Tuesday, October 2, 2018

Cardi B Charged With Assault and Reckless Endangerment After a Strip Club Altercation


(NEW YORK) — Cardi B was given a summons on Monday for misdemeanor reckless endangerment and assault in connection with a melee at a New York strip club.
The platinum rapper was charged after agreeing to meet with investigators at a Queens police station. Afterward, she left with a smile on her face, but declined comment.
“We are aware of no evidence that she caused anybody any harm from that night,” her lawyer, Jeff Kern, told reporters. “We expect the matter to be resolved expeditiously.”
Police say Cardi B and her entourage were at the club at around 3 a.m. Saturday when she got in an argument with a 23-year-old woman who was bartending. They say a fight broke out during which chairs, bottles and hookah waters pipes were thrown, slightly injuring the bartender and another employee.
Police say the rapper and about nine other people in her party fled, but she later agreed to turn herself in after being identified by the bartender. Investigators were exploring whether the fracas involved a romantic dispute.
The incident occurred about three weeks after Cardi B and Nicki Minaj were involved in an altercation that got physical at a New York Fashion Week party and left Cardi B with a mark on her head.
Video circulating on social media showed Cardi B lunging toward someone and being held back at Harper’s Bazaar Icons. Another video showed the rapper being escorted out of the event by security.
Cardi B, wearing a voluminous red Dolce & Gabanna gown was seen leaving the party with what appeared to be a bump on her head. She was barefoot.
She and Minaj have been rap rivals since Cardi B began achieving huge success over the last year.

Friday, November 7, 2014

Ferguson Mayor Says Prepare for the Worst




Tensions in Ferguson, Missouri, have simmered since black teen Michael Brown was shot and killed by a white police officer in August. And with a grand jury expected to soon deliver its decision on whether to indict the officer, a group that represents protesters says it wants 48-hours notice before the decision is announced so it can help prevent the St. Louis suburb from once again boiling over with anger, violence and confusion.


A group of community members calling themselves the Don't Shoot Coalition this week released 19 "Rules of Engagement" that touch on major points of contention between protesters and police since Brown's August 9 killing.

Witnesses said Brown, who was unarmed, had his hands in the air as if surrendering, when he was shot. Authorities said Brown attacked the officer.

'Prepare for the worst'

Ferguson Mayor James Knowles told local media this week that authorities must "prepare for the worst" and he expects demonstrations across the area.

He and his administration didn't respond to CNN's inquiries about whether city officials would agree to the coalition's requests. Ferguson police also did not respond to CNN's questions about what that department thinks of the "rules," but St. Louis County police said their department "endorses the statement from the Don't Shoot Coalition regarding the sanctity and preservation of human life. To that end, and in the spirit of building communications, members of the Unified Command have met with the coalition to define common goals."

Many protesters were furious because they feel Brown's killing was an example of excessive use of force. They and heavily armed law enforcement clashed in the streets for days after Brown's death.
Authorities, who drove armored vehicles and wore military gear, were roundly criticized by members of the media, other law enforcement officials and demonstrators for escalating the violence, rather than tempering it. Law enforcement also was accused of blocking and, in some cases, attacking journalists who were trying to report on the situation.


Thursday, April 3, 2014

Gunman Kills 3, Wounds 12 in Fort Hood Shootings





Associated Press-




The man behind Wednesday's deadly shooting at Fort Hood had mental health issues and was being treated for depression and anxiety before he killed three people and wounded 16 others.


Hours after the shooter opened fire, U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas identified the suspected gunman as Spc. Ivan Lopez. However, officials did not say what might have motivated him to kill fellow soldiers and then himself
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"We do know that this soldier had behavioral health and mental health issues and was being treated for that," said Lt. Gen. Mark Milley, head of the Army's III Corps at the Texas post.
Lopez was being evaluated for post-traumatic stress disorder, but had not yet been diagnosed for the illness.


