Fans who came to see Migos perform at Washington Avenue Armory in Albany, New York on Friday, March 6, ended up being directly involved in or witnessing a brawl that left 6 people stabbed and another robbed.
According toNews 10, all of the incidents happened within the span of an hour and a half after the clock struck midnight Saturday morning.
12:30 a.m. Officers responded to a report of a robbery at the 700 block of State Street. The 19-year-old victim told officers that while she was at the Armory she was followed into the bathroom by six unknown suspects. The victim states that while inside the bathroom, all six suspects began to punch and kick her face and body while stealing from her purse. All of the suspects fled the scene with the victim’s property. The victim sustained minor injuries to her face and head during the incident.
12:50 a.m. Officers responded to Armory for a report of a stabbing, the 21-year-old male victim said he was stabbed by an unknown suspect while in the Armory. He was treated at the scene and transported to Albany Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries.
Minutes later, a 23-year-old male was located at the Armory who said he was stabbed by an unknown suspect while walking out of the building.
12:55 a.m. Albany Memorial Hospital notified police that a 17-year-old male had entered the emergency room with an apparent stab wound. The victim said he was involved in a large fight inside the Armory where he was stabbed by an unknown suspect.
1 a.m. Albany Medical Center Hospital notified police that a 28-year-old male entered the emergency room with an apparent stab wound. The victim said he was stabbed by an unknown suspect while at the Armory. He was treated for non-life threatening injuries
1:35 a.m. Officers responded to a home on Sherman Street for a report of two stabbings. The 16-year-old and 22-year-old victims told officers they were stabbed by an unknown suspect while at the Armory.They were treated for non-life threatening injuries
WJW Channel 8 suspended anchor Kristi Capel for three days after she uttered a racist term on live television while sitting next to her Black co-anchor, Wayne Dawson.
Capel was discussing Lady Gaga's Oscar's performance on Monday, February 23, when she used the word "jigaboo" to describe part of it.
"It's hard to really hear her voice with all the jigaboo music, or whatever you wanna call it...jigaboo," she said while laughing.
Jigaboo definition via Vocabulary.com: (Ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person. A person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa).
Kristi Capel
Capel would later issue an on-air apology, explaining that she had no idea what the word meant.
"I just want to take a moment to address a comment that I made yesterday that got a lot of attention," Capel said Tuesday. "It's important for me to let you know that I deeply regret my insensitive comment. And I truly did not know the meaning of the word and would never intentionally use such hurtful language."
The Cleveland Fox affiliate also issued a statement.
"Kristi regrets her actions and realizes the impact of her mistake and the hurt she has caused. On Tuesday afternoon, Kristi met with a group of African-American clergy from Northeast Ohio to begin the process of reflecting on the gravity of this incident. In her on-air apology, Kristi vowed to learn from this experience and has begun that process with help from clergy, friends, family and co-workers."
Dawson said he forgave Capel because he knew "her heart" and that she was a "good girl."
"I've been working with you for three years, so I think I know your heart," Dawson told Capel on-air. "And I know you didn't mean it. . . . So my thing is that you learn from it, you move on. It's time to forgive and move on. My prayer is that our viewers forgive and move on because she's a good girl. She really, really is."
Flatbush Zombies links up with Domo Genesis for a new song entitled "Plz Don't Make Me Do It." The track was produced by The Arhitect. Take a listen up top and let us know what you think in the comment section below.
Protesters took to the streets on Friday, March 6, after a 19-year old black man was shot five times by police in Madison, Wisconsin.
Cops responded to a call that Tony Robinson had committed battery earlier. When an officer arrived at his apartment he said he heard a disturbance inside. The cop forced his way into the apartment and reportedly got into a struggle with Robinson. During the fight the unidentified officer was reportedly hit in the head. He then drew his weapon and fired.
Tony Robinson (right) was a recent graduate of Sun Prairie High School
Police Chief Mike Koval
"In the context of mutual combat in that sense, the officer did draw his revolver and subsequently shot the subject," Madison Police Chief Mike Koval said.
