The world loses a crooner of soul music. The family of R&B singer Percy Sledge confirms that legendary singer passed away today.
He is known for recording the single "When a Man Loves a Woman" in 1966, an international top 40 hit that the RIAA has certified as gold. Having previously worked as a hospital nurse in the early 1960s, he achieved his best success in the mid to late 1960s and early 1970s with a series of emotional soul songs, in his later years receiving the Rhythm and Blues Foundation's Career Achievement Award.
Sledge was born on November 25, 1940 in Leighton, Alabama. He worked in a series of agricultural jobs in the fields in Leighton before taking a job as an orderly at Colbert County Hospital in Sheffield, Alabama. Through the mid-1960s, he toured the Southeast with the Esquires Combo on weekends, while working at the hospital during the week. A former patient and mutual friend of Sledge and record producer Quin Ivy introduced the two. An audition followed, and Sledge was signed to a recording contract.
Sledge married twice and was survived by his second wife, Rosa Sledge, whom he married in 1980.
He had 12 children, two of whom became singers.
He died of cancer confirmed his publicist. He was a resident of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
We here at Journal de la Reyna send our condolences to the family of Percy Sledge.
Republicans go to this annoying conservative agitator's program for "fair" coverage.
Expect that seriously annoying conservative agitator to respond to CNN.
CNN's Brooke Baldwin and SiriusXM radio host Michael Smerconish aimed at Loserville. They said that Republicans who declared their intent to run, go to that annoying conservative agitator's program.
They seem to have this fixation to go to that right wing carnival. That carnival barker is claiming that he's doing the job the rest of the junk food media won't do.
I know one thing that the media won't do, kiss ass and then turn around claiming others do it.
This annoying conservative agitator will pull down their pants and give them head service. He will be giving them blow jobs.
CNN dares Sen. Marco Rubio and other Republicans to face an interviewer who will call them on their bullshit.
The world's most annoying conservative agitator is proud of getting first dibs on Republican presidential candidates.
Most media analysis consider that agitator's show is the worst in cable news. Me and S. Baldwin agree with that assertion.
He is a name dropping, name calling, ass kissing, condescending asshole. I figured that since he's devoted to damaging Republicans in the 2016 presidential elections, he might want to hear some honest opinion again.
You have the right to criticize the president regardless of the good or bad he has done. But quite frankly, you can't give him credit for anything good, period. Even in the wake of an economy rebounding, the killing of Osama bin Laden, the lower prices in fuel and stable relationships with our allies, you seem to credit George W. Bush and Republicans. That's your opinion and your right to do so.
But clearly, ignoring Obama's achievements is certainly a reason for most in the junk food media to label you the worst cable news host ever to exist.
You don't do hardball interviews with Republican candidates. We already know that the Republican rely on you for their talking points.
You spend a majority of your program name calling and attacking a person's character. You encourage Republicans to the same at their peril.
Many in the junk food media consider The Stallmigos: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) as agitators. They can't be taken seriously by many in the media or world powers.
The Harshman Road Bridge in Dayton, Ohio by Wright Patterson Air Force Base and Eastwood MetroPark is a major bridge in the area that is falling apart meanwhile the mayor of Dayton Nan Whaley wants to spend money on Bike Paths while the roads and bridges crumble. Just another example of taxpayer waste and theft
San Bernardino Sheriff's office has to clean house. The cameras caught 10 deputies putting a beat down on a suspect who was already on the ground with his hands up.
Again, the cameras were rolling when an unarmed suspect on a horse was getting a beat down by the San Bernardino Sheriff deputies. Now 10 members are on leave and are facing an investigation.
The U.S. Justice Department and FBI are looking into how these officers conducted themselves when suspect, Francis Jared Pusok was apprehended by the deputies.
The search warrant was being issued for a resident in the Apple Valley. Pusok was wanted for some minor felonies and misdemeanors. He tried to shake the law by stealing a person's horse.
For about 45 minutes, Pusok was chased through the desert highlands. At the end of the chase, Pusok gets off the horse and surrenders. Pusok was on the ground with his hands over his head. The deputies approach him and give him a serious beat down. The beat down lasted for more than two minutes.
Francis Pusok's booking photo. Disturbing.
He took 30 to the head, 10 to the abdomen, and 10 to the legs. The officers used not only a Taser, but their fists, their feet and a baton.
