Cardi B Announces First Show Since Giving Birth
Cardi B initially planned to be back on tour six weeks after giving birth to Kulture Kiari Cephus. After Cardi gave birth she realized that a tour so soon would take a toll on her – and of course Cardi would want to spend more time with her daughter, so she cancelled the tour with Bruno.
Cardi B will be back for tour at Mala Luna Music Festival in San Antonio, Texas, which takes place from October 27-28. The festival will also feature performances from Tyler, the Creator, Tierra Whack, Lil Pump, Rico Nasty, BlocBoy JB, and more.
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Florida Man Dumps Port-A-Potty Waste In 7-Eleven As Revenge, Police Say
As criminal accusations go, this one is pretty crappy.
A Florida man is accused of dumping a bucket containing human feces and urine inside a St. Petersburg 7-Eleven.
Damian A. Simms’ alleged act of criminal caca happened early Wednesday, according to The Smoking Gun. He “apparently obtained the waste from a portable toilet,” the site reported.
Splattered poop got on a straw hat and a do-rag, with a total estimated value of $28.
The 41-year-old Simms was ID’d by the store manager and recorded on surveillance video, according to the police report.
It’s possible the alleged bowel movement bucket dump was an act of revenge: The police report notes that Simms was banned from the store in May.
Simms was charged with trespass and criminal mischief, both misdemeanors. As of Friday, he was still in the Pinellas County Jail in lieu of $300 bond.
He has been ordered to stay away from the 7-Eleven and its manager, according to Fox News.
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9-Year-Old Boy’s Lemonade Stand Held Up at Gunpoint
(Newser) – Deputies in North Carolina say they’re seeking a teenager who robbed a 9-year-old’s lemonade stand at gunpoint, per the AP. The Union County Sheriff’s Office said Sunday that the stickup happened near a traffic roundabout in Monroe, about 30 miles southeast of Charlotte. Deputies say the young drink vendor reported that a male teenager with a camouflage hat and black shirt placed a black handgun to the boy’s stomach Saturday, demanded money and then fled on foot. Sheriff’s spokesman Tony Underwood tells The Charlotte Observer less than $20 in cash was stolen.
According to a statement the sheriff’s office posted to Facebook, authorities found a camouflage hat, a black BB handgun and a stolen metal tin along a trail in some nearby woods. Deputies believe the suspect left a bicycle in the brush for his getaway. Authorities said they’re unsure if the BB gun they found is the same weapon used in the holdup, but that is appears to likely to be the case because of where it was recovered along with the other items.
via: http://www.newser.com/story/262924/9-year-old-boys-lemonade-stand-held-up-at-gunpoint.html
Ku Klux Klan trying to recruit in New York with candy
The Ku Klux Klan has embarked on a recruitment campaign in upstate New York in recent months, dropping off packets of white supremacist propaganda and sweetening the material with bars of Snickers in an initiative seemingly aimed at young people.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Friday ordered state police to investigate and directed the state police Hate Crimes Task Force to kick off a “public awareness campaign” to counter hate.
The flyers were distributed in Oneida and other counties, the governor’s office said.
“While President Trump and Republicans in Washington sow divisiveness and hate that is spreading like a cancer across the country, in New York we say not here, not now, not ever,” Cuomo said in a news release.
“New York has zero tolerance for intolerance.”
The state police are offering help to local police and county sheriff’s offices. The task force plans a town hall in Oneida County to discuss the issue and send teams to the region to conduct an educational outreach campaign. Oneida’s county seat is Utica and the county is near Syracuse, in the middle of the state.
‘Stand up and come together’
The flyers shocked residents of all ages and prompted them to mobilize against the group and its apparent effort to target children. Residents described the outrage in the town of Westmoreland and their determination to stand together.
“The KKK is a terrorist organization, and even dropping off these materials itself is terrifying, especially when you find something like this in your driveway in the morning,” said Ron Klopfanstein, a teacher, journalist and president of the local historical society.
“It requires a response, and the only way to get through that fear is to stand up and come together. I think the worst part is that a lot of kids found it on the way to the bus in the morning.”
Klopfanstein said community members gathered in Westmoreland to denounce the group.
“We’re a good town, we’re good people, and when something like this happens, sometimes you have to make a statement to remind people that we won’t have this here,” he said.
“Westmoreland stood up to this, and we stood with (the nearby city of) Rome the first time they were faced with this. We are all in this together and ready to stand together to keep hate groups out of Central New York.”
