Fast-food worker laced child’s burger with ecstasy
She took “happy” meals to a whole new level.
A fast-food worker in Texas was busted for lacing a 4-year-old’s hamburger with ecstasy that the poor boy thought was candy, according to reports.
The kid’s older sister found the pill between the buns of the Sonic Drive-In kids meal burger Thursday night in Taylor and told their parents, according to ABC 13.
“When she opened the wrapping, she noticed a pill. Being an 11-year-old, she asked her parents if this was candy,” Taylor Chief of Police Henry Fluck said, according to the local station.
Their parents took the meal to the police station, where a lab test revealed that it tested positive for MDMA, the drug’s active compound, according to the station.
Tanisha Dancer, 30 — who was allegedly caught with three more pills — was charged with delivery of a controlled substance, possession of a controlled substance and endangering a child, according to the report.
She was booked at the Williamson County Jail and has since been fired, according to FOX 8.
Restaurant employees Jonathan Roberson, 35, and Jose Molina, 22, were charged with possession of marijuana.
via: https://nypost.com/2018/12/10/fast-food-worker-laced-childs-burger-with-ecstasy-cops/
9-year-old kills self after racist taunts from class
A black 9-year-old girl in Alabama allegedly took her own life after facing relentless bullying and racism in class, according to reports.
McKenzie Adams’ relatives said she hanged herself Dec. 3 in her home in Linden, about 100 miles west of Montgomery, and was discovered by her grandmother, according to the Tuscaloosa News.
Since the start of the school year, the fourth-grader had been the target of bullying at US Jones Elementary School, where she was teased over her friendship with a white male classmate, according to her family.
Her aunt, Eddwina Harris, said the group of students taunted McKenzie by telling her to commit suicide.
“She was being bullied the entire school year, with words such as ‘kill yourself,’ ‘you think you’re white because you ride with that white boy,’ ‘you ugly,’ ‘black bitch,’ ‘just die,’” Harris told the newspaper.
Harris said she’s speaking out about her niece’s death because she wants to promote anti-bullying.
“There are so many voiceless kids,” Harris said. “God is opening great doors for justice for my niece.”
Woman charged after throwing baby twice during argument over Amazon purchases
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — A woman faces charges after throwing an infant twice while fighting with her sister over purchases made on Amazon.
The Youngstown Police Department told WKBN they were called to a home on the 900 block of Dryden Avenue around 9 a.m. Saturday for reports of a fight.
When officers reportedly arrived on scene they found the grandmother holding the baby.
An argument had reportedly occurred between the woman’s two daughters.
Police said 32-year-old Erin Johnson was holding the infant during the argument and while she was frustrated, threw the child onto the couch, according to WKBN. She then reportedly picked up the baby and threw it a second time.
Police told the news outlet that “Johnson rambled about how she is blamed for everything” and that she is suffering from postpartum.
Johnson reportedly was too emotional to carry a conversation.
According to WKBN, Johnson has been charged with child endangering and the infant was transported to a local hospital. Information on the child’s condition is unknown at this time.
Police did not tell WKBN who the baby’s mother is.
High school football player accused of killing pregnant classmate and leaving her body in a dumpster
A 16-year-old high school football player is accused of killing a 17-year-old girl and leaving her body in a dumpster in Mishawaka, Indiana, police said.
St. Joseph County Metro Homicide named the victim as Breana Rouhselang, a junior at Mishawaka High School. Aaron Trejo, the 16-year-old accused of killing her, was on the school’s football team.
He told investigators that he killed Rouhselang because she waited so long to tell him she was pregnant with his child that it was too late to get an abortion. Authorities say Trejo stabbed Rouhselang, put a plastic bag over her and put her body in a restaurant dumpster in their hometown of Mishawaka, which is next to South Bend and about 80 miles east of Chicago.
Assistant Commander Lt. Alex Arendt told reporters that Rouhselang’s family had contacted the Mishawaka Police Department about 4:30 a.m. Sunday to report her missing after last seeing her at home around midnight.
“Upon their arrival and a search of the area they found evidence of a possible violent crime,” Arendt said.
Police continued to search the area for her and ultimately found her body in a dumpster behind a business, Arendt said.
“It was a location of opportunity to try to hide the victim, I would assume,” he said.
Deputy Prosecutor Chris Fronk said the suspect had been preliminary charged with murder, and would be formally charged as an adult Monday. Trejo has no attorney on record.
Charges to be filed Monday
The Metro Homicide unit was called in to investigate and the 16-year-old was interviewed in connection with the crime, he said.
“At the end of this interview the decision for a preliminary charge of murder was made and he was ultimately transported to the St. Joseph County Jail.”