They would have gotten away with this if it wasn't for them pesky cameras.
It wasn't a bystander or the suspect with the camera. It was NBC 4 from Los Angeles. They witness this incident on camera. The helicopter pilot and reporter witness a 10 to 1 beat down. Guess who lost that one?
The suspect did suffer some injuries that required a medical visit. But after release he was sent to lock up for the fleeing and eluding charge.
But he has hired an attorney and is planning on suing the police for excessive force. Sheriff John McMahon is doing damage control after viewing the video.
He calls the incident "troubling" and calls for an internal investigation into this matter.
Pusok was unarmed. He didn't attack the officers with any weapon (i.e. firearm, knife, bodily fluids, animal or explosive device).
The junk food media has been on a roll with the debate over police officers using deadly force against unarmed suspects.
If the shootings of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown don't seem to matter, how about this one?
What image will the junk food media use when they're smearing an unarmed victim?
The law can lie when justifying a pull over, a citation, an arrest, use of a Taser, use of restraint or use of deadly force. The cops can tell their superiors in a written or on camera statement how the suspect provoked the use of force. The law can splice video and release it to the public. The junk food media will make any unarmed suspect or unintended victim look like the bad guy regardless. The political agitators and arm chair keyboard warriors go back in forth on debating. The cop who used deadly force on a suspect is given the benefit of doubt by the junk food media and supporters of law enforcement. A dead body (especially a Black man) is valued only as a criminal based on what the public sees on social media or open record searches.
Although Francis will owe up for the criminal acts, he didn't deserve this type of abuse by the law.
We here at Journal de la Reyna wish Francis Pusok a speedy recovery.
The Tulsa Police release the video of unarmed suspect Eric Harris purchasing an unregistered firearm. He would run and eventually get caught. But in the apprehension an elderly reserve officer would "accidentally" fire his service weapon instead of his Taser. Harris was shot and killed. The Department of Justice is investigating this situation.
In Tulsa, OK there's a controversy. A suspect who was unarmed was shot by a reserve cop who thought he had drawn the Taser. The suspect would later die of his injuries. The Oklahoma State Patrol Enforcement Agency is looking into the death of Eric C. Harris.
This shooting follows a few high profile shootings such as the Walter Scott and Michael Brown shooting.
We here at Journal de la Reyna send our condolences to the family of Eric Harris.
Harris was under investigation for purchasing firearms. While in a police pursuit, Harris would exit the vehicle. The arresting officer would tackle him down.
But in a few seconds, the reserve officer drew the firearm. He would shoot Harris in the back. The officers who restrained him were cursing at him after Harris screamed he was shot by the reserve officer.
Reserve officer Robert Bates inadvertently shot Harris when he was confronting him. Tulsa Police are defending the 73-year old reserve deputy.
This was recorded on body cameras and yet it still didn't make a lick of difference.
Cops told Eric Harris despite being unarmed and shot in the back, he fucking ran! I guess it's perfectly legal to shoot a fleeing suspect if he's not even armed!
CNN reports that the reserve deputy who shot the suspect with his firearm rather than his stun gun, and another deputy who can be heard cursing at the suspect after he was shot, were not in their normal states of mind because of the elevated stress of apprehending the suspect, according to a Tulsa, Oklahoma, investigator.
As deputies tried to handcuff Harris, Bates arrived with a pepper spray gun in hand. He warned his fellow deputies he was going to use a Taser on the suspect, but instead, he fired a single gunshot — and immediately apologized, Clark said, citing a recently released video.
Clark attributed Bates’ actions to a phenomenon known as “slip and capture.” An example is when someone who drives a car with a manual transmission gets behind the wheel of a car with an automatic transmission. The driver will press her or his left foot down when stopping abruptly, even though there’s no clutch pedal, he said.
Tulsa Police Sgt. Jim Clark was emphatic that Bates had done nothing criminally wrong and went so far as to say the reserve deputy was a victim.
“Reserve Deputy Bates did not commit a crime. Reserve Deputy Bates was a victim, a true victim of slip and capture,” he said. “There’s no other determination I could come to.”
‘He shot him!’
Reserve officer Robert Bates is on leave.
When they set up the undercover sting, police wanted evidence on camera. But when they recorded the operation targeting Harris earlier this month, cameras continued to roll as the suspect ran, and as he was fatally shot.
The Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office released the video on Friday. The shooting was an apparent accident, it has said.