‘Naive’ to think Klan isn’t here
Denise Szarek, a member of the Westmoreland Board of Education, said the Klan campaign with its candy bars seemed to be targeting youths. Most alarmingly, she said, the material contained “recruiting information” and not just propaganda.
“They come between 4 and 6 in the morning so the candy bars and packets are at the end of the driveway when kids are getting on the school bus. The community they hit was a mobile home park so there were a lot of kids in the area, and they hit on some of the side roads, too. Our feeling was that the children (were) being targeted — at least the high school and middle school kids in that age group,” Szarek said.
Klan materials, she said, are easy to retrieve from the web.
“My theory is that it’s someone local who’s downloading them, printing them out and passing it around,” Szarek said. “I mean, it really could be anyone. But I think we’re naïve if we think that KKK members aren’t here, aren’t present in our communities.”
Cuomo’s office urged state residents who have experienced bias or discrimination and want to file a complaint to call the Division of Human Rights toll-free hotline at (888) 392-3644 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Friday, or text “HATE” to 81336.
via: https://pix11.com/2018/08/05/ku-klux-klan-trying-to-recruit-in-new-york-with-candy/
Teen Allegedly Threw Boy, 8, Off 31-Foot-High Waterslide Platform Because Line Was Moving Slowly
An 8-year-old boy suffered multiple broken bones when an 18-year-old allegedly picked him up and threw him over the safety railing of a water slide in Minnesota, causing the boy to plunge about 30 feet, authorities say.
The teenager, 18-year-old Roman Alexander Adams, of Maple Grove, Minnesota, was arrested and charged with third-degree assault in the incident last Tuesday, PEOPLE confirms.
Adams was behind the boy in line at the water park but the individuals did not know each other, police say.
Questioned at the scene by police, Adams, who was in the park accompanied by a female professional personal care attendant, exhibited “some developmental disabilities,” Apple Valley Police Capt. Nick Francis tells PEOPLE.
“The male gave a statement that the line was moving too slow, and so he picked up and pushed the 8-year-old over the top of the slide platform,” he says.
“He understood that doing that was going to cause harm to the individual, he knew that by throwing him over he knew the individual was going to be hurt, he shouldn’t have done it, and he admitted to picking this kid up and pushing him over,” Francis says.
Adams has not entered a plea and will make his first court appearance on Sept. 17, a spokesman for the County Attorney’s Office in Dakota County tells PEOPLE.
PEOPLE’s call to Adams’ attorney, John J. Leunig, was not immediately returned.
The incident at the city-owned Apple Valley Family Aquatic Center occurred just before 1:35 p.m., when police were dispatched in response to an 8-year-old boy with a broken leg, according to a probable cause affidavit.
The boy’s injuries, later diagnosed at a hospital, include the broken femur in one leg, numerous fractures to both feet and shattered bones in a shoulder, the affidavit states. He remains in the hospital and his identity has not been made public, says Francis.
“The family is focusing on the care and recovery of their child, and they have asked that none of their personal information be released,” he says.
The attendant who accompanied Adams to the water park on that day did not witness the incident and was not in the area of the water slide when it happened, he says.
The platform at the top of the slide is 28.1 feet above the ground, according to the affidavit; the top of the safety railing that surrounds the platform, and over which Adams allegedly lifted the younger boy, is 31.9 feet above the ground.
Speaking to police at the water park, Adams “stated that he was waiting in line to use the slide and that it was taking a long time,” according to the affidavit. He “admitted that he threw the child from the platform. Defendant was later interviewed by a detective with the Apple Valley Police Department during which he stated that the line was too long so he ‘pushed’ the child over the railing and saw him fall.”
Francis says the water park has been run by Apple Valley, a municipal suburb of the Twin Cities, for 20 years. “This is absolutely unusual for them,” he says. Emergency calls to the park typically involve “skinned knees, someone takes in too much water, minor medical situations,” he says. “Never do they expect to have someone thrown over the top of the platform down to the ground.”
Adams was booked into Dakota County jail on a $50,000 bond with conditions, and released after posting bond.
The felony assault charge against him carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and fine up to $10,000.
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“We Rise Together, Homie”
Today I got time Cuz! If only the NFL players would do this. If only black folks who were being racially nagged and chastised would do this. This is what power of the people looks like.
An interview with Antoine Dangerfield, whose video of an Indianapolis wildcat strike went viral this week — and led to his firing. He doesn’t regret it, though.
