J. Cole - p u n c h i n ' . t h e . c l o c k (Official Music Video) Stream or Download "The Off-Season" now: https://jcole.lnk.to/OffSeason Directed by Scott Lazer
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Dramatic video footage released Wednesday by California police shows a Black man walking around an unmarked police vehicle, opening the door & pointing a gun at an undercover officer inside before the man was fatally shot.
San Jose Police Chief Anthony Mata said two undercover officers were conducting surveillance Monday on 31-year-old Demetrius Stanley & had no plans to arrest or confront him. Stanley, however, opened the car door & pointed his firearm, forcing the officer to fire, Mata said.
“Officers did not want, or anticipate, a confrontation that night & did everything possible to avoid having one. Unfortunately, the officers have no control over the actions of others,” the chief said.
Officials released still images of the shooting Tuesday but no details shortly before more than 100 demonstrators marched along street & a freeway to protest Stanley’s death.
Family members & some of those who participated in the protest accused police of withholding key details about the shooting. They said home-security video showed the officers were in plainclothes & an unmarked vehicle & did not announce themselves as police.
They said Stanley did not know he was dealing with police.
Mata said Stanley had acknowledged committing a March 12 armed robbery & was arrested and released on bail. On Monday, undercover detectives pursuing other allegations related to the robbery were trying to confirm where Stanley lived when he came out of his house carrying a gun & went toward one of the plainclothes officers on the street, the chief said.
The officer walked away quickly & Stanley returned to the house, tucking the firearm into the waistband of his shorts, Mata said. Another officer in the unmarked vehicle did not attempt to exit the car or confront Stanley.
Stanley then walked to the vehicle & opened the door with the firearm in his other hand, Mata said.
“Fearing for his life, the officer fired his weapon at Stanley,” he said.
Mata declined to name the officer, a 14-year police veteran, given the nature of the officer’s duties. Police said they recovered a 9mm unregistered ghost gun with an illegal high capacity magazine at the scene.
The protest march was led by the BLACK Outreach SJ and HERO Tent activist groups that protested last spring after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, and the San Jose Police Department’s violent response to protests in the wake of the killing.
“They’re going to try & say that it was as simple as he pointed guns at police officers, but that’s not what happened,” said Lou Dimes, president of BLACK Outreach SJ. “He was being stalked by people in plain clothing who didn’t identify themselves as police officers. He thought he was in danger.”
Eminencee - Act Up (New Official Music Video) (Dir. By Rolldice)
Houston rhyme spitter Eminencee presents "Colors" An eleven-song effort that puts his immense talent on full display. You won't feel the need to skip a song, though you might be tempted to listen to several tunes more than once.
1. Intro (Colors) 2. Act Up 3. Brain Run 4. Sheriff Badge 5. Crown Queen ft Jaybird 6. Greatest Alive ft Slater the Genius 7. Felon 8. Fatal Attraction 9. Maximize ft Black James 10. Air Bubbles 11. Fear God
Vanessa Bryant, widow of NBA star Kobe Bryant, called out Nike on Thursday, claiming the footwear manufacturer released an unapproved "MAMBACITA" shoe honoring the Bryants' late daughter, Gianna Bryant, after photos circulated online that appeared to show someone in possession of the shoe.
"This is a shoe I worked on in honor of my daughter, Gianna. It was going to be called the MAMBACITA shoe as an exclusive black & white colorway on her daddy’s shoes," Bryant wrote on Instagram.
Kobe Bryant, who won five NBA championships with the Los Angeles Lakers, & his daughter Gianna "Gigi" Bryant, who was 13, died in a helicopter crash in January 2020.
In the post, Bryant said she designed the shoe with special signifiers of Gianna's life: the No. 2 that appeared on her uniform; the names "Kobe" and "Gigi" on the back of the shoe; a butterfly, wings and halo.
However, she went on to say she had not authorized the shoe for sale.
"The MAMBACITA shoes are NOT approved for sale. I wanted it to be sold to honor my daughter with ALL of the proceeds benefitting our @mambamambacitasports foundation, but I did not re-sign the Nike contract and decided not to sell these shoes," Bryant wrote.
She said not only had the shoe not been approved to be sold but that it wasn't approved to be manufactured, either.
"Nike has NOT sent any of these pairs to me and my girls. I do not know how someone else has their hands on shoes I designed in honor of my daughter, Gigi & we don't. I hope these shoes did not get sold @nike," Bryant wrote.
Israel Adesanya captured the interim middleweight title at UFC 236 in 2019 in a Fight of the Night against Kelvin Gastelum. Now the undisputed champion, Adesanya next faces Marvin Vettori in the main event of UFC 263 on Saturday, June 12.
Lil Loaded's mother is the person who called police after finding him dead from a gunshot to the head, and we've learned she instantly knew what had upset her son.
According to the police report, obtained by TMZ, cops in Cedar Hill, Texas responded Monday morning to a call for an attempted suicide and when they arrived at the home, Lil Loaded's mom was crying on the front porch and the rapper was dead inside with a gun nearby.