In the last minutes of the video, Harris lies on the pavement with police on top of him.
An officer calls for a Taser, but in place of an electric clicking sound, a gunshot rings out.
A voice can be heard saying, “Oh! I shot him! I’m sorry!” Another officer screams out, “He shot him! He shot him!”
Harris, who is bleeding, calls out, too. He’s losing his breath, he says. An officer yells back at him.
“You fucking ran! Shut the fuck up!” he yells. “Fuck your breath,” he said.
Clark defended the officer’s language, saying the deputy experienced auditory exclusion, never heard the gunshot and thought the suspect was out of breath from running. The language has no bearing on whether the shooting was justified, Clark said.
“One deputy thought he was going to have to shoot this person at the arrest site. It’s very upsetting when you think you are going to have to take someone’s life and this deputy, one of the involved deputies, was upset,” he said. “Secondly, this is total stress. They are going after a dangerous suspect that they have no idea whether or not this person is armed.”
Clark added, “They did not know that he was shot at this time. They had audio exclusion. They was at a point where they couldn’t hear. They didn’t even hear the gunshot go off. The officers did not know that Mr. Harris had been shot.”
An officer can be seen in the video taking his foot off an object lying on the pavement not far from Harris.
Tulsa Police are doing damage control after an elderly cop shot an unarmed man.
Shortly after the suspect is shot, the officers begin tugging Harris’ hands behind his back as the video ends.
Harris later died at a local hospital. Police said at the time of the shooting that Harris admitted to medics at the scene that he may have been under the influence of phencyclidine, a street drug commonly known as PCP.
The video is edited to block out the officers’ faces. Harris is clearly visible.
Police have said that Harris had reached for his waistband, and officers feared he might endanger them. When Harris was on the ground, he “refused to pull his left arm from underneath his body where his hand was near his waistband,” they said after the shooting.
The officer’s body camera video did not reveal that area of Harris’ body.
Bates, a former Tulsa police officer, was placed on administrative leave after the shooting, the sheriff’s office has said.
Asked whether Bates’ age may have been a factor in the shooting, Clark said, “It’s happened to 21-year-old law enforcement officers. It’s happened to 30-year-old law enforcement officers. Age is not really a factor in consideration for the dynamics behind slip and capture events.
BlackLivesMatter. What image will the racist right use?
Despite the details released over the weekend, Harris’ brother says he still want answers.
“I want to know if he was shot in the back accidentally or on purpose. These are all the things that not only I want, but the public wants,” Andre Harris told CNN affiliate KTUL.
Bates’ attorney, Scott Wood, told CNN on Friday he would contact the network later. He had not issued a statement or called back as of Sunday.
With that said, what do you think?
Should Bates be charged with murder?
The Tulsa police are giving him a "pass" because he made a mistake. Looks like the U.S. Justice Department and FBI are investigating this.
Scorpio Stinging. Nelly got busted in Tennessee for contraband and firearms.
There was a movie produced by Spike Lee called Get On The Bus. It starred Charles Dutton, Ossie Davis, Issiah Washington and Bernie Mac. The movie was based on the Million Man March. The men were traveling from Los Angeles to Washington, DC.
On their journey, they go through a stretch of Interstate 40 outside of Knoxville in central Tennessee. They were pulled over by the state patrol. The state patrol claims that they've observed suspicious behavior. The Tennessee State Highway Patrol officers accuse the men of using the bus to smuggle drugs. The bus and its passengers are searched, turning up no evidence of drugs; the troopers reluctantly allow the bus to progress.
The movie was a fiction. It was based off a true story of an experience.
I guess one entertainer experienced it and got lock up for it. The Tennessee State Highway Patrol net themselves contraband, firearms and a rapper.
Cornell Haynes, Jr. (aka Nelly) went to county lock up.
The 40-year old rapper was on his tour bus and it was interrupted by a traffic stop because of non-conforming U.S. Department of Transportation and International Fuel Tax Association stickers and subsequently searched by Tennessee state troopers which netted methamphetamine, marijuana, over 100 ziplock bags and numerous handguns, including a gold-plated 50-caliber Desert Eagle pistol. Nelly was officially booked into the Putnam County Jail, was charged with felony possession of drugs, possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.
He made bond onthe weekend and was released on bail.
Wondering if Pimp Juice would rather fly instead of taking the tour bus?
