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Alex Jones is calling on all restaurants and bars to shut down in wake of his alcohol-related arrest. The right-wing conspiracy theorist was booked into an Austin jail early Tuesday on a misdemeanor charge of driving while intoxicated. The Statesman reports Travis County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a disturbance at Jones’ residence around 10 p.m. Monday. His wife reportedly told […]
The NYPD is searching for the group of teens who viciously attacked and robbed a 15-year-old Brooklyn girl in broad daylight. Authorities say the incident occurred around 4 p.m. Thursday on the corner of Utica Avenue and Sterling Place in Crown Heights. Surveillance video shows the young girl falling to the ground as more than a dozen […]
Disturbing footage of a young man’s violent arrest has prompted the NYPD to launch an internal investigation. The incident occurred at around 7 p.m. Wednesday in Brooklyn, when a passerby noticed a young black man being detained by a plainclothes officer. The woman pulled out her phone and began recording, as the detainee—later identified as 20-year-old Fitzroy Gayle—repeatedly asked the […]
The man suspected of stabbing Nicki Minaj‘s crew member to death has been convicted of murder, the Associated Press reports. On Friday, 38-year-old Khaliyfa Neely was convicted of third-degree murder, aggravated and simple assault, and possession of an instrument of crime for the incident that claimed De’Von Andre Pickett’s life in February 2015. Pickett was preparing to go […]
TMZ reports Tyler Perry’s nephew Gavin Porter died on Tuesday by hanging himself while in solitary confinement. Porter was 26. Porter, who was serving a 20-year sentence at the Union Parish Detention Center in Farmerville, Louisiana, was placed in solitary on Saturday night after he allegedly got into a fight that involved several inmates this past weekend, according to the News Star. Guards said that they checked on him […]
The motive behind Pop Smoke‘s murder is still in question as the Los Angeles police try to shuffle through evidence. No arrests have been made in Pop Smoke’s murder because police are still trying to decipher if the incident was a random robbery or a targeted crime, The New York Times reports. Shortly after Smoke’s death, […]
It has been a long time coming, but the U.S. has finally made lynching a federal hate crime. Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) introduced the bill, naming it the Emmett Till Antilynching Act after the 14-year-old boy who was lynched in Mississippi 65 years ago, Vice reports. It’s also been 120 years since Congress first considered […]
UK singer Duffy has opened up about the horrific experience that preceded her years-long hiatus. The 35-year-old artist—born Aimee Anne Duffy—shared her story in a lengthy Instagram post on Tuesday, revealing she decided to step away from the spotlight after being “raped, drugged, and held captive” about a decade ago. “You can only imagine the amount […]
An Oakland rapper has been accused of leading an fraud ring that stole millions of dollars from people in California, The Mercury News reports. 39-year-old Amir “Kafani” Rashad is the lead defendant in the federal fraud case. Per reports, Kafani worked with co-defendants, Susan Arreola-Martin, Christopher Pool, and Tyrone Jones, to orchestrate what is described as a “wide-ranging fraudulent […]
It seems as though Adrien Broner has run into more legal trouble. In a video obtained by TMZ, Las Vegas Metro police officers were seen detaining the 30-year-old boxer on Friday afternoon. Sources tell the outlet that Broner was arrested after he refused to leave the MGM Grand Garden during the Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury weigh-in. Broner was reportedly banned from […]
