BEWARE...SOME DAYS ARE NOT VERY PRETTY. I GET CRABBY LIKE NORMAL PEOPLE DO. AND I DO SPEAK MY MIND.
DO NOT READ IF YOU ARE SENSITIVE TO TRUE, REAL, EVERYDAY FEELINGS LIKE MINE.(But I think you would enjoy it)
DON'T FORGET...FREEDOM OF SPEECH !
Hey people.....stop being SUCKERS and donating to fundme pages until you wait and hear the WHOLE story. Sometimes it takes months for the REAL story to come out.
The Texas
restaurant company which banned a customer after an employee’s story of
a receipt scrawled with a racial epithet went viral said that it had
parted ways with the employee and learned that the story was made up.
“We
have learned that our employee fabricated the entire story,” Terry
Turney, the chief operating officer of Saltgrass steakhouses, said in a
statement. “Racism of any form is intolerable, and we will always act
swiftly should it occur in any of our establishments. Falsely accusing
someone of racism is equally disturbing.”
The
incident unfolded earlier this month when Khalil Cavil, a 20-year-old
waiter at a Saltgrass outpost in Odessa, Texas, posted an image to Facebook that showed a $108 bill with zero on the tip line, and “We don’t tip terrorist,” written in ink at the top.
Mr
Cavil, who is of mixed black and white parentage, said that he received
the note from one of his tables, and that it left him “sick to my
stomach”.
“I
share this because I want people to understand that this racism, and
this hatred still exists,” he wrote. “Although, this is nothing new, it
is still something that will test your faith.”
The
incident came in the midst of increased attention given to incidents of
racist behaviour in the public sphere, particularly as they are shared
in social media posts that generate thousands of views and strong
emotions. But the ease with which fake information can spread on the
internet before it is ever verified remains a persistent concern.
Mr
Cavil’s post was shared thousands of times, generating some 8,000
comments on Facebook. The decision by Saltgrass, which is owned by the
company Landry’s, to ban the customer for the incident made headlines
around the world.
“Racism of any form is unacceptable,” Mr Turney said at the time.
The company declined to explain what had caused it to issue the striking about-face or whether Cavil had been dismissed.
“All
I can say is he’s no longer with the company,” spokeswoman Colleen
Wagner said. It is not clear what information on the image of the
receipt was authentic.
The
customer, whose name had been redacted on the receipt, has not been
identified, but the company said that the person had been invited back
to the restaurant to dine for free.
Mr Cavil was not immediately available for comment. A voicemail message left with his mother, Jamie Swindle, was not returned. The Odessa American reported that he had apologised in an interview with a reporter.
After
his story went viral, Mr Cavil thanked supporters on Facebook who sent
him money. But his Facebook posts about the incident have since been
deleted and it is not clear if his profile still exists on the service.
At
the time, Cavil gave an interview to an ABC affiliate in Texas in which
he spoke about what he said was the history of his name and about how
his faith was guiding him through the experience of supposedly being
called a terrorist.
“It was not about the money,” Mr Cavil said. “It’s about shedding a light on an issue I feel very passionately about.”
Read the UPDATE below about MOTHER also charged. What a piece of crap.
Woman charged in north Louisiana baby's death
KHOU 11 Houston•
Woman charged in north Louisiana baby's death
A
25-year-old woman has been charged with first-degree murder in the
death of an infant last week in Natchitoches. Felicia Marie-Nicole Smith
was booked into the Natchitoches Parish Detention Center Saturday in
connection to the death of Levi Cole Ellerbe. According to the
Natchitoches Police Department, the boy was kidnapped from his mother on
Tuesday night. The mother had opened her door after a knock, and two
suspects sprayed her in the face with what she believed to be Mace. She
escaped the suspects, but soon discovered that Levi was missing. The
6-month-old boy, who died Wednesday after being kidnapped and burned
Tuesday night, will be buried Friday. He was just shy of being 7 months old
Woman charged in north Louisiana baby's death
Felicia Marie-Nicole Smith was booked into the Natchitoches
Parish Detention Center Saturday in connection to the death of Levi Cole
Ellerbe
Author:
Melissa Gregory, Alexandria Town Talk
Published:
11:21 AM CDT July 23, 2018
Updated:
10:16 PM CDT July 23, 2018
A 25-year-old woman has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of an infant last week in Natchitoches.
Felicia
Marie-Nicole Smith was booked into the Natchitoches Parish Detention
Center Saturday in connection to the death of Levi Cole Ellerbe.
