SEOUL, Oct 30 (Reuters) - At least 149 people were killed in a crush when a huge crowd celebrating Halloween surged into an alley in a nightlife area of the South Korean capital Seoul on Saturday night.
A further 150 people were injured in the melee in Seoul's Itaewon district, Choi Sung-beom, head of the Yongsan Fire Station, said.
Many of the injured were in serious condition & receiving emergency treatment.
It was the first Halloween event in Seoul in 3 years after the country lifted COVID restrictions & social distancing. Many of the partygoers were wearing masks & Halloween costumes.
Some witnesses described the crowd becoming increasingly unruly and agitated as the evening deepened.
"A number of people fell during a Halloween festival & we have a large number of casualties," Choi said. Many of those killed were near a nightclub. It was at least more than 10 times crowded than usual," he told Reuters
Witnesses described chaotic scenes moments before the stampede, with the police on hand in anticipation of the Halloween event at times having trouble maintaining control of the crowds.
Social media footage showed hundreds of people packed in the narrow, sloped alley crushed & immobile as emergency officials & police tried to pull them to free.
The singer-turned-rapper and actor was found dead Saturday at his house in Lancaster, CA ... multiple sources tell us Aaron's body was found in his bathtub. Law enforcement sources tell TMZ they received a 911 call at 11 AM Saturday that a male had drowned in the tub.
Law enforcement sources tell TMZ ... homicide detectives have been dispatched to the scene, but we have no information or evidence of foul play. It's standard operating procedure for homicide detectives to investigate such death scenes.
TMZ obtained a photo of sheriffs' cars and paramedics outside Aaron's home ... and the property is surrounded with caution tape.
Aaron shot to fame back in the late 1990s as a pop singer, releasing four studio albums, starting with his self-titled debut album in 1997 when he was only 9 years old.
After his first album sold a million copies, Aaron's second album, "Aaron's Party," tripled that number ... and from there he became a regular on Nickelodeon.
Aaron also used to tour with the Backstreet Boys during their heyday ... his older brother Nick was part of the hugely popular boy band.
AC transitioned into rap as his music career progressed ... and he also appeared on "Dancing With The Stars" and acted in the Broadway production "Seussical."
Aaron had tons of legal and substance abuse issues over the years ... infamously going on "The Doctors" a couple years ago and talking about all the pills he was taking. He also went to rehab numerous times.
An OnlyFans model who stabbed her boyfriend to death was recorded degrading him weeks before the attack.
In video found on her slain boyfriend Christian Obumseli’s iPhone, 26-year-old Courtney Clenney can be heard having an argument with her partner of two years. Miami prosecutors have charged Ms Clenney, known as Courtney Tailor on social media platforms, in the murder of Mr Obumseli.
The resurfaced video is among mounting evidence of the couple’s volatile relationship and Ms Clenney’s outbursts. Her claims that she acted in self-defense have also been previously contradicted by video from an elevator in her luxury apartment complex that showed her physically attacking Obumseli, months before she stabbed him.
One of the incidents recorded by Obumseli appears to have unfolded after he didn’t tell Ms Clenney that he had greeted a female while on a bicycle ride. Ms Clenney then accused him of “gaslighting” her when he apologized, told him, “Shut up & let me slap you, dumb a**,” & called him the n-word.
Clenney fled to Big Island, Hawaii following the fatal stabbing, where she was arrested. She was later extradited by US Marshals to Florida, where she pled not guilty to murder charges.
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on November 13, 2022 at 11:39am
NEW YORK (AP) — Alex Pereira has Israel Adesanya’s number in any combat sport -- make it 3-0, and now the Brazilian knockout artist also has his rival’s UFC middleweight championship.
Pereira fought back out from a slow start and rocked Adesanya in the fifth round to score the TKO win and claim the 185-pound championship in the main event of UFC 281 on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden.
