Des Peres, MO officers accused of assaulting black woman, son at Sam’s Club which resulted in head injury requiring 12 stitches and seven staples
DES PERES, Mo. (KMOV.com) — A 68-year-old African American woman has filed a lawsuit against that four Des Peres police officers beat her and her son over a false claim that the pair had stolen a television from Sam’s Club.
Marvia Gray and her son Derek Gray said they bought a television from the Sam’s Club on Manchester Road on March 23. They could not fit the 65 inch TV into their SUV and said they made arrangements with store employees to come back for it.
The lawsuit says Derek Gray came back for the TV later that day but the television had been moved from the front of the store. When Derek asked store employees about the television, the lawsuit says the employee suspects Derek was stealing the TV. Eventually another store employee intervened to confirm that Derek had bought the TV earlier that day.
When Derek took the television out of the store and was loading it into the car, he was followed to his car by Officer Michael Clayborne. The lawsuit states the employees to Officer Clayborne that Derek and his mother had bought the TV earlier in the day.
“Despite knowing this information, Officer Clayborne made an emergency phone call to the Des Peres Police Department. During this emergency call, Officer Clayborne falsely reported that he had ‘witnessed Gray steal a TV and place it in the parked vehicle,’” the lawsuit reads.
Derek drove to his mother’s house to drop the TV off and told her what happened at the store. It was then, the lawsuit states, that the Grays decided to return to television to the store for a refund.
The lawsuit says that as the Grays were returning the TV, four police officers “without cause or adequate provocation and in the presence of countless witnesses, violently and physically seized Marvia Gray and Derek Gray, throwing them to the floor, beating them, handcuffing them, then arresting them. These actions are captured on closed-circuit video taken by the surveillance cameras in the Store and cell phones of onlookers.”
Those four officers are identified as officers Clayborne, Brandley Summers, Ryan Righesisen, and Bill Maull.
Both Grays were hurt during this confrontation. According to the lawsuit, Marvia Gray suffered severe injuries to her tailbone, her back, her rotator cuff, her knees and her arms, among other injuries. Derek Gray suffered three shattered front teeth, a head injury requiring 12 stitches and seven staples as well as a cut above his right eye that required seven stitches along with severe neck and back pain.
Marvia Gray is suing the city of Des Peres and the four police officers.
News 4 has reached out the Des Peres Police Department for comment and will update this story with their statement once available.
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Turkish soccer player confesses to killing 5-year-old son in hospital, says he didn’t love him
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish authorities have arrested a former top-tier soccer player who confessed to killing his 5-year-old son while the boy was being treated in a hospital on suspicion of a COVID-19 infection.
Cevher Toktas, 32, handed himself over to police and confessed to having smothered his son, Kasim, with a pillow on May 4, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported.
The boy’s death was initially not believed to be suspicious, although he tested negative for COVID-19. His body has been exhumed for an autopsy as part of the investigation, Anadolu reported.
HaberTurk television reported that Toktas, who currently plays with amateur league team Bursa Yildirimspor, told police that he tried to suffocate his son because he did not love him, and turned himself in to police 11 days later because he felt remorse.
The boy was admitted to the children’s hospital in the northwestern province of Bursa with a cough and high fever on April 23 — an official Turkish public holiday celebrating children — and placed in isolation along with his father.
Soon after, Toktas said, he smothered the boy and called for help, saying Kasim had taken a turn for the worse. The 5-year-old was rushed to the hospital’s intensive care unit, where he died two hours later.
No trial date has been set yet.
Between 2007 and 2009, Toktas played for the Hacettepe soccer team, which briefly competed in the Turkish top-tier Super League.
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Trump says he’s been taking hydroxychloroquine to ward off coronavirus – “I’m still here”
President Trump on Monday announced that he has been taking the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine to ward off the coronavirus.
“A lot of good things have come out on the hydroxy. I’m taking hydroxychloroquine. I’ve been taking it. I hope to not be able to take it soon. But I think people should be allowed to,” the president said at the White House during an unrelated meeting with restaurant industry bigs.
The president said he began taking the drug several weeks ago after getting a letter from a doctor extolling its benefits.
“He said out of hundreds of people that he’s treated he hasn’t lost one. All I can tell you is, so far I seem to be OK. If it doesn’t work you’re not going to get sick or die. It’s been heavily tested,” Trump said.
Trump was responding to a question about Dr. Rick Bright, the former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, who told Congress he was transferred to another job after he declined to be pressured to push hydroxychloroquine despite studies suggesting it could cause serious side effects, including death.
“I’ve taken it about a week and a half now, and I’m still here. I get a lot of tremendously positive news on the hydroxy, and you know the expression I use, ‘What do you have to lose?’ ” he said, reporting he had “zero symptoms” or side effects.
The president would not say if other members of his family or administration were taking hydroxychloroquine, but that he had been also been taking zinc supplements as well.
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Instagram model couldn’t sit for months after botched butt lift
An Instagram model says a botched Brazilian butt lift left her unable to sit — for six months.
“It was very painful,” Shilpa Sethi, who has led with her mammoth backside in sexy photos to land 1.2 million followers on the site, said to the Daily Mail.
