Wild video shows women robbing, punching workers at Popeye’s drive-thru
Four women ordered up a lot more than fried chicken from a Popeye’s restaurant in Florida.
A wild video — shot by a customer — shows the violent strong-arm robbery as it unfolded in the drive-thru lane of the popular chain in Lantana on Tuesday.
According to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office, it began when one of the passengers started arguing with the cashier, prompting her to spit at and assault the worker.
In the 29-second video clip, she is then seen furiously attacking an employee while standing just outside a silver Nissan Sentra.
A second crook then gets out of the driver’s seat, followed by two other women who joined in the onslaught as one of them reached inside to steal cash, deputies said.
“One of the female suspects reached into the window and grabbed money from the register,” department officials said in a statement.
The four unidentified bandits then got back into the Sentra — which had a Florida license plate, GVZP04 — and drove off, police said.
No arrests had been made in the incident as of early Wednesday, sheriff’s officials told The Post.
“This investigation is still very active and ongoing,” a spokeswoman for the department wrote in an email.
Anyone who can identify the women from the footage should contact Crime Stoppers of Palm Beach County at (800) 458-TIPS.
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Dogs that mauled NJ boy, 3, to death were neighbor’s pit bulls
The two dogs that mauled a 3-year-old New Jersey boy to death and seriously injured his mother were their neighbor’s unregistered pit bulls — which snuck into their backyard, according to reports on Wednesday.
The animals somehow got past a fence and into the yard of an adjacent home in Carteret, where the toddler and his mom were playing at around 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, WABC reported.
The boy was airlifted to a hospital, where he died. His mother remained hospitalized Wednesday with serious injuries.
Shocking aerial footage from NBC4 showed first responders performing chest compressions on the tot as he was being taken to a helicopter on a gurney.
Authorities have not released the names of the victims.
Neighbors said that the family — a mother, father and three young boys — are originally from Pakistan and had just moved to the area a month ago from Brooklyn.
“He’s very, very hardworking,” Jack Beyda, a longtime co-worker of the deceased boy’s father told Patch about the dad on Wednesday. “He worked very hard to provide for his family and he saved up enough money to move out here from Brooklyn; he saved up enough to buy this little house.”
While some in the community said the dogs had never been known to be aggressive before, others described them as menaces.
“Those pit bulls bit people all in this area,” one neighbor told WABV. “I’m aware of certain houses, so I try to walk a different path when I know that they’re on that block.”
Some said the dogs were allowed free reign on the neighborhood, with one woman telling the outlet she had contacted authorities multiple times regarding the animals.
Police said the dogs were euthanized, apparently shot by arriving officers.
Carteret Mayor Daniel Reiman said the dogs had not been registered with the town, as is required by law.
“As a small community, our Carteret family mourns the heart-wrenching loss of our young neighbor,” he said. “We pray for this young mother and family in this time of unimaginable grief.”
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Florida man raped spring breaker by posing as Uber driver, cops say
A Florida man has been accused of raping a teen on spring break by posing as her Uber driver, authorities said.
Shapsly Silencieux, 37, picked up the 18-year-old woman after she got separated from friends Saturday night at America’s Backyard restaurant in Fort Lauderdale, news station WPLG reported.
The teen visiting from Alabama had requested an Uber, but mistakenly climbed into Silencieux’s vehicle, police said.
“She walks up to the vehicle, says to the driver, ‘Are you my Uber?’ He says ‘Yes,’” Fort Lauderdale police Sgt. DeAnna Greenlaw told news station WSVN.
“As they’re driving away, she gets a notification on her phone that her Uber request had been canceled, and she’s been charged a certain fee.”
When she confronted him again about whether he was her driver, he insisted that he was but that they would need to stop at his apartment to grab his wallet to buy gas, police said.
While at the apartment, he allegedly forced her into the bedroom and raped her, authorities said.
The teen told cops she tried to call an Uber, but Silencieux grabbed her phone and told her he would drive her to where she was staying in Bal Harbor.
She managed to memorize his license plate and called 911 when she was dropped off, police said.
Authorities tracked Silencieux down and arrested him on suspicion of sexual battery.
Uber confirmed that Silencieux was a driver, but the app was not used during the trip.
