Chris Brown Being Sued By Former Housekeeper Over Alleged Bloody Dog Attack
For a man who is known for his popular and electrifying moves on stage, Chris Brown just can’t keep trouble from dancing circles around him!
Entertainer and “bad boy” Chris Brown continues to have legal issues follow him wherever he goes. According to TMZ, one of Brown’s dogs is suspected of viciously attacking and mauling a woman who worked on his property. She also accused him of trying to cover it up when 911 was called.
According to the lawsuit filing, the housekeeper, who is suing as Jane Doe, blames Brown for the injuries she suffered when his dog, named Hades, a Caucasian Shepherd Ovcharka, allegedly attacked her in December 2020 while she was working at his house in Tarzana. The housekeeper said she was taking out the garbage when the dog approached and attacked her. It was alleged that Hades bit into her flesh and left her bloody on the ground.The woman also alleges that Brown and people at his house didn’t do anything as she screamed for help and Brown had other people gather the dogs before policed officers arrived. After 911 was called, they arrived and took the accuser away in an ambulance. The woman then claims that when the authorities attempted to get to the bottom of the situation, she said Brown was evasive and misleading, allegedly telling the police officers that he didn’t know what happened, or who took the dogs.According to reports, the dogs were gone once the police arrived, and it was later found out that the dog in question, Hades was allegedly euthanized weeks later by the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office Animal Shelter.
In the lawsuit, the housekeeper said she had to undergo extensive surgery to save her life and she now has injuries that have permanently scarred her. Her husband is also suing for loss of the ability to have the love and companionship of his wife.
Two Black Sisters Knocked Overboard, Drowned In A Boating Accident, Police Investigating
Sisters Teegan Hill, 31, and Troinee Broom, 28, were on a boat with friends on Lewisville Lake Sunday, when they were knocked overboard.
Hill, an attorney for The Bassett Firm and a former Vanderbilt University track star was celebrating her birthday, and Broom, a Lancaster Independent School District kindergarten teacher in Dallas, both drowned, according to People Magazine.
Officials are investigating the cause of the accident, including speculation that the boat may have been overcrowded.
The duo rented a boat for a dozen people, including the driver, occupying it, with Hill and Broom not wearing life jackets.
“Our thoughts and prayers are with their family and that we must stress the importance of wearing a life preserver when boating, no matter your ability to swim or not,” Highland Village Fire Department Chief Michael Thomson told PEOPLE in a statement. “We feel that if the victims of this tragedy had been wearing life preservers, we may have had a very different outcome.”
Some witnesses say the boat had more than a dozen people on board, according to Fox 4 Dallas.
Their bodies were recovered by Lewisville Fire Department dive team.
“They were like two peas in a pod. They did everything together,” the girls’ father Antroin Broom told Fox 4 Dallas. “Two beautiful girls. They loved life, they loved people. I just ask people to pray for me and my family.”
Hill is a graduate of Thurgood Marshall School of Law in Houston and an alumna of Vanderbilt University in Tennessee where she was a star on the track and field team.
“It’s difficult for me to process the tragic news of the deaths of Teegan Hill and her sister, Troinee,” Vanderbilt athletics director Candice Storey Lee wrote on Twitter. “I remember Teegan’s talent on the track, but even more so as a sweet and kind woman. Our hearts go out to her family, teammates and all who loved her. She’s forever a Commodore.”
In college, Hill ran the 200-meter 400-meter, and she competed at the Ole Miss Invitational in 2009 where she ran 24.48 seconds in the outdoor 200, securing a spot as the 10th-fastest runner in the category at Vanderbilt, The Tennessean reported.
Juvenile’s ‘Vax That Thang Up’ Is the Summer Anthem We Didn’t Know We Needed
Rapper Juvenile is on a mission to get folks vaccinated and dropped a music video for “Vax That Thang Up” in collaboration with the dating app BLK, to urge folks to vax up so they can make having safe sex, even more safe. TMZreports.
“Dating in real life, you need to vax that thang up, feeling freaky all night you need to vax that thang up” … said Juvenile in the catchy tune that plays off his 2004 hit song “Back that Thang Up.”
The song includes a cameo by Mannie Fresh who raps, “Girl you can be the queen / after quarantine / we could meet up at the spot and we can do the thing.” And Lil Wayne who is on the original hit is not in this mash-up but Mia X steps in to hold it down and sings, “If you wanna smash some dude named Scott, go, go, go get the shot.”
The White House is in partnership with nine dating apps to an effort to get people fully vaccinated. They include Tinder, Hinge, BLK, and others which can offer can filter matches according to a person’s vaccination status.
The hope is that those who are vaccinated will have a little more success finding a suitable match, CBS News reports.
