ATLANTA (AP) — A man injured in a chase while fleeing from police has been charged with kidnapping and murder in the death of an Atlanta bartender.
Atlanta police filed charges Sunday against DeMarcus Brinkley in the death of Mariam Abdulrab. Investigators say Brinkley kidnapped Abdulrab at gunpoint as she was returning home early Friday from her bartending job at the Revery VR Bar. Later that morning, police found Abdulrab dead from a gunshot.
Brinkley also is charged with aggravated assault, false imprisonment and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and possession of a firearm during of a felony.
Police did not release a motive in the case.
A 911 call that was made by Abdulrab's rapper boyfriend, Jerry Antoine, captures the first minutes after the victim was forced into a vehicle by an armed man and whisked away just before 5am on Friday.
Antoine, who performs under the stage name Germ, tells an emergency dispatcher that Abdularb had called him to say that she was approaching his house on Burroughs Street in Atlanta after finishing a shift at the Revery VR BAr, but she never made it inside.
Instead, Antoine said he watched from a window as a man wearing a security shirt held a gun to his girlfriend's head and forced her into a black SUV just moments after she emerged from her car.
Brinkley was arrested Friday on traffic charges after colliding with another vehicle while being chased by state troopers in Griffin, south of Atlanta. Called a “person of interest” at that time in Abdulrab’s death, Brinkley was taken to an Atlanta hospital with injuries. Authorities said he would be booked into the Fulton County jail after his release from the hospital.
The bar remained closed during the weekend in mourning for Abdulrab.
“Our hearts are truly broken at the loss of a dear friend and family member,” the bar wrote on social media. “Mariam brought light to every single person she came in contact with and will forever be missed.”
Others left flowers at memorials for Abdulrab, including an image someone painted of her.
Far Rockaway, Queens, New York emcee and LordMobb CEO, Flee Lord, has linked up with highly acclaimed emcee and producer Roc Marciano for a new album, "Delgado," which drops 8-27-2021.
The entire project is produced by Roc Marciano
It features vocal assists from Ransom. Roc Marci, Conway the Machine and Stove God Cooks.
The 2nd single off of the project is "This What Ya Want?"
Prior to OBH Records CEO, Ar-Ab getting jammed up he and Made Men Mafia boss, Don Gunna, locked in to record the song "Shadow" off of Gunna's album, "Crack Music 2."
Today, we're proud to premiere the official music video!
Directed by Southern Heat Visions x Hollywood Media Group @southernheatvisions @southernheatmedia @hollywoodpompeii
Produced by Go Hard Beats @gohardelitebeats
This is off of Don Gunna's album, "Crack Music 2."
A prominent female mayor and women's rights advocate in Afghanistan said the Taliban "will come for people like me and kill me" as the militant Islamist group retook control of the country.
Zarifa Ghafari, 27, leads the city of Maidan Sharh. She is Afghanistan's youngest mayor, became the first female mayor of the Maidan Wardak province in 2018, and has championed women's rights in Afghanistan for years, hosting her own radio show and founding a nongovernmental organization focused on empowering women economically.
"I'm sitting here waiting for them to come," Ghafari told the UK's iNews of the Taliban. "There is no one to help me or my family. I'm just sitting with them and my husband.
"And they will come for people like me and kill me. I can't leave my family. And anyway, where would I go?"
The collapse of Afghanistan's government in the wake of the US military's withdrawal from the nation and the resurgence of Taliban control of the country directly threatens the safety of women in Afghanistan, especially activists, journalists, and female politicians like Ghafari.
Ghafari has faced resistance to her leadership in her relatively conservative province, received numerous death threats, and survived multiple attempts on her life.
And in November, her father, Abdul Wasi Ghafari, a colonel in the Afghan army, was assassinated in Kabul, the country's capital. Ghafari attributed the fatal attack to the Taliban.
"They don't want me in Maidan Shar. That is why they killed my dad," Ghafari said at the time, according to The New York Times.
"I am so broken," she added. "I don't know who to rely on. But I won't stop now even if they come after me again. I am not scared to die anymore."
In May, Ghafari told Time magazine that the US's withdrawal from Afghanistan wouldn't deter her.
"For more than 60 years, men have had all the opportunities, but they haven't succeeded or found solutions for ongoing conflicts," Ghafari told the outlet. "I'm so confident that we, as women, can do better than anyone else."
Philadelphia 76ers star center Joel Embiid has signed a four-year, $196 million supermax contract extension, sources told ESPN.
