Mentally handicapped black worker rescued after 4 years of torture and enslavement by SC restaurant owners
Two brothers in Horry County, South Carolina are facing charges that they treated a mentally handicapped black employee like a slave for years, beating and overworking the man, who lived in squalor on property owned by their restaurant.
According to the Charleston Post and Courier, two Charleston attorneys filed a civil suit on behalf of Christopher Smith, who worked at the J&J Cafeteria in Conway for 23 years, but was hideously abused and exploited from 2010 to 2014.
The suit lists 14 counts against J&J owner Ernest J. Edwards and manager Bobby Paul Edwards, including false imprisonment, discrimination and exploitive labor practices. Bobby Edwards, 50, was arrested a year ago in connection with the case. Those charges are still pending.
Last October, Smith was rescued when social workers received a tip from an anonymous source who expressed concern for the man’s safety. Attorneys Mullins McLeod and David Aylor said that while the civil suit cannot change the past or rectify the harm done to Smith, hopefully it will “bring about positive change in the future.”
The Post and Courier explained that Smith worked at the Edwards brothers’ business for more than two decades, but it was when Bobby took over as manager in 2010 that Smith’s situation turned ugly.
Smith was routinely called the N-word, according to the suit. He was savagely beaten with a frying pan, hot tongs, butcher knives, belt buckles and fists. He worked 18-hour shifts Monday through Saturday and 11-hour shifts on Sundays with no breaks, receiving little pay. His total wages for each year added up to less than $3,000.
The complaint against the Edwards said that Smith was often abused on the job, dragged into the walk-in freezer where he could be heard screaming in terror and pain by other employees and begging his abusers not to kill him.
Smith told social services workers that he was too afraid to run away or leave his job at the J&J Cafeteria because he believed the Edwards brothers would hurt him even worse or murder him.
When he wasn’t at work, Smith lived in a filthy, cockroach-infested apartment owned by the Edwards brothers. The lawsuit described Smith’s living conditions as “subhuman.”
McLeod and Aylor reported that when Smith was examined by medical professionals and the Conway, SC police, he was covered in scars and other evidence of prolonged, brutal abuse.
He was targeted for abuse by the Edwards brothers, they said, because he is black.
Mother Charged With Throwing Newborn Baby With Umbilical Still Attached From Chicago High-RIse
A 19-year-old woman charged with murdering her newborn daughter by dropping the infant out the window of an Chicago high-rise building was ordered held without bail Saturday.
Mubashra Uddin, facing a first-degree murder charge, was not in court because she was hospitalized. The infant, now being called Baby Jane Uddin in police reports, landed in a grassy parkway with her umbilical cord still attached late Wednesday night.
The Cook County Medical Center ruled the infant’s death a homicide from blunt force trauma. Prosecutors said the girl suffered complex skull fractures, a fractured spine, a broken left shoulder, fractured left and right ribs and a lacerated aorta, lacerated liver and lacerated bowel and suffered from blood in the abdomen.
Prosecutors said Uddin, a student at DeVry University, hid her pregnancy from her family because she knew her Pakistani Muslim parents would not approve, the Chicago Tribune reported, and covered up her pregnancy by wearing baggy clothes.
Uddin went into labor Wednesday evening in the apartment where the teen lives with her family. Prosecutors said Uddin gave birth around 11:20 p.m. to a full-term, 7-pound, 11-ounce baby girl in the bedroom she shared with her younger sister.
When Uddin heard her mother coming down the hallway, prosecutors said she panicked and dropped the girl out the window. A man visiting his girlfriend at the building in the 800 block of W. Eastwood Avenue in Uptown spotted the newborn baby in the grass, thinking it was a doll.
The baby was still apparently breathing when brought to Weiss Memorial Hospital, mere blocks away from the high rise building where Uddin lived with her family. The infant died around 12:25 a.m. Thursday.
Police located Uddin from talking to neighbors who told them the teen may be pregnant. Prosecutors said police found blood in the bedroom and bathroom of the family’s apartment, as well as bloody sheets and bloody scissors, the paper said.
Uddin is due in Cook County Violence Court on Monday.
via: http://patch.com/illinois/lakeview/teen-mom-hid-pregnancy-secretly-gave-birth-bedroom-prosecutors
Man walks into unlocked, empty Arizona Wells Fargo bank on Veterans Day
How in the HEEEL you leave the front Back door open? That’s like leaving the door open at a candy store I mean they left the front door open so ANYBODY could steal a few stacks of Benjamin’s
Wells Fargo is looking into the circumstances surrounding this incident WELL THE HELL THEY SHOULD!
Wells Fargo statement
“Customer privacy and the security of customer accounts is our top priority and we can assure that all customer information was secure and at no time was any confidential information at risk or accessible. We do appreciate this customer taking action to contact us right way and have reached out to thank him.”
YA’LL ALREADY KNOW IF THAT HAD BEEN A BLACK MAN HE’D BE SHOT DEAD FIRST ASKED QUESTIONS LATER!
Source: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/11/14/man-walks-into-unlocked-empty-arizona-wells-fargo-bank-on-veterans-day/?intcmp=trending
All-you-can-eat pancakes incite fight at Oak Lawn Denny’s
I don’t even like pancakes but this story caught my attention so baby girl 27 Natasha West took advantage of the all you can eat $4 pancakes at Denny’s and started sharing them at table with her friends (who probably I hope had some green eggs and ham to go wit them pancakes) well WTF (Why The Fuck) did she do that? Well the Waitress got all up in her feelings and said HEEEEEEL NAW; a fight broke out with Natasha they had syrup, butter; $4 pancakes flying everywhere as you may have already figured out the police was called; Natasha went to jail; was charged with assault and damage to property. Was it that big of a deal Waitress lady? BTW I like waffles.
Source: http://www.fox32chicago.com/news/crime/48471393-story
Drug Dealing White Girl Gets Called “Adorable” On Social Media
Seems like white privilege is alive and well even when it comes to drug dealing.
Here is Sarah Furay, a 19-year-old who was arrested for basically having a massive drug kingpin. When arrested she had 31.5 grams of packaged cocaine, 126 grams of high grade marijuana, 29 ecstasy tablets, methamphetamine and a 60 doses of a drug similar to LSD. She alsoy has digital scales, a handwritten list of her inventory and texts about her drug deals.
With the amount of marijuana police found on her, the charge in her state is a state jail felony, which can get her up to two years in jail and $10,000 in fines. She also faces two first-degree felony charges and one second-degree felony charge for manufacture and delivery of a controlled substance. If convicted of the three charges, she can face a sentence of 215 years in prison and up to $30,000 in fines.
But that’s not the crazy part about it. Instead of being looked at as a criminal, she is instead called adorable. Ain’t that something?! I guess since she’s a young white girl with an innocent expression she can still be called cute. Here are some tweets from this nonsense and some of the backlash some of these news reports got:
