Plastic surgeon slammed for TikTok dancing with big bags of human fat
A Brazilian plastic surgeon is in hot water for TikTok videos depicting her busting bizarre moves while holding bags of human flesh and liposuctioned fat.
Caren Trisoglio Garcia, who boasts over 645,000 followers on the platform, had her medical license suspended by the regional Medical Board in Sao Paulo for “sharing vids with patients skin,” Brazilian outlet Metropoles reported.
This follows a six-month suspension she received from the board of the Brazilian Society of Plastic Surgery (SBCP), which deemed the videos “unethical,” Newsweek reported.
The Ed Gein-evoking clips depicted Garcia, better known as minhacirurgiaoficial on TikTok, gyrating emphatically in her scrubs while toting clear bags of human fat and flesh that she’d allegedly removed from patients during liposuction.
The dancing “Dr. Demento” even pasted lurid captions over the bags with the phrases “this is the breast” and “this is underarm fat.”
In one of the more controversial vids, the macabre medical practitioner can be seen smiling while waving a large swatch of skin about like a ghoulish trophy.
TikTok has trimmed the fat on Garcia’s account, taking down her skin-tillating clips because of site rules prohibiting depictions of “dismembered” or “mutilated” human remains, per their community guidelines.
Due to ongoing investigations and her suspension, Garcia is currently forbidden from seeing patients or practicing surgery and could even have her medical license revoked if found guilty of medical misconduct.
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11-month-girl shot dead in car in Syracuse
An 11-month-girl was killed and two other young girls were injured in a drive-by shooting in upstate New York, police said.
Dior Harris was just weeks away from her first birthday when she was shot multiple times shortly before 7 p.m. Sunday while in the backseat of the car in Syracuse, CNY Central reported.
“She was just a baby,” her mom, Desiree Seymore, told the outlet. “She was so strong. She didn’t even cry when it happened, but we lost her.”
Seymore and her cousin, Shakema Buckmon, had been driving with their daughters when someone opened fire from a car headed in the opposite direction, Syracuse.com reported.
“They just started, ‘pow, pow, pow,’ just started shooting at my car, and then just drove away,” Buckmon told CNY Central.
While the women were unharmed, their daughters were struck by the gunfire, police said.
Dior was rushed to Upstate University Hospital, where she died of her injuries, CNY Central reported.
“I tried to save her, I tried to get to the hospital as fast as I could, I tried, I tried but she had already passed before we could make it down the street,” Buckmon told the outlet.
Buckmon’s children, who are 3 and 8 years old, are expected to survive, police said.
No motive has been released for the shooting.
Chavez R. Ocasio, 23, was arrested Monday night in connection to Dior’s death, a law enforcement source told Syracuse.com.
It’s unclear what his role was in the shooting death.
He was booked on charges of murder, criminal possession of a firearm, tampering with physical evidence and violation of parole, the outlet reported.
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Colorado may join Washington in allowing human composting
The state is close to legalizing human composting, according to the Denver Post.
A bill, which has already passed in one legislative chamber, would allow people to opt to have their remains converted to soil through the “natural reduction” burying method.
The process involves placing the body into a “cradle,” and then another vessel, along with wood chips, alfalfa and straw. Each body ultimately creates a few hundred pounds of soil.
The practice is cited as more environmentally friendly than cremation or burial.
Colorado would become the second state in the nation after Washington to make the process legal.
The Centennial State’s bill does not allow for the soil to be used to grow food for human consumption.
It also bars sales of the product and prohibits combining the soil of multiple people without consent.
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Promising college football recruit killed in Dallas hotel
A promising college football recruit was fatally shot at a hotel in Dallas, police and relatives said.
Tony Evans Jr., a 17-year-old senior wide receiver at Lancaster High School in Texas, was pronounced dead at a hospital after he was wounded early Sunday inside a room at the Hawthorn Suites in Dallas, police said in a statement.
Evans, who was set to join the University of Wyoming’s football team next season, was gunned down by an unknown suspect inside Room 221 at the hotel. A motive in the slaying is unclear, police said.
Another person who was not identified by police was also shot during the incident, the Dallas Morning News reported. That victim was in stable condition, the newspaper reported Sunday.
Evans’ mother, Aretha Evans, told the newspaper her son was a devout Christian who was determined to succeed on and off the football field.
We are on an emotional roller coaster,” Evans told the newspaper. “Our son’s life was abruptly ended. We have been left broken-hearted. Pray for us to have strength as we prepare to lay our beloved Tony Evans Jr. to rest.”