The Sixers announced Tuesday morning the 7-footer has signed a multiyear deal with the team, but did not disclose details of the contract.
The extension keeps Embiid under contract with the Sixers through the 2026-27 season for a total of $261 million. The four-time All-Star already was set to make $65 million over the final two years of his current deal.
Embiid, who represented himself in the negotiations, became eligible for a supermax extension this summer after finishing second in MVP voting and making the All-NBA second team with averages of 28.5 points and 10.6 rebounds in 51 regular-season games in 2020-21.
This contract is fully guaranteed and includes a player option for the final year, sources said, but does not include the same provisions protecting the Sixers in case of catastrophic injury to Embiid's lower back or feet, like the five-year, $147.7 million deal he signed in 2017.
Since the 2017-18 season, Embiid has avoided the kind of injuries that stalled the beginning of his career. The longest stretch of games that Embiid missed in one season was the 11 games he missed this past spring with a bone bruise in his left knee.
He suffered a tear in his right meniscus during this season's playoffs but missed just one game and did not need surgery after the season, according to sources.
Embiid's extension will begin in 2023-24 and is based off a projected $124.95 million salary cap for that season.
Embiid, 27, has spent his entire career with the Sixers since being drafted No. 3 overall in 2014, posting career averages of 24.8 points and 11.3 rebounds while leading Philadelphia to the playoffs in each of the past four seasons.
A 13-year-old Georgia boy is in custody and charged with murder after police allege he fatally shot his mother, a 37-year-old Navy veteran, and then called 911.
The relationship between the victim and the alleged killer was confirmed by Warner Robins police.
The victim, Dominique Bowers, was found dead by officers in a Warner Robins home at about 1:30 p.m. Friday.
At the time officers were sent to the scene, they were also told that a 911 dispatcher was on the phone "with the possible suspect" concerning a report about shots fired, Warner Robins police said in a news release posted to the department's Facebook page.
Police located and arrested the 13-year-old away from the home where the victim was found.
Authorities did not reveal any information about what may have led to the alleged shooting, or whether the mother and son shared the residence.
According to her Facebook page, Bowers was a former Builder Petty Officer 2nd Class in the U.S. Navy, and had worked for the Virginia Department of Transportation after studying psychology at Roanoke College. Her profile says she was engaged.
The teen shooting suspect, who was not named by police, made an initial appearance in Houston County Superior Court on Saturday and is being held in the Crisp County Youth Detention Center, police said.
The juvenile is charged with murder and aggravated assault.
In the latest clip, Turk gave his reaction to Juvenile and BG leaving Cash Money around the time his solo debut was released. He also admitted that a lack of support during his incarceration caused him to leave Cash Money a few years later. However, Turk said he regretted leaving Cash Money and claimed he and Lil Wayne would've ended up owning the label if he stayed. Turk also addressed Cash Money's decision to release a Hot Boys album of old material as the group was already broken up.
In the latest clip, Michael Jai White offered his initial reaction to Bill Cosby winning his appeal and getting freed from prison. The actor admitted that he initially thought Cosby must have figured out a loophole or used his power and fame to reverse his conviction. After DJ Vlad broke down the specifics of the case and the fact that Cosby was a victim of a bait and switch tactic, Michael Jai White maintained his original opinion by adding that the average person would not have the representation to effectively carry out the extensive appeal.
Lil Wayne's never forgotten "Uncle Bob" -- the former New Orleans police officer who saved his life when he attempted suicide at age 12 -- and he's told him he's got his back for life if he ever needs anything.
"Uncle Bob," whose real name is Robert Hoobler, tells TMZ ... he saw Lil Wayne in 2019 when the rapper was in NOLA for a radio show, and that's when Wayne offered to provide Bob with financial support if he ever needed it, telling Bob all he has to do is say the word.
Bob says he hasn't taken up Weezy on the generous offer, but there have been talks about him joining Weezy's team in some sort of administrative capacity ... it's still TBD.
If you don't know ... Lil Wayne recently opened up about his mental health struggles as a kid and the incident with "Uncle Bob" when he was 12.
Lil Wayne now admits he intentionally shot himself in the chest -- for years, it was believed to be an accidental shooting -- and Bob was the cop who came to his rescue, refusing to let him die.
Now, all these years later, Wayne's still trying to pay back Bob. It's not the first time he's tried either -- you may recall his 2015 track "London Roads" in which he rapped about Bob saving him, and suggested the ex-cop had died.
