Month: February 2017

A federal judge in Massachusetts on Thursday dismissed a defamation lawsuit against Bill Cosby by an actress who claimed he raped her, ruling that the comedian acted within his rights when he proclaimed himself innocent of the crime.

The civil lawsuit is one of a slew of cases brought against the actor, best known for playing the father in the 1980s television hit “The Cosby Show,” by about 50 women who say he sexually assaulted them, often after plying them with drugs and alcohol, in a series of alleged attacks dating back decades.

The vast bulk of the claims are too old to be the subject of a criminal prosecution, though Cosby is also awaiting trial in Pennsylvania on charges he sexually assaulted a former basketball coach at his alma mater, Temple University.

Cosby has denied wrongdoing in all the cases.

U.S. District Judge Mark Mastroianni wrote on Thursday that accuser Katherine Mae McKee had not demonstrated that Cosby defamed her simply by denying her claims, made in an interview with the New York Daily News.

“An accused person cannot be foreclosed … from considering the issuance of a simple and unequivocal denial — free from overall defamatory triggers or contextual themes,” Mastroianni wrote.

Cosby built a long career on a family-friendly style of comedy before being hit by the wave of allegations.

Attorneys for the 79-year-old entertainer welcomed the decision and compared it to a Pennsylvania court’s dismissal of a similar civil case last month.

“This is the correct outcome,” said attorney Angela Agrusa. “This order, taken in conjunction with the recent decision in the Hill case, amount to a powerful statement of the law.”

However, in his decision, Mastroianni noted there were differences between the case he was dismissing and a separate lawsuit before him brought by accuser Tamara Green and since joined by six other women.

“There is a subtle, yet fundamental, difference between stating or implying that an accuser’s allegations are completely fabricated (and failing to fully disclose the non-defamatory facts underlying this assertion), as in Green, and disputing an accuser’s credibility based on fully disclosed non-defamatory facts, as here,” Mastroianni wrote.

An attorney for Green said the decision had no bearing on the other Massachusetts case.

“Judge Mastroianni’s opinion makes it explicitly clear that he is not backing away from his previous decision in the Green case,” attorney Joseph Cammarata said. “My clients look forward to their day in court.”

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Anytime is a good time to wear your black pride on your sleeve. But Black History Month is an especially opportune time to stock up on apparel and rep your heritage.

That’s why we’ve rounded up 17 clothing items and accessories from black-owned clothing lines that you absolutely need in your closet. From tees with reaffirming messages to hats that remind us of the beauty in blackness, you’ll raise a proud fist rocking these pieces.

Take a look (and get your credit card ready.)

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As President Donald Trump signed his executive order two weeks ago ending all resettlement of refugees in U.S. for four months and placing an indefinite freeze on people arriving from seven Muslim majority countries, he claimed these draconian steps are necessary to keep out “radical Islamic terrorists.” The President then declared ominously, “We don’t want them here…We only want to admit into our country those who will support our country and deeply love our people.”

In fact, there is no evidence that President Trump’s poorly thought-through order will keep out any terrorists. Rather, what Trump has managed to accomplish is to bar from the U.S. thousands of innocent and desperate people — Muslims and others ― who are themselves under imminent peril from being slaughtered by ISIS or Al-Qaeda in war-torn countries like Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Libya. Obscenely, among those who have been banned from entry to the U.S. are brave Iraqis who have risked their lives to serve as translators and contractors for the U.S. Armed Forces in Iraq.

Mr. Trump claims implausibly that his executive order “is not a Muslim ban.” However, the sneering subtext to his remarks at the signing ceremony is that America does not want Muslim immigrants because Muslims cannot be trusted to love our country or make contributions to its welfare.

President Trump should tell that to Dr. Elias A. Zerhouni, a world-renowned Algerian-born American physician, radiologist and biomedical engineer who was appointed by President George W. Bush as the 15th Director of the National Institutes of Health; serving from 2002 until 2008. Does President Trump seriously mean to imply that Dr. Zerhouni is not worthy of the respect he has earned for his protean accomplishments because he is an immigrant from a Muslim country?

What about Imam Mohamed Magid, the spiritual leader of the All-Dulles Area Muslim Society, one of America’s largest and most vibrant mosques, who emigrated here from Sudan? Imam Magid, who has worked closely with the FBI to prevent radicalization of American Muslim youth, recently spoke at the Interfaith Prayer Service at the National Cathedral attended by President Trump. Would Mr. Trump dare to suggest that Imam Magid is not a loyal American because he happens to hail from one of the seven countries proscribed in his executive order? 

