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Three North Carolina women charged with running an elderly fight club
We’ve heard of dog fight clubs and even cockfighting between roosters, but now three North Carolina women are accused of forcing senior citizens with dementia to come to blows.
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Marilyn McKey, 32, Tonacia Tyson ,20, and Taneshia Jordan, 26, are charged with running an elderly fight club and pitting the senile residents against each other for a bout of fisticuffs at the Danby House in Winston-Salem, NBC News reported.
In June the three suspects, who were part of the nursing staff, showcased the fights on social media they allegedly organized. The Winston-Salem police and the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services are investigating.
One fight resulted “in one resident being strangled with her face turning red … while staff recorded and shared the video through social media,” a state Division of Health Service Regulation report found.
One of the three organizers even egged on a resident who was fighting by ordering her to beat another contender, telling her to “punch her in the face,” the state report said, which cites video of the incident.
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In a video, one of the elderly women falls on a bed and yells out, “Let go, help me, help me, let go,” while another woman keeps hitting her, according to the Winston-Salem Journal.
“Are you recording?” a staff member asks on the video. “You gonna send it to me?” the report said.
The women themselves are also accused of getting physical with elderly residents, according to the report.
On Tuesday, a spokesperson for Danby House, confirmed that the three women have been fired.
“Danby House has a zero-tolerance policy for the mistreatment of those in our care,” the facility said in a statement.
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“Administrators have been working closely with the Winston-Salem Police Department throughout its investigation to ensure justice is served. Additional staff training and a more rigorous vetting process for all new and existing employees at Danby House has been implemented.”
Danby House has been prohibited from accepted new patients, thanks to the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, the Winston-Salem Journal reported.
The suspects, McKey, Tyson and Jordan are slated to appear in court Nov. 14.
Let’s see how they do defending against other inmates while in jail.
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Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren stockpile millions more than 2020 rivals
By BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren don’t just lead the Democratic presidential primary in fundraising. They’ve stockpiled millions more than their rivals, including former Vice President Joe Biden, who burned through money at a fast clip over the past three months while posting an anemic fundraising haul.
Sanders held $33.7 million cash on hand on his third-quarter fundraising report. Warren had $25.7 million during the same period, while South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg came next $23.3 million.
Biden, meanwhile, held just $8.9 million, a small fraction of what his leading rivals have at their disposal.
With the first votes of the Democratic contest just months away, the candidates are entering a critical and expensive period when having an ample supply of cash can make or break a campaign. Biden’s total raises questions about his durability as a front-runner.
“Can he do better at fundraising? Absolutely. And I think he will,” said Biden donor and fundraiser Steve Westly.
While many contenders in the crowded field will be triaging resources and making difficult spending decisions in the coming months, the advantage enjoyed by the Vermont and Massachusetts senators means they will have the luxury of spending when and where they want. That will allow them to buy large amounts of advertising, respond to attacks and boost their ground games in early voting states like Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina.
“If you are sitting at fourth, fifth or even seventh place and you don’t have the money to have a real paid media campaign, the future for you is probably pretty bleak. You will get drowned out by the rest of the noise,” said Grant Woodard, a Des Moines attorney who is a veteran of John Kerry’s and Hillary Clinton’s Iowa campaigns. “It’s still a fluid race. But to be competitive in this thing you are going to have to be on TV, digital and you are going to have to be on direct mail. The fundamentals still matter.”
Biden has built a formidable campaign, but it’s come at a cost. The $17.6 million he spent over the past three months was more than the $15.7 million he took in, according to his fundraising figures that were submitted to the Federal Election Commission on Tuesday’s reporting deadline.
Despite his lackluster totals, he still remains a favored candidate in recent public opinion polls, along with Warren. And in recent weeks, both Biden and his wife, Jill, have kept up a busier fundraising schedule.
“People focused on the minutia and the details,” said Westly, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist. “The reality is this is quickly boiling down to a two-person race — and that’s between Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren.”
Still, Biden is not alone in the sprawling field.
California Sen. Kamala Harris had $10.5 million cash on hand but deferred paying consultants including her pollster nearly $1 million, records show. New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker held $4.2 million, disclosures show.
