Elfen’s TBT R&B Artist of the week Mtume
It’s July 1983 and the sexiest song blasting on the radio airwaves was a song called juicy fruit by Mtume. Juicy Fruit stayed #1 on the Billboard HOT Black singles Chart for 8 weeks. Here’s a little black history from 1983!
President of the U.S.A Ronald Reagan Vice President George H. W. Bush
Cassette tape’s and records cost about $10
Watching Saturday morning cartoons from 7am to 1pm was a treat in 1983
Local Programming The Best of Scooby-Doo The Monchhichis/Little Rascals/Richie Rich Show The Pac-Man/Rubik, the Amazing Cube Hour The Littles The Puppy’s Further Adventures The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show ABC Weekend Special American Bandstand.
Movies playing July 1983
- 4 day weekend July 4th 1983 Return of the Jedi
- Continued #1 at the box office July 10, 1983 Return of the Jedi
#OnThisDay in 1983, BET went from a programming block on @Nickelodeon to a 24-hour TV channel!
Here's to 34 strong years & more to come! pic.twitter.com/oE9Xa3L28U
— BET (@BET) July 1, 2017
Ebony magazine July 1983
1983 Timex Sinclair Color Computer
Price: $179.99
Description It’s got 48K of memory power with built-in BASIC programming language, eight vivid high-resolution color and four simultaneous sounds. It has special features to set it above the competitors. One-Touch Keyword lets you program an entire computer word with a single key. This saves typing time and computer memory as well. Includes AC power adapter.
‘Self-Made’ Makeup Artist Pat McGrath’s Cosmetics Line Surpasses Kylie Jenner’s In Being Valued At $1 Billion
British makeup artist Pat McGrath is the definition of self-made. Having been born in Northampton to a mother who migrated from Jamaica, McGrath taught herself the art of makeup with Vogue declaring she is one of the most influential makeup artists of our time. She now has a cosmetics line valued at over $1 billion, reports Teen Vogue.
McGrath launched Pat McGrath Labs two years ago and consistently sells out. Eurazeo Brands, a New York investment firm, took notice and invested $60 million in the business, which gives McGrath’s line a valuation exceeding $1 billion.
“It has always been my dream to create an iconic beauty brand that goes beyond the usual limitations, that lives outside of the parameters of what is expected,” McGrath said in a statement. “I am thrilled to be working with the unique and expert team at Eurazeo Brands.”
The equity promised to Eurazeo Brands has not yet been released, and so press outlets do not know how much of a stake the firm holds, but, according to Hello Beautiful, industry sources say the company is to receive anywhere from five to eight percent of the money earned.
“We are honored to be working with Pat, whose vision, talent and trailblazing history in the beauty industry have set Pat McGrath Labs up to be one of the most authentic and innovative makeup brands to ever come to market,” Eurazeo Brands CEO Jill Granoff said in a press release. “We’re excited to combine our experience of building global beauty and fashion brands with Pat and her team’s unmatched creativity and passion.”
This collaboration has not only helped to bring McGrath’s line into the more central limelight but has also caused quite a stir considering Forbes’ recent cover naming Kylie Jenner a self-made billionaire. Jenner’s Kylie Cosmetics line currently stands at a value of $800 million, but with her new investor, McGrath could easily snatch the billionaire makeup line title.
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Joker’ Origin Movie Lands Fall 2019 Release Date
This better be good! However if Joaquin got advise from Jack Nickleson. I know Jack Nickleson has warned Joaquin NOT to let the character of the joker send him off the deep end. RIP Keith Ledger.
Joaquin Phoenix is starring as the iconic villain in the Warner Bros. and DC film, which has gotten its official title — ‘Joker.’
Director Todd Phillips’ stand-alone Joker movie, starring Joaquin Phoenix, is set to hit theaters Oct. 4, 2019, Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow said late Wednesday afternoon.
The release date, and title, were revealed just as this year’s edition of the ultimate fanboy gathering — Comic-Con — got underway in San Diego. Warners and DC will take the stage there on Saturday.
October 2019 boasts a slew of high-profile titles. Joker will open opposite Paramount’s Gemini Man and Fox’s The Woman in the Window, followed a week later by Disney’s Jungle Cruise starring Dwayne Johnson and fellow Warners title The Goldfinch. And on Nov. 1, DC and Warners will unfurl Wonder Woman 1984.