The 25-year-old New Delhi woman said she spent $10,000 to get the booty-boosting surgery in Miami about five years ago.
“I have always admired a curvy body, and I was very flat at first,” said the influencer, who explained that her enhanced assets are key to her making a living, which includes an X-rated website only accessible for a fee.
Unfortunately, the doctor turned out to be a bum, she said.
“I chose [him] based on what I later discovered to be fake reviews,” Sethi said.
She said the butt lift — which involved taking fat from her waist and injecting it in her bottom — left her with a lopsided backside and excruciating pain.
“I wasn’t able to sit on my butt for months,” she told the Mail, which said it was half a year before Sethi could comfortably rest her booty again thanks to three more surgeries costing a total of another $60,000.
Now, “Fans say I have the best butt, especially when it jiggles and makes them go crazy,” Sethi said. “And because it’s all my fat, it’s really soft, too.”
The online star said she now plans a breast augmentation.
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Sister of Ahmaud Arbery’s alleged killer posted picture of his body to Snapchat – defended them by saying “meant to kill anybody” and always “loved” her non-white boyfriends
The sister of the man charged with gunning down Ahmaud Arbery said she posted pictures of the unarmed black jogger’s dead body online because she is “a true-crime fan,” according to a new report.
Lindsay McMichael, 30, admitted posting an unedited image of a blood-soaked Arbery lying on the street in Brunswick, Georgia, on Snapchat, but said she meant no harm, the Sun reported Monday.
“I had no nefarious or malicious intent when I posted that picture,” she told the outlet. “The thing is I’m a huge fan of true crime — I listen to four or five podcasts a week — I’m constantly watching that sort of thing.”
“It was more of a, ‘Holy s–t, I can’t believe this has happened,’” she added. “It was absolutely poor judgment.”
However, a lawyer for Arbery’s family called the image “deeply disturbing.”
“The picture Lindsay McMichael posted was very disturbing and very disturbing to the family,” attorney S. Lee Merritt told the Sun. “It actually fits the pattern of the McMichael family engaging in a weird, violent form of voyeurism.”
Ex-cop Gregory McMichael, 64, and his son, Travis McMichael, 34 — Lindsay McMichael’s father and brother — are charged with murder in Arbery’s Feb. 23 shooting death.
Police said the two men chased Arbery, 25, for more than 4 minutes after he was spotted poking around a construction site on the block. The two finally confronted Arbery, who was shot twice with a shotgun at close range during a struggle with Travis McMichael.
The McMichaels were not charged in the case until earlier this month when a video of the fatal encounter was made public and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, the state’s law enforcement agency, took over the case.
Ironically, it was Gregory McMichael who leaked the video to a local station thinking it would exonerate the two men.
“First you have (Gregory) McMichael sharing with a news station a video of the murder then you have his daughter sharing an image of Ahmaud’s bullet-ridden body on Snapchat,” Merritt said. “It’s deeply disturbing behavior.”
Lindsay has defended her brother and father, saying they never “meant to kill anybody” and always “loved” her non-white boyfriends.
She said she was in her pajamas watching a movie when the shooting took place. and said her brother “was looking desperate” when she saw him.
“I’ve seen my brother in his happiest moments — I was there when his child was born and I’ve seen him in distress and I know that look,” she told the Sun. “It wasn’t like some glory thing, like, ‘I stalked and then got the kill that I was hoping for.’”
She said the family has gotten threats to rape and kill them since the shooting.
“We’re not the ones on trial here — my dad and my brother are and yes, I don’t think that they were beating the hood of the truck and saying, ‘Let’s go get this person,’” Lindsay McMichael said. “I think that things just really escalated.”
“I just want people to realize we’re not monsters,” she said.
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California church holds service, potentially exposing 180 to coronavirus
More than 180 people were potentially exposed to the coronavirus after a California church defied state lockdown orders to hold a service — and a congregant with the virus attended.
The unidentified person attended a Mother’s Day service at Palermo Bible Family Church — and tested positive for COVID-19 the next day, according to Butte County Public Health and the Los Angeles Times.
The infected person is now in home isolation, and the other congregants were notified of their exposure and also directed to self-quarantine, according to officials.
The public health department is working to arrange testing for everyone in attendance.
Large gatherings are banned in the state, and local officials said the church puts its worshipers at risk by holding a service.
“At this time, organizations that hold in-person services or gatherings are putting the health and safety of their congregations, the general public and our local ability to open up at great risk,” Danette York, director of the department, said in a statement.
“Moving too quickly through the reopening process can cause a major setback and could require us to revert back to more restrictive measures.”
In a since-deleted Facebook post, pastor Mike Jacobsen said an asymptomatic congregant attended the service and woke up the next day “needing medical attention.”
He said he would “never with knowledge put anyone in harms [sic] way.”
“For 7 weeks we have been kept out of our church and away from our church family,” he added. “I am fully aware that some people may not understand that for our church it is essential to be together in fellowship.”
When contacted by the LA Times, Jacobsen declined to immediately comment, saying he needed more time to think about it before making a statement.
