Netflix all about the Washington’s
Rev. Run from the hip hop group RUN-DMC Has a new comedy show on Netflix called all about the Washington’s. Run stars as a retired hip-hop star turned stay at home dad with his three children while his wife played by his real life wife Justine Simmons takes on my career of her own . Streaming now on Netflix!
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American Man Arrested for Allegedly Urinating on Sleeping Fellow Passenger During Flight to Japan
A man traveling from Chicago to Tokyo was arrested for allegedly urinating on another passenger, the Japan Times reports.
According to the local news outlet, Denish Kishorchandra Parekh, a 24-year-old engineer, was traveling from Chicago O’Hare airport to the Narita Airport on an All Nippon Airways flight when he allegedly relieved himself on a 50-year-old businessman who was asleep in the business class section. The crew on board the All Nippon Airways flight restrained Parekh and reported the alleged assault to Japanese police, the Japan Times reports. The outlet adds that the Chiba Prefectural Police said the two men did not appear to know each other, and did not have an argument before the alleged incident.
The police also told Japan Today that the suspect drank at least four glasses of champagne and one cup of sake before the alleged incident, and says the victim was seated two rows behind Parekh. When he was arrested upon landing, the suspect denied the allegation and said he had no recollection of the occurrence.
All Nippon Airways did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
Teen killed, soon after posting he was glad to make it to 17
ST. LOUIS — A St. Louis teenager posted online that he was glad to make it to his 17th birthday after all he’d been through. Just over an hour later, he was fatally shot in the head.
Armond Latimore was shot outside a restaurant about 1 p.m. Saturday — his birthday, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. He was pronounced dead at a hospital. No arrests have been made. Homicide detectives are investigating.
His mother, Chandra Payne, said she had gone to a store when she got the news.
“He told me that he wanted ice cream,” Payne said. “I went to Save A Lot and three minutes later I received the call.”
Latimore’s post to Facebook earlier Saturday celebrated just getting to his birthday. It read: “Thru all the (expletive) I den been thru I’m just glad I can say I made it to see 17.”
Latimore was a sophomore at Vashon High School. After the shooting, Payne said she found a paper her son wrote for school about a bully who wouldn’t stop harassing him. She said Latimore never told her or other relatives about any problem he was having with anyone.
Payne said that since the shooting, concerned people have pointed out to her photos on Latimore’s Facebook page where he is seen with a lot of cash and posing with a gun. She said her son didn’t own a gun, and that the money belonged to someone else.
She said her son was a good kid.
“He was always a helping-hand child,” she said. “He would cut grass, wash your car or sell water. He loved music and loved money and always made it the right way.”
Harvey Collins, 60, saw Latimore two hours before his death when the teen helped move Collins’ daughter into her dorm at Harris-Stowe State University.
“I can’t believe that a couple hours later he was dead,” Collins said. “That’s a crying shame.”
via: https://pix11.com/2018/08/20/teen-killed-soon-after-posting-he-was-glad-to-make-it-to-17/
Florida Stepfather, Pastor Accused of Sexually Assaulting Teen for a Year Threatened Voodoo to Keep Her Quiet
Two men, including a pastor, were recently arrested after being accused of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl over the course of a year in Lauderhill, Florida, and then threatening her with voodoo rituals if she told anyone.
Avo Roker, 32, and Ricardo Strachan, 40, face various charges in the case, the Miami Herald reported.
Authorities said Roker introduced the victim, his stepdaughter, to Strachan at church and they both allegedly had sex with her multiple times for about a year.
Strachan used to preach at the Prophetic Worshippers International Church and allegedly had sex with her more than 36 times between January and December of 2016.
Authorities arrested Strachan last Wednesday, while Roker was taken into custody Saturday, according to Broward County inmate records.
Strachan is being held on a $100,000 bond on a charge of lewd and lascivious battery on a minor between the ages of 12 and 16 years old, jail records showed.
Roker, who has been jailed without bond, faces charges of sexual assault by a person with custodial authority on a victim over the age of 12 and under 18, according to inmate records.
He’s accused of having sex with her more than 65 times from December 2015 to December 2016, the Miami Herald reported.
Strachan is also accused of having the victim steal clothes that would be used in voodoo rituals if she told anyone about the crimes.
Man claims he killed pregnant wife after she strangled their kids
The Colorado man accused of murdering his entire family told police that his pregnant wife is actually the one who killed their two young daughters — and he simply strangled her after finding out.
