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Pearland ISD
employees sued after Black student
reportedly made to fill in hair design
with Sharpie
Three Pearland school officials are
being sued along with the school district
after a seventh-grade student was made to
fill in his hair design with a black Sharpie
earlier this year.
The federal civil rights lawsuit was
filed Sunday, characterizing the act as
racist and saying the boy was humiliated and
shamed by it.
In April, the assistant principal at
Berry Miller Junior High told the child he
was in violation of the dress code, which at
the time stated “hair must be neat, clean
and well-groomed. Extreme hair styles such
as carvings, mohawks, spikes, etc. are not
allowed.”
Barcelona, along with discipline clerk
Helen Day and teacher Jeanette Peterson
laughed as the students design was colored
in, the complaint states.
An attorney for the child’s parents
noted in the complaint that depicting
African Americans with jet black skin is a
negative racial stereotype dating as far
back as the Jim Crow era.
“The jet-black markings did not cover
the haircut design line but made the design
more prominent and such was obvious to those
present at the very beginning of the scalp
blackening process,” the complaint says.
In a statement in May, the district said
the incoming principal has “humbly
apologized, expressed great regret over this
matter, and has resolved to re-earn the
trust and confidence placed upon him.”
Pearland ISD changed its dress code
policy in May to take out the part about
“extreme” hairstyles.
The boy’s parents and their lawyer are
holding a press conference Monday outside
the Pearland ISD administration building at
2 p.m.
Pearland ISD had not yet responded to
the lawsuit as of Sunday evening.
Date/time:
August 30th, 7:00am to September 1st, 11:00pm
Venue: NRG Stadium
Address: 1 NRG Pwky,
Houston, Texas, 77054
There could have been three more mass shootings if these men weren’t stopped
Authorities this weekend announced they had foiled three potential mass shootingsafter arresting three men in different states who expressed interest in or threatened to carry them out.All three cases were brought to authorities’ attention thanks to tips from the public.Here’s what we know about them.
Police say he had the motivation and the ammunition
In Connecticut, 22-year-old Brandon Wagshol was arrested after authorities said he had expressed interest in committing a mass shooting on Facebook, according to a statement from the FBI and the Norwalk Police Department. If you see a red flag for a mass shooting, this is what you should do He faces four charges of illegal possession of large capacity magazines, and is being held on a $250,000 bond. He is scheduled to appear in court September 6.According to the statement, authorities received a tip that Wagshol was trying to buy large capacity rifle magazines from out of state. As the FBI and the Norwalk Police Department were investigating the tip, they discovered Wagshol was trying to build his own rifle and had allegedly posted on Facebook about his interest in committing a mass shooting, the statement said. Authorities did not provide details on what the post said.
Brandon WagsholAuthorities executed a search warrant at his home and found multiple weapons, including a handgun, a rifle, a rifle scope with a laser, numerous rounds of ammunition, body armor, a ballistic helmet and other tactical gear, police said. Some of the weapons were registered to Wagshol’s father, but he had access to them, authorities said.CNN has reached out to the prosecutor and defense attorney.
He allegedly told his ex ‘A good 100 kills would be nice’
Tristan Scott Wix of Daytona Beach, Florida, was arrested in a Winn-Dixie parking lot on Friday after he sent his ex-girlfriend a series of disturbing texts in which he allegedly threatened to commit a mass shooting, the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office said. The ex-girlfriend alerted authorities. In the messages, the 25-year-old said he wanted to open fire on a large crowd of people, the sheriff’s office said in a news release. “A good 100 kills would be nice,” one message allegedly read. Wix also said he already had a location in mind, according to the sheriff’s office.
Tristan Wix of Daytona Beach, Florida, faces charges of making written threats to kill or do bodily injury after a series of ominous text messages. “A school is a weak target.. id be more likely to open fire on a large crowd of people from over 3 miles away.. I’d wanna break a world record for longest confirmed kill ever,” another message read, according to the sheriff’s office.Wix wrote that he wanted to die and “have fun doing it,” authorities said. Volusia County Sheriff Michael Chitwood said on CNN Sunday that authorities had recovered a .22-caliber hunting rifle and 400 rounds of ammo in Wix’s apartment. Wix had initially told investigators he did not own any firearms but that he was fascinated with mass shootings, the sheriff’s office said.Wix was being held without bond Sunday at the Volusia County Branch Jail. CNN could not immediately determine Sunday whether Wix had an attorney.
He’s accused of threatening a Jewish community center
And in Ohio, 20-year-old James Patrick Reardon was arrested for allegedly threatening to carry out a shooting at a Youngstown Jewish community center. Why El Paso and other recent attacks in the US are modern-day lynchingsAn Instagram account belonging to Reardon shared a video that showed a man firing a gun, New Middletown Police Chief Vincent D’Egidio told CNN. The post — which was shown to an officer out on an unrelated call — tagged the Jewish Community Center of Youngstown, D’Egidio said. It’s unclear whether the man shooting the gun was Reardon or someone else. Andy Lipkin, the executive vice-president of the Youngstown Area Jewish Federation, said the post was accompanied by a caption that read, “Police identified the Youngstown Jewish Family Community shooter as local white nationalist Seamus O’Rearedon” — Seamus being a Gaelic version of Reardon’s name.