And the situation was far more dismal for others. Former Obama housing secretary Julián Castro had just $672,000 cash on hand, while Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan had even less, $158,000, records show.
The advantage Warren and Sanders have was evident in the way they have been able to spend.
Sanders’ $21.5 million in spending between July and the end of September topped the list. It enabled him to spend $3.8 million on advertising and online fundraising, drop nearly $1 million on campaign merchandise and pay his staff a combined $5.6 million, records show.
Warren’s $18.6 million in spending during that period allowed her to fund a sprawling staff operation that includes well over 500 people on the payroll, in addition to financing a more than $3.2 million digital operation, records show.
Buttigieg, too, has hired roughly 100 staffers in Iowa, where his campaign is betting on a strong performance.
But just because they have a massive cash advantage doesn’t mean the other candidates are doomed. Even though time is running out, candidates could still see their financial picture improve, particularly if they have a viral online moment to boost their online fundraising.
“The question is: Do you have enough money to run a strong campaign? North of $5 million and you have the ability to get through the fourth quarter,” said Democratic donor and Wall Street financier Robert Wolf, who was an economic adviser to Barack Obama.
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Gina Rodriguez apologizes after posting video singing n-word
Is Gina Rodriguez ready or not to be cancelled after Black Twitter tore into the actress for spitting the n-word while singing a Fugees song?
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Rodriguez who has made problematic comments in the past, has issued an apology after getting blasted by the internet for singing Lauryn Hill’s lyrics on the “Ready or Not” song by the Fugees, that included the n-word, PEOPLE reports.
For whatever reason, the Jane the Virgin star decided to post herself singing the song on her Instagram Story and it definitely didn’t go over well. People called her out for easily using the offensive term which has negative connotations and hurled by non-white people to insult people of color. On the other spectrum, Black folks and especially rappers use it as a term of endearment.
But if you’re not Black, don’t even dare.
“Hey, what’s up everybody — I just wanted to reach out and apologize,” she said. “I am sorry. I am sorry if I offended anyone by singing along to the Fugees, to a song that I love, that I grew up on. I love Lauryn Hill. And I really am sorry if I offended you.”
Rodriguez got ripped Instagram and said it was a “humiliating” hard lesson learned.
After re-watching the video she said she it “has shaken me to my core.”
“In song or in real life, the words that I spoke, should not have been spoken,” Rodriguez said. “I thoughtlessly sang along to the lyrics of a favorite song, and even worse, I posted it. The word I sang, carries with it a legacy of hurt and pain that I cannot even imagine.”
“Whatever consequences I face for my actions today, none will be more hurtful than the personal remorse I feel,” she continued. “It is humiliating that this has to be a public lesson but it is indeed a much-deserved lesson.”
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Rodriguez, 35, also apologized for hurting the “community of color.”
“I feel so deeply protective and responsible to the community of color but I have let this community down,” she wrote. “I have some serious learning and growing to do and I am so deeply sorry for the pain I have caused.”
Rodriguez can’t seem to stop stumbling over her own lips.
Last year she got folks upset when she insulted Black folks after a roundtable discussion she took part in with fellow TV actresses Ellen Pompeo, Gabrielle Union, and Emma Roberts was posted on YouTube.
“I get so petrified in this space talking about equal pay, especially when you look at the intersectional aspect of it, right? Where white women get paid more than black women, black women get paid more than Asian women, Asian women get paid more than Latina women, and it’s like a very scary space to step into,” she said at the time.
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According to Forbes, the highest paid actress of 2018 was Sofia Vergera, who is very decidedly Latina.
Then she criticized the movie Black Panther for not showcasing Latina women when Afro-Latina actresses like Tessa Thompson and Zoe Saldana are a part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
On Tuesday, journalist Ernest Owens tweeted: “Black women BEEN telling y’all Gina Rodriguez was an anti-Black problem. Shouldn’t have taken her to say the n-word before y’all woke up. But go off.”
Black women BEEN telling y’all Gina Rodriguez was an anti-Black problem.
