arrest
-
La. Man Lights Wife on Fire After Spraying Hair Spray on Her: Report
John Emmett Harleaux, 28, of Baton Rouge, La., was arrested after allegedly lighting his wife on fire during an argument, CBS News reports. He was arrested Tuesday on a felony count of domestic abuse by burning. According to CBS News, during an argument in September, Harleaux began spraying his wife with flammable hair spray. He then…
-
Mom Slams School After Daughter Is Reportedly Sexually Assaulted Twice in Same Week
A 29-year-old woman says she is infuriated with education officials for failing to protect her daughter from being sexually assaulted at her Brooklyn, N.Y., middle school, the New York Daily News reports. “It’s disgusting for a parent to learn her daughter was almost raped inside a school building,” she said. The attacks reportedly occurred at…
-
Donald Trump Still Believes Central Park Five Are Guilty
Donald Trump continues to prove what a misguided and miserable president he would make after insisting that the Central Park Five were guilty, despite their being exonerated by DNA in New York City’s horrific 1989 Central Park jogger rape case. “They admitted they were guilty,” Trump said to CNN in a statement. “The police doing…
-
Tenn. Woman Accused of Trying to Remove Body From Funeral
Cynthia Ann Frierson, 36, is being accused of trying to remove a body from a casket after walking into a funeral Monday in Columbia, Tenn., CBS News reports. Frierson is also being charged with public intoxication, unlawful drug paraphernalia, and driving on a revoked and suspended license. According to CBS, before arriving at the funeral, Frierson hit…
-
Video Footage Shows Questionable Arrest of Black Teenage Girls in Texas
Vanae Wright, 17, and her friend Leilani Green were eating at a Whataburger restaurant in San Antonio on Friday when sheriff’s deputies arrested them because of what the lawyer for one of the teens is calling racial profiling, according to the Huffington Post. Deputies were responding to reports of a fight in the Whataburger parking…
-
6 Notre Dame Football Players Face Disciplinary Action After Arrests
Notre Dame has started taking disciplinary action against the six football players who were arrested over the weekend in two separate incidents, officially dismissing starting safety Max Redfield and indefinitely suspending reserve cornerback Devin Butler, WSBT 22 reports. The four other remaining players are still on the team but will face internal discipline, the news…
-
Video Shows Houston Officer Attack Woman at Traffic Stop Who Called 911 Because She Feared Him
In March a black woman by the name of Earledreka White was pulled over by a Houston police officer for crossing the double white line. Soon afterward she called 911 because she was afraid of the cop. She said to the dispatcher, “I would like another officer to come out here. My heart is racing.…
-
Milwaukee Man Arrested After Reportedly Drowning 3-Month-Old Son in Pond
Sean A. Flowers Jr. of Milwaukee allegedly drowned his 3-month-old son in a pond. He was taken into custody Saturday after he reportedly held his son underwater until the infant fell unconscious, according to the New York Daily News. Robert Amstadt, who witnessed the incident, said that the “baby cried all the way out into the…
-
Keep America Safe Again: A Black Person’s Guide to Safety, Space and Activism at the RNC
“Be safe.” “Stay safe, brother.” “Be safe, praying for you.” These are the paraphrases of just about every text, Facebook post and social media DM I’ve received since spreading the word that I was headed to the Republican National Convention in Cleveland this week. The absolute palpable fear on the part of black people I…
-
Man Who Shared Video of Alton Sterling's Shooting Death Arrested
A day after Chris LeDay started circulating one of the graphic videos of police officers gunning down Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, La., he was arrested, Complex reports. Coincidence? Could be, but LeDay believes that his arrest was an act of retaliation by police, Complex notes. As the site note, LeDay did not film the…