Hours after Anthony Robinson was fatally shot by a Madison police officer, his grandmother, Sharon Irwin (second from the right), and aunt, Lorien Carter (pictured with the megaphone), asked the crowd at Williamson Street to keep demonstrations peaceful.
Police said they did not know if Robinson was armed, but initial indications are that he was not.
The officer on the scene administered CPR immediately after the shooting. Robinson was transported to a local hospital where he succumbed to his wounds.
State law mandates that an independent investigation be conducted. MPD froze the scene until the state Department of Justice's Division of Criminal Investigation arrived,according to The Daily Cardinal.
"You're not protecting us, you're killing us!" Robinson's grandmother, Sharon Irwin, shouted at police as the protests continued into early Saturday, according to The New York Daily News.
Protesters chanted "Black Lives Matter" and "Justice!"
Robinson's aunt, Lorien Carter, said the family wasn't allowed to see Robinson's body in the hospital because it was considered "evidence."
"He wasn't referred to as 'his son' or 'your son,' just 'evidence,'" she said.
On Friday, March 6, Kendrick Lamar revealed that his sophomore album will arrive on March 23rd. The rapper posted an iTunes link via Twitter for the highly anticipated follow up to 2012's Good Kid, M.A.A.D City.
Chris Brown was hoping to keep the news about his daughter, Royalty, on the low for a while, but his baby's mother had other ideas.
TMZ reports that Brown is taking Nia Amey to court to family court to have his child support payments formalized. The singer believes he's been paying Nia a lot more money than legally required after finding out he was a father last month.
Royalty
The two had reached a private financial agreement, however since Nia took the story public Breezy is firing back by hitting her in the pocketbook.
According to theInternational Business Times, Nia was married to a man namedTerry Ameyat the time Royalty was conceived. Divorce papers were filed in January 2014.
Chris wanted a baby with longtime girlfriendKarrueche Tran. She put the brakes on that idea until Chris married her. The two have now split up after Tran found out Brown already had a child.
Original Block HustlazbossAR-ABis back home and ready to drop some new street bangers via his forthcomingMud Muzik 2mixtape. The project will arrive on March 23rd. Peep the cover art up top.
Former Wu Tang Clan affiliate Fes Taylor is now doing his thing with Nueliphe World. He links up with M Dolla $ign a.k.a. Mic Check, Hason and Morris Biggs for "Don't Get Smoked." Download it here http://www.audiomack.com/song/paperchaserdotcom/dont-get-smoked
This is off of Fes' forthcoming mixtape entitled "Werewolf In Staten."
Here's DJ Whoo Kid's highly entertaining interview with NEHipHop.
After sponsoring his show at Goodlife Bar in Boston last Saturday we had the chance to conduct an interview with DJ Whoo Kid that is without question the most honest, blunt in your face conversation we have captured to date.
In it he starts off talking about his events with Diddy and the hilarious "fountain of youth" Diddy has discovered. Next up Whoo Kid tells how he got Young Buck into the G-Unit reunion, how he'd like to get The Game back and announces upcoming solo work with each of the individual members. From there he goes on to explain how important he finds it to be diverse not only with the music he's involved with but also with the guest on his radio show - even going as far as to tell us never before heard trade secrets.
After explaining how he keeps his interviews interesting and gets starts to open up in a different way Whoo Kid tells why hip-hop is full of liars, how hip-hop is an illusion, how lying helped get him to where he is in his career and how he learned from Russell Simmons, Lyor Cohen and Jimmy Iovine. Before checking out Whoo Kid details his use of social media, how world travel taught him the ignorance of monogamy and the nick name Chaka Khan gave him. At 18 minutes this interview flies bad as it's incredibly entertaining. Enjoy!
The gang's all back for the seventh installment of the Fast & Furious movie franchise.
Paul Walker, Tyrese, Ludacris, Vin Diesel, Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson and Michelle Rodriguez all reprise their roles in the film which hits theaters on April 3rd.
Their new nemesis,Deckard Shaw, is played byJason Statham.