US labor history is full of moments of tremendous drama and upheaval. That history is riveting stuff, but getting a raw, unfiltered view of the human drama of workers fighting their bosses on the shop floor, the place where the day-to-day confrontation between workers and bosses takes place (and occasionally boils over), is rare.
Which is what makes Antoine Dangerfield’s recent viral video a must-watch. A thirty-year-old welder in Indianapolis, Dangerfield worked for a construction contractor building a UPS hub. On Tuesday, he says that a small number of Latino workers (millwrights, welders, and conveyor installers, in his telling) working for a different contractor but in the same hub were ordered home after disobeying the orders of a white boss he calls racist.
In response, the entire group of workers — over a hundred, in Dangerfield’s estimation — walked out.
Dangerfield caught their wildcat strike on camera at the moment they walked off the job. In his video, he is positively giddy watching them shut down their massive workplace.
“They are not bullshitting!” he says as Latino workers walk off. Referring to the boss, he says, “They thought they was gonna play with these amigos, and they said, ‘aw yeah, we rise together, homie.’ And they leaving! And they not bullshitting!”
After all the workers are gone, Dangerfield gives the viewer a tour of the empty hub. He’s incredulous: “Ain’t no grinding, cutting, welding — this motherfucker dead-ass quiet. The Mexicans shut this motherfucker down.”
Since he posted the video on Wednesday, the footage has been viewed millions of times on Facebook (two million) and YouTube (nearly eight hundred thousand) and on sites like WorldStarHipHop (three hundred thousand). It also, as he explains in this interview, led to his firing. Dangerfield thinks it’s worth it, though.
Jacobin managing editor Micah Uetricht spoke with Dangerfield on Thursday afternoon. Neither could track down the striking workers in the video, but Dangerfield spoke about what was a “life-changing” experience for him. The interview has been edited for clarity and brevity.
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US labor history is full of moments of tremendous drama and upheaval. That history is riveting stuff, but getting a raw, unfiltered view of the human drama of workers fighting their bosses on the shop floor, the place where the day-to-day confrontation between workers and bosses takes place (and occasionally boils over), is rare.
Which is what makes Antoine Dangerfield’s recent viral video a must-watch. A thirty-year-old welder in Indianapolis, Dangerfield worked for a construction contractor building a UPS hub. On Tuesday, he says that a small number of Latino workers (millwrights, welders, and conveyor installers, in his telling) working for a different contractor but in the same hub were ordered home after disobeying the orders of a white boss he calls racist.
In response, the entire group of workers — over a hundred, in Dangerfield’s estimation — walked out.
Dangerfield caught their wildcat strike on camera at the moment they walked off the job. In his video, he is positively giddy watching them shut down their massive workplace.
“They are not bullshitting!” he says as Latino workers walk off. Referring to the boss, he says, “They thought they was gonna play with these amigos, and they said, ‘aw yeah, we rise together, homie.’ And they leaving! And they not bullshitting!”
After all the workers are gone, Dangerfield gives the viewer a tour of the empty hub. He’s incredulous: “Ain’t no grinding, cutting, welding — this motherfucker dead-ass quiet. The Mexicans shut this motherfucker down.”
Since he posted the video on Wednesday, the footage has been viewed millions of times on Facebook (two million) and YouTube (nearly eight hundred thousand) and on sites like WorldStarHipHop (three hundred thousand). It also, as he explains in this interview, led to his firing. Dangerfield thinks it’s worth it, though.
Jacobin managing editor Micah Uetricht spoke with Dangerfield on Thursday afternoon. Neither could track down the striking workers in the video, but Dangerfield spoke about what was a “life-changing” experience for him. The interview has been edited for clarity and brevity.
MU
Where do you work?
AD
It’s a contractor that’s doing a UPS superhub. They fired me about [the video], though.
MU
Really?
AD
They’re real mad about it. They tried to pay me $250 to take it down. But there’s nothing I could do about it. I didn’t expect it to be this big.
MU
So what happened?
AD
There was a safety guy. He was just a racist, basically — always messing with anybody who’s not white. The Hispanics just stayed out of his way. They warned each other when he came because they knew he was always messing with them, taking pictures and videos, trying to get them fired.
We have safety meetings, and we usually have a translator [for Spanish speakers] because there are so many. On Tuesday, we had a safety meeting, and like I said, the Mexicans don’t really like [the safety coordinator].
He asked one of the Mexicans to come up and translate. He didn’t wanna do it. [The coordinator] got mad, real red-faced. Next thing you know, he dismissed the meeting. So he’s walking around just sending them home, trying to fire them. So he sent like five or six of them home.
