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Court Seeks Applicants For Office Of Criminal Conflict And Civil Regional Counsel
Dance Teacher Whose Team Was Featured On ‘Bring It’ Arrested For Exposing Minor To HIV
John Conner is the coach of the ‘Infamous Dancerettes’ that have been competitors of the ‘Dancing Dolls’ of the Life- time show ‘Bring It’.
John Conner and The Danc- ing Dolls coach Mrs. Dee, from hit show ‘Bring It’.
A Memphis, Tenn., dance coach has been arrested after police allege he had sex with a minor while knowingly having the HIV virus.
John Conner, 27, was ar- rested and charged with crimi- nal exposure to HIV, soliciting sexual exploitation of a minor and statutory rape by an au- thority figure.
WREG reports that last year Connor and the 16-year-old victim had unprotected sex, but Conner did not tell the victim he was HIV positive.
The two had unprotected sex several times in the suspect’s car and also sent each other sexually suggestive texts and nude photos.
The victim told police about the abuse in August and said the two initially met on a social website and then met up in per- son.
Conner is known publicly as the ‘Infamous Dancerettes" coach on the Lifetime channel series "Bring It! "
He is on bond for $100,000 and is due in court on Monday.
Ohio Police Kill 13-Year- Old That Had A BB Gun
Tyree King was fatally shot by police.
TALLAHASSEE -- The Florida Supreme Court Judi- cial Nominating Commission is accepting applications for Regional Counsel for the Of- fice of Criminal Conflict and Civil Regional Counsel, Region One, appointed by the Gover- nor.
Region One consists of the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Eighth and Fourteenth Judi- cial Circuits.
The original signed applica- tion must be provided to the Commission Chair by mail no later than October 7, 2016, and all Commission members are to be served electronically at their email addresses by said date. The application must be submitted in PDF.
Applicants who are selected by the Commission for per- sonal interviews will be inter- viewed October 17, 2016 at
GrayRobinson, P.A., 301 South Bronough Street, Suite 600, Tallahassee, FL 32302. Applicants selected for per- sonal interviews with the Commission will be informed of their interview times by email.
Current members of the Supreme Court Judicial Nom- inating Committee are: Chair- man Jason L. Unger, Tallahassee; Vice Chairman Nilda R. Pedrosa, Coral Gables; Cynthia G. Angelos, Port St. Lucie; Fred Karlin- sky, Fort Lauderdale; Daniel E. Nordby, Tallahassee; Jesse M. Panuccio; Israel U. Reyes, Coral Gables; Hala A. Sandridge, Tampa; and Jeanne T. Tate, Tampa.
Applications may be ob- tained by visiting the Florida Bar website at www.florid- aba.org.
COLUMBUS, OH --- A 13- year-old boy was shot and killed by police in Columbus, Ohio on last Wednesday night, after officers say that he pulled a gun – which later turned out tobeaBBgun–fromhis waistband.
Officers were responding to a report of an armed robbery involving multiple suspects at the time of the shooting. Upon arriving at the scene, the vic- tim told officers that a group of people approached him and demanded money. One of the individuals, the victim said, had a gun.
Officers reportedly spotted three individuals matching the
descriptions of the suspects and tried to speak to them, when two of them started run- ning.
“Officers followed the males to the alley ... and attempted to take them into custody when one suspect pulled a gun from his waistband,” police said in a statement early Thursday. “One officer shot and struck the suspect multiple times.”
Officers recovered a BB gun with an attached laser sight from the scene. The suspect, identified as Tyree King, 13, later died at a children’s hospi- tal.
The shooting is under inves- tigation.
Family Of Sandra Bland Settle Lawsuit For $1.9 Million
HOUSTON, TX -- The fam- ily of Sandra Bland, who died in a Texas jail after a con- tentious traffic stop last sum- mer, has reached a $1.9 million settlement in their wrongful death lawsuit, the family’s at- torney told a Houston televi- sion station Thursday.
But local officials said the agreement hasn’t been final- ized and was supposed to re- main confidential until a final settlement was reached.
Bland died in her cell at the Waller County Jail three days after she was arrested by a white Texas state trooper for a minor traffic offense in July 2015. Her death was ruled a suicide, and Bland’s family later sued the county and the Texas Department of Public Safety.
The family’s Chicago-based attorney, Cannon Lambert, told Houston television station KTRK that the $1.9 million set- tlement includes a provision that the jail have a 24-hour
Sandra Bland was found hung in a jail cell in Prairie View, Tx.
nurse or emergency medical technician on duty. Bland’s mother, Geneva Reed-Veal, told the station any legislation passed which benefits Waller County must be named in her daughter’s honor.
“It’s awesome,” Reed-Veal told the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper. “It’s a victory for mothers across the country.”
WVa. Officer Fired For ‘Not Killing’ Suicidal Man
Former WVa. officer Stephen Mader has been fired for not killing Ronald Williams, Jr., 23.
Miss D. C. Wears Natural Hair In Miss America Pageant
WEIRTON, WVA --A former Marine turned West Virginia police officer was fired from the force for not killing a suici- dal man.
Yes. You read that correctly. According to the Washington Post, on May 6, officer Stephen Mader responded to a domestic violence call in Weirton, W.Va., in which he found himself confronting an armed man named Ronald Williams, Jr. Williams’ girlfriend placed the 911 call telling the operator he threat- ened to kill himself.
Mader said his training as a Marine to look at “the whole person”.
Standing behind Williams’ parked car, Mader said he began to speak to him calmly and soon realized this was a suicide-by-cop situation.
Unfortunately, Mader’s bravery and savvy in a tense situation was for naught. Two officers then arrived at the scene and fatally shot Williams. As it turns out, Williams’ gun–the one in which he had facing towards the ground–wasn’t loaded.
Speaking publicly about the case for the first time, Mader said he attempted to return to work May 17 after taking stan- dard time off for officers in- volved in a shooting. Upon arriving, he was told to go see police chief Rob Alexander who in a meeting placed him on administrative leave for putting his fellow officer’s lives in danger. On June 7, Mader received a formal termination later, which stated by not shooting Mr. Williams he failed to “eliminate a threat.”
Cierra Jackson, the only competitor to wear natural hair in this year’s Miss America pageant, won the competition’s swimsuit segment, but lost out on the crown in the annual competition.
Regardless, Jackson has broken a barrier as it regards long flowing hair on Miss America competitors.
The Spelman College gradu- ate and author of CC the Mili- tary Kid! represented the District of Columbia, and noted that before the pageant, she was pressured by some to straighten her hair.
“I’ve had so many people tell me that I shouldn’t wear my hair naturally curly on stage, but there is a purpose behind that vision,” said Jackson. “It’s to show people that you
Cierra Jackson won the swimsuit competition.
can still be successful, you can still be amazingly talented and still reach all of your goals. I think that’s a universal mes- sage that anyone can grab on to and hold on to in their lives.”
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