4: They didn't answer at first, and then eventually just said
Speaker 4: this is a warrant less arrest when they were shoving
Speaker 4: them into the vehicle.
Speaker 3: Worcester Police say they moved in to de escalate the situation,
Speaker 3: but the response has outraged the community, some saying they
Speaker 3: question which side the police was on. Two others were arrested.
Speaker 3: School Committee candidate Ashley Spring, charged with disorderly conduct as
Speaker 3: salt and battery as she allegedly threw an unknown liquid
Speaker 3: at responding officers.
Speaker 2: The identity of the women. The woman detained by ICE
Speaker 2: is still unknown. It's also still unknown where she was taken.
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Speaker 2: low fifty two Tomorrow, plenty of sun for Mother's Day,
Speaker 2: a bit breezy with a high of seventy on Monday,
Speaker 2: mostly sunny, still a bit breezy and warm, high seventy two.
Speaker 2: On Tuesday, a mix of sun and clouds, a bit cooler,
Speaker 2: with a high year sixty but closer to seventy further inland.
Speaker 2: Right now in Boston, it's mostly cloudy and fifty nine degrees.
Speaker 2: When Garrett Crochet takes the mound for the Socks, one
Speaker 2: fan is watching extra carefully. Wbz's Kyle Bray explains.
Speaker 1: When the Red Sox trading for Garrett Crochet this offseason,
Speaker 1: on a gotten idea, she wanted to combine her two passions,
Speaker 1: baseball and crochet, and thus the crocheting with Crochet challenge
Speaker 1: was born. The process is simple.
Speaker 5: I can only crochet when Crochet is in the game.
Speaker 5: He doesn't have to be actively pitching if it was
Speaker 5: during If I could only crochet when he was actively pitching,
Speaker 5: I wouldn't get anything done because thankfully, a lot of
Speaker 5: his outings are three up, three down.
Speaker 1: And the second he's pulled from the game, she stops
Speaker 1: and picks it up during his next start. By the
Speaker 1: end of the season, she's hoping to have a full
Speaker 1: sweater done, maybe in time for October.
Speaker 5: Baseball, I thought that'd be really special at the end
Speaker 5: of the year. Hopefully the team does well enough that
Speaker 5: I finally get to watch my first postseason game after
Speaker 5: Crochet's first year as the ace for the Red Sox,
Speaker 5: and I'm in a sweater that I made the whole time.
Speaker 5: That just seemed really a really special project.
Speaker 1: No pressure. Garrett from Fenway Kyle BRAWBZ Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2: You can see more of Kyle's story on our TikTok
Speaker 2: at WBZ News Radio. Crochet starts for the Socks tonight
Speaker 2: against the Royals at seven ten. The fourteenth annual Porch
Speaker 2: Fest in Somerville is getting under way this afternoon. Hundreds
Speaker 2: of bands and artists are performing for free on people's
Speaker 2: porches until six pm. There are a few changes with
Speaker 2: this year's event. Participants need badges to put on their properties,
Speaker 2: and thirteen high traffic roads in Somerville are off limits
Speaker 2: for performers. Volunteers will also be around to direct attendees.
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Speaker 2: I'm Suzanne Soasville, WBZ Boston's News Radio