Meek Mill might need to answer some questions over a wrongful death lawsuit against him under oath while he’s behind bars … but there seems to be an easy fix.
According to court docs obtained by TMZ, the family of a man who was shot and killed outside of Meek’s concert last year is asking a judge to give them the courtroom W if Meek doesn’t submit answers to their questions under oath in the next 30 days.
As we reported … the family, along with another man who was injured at the concert, are suing Meek for allegedly inciting the deadly violence with his murderous lyrics.
Meek’s denied the allegations in court docs, but the family wants him to do one simple thing if the case is to continue … sign his written answers to their questions — aka under oath.
The only potential problem for Meek … will he hear about this in time?
Two of Hip Hop’s most polarizing artists are teaming up for a project. On Sunday (November 12), Lil Yachty announced a collaboration with Lil Pump due out in 2018.
Lil Boat unveiled the news with a tweet of a text conversation between himself and the “Gucci Gucci” artist. The two are planning to tour together after releasing the collaborative project.
“First Of The Year, We Promise,” Yachty tweeted.
Both men are coming off the releases of their respective debut albums. Yachty dropped his first LP, Teenage Emotions, in May. The album did not receive a warm reception as Yachty grabbed more attention in subsequent months for feuding with Joe Budden. The release did crack the Top 5 of the Billboard 200 though.
Lil Pump released his self-titled debut in October, peaking at #3 on the Billboard 200 later that month. His single “Gucci Gucci” has also experienced its fair share of chart success, topping out at #7 on the Hot 100.
NY Giants linebacker Jonathan Casillas should’ve been a running back — because it took 5 SECURITY OFFICERS to bring him down during a violent casino clash back in 2012.
We’ve been making calls for days trying to gather all the info about this crazy video — and though the details are scarce, here’s what we know …
— It happened at 6 AM on May 12, 2012 at the Harrah’s Casino in Atlantic City
— Before the video begins, Casillas was pissed … and walked outside to cool off. You see him throw a potted plant across the valet area.
— Casillas went back inside and was confronted by several security officers. Things get testy, Casillas tucks his chain, a security officer shoves Casillas and Casillas shoves back
— Things went nuclear from there. 5 guys tried to take Casillas down. They struggled, but eventually got him to the ground. He was handcuffed and detained.
— Two Atlantic City PD officers were involved.
We’ve reached out to the Atlantic City PD to find out if criminal charges were filed. One source connected to the incident says a civil suit was filed … but unclear who filed it or if it’s still active.
Multiple attempts to reach Casillas and his reps were unsuccessful.
Scientists have discovered a dinosaur-era shark with 300 teeth and a snake’s head off the Portuguese coast.
The frilled shark was caught by a trawler during a research project on how to minimise unwanted catches during commercial fishing, according to Sic Noticias TV.
The rare species dates back 80 million years.
While its peers, such as the Tyrannosaurus rex and triceratops, died out long ago, this shark, with its frilled teeth and long, slim body still swims at great depths of at least 700 metres (2,300 feet).
Professor Margarida Castro of the University of the Algarve told Sic Noticias that the shark has 300 teeth, “which allows it to trap squid, fish and other sharks in sudden lunges”.
According to the Institute for the Sea and Atmosphere, the captured shark measured 1.5 m in length and was swimming off the Algarve coast.
The shark usually lives in the Atlantic and in waters near Australia, New Zealand and Japan, as reported by the BBC. At such depths the shark is in constant darkness, crushing pressure and extremely cold temperatures.
It is not known why this species has survived when other prehistoric creatures have not. It has also been speculated that the frilled shark influenced 19th century sailors’ stories of sea serpents.
Scientists have made other unusual discoveries in recent years including a long, toothy eel – likely a member of the snake-eel Opichthidae family – that was found washed up and decomposing on a Texas beach.
A man in Perth also recently found a sea squirt, or compound ascidian, resembling an animal’s tongue, but which acts as a colony for small animals called zooids which feed and live together.
International researchers pulled up a range of deep-sea creatures earlier this year off the coast of Australia, including the toothy “faceless fish”, a thorny red crab and a blue-eyed coffinfish that lures prey by dangling fluffy bait on top of its head.
Experts say more than 90 per cent of the world’s deep waters remain unexplored
When is it safe to walk into a lion enclosure? When a zoo digs a giant tunnel beneath their enclosure and builds a people cage on top.
Welcome to the Predator Experience, a $1.4-million plan by South Australia’s Monarto Zoo based on the success of shark cage diving off Port Lincoln.
In a role reversal of a regular zoo exhibit, it would allow up to 30 visitors into the cage for a close up experience with the lions while they roam free outside and are fed.
Zoos SA chief executive Elaine Bensted said it was “going to give visitors a chance to quite literally go into the lions’ den” about 45 minutes east of Adelaide.
Ms Bensted said well-known Port Lincoln tour operator Rodney Fox got the idea for shark cage diving when he saw lions being fed at the zoo.
“If you’ve had the opportunity to get close to a lion they’re just amazing creatures so to get up close and be able to see a lion or 10 around you, I think, will appeal to people of all ages,” she said.
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Ms Bensted believed the lions would be “very” interested in the people inside the cage even when they are not being fed.
The zoo also planned to use the people enclosure for close-up experiences with other animals at the zoo, including hyenas.
