2 Chainz & Lil' Wayne release a collaboration album.
Damn new music this month from the hip-hop veterans.
Another surprise album release and an unexpected rap collaboration! Def Jam and Young Money released the "Collegrove" album from 2 Chainz and Lil' Wayne.
The album comes fresh off the surprise release from Kendrick Lamar who titled the album "untitled and unmastered."
The album features production from Lil' C, Metro Boomin', Mannie Fresh, Honorable C-N.O.T.E., Zaytoven, London on da Track, Mike Will Made It, Southside Sizzle, and Mike Dean.
ColleGrove
The title comes from each rapper's hometown. 2 Chainz is from College Park, Georgia and Lil Wayne's from Hollygrove, a neighborhood in New Orleans. 2 Chainz spoke on album in an interview with Forbes. "As far as the ColleGrove project, I really feel like the music is tight and accessible. Wayne has always been one of my favorite rappers. We’re just doing some mixing and trying to grind up. Just know that ColleGrove is coming very soon, and it’s going to be filled with entertainment bars, great sounds, great vibes.
Lil' Wayne's second album release since the dispute with Cash Money Records heated up. Lil' Wayne has a truce with his label. Bryan "Birdman" and Ronald "Slim" Williams have tentatively worked an agreement with Weezy. But the tension exist and the rapper is still hoping to release Tha Carter V.
Back in the hey day, 2 Chainz born Tauheed Epps once was known as Tity Boi, a member of the Playaz Circle. The rapper once was affiliated with Ludacris and his label Disturbing Tha Peace Records. Ludacris and 2 Chainz had a fallout and he had left the label. He signed a contractual deal with Def Jam to release his albums.
2 Chainz streamed the album on "ColleGrove Radio" on Beats 1 with DJ Drama, DJ E-Sudd, DJ Self and Mannie Fresh. The same day, 2 Chainz and Lil Wayne reveal a teaser for the video of "Bounce".
Black men who are gay or bisexual face the threat of HIV infection at greater rates.
Users of heroin and Black men are driving the HIV epidemic back up to record highs.
You heard of the "down low".
Urban slang for Black men who are secretly "bisexual" or "gay". They want to give the impression that they're "straight" but are trying to repress their feelings towards men or transgender women.
Men love sex. They don't care what happens as long as they get their sexual fantasies off, the men are satisfied.
They end up having sex with men and women at numerous rates. Some are willing to spread the HIV virus in malicious ways to their partners or spouses.
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that one in 64 men and one in 227 women in the United States will be diagnosed with HIV at current rates. For black and Hispanic people, however, that risk increases dramatically.
The Daily Beast reports that the dangers are still prevalent in the Black and Hispanic communities. Regardless of sexual orientation, one in 20 black men and one in 48 black women will be diagnosed with the virus that causes AIDS in their lifetimes, according to the CDC. For Hispanic men and women, the risks are one in 48 and one in 227, respectively.
White people have the lowest chance of an HIV diagnosis, with an overall lifetime risk of less than one percent. Gay and bisexual white men still have a lifetime risk of one in 11, though.
The CDC’s projections are based on data about HIV diagnoses and death rates collected from 2009 to 2013, and they assume that rates of new diagnoses remain constant. If that’s the case, one in six men who have sex with other men will be diagnosed with HIV in their lifetimes.
“These estimates are a sobering reminder that gay and bisexual men face an unacceptably high risk for HIV—and of the urgent need for action,” said Dr. Eugene McCray, director of the CDC’s Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention. “If we work to ensure that every American has access to the prevention tools we know work, we can avoid the outcomes projected in this study.”
For Hispanic people living in the United States, the CDC has already outlined an array of factors behind the alarming rate of new infections: a high prevalence of HIV, poverty and lack of health insurance coverage, “machismo” that can encourage men to engage in risky sexual behavior as a show of strength, and reluctance to access prevention services for fear of revealing one’s immigration status.
For black people, CDC resources show, prevention challenges are similar: poverty, stigma, barriers to health care access, and too few people knowing their status. Risk in black communities is especially high, the CDC notes, because “African Americans tend to have sex with partners of the same race/ethnicity mean[ing] that [they] face a greater risk of HIV infection with each new sexual encounter.”
According to the CDC’s new projections, all of the states with the highest lifetime risk for HIV are in the South, with the exceptions of New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and the District of Columbia. All of these states and the South tend to have large black and Hispanic populations, higher rates of poverty, and less health-insurance coverage.
The CDC estimates that HIV risk is highest in Maryland, Georgia, Louisiana, and Florida, with about 2 percent of these states’ populations believed to test HIV positive eventually.
No single area may be worst-hit than Washington, D.C., which is nearly 50 percent black and 10 percent Latino. According to the CDC’s projections, a staggering one in 13 D.C. residents will be diagnosed with HIV in their lifetimes.
But the CDC doesn’t want its projections to be interpreted as a death sentence.
“As alarming as these lifetime risk estimates are, they are not a foregone conclusion. They are a call to action,” said Dr. Jonathan Mermin, director of the CDC’s National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and Tuberculosis Prevention.
If the U.S. can reduce new infections, those lifetime risk numbers will go down, too. The CDC’s current prevention approach emphasizes HIV testing, condom use, treatment for those who have already been diagnosed, and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), a daily medication that has been shown to reduce risk by more than 90 percent when used correctly.
“The prevention and care strategies we have at our disposal today provide a promising outlook for future reductions of HIV infections and disparities in the U.S.,” said Dr. Mermin, “but hundreds of thousands of people will be diagnosed in their lifetime if we don’t scale up efforts now.”
The local news agitators use suspects mugshots. But the rest of the junk food media uses the positive pictures downplaying the seriousness of what these unrepentant thugs done.
Why do White criminals get notarized for their criminal acts and Black criminals be vilified?
#CrimingWhileWhite becomes a topic once again.