“We have finally found the one thing that makes us all more attractive: a vaccination,” Andy Slavitt, White House senior adviser for the COVID response, said earlier this year when announcing the joint initiative.
According to the outlet, the apps will include the features:
badges touting vaccination status
free premium content including boosts, super likes and super swipes for those who have received their vaccinations
filters that will allow users to search for vaccinated matches
Other apps joining the effort include: Tinder, Hinge, Match, OkCupid, BLK, Chispa, Plenty of Fish, Bumble and Badoo.
Armed Burglar Shot and Killed by 12-year-old Defending His Mom
An armed burglar was killed by a 12-year-old kid after he threatened to kill the boy’s mother.
Last week, 32-year-old Brad LeBlanc entered a woman’s Louisiana home with a pistol where a struggle broke out between them. Little did he know that her son was armed too, according to The Advocate.
East Feliciana Parish Sheriff Jeffery Travis told the The Advocate that the boy was defending his mother when the robber came into their home at 7:21 a.m., Wednesday.
The woman’s son was armed with a hunting rifle when he shot LeBlanc. When first responders arrived, they administered CPR to LeBlanc. Eventually, LeBlanc was taken to the Lane Regional Medical Center where he died.
LeBlanc was not alone in the failed burglary; Jonathan Barker and Jennifer Bond were charged with second-degree murder for being initially involved with the crime and being charged as an accessory to the crime, respectively.
The boy was not charged for killing the suspect; in fact, the unnamed boy is not accused of directly killing anyone and LeBlanc’s death was due to his participation in the burglary.
It is apparent to the sheriff that the child needs help moving pass the incident.
“The mother is understanding that he’s going to need some treatment and need to talk to people and helping him understand that he’s a very normal person that was put in an abnormal situation,” Travis said.
“At this time, the East Feliciana Sheriff’s office has no evidence—whether it be physical evidence at the scene or testimony from witnesses—that would incriminate the 12-year-old, and therefore, at this time, we have no plans to bring charges against the 12-year-old child,” he continued.
Nick Cannon’s ‘Wild ‘N Out’ to Premiere August 10 On VH1
The popular series Wild ‘N Out, which has been hosted by Nick Cannon for the past 15 seasons, is returning next month on a different channel but within the same company.
According to Deadline, “Wild ‘N Out will be make its return on August 10, 8 p.m. ET/PT. The returning comedy improv will be broadcast on VH1 after being on sister station MTV for its first 15 seasons. New episodes will air every Tuesday and Wednesday night going forward.
Earlier this year in February, after making amends for the anti-Semitic remarks he made last summer on his podcast, causing ViacomCBS to cut ties with the entertainer,. Now, the pair is working together again.
After controversial statements made last year while interviewing former Public Enemy member Richard “Professor Griff” Griffin on his podcast, Cannon’s show had been put on the back burner.
While this is great news for the Wild ‘N Out host, it’s apparent that Nick has kept busy wit the arrival of four new children over the span of a year.
The VH1 host recently welcomed his seventh child, his son, Zen Cannon, whose mother is Alyssa Scott, on June 23. This is in addition to the set of twin boys who were born on June 14 by Abby De La Rosa, Zion Mixolydian Cannon and Zlllion Heir Cannon.
Before this new year started, back in December 2020, Cannon welcomed another child, this time, a daughter named Powerful Queen Cannon, who was birthed by Brittany Bell. Cannon also has a four-year-old son, named Golden Cannon, with Bell.
And, of course, there’s the first set of twins, a boy, and a girl, who are now 10 years old, Moroccan and Monroe, who are the children of superstar Mariah Carey. Carey and Cannon were married in 2008 before separating in 2014 and officially divorcing in 2016. The pair tied the knot after six weeks.
Gov. Cuomo Signs Executive Order Declaring Gun Violence A Disaster Emergency in New York
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has signed an executive order declaring gun violence a disaster emergency, the first step in a comprehensive plan to curb guns in the state.
Cuomo, who made the announcement at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, said the emergency status will allow the state to use money and resources to target gun violence immediately.
“If you look at the recent numbers, more people are now dying from gun violence and crime than COVID–this is a national problem but someone has to step up and address this problem because our future depends on it,” Cuomo said during the announcement.
Gun violence is a public health crisis.
Today I announced a strategy to combat gun violence in both the short and long term using a public-health approach.
— Archive: Governor Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) July 6, 2021
The strategy will inject more than $138 million in intervention and prevention programs, including engaging at-risk youth, summer job opportunities, and community activity programs.