According
to the Natchitoches Police Department, the boy was kidnapped from his
mother on Tuesday night. The mother had opened her door after a knock,
and two suspects sprayed her in the face with what she believed to be
Mace.
She escaped the suspects, but soon discovered that Levi was missing.
The 6-month-old boy, who died Wednesday
after being kidnapped and burned Tuesday night, will be buried Friday.
He was just shy of being 7 months old.
He was found just more than an hour later in a fire that had been set
beside a railroad track of Breda Avenue, about a mile-and-a-half away
from the trailer park on the La. Highway 1 Bypass from where he was
taken.
Levi was in critical condition with "obvious burns" to his body, according to police.
He died early Wednesday at a Shreveport hospital.
The
investigation, being conducted by the Natchitoches Police Department
and the Louisiana Office of the State Fire Marshal, is continuing.
Smith remains in jail.
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Mom of Baby Found Burned to Death Claimed She Was Attacked — But Now She's Charged with Murder
Authorities in Louisiana have arrested the mother of the 6-month-old boy who died last week after being set on fire, making her the second person charged in the infant’s killing.
Hannah Barker, 22, was charged Wednesday with principal to
first-degree murder. Her arrest follows the arrest last weekend of
Felicia Marie-Nicole Smith, 25, on first-degree murder charges.
Police allege Barker and Smith know each other — and the charge
against Barker indicates it was her actions that directly ended the life
of her baby, Levi Cole Ellerbe.
A statement from the Louisiana State Fire Marshal’s Office indicates
Barker, who lives in Natchitoches, remains in police custody without
bail.
Levi died on July 18 after sustaining severe burns, according to a statement from the Natchitoches Police Department.
The Louisiana State Fire Marshal’s Office statement indicates an
additional criminal charge will be filed against Smith in the coming
days.
After Smith’s arrest, police issued a statement saying Levi’s mother
had claimed she’d been sprayed in the face with a chemical — possibly
mace — by two men who knocked on her trailer door at around 9 p.m. on
July 17.
The initial statement contended Barker claimed she’d fled the trailer
to escape the men and when she returned a short time later, she
discovered Levi was gone. • Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage? Click here to get breaking crime news, ongoing trial coverage and details of intriguing unsolved cases in the True Crime Newsletter.
The baby boy was found a short while later with severe burns after he had been set on fire.
The statement on Burke’s arrest does not address her earlier claims concerning the two male suspects.
“I want to highlight the determination and dedication of the team of
investigators from both agencies who have doggedly worked this case from
the start,” the statement quotes State Fire Marshal Chief H. “Butch”
Browning as saying. “Rest assured, that diligent work is not over yet.”
Barker has not appeared before a judge to enter a plea to the charge she faces.
It was unclear Thursday if she was represented by a lawyer who could comment on her behalf.
Inside a bowling alley in northwest Illinois, police say, an employee approached a rowdy group last Thursday night and asked them to calm down, according to the Quad-City Times.
But it appears they didn’t take kindly to that request.
Police in Moline, Illinois, released surveillance video Monday that shows someone grabbing the employee and lifting him up inside QC Family Entertainment.
The employee tries to avoid blows to the head, throws his arms up in front of his face, backs away and runs out of the frame.
Several people in the group appear to chase after him.
Days after the brawl, police are still trying to identify the subjects in the video.
About 15 people were in the group allegedly involved in the brawl, the Quad-City Times reported.
Since the surveillance video was
posted to the police department’s Facebook, it’s gotten more than 49,000
views. No arrests had been reported as of Monday night.
In an effort to identify people
in the bowling alley at the time of the incident, police also posted an
image of two people allegedly involved in the fight.
Authorities have asked anyone
with information to contact the Moline Police Department at 309-524-2140
or Crime Stoppers of Quad Cities at 309-762-9500.
Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article215414075.html#storylink=cpy
Yes, she has a problem. But these people are in the faces of CHILDREN. Your children worship these people.
Other Idols pose NUDE and refuse to be "ladies", most do drugs,.... these are your children's Idols. What a joke, and that is why the youth will never be REAL adults that people will look up to. They will end up like their so called Idols.
Update.... Now the so called idols( that are full of fake boobs, lips, hair, eyelashes, teeth, BUTTS, and everything else) are wishing her well after her over dose. How sad their lives have to be. How do they look in the mirror at themselves knowing that they are only popular becasue of a family member and make up stories about their lives. They SETTLE for their mates. They can't get a REAL MAN so they settle for THUG wanna-be's.
