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Roddy Ricch Will Donate His Payment From Performing At Astroworld
To The Families Of Those Who Died There
The tragic events
that occurred at the
2021 Astroworld Festi-
val this past weekend
have the music indus-
try in complete shock.
Eight attendees died
and hundreds more
were injured in a night
gone wrong. The inci-
dent occurred during Travis Scott’s solo
set, which was to close
the first of two nights at Astroworld. What hap-
pened left the rapper “ab- solutely devastated,” as he revealed in a statement the fol- lowing morning, adding, “My prayers go out to the families and all those impacted by what happened at Astroworld Festi- val.” Now, Roddy Ricch, who also performed at the festival, is also taking steps to help the families of those who died.
In a post to his Instagram Story, Ricch shared his plan to help. “Please have the families of those who we lost yesterday reach out to @shawnholiday,”
RODDY RICCH
he wrote. “I’ll b donating my new compensation to the fam- ilies of this incident. #Pray4Houston.”
Roddy’s announcement comes after Travis Scott shared a second statement about the Astroworld tragedy. “I just want to send out prayers to the ones that was lost last night,” he said in part in a video shared to his Instagram Story. He later added, “I’m honestly just devastated. I could never imagine anything like this happening... Love you all.”
Ahmaud Arbery Attacker Tried To Hit Him 4 Different Times With Truck Prior To Killing, Prosecution Says
Opening statements for the Ahmaud Arbery trial began Friday.
Among the prosecution’s arguments, led by Linda Dunikoski, was that William Bryan was not merely a concerned citizen filming the encounter, as he has argued.
Bryan joined Travis and Gregory McMichael in fol- lowing Arbery, the unarmed Black man who was running in Brunswick, Ga., when the three white men confronted him.
As Arbery ran away from the McMichaels, he encoun- tered Bryan, who attempted to hit him four different times with his pick up truck, forcing Arbery into a ditch, Dunikoski argued, noting that the 29-year-old was “under attack.”
Among the charges against Bryan are false imprisonment and aggravated assault for using his car as a deadly weapon. Per the prosecution, Bryan also redirected Ar- bery toward McMichaels, who killed him.
Defense has made the ar- gument that the men were re- sponding to concerns about
AHMAUD ARBERY
burglaries in the area. Dunikoski’s opening ar-
gument was haunting, recreat- ing the moments up until Arbery’s death. In the pro- ceedings, she highlighted that each defendant made a “drive- way decision” to leave their home and chase Arbery based on assumptions, with “no immediate knowledge of anything or any crime that Mr. Arbery committed that day,” she said.
They were also aware that Arbery wasn’t a suspect in any burglaries based on con- versations with police days be- fore the killing, she told the jury.
Dunikoski recounted a separate conversation Greg
WILLIAM BRYAN
McMichael had with police after he shot and killed Ar- bery.
“I don’t think the guy has actually stolen anything out of there,” McMichael said, re- ferring to a house under con- struction that Arbery had been seen visiting.
“Did this guy break into a house today?” an officer replied.
“That’s just it, I don’t know,” McMichael an- swered.
Jury selection in the trial has come under fire for being nearly all-white. Other charges the men face include malice murder, felony murder and criminal attempt to commit a felony.
8 Republicans Who Attended The Capitol Riot Were Just Elected To Public Office
At least eight people who attended the Jan. 6 Capitol riot—the deadly insurrection that attempted to stop the cer- tification of Joe Biden’s presidential election—have won the ultimate prize in the aftermath of their heinous act: They have been elected to pub- lic office.
HuffPost reports three of the eight were elected to state legislatures, and five were elected to local government positions. The list is as follows:
• Virginia House of Dele- gates: Dave LaRock and John McGuire were re- elected to their positions.
• Marie March also won a seat in the Virginia House of Delegates.
• Natalie Jangula, Christine Ead, and Charles Ausburger each one seats on their local city or town council.
• Susan Soloway won re- election to the Hunterdon County, New Jersey, Board of Directors.
• Matthew Lynch, who resigned from his position as a school teacher when a photo of him outside the Capitol on Jan. 6 was sent to the FBI, won a school committee seat.
HuffPost previously identi- fied 57 Republicans at the
Supporters of President Donald Trump hold a rally outside the US Capitol as they protest the upcoming electoral college certifica- tion of Joe Biden as US President in Washington, DC on January 6, 2021.
From HuffPost:
That these candidates
enjoy the support of the wider Republican Party and are win- ning elections does not bode well for American democracy, showing that one of the coun- try’s major political parties, despite some initial gestures at being horrified by the events of Jan. 6, is almost completely unrepentant over its role in fo- menting the historic attack on the Capitol.
Perhaps these election wins are their parting gifts for trying to overthrow our gov- ernment.
state and local levels who were in attendance at the Jan. 6 in-
surrection, some of whom will be up for reelection in 2022.
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