But, Bob was still alive ... and says he got in touch with Wayne to let him know all reports or rumors of his death were greatly exaggerated.
Uncle Bob says Wayne was actually ready to pay for his funeral. Thankfully, that wasn't necessary.
A 21-year-old Chanhassen man was indicted on charges of premeditated first-degree murder by a Carver County grand jury last week for shooting his sister 18 times inside their family home filled with hundreds of spent bullet casings.
Joseph T. Ness was initially charged with intentional second-degree murder in connection with the May killing of Noelle Ness, 25, according to Carver County attorney Mark Metz, but the jury came back Aug. 10 with the indictment.
An omnibus hearing for Ness is slated for Oct. 6.
Metz said in a statement on the indictment that Ness retains the presumption of innocence "unless and until the state proves every element of the charged crimes beyond a reasonable doubt." Metz offered no motive for the shooting.
According to court documents:
On May 8, deputies were dispatched to the Ness home on Landings Drive after the mother ran to a neighbor's house saying that "Joey shot and killed Noelle." That neighbor called 911 around 2:20 p.m. and about 45 minutes later, another nearby resident said Ness had walked onto her property confessing that he had just killed his sister. They called 911 and Ness was arrested and held in lieu of $1 million bail.
Inside the bullet-riddled home with many shot-out windows just off Lake Minnewashta., authorities found six rifles, including AR-15 and AK-47 variants, ammunition and high-capacity drum magazines.
Ness shot from his bedroom into his sister's room across the hall, according to the criminal complaint, but it noted that she was also shot from closer range "as rounds traveled vertically through her bed."
The United States spent more than $8bn over 15 years on efforts to deprive the Taliban of their profits from Afghanistan’s opium and heroin trade, from poppy eradication to air attacks and raids on suspected labs.
That strategy failed.
As the US wraps up its longest war, Afghanistan remains the world’s biggest illicit opiate supplier & looks certain to remain so as the Taliban takes power in Kabul, said current & former US & UN officials & experts.
Widespread destruction during the war, millions uprooted from their homes, foreign aid cuts & losses of local spending by departed US-led foreign troops are fueling an economic & humanitarian crisis that is likely to leave many destitute Afghans dependent on the narcotics trade for survival.
That dependence threatens to bring more instability as the Taliban, other armed groups, ethnic militia leaders & corrupt public officials vie for drug profits & power.
“The Taliban have counted on the Afghan opium trade as one of their main sources of income,” Cesar Gudes, the head of the Kabul office of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), told Reuters. “More production brings drugs with a cheaper & more attractive price & therefore a wider accessibility.”
Despite the threats posed by Afghanistan’s illicit drug business, experts noted, the US and other nations rarely mention in public the need to address the trade – estimated by the UNODC at more than 80 percent of global opium and heroin supplies.
“We’ve stood by on the sidelines & unfortunately, allowed the Taliban to become probably the largest funded non-designated terrorist organization on the globe,” said a US official with knowledge of Afghanistan’s drug trade.
“The US & international partners have continued to pull out and not addressed poppy cultivation,” the official said. “What you’re going to find is that it has exploded.”
Silento now stands accused of murder -- a Georgia grand jury indicted him in the shooting death of his cousin ... TMZ has learned.
According to new legal docs ... the grand jury hit the "Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)" rapper with 4 felony charges, including one count of malice murder and one count of felony murder.
He's was also charged with aggravated assault and gun possession during the commission of a felony.
As we reported ... cops arrested Silento in early February for allegedly murdering Frederick Rooks after an investigation into the man's death. Rooks, the rapper's cousin, was shot to death in the street on Jan. 21, and cops in DeKalb County linked Silento to the crime.
Silento's team claims he's been suffering from various mental health issues for several years.
Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) A tropical storm system is threatening to unleash flash flooding and mudslides on the area of Haiti where a 7.2-magnitude earthquake killed almost 1,300 people on Saturday.
Tropical Depression Grace was approaching the southern coast of Hispaniola, the island comprising Haiti and the Dominican Republic, early Monday bringing with it sustained winds of 35 mph, and higher gusts, CNN meteorologist Haley Brink said.
Tropical storm conditions are possible in the Dominican Republic and Haiti later today, Brink said, adding that several inches of rain are forecast -- with up to 15 inches possible in some isolated areas -- through Tuesday.