So the Hispanics got together and were like, “Nah. We got families and kids. We’re not about to let these dudes just do whatever.” So they took a stand.
MU
Do they have a union?
AD
Nah. They just decided today’s the day. They fired the [safety coordinator], though. And they fired me, too, for the video. But there wasn’t one [worker] left in the building.
MU
How long had there been issues with the safety guy?
AD
As soon as he started. It’s been three or four months. I’ve been there since January.
MU
So what happened when the video went up?
AD
The owners of [the construction contractors] came down, corporate people from UPS.
MU
From UPS?!
AD
That’s what people were telling me. Because I went back to pick up my last check and my welding gear. That was when they offered me $250 to take it down. It was at 1.1 million views on Facebook at that point. So there was nothing I could do.
I was shocked. I come in here every day. The last video I posted got two likes! I wasn’t trying to harm anybody.
MU
How did you feel watching them walk off the job?
AD
I just felt that power, man. It just felt good. They were walking out with their heads up, strong. It touched me. That’s why I was like, wow, this is beautiful. It was beautiful that they came together like that — stood up for themselves and not let that dude walk all over them.
MU
Have you had that experience at work, feeling walked all over?
AD
I stay out of their way. I just work. I don’t get involved with management usually. I just come in and get my check. And they just offered me a team lead job and everything. I was there every day and thought everything was cool. If I hadn’t posted the video, I would still be there working.
I had just come back from California in December. In January, I came back home because my son is here. He didn’t like me being gone — he had a hard time with it. So I decided to get something local, close to my dude. Because he loves me, you know what I mean?
MU
You said the workers walked off the job with their heads up.
AD
Yeah. It was powerful, bro. They were proud of themselves, like they’re supposed to be. But [management] still paid everybody for the whole day. That’s how you know they were wrong. They sent everybody home, but I stayed until the end, because I was in awe.
MU
Have you ever had an experience with that kind of action before?
AD
Never. It was like the Million Man March or something. You heard me in the video — I was excited.
MU
You’re black. The people you filmed in the video are Latino. You said in the description of your video that black people need to learn something from this. What did you mean?
AD
All the hate going on — we need to stick together. I think black people are moving in the right direction. We were down for a minute with the crack era. And you see the news, a lot of killings in the black community. Sometimes we don’t come together. But if they can do it, we can do it. And we can all come together. There’s power in numbers.
I don’t like racist anything. I don’t like people picking on people, bullying. It’s ridiculous. So when people come together, it’s a beautiful thing.
MU
They were specifically taking on a boss, taking action on the job.
AD
Yeah, and you can use that in any way. Votes, we could show up for. Or all corporations that have done you wrong.
We’re the ones, the workers — we make the heads get rich. Treating us lesser than isn’t even cool. We’re the reason the hub was getting built. Ain’t no owners out there in their hard hats. We’re the ones putting our life on the line. So you gotta respect us.
They’re a cool company. I don’t really have anything against them. But when you see wrong being done, you should step up and do something about it.
MU
There’s what was happening at your workplace, but then there’s the state of the economy as a whole.
AD
Yeah, and it can be on that scale. [The video] is funny or whatever, but people love seeing people come together like that. That’s why it’s so viral. Because everybody wants that deep down. Everybody wants to move as one. That’s why you look at the comments [on the video] and see black people saying, “Yeah, that’s what we need to do.”
MU
Do you think this experience will change you, on the job in the future?
AD
You can say that. It was life-changing to me to see that happen. Because it was like, dang, they really came together. And that’s why I’m not mad about the video, about getting fired. Because it’s five million people who saw that. And it might change their view on things. Empowering people.
So me losing a job is nothing compared to the big picture. If we can get it in our heads that we are the people, and if we make our numbers count, we can change anything.
Update: A GoFundMe has been created to support Dangerfield and his son.
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Spike Lee’s movie about a black cop infiltrating the KKK is a subtweet of Donald Trump
NEW YORK — Spike Lee has been opining for a few minutes now: Isn’t it ludicrous that people call football players unworthy of living in this country for kneeling during the national anthem, he says, when the first American who died during the Revolutionary War was a black man?
“So nobody can tell black people s— about going somewhere else,” he concludes. “Along with the genocide of Native Americans, this country got built cost-free from slavery.”