Lopez, who was on medication, served four months in Iraq in 2011 and had "self-diagnosed" a traumatic brain injury. "He was not wounded in action, to our records," Milley said.
McHugh says the soldier was examined by a psychiatrist last month and was found to show no violent or suicidal tendencies. He says the soldier had been prescribed Ambien to deal with a sleeping problem.Army Secretary John McHugh, the U.S. Army's top civilian official, said the soldier did not see combat during his deployment. The shooter also appeared to have no connections to extremist groups, McHugh said.


Lopez enlisted in the Army in June 2008 as an infantryman and later switched his specialty to truck driver, the job he had in Iraq. Milley said Army officials were waiting to notify the man's family of his death before they released his name.


Mother Calmly Dials 911 After Trying to Kill Her son






By Niya J. Ward




A Pennsylvania woman was unusually calm when she dialed 911 for assistance. After drowning her 3- year- old son, the woman attempted to kill his older brother in a bathtub. She sat on both boys while they were submerged underwater. Laurel Schlemmer told the dispatcher, "My two sons. I think they've drowned in our bathtub.


According to the Pittsburgh-Post-Gazette the 40 year old mother of two called 911 just minutes after pulling them from the bathtub and removing their clothes. Schlemmer told police she heard voices telling her to hold them under water. The youngest child, Luke, 3, died at the scene. His older brother, Daniel, 6, remains in critical condition.


Schlemmer told police that she pulled the boys — unconscious — from the tub, stripped them and put their wet clothes in a garbage bag, the newspaper reports.
She then went into the study in her two-story home and called 911.
On the tape, Schlemmer is heard in a calm, high voice explaining the drowning incident to the 911 operator, the Post-Gazette reports.
"I, uh, let my 6- and 3-year old sons play in the bathtub a little bit before their bath this morning," she says. "And, uh, I was, and then I went to, to the restroom and, um, took longer than I should have or planned and then I came back. They're unconscious."

Later, the 911 operator, asks, "Are they breathing?"
"It doesn't look like it, sir," she says.
She was arraigned on charges of criminal homicide, attempted criminal homicide, aggravated assault and child endangerment.
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According to her pastor, Dan Hendley, of North Park Church, Schlemmer was involved in an incident 10 months ago in which she backed into the two boys with her van, leaving one of them unable to walk for awhile. One of the boys suffered broken bones and the other received internal injuries, KDKA-TV reports, quoting unnamed sources.


"There was no concern that there was anything but a terrible accident that occurred in that situation," Hendley told the Associated Press.


"We all had sympathy for Michelle," he said. "She thought they had run inside, and in fact they were still behind the van. What really happened there, God knows, but that's the way we were dealing with that at that time."


Court records also show that Schlemmer left a child unattended in a hot car in 2009.
"She's been trying to get rid of those boys for years," said a neighbor.




House in an average neighborhood.

Sunday, October 28, 2012

Worlds Tallest Swimsuit Model: Amazon Eve





Can a 6-foot, 8-inch beauty work the runway? Yes, it can happen. Amazon Eve will now be recognized by the Federation of World Records to be the world’s tallest model and was recently listed un the Guiness Book of World records.

 “Mainstream modeling wants you small and weak. I’m plus-sized and I’m thin and super-fit. I’d like to homogenize what ‘sexy’ means. It’s not just what’s on a magazine cover.”

The previous holder for the world’s tallest model is measured at 6 foot 4.
Also, the model has plans of gracing the pages of Playboy Magazine. “Sure I would do Playboy. I would need to reduce my muscle mass and soften up a bit, but Hefner is the only one I would pose nude for, because he does it so tastefully,” she said.

And amazingly, she was completely unknown until a magazine put her in a bikini on the front cover – turning her into a overnight sensation. Eve, from Turlock, California, is now a full-time model and actress but she also wrestles with men for $400 an hour. She credits her height to genes – saying her German and Dutch heritage is the reason why she is so tall. She said: ‘All the women in my family are tall.’ What’s more, Eve wears a ladies size 14 shoe which makes shopping for footwear more than a little difficult.