Last month, Phoenix finalized his deal to star as the arch-nemesis of Batman. The studio describes Phillips’ film as being an “exploration of a man disregarded by society [that] is not only a gritty character study, but also a broader cautionary tale.” Phillips and Scott Silver co-wrote the script.
Joker’s budget is in the $55 million range, significantly lower than the tentpoles that dominate the form. And the movie, set to begin production later this year, is meant to be darker and more experimental in tone and content (at least as experimental as a studio can be with established brands such as DC), which is described as being akin to a crime drama.
Emma Tillinger Koskoff will produce Joker, with Richard Baratta executive producing.
Phoenix is currently in theaters in Gus Van Sant’s Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot.
Source: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/joker-origin-pic-lands-fall-2019-release-date-1128203
Apparently, Kanye Wanted To Make Porn Movies To Accompany ‘The Life Of Pablo’
And according to his collaborator, the artist may still make them.
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Kanye has some big ideas.
Remember that time he took over Cannes to debut Cruel Summer with a movie that played on seven screens of different sizes all at the same time inside an all-white pyramid on the beach?
Kanye also has some crazy ideas.
Remember that time he said, “When you hear about slavery for 400 years. For 400 years?! That sounds like a choice!”
It turns out, one of his wild, big ideas that never came to fruition was a series of pornographic films featuring The Life of Pablo as their score.
According to NME, the movie was to be a collaboration with literary enfant terrible Bret Easton Ellis.
Known for publishing Less Than Zero when he was only 21 (and following that up with the hugely successful American Psycho), Ellis went on to make his directorial debut with The Canyons, a critically panned film starring Lindsay Lohan.
Ellis spoke about the porn project on his podcast.
The two men are friends and have collaborated before; Ellis helped created promotional material for Yeezus, a short film parodying the writer’s American Psycho that starred reality stars popular at the time of the album’s release:
While the adult film project never quite got off the ground, Ellis claims Yeezy-approved porn movies may still be on the way.
The writer said he went to the Kardashian-West compound in Calabasas to talk with the artist about reviving the project not long ago and also took some time to defend Kanye’s recent behavior.
“In the five years I had known him, I had never seen him this focused, this together,” Ellis said, arguing that ‘Ye is an artist at the top of his game, not a “drugged-out freak gibbering on Twitter.”
Jay-Z Is Beefing With the Mayor of Philadelphia
Jay-Z Is Beefing With the Mayor of Philadelphia Over His Made in America Festival
While there’s a potential beef brewing between Beyoncé and the city of Rome, there’s one already roaring between her husband and the city of Philadelphia. Jay-Z has published an op-ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer accusing the city’s mayor, Jim Kenney, of attempting to shut down Jay’s annual Made in America Festival. Jay claims that Mayor Kenney banned next year’s festival from its usual location of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway without notice, and tried to get this year’s festival canceled.
We are disappointed that the mayor of the city of Philadelphia would evict us from the heart of the city, through a media outlet, without a sit-down meeting, notice, dialogue, or proper communication. It signifies zero appreciation for what Made In America has built alongside the phenomenal citizens of this city. In fact, this administration immediately greeted us with a legal letter trying to stop the 2018 event.
The letter goes on to slam the mayor for his failure to support a minority-owned business that financially benefits the city. Jay ends by saying he and his team “will discuss our options internally and handle accordingly,” meaning his festival could soon be on the market for a new city. Hey, Hov, your hometown is available!
Update, July 18th, at 8:10 p.m.: Mayor Kenney’s office has issued the following statement in response to the op-ed: “The City of Philadelphia supports the Made in America festival and is greatly appreciative of all that it has done for Philadelphia. We are committed to its continued success and thank them for their partnership. We hope to be able to resolve what has been an unfortunate misunderstanding. We are working with Roc Nation and Live Nation to resolve this issue and we are committed to continuing our partnership with the Made in America festival.”
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Samirah Raheem On Her Viral ‘We’re All Sluts’ Clapback And The Two Faces Sex-Positive Black Girls Are Forced To Wear
Article via: The model said she was initially embarrassed when the clip of her interview from the 2017 SlutWalk went viral.