Shouldn’t have taken her to say the n-word before y’all woke up.
But go off.
— Ernest Owens (@MrErnestOwens) October 15, 2019
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Singer Keke Wyatt announcing her tenth baby, first with new husband
Singer Keke Wyatt obviously loves the kids because the songstress is expecting her 10th baby!
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The 37-year-old got a lot of talk about and will chronicle her life on a new YouTube series called The Keke Show. If you’ve been following her life then you already know it’s chock full of ups and downs that includes an uncertain singing career, several tumultuous marriages, a boat-load of kids, and a child who had a bout with cancer.
And now here comes baby!
On Monday Wyatt took to Instagram to share her joy: “My husband Zackariah Darring and I are so happy to announce that we are expecting our new bundle of joy!”
“We are excited to welcome the 10th addition to our beautiful family,” she continued.
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She also announced the new show.
“Stay tuned for the release date & information for my new YouTube Series “The Keke Show” where you will see me balancing Wife, Mommy and Artist!!! Trust me.. it’s never a dull moment with my family. Love ya sugars,” Wyatt concluded.
Wyatt flossed her bulging belly on the gram’ with pics from her maternity photo-shoot.
We’re happy she’s using the gram for good because if you recall, back in 2017 she and her broken heart took to Instagram to air out all her dirty laundry and out her then husband on blast.
In an emotional video, Wyatt said that her then husband, Michael Ford, wanted out of their marriage.
The singer, who was eight months pregnant with her ninth child, said her husband has started to tell other women the couple would get a divorce.
Ford, who has been facing allegations that he has been unfaithful to Wyatt, apparently told Wyatt that he wanted to leave her because she didn’t trust him.
But when one door closes, Zackariah Darring knocks and another opens.
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Wyatt married Darring in 2018 after her marriage with Ford ended.
As far as motherhood, Wyatt thinks it’s one of her many talents.
“That’s one of my many gifts [and] talents. It can be difficult, but when you love something and are passionate about it, it’s not really that hard,” she told The Christian Post in 2017.
May the force be with Keke and her womb!
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MeToo leader launches new hashtag to mobilize voters
By ERRIN HAINES AP National Writer
The founder of #MeToo is using the second anniversary of the movement to launch a new effort intended to mobilize voters heading into the 2020 election.
The new hashtag #MeTooVoter was unveiled Tuesday, on the same day as the fourth Democratic presidential debate and reflects a frustration among activists that issues of sexual violence and harassment have largely been absent from the debate stage and campaign trail.
“You can’t have 12 million people respond to a hashtag in this country and they not be constituents, taxpayers, and voters,” #MeToo founder Tarana Burke said in an interview with The Associated Press. “We need these candidates to see us as a power base. So many people engage with survivors from a place of pity.”
A record number of women are running in the 2020 Democratic field, and women will be a pivotal bloc in both the primary and the general election. Still, women are too often treated like a special interest group rather than the majority of the American electorate, said Ai-jen Poo, director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, which is partnering with #MeToo on voter education, mobilization and turnout efforts over the next year.
“The whole point of #MeTooVoter is to say that survivors are a huge political force and incredibly motivated in this moment,” Poo said. “We’re going to be calling on anyone who’s serious about governing and leading this country forward to actually answer for how they’re going to make this country more safe.”
Burke said that nearly a year into the Democratic primary, none of the 2020 hopefuls has spoken to her as they have shaped their presidential platforms, which she said points to a lack of urgency even amid a climate of increased awareness around the issue. She hopes #MeTooVoter will prompt debate moderators to ask a question about sexual violence at the next debate, but does not expect the topic to come up on Tuesday.
Whether #MeToo makes the debate stage or not, Burke said she is considering a town hall around the issue to hear more fully from candidates about their stances.
It was on the one-year anniversary of when #MeToo became a viral hashtag that Burke was still reeling from the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh , whose nomination hearing focused largely on allegations of sexual assault when he was a teenager.
The hearing, watched by millions and seen as a major turning point in the MeToo movement, was seen by some women as a setback to efforts to hold men accountable for sexual violence. For Burke, the moment was a turning point.
