Judge temporarily blocks school from enforcing ‘natural hair’ policy
TERRYTOWN, La. (WGNO) — A district judge has intervened in the controversy at Christ the King school in Terrytown and ruled that the school cannot enforce a “natural hair” policy that has sparked outrage nationwide.
The parents of two sixth grade students at the Terrytown Catholic school filed a lawsuit this week after both students were sent home because one had braids in her hair and the other had extensions.
According to the lawsuit, both children, who are African-American, were harassed at school over their hairstyles and given reprimand letters that had to be signed by their parents. The school has a new policy for students to have only “natural” hair.
One of the students’ parents had to provide a doctor’s note about her child’s medical hair loss condition and agree to cut the extensions to the nape of the neck.
The other student’s mother talked with school administrators and agreed to restyle her daughter’s hair so that the braids wouldn’t extend beyond her shoulders, according to the lawsuit.
But the new style wasn’t enough for school administrators, who pulled the student out of the classroom the following week and asked her mother to pick her up from school, according to the lawsuit.
When the mother arrived, the school’s principal, Dawn Castillo, reportedly told her that the student’s braids were distracting because girls “have the tendency to twirl and flip their extensions,” the lawsuit states.
Her mother responded that young girls often flip and twirl their hair, whether it’s “natural” hair or not. Castillo reportedly responded by saying “it’s just something we want. We don’t want them wearing fake hair.”
That’s when the student’s family posted an Instagram video of the crying sixth-grader, which quickly went viral and made headlines across the country.
Archdiocese Catholic Schools Superintendent RaeNell Billiot Houston said the student’s mother chose to remove her from the school, but according to the lawsuit, the child’s tuition was canceled for the month of September, and the student has not been allowed to return to school.
The lawsuit accuses Christ the King of discrimination over its new policy and says “it has a disparate impact on the African American female population of students at Christ the King.”
“On information and belief, only the African American girls who attend Christ the King have been inspected, investigated, reprimanded and subsequently punished for wearing extensions.”
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White security guard accused of ordering ‘Trayvon Martini’
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A white, off-duty security guard in a bar in Kansas City has been suspended after he was accused of ordering a “Trayvon Martini” from a black bartender.
The security firm Chesley Brown International said in a statement that it opened an internal investigation and removed the guard upon learning of the allegations.
The issue gained attention after a bartender Alobar Bandaloop at the Buzzard Beach bar wrote on Facebook Monday night that the guard ordered the drink, then described it including watermelon juice and one shot of vodka, explaining that “it only takes one shot to put him down!”
It was an apparent reference to Trayvon Martin, the black teen fatally shot in 2012 in Florida.
Bandaloop refused to serve him.
The man who ordered the drink has been identified as Mike Dargy Jr., CNN affiliate KCTV reports.
Officials with the Westport Regional Business League, which subcontracts with Chesley Brown, said, “If true, it is reprehensible. We have zero tolerance for that type of behavior in this welcoming district.”
When KCTV reporter Caroline Sweeney went to Buzzard Beach bar, no one wanted to talk about it.
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Brooklyn road sign hacked with anti-Trump message
GREENPOINT, Brooklyn — A hacker needed just nine letters and a traffic sign in Greenpoint to send a powerful message directed at the president earlier this week.
“I’ve seen the traffic sign for a few days. It just seemed like a typical traffic sign for the bike path or the Pulaski Bridge,” resident Greg Kaplan said. “Then the words ‘F’ Trump appeared and there were a whole bunch of people here shooting it with their phones.”
Pictures with the vulgar message posted online received mainly positive reviews. But shortly after word began to spread, the city’s Department of Transportation (DOT) sent out a crew to take down the sign.
The agency said an independent contractor is responsible for maintaining the message, which was supposed to display details about work on the Pulaski Bridge.
Kaplan said he’s used to people finding creative ways to express their feelings about the president.
“Absolutely no surprise at all anywhere, but especially here in New York,” he said.
This isn’t the first time someone has hijacked traffic signs to target President Donald Trump.
In 2016, someone used a similar sign in Texas to call Trump a “shape-shifting lizard.” That was part of a series of traffic sign takeovers that included zombie warnings, commentary on Harambe the gorilla and a message telling drivers they could go back home because work was canceled.