Ever since his explicit call for a Muslim ban early in the presidential campaign, Mr. Trump has sought to brainwash Americans into believing that immigrants — especially Muslim immigrants — are criminals and terrorists.

How, we wonder, does Mr. Trump relate to Farooq Kathwari, President and CEO of Ethan Allen? In addition to his accomplishments in the business world, the Kashmiri-born Kathwari has served as Chairman of Refugees International, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and in 2007 was awarded the Outstanding American by Choice Award from the Secretary of State Condeleeza Rice. Would the President suggest that the award to Kathwari should be revoked because Muslim immigrants cannot be trusted to love and support America?

There are many more Muslim immigrants the two of us know personally who have made significant contributions to America. We think of Akon, a hip-hop star from Senegal, who has given so many young Americans enjoyment and inspiration through his music. There is Daisy Khan, an immigrant from Kashmir and founder of WISE Muslim Women, who is the initiator of a soon-to-be released study that elucidates the stark differences between genuine Islamic theology and extremist ideology and offers a road map for preventing extremist recruitment.

There is our dear friend Imam Shamsi Ali, born in a remote village in Indonesia, who has risen an acclaimed spiritual leader in New York with a message of love and inclusion. And we think of Khizr and Ghazala Khan, originally from Pakistan; whose son Humayan sacrificed his life in Iraq to save his fellow U.S. Army servicemen and women from a roadside bomb, and who themselves have inspired countless people of all backgrounds by courageously speaking truth to power.

All of the above-mentioned people are Muslim immigrants who have proven through their life’s work that they truly ‘support our country and deeply love our people.’ It is high time President Trump should acknowledge — perhaps through a series of tweets ― that these American patriots and untold thousands of other Muslim immigrants from all walks of life are improving the quality of life of all Americans.

Ever since his explicit call for a Muslim ban early in the presidential campaign, Mr. Trump has sought to brainwash Americans into believing that immigrants — especially Muslim immigrants — are criminals and terrorists. In fact, they are among America’s best.

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Chastinea Reeves, a 15-year-old Indiana teen who was found safe after a statewide Amber Alert, has been charged with first-degree murder in the stabbing death of her mother.

Prosecutors announced the charges at a proceeding on Thursday, just days after authorities urged the public to help locate the teen.

Reeves vanished Monday morning after she called the police in Gary, Indiana, and reported that her mother, 34-year-old Jamie Garnett, was the victim of a crime. 

When authorities arrived on the scene, they discovered Garnett’s body. The Lake County Coroner’s Office ruled her death a homicide, Chicago’s CBS 2 TV reported.

Investigators were unable to locate Reeves, prompting them to issue the Amber Alert. It stated the teen was considered to be in “extreme danger” and could be the victim of a crime.

When Reeves was found safe on Tuesday, authorities held a brief press conference.

“We will not be releasing much information at this point, just that she has been recovered, the Amber Alert will be canceled and the investigation is still ongoing,” said Dawn Westerfield, a spokeswoman for the Gary Police Department.

Authorities have remained tight-lipped since that time and have yet to comment on the teen’s arrest.

Reeves is reportedly being held at a juvenile detention facility. According to Chicago’s WGN-TV, prosecutors have indicated they want to move the case into adult court.

A hearing in the case is scheduled for April 15.

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When American Girl unveiled its new collection on Tuesday featuring its very first boy doll, the news took the internet by storm. But we think Logan Everett’s introduction may have overshadowed another huge win for diversity. 

This week, the iconic doll makers also announced plans to release Native Hawaiian and Korean American characters in 2017.

One is a Korean American filmmaker named Z Yang (second doll from the left in the picture below), and the other is a Native Hawaiian girl named Nanea Mitchell who grew up during the start of World War II (third doll from the right).

Parents and kids have been asking American Girl for characters with “more experiences, more diversity, more interests,” Julie Parks, the company’s director of public relations, previously told The Huffington Post.

The company’s lineup of dolls for 2017 should challenge other toymakers to improve their inclusivity as well.

Super-fans of American Girl will recognize Z Yang, pictured above, as the star of American Girl’s YouTube series #AGZCREW, which has been running since 2015.

She uses her “creativity to connect with others,” the American Girl website says, “and her stories remind girls that everyone has a unique perspective to share ― even if it’s not perfect.”

Z will be available in spring, making her the second Asian American character to grace American Girl’s collection. The first was Ivy Ling, a Chinese American doll who grew up in San Francisco in the 1970s, according to NBC News. Ling was discontinued in 2014 after a seven-year run.

Nanea, pictured above, is a Hawaiian girl who grew up in 1941, during the time of the Pearl Harbor attacks and the start of World War II.