Blake Fitzgerald and Brittany Harper were in the junk food media. They were being labeled the "Bonnie & Clyde" of 2016. These two were from Joplin, Missouri and they committed a crime spree across the South.
Both Fitzgerald and Harper had run-ins with the law and they were notorious for skipping court.
CBS News reports that the law was tipped off to a report of a shoe store robbery and chased the suspects into a heavily wooded area, the service said. The suspects fled and stole a vehicle, which led to a second chase. That ended with the law putting the lead in both suspects.
The two were on the run for allegedly carjacking victims and stealing properties. They were caught in suburban Pensacola, Florida. Fitzgerald was killed by the law and Harper was injured by the slugs.
Authorities say Fitzgerald and Harper were linked to a series of robberies and abductions in Alabama and Georgia fitting the same pattern: People were robbed, kidnapped and freed unharmed, usually after vehicles were stolen.
Junk food media puts out the good pictures of criminals.
Police say they believe the couple stole guns from a Missouri house a few days before committing their their crimes.
Police in Joplin, Missouri, wanted to interview them about the Jan. 22 break-in "but they obviously left the area," Cpl. Chuck Niess told The Associated Press Thursday.
Details of the Missouri burglary were reported by the Alabama news site Al.com.
U.S. Marshals announced Thursday they were offering a reward of up to $10,000 for information leading to the arrest of the couple, said spokesman Martin Keely of the Northern District of Alabama office.
Keely said the couple is suspected in two Florida robberies in Walnut Hills and Destin on Wednesday. They were seen driving a black Ford F-150 truck with a broken rear, right window.
"Thankfully, no innocent member of the public has been physically harmed by this modern-day Bonnie and Clyde, but the couple is armed and dangerous," Keely said in announcing the reward.
Fitzgerald and Harper were charged with robbing and abducting a hotel clerk in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and taking his car to the Birmingham area. The clerk was let go in the upscale suburb of Vestavia Hills, where a woman was briefly abducted by two people who stole her family's Ford Edge SUV.
On Monday night, a gunman held up a young clerk at a Murphy Express station along Interstate 75 in south Georgia, taking money from the safe and cigarettes before forcing the clerk into an SUV where his female accomplice waited, authorities said. The couple drove about 15 miles before releasing the clerk unharmed, Perry police Lt. Ken Ezell said.
The hotel clerk who was abducted, Kyle Dease, told Al.com that he spoke with his captors during the nearly two hours he was held on the drive from Tuscaloosa to metro Birmingham. Dease said they told him they hoped to make it to Florida to get married and start a new life together.
Fitzgerald also told Dease that he did not plan on going back to prison.
"I'm afraid if the cops corner them, they're going to go out shooting because he definitely doesn't want to go back to prison," Dease said.
The junk food media puts out the positive pictures of unrepentant criminals.
Missouri records show that in 2013, Fitzgerald and an accomplice were charged with burglarizing a Joplin woman at knifepoint in her home and making off with her purse, jewelry, electronics and a car. Fitzgerald entered an Alford plea - not admitting guilt but acknowledging the prosecutors had sufficient evidence for a conviction - and was sentenced in 2014 to a suspended seven-year prison term.
Fitzgerald also was sentenced in southwestern Missouri's Jasper County to a simultaneous 120-day term in a drunken-driving case. Last July, Fitzgerald pleaded guilty in a Missouri assault case and was sentenced to a suspended five-year prison term.
Since Fitzgerald and Harper grown up in Joplin, the junk food media gave them the title of "Bonnie Parker and Clyde Marrow" the infamous criminal gang who reeked terror across the South. They've met their end in an ambush outside of Shreveport, Louisiana.
Again giving White criminals novelty and legendary status.
Also I haven't forgotten about the two criminals who murdered that young child Nicole Lovell. That overshadowed these two.
Dazed look on killer's face. Woman plows into innocent tourists.
The junk food media released the name of the suspect involved in the intentional run over of tourist on the Las Vegas strip.
Lakeisha Holloway is facing a court date. She is being charged with murder. The charge could carry her LIFE in the iron college. The 24-year old woman plowed over 44 people while she had her daughter in the backseat of her ride.
The victim who died upon impact was a mother from Buckeye, Arizona.
Jessica Valenzuela was a 32-year old mother of three. She and her husband were in Las Vegas celebrating the 10-year old anniversary.
Jessica's husband and family describe her as "fantastic stay-at-home mother" who had started attending Bible study classes at church, having moved from Colorado in July. "I only met her a couple of months ago, but she was definitely faithful once she started coming, and I knew she was a believer," the First Southern Baptist Church's pastor tells NBC News. "She seemed to be a very sweet lady."
Oregon woman kills mother of three.
Holloway drove on the sidewalk at 45 mph.
Holloway a transplant from Portland, Oregon must have feel on hard times. But that gives her no damn reason to take it out on everyone. She got served with murder with a deadly weapon, leaving the scene of an accident, and child endangerment.
Holloway is innocent until proven guilty.
Holloway now shows an ounce of remorse.
World News Today sends our condolences to the family Jessica Valenzuela.
Conservative are probably outraged that Barack Obama is getting name recognition. It happens to be those tax payer roads that conservatives travel on.
Rivera Beach, Florida decided to end to changed the name of Old Dixie Highway to President Barack Obama Highway.
President Barack Obama Highway has replaced the previous name, which harkens back to the slave-holding South. The move follows a 4-1 city council vote in August to remove the word “Dixie” from all public signage.
Riviera Beach Mayor Thomas Masters, whose city is 66 percent black, spearheaded the effort to name the highway, which at one point intersects with a road named after civil rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr.
There are schools, roads, buildings, and yes animals named after the current 44th President of The United States.
The signs go up and the name will be official at the start of 2016.
East St. Louis, Illinois renamed 4th Avenue after Barack Obama. Off Interstate 55/64, the first officially named road after Barack Obama.