Christopher Watts, 33, said he “went into a rage” and took his wife Shanann’s life after finding their oldest daughter “sprawled” out on her bed “and blue,” according to the arrest affidavit.
Watching from a baby monitor, Watts told police that he saw Shanann “actively strangling” their other daughter, Celeste, just moments before setting upon her. He claimed that the children, ages 3 and 4, were both dead already by the time he got to his wife.
“[Watts] said he loaded all three bodies onto the back seat of his work truck and took them to an oil work site,” the affidavit states. “[Watts] said he buried Shanann near two oil tanks and dumped the girls inside the oils tanks.”
The North Carolina native — who was living in Frederick, Colorado — was arrested last week and formally charged on Monday with three counts of first-degree murder, two counts of murdering a child, one count of unlawful termination of a pregnancy and three counts of tampering with a deceased body. He remains held without bail.
According to the affidavit, Watts had been looking to leave his wife and was discussing it with her.
A two-day investigation revealed he was “actively involved in an affair with a co-worker” — and wanting to file for a separation. Watts told cops that he informed Shanann about his plans right before she strangled their two kids. However, he denied having the affair.
Watts, at first, claimed during police interviews that he and his wife discussed the possibility of getting a separation, and everything was fine.
“[Watts] stated it was a civil conversation and they were not arguing but were emotional,” the affidavit says.
He wound up changing his story, however, on the second interview after being allowed to speak with his father.
“[Watts] stated after he told Shanann he wanted a separation he walked downstairs for a moment and then returned to his bedroom to speak with Shanann again,” the affidavit says. “While in the bedroom, via baby monitor located on Shanann’s night stand, he observed Bella ‘sprawled’ out on her bed and blue and Shanann actively strangling Celeste.”
Watts later identified the three locations where he hid the bodies and was placed under arrest on Wednesday night. He is expected to appear in court Tuesday.
via: https://nypost.com/2018/08/20/man-claims-he-killed-pregnant-wife-after-she-strangled-their-kids/
NY lawmaker wants to criminalize racially biased 911 calls
A black New York state senator who says a woman called 911 on him for campaigning has introduced a bill to punish people for making racially motivated police reports.
Earlier this month, state Sen. Jesse Hamilton was campaigning in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, when a woman who Hamilton said didn’t agree with his criticism of President Donald Trump called 911 when Hamilton refused to leave the public street corner. “I said ‘I’m not leaving.’ She said, ‘I’m going to call the police.’ I thought she was joking,” Hamilton said.
Hamilton hopes to pass legislation making these types of reports a crime in New York. “My civil rights were violated and other peoples’ civil rights are being violated. We have to make sure people understand you can’t call the police on someone who isn’t doing anything wrong,” he said.
Over the past few months, numerous people of color have been victims of 911 calls while going about their everyday lives. Someone called 911 on a student at Smith College while she was eating lunch, a state representative in Oregon while she was canvassing and a girl selling water on a sidewalk.
The proposed bill would require the local district attorney to investigate these incidents as hate crimes. If a report is determined to be racially motivated, the district attorney would then recommend one of a number of consequences, including fines, sensitivity training or jail time.
Sensitivity training has been used by private corporations after similar incidents, such as when Starbucks closed its stores nationwide in May after an employee called the police on two men waiting for a friend.
Hamilton said he doesn’t want to deter people from calling 911. “It’s already a crime to make a false report, we just want to enhance it to send a message that you can’t just look at someone going about their ordinary life and call 911,” he said.
Hamilton said demographics in the areas he represents are changing rapidly. New York University’s Furman Center released a report earlier this month that shows that Crown Heights’ black population decreased from 79% to 66.3% between 2000 and 2016. In the same time the white population more than doubled — from 8.6% to 19.8% — and the median rent jumped from $980 per month to $1,320.
Kristen Clarke, president of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and former head of the Civil Rights Bureau for the New York Attorney General’s Office, said she applauds the senator for what she called a feasible proposal. “I think these calls are intended to marginalize people of color and drive them out of communities. Strong laws and meaningful action on the part of lawmakers can help to curb this conduct,” Clarke said. She added that, if it passes, the bill could inspire other states to take similar measures.
The New York State Legislature is not in session, but Hamilton’s bill is in committee awaiting a spot on the legislative calendar.
via: https://pix11.com/2018/08/20/ny-lawmaker-wants-to-criminalize-racially-biased-911-calls/
Woman says surgeon removed kidney by mistake in botched operation
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – Dena Knapp went to Avera McKennan Hospital in Sioux Falls, S.D., to have an adrenal gland and associated mass removed.