Another sad thing is, some of those wishing her well probably do more drugs than her. Their music, makeup, modeling etc. DOES NOT make them IDOLS. An IDOL is someone who thinks of OTHERS before themselves. They don't just give to charities for tax write offs.
Yes this is my opinion. OPINION.
Update.... a few days later she is making excuses. ================================================
Demi Lovato reportedly hospitalized for apparent overdose
Maggie Parker1 hour 54 minutes ago
Demi Lovato (Photo: Getty Images)
Demi Lovato has been hospitalized in Los Angeles after suffering what appears to be a heroin overdose, TMZ reports, citing unspecified law-enforcement sources.
Without identifying the victim, a spokesperson for the Los Angeles
Police Department tells Yahoo Entertainment that officers responded to a
medical emergency at 11:40 a.m. Tuesday on the 8000 block of Laurel
View Drive, Lovato’s Hollywood address. A publicist for Lovato did not
immediately return messages seeking comment. According to People,
the 25-year-old is in “stable” condition after being treated with
Narcan, an emergency medication that blocks the effects of opioids and
is used in the event of a narcotics overdose.
This news comes on the heels of the release of Lovato’s song “Sober,” in which she admits that she had fallen off the wagon.
Lovato has always been open about her struggles with mental illness,
substance abuse, eating disorders, and cutting. In her 2017
documentary, Simply Complicated, she said her first encounter
with drinking and partying was in high school, and it all escalated
during her Disney Channel days. She said she “loved” it. “My dad was an
addict and an alcoholic. Guess I always searched for what he found in
drugs and alcohol because it fulfilled him and he chose that over a
family,” she said in the film.
In speaking about her struggle with addiction, the focus has been on
alcohol and cocaine; she has never mentioned heroin. The only time she
had been publicly tied to heroin was in 2011, when she was spotted with a
sticker on her phone that read “Heroin killed the radio star.”
Otherwise, it’s always been cocaine. “I couldn’t go 30 minutes to an
hour without cocaine, and I would bring it on airplanes,” Lovato told Access Hollywood in
2013. “I would smuggle it basically and just wait until everyone in
first class would go to sleep, and I would do it right there. I’d sneak
to the bathroom and I’d do it. That’s how difficult it got and that was
even with somebody [with me]. I had a sober companion, somebody who was
watching me 24/7 and living with me. I was able to hide it from them as
well.”
She had been determined to find her way back to health. In 2011, she
entered treatment for bipolar disorder, bulimia, self-harm, and
addiction. Unfortunately, she relapsed shortly afterward but then
entered a sober-living facility for a year.
Lovato had celebrated six years of sobriety in March before relapsing.
Lovato seemed to know what triggered relapses. “People say that relapses happen before you use,” she told Cosmopolitan
in 2015. “Your mind starts setting up the relapse before you take that
drink or that first hit.” She cited her breakup with Wilmer Valderrama
as particularly triggering. “The times [when he and I had] broken up, I
had already gone to that place of, ‘Yeah, this is what’s happening.’ I
didn’t realize it at the time, but I just wanted to sabotage everything
around me so that I could sabotage myself.”
In early June, just two weeks before releasing “Sober,” she nixed a concert in London, saying she was “very very sick” with swollen vocal cords.
Days after announcing her relapse in her “Sober” song, she showed off a new tattoo on Instagram. She was inked with the word “Free” and tagged her photo with the message: “Love is accepting someone for who they are.”
She recently seemed to part ways with her former sober coach,
business partner, and friend Mike Bayer. In June, Lovato tweeted, “You
can’t always trust people who you once thought saved you” in response
to a question about the biggest lessons she’d learned this year. Just a
few months before, Lovato had credited Bayer with saving her life.
According to fans, she also unfollowed him in June. Earlier this
month, she tweeted, in a seemingly sarcastic sentiment, “Good luck on
your blog” on the same day that Bayer posted a vlog on Instagram in
which he shared his “biggest pet peeve” with celebrities, though he did
not name Lovato.
Gunman in Trader Joe's standoff was feuding with grandmother
Michael Balsamo, Associated Press,Associated Press13 hours ago
FILE - In this photo Saturday, July 21, 2018
file photo provided by Christian Monterrosa, Gene Evin Atkins is
arrested after evading police and holding dozens of people hostage
inside a Trader Joe's supermarket, in Los Angeles. A feud between Atkins
and his grandmother over his girlfriend staying at the grandmother's
home exploded into violence that ultimately led to him taking people
hostage inside the Los Angeles supermarket, a relative said Sunday.