“It was the first time we saw survivors en masse come out and put their bodies on the line for this issue,” said Burke. “It was the moment I realized we had to form as an organization. People are willing to stand up, march, talk, come out in the rain. People are ready for this moment.”
Supermajority co-founder Cecile Richards said the issue of sexual violence is something the organization, which is a #MeTooVoter partner, has identified as an election-year priority among women.
“Any candidate who wants the support of women, I hope understands the importance of speaking to the issues that are on the minds of millions of voters in this country,” Richards said. “Women don’t feel safe in America. There’s been very little conversation about this, and that’s unacceptable.”
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Will Smith is Developing a “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” Spinoff
“Now, this is a story all about how my life got flipped-turned upside down, and I’d like to take a minute just sit right there, I’ll tell you how I became the prince of a town called Bel-Air.”
We all may be singing that song once again! According to The Hollywood Reporter, Will Smith and his company, Westbrook Media, is developing a spinoff for his successful television show, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
Originally airing on NBC in 1990, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air ended its run in 1996. The premise is loosely based on the real-life story of the show’s producer Benny Medina. The sitcom was responsible for Smith’s meteoric rise to stardom after being a rapper in the Grammy-winning rap duo DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince back in the late 1980s. According to Complex, he recently launched his own limited edition Bel-Air Athletics Collection.
Smith’s latest movie, Gemini Man, was released October 11. In it, he plays assassin Henry Brogan, who is being hunted by an assassin named Junior (also played by Smith), a younger version of Brogan who can predict his every move. In an interview with Collider, Smith spoke about how he makes decisions for his future.
“More than ever, I’m seeing my role in the world as a role of service. In my younger days, it was ambition. I wanted to win. I wanted to put points on the board. Now, I’m growing into a position in my life where the main question that I ask myself before I do anything is, ‘How is this of service to the human family?’ So, with that prism, I’ll be making more and more decisions in my life. I love science fiction. I love filmmaking. Everything that I do is conscious and thought out, in some justifiable service to the human family.”
Led by CEO Brad Haugen and the creative and strategic direction of Lukas Kaiser and Sadao Turner, Westbrook Media is responsible for Will Smith’s popular launch into social media; the social channels for Smith’s wife, actress Jada Pinkett Smith; Pinkett Smith’s talk show, Red Table Talk, JUST Water, son Jaden Smith’s sustainable and responsibly sourced water brand; and, most recently, the social campaign surrounding Disney’s recently released hit, Aladdin, which starred Smith as Genie.
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Aaron Dean refused to talk to detectives after killing Atatiana Jefferson
At just 8-years-old, the life of Atatiana Jefferson’s nephew has been thrown into a whirlwind after he witnessed his aunt get gunned down right in front of him.
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Likely traumatized from the unthinkable event, Jefferson’s nephew has had to recount that story to police over the last few days. The grammar school student has had to recall the tragic moment when he saw his aunt’s body hit the bedroom floor, and give account of how she laid dying with blood oozing, after a bullet pierced a bedroom window from the gun of former Fort Worth police officer, Aaron Dean.
As for Dean, he has not. He abruptly quit the force after killing Jefferson, made bond after being charged with her murder, and unlike an 8-year-old child who has had to man-up and speak up, Dean refuses to cooperate and speak with detectives about the case, CNN reports.
What we know from Dean’s attorney Jim Lane is that the trigger-happy cop says he’s “sorry.” But the Fort Worth attorney declined to talk about the case, reports say.
Jefferson’s nephew gave his account of his aunt’s last moments. According to the boy, the two were up late Saturday and hanging out in a bedroom playing video games.
Jefferson reportedly heard noises in her backyard. Her nephew recalled that it was so concerning for her that she grabbed her gun from out of her purse to defend herself, and “pointed it toward a window.”
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Dean was reportedly answering a welfare call to check on the family.
As The Grio previously reported, interim chief of Fort Worth police Ed Kraus believes it was the homeowner’s right and defends the decision that ultimately cost Jefferson her life.