Evans, who was raised in Lancaster, tallied 13 catches for 268 yards and four touchdowns at Lancaster High School last season. He was prepping to join the Wyoming Cowboys after signing a letter of intent in February, the Dallas Morning News reported.
“He wanted everything to work out,” Evans’ friend Rodney Hudson told the newspaper. “And he was going to have a breakout season. That’s what he did. Whatever he told me, he did.”
Hudson said the outgoing, funny teen left a mark on whomever he met.
“There was nothing fake out him, he’s real,” said Hudson, who last spoke to Evans about a month ago. “Even though he was playful, he’s real. That love that he showed is real. I just want people to know that.”
Wyoming’s football program tweeted an image of Evans’ No. 19 jersey on Monday while saying the team was grieving the teen’s tragic death.
“Our hearts are with the Evans family as they go through this incredibly difficult time,” UW’s football coach, Craig Bohl, said in a statement. “We are so sad to hear of Tony’s passing. We have been in contact with Tony’s family and are here to support them in anyway we can.”
No arrests had been announced in the ongoing investigation as of noon Monday.
A $5,000 reward is being offered for information leading to an arrest and indictment in Evans’ shooting death. Anyone with additional details on the homicide should call Dallas police at (214) 671-3646.
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Officer wounded, 1 dead in Tennessee school shooting
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A confrontation in a Tennessee high school that involved police officers responding to a report of a possible armed man, left one person dead and an officer wounded, authorities said.
No other persons were killed or wounded, police said, adding the scene had been secured at the Austin-East Magnet High School in Knoxville following the afternoon shooting. Authorities said only that a male was deceased but added another person was detained for -further investigation.
The Knoxville Police Department posted on Facebook that officers responded to reports of a male subject who was possibly armed at the school around around 3:15 p.m.
“Upon approach of the subject, shots were fired,” the post said. “A Knoxville Police officer was struck at least one time and transported to the hospital with injuries that are not expected to be life threatening. One male was pronounced dead at the scene.”
The school was the subject of media reports in February after three students were shot to death over a three-week span. Those earlier shootings did not take place in the school, and administrators at the time said students felt the arts magnet school was a safe space, according to a story in the Knoxville News Sentinel.
The Knoxville Police Department tweeted that authorities were at the site of the shooting at Austin-East Performing Arts Magnet High School. The online posting said a Knoxville Police Department officer was reported among the victims.
Bob Thomas, the superintendent of Knox County Schools, tweeted later Monday that a shooting had occurred but the building had been secured.
“The school building has been secured and students who were not involved in the incident have been released to their families,” Thomas said. He added in a separate tweet that authorities were gathering information and about “this tragic situation” and that additional information would be provided later.
Police urged people to avoid the area, adding a reunification site had been set up on a baseball field behind the school for students to be reunited with family.
Details about the shooting remained sketchy and news outlets showed numerous police and emergency vehicles at the scene.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said it was sending agents to the scene.
Gov. Bill Lee mentioned the shooting at a news conference but said he had little information. “I just wanted to make reference to that and ask, for those who are watching, online or otherwise, to pray for that situation and for the families and the victims that might be affected by that in our state,” he said.
Last week, the Republican governor signed off on legislation that would make Tennessee the latest state to soon allow most adults 21 and older to carry handguns – openly or concealed — without first clearing a background check and training. Lee backed the legislation over objections from law enforcement groups, who argued that the state’s existing permit system provided an important safeguard for knowing who should or shouldn’t be carrying a gun.
The law, which does not apply to long guns, will take effect July 1. The new measure also increases certain penalties. For example, theft of a firearm — now a misdemeanor that carries a 30-day sentence — will become a felony with a mandatory six month inacarceration. It also makes exceptions for people with certain mental illnesses and criminal convictions.
When asked earlier this year whether recent mass shootings in Georgia, Colorado and others gave him any concern about timing, Lee has previously said the increased penalties mean that “we in fact will be strengthening laws that would help prevent gun crimes in the future.”
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Grandmother killed in shooting while sitting on her front porch in Massachusetts
DORCHESTER, Mass. (WBZ/Meredith) — A grandmother in her mid-70s was shot and killed in Dorchester, Massachusetts on Saturday while sitting on her front porch, according to the Boston Police Department.
The shooting took place on Olney Street a little before 6 p.m. Boston Police Superintendent-in-Chief Gregory Long said the victim was pronounced dead after being taken to the hospital.
Long said the woman was an innocent bystander caught in the line of the gunfire.
