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Demovictory9's JournalJ Balvin apologizes after music video depicted him walking Black women on leashes
J Balvin apologizes after music video depicted him walking Black women on leashes
J Balvin apologized earlier this week for a music video that featured Black people whose facial features were altered to make them look like dogs, including two Black women who were depicted as being walked on a leash by the reggaeton star.
Critics of the “Perra” video include the vice president of Balvin’s native Colombia — who co-signed an open letter that the song’s lyrics, and video feature “misogynistic expressions that violate the rights of women” — and the singer’s own mother, who told a Colombian news program that the video prompted her to call her son to ask “Where is the Josésito that I know?”
J Balvin has been criticized for his “Perra” music video. Even the reggaeton star's mother asks: “Where is the Josésito that I know?”
The music video is the latest controversy for the “Mi Gente” singer, who has been criticized throughout his career for culturally appropriating from Black artists and making tone-deaf statements about race. Amid widespread protests over racial justice last year, Balvin was slammed for posting a video of him dancing with a Black woman alongside the Black Lives Matter hashtag. (He later pledged to “do better”.) But the outcry over “Perra” — which features rising Afro-Dominican rapper Tokischa — also highlights long-standing issues in the genre that made Balvin a pop star.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/news/j-balvin-apologizes-after-music-video-depicted-him-walking-black-women-on-leashes/ar-AAQ4eaI?ocid=msedgntp
50-year-old female character was described as having a 'wizened face' in script
Barbara Hershey recalls being 'shocked' reading a script where a 50-year-old female character was described as having a 'wizened face'She was shocked and thinks audiences are ready to "embrace people of all ages," including seniors.
"The Manor" star told Insider she has "more fun now" and that aging is "not such a fearful thing."
Barbara Hershey thinks audiences are ready to "embrace people of all ages," including older adults and senior citizens, in films and TV shows. But ageism is still a serious problem in Hollywood, and a blatant example of it popped up in a screenplay she read.
As an accomplished actress with a decades-long career - and credits in critically-acclaimed movies like "The Portrait of a Lady" and "Black Swan," among others - the 73-year-old Hershey is used to the industry by now. Still, she's not beyond being stunned at how older women continue to be portrayed onscreen.
"I remember reading a script where, it was a character who was 50 years old, and it said, 'A tear ran down her wizened face,'" Hershey told Insider. "And I just thought, whoa. I looked to see who had written it - it was actually two women, that really shocked me."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/lifestyle-buzz/barbara-hershey-recalls-being-shocked-reading-a-script-where-a-50-year-old-female-character-was-described-as-having-a-wizened-face/ar-AAQ4lz6?ocid=msedgntp
woman faces attempted murder charges. Cut rope of painters 26 floors up
Two painters in Thailand were left dangling 26 stories above the ground after a resident inside the high-rise condominium, seemingly frustrated when they appeared outside her room without warning, severed their support rope.
The woman who cut the rope is facing attempted murder and property destruction charges, announced Pol. Col. Pongjak Preechakarunpong, chief of the Pak Kret police station north of the Thai capital. She initially denied playing a role but confessed on Wednesday after authorities showed her CCTV footage and forensic evidence linking her to the crime, including her fingerprints on the rope.
The 34-year-old told officers she did not intend to kill the workers.
The incident occurred the afternoon of Oct. 12, shortly after the painters arrived to repair a crack on the residential building, not far from Bangkok. One of the workers, a Myanmar national named Song, told the Thai media that he and his two friends were lowering themselves from the 32nd floor when he felt the rope supporting them go suddenly slack.
They immediately started calling out for help as soon as they realized their rig was unstable. Terrifying video shared online show the pair hanging precariously by the 26th floor of the condominium, asking residents to let them inside.
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/ny-thailand-painters-dangling-resident-cut-20211028-o3enwjl55jfqpkvtqiarkqls74-story.html
Yale educated surgeon..left to Cambodia with zipties the day after attempt to buy girls in US
Ugh..anyone doubt kids were raped in Cambodia?
his privilege allowed him to.victimize others
https://www.newsweek.com/surgeon-who-tried-buy-kids-off-mother-claims-he-was-high-ecstasy-laced-meth-1643589
A man in California was convicted of 16 years in prison for sex crimes including attempting to buy two young girls off their mother. The man, 38-year-old Cassidy Lavorini-Doyle, claimed he was high on ecstasy laced with meth before the incident which occurred in 2019.
During the trial, Lavorini-Doyle admitted to approaching a woman and her two daughters, ages 10 and 11, at an office building. According to police, he offered the mother $30,000 to "buy her two daughters for the night." The mother rejected and immediately called the police.
Lavorini-Doyle was at the office building to consult a financial advisor about his more than $700,000 debt, Mercury News reported. Lavorini-Doyle was briefly stopped by police after the incident but was released.
In court, his attorneys argued that he had taken six tablets of ecstasy that he believed were laced with methamphetamine before he approached the mother. His attorneys also claimed that although he had a "perverse desire and corrupt intent to have sex with minors," he never successfully did so, Mercury News reported.
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The day after attempting to buy the two girls, Lavorini-Doyle traveled to Cambodia with $10,000 cash as well as a new camera, zip ties, and duct tape. He admitted he intended to use the money to pay for child sex acts while abroad, but claimed that he did not locate any victims during the trip. The day before he returned, police searched Lavorini-Doyle's home and seized several electronic devices.