Many of the old Confederate "heroes" are being stripped of their honor. Jefferson Davis, the first and only president of the Confederacy was stripped of his title in New Orleans.
The council removed the Davis and Robert E. Lee memorials from Orleans Parish (of course New Orleans is consolidated-parished).
I used to work with this old lady who hated Obama so much, she would call him everything but the president. I got her so riled up when I said that Barack Obama is half-White. She said that he's always doing thing for Black people and them Mexicans. She hoped someone would attempt to assassinate him.
Thankfully she's no longer working at the job. She got herself fired out the cannon for misconduct.
But I bet you money that if my community decides to name a road after Obama, I bet she wouldn't travel it.
J'Zyra Thompson was placed in an oven by her siblings. The mother and her boyfriend are facing murder charges.
The unfortunate circumstances of negligent parenting. A mother and her boyfriend are held in the Harris County lockup for involuntary manslaughter and child endangerment.
Racquel Thompson and Cornell Malone are being held on a $36,000 "get out free card".
The junk food media took notice of a tragic incident inside an apartment in northern Houston.
Thompson was going to take her boyfriend Malone to work and pick up some food for her children.
She was the mother of four children.Thompson is pregnant with another child and is expecting her child in the coming weeks.
She decided "it won't be that long". She believed the children wouldn't touch anything while she was gone. She thought wrong and now she pays the price. J'Zyra Thompson, an 18 month child was in the kitchen crawling. One of the children (two of them 3 years old and one 5 year old) decided to turn the oven on and shove their little sister in the oven.
Racqual Thompson and Cornell Malone are held on second degree murder (by way of child endangerment).
When the baby was pushed in the oven, they heard the screaming and crying. They couldn't do nothing they were frozen in fear.
When Thompson returned home, she saw her children crying and telling mom that they played with the oven and J'Zyra was in it. As Thompson turned the oven off, she discovered her daughter lifeless burned from end to end, barely recognizable. Of course she called the law.
The law arrived to hear the sobbing mom tell them that she only left for a few minutes. She didn't think her children were capable of messing with an oven.
The law called Harris County child protective services to investigate. They determined that Thompson was irresponsible for the death of the daughter. By her leaving, and not having proper supervision and training on the dangers of the home.
The law decided to put the cuff on her and Malone. They were on social media saying that "they're not going to be charged for the negligent parenting".
Well in Texas, you could be sentenced to LIFE in the iron college for the negligent parenting.
They are innocent until proven guilty.
The three children were placed in foster care. Once Thompson gives birth to her baby, the Texas state board will decide on whether she has to forfeit her child to foster care.
The father of J'Zyra, Fredrick Price wanted to strangle Thompson and Malone. He was totally devastated over the loss of his child.
"She was cute little baby," said Price.
World News Today send our condolences to the family of J'Zyra Thompson.
Tulane University medical student Peter Gold is fighting for his life after he stopped a mugger. The mugger shot him and left him for dead.
In the city of New Orleans, the law is pleased that a perennial resident of the iron college is caught.
The junk food media turned its attention to the tragic shooting of a good samaritan. The Turlane University medical student, 25 year old Peter Gold gets shot in the stomach by this ignorant piece of shit for doing a good deed.
Peter witness an unknown woman being robbed by 21 year old Euric Cain.
Cain was wearing a hoodie and ran up on a drunken woman and tried to jack her up. Peter was driving nearby when he saw Cain try to take her to his ride. Peter hit the brakes, put the vehicle in reverse and then turned into the one way street to confront the suspect.
Most in law enforcement recommend you don't approach a suspect if they're armed. Peter knew the risk but he thought he could scare the suspect into running off.
Euric Cain was the guy on surveillance.
Cain was not happy about the confrontation. He lets the woman go and runs up on Peter. He demands Peter give up his properties. Peter complied. When Cain found that Peter didn't carry a lot, he would shoot Peter in the stomach with a semi automatic firearm.
Cain wanted to put Peter down. He aims and fires. But nothing comes out. He tries again. Nothing happens. Cain reacts to the firearm jamming. He took off running leaving Peter bleeding to death.
Peter was rushed to the hospital where he is being treated for his injuries. His family can't confirm the condition of Peter but he said that its "guarded".
The New Orleans Police and U.S. Marshals were determined to grab this guy.
Cain was just arrested earlier this month for possession of a stolen cellphone during a carjacking.
He was out on bail when he committed this criminal act.
No remorse for his actions.
Cain faces attempted first-degree murder, second-degree kidnapping and weapons while on disability charges. There was a reward for $12,500 for the capture of Cain.
"Now he will likely spend the rest of his life in the jail, as he should," New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu said in a press conference.
New Orleans Chief of Police Michael Harrison said that Cain was an idiot. People knew where stayed. He was hiding under the covers of his underage girlfriend's bed. The girlfriend wanted to be a ride or die chick.
Now she faces charges for hiding a federal suspect.
Representatives from Tulane University told the junk food media that Peter was a four year medical student.
Friends say that Peter was the type of person who is willing to help others when there's a problem.
They say that Peter is a hero in their eyes.
Side chick faces charges for hiding a federal suspect in her bedroom. Nictoria Washington faces adult time in the iron college.
Now that the suspect was a Black man, I automatically assume the Blame Game. The conservative agitators and White extremists would automatically blame President Barack Obama and #BlackLivesMatter for the shooting.
So this leads us to another poll on the Blame Game.
Now that the New Orleans Police captured the suspect in the shooting of Peter Gold, who really deserves the blame?
Cain is innocent until proven guilty. The charge of kidnapping automatically carries LIFE in the iron college.
World News Today sends our prayers to Peter Gold. We wish him a speedy recovery.
Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) went down hard in the race for Governor in Louisiana. The Republican's dirty little sins became a campaign issue. He was one of the most corrupt lawmakers in Washington.