“It’s only appropriate that Ms. Jefferson would have a gun,” Kraus said at a news conference Tuesday, the Dallas Morning News reported.
Kraus contends that it “makes sense” that Jefferson was armed.
“When you think there’s someone prowling around in the back at 2:00 a.m. in the morning, you may need to arm yourself. That person could have a gun.”
Kraus confirmed that Dean hasn’t talked to investigators.
“I cannot tell you what he felt. He did not give a statement,” Kraus said Tuesday.
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Atatiana Jefferson’s nephew said she picked up her gun to protect them
Atatiana Jefferson’s 8-year-old nephew told authorities that moments before she was shot and killed by former Fort Worth Texas police officer Aaron Dean, she grabbed her gun to defend herself and pointed it toward a window because she heard a noise outside.
READ MORE: 5 things to know about police shooting victim Atatiana Jefferson
Interim chief of Fort Worth police Ed Kraus believes it was the homeowner’s right, and defends the decision that ultimately cost Jefferson her life.
“It’s only appropriate that Ms. Jefferson would have a gun,” Kraus said at a news conference Tuesday, the Dallas Morning News reported.
Kraus contends that it “makes sense” that Jefferson was armed.
“When you think there’s someone prowling around in the back at 2:00 a.m. in the morning, you may need to arm yourself. That person could have a gun.”
Police spoke to Jefferson’s nephew who was an eyewitness to the killing. Jefferson was playing video games with her nephew in the wee hours of the morning. The boy told authorities he and his aunt were together in a room playing about 2:30 a.m., Saturday morning.
According to the boy, after Jefferson heard noises outside of her East Allen Avenue home, she took a gun from her purse and headed towards a window.
READ MORE: Former police officer Aaron Dean, who killed Atatiana Jefferson, out of jail on $200K bond
Jefferson, 28, pointed it “toward the window” and was shot and killed, the nephew said, according to the arrest-warrant affidavit.
The nephew watched as his aunt fell to the ground. She was pronounced dead at 3:05 a.m.
It “makes sense that she would have a gun if she felt that she was being threatened or there was someone in the backyard,” Kraus said.
Lee Merritt, the attorney for Jefferson’s family shared that sentiment that the victim was within her right to bear arms.
“It’s only appropriate that Ms. Jefferson would have a gun,” Merritt said.
“When you think there’s someone prowling around in the back at 2 in the morning, you may need to arm yourself. That person could have a gun.” Merritt said Jefferson also had a license to legally carry the firearm.
Civil rights attorney Lee Merritt, the lawyer for the Jefferson family, discusses city leaders’ reactions to the deadly shooting of Atatiana Jefferson.
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Merritt is concerned that the Fort Worth police are forming a narrative to give Dean a justification for the shooting by saying Jefferson pointed the gun toward a window.
“Suddenly, they’re building the defense in the arrest warrant itself for the officer, alleging that Atatiana pointed a weapon out of the window,” the lawyer said.
Merritt also noted that the warrant fails to mention that Jefferson pointed a gun toward a window, if that’s the case. He says Dean’s partner could only see the woman’s face before Dean fired the fatal shot.
Adarius Carr, Jefferson’s brother says the family wants justice and accountability from the Fort Worth police force.
“This rookie cop is not going to be the scapegoat for what happened. Yes, he’s going to take his punishment, but the system failed him,” he said. “Whoever sent him out failed him. The training failed him. There’s a lot that has to get fixed. The city failed him.”
Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price defended Jefferson and dismissed the gun narrative.
READ MORE: Texas officer charged with Atatiana Jefferson’s murder, resigns after shooting
“She was in her own home,” the mayor said about Jefferson. “She was taken from her family in circumstances that are truly unthinkable.”
Dean was charged with murder after fatally shooting Jefferson on Saturday. He is out of jail on a $200,000 bond.
Dean has since resigned from the department following the national outcry from the victim’s family and activists who marched and demanded transparency and his immediate firing. But before Interim Fort Worth Police Chief Ed Kraus could fire Dean, he quit.
Dean’s attorney, Jim Lane, told KXAS-TV (NBC5) that his client is “sorry.”
This is a developing story.
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