NYCHA staffers accused of throwing sex parties on company time
NEW YORK — Staff at the Throggs Neck Houses are accused of taking part in after-hour orgies.
Residents said the parties were happening on company time when staff should have been working around the clock on emergency repairs in public house, but instead they allegedly threw sex parties involving supervisors, subordinates and, in some, cases residents.
“We had a collapsed line and we had 24-hour staff doing overtime and during those hours is when all of the drinking and sex was taking place,” said Monique Johnson, president of the the Throggs Neck Tenant Association.
Johnson said that after numerous complaints from both staff and residents, she brought the sex parties to the attention of NYCHA management. NYCHA did a clean sweep last week, transferring every employee who previously worked at the housing complex.
“It’s not enough that staff was moved from here. I want the staff to be held accountable,” Johnson said during a news conference Monday. “I don’t want them to go to other locations and misappropriate someone over there.”
Johnson said not all of the staff members took part in the parties, but NYCHA decided to clean house as they continue their investigation.
“We’ve had long-standing concerns about management and performance issues at Throggs Neck,” NYCHA spokesperson Robin Levine said in a statement. “Those concerns, coupled with troubling allegations of misconduct, are why the staff was reassigned. We can’t comment further on an ongoing investigation.”
The 29 buildings at the Throggs Neck Houses have been the subject of controversy since NYCHA found lead in 78 apartments in December but did not notify the tenants.
Sen. Jeff Klein (D-Bronx) has been harping on the Housing Authority since word got out and said this is the final straw for these residents.
“The residents of the Throggs Neck houses have endured so much and I think enough is enough,” he said. “It has to end.”
via: https://pix11.com/2018/08/27/nycha-staffers-accused-of-throwing-sex-parties-on-company-time/
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Judge temporarily blocks school from enforcing ‘natural hair’ policy
TERRYTOWN, La. (WGNO) — A district judge has intervened in the controversy at Christ the King school in Terrytown and ruled that the school cannot enforce a “natural hair” policy that has sparked outrage nationwide.
The parents of two sixth grade students at the Terrytown Catholic school filed a lawsuit this week after both students were sent home because one had braids in her hair and the other had extensions.
According to the lawsuit, both children, who are African-American, were harassed at school over their hairstyles and given reprimand letters that had to be signed by their parents. The school has a new policy for students to have only “natural” hair.
One of the students’ parents had to provide a doctor’s note about her child’s medical hair loss condition and agree to cut the extensions to the nape of the neck.
The other student’s mother talked with school administrators and agreed to restyle her daughter’s hair so that the braids wouldn’t extend beyond her shoulders, according to the lawsuit.
But the new style wasn’t enough for school administrators, who pulled the student out of the classroom the following week and asked her mother to pick her up from school, according to the lawsuit.
When the mother arrived, the school’s principal, Dawn Castillo, reportedly told her that the student’s braids were distracting because girls “have the tendency to twirl and flip their extensions,” the lawsuit states.
Her mother responded that young girls often flip and twirl their hair, whether it’s “natural” hair or not. Castillo reportedly responded by saying “it’s just something we want. We don’t want them wearing fake hair.”
That’s when the student’s family posted an Instagram video of the crying sixth-grader, which quickly went viral and made headlines across the country.
Archdiocese Catholic Schools Superintendent RaeNell Billiot Houston said the student’s mother chose to remove her from the school, but according to the lawsuit, the child’s tuition was canceled for the month of September, and the student has not been allowed to return to school.
The lawsuit accuses Christ the King of discrimination over its new policy and says “it has a disparate impact on the African American female population of students at Christ the King.”
“On information and belief, only the African American girls who attend Christ the King have been inspected, investigated, reprimanded and subsequently punished for wearing extensions.”
via: https://pix11.com/2018/08/23/judge-temporarily-blocks-school-from-enforcing-natural-hair-policy/
White security guard accused of ordering ‘Trayvon Martini’
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A white, off-duty security guard in a bar in Kansas City has been suspended after he was accused of ordering a “Trayvon Martini” from a black bartender.