Like many subjects of viral videos, model Samirah Raheem was merely at the right place at the right time.
She wasn’t at the 2017 Slutwalk to protest or join a movement, she was there to be a good friend.
“I was there to support a friend, a dancer who came into a woman’s body and was no longer accepted in ballet,” Raheem told Blavity. “She was having a hard time finding work and I was having the same moment as a model; not being small enough for small [or] not being big enough for big. I was just trying to support her.”
Raheem watched her friend’s performance and was waiting outside of the venue when she noticed some commotion. She said she saw girls talking to ultra-conservative Reverend Jesse Peterson and that the conversations didn’t end well.
“They seemed kind of flustered or broken when they left, and I was like ‘what is this old man telling these girls that they’re leaving feeling so frustrated,’ you know? So, when he came up to me, it’s never like me to back down from a challenge, I was like ‘okay what you want to talk about?’”
That confidence led to the video that had us cackling and declaring Raheem our new queen. But despite all the glory, her initial reaction was embarrassment. Raheem wasn’t worried about the video at first but when it started to get more attention, she was mortified.
“It was like a trickle and then a levee broke. It was like a flood of attention, it was very weird,” she said.
As affirmations poured in, Raheem said she became proud of her behavior. The attention piqued her curiosity about social justice and inspired her talk to more people, regardless of their ideological position. Raheem self-identifies as “a girl from Compton” and doesn’t consider herself an academic, but if you talk to her for five minutes, it’s clear she has one hell of a mind. Raheem has always supported the movement, in theory, but she maintained a critical lens. She’s interested to see how these movements cater to the black girls in the hood and inner cities. Her feminism isn’t only for people who use SAT words.
“That was always a conversation I was having with a lot of my friends, especially in college,” she said. “I met white girls and international girls who are feminists and I would always tell them ‘I love the work you’re doing, but how does it trickle down to girls I grew up with? Or rape culture that surrounds me?’”
Raheem also believes black women are conditioned differently compared to white women and other non-black women and that affects how black women interact with feminism.
“I think as black women it’s really tricky,” she explained. “Our mamas always want us to be safe and be careful [and] don’t say too much, just get on through. It’s kind of in the back of our minds to be polite and then when we get home to our families and our girls then we show this side, where we’re like ‘girl this is how I really feel.’ It’s like we have two different faces.”
Raheem believes that’s why the video gained so much traction, because she expressed views we’re told to keep to ourselves.
“I talk like you. I grew up in an area like you. And I feel like we have a right to this conversation in our vernacular with our attitudes and our neck rolling. It doesn’t have to be political jargon to be considered intellectually valuable,” she declared.
Speaking of language, despite her declaration that “we’re all sluts,” she said that isn’t a word she uses in real life.
“That’s why it was so funny to me because I don’t really say slut in my day to day. I will never be like ‘yes girl, I’m feeling slutty.’ I would be like ‘I’m on some hoe shit or like ‘I’m feeling myself,’ it’s actually empowering the word. I feel like whatever the word is as long as you know how you’re saying it and you know how you’re coming you really don’t have to explain yourself to anybody,” she said.
Raheem also admires the way we use and reclaim language.
“There’s so many words that we use today they aren’t using their original meaning like the word ratchet. It’s a garden tool and we have taken it and we have molded it into something totally different. I feel like with conditioning and repetition, any word or stigma can be taken out of it. Now there’s going to be a push-back, but it doesn’t matter as long as we push forward,” she continued.
Those childhood lessons might have caused Raheem’s initial discomfort, but she is willing to challenge it. Her newfound fame has encouraged her to stand up for herself. She’s done trying to conform for the sake of her career.
“At first I was always trying to please my agents and my clients. ‘Lose weight!’ Okay I’ll go lose it. ‘Gain weight!’ Okay I’ll go gain it. ‘Wear this!’ Okay I’ll go do that…I’m trying to find people who align with this instead of trying to mold me into something else. People identify with this. 16 million people love this so one of those 16 million have to be casting for somebody. I’m taking that approach,” she said.
Brands aren’t knocking down her door, yet, but she is getting more advocacy opportunities. Raheem confirmed to Blavity that she has heard from Amber Rose and will be involved in this year’s Slut Walk.