(Christian Monterrosa via AP, File)
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A feud between a man and his grandmother
over his girlfriend staying at the grandmother's home exploded into
violence that ultimately led to him taking dozens of people hostage
inside a Los Angeles supermarket, a relative said Sunday.
Investigators
believe Gene Evin Atkins, 28, shot his grandmother several times and
wounded his girlfriend at their South Los Angeles home on Saturday
afternoon before he led police on a chase, while exchanging gunfire with
officers, crashed into a pole outside the Trader Joe's in the city's
Silver Lake section and ran inside.
Atkins was booked Sunday on suspicion of murder after an employee was killed as he ran into the supermarket, police said.
His
cousin, Charlene Egland, told The Associated Press that he had been
arguing with his grandmother — who had raised him since he was 7 years
old — "on and off for about two or three weeks" over his girlfriend
staying at the elderly woman's home.
"She didn't want the girl over there anymore," Egland said.
On
Saturday, Atkins' grandmother, Mary Elizabeth Madison, 76, was walking
back into the home and told her grandson "he needs to turn some of them
TVs off" when he shot her, she said.
Egland said she heard about
six gunshots before another cousin came running from the porch and
shouted to Egland, "I think Gene shot my mama!"
The girlfriend was grazed in the head, police said.
Egland
said she ran to call 911 and waited for an ambulance to arrive. At the
same time, police said Atkins stole his grandmother's car and forced his
girlfriend into the vehicle.
Officers tracked the car using a
stolen-vehicle tracking system and tried to stop the man in Hollywood,
but he refused to pull over, police said. During the chase, he fired at
officers, shooting out the back window of his car.
More gunfire
ensued before Atkins crashed into a pole outside the supermarket. The
man exchanged gunfire with police again and that's when a 27-year-old
Trader Joe's employee, Melyda Corado, was shot and killed, Police Chief
Michel Moore said. Officers escorted the girlfriend from the vehicle.
Customers
and employees frantically dove for cover and barricaded themselves
inside storerooms and bathrooms as bullets fired by police shattered the
store's glass doors.
As he heard gunfire, Sean Gerace, who was
working in the back of the supermarket, grabbed several of his
co-workers and the group made their way into an upstairs storage area.
He grabbed a folding ladder and tossed it out a window, helping his
colleagues escape to safety, he told KNBC-TV.
"I grabbed an
emergency ladder, barricaded the hallway, grabbed a weapon, put the
ladder out the window and just tried to get the attention of the SWAT
officer," Gerace told the television station.
About three hours
later, Atkins — who had been shot in the left arm — agreed to handcuff
himself and walked out the front door, surrounded by four of the
hostages. He was being held on $2 million bail Sunday and it wasn't
clear if he had an attorney to comment on the allegations.
A gun was found in the store, police said.
A 22-year-old woman was wounded by glass fragments and later took herself to a hospital, police said.
The Fire Department took six people to hospitals for non-life threatening conditions or injuries, police said.
Atkins'
grandmother initially was taken to a hospital in critical condition and
police said she had been shot seven times but Egland, who visited
Madison at the hospital on Sunday, said she had only been shot three
times, had undergone surgery and her condition was improving.
Atkins,
who has two daughters, bounced between several jobs, including working
as a security guard, but had been repeatedly fired, Egland said. His
license to work as a security guard expired in November 2017, according
to state records. It was not clear whether the particular license he
possessed would have allowed him to legally carry a firearm.
His grandmother had also tried to help him find employment and "was just trying to make him do better," Egland said.
Atkins
never grew violent toward his grandmother before, Egland said, but she
started to grow concerned about him over the last several weeks because
he seemed upset and distant.
"He didn't seem right to me," Egland said. "I'm just devastated."
On
Sunday, grieving family members, co-workers and customers remembered
Corado, the Trader Joe's worker, as lively, hardworking and always
smiling. A makeshift memorial of flowers, candles and notes grew on the
sidewalk outside of the store on Sunday.
"I'm sad to say she didn't make it. My baby sister. My world," her brother, Albert Corado said on Twitter.
Trader
Joe's said the store — known by customers as a neighborhood hangout
with great customer service — would remain closed for the foreseeable
future to give their employees time to process and grieve.
"Yesterday
marks the saddest day in Trader Joe's history as we mourn the loss of
one our own," company spokeswoman Kenya Friend-Daniel said in a
statement. "Our thoughts are with her family, and our Crew Members and
customers who experienced this terrifying and unimaginable ordeal."
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Associated Press writers Christopher Weber and Robert Jablon contributed to this report.