“It is outrageous and heartbreaking that a woman in her 70’s can’t sit in her porch on a warm evening without this being the end result,” he said.
Crime scene tape and evidence markers littered Olney Street, and detectives went door-to-door talking to witnesses in hopes of narrowing in on a suspect.
“It’s absurd that a grandmother can’t sit on her porch on a beautiful spring day without the worry of gunfire,” Acting Boston Mayor Kim Janey said on Saturday while visiting the scene of the crime. “Emotions are very high here. A lot of the neighbors are still out. They’re very traumatized.”
Janey and Long were joined by Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins, who vowed that the people responsible for the shooting on Saturday will be found.
“We are going to be prosecuting people that have guns,” Rollins said. “You will be sent away, and there will be no recourse for you.”
No arrests have been made yet.
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2-year-old girl critically wounded, three others hurt, in Seattle shooting
A 2-year-old girl was among four victims injured in a Seattle shooting over the weekend, according to authorities and a new report.
The violence unfolded around 3:20 p.m. Sunday, when at least one suspect fired into the parking lot of a strip mall in the city’s Central District, according to police and The Seattle Times.
The toddler was struck, in addition to three adult men, according to authorities.
“When a 2-year-old is the victim of a shooting, it’s a really tough thing, even for officers to respond to,” Seattle police spokesperson Detective Valerie Carson told the Times.
Before police or medics arrived, all of the victims were taken to local hospitals in personal vehicles, cops said.
The youngest victim remained in critical condition as of Sunday evening, Harborview Medical Center spokesperson Susan Gregg told the paper, and the two men taken there were listed in satisfactory condition.
No information was available on the fourth victim’s condition, or where he was taken for treatment.
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Four teen girls allegedly set home ablaze, posted it on SnapChat because ‘they were bored’
Four teenage girls are accused of setting fire to an unoccupied Pennsylvania house and posting footage of the inferno to Snapchat.
Police used the social media post to identify and later arrest the teen suspects, ranging in age from 12 to 14, for the April 3 fire in a Ferndale duplex.
The girls told police they started the blaze because “they were bored,” Ferndale Police Chief John Blake said.
They allegedly used numerous aerosol sprays, including bug spray and Lysol to ignite the fire, according to Blake.
A police officer and firefighter suffered minor injuries during the fire.
The teens are charged with felony arson, causing catastrophe, trespassing and endangering another person, authorities said.
They were released to their families. Their cases will be heard in Cambria County juvenile court.
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‘White Lives Matter’ rally in California leads to 12 arrests, clash with protesters
Twelve people were arrested at a White Lives Matter rally in California — where anti-racism counterprotesters vastly outnumbered white supremacists.
A few hundred counterprotesters met in a plaza near the Huntington Beach pier Sunday to voice their opposition ahead of the White Lives Matter rally set to start at 1 p.m., the Los Angeles Times reported.
The crowd grew to nearly 500 just hours later, prompting Huntington Beach to declare an unlawful assembly as tensions between the huddled masses heated up.
Footage of the rally showed one man holding up both middle fingers to a crowd while repeatedly saying, “White lives matter,” as others shouted him down and chanted for him to go home.
Video also showed some people scuffling on the ground as cops tried to keep the peace and reporters scurried to take photos of the incensed crowds.
“Hail Jesus, hail Christ!” another man yelled while walking through the counterprotesters. “This is our land! This is our land! This is America!”
Others in the crowd told the man, who was wearing sunglasses and a beige ski mask, to “keep walking,” according to the clip.
Dozens of activists, including some with Black Lives Matter, had shown up well before the event’s start time to stand in solidarity, KABC reported.
Police arrested 12 people at the rally, including two were using amplified sound devices. One person also obstructed officers and had a metal baton, two cans of pepper spray and a knife in his backpack, the Los Angeles Times reported.
No serious injuries were reported, but a scuffle did break out involving a man carrying a Trump 2020 sign, according to KABC.
The rally, one of several planned across the nation Sunday, was organized through the messaging app Telegraph, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
Promoted as a way to “revive the white racial consciousness,” the demonstrations were designed to spread hateful ideologies, but were marred by poor attendance, NBC News reported.
Similar rallies in Raleigh, North Carolina, Philadelphia and New York were easily outnumbered by counterprotesters there, according to the report.
The rallies were reportedly doomed from the start because organizers were “haphazard and ill-informed,” said Megan Squire, a computer science professor at Elon University in North Carolina who monitors online extremism.
“They’re not sending their best,” Squire told NBC News.
