From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Happy 4/20 to all the marijuana enthusiasts out there. Today's road stop takes us to Robert Wagner Park in Lower Manhattan.
Some stories talked about on today's show were:
1. New York City won’t allow public events in June, including three of the city’s major annual celebrations: the National Puerto Rican Day Parade, the Celebrate Israel parade, and the Pride parade on its 50th anniversary. Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Monday that the events would be canceled or at least postponed. He says it's a painful but necessary step as the city fights the coronavirus.
2. A judge has ruled that a man accused of stabbing five people with a machete at a suburban New York Hanukkah celebration is not mentally fit to stand trial. Grafton Thomas is charged in an attack at a rabbi’s home on Dec. 28 that left five people wounded. The most critically injured victim, Josef Neumann, 72, died three months after the attack.
3. The U.S. Supreme Court has denied a petition from the Los Angeles Rams to send a lawsuit regarding their relocation from St. Louis into arbitration. The lawsuit is scheduled to go to trial in St. Louis late next year, or it could be settled out of court. The city and county of St. Louis and the regional sports complex authority sued the Rams 15 months after owner Stan Kroenke returned his franchise to Los Angeles in early 2016.
