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A former Georgia lawmaker is planning to sue Clayton County for ousting her from her position after she was filmed screaming at medics who allegedly found her passed out drunk outside of a sports bar. Felicia Franklin announced that she is filing the suit for wrongful termination after county officials voted unanimously to dismiss her from her position as Board of Commissioners vice chair over the September altercation, which was recorded on police-worn body cameras, according to the Daily Mail. Franklin — who is also running for the county chairman position — claims in the lawsuit that the “traumatic and...

Video at https://twitter.com/JeremyHarrisTV/status/1707805849467625490A Seattle robbery suspect was recently left stunned when a judge informed him he would not be released, video of the courtroom moment shows. The 16-year-old is charged with three counts of robbery, three counts of burglary, and one theft count, KOMO News reported on Friday. “I can’t get house arrest?” the teen asks the judge in the clip. “You let people out, who shoot at people get house arrest.” “Well I’m not letting you out,” the judge responds. “Why not?” the teen asks. “Why not? Maybe you should ask [your attorney] why not,” the judge says. Five...

Hundreds of Amazon employees briefly walked off the job Wednesday, calling on the company to reconsider its return-to-office mandate and curb its greenhouse gas emissions. Outside Amazon’s Seattle headquarters, standing underneath a banner that urged the company to stop its “short-term thinking,” Pamela Hayter told her colleagues she wasn’t nervous about speaking out anymore. “We’re here today because it’s the right thing to do,” the Seattle-based program manager said. “I’ve not been nervous. I’ve been fired up.” On Wednesday, nearly 2,000 Amazon employees joined the walkout, according to organizers who gathered pledges before action took place. Of those pledges, roughly...

NASCAR star Bubba Wallace is no stranger to controversy. It’s perhaps that penchant for drama that has turned the 29-year-old Wallace into something of a pro-wrestling villain in the world of NASCAR. Wherever he goes, he’s often greeted with a chorus of boos from fans of the sport. That bubbling ugliness came to a head in North Carolina over the weekend when some of NASCAR’s biggest stars gathered at North Wilkesboro Speedway for the NASCAR Cup Series All-Star Race on Sunday. Before that main event, however, there was the Tyson 250, a NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race on Saturday....

An angry American Airlines passenger was caught shoving two travelers out of the way in a bizarre clip - before accusing one of assault for tapping him on the shoulder. Wearing a metallic gold Michael Kors jacket and sunglasses, the passenger who goes by the name Vosièy Fvogèswièr, caused havoc on the flight from Charlotte to Fort Lauderdale as he attempted to squeeze past in the aisle and disembark before other people. In the rush, he encountered three women - two of whom were standing in the way - who attempted to stop him rushing ahead. But a raucous scenes...

This month, a 10th Circuit Court judge sentenced a Farmington woman who pleaded guilty to killing two pedestrians while driving drunk last April to 14 years in prison, reports Yahoo. After killing them, she laughed, sang, played dumb, and never asked about the victims. “Our system is based on punishment and rehabilitation,” said Judge Tim Cusack on Thursday as he sentenced Stephanie Melgoza, 24, on two counts of aggravated DUI and two counts of aggravated reckless driving. “I have to balance those two. What is the appropriate punishment in order to deter other people, and what is the rehabilitative quality...

A Florida woman was arrested on March 16 after police officers in Cocoa, Florida, said she threatened a McDonald’s employee and pointed a gun at them. Quavi Young, 26, was booked into jail on three charges: aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, open carry of a weapon, and driving with a suspended license. According to her arrest report, Young pulled her car up to the speaker at the drive-thru and requested a meal that was not on the menu. When the McDonald’s worker told Young her order could not be completed because the order wasn’t on the menu, Young pulled...

Olympic sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson posted a series of videos that she claims prove an American Airlines flight attendant harassed her. Still, the way her fellow passengers cheered during her removal from the flight seems to show few agreed with her complaints.The embattled Olympian posted her video to Instagram in which she immediately accused a flight attendant of “harassing” her when he walked by and simply let her know it was time to turn electronic items off because the plane was preparing to take off. “I’m recording me, but you jumped in my video, so I caught you because you jumped...

A man serving between 50 years and life in the Wyoming prisons system for murdering a man and confining and sexually assaulting a woman is suing the director of the Wyoming Department of Corrections and certain staffers for taking away his PlayStation and not giving it back. John Hereford, 34, is an inmate at the Wyoming State Penitentiary in Rawlins, according to a legal complaint filed Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for Wyoming. Started With A Shakedown Hereford alleges that he was subject to an “all facilities shakedown” search the evening of June 15, 2021. A detention staffer told...

An angry tourist smashed two ancient sculptures at the Vatican after being denied a chance to meet with the pope. It's just the latest in a series of instances of visitors behaving badly in Rome. Read on to find out what happened, what authorities said about the man, and how long it will take for the ancient works to be repaired. The incident happened around lunchtime in the Museo Chiaramonti, which is part of the Vatican Museums. It holds about 1,000 works of ancient statuary and Roman portraits. The man demanded to see the pope, the newspaper Il Messaggero reported....

President Joe Biden told the United Nations on Wednesday the Palestinians are “entitled” to their own state, a day after the U.S. State Department announced $64 million in aid to the U.N. agency for so-called Palestinian refugees. “We will continue to advocate for a lasting, negotiated peace between the Jewish and democratic state of Israel and the Palestinian people,” Biden said during his address at the U.N. General Assembly.

The big idea When Black diners get poorer service from wait staff and bartenders than white customers, it’s more likely because of racial bias than the well-documented fact that they tip less, according to a new survey I recently published. To reach that conclusion, my colleague Gerald Nowak and I recruited over 700 mostly white full-service restaurant servers and bartenders to review a hypothetical dining scenario that randomly involved either white or Black customers. We then asked them to predict the tip that the table would leave, the likelihood that the table would exhibit undesirable dining behaviors and the quality...

Why are white people sending unsolicited donations to their black friends - or forking it over to total strangers? The phenomenon may have begun as satire, but like so many jokes in 2020, “mini-reparations” have become reality. With race relations in the US front and center ever since last month’s police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, some people are taking the matter of reparations for slavery into their own hands. Guilty white people sending unsolicited cash donations to their black acquaintances – or eagerly responding to calls for cash from random social media accounts purporting to be needy black...

Paul Ryan (I know, sorry for bringing him up) delivered a speech at the Reagan Presidential Library at the end of May in which he sought to reassert himself as a leader of the Republican Party. His shtick was the same spit wash that Mitt Romney, Liz Cheney, and George Bush have tried rubbing on the Republican electorate time and again since Biden's official installation. We're better than this reality TV outsider who hijacked the party. Boo to populism; yay to True Conservatism, Inc.! This is serious, people; we're at a 'crossroads' here.I'll tell ya, he sold me. If we...

Recently, while at a comedy club, the daughter of former president Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama, was verbally reprimanded, so to speak.(snip) Comedian Pete Holmes, who produced and starred in HBO’s Crashing, shared on ‘Conan‘ exactly what happened the evening Obama and a friend stopped in at The Comedy Studio.(snip) Holmes went on to recount his run-in with Obama and how he had repeatedly asked her and her friend, politely, to please stop distracting him with their whispering and giggling. He also shared his horror at learning it was she that had been so rude…and that he had...

Full Title: KARMA: GA Woman Faces Up To Five Years In Prison After Driving Through Barbed-Wire Fence To Destroy Trump Sign…Then Her Car Got Stuck A Cobb County, GA Trump supporter says his surveillance camera captured a woman driving through his fence to vandalize his Trump 2020 sign. The problem is, once the 20-year-old unhinged woman drove through the barbed-wire fence, she couldn’t get her car out of the fence and had to leave it behind.

Millennials struggle to make it past the crucial 90-day mark when starting a new job largely due to “own goals” such as lateness and absenteeism, a HR expert says. Greg Weiss, who specializes in developing “onboarding” programs to help improve retention rates, says businesses face a growing challenge with the new generation. According to Deloitte, millennials will make up 75 percent of the global workforce by 2025, but data shows this cohort have a much higher churn rate — and it’s costing money. In 2015, the Australian arm of global consulting firm PwC estimated staff turnover in the first 12...

California Sen. Kamala Harris (D) on Sunday officially kicked off her 2020 presidential bid. She gave a speech in her hometown of Oakland, with her messaging focusing on unity and equality. “With faith in God, with fidelity to country and with the fighting spirit I got from my mother, I stand before you today to announce my candidacy for president of the United States," she said. "I'm running to fight for an America where the economy works for all people. For an America where you only have to work one job to pay the bills." Harris' campaign message is focusing...

A 12-year-old girl and her 14-year-old sister murdered their mom after she punished them for trying to run her over with the family car... Erica Hall, 32, of Magnolia, Miss., is believed to have punished the girls by taking away their cellphones.. The girls are believed to have retaliated Friday night around 11:30 p.m. with a bullet to the chest and a knife in the back. ... the girls moved their mother to the other side of the car so that anybody driving by wouldn’t see her. ... Pike County deputies heard the girls attempted to mow down their mother...

There are essential and non-essential federal employees. During a shutdown the non-essential do not report to work while the essential MUST or risk termination. Neither group receives pay while the shutdown is in effect. When it's all settled and everyone gets their back pay, the non-essential group received paid days off while the ones that were required to report for duty got shafted.