Arendt said that the victim and her alleged killer knew each other through their school football team and lived about seven blocks from each other.
“They do know each other through the high school. As far as the exact relationship, that is something that is still part of the investigation and when we can release further on that we will do so,” Arendt said.
He said an autopsy would be conducted in the coming days.
Community offers condolences
CNN affiliate WNDU reported that Rouhselang had been a cheerleader and softball player at Mishawaka High School. WNDU said her body was found behind Pasquale Rulli’s restaurant.
“Our condolences to the families involved in the tragedy that took place by our restaurant overnight. The Rulli family are upset that this took place in our neighborhood and are saddened for our Mishawaka city,” the restaurant wrote on Facebook.
Mishawaka High School released a statement Sunday afternoon on Rouhselang’s death, saying it was a terrible tragedy.
“Our thoughts and prayers are with the family members and friends who have been affected by this great loss. Our focus now is to offer all of the support possible to our staff and students,” the school said.
The school said it would be open Monday morning, with grief counselors available to students.
Boy, 3, shot an 8-month-old girl in her face in motel room
GALLUP, N.M. — A couple is facing charges after authorities say a 3-year-old shot an 8-month-old girl in the face while the couple was in a motel shower.
Police say Shayanne Nelson and Tyrell Bitsilly were at a motel Saturday in Gallup, New Mexico, when Nelson’s child found a gun and accidentally fired it, hitting the baby.
According to a criminal complaint, the 18-year-old Nelson says she didn’t know a gun was in the room and it may have been left by a prior occupant.
A witness told police he saw the 21-year-old Bitsilly wipe the gun after the shooting.
The baby was taken to a hospital. Her current condition is unknown.
Nelson and the Bitsilly are facing child abuse charges.
It was not known if either is represented by an attorney.
via: https://pix11.com/2018/12/10/police-boy-3-shot-an-8-month-old-girl-in-her-face-in-motel-room/
Columbia student caught harassing group of minorities proclaiming ‘white people are the best thing to ever happen to the world’ (VIDEO)
MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS — In a racially charged rant posted on Twitter, a Columbia University sophomore is seen harassing and shouting white supremacist ideologies at a group of primarily minority students.
“We built modern civilization! White people are the best thing to ever happen to the world!” he said. “We built the modern world!”
The incident happened early Sunday morning outside of Butler Library on the Morningside Heights campus.
The students involved say the sophomore, identified by the University’s campus newspaper as Julian von Abele, had targeted them, having followed the group from a campus eatery to outside the library.
Video of the rant has now gone viral and is raising a lot of questions.
“I knew there were racists on campus, I just didn’t expect to meet one personally,” Blossom Maduafokwa told PIX11.
Maduafokwa and fellow Freshman Kwolanne Felix were among those harassed by von Abele.
While they did acknowledge a number of driving factors, including what they perceived as his being under the influence of alcohol, both students feel von Abele’s behavior is a byproduct of a curriculum at the university that tends to lean toward Western European superiority.
“I hope Columbia can take a step back and look in the mirror,” Felix said. “What are they doing on an institutional level to assure that there is a narrative outside of western European knowledge? [Are they] assuring students of color that they can actually see themselves in the curriculums?”
In a statement posted on their Twitter account, Columbia denounced the incident, assuring students and faculty that it’s under investigation.
Von Abelle did not immediately respond to our requests for comment.
The now-viral rant comes in wake of a number of other hate speech incidents that have occurred not only in New York but across the country.
Posters for a white supremacist group recently surfaced near the Columbia University campus, further escalating tensions.
In response to the incident, Columbia University will be holding what they’re calling an “open reflection space” Monday evening where students can be in community with each other and raise any concerns they may have.
2 on desk duty after outrage over video of baby yanked from mom at benefits office, but family skeptical
BOERUM HILL, Brooklyn — It’s video that’s been viewed, shared and commented on hundreds of thousands of times worldwide on social media, and exponentially more times than that on other media. The video of a baby being pried out of his mother’s arms by police as they try to arrest her has prompted strong reactions from both local officials, and from the family of the mother, Jazmine Headley, 23.
Some officials have now called for charges against Headley to be dropped, and for the officers involved — and NYPD officers, generally — to be retrained, at the very least. Headley’s family is calling for the officers’ dismissal.
The incident happened on Friday, when Headley had taken a day off from work in order to go to the Human Resources Administration, or HRA, office to figure out how to extend day care benefits for her 1-year-old son, Damone, which she’d recently learned were being discontinued.
There was a four-hour wait inside, according to the Brooklyn Defenders public legal assistance office, which is now representing Headley. When she’d gone to the HRA office, she sat on the floor, with her child, because there were no seats, Brooklyn Defenders Executive Director Lisa Schreibersdorf said on Monday.
