With election day less than a week away, Nicole Paultre Bell campaigned on the steps of City Hall yesterday with other politicians who are backing her bid for the Queen’s City Council.
Bell, whose beau, Sean Bell, was killed by police officers on their wedding day in 2006, stumped with the Rev. Al Sharpton, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and Council members Melissa Mark-Viverito, Brad Lander, Jumaane Williams, Letitia James, Ydanis Rodriguez and James Sanders.
Sharpton announced that, Paultre Bell used her tragedy “pain into power for people.” She’s one of seven candidates vying for the open Jamaica seat.
Are there any Queens residents here on the CEO Blog who will be voting for Nicole Paultre Bell? I’d like to know!
A down low, gay Saudi prince was found guilty today of killing his black sex slave back in February. This all happened in a London hotel where they were staying at the time.
Prince Saud Abdulaziz Bin Nasser Al Saud, 34, was found guilty of killing Bandar Abdulaziz, 32, and of causing grievous bodily harm.
A CCTV video taken from a surveillance camera inside a hotel elevator in January shows Al Saud savagely kicking and punching Bandar.
Some believe that the elevator beating was ignored by London’s five star Landmark hotel security because the perpetrator was a billionaire Muslim prince who was known to them.
Bandar’s body was found on February 15, 2010, on a bloodstained bed in the hotel suite that he shared with al Saud for a month. He had been abused for weeks, according to prosecutors.
Bloodstains found on the pillow and the room were “consistent with the victim having been the subject of a series of separate assaults before he was killed,” the jury was told.
His body bore signs of repeated torture, including bite marks on both cheeks and several knocked out teeth. Al Saud also strangled Bandar with such force that he fractured bones in his neck.
Typical of victims of chronic abuse, there was no indication that Bandar fought back or attempted to defend himself.
The self-loathing Saudi prince was so fearful of his gay tendencies being exposed, that he murdered his sex slave after hotel staff began whispering about their sexual relationship.
Homosexuality is considered sinful in Islam, and gay Muslims are commonly stigmatized. The Saudi prince routinely traveled out of the country with Bandar to avoid shaming his family.
This story sounds too much like what supposedly happened in the Sean Bell incident.
Only this time, cops fatally shot a Pace University football player early Sunday after he supposedly ran down officers during a brawl outside of a Westchester County bar, police said.
It is being reported that officers tried to contain several fights in the parking lot at Finnegan’s Grill, but Danroy Henry wasn’t involved in any of those fights when an officer asked him to move his vehicle, which was parked in a fire lane.
Danroy Henry, 20, (pictured above), a junior defensive back studying at Pace University campus, stepped on the gas, knocking a Pleasantville cop onto the hood, according to police.
A second cop tried to pull the officer off the hood but was knocked to the ground, when Henry continued to accelerate, the officer clinging to the windshield pulled out his gun and fired several shots, police said.
An officer from the Mount Pleasant police, who was in the path of the oncoming car, also opened fire. The bullet-riddled vehicle then slammed into a police cruiser and came to a halt.
Henry, a business management major from North Easton, Mass., was declared dead at Westchester Medical Center.
A passenger, identified as Brandon Cox, 20 – a childhood friend of Henry’s and a running back for Stonehill College, which beat Pace 27-0 in Saturday’s homecoming game – suffered a minor gunshot wound.
A third passenger, Desmond Hinds, a 21-year-old receiver on the Pace team who is from Stamford, Conn., was unhurt. The two cops were treated for minor injuries.
Hinds’ father, Desmond Hinds Sr., said the young men weren’t involved in the fight and called the shooting “senseless.”
“There were no guns or drugs or knives in the car and now somebody is dead for no reason,” he said. “They didn’t even know about a fight. They were waiting for two of their friends … There was no reason to fire shots.”
Police look at bullet holes that can be seen in the windshield of the car driven by Pace University student Danroy Henry at the Town Center Shopping Center in Thornwood earlier today.
On Thursday, Sept. 23, Tyler Clementi (pictured above), a freshman at Rutgers University, committed suicide by jumping off the George Washington bridge; after his roommate uploaded a sex tape of him making out with another male to the internet.
Fellow freshmen students Dharun Ravi, 18, of Plainsboro and Molly Wei, 18, of Princeton have been charged with invasion of privacy for allegedly placing a camera in 18-year-old Tyler Clementi’s room.
Ravi and Wei were charged with two counts each of invasion of privacy for using a camera to view and transmit a live image of the teen during the sexual encounter on Sept. 19.
Ravi was additionally charged with two more counts of invasion of privacy for trying to use the hidden camera to view the same student during another sexual encounter just three days later on Sept. 21.
Days before the suicide, Ravi tweeted: “Roommate asked for the room till midnight. I went into Molly’s room and turned on my webcam. I saw him making out with a dude.
Ravi was released on $25,000 bail. He has since deleted his Twitter page. If convicted, both students face up to 5 years in prison.
19-year-old honor student, Jessica Moore (pictured above), was killed on saturday night while saving her friend at a house party near Seton Hall University.
Police arrested Nicholas Welch at his home in East Orange, NJ, which was on the same block where the shooting took place.
Welch, 25, was denied entry into the off-campus fraternity bash, when he and 19-year-old Marcus Bascus returned to the party, kicked down the front door and opened fire on a group of innocent college students.
Both men are charged with murder, conspiracy and weapons possession, and cops are still hunting for Bascus.
Jessica Moore, a psychology major from Virginia, was killed in the hail of bullets as she jumped in front of her friend Nakeisha Vanterpool, of The Bronx. Four other victims were wounded as well.
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