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Mother arrested after police find body of missing 3-year-old stuffed in duffle bag
LAS VEGAS, Nev. — The body of a young girl was found inside a duffle bag at an east valley apartment following reports of a missing 3-year-old girl Thursday night.
Metropolitan Police Department Homicide Lt. Ray Spencer said the girl was reported missing just before 9 p.m. on the 6800 block of East Lake Mead Boulevard near Hollywood Boulevard. Initial reports claimed the mother, later identified as 29-year-old Aisha Thomas, was walking to Albertson’s with her four children and was on the phone when one of her children went missing.
Detectives from Metro Police’s Missing Persons Detail responded and began searching the neighborhood. Detectives setup a command post in the parking lot of the Albertson’s for additional resources, Spencer said. Officers began looking for the girl inside Thomas’s apartment but were unable to find the child at first.
According to Spencer, officers then conducted a second search since Thomas’s story began showing inconsistencies. During the second search, officers noticed a heavy duffle bag inside the master bedroom’s closet that was “emitting a mildew smell.”
Spencer said the officers found garbage bags when they opened the duffle bag. After officers opened the garbage bags, they found the body of the missing 3-year-old.
Thomas was arrested and is facing one count of murder, Las Vegas police said. The other three children were placed in the care of Child Protective Services. According to Spencer, police believe the girl was killed within the last three days.
Four days ago, the girl’s father had been arrested after a domestic violence call was placed, according to Spencer.
Photo: Aisha Thomas (Photo: LVMPD)
Hospital Security Guard Allegedly Had Sex with Dead Woman’s Body
A hospital security guard in Tennessee was arrested Wednesday after two people allegedly saw him having sex with a dead woman’s body, PEOPLE confirms.
Memphis police officers responded to a call at St. Francis Hospital where witnesses told officers they allegedly observed the guard “having sexual intercourse with a deceased female in the body storage room,” according to an arrest affidavit obtained by PEOPLE.
Cameron Wright, 23, was charged with one felony count of abuse of a corpse, according to online records. His bond was set at $3,000.
According to the affidavit, Wright allegedly gave police a written statement admitting to the crime.
His sister, who asked to remain anonymous, questioned his mental state in an interview with local news station WREG.
“I think he’s still a good person. He just needs help,” she told the station in an interview. “I mean, ’cause anybody that does something like that, there’s got to be something wrong with them.”
She told the station that Wright wanted to be a police officer, but being a security guard was “the closest thing he could get at the moment,” she said.
Wright allegedly worked for U.S. Security Associates. In a statement to the local news station, the company stated Wright was “thoroughly screened” before being hired.
“We thoroughly screened the background of the officer involved in the incident,” the company wrote. “There was no criminal history in the officer’s background and no one could have anticipated the criminal conduct in which the officer engaged.”
The company terminated his employment immediately after he was charged, according to the statement.
Wright requested a public defender, but it was unclear whether he has obtained one. He is expected to make an appearance in front of a judge on Aug. 28.
Drake & Odell Beckham Jr. To Be Sued By Victim In Younes Bendjima Fight
Odell Beckham Jr. was allegedly flirting with the victim’s model-girlfriend, all night long.
As the group exited the building something was said in parting, that much is certain. Sipes and Colin Jones are publicly stating that the second man who held him down during the attack, was in fact a member of Drake & Odell Beckham Jr’s security cordon. For that reason, and that reason alone, Sipes hopes to receive repentance. Jones says his client is currently undergoing physical therapy for the attack that occurred in March of this year.
Sommer Ray: at the center of it all unwittingly.
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Anaesthetist killed wife and daughter ‘with gas-filled yoga ball’
An anaesthetist gassed his wife and daughter to death using a yoga ball filled with carbon monoxide, a Hong Kong court has heard.
Prosecutors told the High Court that Khaw Kim-sun left the inflatable ball in the boot of a car where the gas leaked out and killed them, according to reports from court Wednesday.
His wife and 16-year-old daughter were found on a roadside in a locked yellow Mini Cooper in 2015, in a case which initially baffled police.
The pair were certified dead at the same hospital where Khaw worked and a post-mortem concluded they had died from inhaling carbon monoxide.
Police found a deflated yoga ball in the back of the car.
Khaw cried Thursday as the pathologist who examined the bodies was called to testify and began to give details about the autopsy he carried out on his daughter, according to an AFP reporter in court.