“Everyone has the right to travel safely and our thoughts are with the victim after this horrific experience,” the company said in a statement obtained by WSVN.
“While this trip did not take place on the Uber app, we immediately removed the driver’s access to the app as soon as this was reported to us.”
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Tina Turner says goodbye to fans with doc amid PTSD, stroke, cancer
Tina Turner bids a final farewell to her fans in a touching new film that shows how she has overcome her painful past and finally found happiness.
In the feature-length documentary, simply titled “Tina,” the singer looks back on camera for the first time at her younger years filled with struggle and pain, then the true love and global fame she found as a middle-aged woman.
Now 81 and plagued by ill health, including a stroke and cancer, the soul and rock music legend also suffered kidney failure which led to a transplant in 2017.
In the film she tells how she wants to enter the third and final chapter of her life out of the spotlight, and it is revealed that she has a form of post-traumatic stress disorder from the domestic abuse she suffered at the hands of her first husband and music partner, Ike Turner.
Looking back, Tina reflects: “It wasn’t a good life. The good did not balance the bad.
“I had an abusive life, there’s no other way to tell the story. It’s a reality. It’s a truth. That’s what you’ve got, so you have to accept it.
“Some people say the life that I lived and the performances that I gave, the appreciation, is blasting with the people. And yeah, I should be proud of that. I am.
“But when do you stop being proud? I mean, when do you, how do you bow out slowly? Just go away?”
In the documentary, which airs this month, Tina is seen for the first time talking with the man who finally brought her happiness, her second husband, Erwin Bach.
The couple make a farewell trip to the US for the Broadway premiere of her stage show, The Tina Turner Story, and Erwin, 65, reveals on camera: “She said, ‘I’m going to America to say goodbye to my American fans and I’ll wrap it up’. And I think this documentary and the play, this is it — it’s a closure.”
The details of Tina’s life have been chronicled before, first in her 1986 autobiography, “I, Tina,” and in the 1993 biopic “What’s Love Got To Do With It?” with Angela Bassett as Tina.
But Tina has always been loath to discuss them on camera until now. This documentary will have been painful to make, but is a parting gift to her global army of fans.
She is bringing down the curtain on a career which saw her sell more than 100 million records, and at her peak in the Eighties sell out arenas around the globe.
Tina was born Anna Mae Bullock, and her childhood was filled with poverty and misery, picking cotton in the fields around Nutbush, Tennessee.
‘Mom was not kind…she didn’t like me’
Her mother, Zelma, suffered domestic abuse at the hands of her father, Floyd Bullock, before they both abandoned her as a child. Even when Tina was reunited with her mother when she was a superstar, Zelma was cold and unloving.
Tina says in the documentary: “Mom was not kind. When I became a star, of course back then she was happy because I bought her a house. I did all kinds of things for her, she was my mother.
“I was trying to make her comfortable because she didn’t have a husband, she was alone, but she still didn’t like me.
“Even after I became Tina, Ma was still a little bit like, ‘Who did that?’ and ‘Who did this?’ And I said, ‘I did that, Mom!’ I was happy to show my mother what I did. I had a house, I had got a car, and she said, ‘No, I don’t believe it. No, you’re my daughter, no you didn’t!’
“She didn’t want me, she didn’t want to be around me, even though she wanted my success. But I did for her as if she loved me.”
This childhood filled with cruelty and violence may explain why Tina initially seemed to accept the mental and physical torture she put up with after she married Ike in 1962.
The marriage saw Anna Mae Bullock reborn as Tina Turner, in a duo who would become soul stars for almost three decades.
Her new name was so important to her that when she finally found the will to start divorce proceedings against Ike in 1976 — after years of beatings and psychological torture — it was all she asked to take from their stormy union.
‘It’s like a curse’
Leaving him was made harder by the fact that they had a son, Ronnie, and she adopted two of Ike’s children, Ike Jr. and Michael, from his previous relationship. She already had a son, Craig, from a previous relationship.
Erwin tells the program she still has nightmares about those dark days and is suffering from something similar to the post-traumatic stress disorder that cripples battle victims.
He says: “She has dreams about it, they’re not pleasant. It’s like when soldiers come back from the war. It’s not an easy time to have those in your memory and then try to forget.”