She is a part of American Girl’s BeForever series, which features characters from different eras throughout history, and is the first BeForever character to come dressed in shorts.

American Girl has previously had characters from the WWII era, but Nanea’s experience is “told from a really different perspective,” Stephanie Spanos, company spokesperson, said during a Facebook Live video.

Nanea’s stories teach the value of kokua ― a Hawaiian word that represents selflessness and helping others. She’ll be in stores this fall.

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A Michigan man who served 16 years behind bars for the murder of his first family has pleaded guilty to torturing his second wife and killing four children.

Gregory Green, 50, entered his plea in Dearborn Heights District Court on Wednesday, after he was found competent to stand trial. His attorney, Charles Longstreet II, had earlier filed a notice of intent to assert the insanity defense.

Prosecutors said Green will face a possible 45 to 100 years in prison when he is sentenced in March.

“He wanted to get it over with,” Longstreet told reporters after the hearing, according to The Associated Press.

Green’s guilty plea comes roughly 24 years after he admitted responsibility in court for the stabbing deaths of his first wife and unborn child, police said. In that case, he pleaded no contest to second-degree murder. He was paroled eight years ago.

Green committed his latest crimes at his Dearborn Heights residence on Sept. 28, 2016. Court records state that he killed his two daughters — 4-year-old Kaleigh and 5-year-old Koi — by poisoning them with carbon monoxide fumes.

“They were asphyxiated in a car with a makeshift tailpipe hose that was redirected into the vehicle,” Dearborn Heights Police Lt. Michael Krause told the Detroit Free Press in September.

Green’s two stepdaughters ― 19-year-old Chadney Allen and 17-year-old Kara Allen — were fatally shot. The teens were killed in front of their mother, 49-year-old Faith Green, who was forced to watch, according to the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office.

Authorities were summoned to the scene when Gregory Green called 911. He reportedly told the operator that he’d killed his entire family. However, when investigators arrived on the scene, they discovered that Faith Green had survived being shot and attacked with a box cutter.

“All of this seems to have stemmed from a domestic violence related incident,” Dearborn Heights Police Capt. Michael Petri said at a September press conference.

Court records indicate Faith Green was in the process of divorcing her husband.

Authorities said the 911 call this past fall was eerily similar to one that Gregory Green placed on July 14, 1991, in which he confessed to killing his then-wife Tonya Green. At the time, she was seven months pregnant with their child. Authorities said she was stabbed nearly a dozen times with a steak knife.

According to The Detroit News, Gregory Green was denied parole four times in his first wife’s death, with the board citing a lack of empathy and remorse. He was finally paroled in 2008 and two years later married his second wife. 

Green likely won’t live to see another parole hearing. Per the terms of his plea agreement, he will not be eligible for parole until he is 97 years old, 

“The plea was given with the express approval of Faith Green, the mother of the children, and the father of the two Allen children,” Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy’s office said, according to MLive.com.

David Lohr covers crime and missing persons. Tips? Feedback? Send an email  or follow him on Twitter.

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For the second time in six months, an Ohio sheriff’s department has been accused of pepper-spraying inmates as they’re restrained in harnesses.

In the latest disturbing video reportedly taken at Dayton’s Montgomery County Jail in October, a 37-year-old man named Charles Wade is seen secured in a chair when a correctional officer walks up and sprays him in the face.

As he gags, coughs and cries out for help, an officer hollers at him to “stop resisting.”

“I can’t breathe, help me please,” he repeatedly begs as the officers pin his back and head against the chair.

Attorneys for Wade filed a lawsuit against the sheriff’s department on Tuesday, accusing its sheriff and staff of using excessive force, committing battery, gross misconduct, conspiring to destroy the video evidence, and failing to supervise and discipline the officers involved, among other allegations.

The video, which The Washington Post released, and reported was taken from several cameras, shows Wade at all times restrained in some way and generally compliant. At one point he’s seen banging his head against a wall, prompting officers to be move him into the chair.

The Post reported that it shows him after he was taken into custody under suspicion of drunk driving.

“If you cause any pain, my lawyer will hear about it,” Wade is at one point heard telling the officers.

After being placed in the chair, he looks up at one man filming him and asks: “Do you white people feel good doing this to us n*****s? Yeah, you do, don’t you?”

The video is similar to one filmed in 2015 involving a woman named Amber Swink, then 25 years old.

Swink was seated in a room when video captured a Montgomery County corrections officer walk up and spray her in her face with a chemical before leaving her to gasp restrained in her chair. Swink filed a similar complaint against the jail and the county’s sheriff in August.

