Cop Who Killed Tamir Rice Gets a New Job – as a cop
The former Cleveland police officer who fatally shot 12-year-old Tamir Rice has been hired by a police department in a small Ohio village, the AP reports. Bellaire’s police chief, Richard Flanagan, confirmed Friday that he hired Timothy Loehmann as a part-time officer. “He was cleared of any and all wrongdoing,” Flanagan tells the Times Leader. “He was never charged. It’s over and done with.” According to published reports, Loehmann, who is white, shot Tamir, who was black, two seconds after responding to a 2014 call about the boy carrying what turned out to be a pellet gun.
A grand jury declined to indict Loehmann, who was fired last year after it was discovered he had been deemed “unfit for duty” on an earlier job. That happened in Independence, Ohio, where he was told in 2012 to quit or be fired after a deputy chief deemed him unable to follow directions, communicate, or execute proper handgun control. Loehmann chose to resign from the police force, per an old Guardian article. Loehmann also failed an exam by the Maple Heights, Ohio, police department in 2009. “Ms. Rice believes that Timothy Loehmann does not belong on any police force, anywhere, period,” the Rice family attorney tells Cleveland 19. Bellaire is a village of about 4,000 along the Ohio River, more than 150 miles south of Cleveland.
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XXXTentacion Wins Best New Hip Hop Artist at BET Hip Hop Awards
XXXTentacion was celebrated with a posthumous honor at the 2018 BET Hip Hop Awards.
The late rapper won Best New Hip Hop Artist during the show, which was taped on Saturday (Oct. 6) at The Fillmore Miami Beach at Jackie Gleason Theater in Miami Beach, Fla.
His mother, Cleopatra Bernard, along with X’s former manager, Solomon Sounds, and lawyer, Bob Celestin, accepted on his behalf to cheers from audience members including MadeinTYO. “I love you forever @xxxtentacion !!! Best New Hip Hop Gone 2 Soon. Love u,” tweeted TYO.
XXX beat out the competition in the Best New Hip Hop Artist category, which included Juice WRLD, Lil Baby, Rich the Kid, and BlocBoy JB.
Additionally, XXX is nominated for two awards at Tuesday’s American Music Awards, including New Artist of the Year and Favorite Soul/R&B Album for 2017’s 17.
The 20-year-old rapper was shot and killed in an apparent robbery in June. Four men have been arrested and charged in connection with his murder. Prior to his death, he had recorded “a significant amount of material” for a third album, due later this fall.
The 2018 BET Hip Hop Awards, which airs Oct. 16, featured performances from Cardi B, T.I., Yo Gotti, A$AP Rocky, YG, Gucci Mane, Lil Baby, Gunna, Lil Pump, and more. Lil Wayne was also honored with the “I Am Hip Hop” award.
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‘House of Cards’ season 6 trailer shows Claire under attack
Fans have been waiting awhile for the final season of House of Cards, and specifically to see what form it will take without former star Kevin Spacey. Now, Netflix has released the full trailer for the sixth season, and it reveals a lot more of where the story will be focused.
As Claire Underwood, played by Robin Wright, tries to consolidate power as the president of the United States, she’s met with resistance both from the media and within her own team. She’s in for the fight of her life, and you can bet her ruthlessness and viciousness is on display. The final season of House of Cards makes its debut on November 2nd.
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Feds say they’ll forgive your student loan, but almost no one actually benefits
Student loan forgiveness promises fall far short due to red tape, fine print and bad advice. One program denied debt relief to 99 percent of borrowers.
The Department of Education recently released a status report on its Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program, and the results are eye-popping. The program promises loan cancellations for borrowers who commit to 10 years of public service, and the first group of borrowers is finally eligible. According to the status report, however, almost no one is getting relief: Of the 32,601 applications received by the end of June, only 96 borrowers have actually had their debt cancelled. Ninety-nine percent of the applications that have been processed were denied.
As lawmakers explore new solutions to our nation’s student debt crisis and college affordability woes, PSLF should serve as a cautionary tale. The program’s outcomes are distressing, but they are not entirely shocking. At first glance, PSLF sounds simple and generous. But it was packed full of red tape and fine print that made it nearly impossible for borrowers to navigate — red tape that was compounded by inexcusably poor advice from student loan servicers. For instance, many borrowers were unintentionally enrolled in the wrong repayment plan while completing their years of public service, rendering them ineligible for PSLF.
Solutions to student debt don’t come cheap
To develop policies that are likely to gain bipartisan support, legislators look for “sensible solutions” with modest price tags. But this creates tension when it comes to finding meaningful answers that speak to their constituents’ concerns over the high price of college and rising student debt. With 44 million student loan borrowers and more than $1.5 trillion in outstanding debt, those solutions don’t come cheap.