The security firm Chesley Brown International said in a statement that it opened an internal investigation and removed the guard upon learning of the allegations.
The issue gained attention after a bartender Alobar Bandaloop at the Buzzard Beach bar wrote on Facebook Monday night that the guard ordered the drink, then described it including watermelon juice and one shot of vodka, explaining that “it only takes one shot to put him down!”
It was an apparent reference to Trayvon Martin, the black teen fatally shot in 2012 in Florida.
Bandaloop refused to serve him.
The man who ordered the drink has been identified as Mike Dargy Jr., CNN affiliate KCTV reports.
Officials with the Westport Regional Business League, which subcontracts with Chesley Brown, said, “If true, it is reprehensible. We have zero tolerance for that type of behavior in this welcoming district.”
When KCTV reporter Caroline Sweeney went to Buzzard Beach bar, no one wanted to talk about it.
via: https://pix11.com/2018/08/24/white-security-guard-accused-of-ordering-trayvon-martini/
Brooklyn road sign hacked with anti-Trump message
GREENPOINT, Brooklyn — A hacker needed just nine letters and a traffic sign in Greenpoint to send a powerful message directed at the president earlier this week.
“I’ve seen the traffic sign for a few days. It just seemed like a typical traffic sign for the bike path or the Pulaski Bridge,” resident Greg Kaplan said. “Then the words ‘F’ Trump appeared and there were a whole bunch of people here shooting it with their phones.”
Pictures with the vulgar message posted online received mainly positive reviews. But shortly after word began to spread, the city’s Department of Transportation (DOT) sent out a crew to take down the sign.
The agency said an independent contractor is responsible for maintaining the message, which was supposed to display details about work on the Pulaski Bridge.
Kaplan said he’s used to people finding creative ways to express their feelings about the president.
“Absolutely no surprise at all anywhere, but especially here in New York,” he said.
This isn’t the first time someone has hijacked traffic signs to target President Donald Trump.
In 2016, someone used a similar sign in Texas to call Trump a “shape-shifting lizard.” That was part of a series of traffic sign takeovers that included zombie warnings, commentary on Harambe the gorilla and a message telling drivers they could go back home because work was canceled.
via: https://pix11.com/2018/08/24/brooklyn-road-sign-hacked-with-anti-trump-message/
Mother arrested after police find body of missing 3-year-old stuffed in duffle bag
LAS VEGAS, Nev. — The body of a young girl was found inside a duffle bag at an east valley apartment following reports of a missing 3-year-old girl Thursday night.
Metropolitan Police Department Homicide Lt. Ray Spencer said the girl was reported missing just before 9 p.m. on the 6800 block of East Lake Mead Boulevard near Hollywood Boulevard. Initial reports claimed the mother, later identified as 29-year-old Aisha Thomas, was walking to Albertson’s with her four children and was on the phone when one of her children went missing.
Detectives from Metro Police’s Missing Persons Detail responded and began searching the neighborhood. Detectives setup a command post in the parking lot of the Albertson’s for additional resources, Spencer said. Officers began looking for the girl inside Thomas’s apartment but were unable to find the child at first.
According to Spencer, officers then conducted a second search since Thomas’s story began showing inconsistencies. During the second search, officers noticed a heavy duffle bag inside the master bedroom’s closet that was “emitting a mildew smell.”
Spencer said the officers found garbage bags when they opened the duffle bag. After officers opened the garbage bags, they found the body of the missing 3-year-old.
Thomas was arrested and is facing one count of murder, Las Vegas police said. The other three children were placed in the care of Child Protective Services. According to Spencer, police believe the girl was killed within the last three days.
Four days ago, the girl’s father had been arrested after a domestic violence call was placed, according to Spencer.
Photo: Aisha Thomas (Photo: LVMPD)