Paul Archuleta/FilmMagic Lala Milan Parodies K. Michelle’s Video Remember that viral video of K. Michelle hilariously booting a twerking teen off her porch that’s racked up 2 MILLION VIEWS? Well, comedian/actress LaLa Milan has parodied the clip and the results are hilarious. In addition to racking up likes and laughs on social media, Lala has been added to the cast of BET’s “Boomerang” sequel. Lala will play the character “Tia”, a classically trained dancer who’s “charismatic and wildly unique.” Congrats to this star on the rise!
“I can’t help that I’m a street nigga / I had to get some money / I watched my momma struggle / I jumped off the porch / I had to use my muscle,” 21 Savage raps mournfully on “Lord Forgive.” Over a decade since T.I.’s Trap Muzik and Young Jeezy’s Trap or Die, 21… Read more »
Renisha McBride’s killer, Theodore Wafer, explained to a grand jury that when he saw the 19-year-old approach his porch, he was hit with the feeling,“I was…
Would you be afraid enough to shoot without looking to see who it was first if someone was pounding on your door at 4 am? Michigan Man Claims He Shot Black Teen On His Porch Because He Feared For His Life The trial is underway for Theodore Wafer, a white suburban homeowner who shot 19-year-old McBride in the face as she sought help on his porch and he’s hoping the jury will sympathize with his fearfulness. Via Al-Jazeera America reports: Defense attorney Cheryl Carpenter on Wednesday appealed to a Detroit jury to “understand how Ted felt” before he shot an unarmed black teen on his porch last fall. “He was acting and reacting to escalating fear,” Carpenter said in her opening statement about Theodore Wafer, 55, on trial for second-degree murder and manslaughter in the death of Renisha McBride. “He had never been so scared in his entire life. It’s horrible and it’s sad that a 19-year-old woman is dead. But Ted is justified in what he did.” Whether it was reasonable for Wafer to think his house was under attack is the key question the jury must weigh as this galvanizing, racially charged trial proceeds in Detroit. Wafer is white and lives in the mostly white Detroit border city of Dearborn Heights. He killed McBride in the early hours of Nov. 2, when, he says, she was banging on his door. To the prosecution, this is a straightforward case of a trigger-happy homeowner who opened the front door and shot McBride rather than, if he was truly afraid, calling 911. He called 911 after the shooting occurred. “There was no sign of any attempted burglary, there’s no evidence of any effort to breaking in,” said prosecutor Danielle Hagaman-Clark in her opening remarks. “His actions that night are unnecessary, unjustified and unreasonable. Because of that, a 19-year-old girl is dead on a porch in Dearborn Heights. Would you have called 911 first? The defense attorney is already doing a “bang up” job describing Wafer’s state of mind before he pulled the trigger: Carpenter said Wafer was fast asleep in a recliner in his living room when, at around 4:20 a.m., someone banged on his door. Fearful, he lay on the floor and groped for his cellphone but could not find it. Over the subsequent minutes he panicked, believing his home was under siege by possibly more than one attacker and asserting he heard metal in the front door frame “breaking.” “They’re coming to get me,” Carpenter said, narrating Wafer’s thoughts in the moment. “It’s metal breaking. Breaking! On his front door. Ted hears it. Ted is thinking they’re coming in. They’re breaking [into] my house. Why? He doesn’t have a clue. He just knows they’re coming in.” Carpenter sought to defuse the racial elements of the case by insisting that Wafer didn’t know the color or gender of the person when he shot her. All he knew, she said, was that he opened his front door, noticed the screen frame a few inches out of its hinge and then fired the gun when McBride leaped onto the stoop, startling him. “Ted is shattered,” Carpenter said. “He knows immediately that he killed somebody … It was only after that he saw it was a shorter person. She seemed dark-complected but he isn’t sure. He didn’t know anything before he shot. All he knew was, ‘People are breaking into my house.’” Do you believe that he didn’t know she was black? In the meantime there is a lot working against the prosecution’s case, namely the fact that an autopsy has established McBride’s blood alcohol level was twice the legal limit and witnesses have confirmed she was drinking and smoking marijuana earlier that night. After opening statements, prosecutors called McBride’s mother and best friend. Between the two of them, they established that McBride had drunk vodka and smoked marijuana in the evening of Nov. 1 at home. Her mother said she and McBride argued because the teen hadn’t cleaned the house, and McBride left the house by car at around 11:15 p.m. Around 1 a.m., she crashed her car into that of Carmen Beasley, who lives about a mile from Wafer on the Detroit side of the city limits. Beasley said she tried to get McBride to stay put as they waited for the police and an ambulance, but McBride vanished. “She just wanted to go home,” Beasley testified. “She wasn’t belligerent. She was young and she just wanted to be at home. That was her goal, to be home.” This case is so sad. We really feel for McBride and her family and the prosecution is building a strong case that Wafer’s greatest error was going to the door with a locked and loaded shotgun, a weapon likely to do serious damage at such close range. But if a stranger knocked on your door at 4 am can you say you wouldn’t do the same? It’s not like he could see in the dark that she was bleeding from the head and needed help. Do you think it’s an open and shut case of him being guilty of second degree murder and manslaughter? AP Images