Jury Awards $17M to Family of Man Shot and Killed by Off-Duty LAPD Officer in Corona Costco
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/jury-awards-17m-to-family-of-man-shot-and-killed-by-off-duty-lapd-officer-in-corona-costco/ar-AAQ1KDt?ocid=msedgntpThe family of a developmentally disabled man shot to death by a former LAPD officer inside a Costco store in Corona has been awarded $17 million in damages by a jury in Riverside.
Kenneth French, 32, was killed by former officer Salvador Sanchez after a confrontation near a sample table in June 2019. Sanchez also shot French's parents, Russell and Paola, who both survived their wounds.
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Sanchez told Corona Police detectives in 2019 he thought he had been shot in the head, and witnesses told police they saw Sanchez drop to the floor, draw a pistol, and begin firing.
The jurors also found that Sanchez's actions were within 'the scope' of Sanchez's employment at the LAPD, even though he was off duty at the time. That means the city of Los Angeles may shoulder much of the liability for the damage award.
The LAPD fired Sanchez in 2020 after an administrative investigation found the shooting was out of policy.
Sanchez was charged with manslaughter and assault with a firearm in August by the California Department of Justice, after the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office said a grand jury declined to bring criminal charges.
Sanchez is awaiting trial.
A California county cuts off water to Asian (Hmong) pot growers. Is it racism or crime crackdown?
In the spring of this year, county supervisors effectively outlawed the transportation of water into a rural tract that had become known for its prolific cultivation of pot, squalid living conditions and large population of Hmong farmers.
The measure was just the latest attempt by local officials to shut down the pot farms, which authorities blamed for a spike in violent crime and environmental degradation.
This time however, as the Lava fire tore through the countryside, Siskiyou County’s crackdown would erupt in violence and draw national attention to a bitter conflict involving race, water and the legalization of marijuana. It would also cause a federal court judge to openly question the county’s motives for implementing such harsh measures, coming as they were at a time of severe drought, record heat and extreme risk of wildfires.
“The dehydration and de facto expulsion of a disfavored minority community cannot be the price paid in an effort to stop illegal cannabis cultivation and any attendant harms,” wrote Judge Kimberly J. Mueller of the Eastern District of California.
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But in 2015, Hmong growers began moving into the subdivision from Minneapolis, Milwaukee and Fresno — areas where the U.S. State Department resettled Hmong refugees whose collaboration with U.S. forces in the Vietnam War had marked them for persecution by the communists. This was also around the time that California voters passed Proposition 64, which legalized the recreational use of cannabis and reduced the penalty for growing and selling it from a felony to a misdemeanor.
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Today, some 1,000 Hmong live in the subdivision, but county officials complain that only 80 to 84 of the numerous structures there were erected with permits.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-10-26/weaponizing-california-water-against-illegal-pot-growers
picture of the mount shasta subdivision
Tech entrepreneur stirs debate after calling men who take 6 months paternity leave 'losers'
Tech entrepreneur stirs debate after calling men who take 6 months paternity leave ‘losers’
A prominent investor and entrepreneur stirred online debate Wednesday after calling fathers with important jobs "losers" if they take six months of paternity leave for a newborn.
Jon Lonsdale, a co-founder of Palantir Technologies and general partner at 8VC, made it clear in his post that he thinks it is "great" for fathers to spend time with their families and support new moms, "but any man in an important position who takes 6 months of leave for a newborn is a loser."
"In the old days men had babies and worked harder to provide for their future—that’s the correct masculine response," he posted.
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Palantir did not immediately respond to an email from Fox News. Bloomberg reported that Lonsdale has been a vocal critic of "woke" politics, but he clarified his post later and said using the word "loser" was uncalled for. He also said he was for some paternity leave, but called six months "silly."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/tech-entrepreneur-stirs-debate-after-calling-men-who-take-6-months-paternity-leave-losers/ar-AAQ2aM8
Felony charges have been dropped against a homeless man who shortchanged a convenience store 43 cen
Felony charge dropped against man who shortchanged store 43 cents for Mountain DewFelony charges have been dropped against a homeless man who shortchanged a convenience store 43 cents for a bottle of Mountain Dew.
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Felony charges have been dropped against a homeless man who shortchanged a convenience store 43 cents for a bottle of Mountain Dew.
PennLive.com reported Tuesday that Perry County prosecutors have dropped the theft charge and downgraded another charge against Joseph Sobolewski.
Sobolewski, 38, walked into an Exxon gas station in Duncannon in August after seeing a sign for a 2 for $3 deal on 20-ounce Mountain Dew bottles.
Sobolewski grabbed a bottle and left $2 on the counter before walking out, not realizing that a single bottle of the beverage cost $2.29, not $1.50, meaning he still owned the store 43 cents when factoring in sales tax, according to PennLive.com.
A gas station employee called police, who tracked down and arrested Sobolewski on a felony charge.
Magisterial District Judge Jackie Leister ordered him to be held on a $50,000 cash-only bond and he was held in jail for seven days before his attorney successfully argued for his release, PennLive.com reported.
Sobolewski has had several run-ins with the law in the past decade, being charged twice with theft for not paying for a tank of gas and another time for stealing a pair of shoes from a department store.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/felony-charge-dropped-against-man-who-shortchanged-store-43-cents-for-mountain-dew/ar-AAQ1lFL?ocid=msedgntp
the amount of damage a dog can do!!!! guy comes home to demolished door
https://www.tiktok.com/@themadrussian1/video/7021643268165324038Elk walking around for three days with baby swing on its antlers... caught and tranquilized,released
https://twitter.com/CPW_NE/status/1452731743480389632https://twitter.com/CPW_NE/status/1452731940830789632
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/elk-has-to-have-antlers-removed-after-getting-stuck-in-baby-swing/ar-AAQ1pGs?ocid=msedgntp
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