This man literally said no matter where you go I’m on your ass damn izzy https://t.co/1NUiVEpaBw
The 35-year-old Pereira defeated Adesanya twice -- once by knockout -- in their old kickboxing days and the wins got the challenger fast-tracked to a title match after just three UFC fights.
“For everybody that said I couldn’t do five rounds, look at what I did just now,” Pereira said through an interpreter.
Pereira capped his rapid rise to the title in front of a Garden crowd going wild as he tagged Adesanya with a vicious right that sent the champion into the cage and then socked him with a hook. Adesanya, the Nigeria-born, New Zealand-raised fighter, slumped against the cage and Pereira went for the finishing blows but referee Marc Goddard stopped the bout at 2:01 in the fifth.
Knocked at times for his methodical style, the 31-year-old Adesanya (23-2) known as “The Last Stylebender” got the MSG crowd on his side once he clobbered Pereira with a pounding right and then a fast left hand to the face that ended the first round and sent the challenger reeling.
Trying to shake off the beating, Pereira stood and beckoned fans to get louder as he waited for the bell to signal the second. He raised his arms again to the sellout crowd of 20,845, only this time in victory.
Adesanya had been champion since 2019 and his loss snapped his 12-fight win streak at middleweight, only one shy of Anderson Silva’s division record.
Zhang Weili won the 115-belt for a second time and UFC’s first Chinese champion made quick work against Carla Esparza with a rear naked choke submission at 1:05 of the second round.
Zhang (23-3) patted her championship belt after UFC President Dana White wrapped it around her waist inside the octagon. Zhang only successfully defended the championship once during her first championship reign. She beat Jéssica Andrade in 2019 and won a decision against Joanna Jedrzejczyk before she suffered consecutive losses to Rose Namajunas.
Former UFC lightweight champion Frankie Edgar lost the final bout of his MMA career when he was dropped by Chris Gutierrez at 2:01 of the first round of their fight. The 41-year-old Edgar absorbed a flying knee to the head for a brutal KO loss in his last time in the cage in a career that started in 2005. Gutierrez and Edgar had a long embrace after the spectacular finish in the 135-pound fight that quieted another packed crowd at MSG.
A Toms River, New Jersey native, Edgar finished his career at 24-11-1 overall and 18-11-1 in the UFC.
Edgar entered the night with a UFC-record 7 hours, 55 minutes and 9 seconds of total fight time. His 1,799 significant strikes were second-best, and 73 takedowns were fourth on the career list. He held the lightweight championship for nearly two years from 2010 to 2012.
“Ladies and gentleman, this is the final fight of his illustrious Hall of Fame career,” octagon announcer Bruce Buffer bellowed to a roaring crowd.
The intros to a Garden stuffed with A-listers that included Sylvester Stallone, Halle Berry, Miles Teller and Mike Tyson were about as long as the fight.
“I’ve got my family here,” a crestfallen Edgar said. “That’s all that matters.”
Dustin Poirier made Michael Chandler tap in the third round of bloody slugfest that sent the crowd into a frenzy. Poirier slapped on the rear naked choke to stop a frenetic match that had both fighters seemingly on the brink of victory — the official scorecards had the fight even entering the third round — on multiple occasions. In the second round, Chandler had blood flowing from his nose like an open tap as he mounted Poirier. Poirier complained blood leaked into his eyes and he told the referee that Chandler stuck fingers in his mouth and pulled his head back.
A KO couldn’t stop this one. Poirier ran his record to 21-6 in UFC with the submission finish while Chandler dropped to 2-3 since the former Bellator lightweight champion left for UFC in 2020. Poirier became the sixth fighter in UFC history to win at least 21 fights,
The card fell on the 29th anniversary of the first Ultimate Fighting Championship event held in Denver and six years to the day of the first UFC card at Madison Square Garden. New York became the final state to legalize mixed martial arts cards and that opened the door to some of the richest cards in UFC history at both MSG and Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
UFC 281 grossed more than $11.5 million and the company now holds the No. 1 and No. 2 highest-grossing MSG events of all time.