There is no amount of magic math that allows legislators to concoct generous benefits for students and other borrowers at little to no cost. But there is math that can take a program aimed at providing a generous benefit, load it up with eligibility requirements, conditions and other fine print, and greatly minimize the program’s cost. The result is government programs that sound great at bill signing ceremonies and in policymakers’ news releases, but provide very little value to Americans when implemented.
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Odell Beckham Jr. got extremely candid about Eli Manning and the Giants. Here’s what you need to know
Odell Beckham Jr. gave a stunningly honest interview with ESPN this weekend, ahead of the Giants’ 31-33 loss to the Carolina Panthers on Sunday. He didn’t hold anything back. Beckham openly discussed his frustration with the organization, the underwhelming offense, how he wants more opportunities to shine, and when he was asked about Eli Manning, he was speechless.
Speaking with Josina Anderson, Beckham laid out everything he has problems with inside the organization, the kind of information we normally get a taste of via leaks and post-season chatter, not a national interview in the middle of the season.
The Giants were 25th in the NFL in total yardage, 21st in passing, and 29th in scoring prior to this week’s game. Beckham was accounting for over a third of the team receiving yards by himself, which was true again this week when he had 131 receiving yards of the team’s 382 net yards through the air.
Beckham had one touchdown catch and threw a 57-yard touchdown on a trick play in the game. It was the first time since Week 17 of the 2015 season that the Giants scored more than 30 points in a single game.
So what did Beckham say in his interview?
He believes his career has stagnated because of the Giants.
“I don’t feel like I’m being given the opportunity to be the very best that I can, to bring that every single day — and that’s really all I want to do, to bring that every single day. Since I’ve been here I’ve put up numbers, records have been broken and all those good things, not to say mean nothing to me, but I know they could have been double, or triple whatever they are now. That’s the part that bothers me.”
Beckham was a first-round pick in 2014. That season, he became the first rookie with more than 75 catches, 1,100 yards and 10 touchdowns, and was named the Offensive Rookie of the Year. In 2016, he became the fastest player to reach 200 receptions and 4,000 receiving yards.
But in his first five seasons, the team only made the playoffs once, in 2016, losing to the Packers in an NFC Wild Card game.
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Bill Cosby wants out of prison already
It’s been less than two weeks since Bill Cosby got sentenced and his lawyers are already trying to get him out of prison — and the judge in his case tossed, too.
A defense motion filed Friday outlines his attorneys’ requests, which include the overturning of the actor’s conviction and three- to 10-year sentence on account of errors made in his sex assault case and trial.
“The defendant, William H. Cosby, Jr., moves this Court for a new trial in the interest of justice, or at least for reconsideration and modification of the sentence imposed on September 25, 2018,” the motion says, according to Deadline.
Cosby’s defense team claims Judge Steven O’Neill should’ve recused himself from the sentence hearing following the 2017 mistrial and ensuing retrial this spring.
“For the reasons detailed in Mr. Cosby’s previously-filed motions for recusal (which are incorporated here by reference, without being repeated and set forth at length), and for all the foregoing reasons, a reasonable observer could question the impartiality of the judge who imposed the September 25, 2018, sentence,” the filing says. “Accordingly, Judge O’Neill should have recused himself from imposing sentence.”
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Catastrophic limo crash kills 20, but no one knows what’s to blame
Schoharie, New York (CNN)This was a limo filled with exuberance — 17 birthday party guests who had many reasons to celebrate.
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Goodbye British ‘Black History Month’? Cyber-Racism and Whitewashing Mar U.K. Celebration
For the past 20 years, October has marked the start of Black History Month in the U.K. (a whole 31 days! Imagine!) But this year, the event has been mired in controversy, with one prominent Black History Month site recently targeted by hackers and some local councils now opting to rebrand October as “Diversity Month.”
Let’s start with the hacking of Black History Month magazine’s website, which was attacked twice within 24 hours. As the Guardian reports, the entire site was brought down on Monday morning, restored, and then attacked again on Tuesday morning.
Patrick Vernon, the magazine’s editor, says the site is the country’s most popular one dedicated to black history, and that the timing of the attack was deliberate.
“What we are experiencing now is part of a wider context of cyber-racism,” he told the Guardian.
“We thought initially it was because Black History Month was trending because there has been a lot of interest on social media and in newspapers,” Vernon said. “It is very clear that it has been targeted by hackers in the UK. We don’t know who it is, but it’s clear whoever they are picked on us yesterday deliberately [on the first day of Black History Month].”
Vernon added that interest in Black History Month in the U.K. was higher this year because of the “Windrush Scandal,” which involves Caribbean immigrants who came to the U.K. between 1948 and 1971—the “Windrush generation”. Recently, some members of the Windrush generation were classified as illegal immigrants (despite being invited to move to the U.K.) and were threatened with deportation or turned away from jobs and public services, like health care.
Despite living and working in the UK for decades, many Windrush children are being told to leave.…
Part of the problem was that the British government had destroyed some immigrants’ landing cards, and didn’t keep track of the Caribbean immigrants allowed to stay in the U.K.
