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Robert Burck, popularly known as the Times Square performer “Naked Cowboy,” was arrested Saturday in Florida during Daytona Beach’s annual Bike Week, the Orlando Sentinel reports. Dayton Beach police claim Burck was dressed in his usual “Naked Cowboy” attire of white briefs, cowboy boots, cowboy hat, and a guitar when they saw attendees gather around him […]
Gunplay has addressed widely criticized footage in which he’s seen hurling a number of deeply offensive comments and anti-Asian slurs at someone on Instagram Live. In the footage in question, recently shared by WorldStarHipHop but circulating since at least a month ago, the Maybach Music Group-affiliated artist is seen calling someone on his Live a “g**k […]
Monday marks the 2021 iteration of International Women’s Day, with this year’s theme set as “choose to challenge.” Early in the day, the official Twitter account for Burger King’s UK division drew attention after sharing a tweet stating “women belong in the kitchen,” which launched a thread about the brand’s plans for IWD 2021. The […]
Serena Williams is showing support for her “selfless friend’ Meghan Markle following the airing of the much-anticipated Oprah interview. In a note shared to her Twitter and Instagram pages on Sunday night, Williams said pointed to her own firsthand experiences with “the sexism and racism institutions and the media use to vilify women and people […]
A fight involving multiple people erupted at a Bath & Body Works in Arizona, involving customers and employees. According to a bystander, the incident happened over the weekend at a Scottsdale mall where two women were arguing before the brawl broke out. The bystander shot footage, claiming that one of the women was standing too close […]
The world will once again revolve around Minneapolis. Deadline reported on Sunday that the murder trial for the former police officer charged with killing George Floyd, Derek Chauvin, will be televised on Court TV. It will also be streamed on Peacock’s Law & Crime. The officer was filmed kneeling on Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes. This lack of regard for […]
Following a robbery and shooting at a local fancy restaurant, Beverly Hills police are hiring private, armed security guards to increase law enforcement presence in the city. “First and foremost safety is our top priority in Beverly Hills and criminal activity of any kind will not be tolerated,” Police Chief Dominick Rivetti said in a […]
Investigations are underway after footage surfaced of a Rochester, New York police officer pepper-spraying a mother with her child late last month, NBC News reports. The body camera footage shows an officer talking to a woman who had been accused of shoplifting. The woman—who was holding a child—insisted that she didn’t steal anything, showing only a loose diaper in her […]
Amanda Gorman took to Twitter on Friday night to describe an incident that many people of minority communities found all too familiar. The 22-year-old activist and poet said she was walking to her home in Los Angeles when she realized she was being “tailed” by a security guard. Gorman, who became the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history […]
Animal rights activists continue to demand justice for Zuul, a North Carolina police dog that was allegedly abused by its handler. The controversy began earlier this week after an anonymous source released unsettling footage of a K-9 training session in Salisbury. An unidentified officer is seen approaching Zuul and shouting “Stay!” before he lifts the canine from its […]