A fan favorite, Edgar has seen the evolution of UFC as much as any fighter since his 2007 debut in the company. UFC has one year left on a $1.5 billion, five-year deal with ESPN that seemed as inconceivable in 2007 as much as it did in 1993.
Now look, Zhang is wildly popular and a key figure in MMA’s rising significance in China, Hollywood stars mug for the cameras at the biggest events and the company’s attempt at ballooning into a billion-dollar endeavor was a smash hit.
“It’s still pretty cool, surreal,” UFC President Dana White said. “And to be on the roll we’ve been on this year, too. Every Saturday gets bigger and bigger. It’s still a fun ride.”
ATLANTA (AP) — Comedians Eric André & Clayton English are challenging a police program at the Atlanta airport they say violates the constitutional rights of airline passengers through racial profiling & coercive searches.
The 2 men filed a lawsuit in Atlanta alleging that they were racially profiled & illegally stopped by at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
They say officers singled them out during separate stops roughly 6 months apart because they are Black & grilled them about drugs as other passengers watched.
Officers blocked them as they entered the jet bridge & asked if they were carrying illegal drugs. Both were asked to hand over their boarding passes & identification. An officer said he wanted to search English’s bag & he agreed, not believing he had a choice.
The police department calls the stops “consensual encounters” & says they are “random,” but in reality the stops “rely on coercion & targets are selected disproportionately based on their race,” the lawyers argue.
From Aug. 30, 2020, to April 30, 2021, there were 402 jet bridge stops & the passenger’s race was listed for 378 of those stops. Of those 378 passengers, 56% were Black & people of color accounted for 68%.
Those 402 stops resulted in 3 reported drug seizures: about 10 grams of drugs, 26 grams of “suspected THC gummies” & 6 prescription pills without a prescription.
Those stops yielded more than $1 million in cash from 25 passengers. 8 challenged the seizures & Clayton County returned much of the money.
Carrying large quantities of cash doesn’t mean someone is involved in illegal drug activity, the lawyers argue, noting that people of color are less likely to have bank accounts & are more likely to carry large sums when they travel.
The 2 seek a jury trial & ask that the jet bridge interdiction program be declared unconstitutional. They also seek compensatory & punitive damages, as well as legal costs.
NASSAU COUNTY, Fla. (WEAR) — 2 children were shot by 1 another's fathers during a road rage incident on a Florida highway.
Nassau County Sheriff Bill Leeper said a 5-year-old girl was shot in the leg and a 14-year-old girl was shot in the back, causing a collapsed lung. He said their injuries were not life-threatening.
There could have been two dead kids because of two stupid grown men,” Leeper said at a news conference Monday.
William Hale, 35, of Douglas, Georgia, & Frank Allison, 43, of Callahan, Florida, have been charged with attempted murder.
Police said the shootings happened Saturday on U.S. Route 1 near Jacksonville around 6 p.m. EDT.
Both men then stopped driving and began arguing, according to police.
A deputy broke up the fight, called fire rescue & the men were charged.
"Live At the Spot" is a 2007 collaboration betweem Mobb frequent collaborator Un Pacino and the late, great Prodigy. Off of Un Pacino's "The Last Don" album.
At least three people were killed and two others were injured, including a 12-year-old girl, in a shooting at an Indianapolis-area shopping mall on Sunday evening, police said.
Hip hop legend Grand Daddy I.U. teams up with Paula Perry and Da Inphamus Amadeuz for a collaborative single and accompanying music video titled "Trust Me."
In this clip, Reggie Wright Sr shares his thought on Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg's epic Super Bowl halftime show in Inglewood, California. He highlighted the glaring fact that their set featured a replica of the famous "Tam's Burgers" sign, which is exactly where Suge Knight fatally ran over a victim before landing in prison. Reggie Wright Sr concluded that Dr. Dre's reference to "Tam's Burgers" was definitely a subliminal shot at his former business partner, Suge Knight.
