LSU's Flau'jae Johnson admits friendship with Angel Reese has soured

Flau’jae Johnson and Angel Reese won a women’s college basketball national championship together when the two players were with the LSU Tigers.

However, it appears a lot has changed since then.

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Reese, who now plays in the WNBA for the Chicago Sky, opened up about her relationship with Johnson in September during an episode of her podcast, "Unapologetically Angel." She said at the time the two were not "as close as we used to be" and "there were no hard feelings" toward each other, but the closeness that was once there just is not anymore.

Johnson added more to it when she appeared on "The Breakfast Club" on Monday.

"We're not friends, but I mean that bond that we had, that thing that we did together, winning a national championship, you can never take that away from us," she said. "And so sometimes stuff happens. You wish it don't happen, but it do. And you just gotta grow. 

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"But I support her in everything she do. Like, she’s killing in the WNBA … I’m just proud of her."

Johnson agreed that the reason for the split was partially to do with things happening in the background.

"Yeah, it was a lot of media, it was a lot of locker room stuff, you know what I'm saying? Stuff that go on behind the scenes. But it happens. It happens," she said.

During the 2023-24 season, as LSU looked to defend its national title, the mothers of both Reese and Johnson got into a social media spat. Reese’s mother, Angel Reese Webb, criticized Johnson on social media, which prompted a response from Johnson’s mom, Kia Brooks, who took aim at the former Tigers’ forward GPA.

Reese, the former LSU star, seemingly threw shade at Brooks when she graduated from school. 

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President of largest teachers union in US defends illegal immigrants during anti-ICE protest in LA

The president of the largest teachers' union said on Monday that everyone has a right to American privileges during a protest against immigration enforcement in Los Angeles while chaos descended on the city.

"We the people. All of us… All of us have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of justice," National Education Association (NEA) president Becky Pringle shouted during a protest rally.

The NEA president has always been vocal in her criticism of the Trump administration and previously disavowed President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown.

Pringle in January released guidelines to help schools prepare for immigration authorities after Trump rescinded the law that prohibited Immigration and Customs Enforcement from entering sensitive areas such as schools and hospitals.

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"Tragically, for our nation, the incoming Trump administration is committed to a mass deportation agenda that will inflict irreversible harm on our students, their families and communities," Pringle said in a statement at the time.

Rioters on Monday struck the windows of the Los Angeles Police Department's headquarters and faced tear gas that officials deployed downtown as agitators clashed with authorities in the city amid protests against immigration authorities. The protests began on Friday after federal agents carried out enforcement operations across the city, sparking outrage from some in the community.

In response to the unrest, Trump deployed 2,000 California National Guard troops to the area, with 300 troops arriving over the weekend. 

The president of the American Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten, released a statement on Sunday blasting Trump's decision to deploy the troops, claiming he did so to "intimidate peaceful immigration protesters in Los Angeles."

"This illegal, heavy-handed, and unnecessary crackdown on peaceful protesters is a trumped-up excuse to manufacture a spectacle and stoke further tensions. Instead of de-escalating, the administration seems intent on provoking and scapegoating hardworking immigrants to distract from its political woes," she said.

ANTI-ICE PROTESTERS IN LOS ANGELES SPIT ON AND BURN AMERICAN FLAG

Footage from over the weekend captured a circle of dozens of people, many wearing masks, surrounding an American flag burning on the ground. Several of the individuals then spit on the flag or sprayed flammable liquid to continue the blaze before a second flag was added to the fire. 

A number of the protesters held high the flags of Mexico and South American countries as the U.S. flag burned on the ground. They also chanted "F-Trump." 

Other footage from the riots showed officers with the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department moving in to disperse the crowds, shooting flash bangs as they went. 

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