Even though President Barack Obama is strongly disliked in the state of Louisiana, Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) is way worse than Obama.
This was suppose to be an easy election for the Republicans. It turned out to be a disaster. The general election didn't merit a 50% vote for Vitter and the Democrat. It forced a run-off election.
The Republican candidates that dropped out the race decided to throw their weight into helping the Democrat win this election.
It seems like the Republicans got one lost on their belt. The state elected a Democrat to hold the chair in Baton Rouge.
In a run-off election, John Bel Edwards, a state lawmaker ended up winning the 50% plurality vote.
The leadership of Governor Bobby Jindal was an epic disaster. Many voters felt that Republican leadership didn't help the state.
Jindal took a hard line stance on issues especially when running the government and for that he suffered. He gonna leave the governor's mansion with high disapproval.
Democrat John Bel Edwards is governor-elect. In Louisiana, many of their lawmakers are corrupt. Will Bel Edwards disspell the tradition?
Bel Edwards victory doesn't really help the Democrats. The governor-elect is a conservative Democrat who supports weak gun laws and is anti-abortion. He support more oil drilling and urban sprawl.
Vitter was a clear front runner. Vitter tried to play the race card, the fear card and the "he's a liberal" card. Vitter mocked Obama for being a "ungodly" leader. None of this shit worked for him.
His sex scandals and ties to shady individuals became the anchor around his neck. The late Debra Jean Pelfrey was the DC Madam and she ran a hoe train. The hoe train got a handful of lawmakers and government workers in the book. The book had Vitter's name in it.
It became a lightening rod in the race.
Republicans and Democrats believed that Vitter's ties to Washington and his sex scandal doom his chances at winning.
Vitter was voted one of the most corrupt lawmakers in Washington.
Paging Melanie Sloan...
Her organization the Center for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington called Vitter one of the worst lawmakers to hold office. The ethics were so off the hook, Vitter was under federal watch.
Besides the prostitutes, he gave kickbacks to the polluters. He managed to win elections despite having these controversies swarm him.
Now as a result of the loss, Vitter can't run for reelection in 2016.
Now Republicans must defend a crucial seat to retain their majority.
Piyush "Bobby" Jindal bows out the race. Couldn't make it out the bottom!
Now there's 14 candidates in the clown car. It seems like soon to be former governor Piyush "Bobby" Jindal is bowing out. Bobby Jindal, the Louisiana governor will vacate the governor's mansion on a bad note. He's going out with the state in massive disarray.
Jindal is one of the most dullest candidates running in this race. He started a second-tier and ended a second-tier.
"I've come to the realization that this is not my time, I've come here to announce that I am suspending my campaign for President of the United States," he told the right wing network's Bret Beir.
His numbers were dismal even in the face of the minor league debates. Jindal once said that the Republican Party can't be the party of stupid. He ignored his own advice.
Since being governor of Louisiana, he took a hard line conservative stance on issue. He rejected climate change despite Hurricane Gustav and Katrina. He pushed creationism in public schools.
He also pushed executive orders to fulfill his promise to discriminate against same sex couples without facing lawsuits. He even embrace the lunacy of Kim Davis, the controversial Kentucky county clerk who refused to sign off marriage licenses to same sex couples.
He even lost his support of Duck Dynasty. The family decide to embrace Donald Trump.
So who's going to the second stringer debate?
John Kasich and Rand Paul may find a place to the kiddie table.
Now the run-off election will happen in a few days. Republicans are likely to win this race. The Democrats have not thrown much into the race. Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz is (D-FL) is facing a backlash of her lack of interest in these races. Democrats believe that she's willing to throw everything away for Hillary Clinton.
The race between the Democratic state lawmaker John Bel Edwards and Republican Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) got a lot nastier. The Paris attacks has become Vitter's last hope for victory. Republicans are hoping to seize on racism and Islamophobia as their path to the governor's mansion.
Bobby Jindal will find a place on radio or television. Matter of fact, he may have a job in Bollywood movies.
He can play the role of an awful governor of a state.
The world of jazz and blues loses another legend. The great blues player Allen Toussaint passed away of an apparent heart attack while performing in Madrid, Spain.
He was an American musician, songwriter/composer, record producer, and influential figure in New Orleans R&B.
Many of Toussaint's songs became familiar through versions by other musicians, including "Working in the Coal Mine", "Ride Your Pony", "Fortune Teller", "Play Something Sweet", "Southern Nights", "Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky", "I'll Take a Melody", "Get Out of My Life, Woman" and "Mother-in-Law".
Toussaint, 77, had been touring in Madrid, Clarence Toussaint said in the statement.
Artists in nearly every major genre recorded Toussaint's songs or collaborated with him, including the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, Herb Alpert, Glenn Campbell, Robert Palmer and Alison Kraus and Elvis Costello.
His music, often by way of his house band The Meters, was also widely sampled by hip-hop artists such as Amerie, Public Enemy and N.W.A.
President Barack Obama shakes hands with Allen Toussaint at the 2012 Medal of Honor induction.
"I don't want y'all thinkin' 'this is just some old legend that passed away' naw," Questlove, founding member of the hip-hop group The Roots, wrote on Instagram. "This dude wrote some of your favorite music & you just didn't know it."
Toussaint's influence is woven through popular music and hip-hop, he wrote.
"At least 12 'Get Out My Life Woman' snares were like starch in hip hop's daily nutritional chart -- meaning so there you barely notice it," Questlove wrote.
British singer Billy Bragg also lamented Toussaint's death on Twitter.
"The man was a genius," he said.
Toussaint also was a well-regarded performer in his own right. His 2012 jazz album, "The Bright Mississippi," showcased "what an idiosyncratic, inventive instrumentalist he is," Allmusic critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote at the time.
Toussaint opened a recording studio, Sea-Saint, in 1973 with partner Marshall Sehorn and operated his own record label.
