Новости за 23.03.2016

A Wisconsin teenager got the shock of her life when she went to use the bathroom on Monday. Braeley Pettigrew, 17, thought she was having stomach issues when she went to the restroom, but instead gave birth to a baby while sitting on the toilet.

Nine correctional officers at Rikers Island were set to go on trial Wednesday for the horrific beating of an inmate and the cover-up that followed at the controversy-plagued jail complex in New York City, Reuters reports. 

Lawyers for a Chicago police officer charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of Laquan McDonald asked a Cook County judge to allow him to skip court appearances, the Chicago Tribune reports. 

March 17 was a regular workday for Brooklyn, N.Y., mail carrier Glenn Grays, 27, until he was almost hit by an unmarked police car carrying plainclothes police officers, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams said in a Tuesday press conference, according to Bed-Stuy Patch. Grays apparently didn't realize that the men were cops and allegedly mouthed off at them—"as any New Yorker would do," Adams said.

A man who allegedly randomly slashed a woman's neck because she's white has been charged with a hate crime, authorities confirmed Wednesday, the New York Post reports. 

Basketball legend Dikembe Mutombo, who was at the airport in Brussels during a series of deadly terrorist attacks Tuesday, took to social media to let everyone know that he is safe and unharmed, ESPN reports. 

An investigatory task force has found the state of Michigan "fundamentally accountable" for Flint's water-contamination crisis, pointing to the decisions made by the state's environmental regulators and state-appointed emergency managers who controlled the city, the Associated Press reports. 

Former NFL star Darren Sharper is facing 15 to 20 years in prison after submitting a plea agreement in a New Orleans court, according to the Times-Picayune.

Geoffrey Freeman, an Austin, T.X., police officer who shot and killed an unarmed 17-year-old, has been fired by the Austin Police Department. Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo said Freeman's actions violated department policy, according to the Associated Press.

A mall Easter Bunny and an upset father made their first court apperance after getting into a fistfight over the weekend in a Jersey City, N.J., mall, the Associated Press reports. 

Before Empire, there was New York Undercover. While one teeters into more soap opera terrain and the other was a solid cop drama, they are importantly linked through the culture of hip-hop, and Fox, the network behind them both. As Empire resumes its second season next week, TV One’s Unsung Hollywood: New York Undercover couldn’t come at a better time. This is no feel-good flashback. Although it is nostalgically retrospective, it is also cautionary. In other words, we and Fox have been here before. Читать дальше...

Last March, Darryl Gillyard assaulted a pregnant 22-year-old woman after she didn’t thank him for opening a door for her.

Howard University students are taking back the night, speaking out broadly about safety for women on campus, after an alleged victim took to social media to describe her upset over what she said was a lack of concern from university officials, the Washington Post reports. 

At the district attorney’s office, Christopher Darden is getting ripped a new one by his big boss Gil Garcetti, who calls the glove demonstration “the most colossal disaster I’ve ever seen in courtroom practice.” Marcia Clark tries to help Darden out by looking at the bright side: They still have the DNA—which, Garcetti yells, no one cares about. 

Black Girl Magic done rained all over this project.

President Richard Nixon’s chief domestic adviser during the 1971 launch of the “war on drugs” said that he invented the president’s drug policies so that the administration could neutralize its enemies, specifically “the anti-war left and black people,” according to an article in Harper’s Magazine.