“She definitely reached out to me and she was so sweet. I was freaking out, I was like ‘oh my God, this is crazy,’” she said of Rose.
The attention has been a lesson for Raheem and she wants to share it with the rest of the world.
“I will say stand in your own and find people that support you and make a new world for yourself, a safe microcosm that you can express [yourself],” she said. “You just got a tune it out, make it background music and do your thing because you don’t know who’s going to see you, obviously.”
Oh and if you were wondering her age, she’s still simply “grown.”
“A lady never tells,” she added with a laugh.
Four Years Later NYPD Prepares to Discipline Cop in Eric Garner’s Death
This article was originally written The Roots by Michael Harriot
1,462 days after Eric Garner wheezed the words “I can’t breathe” before giving up the ghost on a Staten Island sidewalk, the New York Police Department has decided to discipline Daniel Pantaleo, the police officer whose arms just happened to be wrapped around Garner’s neck at the time.
Well … maybe
“Based on our most recent conversations, it has become clear that a definite date by which time a final decision by the U.S. DOJ will be rendered in this matter cannot be predicted,” wrote Lawrence Byrne, the deputy commissioner for legal matters for the NYPD.
According to the Associated Press, Byrne sent a letter to the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, stating: “The NYPD has come to the conclusion that given the extraordinary passage of time since the incident without a final decision on the U.S. DOJ’s criminal investigation, any further delay in moving ahead with our own disciplinary proceedings can no longer be justified.”
On July 14, 2014, Eric Garner died from what the New York City Medical Examiner termed: “Compression of neck, compression of chest and prone positioning during physical restraint by police.”
Despite having had 18 allegations of some sort of abuse or misconduct in 14 separate incidents before his encounter with Garner, that police officer, Daniel Pantaleo, is still employed as a police officer earning a six-figure salary after a grand jury declined to indict him in 2014.
Leaked Documents Reveal How the NYPD Ignored Abusive History of the Cop Who Killed Eric Garner
After the incident, President Barack Obama’s attorney general, Loretta Lynch, instructed prosecutors to begin building a case for indictment. But Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has been hesitant to push for prosecution since his boss and CEO of the Keebler elf empire, Jeff Sessions, announced that his Justice Department would not continue the practice of punishing police officers, because it leads to”racial animosity.”
Now the NYPD says it will no longer wait for federal prosecutors and will hand the case over to its Civilian Complaint Review Board. The Department uses CCRB as an “impartial agency that has been independent of the police department since 1993” to review civilian complaints against police.
It is composed of nonpolice investigators who conduct investigations in cases of unnecessary or excessive force, abuse of authority or discourtesy. In theory, it is more effective to have people outside the police department oversee these kinds of allegations.
Although the NYPD typically waits for prosecutors to settle a case before handing it over to the CCRB, the Justice Department says it told the NYPD months ago that the CCRB could move forward, adding that the DOJ “does not have any bearing on the decision-making timeline.”
So four years and a day after Eric Garner was killed; three years, 5 days after the City of New York agreed to pay the family $5.9 million and seven months after the death of his daughter, Erica Garner, someone finally decided to discipline the man who “compressed” Garner to death.
But the most ridiculous response surrounding this news came from Pat Lynch, head of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association who wrote, in a statement, that Daniel Pantaleo, the man who handed Eric Garner a sidewalk death sentence, is “entitled to due process and an impartial consideration of the facts.”
I laughed so hard…
I couldn’t breathe.
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Donald Trump and the tangled tale of the tapes
When Donald Trump gets in one of his frequent jams, caught between his own words and the truth, he likes to allude to the existence of tapes that will exonerate him.
He did it in his confrontation with former FBI director James Comey over what was said in their private Oval Office meeting, leading to Comey’s famous expostulation to Congress: “Lordy, I hope there are tapes!” (There weren’t.) He did it just last week, disputing a British newspaper’s account of him insulting Prime Minister Teresa May, offering to supply reporters with tapes of the interview “for your enjoyment if you’d like it.” (The White House never followed up when Yahoo News requested the tapes, and the newspaper in question, the Sun, eventually released a clip that seemed to show Trump had said exactly what had been reported.)
In fact, tapes (audio and video) have more often gotten Trump into trouble than out of it. There was, of course, the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape that nearly derailed his campaign one month before the election. There is (or isn’t) the rumored “pee tape” of Trump with prostitutes in a Moscow hotel room during his brief visit there in 2013, a recording supposedly in the possession of Russian intelligence, which in some people’s minds explains his otherwise inexplicable deference to Vladimir Putin. There are countless hours of outtakes from his 14-year run as host of “The Apprentice” and “Celebrity Apprentice” in which he either did or did not say or do something reprehensible. While there’s no evidence for all or most of these recordings, the potential that they do exist supplied the premise for an upcoming television show in which comedian Tom Arnold details his search for compromising Trump clips.
One thing Arnold almost certainly won’t find is a tape of the private conversation Trump had with Putin in Helsinki Monday. The two presidents met for more than two hours with only their translators present, and only those four know what was said — unless, as former CIA Director John Brennan suspects, Russian intelligence was listening in.
“I think whatever Trump said in that meeting is now memorialized on Russian tape and will be used as necessary by Putin against Trump,” Brennan said in an appearance on “Morning Joe” Tuesday morning.
Putin’s interference in the 2016 presidential election and the ongoing probe into whether Trump’s team colluded with the Russian mischief makers have brought spycraft into the spotlight in a way that hasn’t been seen since the height of the Cold War. A dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele raised the possibility that the Kremlin possesses embarrassing information about the commander in chief. The question came up at the president’s press conference with Putin when a reporter asked if Moscow has “any compromising material on President Trump or his family.” Putin laughed at the notion, but didn’t explicitly deny the existence of what Russian intelligence — which has a specialty in the sexual and financial blackmail of prominent Westerners — calls “kompromat.”
“Yeah, I did hear these rumors that we allegedly collected compromising material on Mr. Trump when he was visiting Moscow,” Putin said. “Now, distinguished colleague, let me tell you this: When President Trump was at Moscow back then, I didn’t even know that he was in Moscow. I treat President Trump with utmost respect. But back then, when he was a private individual, a businessman, nobody informed me that he was in Moscow.” (That assertion runs contrary to reporting in the book “Russian Roulette,” co-authored by Yahoo News Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff, that Putin had been expected to meet with Trump backstage at the Miss Universe pageant and canceled at the last minute.)
If Trump does find himself caught on secret recordings, it would represent one of his favorite weapons turned against him. During his real estate career, Trump earned a reputation for surreptitiously taping his employees and associates. Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen also was rumored to record his conversations for him and his client, for potential use as leverage. And Arnold and others have suggested that Cohen’s recordings could come back to haunt Trump since they likely fell into the possession of Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating Trump’s relationship with Russia.
Trump has also demonstrated a preoccupation with the possibility that others are taping him — most famously last year when he tweeted that “Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory,” a claim it took the Justice Department six months to debunk. In fact, he reportedly didn’t even want White House stenographers to do their job of recording and transcribing his conversations with reporters, according to one who worked in both the Obama and Trump administrations. A deputy White House press secretary “told my colleague we would need to keep our microphones far away from the president’s face,” Beck Dorey-Stein wrote in the New York Times Tuesday.
If Trump is so averse to being taped, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham had a warning for him: that Putin, a former KGB agent, could have taken advantage of the summit to plant a bug with the president. He suggested Trump should get rid of a World Cup souvenir Putin presented to him with during their meeting on Monday.
“Finally, if it were me, I’d check the soccer ball for listening devices and never allow it in the White House,” Graham wrote on Twitter.
Source: https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-tangled-tale-tapes-100015999.html
‘Black Panther’ Is $99K Away From One Last Box Office Milestone
Black people showed up and showed out!
Although it lost half of its screens this weekend and now plays in just 28 theaters, Marvel and Walt Disney’s Black Panther is slowly Spectre-ing its way to $700 million domestic. The Chadwick Boseman action drama earned around $15k last weekend to bring its domestic total to $699.901m. So, it is $99,007 away from the once-fabled $700m mark. If it sticks around long enough (and presumably gets a glorified reissue for a week or two in semi-wide release), it’ll be just the latest big movie to be dragged kicking and screaming in protest across an arbitrary box office milestone.
Spectre spent two months (61 days) hovering between $199 million to $200m. The Sony/EON/MGM 007 flick was already a solid hit, earning $881m worldwide alongside The Hunger Games: Mockingjay part II and Star Wars: The Force Awakens. But be it luck or happenstance, theaters kept the 007 movie around (perhaps as an adult-skewing counterpoint to the kid-targeted Star Wars and Hunger Games sequels) for long enough to hit the $200m milestone. Sometimes it’s a matter of saving face, as the underperforming Superman Returns spent 36 days between $198m and $200m domestic before ending with just $200.7m total (and $391m worldwide on a $270m budget).
In 2013, Paramount/Viacom Inc. brought Brad Pitt’s World War Z back into theaters over the Labor Day weekend, going from 239 screens to 1,242 screens. And, sure enough, the troubled but successful zombie thriller earned $1.65 million over the four-day weekend to get over the hunch. Again, the horror drama was already a hit, having countered behind-the-scenes horror stories with a $551m global cume on a $190m budget, but Paramount wanted the sexy number for bonuses and/or post-theatrical bragging rights.
Disney put A Wrinkle in Time back into 1,984 screens over Mother’s Day weekend and then expanded just a tough back into 245 screens in mid-June (the opening weekend of Incredibles 2). Allegations of magical math notwithstanding, they got the flick over the $100m domestic mark. The Storm Reid/Oprah Winfrey fantasy didn’t magically turn into a profitable flick ($133m worldwide on a $103m budget), but it did allow for the possibility that every single 2018 Walt Disney release could end up above the $100m domestic mark (if Christopher Robin falls short, Pooh gets punched), which would be a major bragging point.
This isn’t a new thing, not by a longshot. Warner Bros./Time Warner Inc. put Tim Burton’s Batman into 690 theaters in its 14th weekend to get it over the $250 million milestone. To be fair, it doesn’t always do the trick, as Disney’s Gnomeo and Juliet never did get to the $100m mark, having to settle for $99.967m. At that point, you’d think someone would just buy out a handful of theaters for a weekend. The Disney toon (not technically from Walt Disney, Pixar or DisneyToon) was already a big hit without the bragging rights. Ditto (to the 7th power) Black Panther.
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2018/07/16/box-office-marvel-black-panther-700m-chadwick-boseman-ryan-coogler/
Trouble over breath mints at Tacoma store leads to first-degree robbery charge
Ti Ti needs to come up with a name for my city and state! This is some sad disturbing shit right here. Okay you got a robbery charge for some breath mints? Was your breath that bad? DAYUM HOMIE. And was it that serious to pull a handgun on stank breath homie? No loss of life would have been worth robbery over a breath mint. But for real though. After purchasing gas homie stole the breath mints over $5 he says the store clerk stole from him. Store clerk says he had a history of stealing so store clerk was like you steal for me I’ll steal from you. Hommie was like you steal my five dollars I’ll still your Altoids. Store clerk pulls out a gun and was like I’ll kill you if you don’t put da MOTHAFUCKKIN’ altoids back! Get it together Tacoma WA!
Here’s a more journalistic take on the incident below:
Tacoma News Tribune
The 26-year-old man described it as a misunderstanding that involved a pack of breath mints.
Pierce County prosecutors called it first-degree robbery.
Charging papers give this account:
A worker at the Circle K store at 4704 S. Oakes St. identified the man as a “problem customer” and told him to leave Thursday. They argued, and the man left.
Then he returned, took the pack of breath mints and left without paying.
The employee ran after him and demanded he pay. He ran back into the store when the customer pulled out a handgun.
Police found the 26-year-old customer later that day and he explained what happened.
He said he’d gone to the store for fuel, and the worker accused him of recently stealing from the store. The employee took $5 from him in retaliation. The man said he couldn’t reason with the worker, so he took the breath mints because he couldn’t get his money back.
The worker followed him out of the store, the 26-year-old said, and yelled something to the effect that he was going to kill him if he didn’t pay for the mints.
The man said he pulled out the gun, because he feared for his life. He said he drove off after the employee ran away.
The man pleaded not guilty at arraignment Monday, and was released on his own recognizance, pending trial.
Source: https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/crime/article215041655.html#storylink=cpy