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Outraged Mother Speaks Out After 11-Year-Old Daughter is Tased in the Back by Off-Duty Cincinnati Cop [Update]
Updated: Wednesday, August 8, 2018; 4:00 p.m. EDT: A Cincinnati mother is demanding answers and action after her 4-foot-11, 90-pounds-soaking-wet 11-year-old daughter was tased in the back by an officer. Donna Gowdy, the mother in question, does not believe that any child should be stunned in that manner, because why the fuck would you do…
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Kevin Hart Partners With the United Negro College Fund, Knowledge Is Power Program to Launch $600,000 Scholarship ProgramÂ
We love a benevolent celebrity who supports education, and Kevin Hart joins the ranks of those like BeyoncĂ© and Nicki Minaj to help support the continued education of deserving students. The actor and comedian has partnered with the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) and the Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP) through his Help from the…
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This Genius Tried to Take His Driver's License Test With a Pound of Marijuana, a Gun in the Car
Todayâs contender for âAmericaâs Most Smartestâ (I said what I said) is 22-year-old Reginald D. Wooding Jr., who thought it would be a great idea to take his driverâs license test with a pound of marijuana, a loaded gun, a 30-round magazine and some $15,000 cash in the car he was using. According to WBALTV,…
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'Plastered Peggy' Lists Reasons Why Cop Shouldn't Arrest Her, Claims She's a 'Very Clean, Thoroughbred, White Girl'
A Bluffton, S.C., woman thought her whiteness would come in a clutch when she was stopped by police after plowing through a stop sign more than 30 miles an hour over the speed limit (allegedly while drunk to top it off) early Saturday morning. The woman, identified by the New York Post as Lauren Elizabeth…
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Even Scrubbing Trump's Star Off the Hollywood Walk of Fame Is More Complicated Than It Should Be
Late Monday, the West Hollywood City Council unanimously passed a resolution to ask the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce to remove Donald Trumpâs star from the Hollywood Walk of Fame. But as much as Iâd love to sip on this delicious, cold brew of petty, apparently, nothing is ever easy and all our dreams are unlikely…
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Black Lives Matter Disrupts Wedding of Officer Involved in Fatal Shooting of Stephon Clark
One of the officers who fired 10 shots each at Stephon Clark, ultimately killing the young father, was greeted by Black Lives Matter protesters on his wedding day. It may be easy for the unidentified officer to move on with his life, get married, start a familyâopportunities that have now been robbed of Clarkâbut protesters…
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'Black $$$ Matter': Protesters Gather Outside Brooklyn Nail Salon Following Fight Over Botched Eyebrow WaxÂ
Dozens of protesters gathered outside of an East Flatbush nail salon in Brooklyn, N.Y., demanding that the business be closed after viral video spread of employees, who are Asian, attacking a black woman with the handle of a broomstick or a mop and even spraying what appears to be acetone nail polish remover The New…
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White Driver Who Called Black Motorist 'Monkey,' Swears He's 'Not Racial' Because He Has Biracial Grandkids
Tale as old as time, song as old as rhyme, âI canât be racist because I have mixed family membersâ… at least thatâs what one Pennsylvania man would want you to believe after his life has gone to shit since video of him screaming âmonkeyâ and âniggerâ at a black motorist went viral. You know…
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Federal Judge Stops New Orleans From Jailing Those Who Fail to Pay Fines, Rules That They Must Have a Chance to Plead Poverty
Instead of being immediately tossed into jail for failing to pay fines or fees related to whatever legal issues you may have, a federal judge has ruled that anyone who owes money from criminal convictions in New Orleans must have a chance to plead poverty in a âneutral forum,â before being put behind bars for…
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Youth Care Worker Accused of Sexually Molesting 8 Children at Government Immigrant Shelter in Mesa, Ariz.Â
A Southwest Key youth-care worker is facing multiple sex offense charges after being accused of molesting at least eight unaccompanied boys over the time span of a year at one of the government youth shelters in Mesa, Ariz. Levian D. Pacheco, who is HIV-positive, is accused of performing oral sex on two of the teens…