Tina, who first tried to escape from Ike with a sleeping pill overdose in 1968, admits: “That scene comes back. You’re dreaming it. The real picture is there, it’s like a curse.”
But the greatest antidote to the trauma is forgiveness, and she claims to be at peace with Ike, who died of an accidental drug overdose in 2007.
Tina says: “For a long time I did hate Ike, I have to say that. But then, after he died, I really realised that he was an ill person. He did get me started and he was good to me in the beginning. So I have some good thoughts. Maybe it was a good thing that I met him, that I don’t know.
“It hurts to have to remember those times, but at a certain stage forgiveness takes over, forgiving means not having to hold on.
“It was letting go, because it only hurts you. By not forgiving, you suffer, because you think about it over and over. And for what?”
In the Eighties Tina reinvented herself as a solo artist. With hit albums such as “Private Dancer” and “Break Every Rule,” she joined the pantheon of global music icons.
She even became a film star, appearing with Mel Gibson in the 1985 action movie “Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome.”
Her career has seen her win a dozen Grammy Awards, get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and become the first black artist and first woman to appear on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine.
But in 1986 — at the peak of her fame — she was incredibly lonely.
‘He was so good looking. My heart went ba-bum’
That all changed when she met German record producer Erwin while visiting Europe. She was 46 and he was 30, but it was love at first sight — though they didn’t marry until 2013.
Tina recalls: “He had the prettiest face. It was like, ‘Where did he come from?’ He was so good looking. My heart went ba-bum. It means that a soul has met. When he found out that I liked him he came to America and we were in Nashville and I said to him, ‘When you come to LA I want you to make love to me’.
“I thought that I could say that because I was a free woman, I didn’t have a boyfriend, I liked him.
“There was nothing wrong with it — it was just sex. And he looked at me as if he didn’t believe what he was hearing.
“He was just so different, so laid back, so comfortable, so unpre- tentious, and that was the beginning of our relationship.”
As love blossomed, Tina started to wind up her recording career, making her last album in 1999, aged 59. She gave her final performance in 2009.
Last year, aged 80, she briefly returned to recording, collaborating with producer Kygo on a dance reinvention of her 1984 anthem, “What’s Love Got To Do With It.”
The documentary also explores how originally she was deeply unsure about recording the song — which went on to be her only US solo No. 1 — as it was a pop track first recorded by British Eurovision winners Bucks Fizz.
‘He will always be my baby’
Nowadays Tina spends most of her time in Switzerland with Erwin, where she lives permanently, having renounced her US citizenship.
But she has still known trauma in her life. In 2018 her son Craig committed suicide in Los Angeles, and after she scattered his ashes off the California coast, she said: “My saddest moment as a mother. He was 59 when he died so tragically, but he will always be my baby.”
Her most recent illness led to her kidney transplant, with Erwin as the donor. It was a risky process for such an elderly couple, but an inevitability, given that they remain madly in love.
Erwin says: “It’s something we both have for each other. I always refer to it as an electrical charge. I still have it.”
Before the operation, Tina had been so ill that she was considering assisted suicide — which is legal in Switzerland, where she now has full citizenship.
She joined the assisted-suicide organization Exit, and recalled in a book three years ago: “It wasn’t my idea of life but the toxins in my body had started taking over. I couldn’t eat.
“I was surviving, but not living. I began to think about death. If my kidneys were going, and it was time for me to die, I could accept that, it was OK. When it’s time, it’s really time.”
The new documentary gives a glimpse inside the couple’s beautiful house on the edge of Lake Zurich.
Filled with homely furniture, flower arrangements and ornaments, it looks a million miles from the dusty tracks of Tennessee or the glitzy homes of Tinseltown.
But there is also a wall filled with gold discs and shelves covered with awards — a reminder that Tina will always be a star, in or out of the spotlight.
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Anti-porn group rips ‘explicit’ Grammys, calls show ‘hardcore porno’
The Grammys were an objectifying moral disgrace, according to this anti-sexploitation group.
The National Center on Sexual Exploitation has released a statement ripping the 2021 Grammys for including Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s X-rated pole-dancing performance.