Montgomery County Sheriff Phil Plummer later said that Sgt. Judith Sealey, who was filmed spraying Swink, violated policy when she sprayed Swink. Despite that, Sealey was kept on the force and later promoted to captain, My Dayton Daily News reported.

Plummer, responding to the latest allegations of mistreatment by his officers, told local station WHIO that Wade was believed to have been “fighting with the officers.”

“And if you would just comply, we wouldn’t have that situation, OK?” he told the station. “My officers have to go home to their families and their loved ones. We don’t pay them enough to fight people like that in that jail.”

A request for comment Thursday from the sheriff’s department was not immediately returned. A secretary for Plummer, reached by the Post, said the sheriff was unable to comment due to the pending lawsuit.

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Jewish Holocaust survivors who fled Nazi Germany and other countries as children have a request for President Donald Trump: “Keep the doors open to refugees.”

In a letter to Trump released Monday, more than 200 family members and survivors of the Kindertransport ― a program that sent around 10,000 Jewish child refugees to Britain from Nazi Germany and other European nations ― urged Trump to continue to resettle refugees, especially children, in America.

The letter, from nonprofit The Kindertransport Association, comes just a few weeks after Trump signed an executive order banning Syrian refugees from the U.S. indefinitely and halting the resettlement of refugees from other countries for at least four months. Though the order is now mired in political and legal challenges, Trump said Thursday that he plans to issue a new order in its place.

“We want to bring our personal experience to bear on what we see as a building crisis,” Melissa Hacker, president of The Kindertransport Association, told The Huffington Post.

For Hacker, the issue is personal: Her mother escaped from Austria to Britain in 1939 through the Kindertransport program, she said.

The letter connects the experiences of child refugees who sought safe haven during World War II to those of child refugees today.

“The Kindertransports saved only 10,000 children,” the letter reads, “a small number compared to the 1.5 million children who were murdered. Yet the children who were saved were able to go to a friendly country ― not through luck, contacts or subterfuge, but through the will of the British people and their elected leaders.”

“We write to urge [Trump] to give other children at risk the same opportunity,” the letter goes on to say.

Today, the world is facing the worst refugee crisis since World War II, according to the United Nations. There are more than 65 million displaced people, including around 21 million refugees, over half of whom are children. 

More than 200 Kindertransport survivors, all of whom now live in the U.S., and their descendants signed the letter to Trump, Hacker said.

The letter notes that Kindertransport survivors who ended up in the U.S. “have become productive American citizens, including two Nobel Laureates, many successful business people, film and theater professionals, teachers, artists, writers, doctors, and philanthropists.” 

They are pleading for Trump to open America’s doors to child refugees from Central America, Syria, and more.

“In Syria, it’s a civil war, cities are being bombed, children are getting killed, and in South and Central America, many children trying to get to the U.S. are in dire situations,” Hacker said. “No one sends their child away, especially traveling alone, without extreme need, worry, and fear.”

The letter follows the United Kingdom’s decision earlier this month to close the Dubs Amendment program for accepting lone child refugees. Only 350 displaced children were able to enter the country, as opposed to the 3,000 previously expected. The Dubs amendment was named after U.K. politician and former member of Parliament Lord Alf Dubs, who himself came to the U.K. through the Kindertransport.

“The United States is a global leader in refugee protection,” the letter reads. “The world is looking to us and following our lead.”

The Kindertransport survivors’ letter warns Trump about the consequences when America closes its doors to people fleeing persecution and conflict.

“In the aftermath of World War II, the price for keeping America’s doors closed to refugees due to fear was made starkly clear,” it reads. “We are among the very few who were welcomed by a country and its citizens and therefore survived.”

In a notorious example of American policy toward Jewish refugees during World War II, a ship called the St. Louis, which was carrying more than 900 mostly-German Jews, sailed first to Cuba and then the U.S. in 1939.

American authorities turned the ship away. Of the people who were sent back to Europe, 254 died in the Holocaust.

See here to read the letter from Kindertransport survivors in its entirety.

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During her first official speech on the Senate floor, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) quoted several pro-immigrant comments by her Republican colleagues and challenged them to “measure up” to their words.

Harris spent the bulk of her remarks challenging President Donald Trump’s temporary bans on all refugees and visitors from seven Muslim-majority countries, as well as his executive orders vowing to crack down on undocumented immigrants and the communities that shield them from deportation. Near the end of her speech, she noted the importance of bipartisanship in challenging these policies, and cited the words of three GOP senators ― Ted Cruz (Texas), Rand Paul (Ky.) and John McCain (Ariz.) ― to make her point. 

