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Unarmed Man Paralyzed By Police Wants Charges Dropped

A black man who was unarmed when a police officer shot and injured him causing paralysis wants all charges dropped against him. Edward Brown of Phoneix, Arizona says he was racially profiled and the victim of brutality after he was shot in the back.

According to ABC 15, on August 5 police responded to a suspicious call about “possible drug activity” in an alley and Brown ran away because of a felony warrant.

A chase ensued and an officer claims that he caught Brown trying to hop a fence before he began to walk towards him and then “charged at him.”

The officer alleges that Brown made a “swipe for his gun to grab it,” and claims he “felt the tip of his gun get grazed.”

Brown says, however, that’s untrue and is using the bullet that was lodged into his back as proof.

“If Edward had been trying to take a gun away from the police officer, as has been alleged, as it has come from the police department, he would’ve been shot in the front, not in the back,” said Brown’s lawyer.

When Brown was questioned by police at the hospital, he said his back was toward the officer.

His family has since launched a GoFundMe to help with legal fees as he fights the case and sues the department. Click HERE to see it.

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Panic Ensues As People Mistake Fallen Barrier For Gunshots At Festival

Every year, thousands of people pack into Central Park in New York City for Global Citizen Festival, a concert that boasts big headliners and free tickets, all for the cause of ending extreme poverty by 2030.

This year, however, there was some panic at the festival that almost halted the concert.

Just ahead of Janet Jackson’s set at the Global Citizen Festival, a fallen barrier caused panic among the 60,000 attendees–who reportedly thought it was the sound of gunshots.

Witnesses at the scene told the New York Times that the confusion and fear of an active shooter at the music festival nearly caused a stampede as concertgoers fled. Chris Martin, who was on the stage at the time, tried to calm the attendees down.

“What happened is a barrier I think fell down. Of course it caused people to be a bit frightened and stuff like that. But nobody is trying to hurt nobody. You are all safe,” he said to cheers before handing the microphone to NYPD’s assistant chief Kathleen O’Reilly, who also reassured the safety of the attendees.

“Everybody relax, calm down,” she said. “It was a barrier collapse. There was no shots fired. Hopefully the show is going to go on. We just have to reassess the situation and try and create a new safety lane. We’re going to have to try our best.”

Global Citizen later tweeted out that there were a few injuries caused by those running away, etc, but the show would go on.

And the show did just that. After some amazing sets from the likes of Cardi B and Janelle Monae, Janet Jackson took the stage–and even brought out Q-Tip out as a surprise guest to perform their classic hit “Got ’til It’s Gone.” The Weeknd ended out the night with an amazing performance, and the rest of the night went off without a hitch.

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Rihanna Holds Fenty Beauty Talk In Dubai

RihRih spent Saturday in Dubai for the launch of her new Stunna Lip paint. She also hosted a Fenty Beauty talk in collaboration with Sephora.

We love that she is getting her shmoney on and capitalizing off Fenty Beauty so much.

Can you imagine being the model who has RihRih working on her?

This look is EVERYTHING. Rihanna looks stunning no matter what she wears but these neutral colors are gorgeous on her riiiight?

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When 73-year old Pennelope Pettersen saw a naked man on her back porch — she went into full on scary grandma mode. WFTV reports,

Axel Rivera, 28, was wearing a two-piece jail outfit and a pair of flip-flops when he faced a judge Friday afternoon on charges of burglary and exposing sexual organs. That’s three more items of clothing than Titusville police said Rivera was wearing when he was discovered on Pennelope Pettersen’s screened porch around 2 a.m. Pettersen, who once worked in security and law enforcement, decided she’d give the intruder a fright. She popped out her teeth.

Prosecutors say alcohol may have played a part in Rivera’s bizarre behavior. He’s currently being held on $20,000 bail at Brevard County Jail.

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Kellyanne Conway Reveals She’s Been Sexually Assaulted

Kellyanne Conway made a jaw-dropping revelation Sunday while on CNN.

The White House counselor was a guest on CNN’s “State of the Union” and brought up her own history of sexual assault while defending Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

“I feel very empathetic for victims of sexual assault and sexual harassment and rape. I’m a victim of sexual assault,” said Conway. “But you have to be responsible for your own conduct.”

She also argued that the Kavanaugh hearings were not a “meeting of the Me Too movement.”