Tony Yayo came through for his first VladTV interview in some years, which he acknowledged at the start of this clip. From there, Yayo spoke about growing up in South Jamaica, Queens, near 50 Cent and Lloyd Banks. Tony detailed how he got in the streets after his parents divorced when he was around 15-16, but he pointed out that 50 Cent had already been in the streets since he was 12. This led Yayo to share stories about 50 Cent having their block on lock, and he also shared a story of a motorcycle police chase that 50 Cent had.
Crooked I is mounting his defense against Joe's assertions that he is doing the Fall of Slaughterhouse album for a bag. In this video I breakdown how Crooked I is counteracting Joes claims with some evidence of his own.
01. Dearly Beloved Ft. Flee Lord 02. Last of the Mohicans 03. Extra Cool Ft. Nym Lo 04. Run It 05. Ken Patera Ft. Knowledge The Pirate & Remy Banks 06. Casualties 07. Live at the Speak Easy Ft. OT The Real
Producer Real Bad Man and Smoke DZA have locked in to deliver a new EP, "Mood Swings."
Features on the seven-track project include Knowledge the Pirate, Flee Lord, OT the Real, Nym Lo and Remy Banks.
Available on all streaming platforms:
Tracklist:
01. Dearly Beloved Ft. Flee Lord 02. Last of the Mohicans 03. Extra Cool Ft. Nym Lo 04. Run It 05. Ken Patera Ft. Knowledge The Pirate & Remy Banks 06. Casualties 07. Live at the Speak Easy Ft. OT The Real
Da Inphamus Amadeuz - The Army W/Blazin, Party G The Humble, Lazaris The Top Don (New 4K Video)
Da Inphamus Amadeuz releases a new single and accompanying music video titled "The Army" featuring Blazin, Party G The Humble, Lazaris The Top Don and Brian J.
This is off of the album Get@Em Recordz Presents: "The Army (Verbal Warfare)"
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on December 14, 2021 at 12:10pm
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With UFC 269 in the books, many people are questioning whether Amanda Nunes' shocking loss to Julianna Pena was due solely to a difference in skill, or whether a lapse in mental fortitude may have cost Amanda her belt. Michael Bisping is here to break it all down.
In the latest clip, YBN Almighty Jay claimed he was the first YBN member to start releasing music. However, as he got older, he began to get into trouble with the law and found himself in juvenile hall and losing touch with the collective's members. Almighty Jay revealed he was sent to juvenile hall after he got into a fight at school and the kid's parents pressed charges on him. During his three months in juvenile hall, he recalled being housed with someone who was jumped for stabbing their mother to death.
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on December 23, 2021 at 11:30pm
Shady Ray (LordMobb) - BLOODWORK (New Album) Ft. Flee Lord x Eto x Young Act x BVNGS x Phonk P
LordMobb artist Shady Ray recruits Flee Lord, BVNGS, Eto, Young Act, Phonk P, Jameel Na'Im, T.F., Gifted Gab, Bale, Shira Stone and Aaqil Ali for his new album titled "BLOODWORK."
1. BLOODWORK INTRO 2. WOOOAA 3. FINE CHINA 4. APPETITE 5. MEDICATED 6. WATER ON THE SPOON FT. AAQIL ALI 7. WHERE WE AT FT. T.F., YOUNG ACT & BALE 8. CANNES FT. ETO, PHONK P, GIFTED GAB & BVNGS 9. ACT N' SHADY FT. FLEE LORD & YOUNG ACT 10. SOUL FOOD FT. SHIRA STONE
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Speed Dollaz aka The King of Delaware pays tribute to the late, great DMX by dropping official visuals for his freestyle over the classic Dark Man X "Get At Me Dog" instrumental.
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on November 28, 2021 at 11:13am
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In this clip, Boosie briefly spoke about the ongoing situation between him and the State Farm Arena in Atlanta where's he's banned indefinitely. He also reacted to the death of Alpo Martinez and laughed at the news of his slaying.
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