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Breonna Taylor's Family Is Suing LMPD For Allegedly Withholding Body Camera Footage
BREONNA TAYLOR MEMORIAL
The 14-Year-Old Who Won The National Spelling Bee
Breonna Taylor’s family isn’t done fighting for justice. The family has filed a lawsuit against the Louisville Metro Po- lice Department for allegedly withholding public records that would indicate if there is more body camera footage from the night of Taylor’s death, ABC reported.
“Breonna’s family has a right to the records,” Taylor family attorney Sam Aguiar told ABC. “The public has a right to the records. I’m just tired of the administration playing their games when it comes to open records. No mother who lost a child should have to be lied to and deceived in the manner that this administration has done. So
we’re going to rely upon the Court system here to try and put these games to rest.”
LMPD has claimed that there isn’t any footage of the shooting because officers either were not wearing body cameras or they were turned off. The body camera footage that has been provided shows her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, being arrested.
The lawsuit stated that all of the officers at the scene had new body cameras that can be acti- vated and signaled to record when a police officer’s vehicle’s light bar turns on. According to lawsuit, most of the vehicles at the scene had their light bar ac- tivated.
Records. In fact, she essen- tially told the Associated Press that winning the spelling champion wasn’t a huge prior- ity, and the win is just icing on the cake to her basketball ac- complishments:
The 14-year-old from Har- vey, Louisiana, is a basketball prodigy who owns three Guin- ness world records for drib- bling multiple balls simultaneously and hopes to
one day play in the WNBA or even coach in the NBA. She de- scribed spelling as a side hobby, even though she rou- tinely practiced for seven hours a day.
Avant-garde has been doc- umenting her basketball moves on social media, and you can see for herself that she’s clearly a hoops prodigy on top of now dominating the world of spelling.
Is Also A Record-Breaking Basketball Prodigy
Last Thursday evening, Zalia Avant-garde became the Scripps National Spelling Bee champ after knocking out the word “murraya,” which sounds nothing like it looks it should, and is a genus of trop- ical Asiatic and Australian trees. After locking down the win, Avant-garde danced and twirled on stage as she be- came the first Black champion of the Scripps competition since Jody-Anne Maxwell of Jamaica in 1998.
As Avant-garde’s celebra- tory moment went viral, the world started quickly learning how she was able to navigate the spelling champion so smoothly under pressure: She’s a star basketball player. And she’s not just any star player, we’re talking she’s bro- ken three Guinness World
ZALIA AVANT-GARDE
Questlove's 'Summer Of Soul' Documentary
Questlove’s documentary Summer of Soul (Or When the Revolution Could Not Be Tele- vised) is climbing up the box of- fice ranks. According to Deadline, the project will have earned a cumulative $1.4 mil- lion rising to an estimated $1.47 million Monday (July 12) with a $375,000 second-week gross.
A previous report found the film made a three-day cumula- tive amount of $650,000 over the Fourth of July holiday
SUMMER OF SOUL
Passes $1 Million At Box Office
Florida Doctor Christian Emmanuel
weekend. The combined earn- ings make the documentary about the 1969 Harlem Cul-
tural Festival the best-perform- ing documentary of 2021 thus far.
Sanon Arrested In Deadly Attack On
Haitian President Jovenel Moïse
MIAMI – A doctor who lives in Florida has been arrested in connection to the deadly attack on Haitian President Jovenel Moïse.
Police said Dr. Christian Emmanuel Sanon was one of the masterminds. They said he arrived in Haiti last month on a private jet with “political motives.”
Most of the Colombians in- volved have been arrested, as have two Haitian Americans who claimed they were hired as translators. Sanon is alleged to have hired the 26 Colombians involved in the attack through CTU Security – a Florida-based security firm. A raid on his home revealed 20 boxes of bul- lets, a list of the hit squad mem- bers and a DEA hat. Majority of the Haitian population stated they never heard of Sanon. The doctor filed for bankruptcy and most of the people won- dered how could he fund the assassination.
The attackers reportedly were only supposed to arrest
DR. CHRISTIAN EMMANUEL SANON
Moïse and then install Sanon as president.
But just how the assassins breached three security check- points is still unknown. And none of the president’s guards were wounded in the violent at- tack, raising the possibility the attackers had inside help.
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