Seated on a bright purple couch in the Brooklyn office of his company, 40 Acres & a Mule Filmworks, Lee eventually pauses. It all comes down to love vs. hate, he says — it always has. That is why the two words appeared on the knuckle rings of Radio Raheem, a fictional character killed by police officers at the climax of Lee’s 1989 film “Do the Right Thing.” Some claim Lee is on a soapbox, but he really just wants to be on the loving side of history.
The provocative filmmaker, 61, has recently faced hurdles in his everlasting pursuit of this goal: “Da Sweet Blood of Jesus” opened to less-than-lukewarm applause in 2014, and the satirical depiction of violence in 2015’s “Chi-Raq” insulted some Chicago natives. But the latest Spike Lee joint, “BlacKkKlansman,” attempts to capture racial tension with the same clarity of “Do the Right Thing,” which Roger Ebert wrote came “closer to reflecting the current state of race relations in America than any other movie of our time.” Only this time, he attempts to do so using a story from the past.
“BlacKkKlansman,” which took home the Cannes Film Festival’s prestigious Grand Prix in May, tells the real-life story of a black Colorado Springs cop named Ron Stallworth (John David Washington) who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan in the late 1970s by pretending to be a white man over the phone. But it also connects the Klan’s racism to what spurred last year’s Charlottesville rallies and even directly attacks the Trump administration for perpetuating such behavior.
Lee held such “precise opinions” throughout the project, co-writer Kevin Willmott says, that make today’s rant seem comparatively scattered. He frequently trails off in the middle of sentences, gazing off through his orange, thick-rimmed glasses. There is simply too much buzzing in his mind. From where he stands, hypocrisy among those in power, dubbed “snake oil salesman,” has reached an almost unfathomable level.
Although he refuses to utter the president’s name — “Who? Oh, Agent Orange” — Lee admits that while making “BlacKkKlansman,” “everything was done knowing that this guy had the nuclear code.” In one scene, Ron declares that the United States would never elect a man like KKK Grand Wizard David Duke (Topher Grace) president. A superior tells him he is remarkably naive for a black man.
“From the very beginning, Spike said, ‘I don’t want it to be a period piece,’” Willmott recalls. “He didn’t want to give people an out in terms of this being something from the olden days.”
News outlets disagree on whether the standing ovation “BlacKkKlansman” received at Cannes lasted for six or 10 minutes. Lee isn’t a numbers guy, so he doesn’t know which is accurate. What he does know, however, is what a relief it was to discover that the festival audience understood his film.
“It didn’t have to be that way,” he says. “People get booed at Cannes.”
They also get snubbed for awards, which Lee still holds happened to him back in 1989. He doesn’t have any beef with Steven Soderbergh, whose “Sex, Lies, and Videotape” beat front-runner “Do the Right Thing” for the Palme d’Or, or even the festival itself, but rather with the president of the jury: German filmmaker Wim Wenders.
Lee says jurors Sally Field and Hector Babenco later told him that Wenders overlooked “Do the Right Thing” because he considered Mookie, Lee’s protagonist who incites a riot after Radio Raheem’s death by throwing a garbage can through the window of a pizzeria, to be unheroic. The film ends with quotes from the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, expressing their differing views on violence as self-defense against oppression.
By way of comparison, Lee exclaims, “If you look at the main character of ‘Sex, Lies, and Videotape,’ the guy was masturbating watching videotape.”
(Wenders responds in a statement, “It was an exceptionally great year in terms of films,” and adds, “I understood Spike’s frustration and even grief, and I was sorry that Spike concentrated his anger on me.”)
There is no denying the heroic qualities of Stallworth, played by Washington, son of Denzel. “The fruit doesn’t fall far from the tree,” Lee says of his natural talent. Washington spoke weekly with Stallworth, who swung by the set one day and passed around his KKK membership card, which Washington says “made it even more real and scarier.”
“Signed by Mr. Duke,” he adds, incredulous. “Are you kidding me? This is bananas.”
Patrice Dumas (Laura Harrier), an activist college student and Ron’s love interest, tells him in the movie that he “can’t change things from the inside. It’s a racist system.” Lee says he and Willmott wrote the line with W.E.B. Du Bois’s theory of double consciousness in mind: Ron is black, but, as a police officer, he also works a job with a history marred by violent racial oppression.
“It’s gotta be difficult for brothers and sisters who are police officers, because they’re not blind — they’ve gotta see what police forces are doing, shooting down black people left and right,” Lee says. “Knowing that black folks ain’t really feeling you, just because you’re black but you’re also a cop . . . in a lot of ways, Ron’s character is feeling that, too.”