Cuomo outlined seven key moves to stop the surge of gun violence:
Treat gun violence like the emergency public health it is
Target hotspots with data and science
Positive engagement for at-risk youth
Break the cycle of escalating violence
Get illegal guns off the streets
Keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people
Rebuild the police-community relationship
In order to coordinate the plan, Cuomo has announced the creation of the Office of Gun Violence Prevention and is requiring major police departments to share data on gun violence with the New York Division of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) to compile the data weekly.
The data will be used by the Office of Gun Violence Prevention to track gun violence hotspots and deploy resources to those areas, according to NBC 4.
Additionally, a new State Police Gun Trafficking Interdiction Unit has also been created to stop illegal guns from coming into New York from states with weak gun laws.
“We’re building New York back better than ever before, but part of rebuilding is addressing the systemic injustices that were exposed by COVID. If you look at the recent numbers, more people are now dying from gun violence and crime than COVID–this is a national problem but someone has to step up and address this problem because our future depends on it,” Cuomo said.
Cuomo also signed a bill allowing victims of gun violence to sue gun manufacturers under the state’s public nuisance laws and a second measure banning residents with active warrants from buying guns.
Gun violence has increased in the city. In the first six months of 2020, there were 528 shooting incidents and 636 shooting victims. In the first six months of this year, at least 687 people were wounded or killed by gunfire.
Olympics Banned Black Female Athlete For Five Years After Having An Abortion
The Olympics is punishing a Black female athlete after having an abortion and missing a drug test, The New York Times reported.
In June, it was reported that Brianna McNeal was the subject of tampering with the doping process and as a result was banned for five years in the Olympics.
But now it was revealed that she got an abortion and the athlete reportedly was recovering from the treatment.
She tried to get her ban repealed but was unsuccessful.
She was provisionally suspended in January for missing out on the drug test, but she was still allowed to compete at the trials where she qualified – she finished in second place.
The 2016 Rio Olympics winner will not be defending her Olympic title and will have to miss the next two Summer Games.
Gabbi Cunningham, who finished fourth in the 100 hurdles at the U.S. trials, will replace McNeal in Tokyo games.
McNeal decided to hand over documentation about her abortion, but she changed the date of her procedure by one whole day, which led to the accusation that she was tampering.
McNeal said World Athletics criticized her reaction to having an abortion in 2020.
When McNeal said that she was so traumatized that she confused the date on the procedure, the organization pressed her on her social media posting and she competed in the following weeks afterward.
Investigators also criticized her for not seeking a psychiatrist if she was coping with depression.
“I told them, ‘Oh, really? For me, growing up in the Black community, that’s how we cope with everything — we go to church and we talk to our pastor or spiritual adviser,” she said. “I just feel like they have not been compassionate at all.”
As a Christian, McNeal said she felt guilty for having an abortion, and she was more devastated when the Olympics got suspended until 2021.
“I sat through two hearings held in April 2021 and July 2021, and listened to White European men tell me how my experience doesn’t match with their perspective,” she wrote on Instagram. “They criticized me, and overly judged my decision making, completely ignored the fact that I was under physical and mental trauma after undergoing an abortion, and that I was not in the right mental capacity when making certain decisions. They never expressed sympathy with my situation. At my second hearing they even bought in a clinical psychiatrist to undermine my mental health. I watched them try [to] discredit my doctor we used to testify about abortion stigma. I couldn’t stop thinking to myself ‘how could these men tell me what type of experience I should have had; how can these men who would never in a million years be in my shoes tell me anything I should be going through?’ So instead of being met with some sort of compassion and understanding, I was being interrogated and stigmatized.”
Sha’Carri Richardson is another widely discussed Olympian who will not be joining the U.S. Track and Field team in the upcoming Tokyo Olympic Games because she tested positive for marijuana.
Once qualified to compete in the Olympic for the 100m hurdles last month after her win at the Olympic trials in Eugene, Ore., now it has been nullified.
3-Part Documentary Series ‘Naomi Osaka’ To Debut Before Tokyo Olympics on Netflix
Tennis superstar Naomi Osaka may not be currently playing in any tournaments but she can still be seen in action while she takes a a break from her career.
Streaming and content giant Netflix has announced that a three-part documentary series on the tennis star will premiere Friday, July 16, on its platform.”Naomi Osaka” will debut just before her expected return at the Tokyo Olympics, where she will represent Japan later this summer.
What does it feel like to be one of the best tennis players in the world?