Headley had refused to get off the floor when she’d been told to do so by a security guard, and a conflict apparently ensued. Security called the NYPD. A sergeant and three officers responded. They tried to remove Headley, but needed to remove her child from her first. When she resisted, all of the officers, as well as at least one security guard, forcibly separated the mother and baby son, while witnesses’ smartphone cameras recorded.
“They’re hurting my son! They’re hurting my son!” Headley is heard screaming in the video.
Eventually, she was arrested and charged with resisting arrest, acting in a manner injurious to a child, obstructing governmental administration and criminal trespass.
Her son, a tall, precocious early toddler, was turned over to his grandmother for care, while Headley was sent to Rikers Island, where she remains, on the NYPD charges, as well on an outstanding warrant out of New Jersey for failure to make an appearance on a credit card fraud arrest.
Headley’s mother, who, again, is now caring for the boy, is herself a security guard. She said that the actions of the guards at the HRA center were counter to their purpose.
“I brought her up to be respectful,” Jacqueline Jenkins told PIX11 News about her daughter.
She said that her daughter knows better than to have escalated the situation, “with the NYPD, or anybody,” Jenkins said.
Also discussing escalation on Monday was Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, who is a former NYPD captain. Along with Schreibersdorf, he held a news conference late Monday morning in front of the HRA office where the incident had taken place.
“You cannot escalate to that level,” Adams said. “That was not an emergency. It was not a violent crime.”
He commented further about a point in the video in which the NYPD sergeant pulls out her Taser and points it at the people in the crowded office who surrounded the melee.
“There was nothing in that scenario that showed that they should point the taser at the crowd or to children in that crowd,” Adams said in response to a question from PIX11 News.
The incident provoked condemning statements, in the form of tweets, from City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, and from State Attorney General-elect Letitia James.
Mayor Bill de Blasio tweeted about the incident late Monday afternoon.
“This was a disturbing incident. Like anyone who’s watched this video, I have a lot of questions about how this happened,” he tweeted. “NYPD & HRA will get to the bottom of how this happened.”
On Monday evening, HRA Commissioner Steve Banks issued a statement.
“HRA centers must be safe havens for New Yorkers needing to access benefits to improve their lives. I am deeply troubled by the incident and a thorough review was launched over the weekend to get to the bottom of what happened,” Banks said. “I am reinforcing efforts to train officers and staff to better diffuse situations before the NYPD is called for assistance and directing refresher de-escalation trainings for HRA Peace Officers and FJC security staff immediately. The HRA Peace Officers who were involved in this incident are currently on leave, and they will be placed on modified duty when they return to work pending our investigation of what happened.”
For their part, the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, the labor union representing police officers, also issued a statement from its president, Pat Lynch.
“These police officers were put in an impossible situation. They didn’t create the dispute at the HRA office — as always, they were called in to deal with the inevitable fallout when the rest of our City government fails in its task,” Lynch said. “Their objective was to enforce the law while protecting the safety of this mother, her child and every person in that office, some of whom were actively making a tense situation worse. The event would have unfolded much differently if those at the scene had simply complied with the officers’ lawful orders. The immediate rush to condemn these officers leaves their fellow cops wondering: when confronted with a similar impossible scenario, what do you want us to do? The answer cannot be ‘do nothing.'”
Despite all of the reactions, the family of the woman who’s now behind bars, charged in the incident, were skeptical about it prompting any systemic reforms.
“I don’t really see a change,” said Jacqueline Jenkins. “I don’t.”
She did say that there was one change she most eagerly wanted to see.
“Those officers need to be fired,” she said.
Michelle Williams ends engagement to Chad Johnson
Michelle Williams is reportedly back to being single.
The singer announced on her Instagram Stories, in a post that appears to have been deleted, that her engagement to pastor Chad Johnson “didn’t work out.”
“I still remain fearless,” the former Destiny’s Child singer wrote as a nod to her new single “Fearless,” also released Friday (via Us Weekly). “I guess I still remain single! Thing didn’t work out.”
Williams, 38, and Johnson announced their engagement in April after he popped the question in March. They met in 2017 at a spiritual retreat.
However, wedding planning wasn’t filled with typical joyous prenuptial festivities as the singer checked herself into a mental health facility for depression over the summer.
In announcing their split, Williams also noted that “the healing that needs to take place is a must!” and wished Johnson well.
“I don’t wanna destroy another relationship. Blessings to him, his family and ministry. #FEARLESS.”
The breakup also comes as their reality show “Chad Loves Michelle” has been airing on OWN after premiering in November. Williams is also in the middle of a Broadway stint as Erzulie in “Once on This Island” until Jan. 6.