“The National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) says the CBS Grammys broadcast contributed to the sexual exploitation of women by glamorizing prostitution and stripping,” the anti-porn group wrote in its Monday release. “The performance by Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion showed the two women and backup performers wearing thongs and lingerie, dancing on a stripper pole, and crawling around and twerking on a bed together.”
The group, which describes itself as a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, was founded in 1962 and leads the fight to expose “the links between all forms of sexual abuse and exploitation,” including child sexual abuse, the public health harms of pornography and sexual objectification, according to its website.
The awards show, the statement continues, was a better fit for the cutting room floor of an adult-film studio than national television.
“In a performance that could have been cut from a hardcore pornography film, CBS allowed a glamorization of stripping and prostitution to be broadcast in front of a national audience — a portion of which were children — for no other reason than for TV ratings,” the center’s senior vice president and executive director Dawn Hawkins said. “Despite the ‘popularity’ of the song performed by Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion, CBS should have never allowed this kind of explicit performance to happen at the Grammys.”
Prostitution and stripping are “never empowering for women,” Hawkins goes on, arguing that the two only ever serve to “set up systems that exploit and oppress” the female-bodied.
Although Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s “WAP” performance did inspire an immense amount of media coverage, it was not, in fact, able to score the Grammys good TV ratings: The award show’s ratings tanked this year, possibly to a record low. Early ratings from Nielsen have the awards drawing a measly 7.9 million total viewers, although the numbers are expected to climb incrementally when adjustments are made for time zones.
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St. Louis breaks record of most children shot in 2020
ST. LOUIS (KMOV.com) — Teddy bears, candles, and a message of hope were along the fence line on Laclede in the Central West End; hope for justice for two lives lost to gun violence.
“It’s just over and over pain,” said Suketha Rankin. In January, her son Darrion Rankin-Fleming and her granddaughter Dmyah Fleming, were shot and killed.
Dmyah, a 7-year-old, is one of the eight children killed in the City of St. Louis this year. It’s an alarming number after a record-breaking year.
“Children injured by gun violence come to both of our hospitals on almost a daily basis. If you put both of our numbers combined it was 261 kids who were injured and treated at our two hospitals,” Josh Dugal said, the trauma program manager at SSM Cardinal Glennon Hospital.
Between St. Louis Children’s Hospital and SSM Cardinal Glennon, they see more children injured by gun violence than any city in the country.
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A 14-year-old suspect has been arrested in Indiana after missing 6-year-old found dead
(CNN) — A 14-year-old suspect was arrested after a 6-year-old girl was found deceased Friday night in Indiana.
The girl was reported missing from the area of Chapman St. in New Carlisle, Indiana, around 6:30 p.m. and was found deceased about two hours later, according to a press release from St. Joseph County Metro Homicide Unit Assistant Commander Dave Wells.
New Carlisle is about 15 miles west of South Bend.
An autopsy has been scheduled for Sunday, according to the release.
The department is not releasing names or additional details at this time, Wells said.
Police are asking anyone with information on the case to call the homicide unit as the investigation is active.
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Teens from ‘loving family’ put in foster care for being overweight
A loving home wasn’t enough: Authorities determined the body weight of these children made their parents unfit.
Judge Gillian Ellis in Sussex, UK, has ruled that two teens should be placed in long-term foster care as a result of their parents’ inability to reduce the children’s extreme weight, in addition to other concerns including poor home conditions and a lack of personal care guidance, the Guardian reported. The family’s identity remains private at this time.
“Everyone agrees that this is a very sad and unusual case, of a loving family, where the parents meet many of the basic needs of the children, but the local authority has been concerned that the parents are not meeting the children’s health needs, in that both children are severely overweight, and the parents have shown an inability to help the children manage this condition,” Ellis said in her ruling.
She made her ruling despite the fact that the parents in some ways showed themselves to be good and responsible parents, evidenced by the teens’ manners and general demeanor.
“The case was such an unusual one, because the children had clearly had some very good parenting, as they were polite, bright and engaging,” Ellis added.
Social services staff in West Sussex first alerted a family court about the children’s weight, and local authorities subsequently gave the family complimentary Fitbits and gym memberships. The family also signed up for Weight Watchers.