Artists including Dr. John, the Neville Brothers, Paul McCartney, Paul Simon, Robert Palmer and Labelle recorded at the studio, according to Toussaint's biography for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, into which he was inducted in 1998.
After Hurricane Katrina destroyed his studio in New Orleans, he relocated to New York, according to his biography, and began a resurgent career as a live performer that continued to his death.
"After his hometown was battered by Katrina and Allen was forced to evacuate, he did something even more important for his city: He went back," President Barack Obama said in 2012 in awarding Toussaint a National Medal of the Arts. "And since then, Allen has devoted his musical talent to lifting up and building up a city."
The youngest person to die in a police shooting this year.
If it wasn't for #BlackLivesMatter you would not hear about this horrific police shooting that occurred in Louisiana. According to the law, they spotted a man who they claim had a warrant for his arrest. The man was accompanied with his autistic 6-year old son. The father and his son were pursued by the law. The law corner them in a cul-de-sac. The law would exit their vehicles and empty their clips on the vehicle.
The little boy was hit with multiple shots. He would die at the scene. His father was seriously injured.
Chris Few
World News Today sends our condolences to the family of Jeremy Mardis. The little boy had an inspiring life. It was cut short by two officers and their reckless call.
The incident became a part of the national discussion on deadly police encounters. The officers are on ice pending a cannon fire. And to make matters worse, they got an indictment handed to them.
Col. Mike Edmonson, in a late night press conference Friday, said the two officers were being booked on charges of second-degree murder and attempted second-degree murder in the Tuesday shooting death of Jeremy Mardis and the wounding of his father, Chris Few, in the central Louisiana town of Marksville.
Edmonson vowed to continue the investigation wherever it leads.
"Let's make tonight about Jeremy Mardis. That little boy was buckled in the front seat of that vehicle and that is how he died," Edmonson said. "He didn't deserve to die like that."
Speaking of the body camera footage that was recovered from the officers, he said: "It is the most disturbing thing I've seen, and I will leave it at that."
The two officers are Norris J. Greenhouse Jr., 23, of Marksville and Derrick Stafford, 32, of Mansura, Louisiana. Both were working secondary jobs in Marksville as marshals when the shooting happened, Edmonson said.
State police have been investigating the Tuesday night shooting that raised questions almost from the start.
State police are combing through forensics evidence, 911 calls, conducting interviews and reviewing the body camera footage, Edmonson said.
Louisiana cops on ice. Norris J. Greenhouse Jr. and Derrick Stafford face a court date. These two were indicted in the murder of a 6-year old boy.
Two other officers were involved in the incident. When Edmonson was asked whether he anticipated any more arrests, he said: "We'll see where it takes us."
It's still unclear what led police to pursue Few and what triggered the shooting. The parish coroner said earlier this week that the officers were serving a warrant on Few when he fled, but Edmonson later said he had no information about a warrant.
Few's 57-year-old stepfather, Morris German, has accused the marshals of indiscriminately opening fire on the vehicle. German said Few was heavily sedated, unable to talk and has bullet fragments lodged in his brain and lung. He described Few as a loving father and added the man's son "was his whole life."
German added that the 6-year-old had been diagnosed with autism, describing him as a delightful child who "loved everything, everybody." German said the boy had no siblings and the family had recently moved to Marksville from Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
"I know a 6-year-old should not have been shot," German said.
The soul of New Orleans Cajun cuisine passed away Thursday.
The Cajun King has passed away today according to CNN.
Louisiana Chef Paul Prudhomme, credited with helping popularize Cajun and Creole cuisine, died Thursday, according to K-Paul's, the New Orleans restaurant he owned.
Prudhomme, who was 75, died in New Orleans after a brief illness, the restaurant said.
"Paul was the one who not only put Louisiana food, our food, Cajun and Creole food, on the map, but he was also the one who started the American food revolution that flourishes today," Poppy Tooker, host of the "Louisiana Eats!" radio show, told CNN.
His 1975 appointment as executive chef at the upscale New Orleans restaurant Commander's Palace helped break the assumption that a fine-dining restaurant had to have a French chef, Tooker said.
His upbringing as one of 13 children born to Louisiana sharecroppers also helped shape an approach to cooking that favored fresh, local ingredients and grew into the wildly popular farm-to-table movement of recent years, Tooker said.
Prudhomme was one of the nation's first celebrity chefs, and his restaurants attracted huge crowds and widespread acclaim. He hosted several cooking shows and authored nine cookbooks, some of them bestsellers.
His recipe for blackened redfish, first served at K-Paul's, became so popular state fisheries officials had to impose limits to save the species from overfishing, Tooker said. He also created and marketed a successful line of seasonings sold in groceries nationwide.
New Orleans Times-Picayune food editor Judy Walker called Prudhomme a "legend" who "changed New Orleans food forever."
Commander's Palace, the well-regarded New Orleans restaurant where Prudhomme was executive chef before opening K-Paul's in 1979, tweeted that its staff was saddened by the news.
"He was well loved," the restaurant said.
Paul Prudhomme made New Orleans cuisine so freaking good. World News Today send our condolences to the family of Paul Prudhomme.
President Barack Obama endorses the reelection of Rahm Emmanuel for mayor of Chicago. Emmanuel faces mounting criticism over gun violence in the the city. The president has mentioned gun violence in his hometown. Republicans and conservative agitators are tone deaf.
How come Obama mentions gun crimes all over the place but ignores Chicago?
Does Haydia Pendleton ring a bell?
Well in 2013, the young Chicago girl was a part of her school's marching band. She was attending the second inauguration of President Barack Obama.
Two weeks later, she was murdered by ricochet fire in Chicago. Her death made the news. The president even mentioned her in his State of The Union Address. Outgoing Weeper of the House, Rep. John Boehner (R-OH), rolled his eyes when the president mentioned her name and the victims of the Sandy Hook massacre.
