BRIDGEWATER, N.J. (AP) — Police in New Jersey are investigating an incident in which a Black teen was held down on the ground & handcuffed after a mall fight with a white youth, who was directed to sit down on a couch.
A video posted online shows the 2 teens arguing inside the Bridgewater Commons Mall, then pushing each other & throwing punches, before both fall onto the floor. Several kids who were watching the fight scatter, some pull out their cellphones.
When 2 cops from Bridgewater Township arrive about 12 seconds later to separate the 2, one can be seen in the video pinning the Black teen to the ground & handcuffing him. Meanwhile, the other officer is seen pushing the white teen onto a couch before going to help the second officer.
The Black youth said, “They basically tackled me to the ground & the male officer put his knee in my back & he started putting me in cuffs. Then the female officer put her knee on my upper back & started helping put cuffs on me. And he (the white youth) was sitting down on the couch watching the whole thing.”
In a statement, Bridgewater police said, “We recognize that this video has made members of our community upset & are calling for an internal affairs investigation. The officers were able to respond quickly to this incident & stop it from escalating because of a tip we received from the community. We have requested that the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office assist us in this matter.”
A Florida woman is accused of using some of her Covid-19 relief loan to hire a hit man to kill another woman.
The suspect, Jasmine Martinez, is in jail along with 2 other people, identified by police as Javon Carter & Romiel Robinson. They are all being held on charges related to the May 3 murder of Le’Shonte Jones & the attempted murder of Jones' 3-year-old daughter, who was injured.
Martinez is alleged to have concocted a plot to kill Jones, & Robinson is accused of enlisting Carter to carry out the slaying. In the days before the shooting, Martinez is alleged to have withdrawn about $10,000 from a federal Paycheck Protection Program loan she received. The warrant alleges that she used the money to pay Carter for the crime.
Martinez received the $15,000 loan — given to business owners struggling during the pandemic — for a single-employment beauty salon. It's not clear whether she actually owned the salon.
Investigators said Martinez knew the victim & had been arrested & charged in 2018 with getting into a physical altercation with Jones. Jones testified against Martinez in 2020.
After that court hearing, Jones reported that she was harassed, held at gunpoint & robbed by two men. One of the men was later identified as Martinez's ex-boyfriend, Kelly Nelson.
Nelson is in jail on charges related to the alleged robbery.
The warrant alleges that police investigating Jones' murder uncovered jail records of phone calls between Nelson & Martinez. Martinez is alleged to have told Nelson in a call on Feb. 11, 2021, that she was “ready to go kill” Jones & that Jones has to “die.”
The next day, Robinson, who was Martinez's new boyfriend, contacted Carter.
Jones reported in March that she was being harassed, was offered money not to testify against Nelson & was told that Martinez wanted Nelson home to help take care of their children. Jones testified against Nelson in April & also against Martinez for witness tampering.
Investigators alleged that shortly after her testimony, Robinson contacted Carter to get a price on the killing.
"I Like The Way That" is about someone who is in love with their best friend but is afraid to say it. They keep giving them signs or trying to show them that they are meant to be. The main questions are: There is some passion between us both, but is it something more than a simple attraction? Does the other person have feelings as well or is it all in my head? Should I give it a try or should I not ruin a perfect friendship?
Are they catching feelings too or are they simply being kind?
So many questions can remain unanswered between two people... Should we give it a try?
This song is about being somehow stuck in the scary so-called "friendzone". It isn't healthy for either side to remain friends with someone only in hope that they'll take us as their partner one day. We can't force love, it finds us.
A Mississippi inmate who escaped from prison over the weekend was captured Tuesday in a county where he had been convicted of murder, after a car he had stolen ran out of gas, authorities said. About a dozen prison employees were suspended because the staff waited more than a day to tell the state Department of Corrections he was missing, department officials said.
Michael Floyd Wilson, 51, was captured in coastal Harrison County, at least 130 miles from Central Mississippi Correctional Facility outside Jackson. It marked the third time Wilson — known as "Pretty Boy Floyd" — has escaped custody in the past two decades.
Sheriff Troy Peterson said in a news release that officers caught Wilson in a car that had been reported stolen from a woman in a neighboring county.
"He was riding in a car with a lady that had picked him up to give him a ride and she realized he was probably going to hijack her car because he kept looking at the gas gauge," Corrections Commissioner Burl Cain said.
The car ran out of gas while Wilson was trying to speed up to evade police, Cain said.
Cain said Wilson is being moved to a different prison and "he'll have a hard time getting away from us there."