On July 16, @naomiosaka offers insight into the tough decisions and ecstatic triumphs that shape her as both an elite global superstar and a young woman navigating a pressure-filled world. pic.twitter.com/jreQzgk6TJ
Back in February 2020, Netflix announced that “this documentary series takes us on a journey with the multiple Grand Slam Champion, Naomi Osaka, who became the first Asian player to reach the number 1 singles ranking after winning her first Grand Slam at the U.S. Open in 2018 and second at the Australian Open in 2019. With unprecedented access to Osaka, the documentary gives audiences a deep window into the life of a global tennis superstar. The series will cover Naomi’s pivotal year, from the U..S Open in August 2019, and on tour with the tennis star as she plays in each of the Grand Slams and prepares for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.”
“To be able to tell my story and let people in during this big year, working with a team that really understands me, has been a rewarding experience. It won’t look like a traditional sports documentary, and I’m so excited to share it with everyone,” Osaka said in a written statement at that time.
In June, Osaka withdrew from the second round of the French Open citing mental health battles and depression after she refused to do mandatory post-match interviews during the tournament. She later withdrew from Wimbledon to spend time with her family and friends.
Haitian President Jovenel Moise Shot Dead In His Private Residence Early Wednesday Morning
Reuters – Haitian President Jovenel Moise was shot dead by unidentified attackers in his private residence overnight in a “barbaric act”, the government said on Wednesday, stirring fears of escalating turmoil in the impoverished Caribbean nation.
The assassination, which drew condemnation from Washington and neighboring Latin American countries, coincided with a spate of gang violence in Port-au-Prince in recent months fueled by a growing humanitarian crisis and political unrest. The disorder has turned many districts of the capital into no-go zones.
Interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph said in televised remarks after chairing a cabinet meeting that the government had declared a state of emergency amid confusion over who would take over the reins of the country. “My compatriots, remain calm because the situation is under control,” he said.
The 53-year-old president’s wife, Martine Moise, was also shot in the attack at around 1 a.m. local time (0500 GMT) at the couple’s home in the hills above Port-au-Prince, Joseph said in a statement. She was receiving medical treatment.
“A group of unidentified individuals, some of them speaking Spanish, attacked the private residence of the president of the republic and thus fatally wounded the head of state,” he said.
Joseph said the police and army had the security situation under control. The streets of the usually bustling capital of 1 million people were quiet and empty on Wednesday morning after the attack and intermittent gunfire overnight.
“All measures are being taken to guarantee the continuity of the state and to protect the nation,” Joseph said.
But with Haiti politically polarized and facing growing hunger, fears of a breakdown in order are spreading. The Dominican Republic said it was closing the border it shares with Haiti on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola.
“This crime is an attack against the democratic order of Haiti and the region,” Dominican Republic President Luis Abinader said.
Leaders worldwide condemned the attack and appealed for calm. The United States described it as a “horrific crime” while Colombian President Ivan Duque called upon the Organization of American States to dispatch a mission to Haiti to “guarantee democratic order”.
It was unclear who would succeed Moise as president. He had appointed a new prime minister this week who has yet to be sworn in. The head of the Supreme Court of Justice – another contender for the job, according to the constitution – died last month of COVID-19 and has yet to be replaced.
TURBULENT HISTORY
Haiti, a country of about 11 million people and the poorest in the western hemisphere, has struggled to achieve stability since the fall of the Duvalier dictatorship in 1986, and has grappled with a series of coups and foreign interventions.
A U.N. peacekeeping mission – meant to restore order after a rebellion toppled then-President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 2004 – ended in 2019 with the country still in disarray. In recent years, Haiti has been buffeted by a series of natural disasters and still bears the scars of a major earthquake in 2010.
Moise, a banana exporter-turned-politician, faced fierce protests after taking office as president in 2017. This year, opposition leaders accused him of seeking to install a dictatorship by overstaying his mandate and becoming more authoritarian. He denied those accusations.
Moise had ruled by decree for more than a year after the country failed to hold legislative elections, and he sought to push through a controversial constitutional reform.
The U.S. Embassy said in a statement it would be closed on Wednesday due to the “ongoing security situation”.
The United States is assessing the “tragic attack” and President Joe Biden was to be briefed on the assassination, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said in Washington.
“We stand ready and stand by them to provide any assistance that’s needed,” she said. “Of course our embassy and State Department will be in close touch but it’s a tragedy. We stand with them and it’s important that people of Haiti know that.”
The United States, Haiti’s top aid donor, had on June 30 condemned what it described as a systematic violation of human rights, fundamental freedoms and attacks on the press in Haiti. The Biden administration urged the Haitian government to counter a proliferation of gangs and violence.
(Reporting by Andre Paultre in Port-au-Prince with additional reporting by Ezequiel Abiu Lopez in Santo Domingo, Susan Heavey and Doina Chiacu in Washington; Writing by Sarah Marsh; Editing by Daniel Flynn and Mark Heinrich)
