An audio supervisor for the TV series Cops was killed while filming a police shoot-out at a fast-food restaurant robbery in Omaha, Neb. Bryce Dion, 38, is the first crew member to be killed while filming police, according to the show’s production company. Read about it here…[WSJ] The sister of the Boston Marathon bombing suspect […]
An American photojournalist who went missing in Syria more than a year ago was beheaded on video by the militant group formerly known as ISIS. James Foley was covering Syria’s civil war when he went missing in 2012. On Tuesday, Foley appeared in a video entitled “A Message to #America from the #IslamicState,” denouncing America […]
District of Columbia police say they have arrested an Uber driver for sexually assaulting a passenger in the early morning hours of July 20. Reshad Ahmad Chakari, 32, was charged with second degree sexual abuse on Friday for touching the passenger while she slept in the vehicle. According to an affidavit in support of an arrest […]
The University of Texas football program is in hot water this week after two players were arrested and charged Thursday with a felony sexual assault. Texas wide receivers Kendall Sanders, 20, and Montrel Meander, 19, were taken into custody at the university police station after they received a call from the victim saying she had […]
An Oklahoma teen was arrested late last week and charged after engaging in sexual acts with children at a Kenyan home where he volunteered in April. The school, founded by an American citizen, recruits volunteers from an Oklahoma church community and provides food, housing, and clothes to neglected children in Nairobi, according to the complaint. Matthew Lane […]
Twitter campaigns created to fight the mockery of a Houston teen’s rape are picking up steam and bringing awareness to the rampant rape culture in society. Hashtags like #StandWithJada and #IAmJada are pushing the original pictures of Jada, a teen whose rape went viral, on the sidelines — Jada, whose last name has not been released, […]
Two University of Miami linebackers were arrested Tuesday and dismissed from the football team after admitting to sexually assaulting a teenage girl in a dorm room on July 5. Alex Figueroa and Jawand Blue have been charged with sexual battery on a physically helpless victim. Figueroa was also charged with possessing a stolen or forged driver’s license. […]
A $40 million settlement has been reached for five men who were convicted, and later exonerated, of raping a white female jogger in Central Park in 1989. The announcement brings the 25 year-long case, known as the Central Park jogger case, and the long-fought civil rights lawsuit to an end. If you recall, the five […]
A 30-second snippet of Lady Gaga‘s unreleased Terry Richardson-directed music video for her single “Do What U Want” featuring R. Kelly has surfaced, and its everything you’d expect it to be. As in, gross and rapey. The explicit video depicts Gaga lying naked on a hospital table covered by only a sheet, while R.Kelly, who […]
“Is Terry Richardson an Artist or a Predator?” That’s the question New York Magazine proposes in its cover story on the famed four-eyed photographer published late last night. He had a dark and disturbing childhood–and that’s really all we learn about Richardson. (At 3, he had his stomach pumped for the first time after swallowing a […]
Thirteen men are on trial after committing sexually violent acts against women during a public rally in Cairo less than a week ago. According to the Washington Post, these are the first set of trials that will have tough new penalties enforced against “rampant sexual violence” after much protest. The site reports: The speedy trial reflects a […]
Countless rumors have been going around that Terry Richardson, the famous fashion photographer who’s shot stars like Miley Cyrus and Rita Ora, has also been sexually exploiting and assaulting models with the help of his female assistant. And now, yet another victim has chosen to speak up. According to Jezebel, the feminist-centric site received an […]
