Michael Brown’s mother is running for office in Ferguson, Missouri
Standing near the spot where her son was gunned down, Michael Brown’s mother, Lezley McSpadden, announced she is running for city council in Ferguson, Missouri.
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WATCH: Ex-Georgia teacher grabbed student by throat, slammed him onto table
What is going on in our schools?
Surveillance video of a Lumpkin County high school teacher allegedly grabbing a student by his throat, throwing him onto a cafeteria table and dragging him along the table was obtained by Channel 2 Action News on Friday.
The incident happened in April 2017 and involved former teacher and coach Tim Michael Garner at the Lumpkin Mountain Education Charter High School in Dahlonega, Channel 2 reported. The school is an alternative school for students who have gotten into trouble at other schools in the district.
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Florida day care worker sentenced to 11 months in death of toddler who was left in hot van
A day care employee who had a part in leaving a toddler in a hot van last summer was sentenced Friday.
Louvenia Johnson, 29, pleaded no contest in June to aggravated manslaughter of a child by culpable negligence, only days before her co-defendant, Cornel McGee, went to trial and was acquitted.
Judge Joel Boles sentenced Johnson on Friday to 11 months in jail, followed by 10 years of probation, a departure from the recommended minimum sentence of 13 years in prison.
The two defendants — McGee, who was a driver at In His Arms Christian Academy in Pensacola, and Johnson, a teacher at the day care — left 3-year-old Jai’Nier Barnes in the day care center’s van the morning of Aug. 18.
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Brock Turner loses appeal in sexual assault case
A California appeals court rejected the appeal of Brock Turner, the former Stanford swimmer who sought to overturn his convictions stemming from a 2015 sexual assault of an unconscious woman.
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Another ‘Kiki Challenge’ Video From India Earns 2 Million Views — And 3 Arrests
Earlier this week, we reported on the video from India that, according to Trevor Noah, “won” the Kiki Challenge. It was 39 seconds of two farmers dancing in the mud with their oxen.
Now there’s another Kiki challenge video making headlines in India — but also raising concerns from the police.
It was made by three men in their 20s from Mumbai: Shyam Sharma, a television actor, and his friends Dhruv Shah and Nishant Shah, who run a YouTube channel. Like many people around the world, they responded to the Instagram comic Shiggy, who asked his followers to dance to the lyrics of the Drake song “In My Feelings,” which is addressed to a woman named Kiki.
On August 3, they uploaded their video on Funcho Entertainment, their YouTube channel. Their intention, they wrote in the descriptor for the video, was to show how people from the different states of India would attempt the Kiki challenge.
They say they were trying to poke fun at local stereotypes — although some might say they went too far.
In the first scene, one of them gives his phone to a fellow on a train so he can film him dancing on the station platform. But the guy ends up pocketing the phone. Later in the video, a dead body on a stretcher momentarily comes to life to do the jig. And a policeman uses his stick to beat a young man who attempts the Kiki challenge in the middle of the road, but the young man convinces him that he’s looking for a lost “key” and is not really doing the challenge.
The video makers also translate the song into Gujarati, an Indian language, and mimic a local dance.
So you can debate the merits of their video. But you can’t deny its popularity — over 2.4 million views so far.
The blaze of publicity attracted some unexpected interest. On August 7, the Railway Protection Force, a police force stationed in railways, arrested the three Kiki challengers.
It’s not the first time the police of India have been upset by interpretations of the Kiki challenge. Across the country, they’ve been increasingly alarmed with the stunts of people jumping out of cars and buses in their “Kiki” videos (inspired by the line in the song, “Are you riding?”).
On July 26, the Mumbai police tweeted:
Mumbai Police✔@MumbaiPolice
Not just a risk for you but your act can put life of others at risk too. Desist from public nuisance or face the music ! #DanceYourWayToSafety #InMySafetyFeelingsChallenge
They issued a similar warning on August 4:
Mumbai Police✔@MumbaiPolice
We love your safety and can’t leave it to be decided by Kiki! #GetInToTheCar #kikiChallenge #InMySafetyFeelings
According to reports, the three apologized and promised not to try such stunts again.