"I am worried about the upcoming storm as it can complicate the situation for us," Jerry Chandler, head of Haiti's civil protection agency, said on Sunday.
The agency reported at least 1,297 people dead and more than 5,700 injured on Sunday. Those numbers are expected to rise as search and rescue efforts continue.
The quake destroyed 13,694 homes and damaged another 13,785, officials from the agency said.
The destruction has also pushed hospitals to the brink and blocked roads, making it difficult for vital supplies to reach the affected areas.
"We really need help, yesterday I was helping at the hospital and things were out of control," a volunteer named Marcelin Lorejoie told CNN on Sunday.
"Not enough doctors, not enough medicines and we have people with serious injuries. We need urgent help before things (get) more complicated."
Authorities are going from house to house in search of survivors -- efforts which demand a tremendous amount of resources.
At the site of one collapsed hotel, a CNN team saw just one excavator, which was not working at the time. There was no police or security presence nearby, as people carried air conditioning units away from the wrecked building.
The earthquake struck at 8:30 a.m. local time on Saturday, at a depth of about 10 kilometers (6.2 miles); its epicenter was about 7.5 miles northeast of Saint-Louis-du-Sud in the southwest part of the country.
That location is about 60 miles west of the epicenter of the disastrous 7.0-magnitude quake that killed an estimated 220,000 to 300,000 people in 2010.
In this episode of "People's Party With Talib Kweli," Kweli and Jasmin Leigh sit down with rapper and writer:
ISAIAH RASHAD
Here's what we dug into with one of this generation's most respected lyricists:
• Why Isaiah chose to rap under his first and middle name. • His mother and stepfather's history of being Five-Percenters. • The primary rap influences that gave him the emotional variations in his flow. • Going through phases of wanting to become a preacher or a teacher. • The impact of Outkast and their album 'ATLiens' had on his wanting to pick up a mic. • His Chattanooga, Tennessee upbringing and the influences shaped his style. • Diversity in today's hip hop and the future of journalism. • How he was brought onto the Smoker's Club Music Festival. • The excellence of Joey Bada$$ and his hitting the scene during the "creative control era". • Why SoundCloud has been such a huge part of Isaiah's success story. • The Top Dawg Entertainment signing feeling like a blessing from God. • Feeling in the zone during the making of his 'Cilvia Demo'. • Discussion of if 'The Sun's Tirade' was meant to be a concept album. • Lupe Fiasco and Lil' Wayne inspiring him to write introspectively. • Breaking down who Isaiah views as the most entertaining rapper. • A debate over whether or not Magoo was a good rapper and if he stole Q-Tip's style. • The songs 'Wat's Wrong featuring Zacari & Kendrick Lamar and 'Free Lunch'. • Ice Cube going Hollywood while still releasing records that garner respect. • His experience working with Syd, SZA as well as Kenny Beats. • His highly anticipated album 'The House Is Burning' being released the day of the show.
TIME STAMPS:
2:00 -- Isaiah's birth year of 1991 is discussed, along with LeVar Burton, Batman Forever, Talib being a ghetto Transformer for Halloween as a kid, why Isaiah chose to rap under his first and middle name, Talib's early rap name as well, Isaiah listening to Scarface and Too $hort as a young kid as well as the reactions Isaiah gets from people in Ireland when they find out his last name is McLain.
8:31 -- Isaiah is asked about his mother and stepfather being Five-Percenters who later returned to the Baptist church. He goes on to talk about attempting to learn more about Five-Percenter philosophy during 'The Sun's Tirade' album, the primary rap influences that gave him the emotional variations in his flow and going through phases of wanting to become a preacher or a teacher.
12:57 -- Isaiah gets into the impact of Outkast and specifically their album 'ATLiens' had on him growing up and tells how his first exposure to the group was a chopped and screwed 'Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik'. He also tells why he would hand write the lyrics of his favorite emcees, talks about early frustrations evolving his pen game and how his Chattanooga, Tennessee upbringing and the influences shaped his style.
18:22 -- Talib and Isaiah give a shout out to the heads at DJBooth for assisting them in their careers, they talk about the diversity in today's hip hop and the future of it's journalism, Isaiah tells how he was brought onto the Smokers Club Music Festival and how it was a pivotal moment in his career. They also discuss the excellence of Joey Bada$$ out the gate, him being Talib's son's favorite rapper and how he came on to the scene during the "creative control era".