Plot: Deckard Shaw seeks revenge against Dominic Toretto and his family for the death of his brother.
Here's a three-minute extended trailer for what looks like another thrilling ride.
Continuing the global exploits in the unstoppable franchise built on speed, Vin Diesel, Paul Walker and Dwayne Johnson lead the returning cast of Fast & Furious 7. James Wan directs this chapter of the hugely successful series that also welcomes back favorites Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, Elsa Pataky and Lucas Black. They are joined by international action stars new to the franchise including Jason Statham, Djimon Hounsou, Tony Jaa, Ronda Rousey and Kurt Russell. Neal H. Moritz, Vin Diesel and Michael Fottrell return to produce the film written by Chris Morgan.
Tiara Thomas is quickly gaining a lot of attention for all the right reasons. Her silky smooth vocals are a welcome addition to the R&B game. Check out her new music video for "How It Is."
Produced by Qreamybeats & Directed by Shane Adams.
TIME Magazine has rolled out it's list ofThe Most Influential People On The Internet. Notable names includePresident Obama, Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, Gwyneth Paltrow, Tyler Oakley, Shakira, J.K. Rowling, Kim KardashianandJimmy Fallon.
Jay Electronica doesn't drop new music as often as fans would like, but when he does it's always something meaningful. Here's a song entitled "Road to Perdition" featuring a Jay Z voice sample.
Follow Jay Electronica and Jay Z on Twitter @JayElectronica @S_C_
Hot Boy Turk drops some "New Shit" to get the weekend kicked off on the right foot. This heater was produced by Jaye Neutron. Listen up top and sound off on it in the comment section below.
LOS ANGELES (Associated Press) — When a man battles Darth Vader, Nazis and other evil-doers for work, what does he do for fun? Harrison Ford finds his answer in a pilot's license and the freedom to take to the skies.
But with adventure comes risk, just as Han Solo, Indiana Jones and other daring movie characters Ford brought to life realized. On Thursday, one of Hollywood's pre-eminent stars added a plane crash to an aviation record that includes both mishaps and service to others.
Ford, 72, who battled Hitler's henchmen in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" as dashing archaeologist Jones, was flying a World War II-era plane when it lost engine power shortly after takeoff from Santa Monica Municipal Airport near Los Angeles. He crash-landed on a golf course next to the airport.
Bystanders who feared the aircraft might explode or catch fire pulled the actor from the plane, and doctors who happened to be playing golf gave him initial help, Los Angeles fire officials said. An ambulance then took him to a hospital in fair to moderate condition.
"He had no other choice but to make an emergency landing, which he did safely," Ford spokeswoman Ina Treciokas said. "He was banged up and is in the hospital receiving medical care."
The injuries are not life-threatening and he is expected to make a full recovery, she said in a statement Thursday night. No one on the ground was hurt.
Ford took off at 2 p.m. Thursday. About 20 minutes later, he told the airport tower that he had engine failure and was making an immediate return, according to a recording posted by LiveATC.net.
The plane had been flying at about 3,000 feet and hit a tree on the way down, according to witnesses and officials.
Ford had a cut to his forehead and scraped arms, but it wasn't clear what internal injuries he may have received, Los Angeles Assistant Fire Chief Patrick Butler said.
"He wasn't a bloody mess. He was alert. He had good vitals," Butler said.
The plane, a yellow 1942 Ryan Aeronautical ST3KR with stars on its wings, had damage mostly confined to the front.
"I would say that this is an absolutely beautifully executed — what we would call — a forced or emergency landing, by an unbelievably well-trained pilot," said Christian Fry of the Santa Monica Airport Association.
Charlie Thomson, a flight instructor at the airport who saw Ford take off, said engine failure like Ford's does not make the plane harder to maneuver. "It just means you have to go down," he said.
Ford crashed on a fairway of Penmar golf course.
"Immediately you could see the engine started to sputter and just cut out, and he banked sharply to the left," said Jeff Kuprycz, who was golfing when he saw the plane taking off.
