Plus: Pickleball explosion | Monday, November 15, 2021
| | | | | | | Presented By Morgan Stanley | | | | Axios PM | | By Mike Allen ·Nov 15, 2021 | | Hello, Monday! Today's PM — edited by Justin Green — is 558 words, a 2-minute read. | | | | | | 1 big thing: Bracing for new protests |  | | | Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios | | | | America is bracing for a sequel to the protests after George Floyd's murder — this time, with a focus less on police and more on self-defense laws, Axios' Russell Contreras and Margaret Talev report. - Why it matters: Activists and law enforcement officials warn that two ongoing national trials have the ingredients to reignite racial tensions and public protests when verdicts are handed down.
Driving the news: In Kenosha, Wisconsin, Kyle Rittenhouse, 18, is charged with fatally shooting two men and injuring another during protests against police last summer. - In the other case, three white men are on trial for killing Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man shot last year while jogging outside Brunswick, Georgia.
Between the lines: In both cases, the accused are claiming self-defense. - Activists worry acquittals could embolden vigilantes.
- Ronnie Dunn, associate professor of urban studies at Cleveland State University, said, "It's ironic that we're working to get better control and accountability of police officers, ... yet we're expanding the ability for the average citizen to use deadly force."
Zoom out: "Stand your ground" laws, including Georgia's, allow deadly force in self-defense, with no obligation to retreat. - An Urban Institute report in 2013 found homicides in which the perpetrator was white and the victim Black to be 10 times more likely to be found justified as when it was the other way around.
What we're watching: In Wisconsin, 500 National Guard members are on standby as the Rittenhouse trial winds down. Share this story. |     | | | | | | 2. Biden: "America is moving again!" |  | | | Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images | | | | An ebullient President Biden signed his $1 trillion infrastructure bill on the White House South Lawn, calling it "proof that despite the cynics, Democrats and Republicans can come together and deliver results." - "We can do this!" Biden added.
Vice President Harris, speaking before Biden, said with a smile, "We got it done, America!" - About 800 guests attended, according to a White House pool report — including lawmakers of both parties, governors, mayors, and labor and business leaders.
| | | | | | | | A message from Morgan Stanley | | From the sea to the cloud: Tech volunteers help a nonprofit | | |  | | | | The Billion Oyster Project is getting support from Morgan Stanley technologists in setting up a cloud-based data-tracking system for oysters, a species critical to protecting shoreline environments and helping prevent climate-related flood damage. | | | | | | 3. Catch up quick | | Journalist Danny Fenster with Bill Richardson, former U.S. ambassador to the UN, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, today. Photo: The Richardson Center via AP - American journalist Danny Fenster, who was sentenced to 11 years in prison in Myanmar last week, was released today. He will be allowed to return to the U.S. Go deeper.
- Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), 81, the longest-serving current senator, said he won't seek re-election to the seat he has held for eight terms. First elected to the Senate in 1974, Leahy is the last of the so-called Watergate babies elected after President Nixon's resignation. Go deeper.
- Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is liable for damages in a lawsuit brought by families of Sandy Hook shooting victims after he falsely claimed the attack was a hoax, a Connecticut judge ruled. Go deeper.
| | | | | | | | 4. 1 for the road: Pickleball explosion |  | | | Illustration: Annelise Capossela/Axios | | | | Pickleball — a combination of tennis, badminton and ping-pong — surged in popularity over the past two years and is outlasting pandemic shutdowns, Axios Sports editor Kendall Baker writes. Courtesy: USA Pickleball Games are generally played to 11 points (win by two) on a surface roughly a third the size of a tennis court (20 feet x 44 feet) with wiffle balls and paddles. You can play doubles or singles. | | | | | | | | A message from Morgan Stanley | | From the sea to the cloud: Tech volunteers help a nonprofit | | | | | | | | The Billion Oyster Project is getting support from Morgan Stanley technologists in setting up a cloud-based data-tracking system for oysters, a species critical to protecting shoreline environments and helping prevent climate-related flood damage. | | |  | | It'll help you deliver employee communications more effectively. | | | | | | Axios thanks our partners for supporting our newsletters. If you're interested in advertising, learn more here.
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