23:25 -- Isaiah speaks on how posting his early material on SoundCloud was such a huge part of his success story, Talib and Isaiah go on to compare the eras of how they first got the attention of A&Rs and Isaiah attempts to school Talib on the latest iPhone technology. He also breaks down why his Top Dawg Entertainment signing felt like a blessing from God, how they covered his rent for a while and how much he appreciated their early investment in him as an emerging artist.
29:18 -- Talib brings up how impressed he was with Isaiah's 'Cilvia Demo' album with emphasis on the 'Shot You Down (Remix)'. They get into his process of making that record and the zone he was in at the time, Jay Rock and ScHoolboy Q's contributions, they discuss how Isaiah's attained his Zaywop nickname, he tells how 'The Sun's Tirade' album with themes of overcoming depression and drug abuse wasn't necessarily intended to be a concept record and speaks on Lupe Fiasco and Lil' Wayne inspiring him to write introspectively.
34:34 -- Isaiah breaks down who he thinks is the most entertaining rapper of all-time as well as who has the best wordplay with Jay-Z, Lil’ Wayne, and Young Thug being names in play. Isaiah talks about originally just wanting to make music for his homies and Talib shares his initial reactions when he first heard groups like Little Brother and Blu & Exile as well as the day he met Kendrick Lamar when he was brought onto Talib's basement podcast.
39:03 -- Isaiah, Talib and Jas debate whether or not Magoo was a good rapper and if he stole Q-Tip's style and flow or they just have similar voices. Raekwon's 'Shark N*ggas (Biters)' track is brought up as well as the Ghostface Killah and Action Bronson beef, A Tribe Called Quest's impact on Isaiah, Magoo getting props for his part in Timbaland's success and Isaiah's songs 'Wat's Wrong featuring Zacari & Kendrick Lamar and 'Free Lunch' are also talked about.
44:13 -- Isaiah tells how Young Thug inspires him, Talib mentions people missing the artistic side of trap and Isaiah asks Talib if he would put Ludacris in his top five rap entertainers. They also discuss Ice Cube going Hollywood while still releasing records that garner respect, Isaiah's song 'Silkk da Shocka', his experience working with Syd who is featured on the track, working with SZA who he lived with for several years, his track 'Headshots' and he talks about Kenny Beats being his rap coach.
49:41 -- Isaiah's latest album 'The House Is Burning' being released the day of this episode is mentioned and Isaiah gets into some of the legendary features on the album which include the likes of Duke Deuce, Lil Uzi Vert, Smino, Amindi, Jay Rock, Jay Worthy, Iamdoechii, Kal Banx, YGTUT, 6lack and SZA. Isaiah later gets into avoiding friends' houses to eat if they're vegan, they discuss food like pig's feet becoming a delicacy with a Scarface movie reference to prove it and eating octopus alive.
Bronx, New York emcee and BottomLyne Music CEO, BeenOfficial, releases another official music video off of his stellar album ,"A.O.D. (America's on Drugs)." This latest one is for "Dope Block."
Thousands of Afghans have been filmed desperately chasing after and clinging to a US Air Force plane as it taxied down the runway — with at least two falling to their deaths in the frantic attempt to flee the country after the Taliban takeover, shocking new video shows.
Just moments after the military plane left the runway on Monday, the two young men can be seen falling onto the tarmac, local media reports.
They were among the thousands filmed chasing after and climbing onto the military plane as it prepared to take off.
In chaotic scenes on Monday, crowds of Afghans stormed Kabul’s international airport and swarmed the tarmac as US military flights were preparing to leave.
One shocking video being shared on social media shows a crowd of people running alongside a military plane as it taxied down the runway.
Dozens of people can be seen trying to grip onto the sides of the plane.
In other videos, hundreds of people can be seen running across the tarmac as US soldiers fired warning shots in the air.
A US official said troops had fired in the air to deter people trying to force their way onto a military flight that was set to evacuate American diplomats out of the fallen city.
Another shows a crowd trying to push and shove their way up a staircase in a bid to board a plane, with some people hanging off the railings.
Five people were killed during the airport chaos but it wasn’t immediately clear how the victims died.
The shocking scenes came just hours after Taliban insurgents toppled the Western government after a lightning, week-long onslaught across the country.
The Taliban swept into Kabul on Sunday after President Ashraf Ghani fled the country, bringing a stunning end to a two-decade campaign in which the US and its allies had tried to transform Afghanistan.
The US Embassy has already been evacuated and the American flag lowered, with diplomats relocating to the airport to aid with the evacuation.
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