I can tell you that Chicago has seen a decline in homicide by guns but the problem still exist.
There's even a website that tracks the homicide by firearms. It's called HeyJackass and it's a controversial tale of Chicago's gun violence.
Many of the concern trolls are balking at the president's tougher stance on gun control in the wake of the Umpqua Community College massacre. The president said the time is now to "politicize" this.
He wants gun control and I am definitely for it. Too many innocent lives are lost to senseless gun violence.
This stupid argument about a "good guy with a gun can stop a bad guy with a gun" is getting old.
The gun nuts are playing deflection bingo. They're trying to find ways to distract the American public from discussing the possibility of gun control.
The inept Congress, the NRA, the insurgents running in the clown car and agitators are trying to say that the issue isn't about guns. It's about mental illness and the president is "rushing to judgement" over a tragedy.
Yes, the Black community and Black Lives Matter talk about gun violence in Chicago.
Well this has been nearly 20 times and it's not getting any better. I swear on my life, if Obama didn't mention this tragedy, the conservative agitators would say he doesn't care about them. Their bitching about the Chattanooga shooting. When the president didn't react fast enough to the tragedy they were bitching about him not supporting the troops. He didn't lower the American flags in the wake of four military officers being slain by a deranged man. He took heat for that. The agitators solely focused on the terrorist's religion and race than the fact he had access to firearms and had mental issues.
When the Charleston massacre happened, the conservatives deflected from the fact this terrorist's race, access to firearms and political views. They initially thought the terrorist didn't have conservative views. They thought it was a whack job. They hoped it was a Muslim. Then when the terrorist admits it was about race, the agitators were quick to blame the president for making this about race. The agitators went as far to blame the president for advocating this terrorist because of the Obama's reactions to Michael Brown and Freddie Gray.
Nearly 400 shootings in Chicago this year.
Every time president mentions gun tragedies the conservative agitators turn this narrative about Chicago's gun violence. They act like they're concerned about gun violence.
Let's begin with that Loudmouth Bill Cunningham. The Cincinnati-based conservative agitator has a radio program during the AM middays and Sunday nights. Cunningham is often loud and obnoxious towards the president. He puts on this "concern troll" act about gun violence in Chicago. He claims the president doesn't talk about Chicago. The pathetic conservative agitator has a syndicated talk show on The CW.
We can include them fucking Black shitkickers Jesse Lee Peterson, Deneen Borelli and Kevin Jackson to the list of deflectors. I've heard these crazy ass coons rambling about the president not mentioning Chicago. They called the president a "racist" for talking about issues like Ferguson and Baltimore.
When you travel about 200 miles to Milwaukee, you'll find the tin horn cop David Clarke. The controversial sheriff of Milwaukee County is one of the umpteenth Black conservatives who rose to fame blasting the president. He runs this "what about my city, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, etc."
And each of those mentioned appeared on that network's primetime lineup. They appear mostly on that annoying conservative agitator's right wing carnival.
How many more will take before Congress actually gets the message?
Gun crime is the number one threat facing Americans. Gun crime is a bigger threat than terrorism, Ebola, measles, Iran and Russia.
The doo wop group The Sha Na Na's have been a dominant force in the late 1960s to now.
A member of the group who has ties to my community passed away over the weekend. World News Today send our condolences to the family of Dennis Greene.
Born as Frederick Greene, he was an American singer who was a member of Sha Na Na who were formed in 1969 at Columbia University in New York as the Columbia Kingsmen. The name change to Sha Na Na occurred because of another group with a similar name, which was known for the song Louie Louie.
The Sha Na Na
The television show Sha Na Na aired from 1978 to 1981. Greene choreographed most of the moves for the show, on which he was known simply as Denny. Denny was portrayed in the series as the most intelligent member of Sha Na Na. He sang lead in the song "Tears on My Pillow" when he appeared with Sha Na Na in the movie Grease, in 1978.
He was born in New York City and took up studies in legal affairs. On the sidelines he was the principle member of the group.
Greene graduated from Yale Law School, he worked as Vice President of Production and Features at Columbia Pictures. Following that, he was President at Lenox/Greene films. He has taught at Florida A&M University and the University of Oregon, as well as being a visiting professor at several other universities including Ohio State University, Seton Hall University, and the University of Connecticut.
Greene also served on the board of directors for the Society of American Law Teachers and is listed in Who's Who Among African-Americans.
From December 2007 until his death, Greene was a Professor of Law at the University of Dayton School of Law, teaching classes such as Torts, Entertainment Law, and Constitutional Law.
Greene died in Columbus, Ohio on September 5, 2015.
A Louisiana high school football player passed away from his injuries he suffered from playing a Friday night game. While catching a punt return, Tyrell Cameron, a student at Franklin Parish High School was brutally hit by the players.
He died shortly after he was transported to Franklin Medical Center late Friday, said coroner's office spokesman Shane Scott.
CNN reports that the player was hit during a punt return in the fourth quarter in the game against Sterlington High School, Franklin Parish head coach Barry Sebren told CNN affiliate KNOE.
Northeast Louisiana Ambulance Service was on the sidelines during the game and rushed onto the field to help when Cameron was injured.
The cause of death is under investigation, but KNOE reported Cameron broke his neck.
A vigil for the 16-year-old Cameron was planned for Saturday night at Franklin Parish High School, CNN affiliates KTVE and KARD reported.
The school posted condolences on social media.
"He loved his family, his team, and the game of football. He will be missed," the school's Facebook page read.
"Tyrell will live on in the memory of those who loved him," the school's athletic program tweeted.
Football injuries are on the rise.
Since 1995, there have been 77 known cases in which the death of high school players were directly linked to football, according to numbers compiled by The National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research. There were five during the 2014 season. The center says about 1,100,000 people play high school football.
Also this week, a 16-year-old player at a Texas high school broke his neck during a junior varsity game, according to an online fundraising page for Jasiel Favors.