“Let’s not compare Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby, and a few others, to what’s happened here,” she said. “If we’re going to have a national conversation, stop judging the victims and perpetrators according to their politics.”

She also clapped back at people wondering how she can possibly work for Trump whose been accused by multiple women of sexual misconduct.

“People on Twitter and elsewhere are saying right now, ‘oh how can she work for Donald Trump?’ I work for President Trump because he’s so good to the woman who work for him,” she said. “I don’t want to hear it from anybody.”

Sure thing, sis.

What do YOU think about Kellyanne’s revelation?

Jackie Aina Takes Us On A Tour Of Her Lavish Bathroom

Beauty Youtuber and influencer Jackie Aina is at the top of her game right now, and she’s still climbing the ranks of the makeup industry. She’s known for her popping personality and absolutely slaying every single makeup look and outfit–but that’s only what fans get to see from what she chooses to post online.

With that being said, it’s always fun to see the behind-the-scenes workings of these beauty influencers and how they get to look as flawless as they do, and that’s exactly what Miss Jackie served us with when Allure came to town.

Boasting nearly 3 million subscribers on her Youtube channel, Jackie Aina gives us a tour of not only her lavish bathroom, but the makeup room where she films all of her videos.

The Los Angeles resident is known for how seriously she takes her skincare, which she reiterates a few times throughout the video. Jackie walks us through her bathroom showing off all of the different products she has ready to go, while also explaining a very condensed version of her morning and night-time skincare routines. This includes exfoliation, serums, essences, a sheet mask, and a whole lot more. As she explains all the work she puts into her skin, it becomes clear why she looks airbrushed at all times.

And not only does she have a stash to be reckoned with in her bathroom, but she has a whole overflow cabinet stocked and ready to go–watch at your own risk of being extremely jealous.

We also get to see an inside look at Aina’s filming room, which looks super familiar to anyone who has watched her Youtube videos. The beauty guru shows off her Youtube plaques, her chair setup for those long filming hours, and more.

If you’re a fan of Jackie, this bathroom tour is exactly what you need in life.

Hilarious Memes Of The Week

Back at it again with MORE hilarious memes for your weekend funny.

Peep all the best (and funniest) memes of the week on the flip.

After performing “I Love It” with Lil Pump on Saturday Night Live, Kanye West couldn’t let the night end without pulling some sort of attention grabbing stunt. So he went in his bag of Trump tricks and decided to go on a full on Pro-Trump rant at the end of the show.

He said,

“There’s so many times I talk to, like, a white person about this and they say, ‘How could you like Trump? He’s racist,’. Well, uh, if I was concerned about racism I would’ve moved out of America a long time ago.”

Some of the ridiculous speech occurred off air, but luckily Chris Rock who was in attendance captured some of it on his phone. You can hear the comedian saying “Oh My God” and even laughing at Kanye in the background as the rest of the crowd booed.

There’s nothing about Kanye West that surprises us anymore, besides the fact that the folks around him condone his offensive behavior. SMH.

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Lawsuit Follows Funeral Home Putting The Wrong Corpse In Casket

Funerals are already a difficult experience to deal with–but when something goes wrong, the whole situation is automatically made ten times worse.

That’s what one New York City man experienced after the passing of his mother, due to the alleged mishap of the funeral home he hired. The Queens resident is now making claims that an East Elmhurst funeral home that he hired to prepare his mother’s remains instead swapped her body for a stranger’s. This is all according to a lawsuit filed by the grieving son following the very disheartening mishap.

Earl Straker says that he had absolutely no idea anything was wrong with the arrangements for his late mother Helen until he walked into the viewing at Cobbs Funeral Chapels on May 5, a few months back.

It was there, at the service with the rest of his family, friends, and loved ones, that he first saw the body in the casket–and that’s when he immediately realized something was wrong.

Rightfully expecting to see the face of his dearly departed, 90-year-old mother, the 61-year-old son Earl was met with something else entirely. Instead, the poor son looked down on “an unknown corpse [that] was prepared as if it was the corpse of the decedent, Helen Straker,” he alleges in the Queens Supreme Court lawsuit.

The wrong corpse being present for the funeral of his late mother left Earl Straker with “mental distress of a very serious nature,” he alleged in the lawsuit.

It is currently unclear what happened to Helen Straker’s remains, along with why or how the funeral home presumably mixed up two of their bodies.