Kuprycz said there was no explosion when the plane plunged to the ground, "it just sounded like a car hitting the ground or a tree or something. Like that one little bang, and that was it."
Among the first people to reach Ford was a spinal surgeon who had been golfing.
Sanjay Khurana told TV stations in Los Angeles that he found Ford slumped over in the cockpit but conscious.
Aside from worrying about Ford's injuries from the impact, he saw fuel leaking out and became concerned that the plane could explode. As he helped pull Ford from the wreckage, others threw dirt on the fuel.
The airport's single runway sits amid residential neighborhoods in the city of more than 90,000 on the Pacific Ocean. City leaders and many residents advocate closing the airport, citing noise and safety concerns. Other planes taking off or landing there have crashed into homes, and in September 2013 four people died when their small jet veered into a hangar and caught fire.
Ford, who plays the swashbuckling Solo in his fourth "Star Wars" movie set for release in December, is known to shun attention to his private life but has been publicly effusive about his love of flying.
After arriving in his own plane at a 2001 fundraising gala for Seattle's Museum of Flight, Ford said he was glad to help "engage kids in the romance and the mystery and the adventure of flying. ... I know what it means."
Ford got his pilot's license in the 1990s and has made headlines with his flying, though he had never been significantly injured. In 2001, he rescued a missing Boy Scout with his helicopter. Nearly a year before, he rescued an ailing mountain climber in Wyoming.
In 2000, a gust of wind sent a six-seat plane Ford was piloting off a runway in Lincoln, Nebraska. He and his passenger were not injured.
He has also volunteered his services during forest-fire season, when rescue helicopters are busy battling blazes.
The actor, who is married to Calista Flockhart of "Ally McBeal" fame, has said his rescues "had nothing to do with heroism."
"It had to do with flying a helicopter. That's all," he said.
The National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the crash in a process that could take up to a year before a final report. NTSB investigator Patrick Jones said the agency would look at "everything: weather, man, the machine."
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Associated Press writers Andrew Dalton, Robert Jablon, Justin Pritchard and Sandy Cohen in Los Angeles and Alina Hartounian in Phoenix contributed to this story.
WASHINGTON (Associated Press) — President Barack Obama said the type of racial discrimination found in Ferguson, Missouri, is not unique to that police department, and he cast law enforcement reform as a chief struggle for today's civil rights movement.
Obama said improving civil rights and civil liberties with police is one of the areas that "requires collective action and mobilization" 50 years after pivotal civil rights marches brought change to the country. The president made his first remarks about this week's Justice Department report of racial bias in Ferguson, which found officers routinely discriminating against blacks by using excessive force.
"I don't think that is typical of what happens across the country, but it's not an isolated incident," Obama told The Joe Madison Radio Show on Sirius XM radio's Urban View channel. "I think that there are circumstances in which trust between communities and law enforcement have broken down, and individuals or entire departments may not have the training or the accountability to make sure that they're protecting and serving all people and not just some."
Obama's interview was to preview his trip Saturday to Selma, Alabama, where he plans to speak from the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where white police officers beat civil rights protesters on March 7, 1965. Obama last visited Selma in 2007, when he was running for the Democratic presidential nomination and spoke about the responsibility of those who came after the civil rights generation of the '60s to carry on the struggle.
It was a theme he reiterated ahead of his return visit.
In another interview with radio host Tom Joyner, Obama said that despite the progress in race relations over the past 50 years, the Justice Department findings about Ferguson show that civil rights "is an unfinished project."
"There is work to be done right now," he said.
On Friday, Obama was kicking off the weekend's 50th anniversary with a town hall meeting at South Carolina's Benedict College, a historically black college. The White House said Obama plans to speak about efforts young people made throughout history to expand opportunity.
Obama's visit to Columbia is his first trip to South Carolina as president. Obama has just two other states to reach his goal of traveling to all 50 in office — South Dakota and Utah.
The Top Goon Of Philly, Ar-Ab, is preparing to release the second installment of his Mud Musik mixtape series. Here's the first single off of it entitled "Say My Name."
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