In a Facebook Live Bible study last week, Jacobsen said the church should stay open because many of its members are “young believers” in need of community.
“You wouldn’t take an infant out of the arms of their mother and expect them to survive on their own,” he said.
“We’ve really tried to raise the bar and do a good job with what we’ve been given,” the pastor said of virtual services, “but it’s not the same as being together in fellowship with one another.”
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Illinois woman arrested for spitting in nurse’s face, claiming to have coronavirus
AURORA, Ill. (KMOV.com)— An Illinois woman who claimed to have COVID-19 was arrested Monday after spitting in a nurse’s face at an Aurora hospital.
Cynthia Meyers, 33, of Oswego, Illinois, checked herself into Mercy Hospital on North Highland Ave because she was having trouble breathing and claimed to have tested positive for the virus prior.
While getting medical treatment, police said the 33-year-old decided she wanted to leave.
The nurse told her that she needed to sign discharge paperwork but she allegedly refused. Meyers then lunged towards the nurse and spat on her, officials said.
She was arrested and charged with aggravated battery to a nurse. It is unknown if Meyers had tested positive.
Illinois has seen 90,436 cases with the majority of those patients in the Chicago area. In late March, Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin and Aurora Police Chief Kristen Ziman both announced they had contracted the coronavirus.
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Missouri woman gave birth at work, left baby to drown in a toilet
MILAN, Mo. (AP) — A woman who gave birth in a bathroom at a Missouri meatpacking plant was charged with murder for allegedly leaving her newborn to drown in a toilet.
Makuya Kambamba, 28, of Kirksville, was jailed without bond after being charged Friday with first-degree murder and several other counts in the baby’s May 6 death. No attorney is listed for her in online court records.
Investigators said in court documents that Kambamba gave birth in a restroom at the Smithfield Foods plant in Milan, where she works, KTVO-TV reported. Court papers say she told officers that she saw the infant moving as he was face down in the toilet. Kambamba said didn’t check on the baby boy again until about 30 minutes later, when a Smithfield nurse entered the restroom.
An autopsy revealed evidence consistent with a drowning victim.
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Maryland mom left her two children in the car while she went into a nail salon, police say
A Baltimore mom has been charged after leaving her two children in the car while she was in a nail salon, police say.
An officer responded to a call of child neglect on May 13 and found a 3-month-old boy and a 3-year-old girl inside a parked car, Baltimore County Police said. The weather was in the 70s.
The responding officer broke a window of the car to reach the children and first responders arrived soon after “to make sure they were not in distress,” police said.
Authorities found the mother inside a nail salon that had its shades drawn and charged her with two counts of misdemeanor for an unattended child, according to police.
They also told the salon to shut down and the owners complied.
Last week, Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski announced personal services, including nail salons, were to remain closed.
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Blac Chyna producing NSFW docuseries on porn site OnlyFans
Cue the cameras: Blac Chyna is heading up a docuseries about adult site OnlyFans.
Called “OnlyCam: LA,” the show premieres at 8 p.m. May 17 on streaming site the Zeus Network.
Rob Kardashian’s ex, whose real name is Angela White, will give an in-depth look at the lives of on-camera sex workers, who have seen their earnings explode since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic.
OnlyFans, a service that allows individuals to buy subscriptions for private video content from creators, has been a boon for sex workers, who can take their NSFW content to a more intimate online platform.
The steamy documentary executive produced by Chyna includes former “Bachelorette” cast member Chad Johnson, who announced in April that he was going to get into the porn industry — in particular, the world of foot fetishes.
“There’s some weird feet people out there,” says Johnson in the trailer, rocking a porn ’stache and wearing only a tight-fitting pair of briefs.
The series appears to center on how OnlyFans is making it rain on its stars: “In the last 58 days, I have made $93,000,” Johnson says.
One performer featured in the doc, Dallas Wade, says he makes more than $100,000 a month from his work on the site, most of which features his behind. “My butt became a thing,” he says in the trailer.
But it’s not all about the moneymakers: The docuseries will also show the pitfalls of this line of work. “I’m just kind of nervous about my kids and stuff,” says a Kim Kardashian look-alike in the clip.
“Right now, because of the whole pandemic, it’s been boosted,” one cam girl says of the financial boom in the industry.
She’s not wrong. The Post reported in early March that strippers who are unable to work in clubs because of the coronavirus pandemic have been turning to the service and raking in the dollars. Some escorts who can’t meet clients in person have been making the leap to virtual, through it brings a new set of challenges.
The service has gotten so popular during the quarantine that Beyoncé shouted it out on her remix of Megan Thee Stallion’s popular song “Savage.” Views on the site jumped 15% in less than 24 hours after it debuted, reports the Daily Beast.
Chyna, who had a show with Kardashian in 2016 called “Rob & Chyna,” is also currently featured on a Zeus Network show about her life, called “The Real Blac Chyna.”
The mom of two has her own OnlyFans page that she launched in April, where she charges $50 a month for her videos. She often posts teasers of her OnlyFans content to her Instagram, like videos of her posing in lingerie or of her soaking-wet feet stomping on grapes.
A subscription to Zeus costs $3.99 a month or $40 a year.
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