Despite this inner turmoil, Ron orchestrates the undercover mission, persuading his colleague Flip Zimmerman (Adam Driver) to be his white stand-in at Klan meetings. He boldly calls up the KKK and proclaims to hate anyone who “doesn’t have pure white Aryan blood running through their veins.” He does so while working alongside a white officer who once shot a black child and continues to abuse his power.
“We’re flesh and blood, we feel everything,” Washington says. “But he had to just take it, approach it like a job so he didn’t crack.”
The actor/ director and producer says the warm reception at Cannes felt like winning the Super Bowl. But Lee still has the tiniest of bones to pick with this year’s jury president, Cate Blanchett, whom he says he loves dearly. After “BlacKkKlansman” won the Grand Prix, she described it as “quintessentially about an American crisis.”
The film does end with footage from last year’s neo-Nazi rallies in Charlottesville and President Trump’s response, but “this is not just America,” Lee counters. “It was happening in England, with Brexit. This right-wing thing is happening all over the world.”
A citrusy scent suddenly wafts through the office. Grapefruit, perhaps?
“Yeah, it’s a SoulCycle candle,” Lee says, resuming the calm demeanor that appears between his bursts of outrage. He is fresh off one about how the Trump administration’s shenanigans, skullduggery and subterfuge — “The three S’s!” as he repeatedly exclaims — will bring about the end of democracy as we know it.
It is in this even-keeled tone that Lee expresses how odd it is that people look to him for answers to the societal ills depicted in his films. But then he amps back up again, suggesting a solution anyway: To move forward, we must pursue the truth.
The pursuit requires taking off the rose-colored glasses through which we view our nation’s history, according to Lee, a product of the New York City public schools. That’s where he was taught the tale of George Washington cutting down a cherry tree.
“F— that,” Lee says. “George Washington owned slaves.”
He then directs the same profanity toward all of the Founding Fathers.
In interviews, the sheer strength of Lee’s emotions sometimes gets the better of him, such as when he said he had a “Louisville Slugger bat with Wenders’s name on it” in his closet. He once claimed that he could not have made an anti-Semitic film because Jews ran Hollywood, and “that’s a fact.”
His “25th Hour” star Edward Norton told the Atlantic years ago: “I don’t think Spike is his own best advocate. . . . People associate Spike sometimes with an angry righteousness and urgency that I don’t think his films have. I don’t think his films are angry at all. They are very compassionate.”
But Lee says he is always happy to do interviews — he did so as a young director when studios wouldn’t spend that much advertising money on his films and now does them as an artist passionate about his work’s message.
Lee has taken off his hat that says “BLACK” on the front, with a KKK hood in place of the A. “BlacKkKlansman” serves as a direct response to the “corn-fed American terrorism” that killed Heather Heyer as she protested Charlottesville’s white supremacist march and is set to hit theaters a few days before the one-year anniversary of her death. There is an urgency to this particular message, he says, Academy Awards season be damned.
David Duke says in the movie that he wants “America to achieve its greatness again.” Lee hopes American can achieve greatness, period.
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He tried to break into a teen girl’s home because he wanted to ‘start a family,’ Tacoma police say
A man tried to break into a Tacoma home Wednesday because he wanted to “start a family with” a 13-year-old girl inside, Pierce County prosecutors allege.
The 27-year-old, whose address was not listed in court records, was arraigned Thursday in Superior Court. He faces charges of attempted residential burglary, communication with a minor for immoral purposes, obstructing police, lying to police and two counts of third-degree assault. Bail was set at $200,000.
According to charging documents:
A 13-year-old girl called police from her home on East 34th Street about 12:15 p.m. and said a man was trying to open the windows of her house.
“I want to date you,” the girl said he was calling from outside. “I want to start a family with you.”
Officers arrived to find the man in the backyard of the home. When he saw them, he fled but was captured nearby.
The 13-year-old told police she saw the man in a nearby church parking lot, where he could have seen into her bedroom. The man then removed a bungee cord from the fence, knocking down part of it.
The man approached the home and tried to open the back door, begging the teen to let him in. She called her father, who told her to call 911.
The man refused to give his name to police, instead telling officers to take him to jail. Once there, he spat on a Tacoma police officer. The officer tried to put a spit sock over the man’s head, which prompted the man to kick the officer.
Once inside, the man tried to sneak up on a corrections officer but was thwarted. He then lied about his name, and gave three different spellings of what his would-be alias was.
Officers eventually determined the man’s identity and discovered he had a warrant for his arrest.