Months later, however, the children’s weight — which was not revealed — had not changed, and the family did not provide authorities with mandatory Fitbit recordings, nor did they consistently attend the Weight Watchers meetings.
“The children had failed to engage consistently in exercise despite the local authority providing Fitbits and paying for gym membership. The children were supposed to provide recordings from their Fitbits, but this had not been done,” Ellis said in her ruling, which the Guardian reported on after it published online Wednesday.
While Ellis said the teens’ parents appeared to not sufficiently respect how important “living more healthily” was, the children’s mother said the ongoing coronavirus pandemic was at the heart of the issue.
“The mother blamed lockdown for the inability to exercise, but exercise could still be taken in the home or by walking outside,” Ellis wrote.
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Kava bar bans masks, teachers who do virtual classes
Kavasutra, a Florida-based chain of bars that sells drinks made with the sedative plant kava, is taking heat for banning elementary teachers who still teach remotely due to the coronavirus pandemic.
“EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY,” wrote Kavasutra, which has two locations in the East Village, in an all-caps post to its Instagram page Wednesday. “Any and all grade school teachers who, by choice, have opted not to return to in-person teaching are hereby banned from any and all Kavasutra Kava Bar locations.”
In the rant, the holistic drink business also blasted “p—y leftists” after announcing that masks are no longer allowed at some stores.
“Masks may not be worn in Arizona or Florida locations,” read the post, adding that “New York and Colorado are a bunch of p—y leftists so they can cover their mouths with a dirty cloth.”
After being inundated with negative comments and one-star Yelp reviews, Kavasutra posted a sarcastic response, doubling down on its first.
“It has come to our attention that we may have upset some people with our last post,” the second post said, before reiterating that “masks are for leftist losers, teachers unions are trash, women are born with ovaries. And we are doing slams at midnight tonight.”
A third post, published Thursday, kept the vitriol flowing, angrily encouraging more one-star Yelp reviews. “We strive to have 1-Star from these fake leftist Silicon Valley losers. 1-Star is all we ask. The lower our stars, the busier we are!” read the caption.
Kavasutra did not return The Post’s request for comment.
In addition to its two New York City bars, Kavasutra has 12 locations in Florida, two in Colorado and one in Arizona.
“We are the largest chain of Kava Bars in the nation,” reads Kavasutra’s Facebook bio. “We got here by offering the strongest Kava and kratom. Not the garbage you are used to.”
Kavasutra’s website further declares that kava “has been used traditionally for over 3,000 years for celebration, conflict resolution, and for recreational fun.”
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‘Marvelous’ Marvin Hagler, legendary boxer, dies at 66
Marvelous Marvin Hagler stopped Thomas Hearns in a fight that lasted less than eight minutes yet was so epic that it still lives in boxing lore. Two years later, he was so disgusted after losing a decision to Sugar Ray Leonard — stolen, he claimed, by the judges — that he never fought again.
One of the great middleweights in boxing history, Hagler died Saturday at the age of 66. His wife, Kay, announced his death on the Facebook page for Hagler’s fans.
“I am sorry to make a very sad announcement,” she wrote. “Today unfortunately my beloved husband Marvelous Marvin passed away unexpectedly at his home here in New Hampshire. Our family requests that you respect our privacy during this difficult time.”
Hagler fought on boxing’s biggest stages against its biggest names, as he, Leonard, Hearns and Roberto Duran dominated the middleweight classes during a golden time for boxing in the 1980s. Quiet with a brooding public persona, Born in Newark, N.J., Hagler fought 67 times over 14 years as a pro out of Brockton, Mass., finishing 62-3-2 with 52 knockouts.
“If they cut my bald head open, they will find one big boxing glove,’’ Hagler once said. “That’s all I am. I live it.”
Hagler was unmistakable in the ring, fighting out of a southpaw stance with his bald head glistening in the lights. He was relentless and he was vicious, stopping opponent after opponent during an eight year run that began with a disputed draw against Vito Antuofermo in 1979 that he later avenged.
He fought with a proverbial chip on his shoulder, convinced that boxing fans and promoters alike didn’t give him his proper due. He was so upset that he wasn’t introduced before a 1982 fight by his nickname of Marvelous that he went to court to legally change his name.
He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame and World Boxing Hall of Fame in 1983.
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