Khaw has pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder.
Prosecutors had said Wednesday that Khaw, a 53-year-old Malaysian national, was having an affair with a student and his wife would not grant him a divorce.
They accused him of hatching a deliberate plot to murder his wife, the South China Morning Post reported.
Prosecutors said it was likely that Khaw had not intended to kill his daughter.
The court heard that in a police interview, Khaw had said he had urged his younger daughter to stay at home and finish her homework on the day of the deaths, according to Apple Daily.
Khaw had been seen filling two balls with carbon monoxide at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he was an associate professor, reports said.
He told colleagues he planned to use the gas on rabbits but later told police that he had taken it to get rid of rats at home.
The family’s domestic helper Siti Maesaroh told the court Thursday that the couple’s three other children had gone to school on the day of the deaths, but Lily was having a holiday.
She said the children had a good relationship with their parents.
Siti added that Khaw and his wife had separate bedrooms and cooked their meals separately, but said she did not know anything about their relationship.
The couple’s eldest daughter is due to testify Friday.
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Drug tunnel ran from old KFC in Arizona to Mexico bedroom
US authorities have found a secret drug tunnel stretching from a former KFC in the state of Arizona to Mexico.
The 600ft (180m) passageway was in the basement of the old restaurant in San Luis, leading under the border to a home in San Luis Rio Colorado.
Authorities made the discovery last week and have arrested the southern Arizona building’s owner.
They were alerted to the tunnel after the suspect, Ivan Lopez, was pulled over, according to KYMA News.
During the traffic stop, police dogs reportedly led officers to two containers of hard narcotics with a street value of more than $1m in Lopez’s vehicle.
Investigators say the containers held more than 118kg (260lb) of methamphetamine, 6kg of cocaine, 3kg of fentanyl, and 19kg of heroin.
Agents searched Lopez’s home and his old KFC, discovering the tunnel’s entrance in the kitchen of the former fast-food joint.
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Image copyright Homeland Security Investigations/Yuma Sector BP The passageway was 22ft deep, 5ft tall and 3ft wide, and ended at a trap door under a bed in a home in Mexico, said US officials.
The drugs are believed to have been pulled up through the tunnel with a rope.
This is not the first such discovery – two years ago a 2,600ft tunnel was found by authorities in San Diego, California.
Authorities said it was one of the longest such drug tunnels ever discovered, used to transport an “unprecedented cache” of cocaine and marijuana.
In July alone, US Border Patrol seized 15kg of heroin, 24lbs of cocaine, 327kg of methamphetamine and 1,900kg of marijuana at border checkpoints nationwide.
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Father stabs 16-month-old son to death, yells ‘Jesus is coming’
DALLAS — A father was charged with capital murder Tuesday after police said he stabbed his 16-month-old son at a Dallas-area apartment complex.
Blair Ness, 27, is charged in the death of his toddler son, Ashton Ness. Authorities said the father was shot in the leg by a neighbor trying to stop the attack on Sunday.
Lewisville police Capt. Mike Lane said Ness had significant injuries to his hand from the knife, along with the shooting wound.
Police also said witnesses reported that Ness yelled “Jesus is coming” before the attack.
There’s no clear motive behind the slaying. Authorities said Tuesday that detectives were interviewing the suspect. Bond was set at $1.5 million.
According to a police affidavit, the attack is believed to have begun inside Ness’ apartment, which was filled with a smoky haze and smelled of newly burnt marijuana. Police found a large blood stain on the master bedroom carpet, with a blood-stained folding knife and skull fragments lying by the bedroom door.
Officers found a trail of blood leading outside to where neighbors witnessed the attack, and several kitchen knives were found in the grass next to a pool of blood, the affidavit stated.
Ness was found on a patio and was subdued with a shock gun when he refused police commands.
As he was being handcuffed, Ness said: “I know everyone’s mad. I’m mad. I killed my son,” according to the affidavit.
Ness’ girlfriend and the child’s mother, Alexandra Murphy, arrived shortly after police. She said that when she left for work earlier Sunday, Ness was feeding their son.
She said she could think of no reason why Ness would want to hurt their son, according to the affidavit. Ness had been reading the Bible extensively recently, she said, and they had been attending church services.
A GoFundMe has been created to raise funds for Ashton Ness’ mother with expenses.