And on Twitter, people were deeply amused by the verdict.
Manjinder S Sirsa✔@mssirsa
I like this –#KikiChallenge undertaken by 3 Mumbai youth on local trains has resulted in Mumbai Vasai court sentencing them to clean the station for three days!
We need more such exemplary & unique punishments
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Steph Curry Raises $20,000 For Family Of Nia Wilson During Basketball Showcase And Tribute To The Slain Teen
Last month Nia Wilson was brutally stabbed on the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART). On Tuesday, August 7, Curry used his SC30 Select Showcase as a platform to bring awareness and offer financial assistance to the victim’s family.
According to KPIX, the basketball event became more than a game as Curry took to center court to pay homage to Wilson.
“I’m sure everybody is aware of the tragedy, the loss we’ve had in the Bay Area recently, the life of Nia Wilson,” he said.
On July 22, 27-year-old John Lee Cowell attacked both Wilson and her 26-year-old sister, Letifah, at the BART station. The two young ladies were stabbed in their necks, which led to Letifah being hospitalized.
While no amount of money or time could heal the scar left by Wilson’s absence, the NBA star offered a gesture of kindness and light to the family. With both Nia’s father, Ansar Mohammed, and Letifah sitting courtside, Curry raised over $20,000 in donations for the family via his Facebook livestream.
“Everybody who’s watching at home on the livestream on Facebook, please hit the ‘Donate’ button,” Curry asked fans. “Everything that is donated today, all the proceeds, 100 percent, will go to Nia Wilson’s family.”
Stephen Curry
✔@StephenCurry30
I’m happy to be able to livestream the All Star Game from the SC30 Select Camp, coached by myself and @sdotcurry, in honor of Nia Wilson. All donations will benefit Nia’s family via the National Basketball Player’s Association Foundation.https://bit.ly/2M8GrWy
Curry’s gesture seemed to send a message to not only the family but to Golden State fans, as well. Citizens praised the “Splash Bro” for his work.
“People need to know that she mattered. She really mattered,” Warriors fan LaWanda Travis told KPIX. “And for him to do this, I love him even more.”
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Kanye Talks About ‘Sexy’ Sister-In-Laws In New Song: Xtcy
On Saturday morning (Aug. 11), ‘Ye breaks out the new track, “Xtcy,” via veteran producer Clark Kent who shared the track on Twitter during an apparent studio session with West.
The new heat is produced by West and Kent and features a haunting sample looped over minimal instrumentation. Kanye goes off on a rap tangent like only Kanye can, spitting about his wild thoughts on sex and drugs. “You got sick thoughts? I got more of ’em/You got a sister in law you would smash? I got 4 of them,” he unapologetically rhymes on the first verse. “Damn, those is your sisters/You did something unholy to them pictures/Damn, you need to be locked up/Nah, we need a bigger hot tub.”
On the chorus, he reveals the track may have been fueled by the song’s namesake. “Now let me see you back, back, back, back/Time to get the bag, bag, bag, bag,” he raps. “We don’t throw stones, we throw stacks/That’s why they’re going mad, mad, mad, Max/If you don’t say your name then I won’t ask/She got a smartphone but a dumb ass/I thought of all this on ecstasy.”
The new song comes on the heels of West’s revealing appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live and is his first offering since the release of his Ye album.
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Tamron Hall To Host Daytime Talk Show With Disney/ABC
Former “Today” show host Tamron Hall is developing a daytime talk show that will make its home at Disney/ABC more than a year after exiting the morning staple on rival network NBC.
Details are scant, but Hall said in a statement provided to HuffPost that she aims to make the show “unconventional, fun, intimate and sometimes even raw.”
“My new partners appreciate and respect the relationship I’ve built with my audience and know that if we create television worth watching, they’ll join us for the ride,” she said. “I’m so grateful and excited for this next chapter. The landing makes the leap of faith so worth it!”
Hall previously served as an anchor for “MSNBC Live” and has been the host of Investigation Discovery’s “Deadline: Crime with Tamron Hall” since 2013.