Prime Minister Theresa May recently apologized to Caribbean leaders for the debacle, reports the BBC.
The scandal also exemplifies why Black History Month is so important, especially as several London councils try to replace the month with a more generic “Diversity Month,” BHM supporters say.
According to News One, one conservative West London borough decided to focus more broadly on “multiculturalism,” rather than home in specifically on African and Caribbean culture and history. And another conservative South London neighborhood will rebrand BHM as “Diversity Month,” celebrating … well, everyone, it seems: Indian, Polish, Spanish, Chinese, and African and Caribbean cultures will be lumped together in a month that, in attempting to celebrate everyone, will ultimately mean nothing to anyone.
(*Taps mic* Y’all do know there are 11 whole other months, right?)
As Raifa Rafiq, a host on the Mostly Lit podcast, told BBC’s Newsbeat, taking the “black” out of “Black History Month” is unacceptable.
“Black people are at the bottom of that barrel and this month is supposed to be significant because we’re supposed to be celebrating those black lives,” she said.
“So it becomes really annoying to see that just black, and that word in itself, is not taken into consideration.”
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I Just Wanted Those Raggedy Shitstain To Loose
It so important to VOTE!! EVERY VOTE does count! If you don’t vote on a ballet or vote for an independent presidential or Senator candidate we all end up loosing very crucial bills and laws that need to pass, revised or vetoed!
In a Billboard cover story last week, knapsack enthusiast J. Cole admitted that he didn’t vote in the 2016 presidential election, claiming that while he would have voted for Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton just didn’t motivate him.
Naturally, he was roundly criticized for this—particularly since he’s considered to be (and shrewdly positioned himself as) an artist concerned with and invested in politics. How could someone so mindful of our history do something so disrespectful? How could someone who considers himself so smart do something so dumb? Did/does he not realize how dangerous and damaging the false equivalencies comparing Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are?
These (and other similar) questions are natural, damning and fair. They also might be the wrong ones.
Because if, for instance, my 18-year-old nephew watched the circus of the Judge Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings last week; and if he spent the last week watching CNN and MSNBC and Fox News; and if, after consuming all of this, he shared that he was deeply disillusioned with politics and not sure why he should even care, I’m not sure what I could say to sway him. Of course, I could remind him of the clear white supremacist bent of the Republican Party. I could teach him that as long as they’re in power, women’s rights and LGBTQ rights remain tenuous.
But then he could say, “If the Republicans are so bad and evil and the Democrats are so good, why did Barack Obama eulogize John McCain? And how did Michelle Obama and George W. Bush seem to become such good friends?”
And then I’d say, “Well, um, McCain and Bush were different. Republicans, sure. But they were decent people, and …”
And then he’d say “But if Bush is so different and so decent, why is he trying to get Brett Kavanaugh confirmed?”
And then I’d just take him to Chipotle.
Deciding to vote is, and will always be, the right answer. But considering this very real and very justified skepticism of politics and politicians —and also considering gerrymandering and voters’ rights restrictions and the rest of the obstacles put in place to make the act of voting a struggle—I just can’t begrudge someone whose response to this is “Fuck it.” I can be sanctimonious and self-righteous and attempt to shame them, perhaps. But when attempting to craft a compelling and honest counter to the voter apathy that 74 percent of 18-29-year-olds possess, I have nothing. Instead, I’ll just share what’s motivating me.
Of course, I recognize the danger of a right-leaning SCOTUS. Of course, I know the effect our elected officials have on the economy, our healthcare, our law enforcement, our education and criminal and environment justice. As theoretical and hypothetical and transparently performative as political arguments and campaigns tend to be, who we elect to office has a literal impact on the bodies we inhabit. For women, for people of color, for the LGBTQ community, for people who are not Christian, and for people who are not American-born Americans, this threat is critical. How America decides to vote can be the difference between life and death.
But the gravity-defying force that will lift me from my home on Nov. 6 and carry me to my polling station is schadenfreude. When I think of people like Donald Trump and Brett Kavanaugh—men who have never experienced any real disappointment or struggle or pain and are openly hostile towards and mocking of those who have—I just want those motherfuckers to lose. Same with all of the frothing MAGA motherfuckers who, as the Atlantic’s Adam Serwer articulated yesterday, mine glee from cruelty towards us. I want them to feel like shit, even if said shitty feeling only moderately interrupts the torrent of privilege, and I will derive more immediate pleasure from their defeat than our victory. Yes, the country will be a better and safer place if progressive politics win out, and this will make me happy. This will be a good thing. A great thing. But I also want them to be crushed, and this want for their political destruction and descent into self-doubt and irrelevance exists independent of the desire to win. And, also, it will bring my black ass joy.
I will tell my nephew this on the drive to Chipotle. And hopefully, by the time he finishes his chorizo and pinto bean burrito, he’ll agree.