One counterprotester in Huntington Beach, meanwhile, said he attended Sunday’s demonstration to “defend” his beloved city while holding a sign that read “Old White Guys Against Racism” and an American flag.
“It’s a great city full of great people,” Roger Bloom, 65, told the Los Angeles Times. “Just because a handful of pathetic losers come out here every so often to a public square and make a stink … they give this town a bad name. I wish they’d go back to their basements and stay there.”
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‘Holy s–t. I just shot him!’: Cop mistook her own gun for Taser before shooting 20-year-old Minn. man dead
The black man who was killed during a traffic stop in Minnesota was fatally shot by a cop who mistook her gun for a Taser, police said Monday, as they released bodycam footage of the incident, showing the officer screaming, “Taser! Taser!”
Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tim Gannon said Daunte Wright died as a result of “an accidental discharge” by the officer, who has been placed on administrative leave.
Police bodycam footage shows the officer yelling “Taser! Taser!” as others struggled with Wright in his car.
The video shows Wright stepping out of his car, then leaping back behind the wheel and driving off.
“Holy s–t,” the officer is heard saying on the video. “I just shot him!”
The officer was not immediately identified but Gannon described her as a “very senior” member of the force — whose job may now be on the line.
“Let me be very clear,” Brooklyn Center Mayor Mike Elliott said Monday. “My position is that we cannot afford to make mistakes that lead to the loss of life of other people in our profession.”
“So, I do fully support releasing the officer of her duties,” Elliott said.
But asked whether she should be terminated, the chief would only say that she has a right to “due process.”
“I think we can look at the video and ascertain whether or not she will return,” he told reporters.
Gannon said he was unaware whether a weapon was found in Wright’s car and said officers initially pulled him over for an expired registration.
“There’s no gun that I was made aware of,” Gannon said. “It appeared to me in the video that the individual was trying to get back into his car to leave.”
The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is handling the investigation into Wright’s death.
The police briefing came as city business owners were still cleaning up after a new round of looting and clashes between protesters and police over Wright’s shooting in the fractured Minnesota community.
Images from the scene Monday showed demonstrators back on the streets, as police in riot gear and National Guard troops were deployed in anticipation of more unrest.
Gannon also became combative with reporters and community activists during Monday’s press conference, abruptly leaving, then returning to defend police actions during protests sparked by Wright’s shooting death.
He said police fired rubber bullets and tear gas at demonstrators after cops were pelted with bricks and frozen cans.
“Once we got pelted, we responded in kind,” he said.
Asked if cops would react differently, he answered: “Absolutely not.”
Wright, 20, was shot and killed around 2 p.m. Sunday after a police traffic stop in Brooklyn Center, a city on Minneapolis’ northwest border, according to authorities.
The fatal shooting took place just blocks from the site of George Floyd’s police-custody death in Minneapolis on May 25.
Police said hundreds of protesters, many holding Black Lives Matter signs, looted stores, and even fired shots at a police station in the first major unrest since Floyd’s death.
“Our hearts are aching right now,” Brooklyn Center Mayor Mike Elliott said. “And we recognize that this couldn’t have happened at a worse time. We recognize that this is happening at a time when our community, when all of America, indeed, all of the world, is watching our community. We are collectively devastated.”
The new protests came as the murder trial of ex-Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin in Floyd’s death entered its third week of testimony at Hennepin County District Court.
Wright was with his girlfriend when he was pulled over on Orchard Avenue on Sunday, police said.
Cops said he had an outstanding arrest warrant — with Gannon saying Monday that it was for a “gross misdemeanor.”
A reporter for KARE 11 tweeted that the warrant was for carrying a pistol without a permit and fleeing police. It was issued in April when he failed to appear in court.
According to police, Wright jumped back in his car when officers tried to arrest him and tried to flee, prompting cops to open fire. He drove several blocks before crashing.
His mother rushed to the scene and described a call she received from her son before he was shot and killed.
“Mom, I’m getting pulled over,” she said he told her. “They’re asking about insurance.”
The woman said she heard cops yelling, and told him to put the phone down and not to run. She said he was pulled over for having an air freshener hanging from the rearview mirror, according to reports.
The Wright family has retained civil rights lawyer Ben Crump — who also represents the Floyd family.
The attorney blasted the fatal shooting as “entirely preventable and inhumane.”
“What will it take for law enforcement to stop killing people of color?” Crump said in a statement. “The growing number of Black men and women who have been killed or harmed by police is far too hefty a price for the equality we are seeking. We join Daunte’s family in demanding justice for him, and holding those responsible for his death accountable.”
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