According to gossip site Page Six, her NBC departure was brought on by Megyn Kelly’s addition to the schedule. With her solid ratings, Hall was reportedly hurt by management’s decision to bump her and Al Roker from the show’s 9 a.m. slot in favor of Kelly.
The journalist has been mulling the idea of a talk show for some time. In the summer of 2017 she reached a deal with Weinstein Television to develop a show that she would host and executive produce, but the deal was abandoned when disturbing sexual abuse accusations against the studio’s head, Harvey Weinstein, became public.
Now she’s packed up and moved on.
“We are incredibly excited to partner with Tamron and look forward to bringing a fresh, new daytime talk show to stations across the country that will showcase her enormous talent and dynamic personality,” Disney executive Janice Marinelli said in a statement to HuffPost.
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Lindsay Lohan On the #MeToo Movement: ‘Women Speaking Against All These Things Makes Them Look Weak’
Lindsay Lohan has voiced her opinion about the #MeToo movement in an Aug. 4 interview with The Times.
“I don’t really have anything to say,” Lohan tells the outlet. “I can’t speak on something I didn’t live, right? Look, I am very supportive of women. Everyone goes through their own experiences in their own ways.
“If it happens at that moment, you discuss it at that moment,” she adds. “You make it a real thing by making it a police report. I’m going to really hate myself for saying this, but I think by women speaking against all these things, it makes them look weak when they are very strong women. You have these girls who come out, who don’t even know who they are, who do it for the attention. That is taking away from the fact that it happened.”
The #MeToo movement arose after the alleged sex crimes committed by production mogul Harvey Weinstein — whom Lohan stood up for last year — which prompted many women to bravely share their own experiences.
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‘Tone-deaf’ Jack in the Box teriyaki bowl ad sparks backlash for sexual innuendos
Jack in the Box has come under fire for a sexually suggestive advertisement for the chain’s new teriyaki bowls.
The ad features Jack, the brand’s fictional CEO, discussing the new bowls by using them as a pun for a part of the male anatomy.
In the commercial, Jack walks into a room and explains he’s the only one with “the bowls to serve something different.”
The spot continues with more bowl-based innuendo. At one point Jack says to an employee, “You’ve got some pretty nice bowls there, and so does Dan.” A female employee also comments on how nice Dan’s “bowls” are.
The nearly minute-long ad finishes with an executive explaining to a clueless Jack that his marketing strategy is making people “uncomfortable.”
The tongue-in-cheek commercial seems par for the course for the brand — which has also caught some flak for its stoner-geared Munchies Meals ads. However, many viewers feel the ad is tone-deaf in today’s #MeToo environment.
AdWeek ran an article by David Griner titled “Jack in the Box Just Launched One of the Most Tone-Deaf Ads of the #MeToo Era,” saying the stunt celebrates sexual jokes in the workplace.
Several on Twitter agreed with Griner, saying the sexual innuendos were offensive, while others felt people were making “something out of nothing.”
PeopleRuinEverything@Skunky66613Umm, Look Around! THIS Is What Happens When Society Gets More Crass, Tolerates Nonsense & Lower “Classy” Bar Below Whale Droppings! #WakeUp #GonnaGetWorse https://dailym.ai/2ASmJtx via @MailOnline
It’s disgusting we R @ this class-less point!Jack in the Box under fire for sexually-tinged ad for Teriyaki bowls
Jack in the Box has been blasted for its latest ad campaign for the restaurant’s new Teriyaki bowls with a naughty play on the word ‘bowls,’ in a way that brings to mind the male anatomy.
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dreamboat ame@aimeethebbyy do i feel like i just got sexually harassed by a jack in the box ad….
Lathan Lev@LevNation20Jack in the Box is known for off color and controversial ads that get people talking. This is simply not the right time. They could have done something smart without fishing for “balls” jokes. #MeToo era or not, the creatives need to get more creative.
AdFreak✔@AdFreak
Jack in the Box just launched one of the most tone-deaf ads of the #MeToo era: https://adweek.it/2OfYyXH