Favors, who played for Stony Point High School in Round Rock, is paralyzed from the waist down, the Austin Statesman reported Thursday.
Sophomore Josh Moore told CNN affiliate KXAN that Jasiel collided with two players and went down.
"Pretty sad to see because he was just laying there, I was worried if he was still alive or not, because he didn't move and they all swarmed, the cops swarmed over there," Moore told the Austin-area station.
World News Today send our condolences to Tyrell Cameron and Jasiel Favors.
The worst natural disaster in American history happened in 2005.
World News Today send our condolences to those lost in this horrific tragedy.
On August 29th, 2005, the costliest and most deadliest natural disaster hit the Gulf Coast cities of New Orleans, Slidell. Gulfport, and Biloxi.
Over 1,940 people have lost their lives to such a destructive force of nature.
The hurricane was retired as a name. The impact was felt throughout the nation and the world. It gave the public a negative perception of leadership. It sealed a legacy of failure caused by the lack of government response to handle a catastrophe.
Hurricane Katrina started August 23rd in the Atlantic. The hurricane hit the Caribbean nations first. It landed on the southern tier of Florida. As the hurricane grew in the Gulf of Mexico, the hurricane strengthen into a category 5 storm. When it crashed on Louisiana shore line, it was a disastrous category 3 storm.
The impact caused the collapse of the levee system in New Orleans. People stranded in the city were force to find food by looting businesses. The city was swamped. People were crying for help.
A handful of residents were forced to take refuge in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome.
It lead to 85% of New Orleans to be flooded by the waters of Lake Pontchartrain, the Mississippi River and the canals.
President George W. Bush took the most heat. His failure to handle this crisis doomed his second term. He was on his annual vacation when this happened. The perception of ignoring a crisis came full circle when he finally made it out to New Orleans. The last time he caught flack was when September 11th happened in 2001. Many people rallied behind Bush during this crisis. But this time, it wasn't the case.
Of course, FEMA was active in New Orleans. But due to the Bush pledge of limited government, the organization couldn't muster enough relief to the victims. A handful of residents of New Orleans were poor. They couldn't afford flood insurance. So when the storm washed away their homes, they were left without a chance to rebuild.
FEMA's then chief Michael Brown took the fall. When FEMA's top workers were scrambled they didn't have the experience to deal with a wide scale disaster such as this. Bush would utter "Heck of a job Brownie" response. That would be words of infamy. blamed the government and the extreme partisanship by his fellow Republicans for the disaster. The White House denied it.
Matter of fact, the impact got Kathleen Blanco to not seek reelection for the governorship.
Bush's Katrina.
Who suffered the most was C. Ray Nagin, then mayor of New Orleans. He was the most passionate of the leadership. Matter of fact, he was so passionate about the victims, he made the infamous declaration of failure on national television.
The government was unaware of the massive kickbacks and political corruption at the time. Nagin was taking steps to collect $$$$$ so his family could rebuilt and he can live the live of luxury. Nagin was indicted by the feds and found guilty in corruption. He is serving a dime in federal time out.
Bush's legacy went down in flames. It paved the way for Barack Obama to become the president.
Since Katrina, the government made it top priority to get things right.
Well ten years later, a long road ahead.
President Barack Obama, former president George W. Bush and members of Congress visit areas worst hit by the hurricane.
The historic Ninth Ward is still a long way to go. But hopefully, the government can rebuild this great city back to its glory.
This terrorist went on a rampage at a movie theater in Lafayette, LA.
The name of the shooter is released.
An Alabama man is the terrorist who opened fire on innocent movie goers at a Lafayette, Louisiana movie theater. The were quick to label Chattanooga shooter Mohammad Abdulezzez a terrorist.
Will they label this shooter a terrorist?
Probably not!
They'll say he's got mental issues.
The man is 59 year old John Russell Houser. I will not say much about his name. All I can say about this event is, how is it going to played in the junk food media?
Will the racist right label this terrorist a "Democrat"?
I am waiting on the media to figure if he's a member of the Islamic State?
I am waiting on the media to find out if he support the Tea Party Movement.
Guess what? The Daily Beast has found a social media page this terrorist had. He may have supported the Tea Party. I don't care what political view he has. He didn't care who he shot. He just up and did it.
So who is getting the blame?
A) Barack Obama
B) Democrats
C) Tea Party
D) NRA
E) Congress
F) The Shooter
If you picked F, you're right. This terrorist didn't care who he shot. It doesn't matter what his politics are. He didn't see the politics, race, gender, sexuality, nationality, religion, or economic standings of the victims. He saw bodies. He knew that a movie theater was the perfect soft target.
If you picked the other choices. Then in some way you might be right. I mean once again another tragedy happens in America and our lawmakers in Washington are hoping the media chases the next shiny coin. This stuff is like a daily occurrence.
Mass shootings happening every freaking month.
There were two teens who murdered their family in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. The names haven't been released. But yet they murdered their parents and three of their siblings. Two of them survived barely.
The junk food media didn't rush to the Tulsa metro area for this shooting. They only rushed to the scene when Barney Fife shot an unarmed Black suspect who died while in police custody. Then Barney wanted to take a vacation after he was out on bail.
When the junk food media is scaring America with talks of the Islamic State, another person was gunned down by a firearm.
A teen placed a gun on a drone and it actually worked. The law is concerned that his invention may inspire terrorism.
Terrorism isn't the number one threat to America. It's gun violence and it's rising because of the United States Congress and the lack of urgency.
Gun control advocates think that the gun free zones solve problems. They believe that closing loopholes and internet sales solves problems. They believe people who have mental issues should not have firearms. They think that mental health testing solves problems. Nope.
Gun right advocates think that more guns in movie theaters and schools solves problems. They believe that repealing federal mandates on guns solves problems. Nope.
Look if it hasn't affect you, you're not worried about it. But you carry on your daily routine only to find that day could happen and you wouldn't even know it.