Officials bemoaned that they had not received timely notification of Wilson's escape. Because his escape was kept a secret until Sunday, he was able to go undetected when he was treated at a hospital twice under a fake name for injuries he received while going over the prison's razor-wire fence.
Spanish Harlem, New York City emcee and The High Enterprise boss, UFO Fev, has locked in with DJ J. Hart for a new album titled "E Pluribus Unum," which drops Friday 2-18-2022.
The 2nd single and music video off of the project is for "Money."
South Jamaica, Queensbridge, New York emcee and Team Bang Dope Gang leader, Grafh, will release the deluxe edition of his album "Stop Calling Art Content" on Friday 2-18-2022.
Check out one one the bonus tracks featuring Havoc titled "Money Calling."
Produced entirely by the late, great DJ Shay
Executive produced by Benny the Butcher.
The project features Havoc, Benny the Butcher, Ransom, Bun B, Sheek Louch, Styles P, Heem, Rick Hyde, CyHi The Prynce, 3D Na'Tee and ElCamino.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The family of a cinematographer shot & killed on the set of the film “Rust” sued Alec Baldwin & the movie’s producers Tuesday for wrongful death.
Lawyers for the family of Halyna Hutchins announced the lawsuit filed in New Mexico in the name of Hutchins’ husband, Matthew Hutchins & their son, Andros, at a Los Angeles news conference.
At least 4 other lawsuits have been filed over the shooting, but this is the first directly tied to one of the 2 people shot.
The “reckless conduct & cost-cutting measures” of Baldwin & the film’s producers “led to the death of Halyna Hutchins,” attorney Brian Panish said.
A video created by the attorneys showed an animated recreation of the shooting.
Baldwin, who was also a producer on the film, was pointing a gun at Hutchins during the setup for the filming of a scene for the western in New Mexico on Oct. 21 when it went off, killing Hutchins & wounding the director, Joel Souza.
Baldwin has said he was pointing the gun at Hutchins at her instruction and it went off without him pulling the trigger.
The attorneys said in the video that Baldwin had turned down training for the kind of gun draw he was doing when he shot Hutchins.
It said industry standards call for using a rubber or similar prop gun during the setup that was happening & there was no call for a real gun.
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on February 15, 2022 at 12:28pm
(CNN) The families of five children and four adults killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting have reached a $73 million settlement with the now-bankrupt gun manufacturer Remington and its four insurers, the plaintiffs' attorneys said Tuesday.
The settlement comes more than seven years after the families filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against Remington, the manufacturer of the Bushmaster AR-15-style rifle used in the massacre that left 20 children and six adults dead in Newtown, Connecticut.
The families have also "obtained and can make public thousands of pages of internal company documents that prove Remington's wrongdoing and carry important lessons for helping to prevent future mass shootings," the plaintiffs' attorneys said in a news release.
"These nine families have shared a single goal from the very beginning: to do whatever they could to help prevent the next Sandy Hook. It is hard to imagine an outcome that better accomplishes that goal," plaintiffs' attorney Josh Koskoff said.
"This victory should serve as a wake-up call not only to the gun industry, but also the insurance and banking companies that prop it up," Koskoff said.
The families sued Remington in 2014, alleging it should be held partially responsible for the shooting because of its marketing strategy. A 2005 federal law protects many gun manufacturers from wrongful death lawsuits brought by family members -- but the marketing argument was a new approach.
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on February 15, 2022 at 11:34am
SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — Officials from the Salt Lake City Police Department announced the arrest of a suspect accused of slitting a woman’s throat inside her apartment.
According to police, 30-year-old Eric Jones was arrested early Saturday morning by patrol officers near 130 South 500 East.
The incident happened last Sunday at an apartment near 850 South West Temple Street when a woman was found by neighbors with bleeding heavily from her neck.
She was transported to the hospital in critical condition.
“During the investigation, the victim told SLCPD she let the suspect inside her residence so he could shower. The woman described the suspect as being homeless,” a news release stated.
Police described the incident as a "random attack."
Jones was booked into jail on a charge of aggravated assault. His arrest report was not publicly available Saturday morning.
Conway The Machine describes being self-conscious with his wounds after getting shot, wanting to prove people in his life wrong and continue rapping, dealing with depression, being from Buffalo, going on tour this year, performing at Coachella + more!
SH4MEL is a one man army on his new single, "Praise It." In addition to spitting fire bars, the Boston emcee also produced the song and directed the music video.
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