Police say LL's mom told them she had returned home to find her son in the second-floor hallway. Cops also say she told them he was emotional Sunday night, crying and upset over how much he loved his ex-girlfriend.
As we reported, the up-and-coming rapper died over the holiday weekend & his attorney, Ashkan Mehryari, seemed to believe Lil Loaded killed himself. The 20-year-old MC also posted an ominous message before his death.
Lil Loaded's post read in part, "Dear most high, please forgive me for my shortcomings & all of the times I’ve fell short of making you proud."
He added, "I ask for entrance into your kingdom thru all of my mistakes. I know you love all your children, & I’m ready for my heart & soul to join you."
Although his mother mentioned the situation with his ex, Loaded had also recently been charged with manslaughter for a 2020 shooting death, & was out on bond.
UNION CITY, Ga. — Marquavis Goolsby, who goes by the stage name of Dae Dae, is currently wanted by the Union City Police Department.
The Atlanta rapper, who made a splash on the hip-hop scene with his 2015 hit “What You Mean,” is now part of an investigation by the Union City Police Department.
Goolsby is suspected of being involved in a stabbing at a Union City Dunkin’ location in December.
According to police, they were called to the Dunkin’ location in Union City in response to a fight. Police arrived and said the victim, Mekiah Bryant, was lying on the floor. Bryant had a visible cut to her left arm, according to the report.
Officers questioned Bryant about what happened. She said an unknown man pulled into the drive-thru and, after not being able to get the items he wanted, began to get upset. He then left the location.
Bryant said the man returned, exited his red Audi and started a verbal altercation with staff. According to Bryant, the verbal altercation then turned physical. She said at some point the man pulled out a knife and swung it at her multiple times. Bryant says that is how she got the laceration on her arm.
The unknown male left the location, but not before leaving some evidence behind. The suspect managed to leave of his white sneakers behind in the midst of all of the commotion.
Technically, dry scooping isn't anything new, but it has recently come back into the public eye with more people trying it on TikTok before their workouts. The gist: You are supposed to take a scoop of pre-workout powder dry and then chase it with water, as opposed to taking it how it's intended (diluting the powder with water and then drinking it).
For the most part, people come away from the trend unscathed—but two women had a pretty scary reaction to dry-scooping: One shared that she actually had a heart attack, and another couldn't breathe and needed her inhaler.
In a TikTok video posted on April 15, Briatney Portillo shared her experience: "Taking a dry pre workout scoop [because] I saw it trending on TikTok," she wrote in a caption over a photo with a rainbow clown face filter. "Ending up in the hospital because I had a heart attack," she added.
Portillo, 20, told BuzzFeed that she had a "heavy feeling" in her chest and "slight pain" after she tried dry scooping but added that it "wasn't too bad." She went to her job as an exotic dancer and "started sweating a lot" even though she was wearing a bikini. She developed more intense chest pain that "went to my back and to my left arm and my left arm went slightly limp, so I knew those were symptoms of a heart attack. I called 911 and the ambulance came," she said.
Portillo eventually shared in her comments on TikTok that she had what's known as a non-ST segment elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI), which is a partial or temporary blockage of blood flow to the heart, according to the Cleveland Clinic. "I have no heart conditions and I still got messed up," she said.
Lo Smooth - Like That Ft. AyoShy (New Official Audio)
Brooklyn, New York native and SmoothGroove Records CEO, Lo Smooth, drops off "Like That," featuring AyoShy. This is the lead single off of Lo's forthcoming album titled "CEO Shit." dropping June 25th on Spotify, Apple Music etc.
1. Crunch Time 2. Moments 3. Grafitti (feat. Cortez) 4. Rolling Up 5. Summertime 6. Sunrise (feat. Pr0fit Diner0) 7. Rinse Cycle (feat. smooVth) 8. No Further (feat. O Finess) 9. Oprah 10. Mac Pro
Former President Donald Trump has been telling people he thinks he'll return to the White House as the sitting president by August, the New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman tweeted on Tuesday.
Haberman, who broke some of the biggest stories of the Trump administration and has been covering him for decades, added that Trump had been "laser focused" on election audits in states whose results he is still trying to overturn.
The anti-democratic conspiracy theory has been bubbling up in fringe conservative media for several months. It has no basis under the Constitution or any legitimate legal framework.
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell has been a prominent proponent of the theory.
The former Trump attorney Sidney Powell also floated the idea at a QAnon conference over the weekend.
The anticipation of a Trump reinstatement on a certain date could spread further among the most dedicated Trump supporters. The calls to help overturn the 2020 election on January 6, for example, gained steam through a pro-Trump bus tour by a fringe group and led to the insurrection at the Capitol.
Lindell has said August is when he would go to the Supreme Court to present evidence he's acquired that would be so convincing that the justices would be forced to reject the 2020 election result.
A podcast from the former Trump advisor Steve Bannon has amplified the conspiracy theory, as Lindell and others have gone on the show to promote it with minimal pushback.
The podcast is influential among GOP lawmakers hoping to avoid a primary challenge while seeking reelection.
Trump's lawyers and other Republicans filed dozens of lawsuits related to the election; all failed.
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