Some people really shouldn’t be allowed to have kids . According to The Daily Mail : A Florida couple banished their six-year-old to a porch — where he was made to sleep for at least three days — ‘as punishment for stealing and eating too much,’ according to police. John Haley, 47, and his wife, Stephanie Haley, 41, were charged with felony child neglect Sunday after the shivering boy knocked on a neighbor’s door at 2 a.m. He told the neighbor he had been locked out of the house and forced to sleep on the porch, sheriff’s spokesman Gary Davidson told the Daytona Beach News-Journal. The neighbor gave the boy a blanket and potato chips and called for help. Temperatures dipped into the 50s on the nights that the child was forced to sleep outside. ‘When deputies arrived at the scene, the boy told them that he had been forced to sleep on the back porch for three days,’ Davidson told the newspaper. ‘He also said that he’s fed rice for lunch and dinner every day, and when there’s no rice, he’s given lettuce to eat.’ When he’s not on the porch, he’s often locked in the garage and only allowed inside when he needs to use the bathroom, the boy said. Authorities knocked on the Haley’s door after talking to their son and asked them if they knew where he was. The couple said he was asleep in a bedroom. ‘When deputies informed them that he was at a neighbor’s house cold and hungry and complaining about being forced to sleep on the porch, John Haley initially acted shocked at the news,’ Davidson said. ‘But he later admitted that he and his wife make the boy sleep on the porch as punishment for stealing and eating too much.’ The Haley’s didn’t see anything wrong with the boy’s punishment, Davidson said. They were booked into Volusia County Branch Jail and are being held without bail. The Department of Children & Families has now taken custody of the other six children at the house — three boys and three girls, ranging in age from 1 to 15 years old. All of their kids have been sent to live with other family members. Hopefully they get better treatment with them since their own dayum parents didn’t give an isht! SMH. Images via facebook
Crazy: MILWAUKEE, March 26 (Reuters) – The clearing of a homeowner who shot dead an unarmed African-American man in a small Wisconsin town three weeks ago has drawn scrutiny for the state’s new castle doctrine law and comparisons to the Trayvon Martin shooting in Florida. Authorities ruled the killing of Bo Morrison, 20, by a Slinger, Wisconsin, homeowner on his porch justifiable in possibly the first such case under an expanded castle doctrine law enacted late last year, prosecutors said. The law allows homeowners facing imminent danger to their lives to protect themselves using deadly force if necessary. About 150 people protested Sunday at the Washington County Courthouse in nearby West Bend, Wisconsin. A rally also was planned Tuesday in Madison for Morrison and Martin, 17, who was shot dead by a neighborhood watch volunteer, who has claimed self-defense and has not been charged in that case. “Under a reasonable view of the evidence the homeowner acted reasonably in his use of force based on the facts and circumstances,” county District Attorney Mark Bensen said. According to Bensen’s report clearing homeowner Adam Kind, Morrison attended a party in a garage adjacent to Kind’s house with about 20 young adults the night of the shooting. Kind, 35, called police at about 1 a.m. March 3 complaining of loud music coming from a car parked in his neighbor’s driveway, pounded on the window of the car and asked a woman inside to turn down the music. She refused, the report said. Police contacted the mother of the girls who were hosting the party. The mother was working but called her husband, who had been sleeping. He kicked in the garage door and told everyone to leave, the report said. Morrison, who had previous run-ins with the police and had a blood-alcohol content more than twice the legal limit for driving in Wisconsin, was among those to flee. Kind, who said his concern was elevated because his wife, two children and a child guest were in the house, retrieved a handgun after he heard noises on his porch, the report said. Kind loaded the handgun, went to the porch and confronted Morrison, who was wearing dark clothing, the report said. Kind fired one shot as Morrison walked toward him, then yelled for his wife to call 911, the report said. An attorney representing Kind said the shooting of Morrison in the enclosed porch would have been considered justifiable under Wisconsin’s prior law as well. “All the factors to prove self defense under the old law were present,” lawyer Craig Mastantuono said. Morrison’s mother, Lauri Morrison, said he was trying to hide because he had previous tickets for underage drinking. “He executed my son,” Morrison said. “This cannot happen to another kid.” Morrison’s sister, Kayla Morrison, said the former high school athlete had gotten in with the wrong crowd for a while, “But he was not a criminal. He was not a violent person.” He had gone back to school to get a carpentry qualification and was planning to take a construction course, she said. “I’ll never forget my last conversation with Bo,” Kayla Morrison said. “He said he couldn’t wait to see what the next two years would be like. He was so optimistic about his life.” (Editing by David Bailey and Tim Gaynor) Image And Source Huff Po More On Bossip! Celebrity Seeds: T.I. And Tiny Give Their Lil “OMG Girl” Zonnique A Star Studded Sweet Sixteen Photoshop Magic: The Most Ridiculously Doctored Kardashian Pictures Of All Time Guess Which Jordan Rockin’ Rapper Got The Footsy Game Goin’ Under The Table This Weekend? “Hunger Games” Kills It At The Box Office But Rabid Fans Expose Their Racism On Twitter By Hating On Rue And Thresh
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As sorry as we are here at Movieline HQ to see TVL ine go, we’re thrilled to announce that it’s not going far (just past the porch, really), and it’ll be in expert hands. Our pal, celebrity TV reporter/editor Michael Ausiello (you know that adorable smirk from the pages of EW) will be the Editor in Chief, and he’s scooped up an all-star cast to help him out: Matt Webb Mitovich from TV Guide, Michael Slezak also from EW and Megan Masters from E! Online. And just to be clear, our crack team of writers and editors will continue to cover the TV stories that make sense for Movieline. For the full story, check out the press release after the jump.
Get sugar high with the winner and finalists of this year's Washington Post Peeps Show diorama contest. [ Ed's Note : When is Up going to stop hogging the spotlight? We get it, you're under our porch because you love us.] View
Best AP News opening line ever: “You'll never see this clown in the circus.” A man in Iowa found a dead deer dressed in a clown suit (with rainbow afro) and makeup (lipstick and blush) sitting on his porch. Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment
