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Cadet sues R&B singer LaBelle over airport beating
HOUSTON CHRONICLE ^ | 6/2/11 | ALLAN TURNER

Posted on 06/03/2011 8:48:26 AM PDT by Constitutions Grandchild

Lawyers for a West Point cadet who says bodyguards for soul singer Patti LaBelle beat him while he was waiting for a ride at a Houston airport released security video Thursday showing the student being pushed and punched by two men and a woman.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7592273.html#ixzz1OEBHK1oZ

(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...


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To: Constitutions Grandchild

Freepers seem to be talking about lawsuits, but this is assault and battery. Why haven’t the bodyguards been arrested? First get them convicted, then sue LaBelle into oblivion.


101 posted on 06/03/2011 4:59:32 PM PDT by TChad
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To: riverdawg

Bottom line: Even IF they asked him to move, and even IF they asked him nicely and he refused, and even IF the victim had turned around and called them nasty names, there is no justification, none, zero, nada, for what followed. From what I can see in the video, this cannot be justified by the thugs and their diva in any way, shape or form.


102 posted on 06/03/2011 6:59:22 PM PDT by rlmorel (Capitalism is the Goose that lays The Golden Egg.)
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To: Constitutions Grandchild
The thug "bodyguard" came up, thumped his chest against the victim and "got in his face". Gee, where have we heard THAT before?

Then after the three of him caused the injury and the other two walked away, here is the guy lying on the pavement in a concussed state while the guy straddles him. What do your eyes tell you the "bodyguard" is doing here?

This wasn't a snapshot in a second, the guy stood there for at least ten seconds in skip action video on the surveillance video (which means it was even longer) jawing at him.

103 posted on 06/03/2011 8:17:24 PM PDT by rlmorel (Capitalism is the Goose that lays The Golden Egg.)
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To: PapaBear3625
I was raised in Houston and back then there was true law..I have relatives still living there and they say the crime rat has really gone through the roof..I have not visited there in some years..Welfare has taken over that city too..Well the portion of the people do not live in the city but suburbs..The law is not the law and the people elect on color of skin..
104 posted on 06/04/2011 5:45:11 AM PDT by PLD
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To: r9etb

Of course you are aware that you are quoting what LaBelle’s people told the police.

The police that didn’t question the several eyewitnesses at the scene.

The police that didn’t review the video until AFTER making the report.

The police that posed with LaBelle for photos.

The police that are now ‘reviewing’ their actions ...


105 posted on 06/04/2011 7:38:40 AM PDT by SeeSac
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To: r9etb
Are you suggesting that the police report was falsified?

Let's just say that when they only take statements from one side and don't question independent witnesses that there is room for it to not be so truthful.

106 posted on 06/04/2011 7:41:34 AM PDT by SeeSac
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To: r9etb
And yet, FReepers can always be relied upon to gobble up the skittles and unicorns story that the lawyer spins for them.

And there are types like you that ignore the video ...

107 posted on 06/04/2011 7:43:46 AM PDT by SeeSac
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To: Phantom Phixer

>>Like I say-Rev. Wright didn’t preach to an empty church-he preached to a packed house. Calypso Louie sells out arenas. This mindset is the default one in this demographic.<<

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108 posted on 06/04/2011 9:24:25 AM PDT by RobRoy (The US today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: Phantom Phixer

“you white people don’t know what paprika is”

Apparently my Granny didn’t get that memo cause’ she used it for as long as I can remember, and so do I


109 posted on 06/04/2011 9:27:07 AM PDT by pnz1
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To: Constitutions Grandchild

Of interest, on another website, someone was on the flight with the LaBelle goons. S/he reports they were downing quite a few drinks on the flight.


112 posted on 06/04/2011 7:37:16 PM PDT by Gamecock (It's not eat drink and be merry because tommow we die, but rather because yesterday we were dead.)
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To: Constitutions Grandchild
Update here:

LaBelle Contersues

113 posted on 06/29/2011 12:37:34 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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