Instead, according to a lawsuit, Dr. Scott Baker removed her healthy right kidney, USA Today reports. The suit claims that Baker was told by the hospital pathology department after the Oct. 5, 2016, surgery that he removed the kidney and not the glands.
However, two days later he told Knapp that he hadn’t heard from pathology, the suit alleges. Knapp says that Baker called her on Oct. 11 and said that she would need a second surgery because “he did not get everything.”
Instead of returning to Baker, though, Knapp had the gland and mass removed by a Mayo Clinic surgeon.
According to the suit, Knapp now suffers from incurable, progressive kidney disease in her remaining kidney, as well as pain, fatigue and, depression. Knapp says the whole thing has resulted in expenses of more than $96,000 and lost income of $42,000 and counting, KTIV reports.
Also, according to the suit, Knapp “has been unable to perform many functions and has required replacement services to clean and maintain her home, the past and future cost of which is yet to be determined.
via: https://pix11.com/2018/08/18/woman-says-surgeon-removed-kidney-by-mistake-in-botched-operation/
White US Citizen Arrested in Uganda After Racist Attack on Hotel Workers
It’s comical to me how these racist white boys and girls can go into another Country like Uganda and flex their MIGHTY WHITE PRIVILEGE EXPRESS CARD. And think they can run things in a Country that’s not even theirs. I spit my white folks tears out my mouth when he blamed his racist obnoxious behavior on an illness. That caused him stress.
Imagine being so full of your white American male privilege that you pack it up with you, fly to a continent full of black people who don’t see it for you the way your own country does, and try to force it on the people of Uganda just because they are the same color as the people you disrespect in your own country.
Ugandan police arrested a man they have identified as Jimmy L. Taylor—a U.S. citizen—Thursday after a Facebook video surfaced showing him being verbally and physically abusive to employees at the Grand Imperial Hotel in the capital city of Kampala.
Thank you for your vigilance and sending us a video of an incident that happened at Grand Imperial Hotel. We have arrested the suspect, Jimmy Taylor, an American citizen. He was detained at the Central Police Station, Kampala on charges of assault. #CommunityPolicing pic.twitter.com/zcGFqLd4AP
— Uganda Police Force (@PoliceUg) August 17, 2018
The Kampala Post reports that there was also surveillance video of the incident.
In the 4-minute Facebook video, Taylor can be seen behind the front desk in the hotel, throwing things around. As the employees move into the lobby to get away from him, he follows them, hurling racial slurs, cursing at them, and striking one of the employees several times.
Taylor calls the employees “niggers” and tells them that they have to obey him. He also threatens to kill them.
It is unclear when the video was recorded, but it was posted on Facebook Friday.
The Uganda Police Force charged Taylor—who claims to be a former Marine as well as a missionary—assault and malicious damage. They say that during his arrest, he spat on police, became rowdy and uncontrollable, and tried to disarm the arresting officers.
When he was questioned, Taylor admitted to attacking the hotel employee. He blamed his outburst on an illness which caused him to suffer stress that subsequently caused him to attack the hotel staff unprovoked.
The Post reports that Taylor is currently being detained at Central Police Station Kampala while the investigation into the incident is ongoing.
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Former doctor guilty of raping heavily sedated patient will serve no prison time
HOUSTON — A former doctor found guilty of raping a heavily sedated patient will not serve prison time, according to the Houston Chronicle.
On Friday, Shafeeq Sheikh was sentenced to 10 months of probation and must register as a sex offender for the rest of his life.
The judge, Senior District Judge Terry L. Flenniken, was required by law to follow the sentencing recommended by jurors, according to the paper.
In 2013, a woman checked into Ben Taub Hospital after complaining of wheezing and shortness of breath. The woman, who was not one of Sheikh’s patients, was sedated and kept overnight at the hospital.
According to the Houston Chronicle, Sheikh initially entered the woman’s room “after he noticed her breast implants.”
Police said Sheikh entered the victim’s room several times and sexually assaulted her. In court, Sheikh admitted to sexual contact but claimed it was consensual.
The victim reportedly tried to press a nurse’s button to get help but it was unplugged.
Sheikh’s medical license was revoked in 2015, according to KIAH. A rape kit and hospital security cameras led to his arrest and conviction.
Aretha Franklin Deeper Love from the Sister Act 2 Soundtrack
Areatha was coming up with some real jams in the 1990s! I forgot about this one from 1993 sister act 2