“I know, having spent now a few weeks in this chamber, that we have good men and women on both sides of the aisle, men and women who believe deeply in our immigrant communities and who understand that nationalism and patriotism are not the same thing,” she said. 

She then quoted Cruz, whose father immigrated to the U.S. from Cuba, as saying, “It’s an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.”

Harris cited Paul’s 2013 speech at Howard University, during which he pressed the importance of enforcing “constitutional rights of all Americans ― rich and poor, immigrant and native, black and white.”

She also quoted McCain’s 2013 comments in favor of immigration reform, during which he said undocumented immigrants shouldn’t be “condemned forever to a twilight status.”

“I say we must measure up to our words and fight for our ideals, because the critical hour is upon us,” she concluded. 

Harris was elected to the Senate last November and has quickly emerged as one of Trump’s most prominent adversaries in the upper chamber. She’s spoken out against several of Trump’s Cabinet nominees, including Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and last month joined protesters outside the White House in demonstrating against Trump’s Muslim ban.

During her speech, Harris cited her law enforcement background ― she spent years as a prosecutor prior to serving as California’s attorney general ― while arguing that Trump’s actions make the country less safe.

“These executive actions present a real threat to our public safety,” she said. “I know what a crime looks like, and I will tell you that an undocumented immigrant is not a criminal.” 

She specifically condemned recent immigration raids across the country, including the arrest of a young man in Seattle who was brought to the U.S. illegally as a child, and was protected under former President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which protected children whose parents illegally brought them to the U.S. from deportation.

“The U.S. cannot go back on our promise to these kids and their families,” she said.

She also railed against the Muslim ban, saying it “may as well have been hatched in the basement headquarters of ISIS.” Lawmakers have argued that the extremist group could now include the ban in its propaganda.  

“We handed them a tool of recruitment to use against us,” she said.

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There are times after a breakup when you come *this* close to texting your ex. Thanks to a genius new Google spreadsheet titled “things i wanna text my ex,” there’s now a place to redirect all those potentially embarrasing messages.

Created by 24-year-old Princeton grad Sean Drohan, the public doc gives the brokenhearted a chance to anonymously share anything left unsaid post-split. The would-be texts range from laugh-out-loud funny to genuinely sad. Some check both boxes ― “I loved your dog more than I ever loved you,” one reads. 

In an interview with Refinery29, Drohan said he has firsthand experience with sending regrettable ex texts. 

“There’s plenty I would like to say to my exes (and too much I’ve already said),” Drohan said. “People enjoy anonymous opportunities to cry into the ether.” 

Below, some of the most interesting unsent texts from the spreadsheet: 

1. “If you had spent less time cheating and more time canvassing, Hillary would have took Iowa.” 

2. “I’m getting just as many gifts from you for Valentine’s this year as I did when we were dating.”

3. “I knew it was over when you told me your favorite movie was ‘Garden State.’”

4. “Thanks for introducing me to ‘Happy Endings’ ― glad you got back together with your husband.”

5. “After you broke up with me I went into your pantry, a sobbing mess, and took your Nutella lol.”

6. “I pretend I’m over you, but I spend all day staring at an open Gchat box waiting for it to say ‘typing…’”

7. “I’m better off without you and I wish I realized that five years sooner.”

8. “Your dick was great but your heart is not.”

9. “You made me feel like I was simultaneously too much and not enough and I hate you for it.” 

10. “I wore your deodorant all the time. That’s why you were always running out.” 

11. “I broke up with you because you refused to listen to ‘Hamilton’ with me and I know you just saw it with your entire family. Guess you didn’t care about it when I told you you’d like it, but you were OK to see it when you knew what a great Instagram it would make in front of the marquee.”

12. “Can you tell your mom that we’re not getting back together so she will stop texting me on holidays?” 

13. “My biggest regret was ever kissing you. In that moment, I crossed the line that best friends could never cross.”

14. “Sometimes I log into your Netflix account just to see what you have been watching lately. And when I see you are rewatching our favourite show, I am contemplating whether you were watching it alone or introducing it to your new boyfriend. I miss watching shit with you so much.”

15. “Your dog deserves better.”

16. “Thanks for always blowing me off. I won’t tell everybody about your inverted nipples.” 

17. “You’re still the first address that pops up on my Uber.” 

18. “Thank you for ruining all my favorite music. I hope you think of me every time you look around your apartment at all the furniture I picked out and realize what you could’ve had and what you lost.”

19. “Thanks for telling me I had abandonment issues and then abandoning me, so helpful.” 

20. “I’m so f*cking excited to get over you.” 

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