A mass shooter, a bank robber, a car jacker, a home invader, a hunting trip, a road rage incident, a police encounter, a curious interest, a target practice gone awry, etc.
The only thing that wins in this battle is the gun. The gun never dies. It may get rusty but it still works. The bullet has no eyes but it will ALWAYS hit a target.
World News Today send our condolences to the families of those lost in this senseless tragedy.
A mass shooting in Lafayette, LA at a movie theater. The tragedy happened at 7:00 pm at a nightly premiere of the movie Trainwreck.
Two people and the gunman are killed. There are multiple injuries in which some are considered critical. We have no confirmation about the name of this terrorist. But what is confirmed the terrorist is a White man who is in his fifties.
This is at the Grand 16 Movie Theatre at the Lafayette, LA.
The terrorist then turned the gun on himself and died. Lafayette police said they responded to a call from the cinema at around 7:30 p.m. A witness, Katie Domingue from the town of Carencro who was watching the film with her fiance said that "an older white man" began shooting about 20 minutes into the movie. "He wasn't saying anything. I didn't hear anybody screaming, either."
Hospitals were receiving patients and keeping officials informed; but no further information was provided to the public on the names of the hospitals and doctors or the names and precise conditions of the victims, due to privacy concerns and pending notification of families, and because of the early stage of the investigation.
One woman was shot in the stomach; she had been found by another witness, and it was unclear as to her condition or whether she had survived.
A nearby Mellow Mushroom pizza restaurant manager estimated 20 to 30 rescue vehicles were on scene.
The Louisiana State Police, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), the Lafayette Parish Sheriff, and Lafayette Police Department police (led by Chief Jim Craft, who briefed reporters) were on the scene.
Lafayette is 60 miles west of Baton Rouge, and north of New Orleans, with about 120,000 residents.
President Barack Obama said that these tragedies are happening way too much. Time for Congress to finally do something.
A motive or if there were any co-conspirators or co-participants was unknown, though police believe he acted alone.
World News Today send our condolences to the families of this senseless tragedy.
Louisiana Republican governor Bobby Jindal, President Barack Obama, Sen. David Vitter (R-LA), Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and Rep. Charles Boustany (R-LA) were informed of this latest tragedy.
Jindal halted the tours. He rushed back to the state to do a presser. He running for the higher office.
So now that they've identified the shooter as a 58 year old White man, who are they gonna blame for this tragedy?
A) Barack Obama
B) Democrats
C) NRA
D) Muslims
E) Republicans
F) Congress
G) The Shooter
If you guessed G, then you're right. Obviously the shooter deserves the blame. But if you picked the rest of them, then you may have something there.
Once again, another mass murder in America. Another shooting at a movie theater, three years and three days to the day of the Aurora shooting.
Americans wanted to watch a movie and this terrorist would disrupt their lives. Gov. Bobby Jindal got off the trail to join the law and junk food media in a presser about the developments.
The movie Trainwreck with Amy Schumer is a hit among the fans. Now she, LaBron James and others will hit the social media with sympathy to the victims of this tragedy.
Of course, fresh off the tragedy in Chattanooga, Charleston, SC and every other event that required the president to address the nation.
Expect the inept Congress and Republican governors to call for more guns in the movie theater and nightclubs. Great. You're served alcohol, malt balls and bronze shells.
Developments will follow as they occur. The name of the terrorist will be released soon.
Texas Rangers already punching holes into state trooper's claim that Sandra Bland put up a fight.
The Sandra Bland controversy has reached the Texas Department of Safety. The higher ups decided to put the Texas State Patrol officers involved in the arrest of Sandra in the freezer. They are on desk duty pending a state investigation into how a simple pull over resulted in her arrest. That arrest took her to Waller County lockup.
The dash camera disputes the report that the troopers sent to their superiors.
The trooper pulled Sandra over for a taillight violation. Okay the trooper gave her a warning for the taillight (turn signal).
Sandra pulls out a square and lights it up. Of course, the officer felt disrespected by her just ignoring his comments. So he orders her out the vehicle. She questions the order. She whips out the camera phone and starts recording.
Of course that's when the officer and his partner forced the door open and grabbed Sandra out the vehicle and a witness would whip out his camera phone. He starts recording. She is heard in the background screaming that they slammed her head to the ground. She told the officers that she didn't have to be brutal on her. She thanked the witness for filming this.
As she was booked into the Waller lockup. She was charged with battery on an officer. She would have a day in court. So during them 48 hours, she was normal. But after a morning check, they would find her not breathing.
The Harris Count bag 'em ups said that she may have died of a hanging, The family didn't buy this shit and ordered an independent bag 'em to work on this. The FBI and Texas Rangers are looking into the improper training of the staffers of the lockup.
The lockup didn't have proper training and a failure of checking interns (especially potentially suicidal).
Again, I've said it too many times. The law can lie when they justify a pull over. They can lie when they issue citations, dispatch assistance, fire their service weapon, use force in arrest and tell the media that the suspect "engaged in the behavior".
Now Sandra Bland was a part of the BlackLivesMatter movement. This movement is sparked by the numerous events where unarmed Black suspects are killed by law enforcement or a vigilante. The BlackLivesMatter movement is sparked by the junk food media's negative portrayals of Black unarmed suspects.
The junk food media made Trayvon Martin. Michael Brown and now Sandra Bland look like criminals.
Already some conservative agitators are trying to point out that Sandra suffered from post traumatic stress disorder. On one of her videos posted on social media, she admitted to supporters that sometimes she has PTSD and it's dragged on.
Yeah, everyone gets PTSD. I have it sometimes. It doesn't make me want to kill myself or harm others.
Her family already dismissed the suicidal stuff.
This controversy will be covered by me and S. Baldwin. World News Today continues to seek justice for Sandra Bland and every other individual killed by the reckless actions of some in law enforcement.