SA Regional Development Minister Geoff Brock said the new attraction would boost Monarto Zoo visitor numbers above the current annual level of 130,000 annually and inject about $1 million a year into the local economy.
The Federal and South Australian Governments will contribute half of the funding for the tunnel and people cage, which is expected to be operating by the end of this year.
via http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-20/monarto-people-cage-to-allow-visitors-to-get-up-close-with-lions/8370556
Bodycam video allegedly shows an LAPD officer planting drugs inside a black suspect’s wallet.
The footage was obtained by CBS-LA and posted online Thursday — marking the first time that an LAPD bodycam video has ever been made public.
The department has reportedly refused to release any clips pertaining to police investigations since the surveillance program began two years ago.
CBS managed to obtain a total of 12 videos, all worn by individual officers at the scene of a hit-and-run incident in April.
The suspect, Ronald Shields, 52, was arrested at the time and charged with felony hit-and-run and possession of cocaine. Officers claimed in the police report that they found a small bag of coke in the front left pocket of Shields’ shirt.
But bodycam video apparently tells a different story.
According to Shields’ defense attorney, Steve Levine, the footage allegedly shows an officer scooping the coke up off the ground — and not from his client’s pocket, like authorities claimed.
The cop then motions to another officer and appears to place the bag inside Shields’ wallet.
What he doesn’t know, at the time, is that his bodycam — which he has yet to turn on — is currently recording his every move.
The devices are designed to record 30 seconds prior to being turned on, but the officer appears to be unaware of this, seeing how he allegedly turns his camera on just moments after planting the coke inside Shields’ wallet.
“It seems improbable that someone would tape themselves planting drugs,” Levine told CBS. “So it seems more reasonable that when he turned on his cam he felt he was recording at that point.”
The cop — identified only as LAPD Officer Gaxiola — can be heard bragging about the bust and repeatedly telling fellow cops that he found “a bag of narco” in Shields’ wallet. But the story apparently changed when it came time for cops to go in front of a judge.
Another arresting officer, Samuel Lee, later testified in court that he actually found the coke in Shields’ pocket.
“He looked dumbstruck to me,” Levine said Thursday, describing Lee’s reaction to the bodycam video. “He had really no answer.”
Levine says the footage shows the exact moment when Gaxiola planted the drugs.
“There’s a little white square here, in his hand,” Levine said, pointing to it on video.
“It’s right there — a little white square,” he said. I believe the video shows that the drugs were originally in his right hand and he transfers them to his left hand. Now if you watch, he looks down to make sure they’re there. And that’s when the drugs were planted.”
Despite Levine’s argument, the judge in the case said Thursday that he did not see things the same way on the video.
Shields is scheduled to appear back in court in December. Levine says he will continue to challenge the evidence in the case.
The LAPD has had a notoriously bad relationship with the black community, with countless men and women coming forward with claims of police brutality and discrimination over the years.
The department announced Thursday that it would be conducting an internal investigation of the use of bodycams by officers in the field
A Queens man was accused of molesting two kids at a children’s birthday party — and then wound up dead on the pavement hours later.
Edgar Collaguazo, 44, plunged to his death from a fourth-floor apartment inside a building on 95th Street in Jackson Heights early Thursday, police said.
He sublets a room in his unit to the 5-year-old birthday boy’s family, and had offered to let the child and a young girl watch a movie in his room while the adults partied, police and the family said.
But when one child’s mom went to check on them around midnight, she found Collaguazo with his hand down the boy’s pants. The girl later claimed the man had kissed her on the mouth.
Some of the adults began hitting Collaguazo. Then they locked the accused perv in his room and called the cops.
Collaguazo tried to flee out a window — and landed directly on a metal fence, before bouncing onto the ground, grisly security footage from the street level shows.
Police arrived moments later. EMS rushed him to the hospital in critical condition, and he later died, officials said.
The boy’s furious mom said Collaguazo and her son were very close, but she wasn’t aware of him touching the child in the past.
“I never imagined he was able to do something like that,” she told The Post.
LiAngelo Ball, Jalen Hill and Cody Riley remain under virtual house arrest at a Hangzhou hotel and may wind up stuck in the Chinese city for a week or more as the legal process in regards to their recent shoplifting arrest plays out.
As it stands the UCLA trio are lucky to be out on bond and receiving the backing of Chinese billionaire e-commerce mogul Jack Ma (founder of Alibaba), who has said “every young person makes mistakes” in regards to the crime. But despite the support, things still won’t go as smoothly as the university, the NCAA and the family of the three young men would like. It has been reported that they will not be allowed to fly back to the U.S. with the team and will thereby miss the Bruins home opener against Central Arkansas on Wednesday, November 15.
What’s more, there is a chance that charges against Ball, Hill and Riley can mount, as recent reports indicate that in addition to the Louis Vuitton theft they were busted for last Tuesday, there is surveillance footage showing them stealing from a couple of other high-end brand stores in the shopping center housing Gucci, Salvatore Ferragamo, and Yves Saint Laurent vendors.
There have been conflicting reports on what kind of punishment the college ballers stand to face. The immediate word was that they could be facing between three and 10 years based on “standard practices.” But more recent reports indicate that they will likely have to serve out 20 days of house arrest and be legally banished from the country indefinitely.