James Patrick Reardon was arrested for threatening a Jewish community center in Ohio, authorities say.The rest of the Instagram account contained anti-Semitic comments, white nationalist content, and images of Reardon or someone else shooting guns, D’Egidio said. A search warrant was executed and authorities found a cache of weapons and ammunition, D’Egidio told CNN.Reardon was arrested without incident and booked into the Mahoning County Jail on Saturday on one count of telecommunications harassment and one count of aggravated menacing, according to online jail records. He’s set to be arraigned Monday morning, the police chief said.It was unclear whether Reardon was represented by an attorney.
Don’t screw over your friends
“Vijay and Raju were friends. One day
while on holiday, exploring a forest, they
saw a bear coming towards them.
Naturally, they were both frightened, so
Raju, who knew how to climb trees, climbed
one quickly. He didn’t spare a thought for
his friend who had no idea how to climb.
Vijay thought for a moment. He had heard
that animals don’t attack dead bodies, so he
fell to the ground and held his breath. The
bear sniffed him, thought he was dead, and
went on its way.
Raju, after he had climbed down from the
tree asked Vijay, ‘What did the bear whisper
in your ears?’
Vijay replied, ‘The bear asked me to
keep away from friends like you.'”
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Date/time:
August 23rd, 7:00pm to
11:00pm
Venue:
The Cynthia Woods Mitchell
Pavilion
Address:
2005 Lake Robbins Dr, The
Woodlands, Texas, 77380
Al Sharpton:
Pitting
Jay-Z
against
Colin
Kaepernick
is ‘The
wrong fight”
While many
civil rights
leaders have
seemingly stayed
quiet about Jay-Z’s
new
controversial
partnership with
the NFL, the Rev.
Al Sharpton decidedly
confronted it
head-on during
his weekly
address at the National
Action Network headquarters
in Harlem on
Saturday.
People have
had strong
opinions about
the deal that
gives Jay-Z’s Roc
Nation company
control over
certain aspects
of the Super
Bowl halftime
show and places
the rapper in an
as-yet
undesignated
role surrounding
social justice
issues and
initiatives. But
because the
undoubtedly
lucrative
partnership’s
announcement was
void of any
mention of Colin
Kaepernick —
the free agent
Super Bowl
quarterback
whose national
anthem kneeling
protest is
credited with
bringing the
widespread
awareness of
social justice
issues and, in
particular,
police brutality
against Black
people — some
folks have said
in no uncertain
terms that Jay-Z
sold out
Kaepernick. (It
didn’t help
matters that it
was later
reported that
Jay-Z was
expected to
ultimately have
a “significant
ownership
interest” in an
NFL team.)
However,
others have
suggested a
hurry-up-and-wait
approach could
be more prudent,
given Jay’s
documented
dedication to
“the cause.”
On Saturday,
Sharpton
suggested that
the
Jay-Z-NFL-Kaepernick
debate was
missing one key
component that,
if included,
would put the
controversy into
what he said was
its proper,
larger context.
“This ain’t
about Colin
Kaepernick’s
knee,” Sharpton
said, “it’s
about choking Eric
Garner to
death!”
Sharpton,
who went on to
cite Tamir
Rice and Michael
Brown as
other unarmed
Black males
killed by
police, was
referring to the
absence of
justice as NYPD Officer Daniel
Pantaleo avoided
criminal charges
and has kept his
high-paying job
more than five
years after
being was
recorded on
video choking
Garner to death
in broad
daylight. The
reverend used
that notorious
police death to
explain who he
said
should matter
most in the
overall social
justice
narrative.
“This ain’t
no battle for
athletes and
superstars, it’s
about people
being trampled
on,” he
exclaimed.
“Don’t let them
distract you
fighting the
wrong fight!”
Sharpton
went on to cite Jay-Z’s
notable
contributions on
the social
justice front.
“I’m not
attacking
Jay-Z,” he said
before
emphasizing that
he was more
concerned with
justice for
Garner and other
Black victims of
police brutality
that has gone
unpunished.
Jay-Z’s
social justice
resume is
strong. He has
produced one
documentary
about Trayvon
Martin and
another about Kalief
Browder,
each credited
for helping to
bring attention
to two very
separate but
equally tragic
deaths blamed in
part on law
enforcement. Roc
Nation has
helped secure
legal aid for
both famous and
everyday Black
people. Most
notably, Jay was
involved in the
legal saga that
helped to
release Meek
Mill from prison
last year after
he spent nearly five
months
incarceratedafter
a controversial
sentence for
probation
violation.
Michael
Eric Dyson,
the scholar as
well as Jay-Z’s
biographer,
vehemently
defended Jay and
his record
during an
appearance on
CNN on Friday
that
incorporated
some similar
points Sharpton
made.
Still, the
rapper was being
heavily
criticized for
saying during
the
partnership’s
announcement
that he thought
kneeling was no
longer the right
approach to
effect any real
change.
Kaepernick
seemed to
question the
partnership when
he tweeted on
Thursday — the
day after the
deal was
announced — that
he planned to
continue “to
work and stand
with the people
in our fight for
liberation,
despite those
who are trying
to erase the
movement!” To
many people,
that read like a
direct swipe at
Jay.
Nessa, the
free-agent
quarterback’s
girlfriend who’s
been a leading
voice for Team
Kaepernick,
later tweeted
that “Jay-Z Is
JUST Taking The
Money.
The likely
truth was that
until (if?) the
details of
Jay-Z’s
agreement with
the NFL are
revealed, no one
really knows
what his role
will be or who
it will truly
benefit. Which
is why
Sharpton’s words
on Saturday
seemed to be the
voice of reason
that was missing
from the ongoing
argument: don’t
get distracted
“fighting the
wrong fight!”