Police Evict Trump Organization from Panama Hotel

Coming up on today’s show:

• Nearly 3,000 delegates from across China are gathering in Beijing for the nation’s annual parliamentary meeting. The biggest news out of the National People’s Congress is the abolition of term limits for the presidency, a move that could undermine the Chinese Communist Party. But there are other signs of how China is shifting towards the future. Mary Gallagher,professor of political science and director of the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan, explains. 

• On Monday, police officers and a judge arrived at the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Panama City to help the property’s majority owner wrestle control of the hotel. Jeff Horwitz, an investigative reporter for The Associated Press, has the details. 

• Firearms manufacturer Taurus has sold an estimated 955,796 defective guns that fire unintentionally when they’re dropped, bumped, or when the safety is on. A new Bloomberg investigation looks at Taurus, and what happened when one family lost their son to a misfiring gun. Polly Mosendz, firearms industry reporter for Bloomberg, weighs in.

• New York is one of three states with laws to help keep police misconduct secret from the public. A new look at some of these files reveals the criminal behavior tolerated by the NYPD. Kendall Taggart is an investigative reporter with BuzzFeed News, and she joins the program to talk about her piece, “Secret NYPD Files: Officers Can Lie And Brutally Beat People – And Still Keep Their Jobs.”

• In 2015, 15 year old Chessy Prout was sexually assaulted at her elite private high school, St. Paul’s in New Hampshire. Her attacker only got a one year sentence for the crime. Since then, she’s become an activist, and is looking to raise awareness about sexual abuse that happens in school settings. Her new book, written with Boston Globe Spotlight Investigative Journalist Jen Abelson, is out this week. It’s called “I Have the Right To.”

This episode is hosted by Todd Zwillich